 Police searched the apartment where a Somali-born Briton was arrested Friday, as anti-terrorism prosecutors prepared to interrogate the man suspected in the July 21 bombing attempts in London.
"Guido! My truncheon!"
"Si, signore!"
"And my moustachio wax!" |
A police expert wearing white gloves and a jumpsuit to avoid contaminating possible evidence could be seen inside the lighted apartment late Friday. At one point, police shoved aside an armchair, looked behind it and scrutinized the corners of a room.
"Ahah!"
"A clue, inspector?"
"Yes! They own a dog!"
"And...?"
"The dog is not well-trained!" |
Two police dogs were taken into the apartment building where Osman Hussain was arrested. Hussain, a naturalized British citizen, was described by Italy's Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu as "the fourth attacker on July 21 in London."
"I think of myself as the first attacker, and the other guys as numbers two, three, and four..."
"Shuddup. Guido, hit him!"
"Owwww!" |
Britain will ask Italy to extradite Hussain, said Peter Clarke, head of the anti-terrorist branch for London's Metropolitan Police. Hussain is accused of trying to attack the Shepherd's Bush subway station in west London. Police reportedly tracked him down by tracing his cell phone calls across Europe.
| Go ahead. Brag about your sources and methods. You're gonna miss them when they're gone. Dumbasses. |
The ANSA news agency said he was arrested at his brother's Rome apartment. The brother, who was not named, also was taken into custody, ANSA reported.
| "Stick 'em up, brother-boy!" |
In the evening, plainclothes officers unloaded two desktop computers and stacks of video cassettes from a sport utility vehicle, prompting speculation that the material had been seized from the apartment. A few hours later, police lugged in more computers. Two top Rome anti-terrorism prosecutors arrived Friday evening at police headquarters. Police officials said they had not yet started to interrogate Hussain.
"Yeah! We ain't even started on you yet, Hussain!"
"[Whimper!]" |
Metropolitan Police told Italian officials that a cell phone call intercepted at one of the July 21 bombing sites belonged to someone who lived in Rome, RAI state TV reported. Two days ago, the cell phone moved from London to Paris, then Milan to the apartment in Rome, RAI said. Italian police entered the apartment Friday, where they found Hussain with the phone, RAI said. ANSA said he offered no resistance.
"Hi, there, Hussain! Nice phone! Yer under arrest!"
"I give up!" |
ANSA, citing unidentified sources close to the investigation, said that by monitoring cell phone conversations between the two men, police were able to follow the suspect's movements from London to Milan and Bologna and finally to Rome. ANSA said at one point during his few hours in Rome, Hussain made contact with a Somali who owns an Internet cafe near Rome's Termini train station and stayed there awhile.
| Dumbasses. They're really gonna miss that source next time. |
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