Exclusive: The Hunt for the London Bombers

[stickdog]

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EXCLUSIVE: THE HUNT
Exclusive By Jeff Edwards And Chris Hughes

SCOTLAND Yard launched Britain's biggest ever manhunt yesterday to catch the London bombers - vowing: "We will go to the ends of the earth to nail these coldblooded killers."

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But the investigation received a serious setback when it was discovered the CCTV cameras on the bus that blew up were not working so detectives will not get vital images of the bomber. One senior Yard source said: "It's a big blow and a disappointment. If the cameras had been running we would have had pin-sharp close-up pictures of the person who carried out this atrocity.

"We don't know if the driver forgot to switch them on or if there was a technical problem but there are no images."

The bus had four cameras - one covering people getting on, the second at the exit doors and one on each deck scanning the length of the vehicle.


http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1061793&tw=wn_wire_story

London bombs suggest local but well-equipped cell

Monday, July 11, 2005 8:27 a.m. ET

By Mark Trevelyan and Mike Holden

LONDON (Reuters) - Suspected al Qaeda militants behind the London bombings may well have come from a previously unknown local cell and yet had access to military explosives, European security officials familiar with the probe said.

"The explosives appear to be of military origin, which is very worrying," said Christophe Chaboud, head of the French Anti-Terrorism Coordination Unit and one of five top officials sent by Paris to London immediately after Thursday's attacks.

"We're more used to cells making home-made explosives with chemicals. How did they get them?" he said in an interview with Le Monde newspaper.


http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article298105.ece

Police hunt 'mercenary' terror gang recruited by al-Qa'ida

By Sophie Goodchild, Severin Carrell and Raymond Whitaker


Police and intelligence agents areinvestigating the theory that a gang of white "mercenary terrorists" was hired by al-Qa'ida to carry out last week's devastating attacks on London. The Independent on Sunday can reveal today that investigations into the bombings of three Tube trains and a bus, which left at least 49 people dead, are focusing on the possibility that criminal gangs were paid to mount the worst atrocities in British history.

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The theory was given credence by the fact that the security services had no advance warnings, suggesting that the bombers were not known extremists. Police and intelligence agencies admitted yesterday they were caught off guard.

The Metropolitan Police's investigation team is analysing hours of CCTV footage from around the targeted train stations and from the bus wreck, as well as checking lock-ups and garages for any clues that may lead them to the bombers. There is growing fear that the cells involved could be about to carry out further attacks. There was also alarm at the sophisticated nature of the explosives.

Alarm about the terrorists' expertise sharply increased after it emerged yesterday that all three of the Underground bombings took place within seconds of each other. The Met said they now had new evidence which clearly indicated that the blasts on the Tube trains had happened "almost simultaneously".

[Tinoire]

1. "If the cameras had been running"

Welcome to the NWO.

[PATRICK]

2. Bank cameras keep running

School bus cameras or Quicky Mart cameras could be disconnected empty buses. Somewhere in between lies homeland security.

if one wanted to embarrass as well as terrorize one would import some of the missing C-4 we refused to secure in Iraq.

The "hiring non-Muslim thugs" scenario could also be a neat theory to cover for fingers beginning to point at non-Muslims. Another neat theory might point an other kind of white Christian source altogether. And they don't like armchair detectives bringing up equally neat(but potentially upsetting theories and label them as "nutty" despite being on an equal footing regarding real evidence.

And they say there was no warning. And there must be no internal investigation. Deja vu all over again with stories to the contrary already published. Of course the word "warning" or "investigation" must be neatly defined to direct the public reaction- not the successful; course of the investigation.
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[JackRiddler]

3. good catches

This is what this board should be about.