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AP Report: ’All Bombers Died in London Attacks’ Doesn’t Make Sense
by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 12 July 20051 comment
LONDON - Police believe all four bombers who attacked trains and a bus in London died in the attacks, Sky News reported Tuesday, citing unidentified police sources.
Detectives believe that all four were British citizens, Sky News said.
Several news reports said police had concluded that the bomber who blasted a London bus was believed to be among the 13 dead in that incident. Metropolitan Police refused to comment on the reports.
Sky News, the British Broadcasting Corp. and Press Association quoted sources as saying the identification of the bomber in Thursday’s attack led to the raids on several addresses in Leeds on Tuesday. Metropolitan Police refused to confirm the reports.
Some bus passengers who survived the blast reported seeing an agitated man rummaging in a rucksack.
Terrorism experts have suggested for days that the bus attacker may have died in the blast he set off.
Police believe the three Underground trains were targeted by attackers who placed explosives with timers on board and then got off. Those bombs detonated within a minute of each other, but the No. 30 bus did not explode until nearly an hour later, leading many to suggest it might not have been the intended target.
"This bombing is so curious in that it doesn’t seem to fit the pattern," said Alex Standish, editor of Jane’s Intelligence Digest, speaking before the news reports.
"It was later than all the others. ... This would have appeared to be primarily an attack on the Underground system. ... It just doesn’t fit."
Standish said he thought the bus bomber had meant to target a fourth subway train without killing himself but had either panicked or been unable to board.
He may have been among those herded out of or turned away from King’s Cross station - close to the site of the deadliest of the Tube bombs - and gotten on board the bus there, Standish said. The bus blew up at 9:47 a.m. Thursday in the famously literary Bloomsbury neighborhood, just a few minutes’ drive from the station.
Standish said someone intending to destroy a double-decker bus would likely position a bomb on the ground floor to inflict maximum damage, rather than the top deck, where police say the bomb was placed.
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14 July 2005, 00:16
Big blah-blah and no findings. Also there is a huge difference in the count of people who have been reported missing and those who got murdered.
Finally they forensic artists claimed that the source of the explosive could be possible out of "professional" institutions such as army etc..
The statement of "paid" suicide bombers was the most unrealistic. It seems they didn’t find out anything, or they have to cover up something.
Why don’t they track down the source of the explosives, by comparing it with the data of production plants. All of these companies keep their records which contain useful information about the composition of their "products".
Why can’t this forensic "artists" tell how many got killed f. e. in the bus number 30 - they have gene technology available right.
Is it because they are not allowed, too? Questions of questions? Or did they find out something about which would take them to a government committing terrorist acts?