Terrorists were 'enemy within'

From correspondents in London
July 13, 2005

BRITAIN is facing the horrific likelihood that the people responsible for the bomb attacks in London last week were home-produced suicide bombers, a revelation that sparked national soul searching in the press.The media has identified three of the four men suspected of launching suicide bomb attacks in London, saying all were Britons of Pakistani origin who had not previously been suspected of terror links.

Police investigating the blasts on three Underground trains and a bus said earlier they believed they had identified four suspects, adding that one was "very likely" to have been among the 52 bodies.

The Metropolitan Police held back from saying the blasts were definitely the work of suicide bombers, but Sky News reported that anti-terrorist investigators were "working on the assumption that the (four) men were suicide bombers and had died in the explosions".

In the Yorkshire city of Leeds, which has a large Muslim population, predominantly of Pakistani extraction, police carried out a series of raids on houses overnight.

Several newspapers named two of the dead suspects as Hasib Hussein, 19, and Shehzad Tanweer, 22, who lived in Leeds.

The Daily Mail reported that Hussein had carried the bomb that exploded on a packed double-decker bus in central London, while Tanweer detonated a device on the Underground near Edgware Road station, to the west of the city. >>>continued

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