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To: LindyBill who wrote (124139)	7/8/2005 8:44:09 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793955

The bombing attacks on London’s Underground railway and a double-decker bus Thursday, July 7, were the work of a team of 6-8 terrorists wearing explosive vests. So much for "sophistication." Any idiot can wear a suicide vest, and "communication" and "coordination" can be anything from synchronized watches to cell phones. Sounds like the "B Team" strikes again.

To: LindyBill who wrote (124139)	7/9/2005 6:54:49 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

DEBKA says suicide bombers, NY Daily News says package bombs: Anybody's guess? 10 pounds of death Fiends left time bombs on trains BY HELEN KENNEDY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Terrorists left time bombs weighing less than 10 pounds on the floors of packed subway trains Thursday and then melted away into a stream of commuters, officials said yesterday. As the death toll rose to at least 49, a massive manhunt geared up to find the vanished bombers before they strike again. "The entire weight of the anti-terrorist branch of Scotland Yard is now aimed implacably at this investigation," London Police Commissioner Ian Blair told reporters. "We will bend every sinew of the Metropolitan Police service." Cops were sifting through debris, scanning videotapes taken from thousands of security cameras, combing recent intelligence reports and sorting through thousands of phone tips. "We are looking for very small needles in a very large haystack," Home Secretary Charles Clarke said. "London is a very large haystack." It took Spanish police three weeks to find the men behind the similar March 2004 Al Qaeda train attacks in Madrid that killed nearly 200 people. A previously unknown group called Al Qaeda's Secret Organization Group of Jihad in Europe has claimed responsibility for the London blasts, but officials are still unsure. Some experts said the terrorists were probably young Britons swayed by a radical imam. And a Washington counterterrorism expert suggested the bombers could have been trained in Iraq and sent to London by Al Qaeda chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Assistant Police Commissioner Andy Hayman said three of the four bombs were made of less than 10 pounds of explosives, small enough to fit easily in a backpack, and left on the floors of the trains. The fourth bomb, which tore apart one of London's iconic red double-decker buses and killed 13 people, may have gone off early, before the terrorist could bring it underground. Witness Richard Jones, 61, told the BBC he saw an unusually agitated man in his 20s on the bus. "He was standing next to me with a bag at his feet and he kept dipping into this bag and fiddling about with something. I was getting quite annoyed with this because it was a crowded bus," said Jones, who got off the No. 30 bus one stop before the blast. ABC News reported last night that investigators think a body they located on the bus could be one of the bombers, which if true, would be a huge break. The bombs were probably crude and made from easily obtainable plastic explosives, weapons experts said. "Any crook with ready cash could obtain this stuff if they knew where to look for it," said Alex Standish, the editor of Jane's Intelligence Digest. Meanwhile, Londoners went back to work yesterday, stoically climbing onto buses and subways. Of the 700 people injured, 22 people were in serious or critical condition. Queen Elizabeth visited their bedsides yesterday and praised Londoners for their calm refusal to let the attacks change anything. "That is the answer to this outrage," she said. The death toll is expected to keep climbing: About 10 bodies still remain tangled in the wreckage of the Piccadilly line train 410 feet under King's Cross station, officials said. The rat-filled tunnel's roof was made unstable by the explosion, and the site was hard to get to. "All living people have been removed from that site," Blair said. "What was then decided was that the dead would be left there because it was too dangerous." nydailynews.com