Reply #24: 4 From Britain Carried Out Terror Blasts, Police Say

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By ALAN COWELL and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Published: July 13, 2005
LONDON, July 12 - The British police said Tuesday that a team of four British-born men had carried out Thursday's deadly terrorist attacks in London, including at least one possible suicide bombing, which would be the first in Britain.


The breakthrough came as the police searched six houses in the northern city of Leeds and found explosives in one home and in an abandoned car parked at the train station in Luton, just north of London. The police also arrested one man in West Yorkshire, whom they did not identify.
In Leeds, residents said several young men - whose families initially moved to Britain from Pakistan - had traveled to London late last week and had not been seen since.

The police have identified the four men, who they said were all in their late teens and early 20's, but did not release their names. The four were recorded by closed-circuit television cameras arriving at King's Cross station in London carrying backpacks at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, just 20 minutes before three of the bombs ripped through subway trains. A fourth bomb exploded at 9:47 a.m. on the No. 30 bus in central London. The police say 52 people died in the four attacks.>>>>snip
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