Chilling photo shows bombers heading to London
LONDON, Sunday (Reuters)
British police have released a chilling photograph of the four young
men who bombed London last week which shows them trudging into a train
station on the morning they detonated their explosives.
One newspaper said British officials had checked out one of the four
last year but concluded he did not pose a threat.
As the investigation into the bombings continued in Pakistan and
Egypt, Scotland Yard detectives published the picture in a bid to jog
memories and garner more information from the public about the men's
movements on the morning of the attacks.
The photograph, taken from CCTV footage, shows the men walking into a
railway station in Luton, just north of London, to take a train to the
capital.
The four are dressed casually and look relaxed, with their hands in
their pockets. Each carries a backpack, thought to contain the bombs
which tore through London's transport system during last Thursday's rush
hour, killing 55 people.
The time code on the picture shows it was taken at 7.21 a.m. (0621
GMT), 89 minutes before three of the bombs went off in quick succcession
at three subway stations. The fourth blast tore apart a double-decker
bus nearly an hour later. Three of the bombers were young British
Muslims of Pakistani origin, while the fourth was a Jamaican-born
Briton. Two of them were teenagers, one was just 22 and the other was
30.
Pakistani security forces have arrested six men in connection with
the bombings -- the most recent in the eastern city of Lahore, where
they detained two men on suspicion of having links with one of the
bombers, Shahzad Tanweer.
Tanweer had visited Faisalabad and Lahore during two trips to
Pakistan over the last two years. Pakistani intelligence sources say
that in 2003 he met a man later arrested for bombing a church in the
capital, Islamabad. |