Al-Qaeda always uses "foreign" cells to attack.but it doesn't matter, they are all Muslims. Always.
Bruce _____ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=MSQOTLWLNT32TQFIQMGSM5 OAVCBQWJVC?xml=/news/2005/07/10/ncrime10.xml <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=MSQOTLWLNT32TQFIQMGSM 5OAVCBQWJVC?xml=/news/2005/07/10/ncrime10.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/10/ixnews top.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=21044> &sSheet=/news/2005/07/10/ixnewstop.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=21044 By Patrick Hennessy, David Harrison and Daniel Foggo (Filed: 10/07/2005) Police were last night searching for a foreign-based Islamic terrorist cell after it was disclosed that three of the four bombs that hit London last Thursday exploded "almost simultaneously". Ministers now believe that the bombings - which left at least 49 people dead in Britain's worst terrorist attack - were the work of a "very, very small number" of individuals who arrived from mainland Europe or North Africa on false passports within the past six months. The authorities are braced for more atrocities as part of what they fear will be a campaign of terror by an active Islamic cell - although they believe that other European capitals are equally at risk. The immediate investigation centres on King's Cross after transport police said that all three Tube bombs exploded within 50 seconds at around 8.50am, on trains that had stopped at its underground station within the previous 10 minutes. One investigator said: "It is likely the terrorists were together initially before going their separate ways. This theory has the most credence." Andy Trotter, the deputy chief constable of British Transport Police, said officers were studying hundreds of hours of CCTV pictures taken around the target stations "for clues that might lead us to the people responsible for these terrible attacks". Investigators have enlisted the help of specialist officers - including members of the "pickpocketing squad" - with experience of studying CCTV to identify suspicious characters in the King's Cross area. Both ministerial and Whitehall officials stressed the similarities between the London attacks and the train bombings in Madrid last year which killed 191 people. The man believed to be the Madrid mastermind, Mustafa Setmariam Naser, a 47-year-old Syrian with dual Spanish nationality, is said to be "one of many suspects" being hunted by the police and MI5. They also want to question Zeeshan Hyder Siddiqui, 25, a British national allegedly trained to make bombs in an al-Qaeda camp who was arrested in Pakistan in May. Their search is being hampered because those who planted the bombs are believed to be "cleanskins", young operatives with no known terrorist links. The secret services, The Sunday Telegraph understands, picked up no intelligence that could have alerted them to the possibility of attacks on London. There was none of the "chatter" - information picked up by electronic surveillance - or suspicious financial transactions that have helped to thwart other planned attacks. "We are convinced it is not a British-based cell," a senior Government source said. There was a strong possibility that the bombers came from Iraq and spent time in mainland Europe before entering Britain recently. In a statement to MPs tomorrow, Tony Blair will strongly defend MI5 and MI6 from charges that they presided over a failure of intelligence. The Prime Minister, who yesterday spoke of his determination to eradicate "this dreadful perversion of the true faith of Islam", will rule out an independent inquiry into the bombings. MI5 confirmed that there would be an internal review into the lack of intelligence. The announcement that the three Tube train bombs exploded within seconds of each other - rather than spread over 26 minutes, as at first reported - followed a review of "technical data and eye-witness accounts'', said Brian Paddick, the Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner. "It would appear now that all three bombs exploded within seconds of each other at around 8.50am," he said. Tim O'Toole, the London Underground managing director, said: "It was bang, bang, bang, very close together." He said that the first bomb exploded at Aldgate, quickly followed by explosions at Edgware Road and Russell Square. The first call to the emergency services was received at 8.51am. After King's Cross the second main focus of attention is the No 30 bus that exploded at Tavistock Square. Investigators increasingly believe that the bomber did not plan a suicide attack on the bus, and that he might have planned to explode his bomb on the Tube. Police believe that the bomb was in a bag, under a seat, when it went off. Mr Paddick said: "There's a possibility that the person with the bomb died on the bus, there's also the possibility that they just left the bag with the bomb and left." Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, will on Wednesday challenge his European Union counterparts to do more to combat the terrorist threat. He will present an emergency meeting of interior ministers in Brussels with a 10-point action plan, including demands for a "common approach" to telecommunications data. Ministers assume that another small terror group could have struck in Paris had the French capital been awarded the 2012 Olympic Games instead of London and that the threat of follow-up attacks in Europe is very real. # There will be a two-minute silence at noon on Thursday to commemorate the victims of the attacks. 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