Show of Resolve as Religious Leaders Try to Cool Tensions By <http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=bylL&v1=ALAN%20COWELL&fdq=199601 01&td=sysdate&sort=newest&ac=ALAN%20COWELL&inline=nyt-per> ALAN COWELL New York Times July 11, 2005 LONDON, July 10 - A World War II commemoration on Sunday became a show of nostalgia and defiance, while Britain's religious leaders held a meeting to help thwart any violence against Muslims following Thursday's terrorist attacks. There were no new leads in the case, although optimism rose briefly for a few hours when police announced that three Britons arriving at Heathrow Airport had been arrested. The three were later released without charge. In a sign of the authorities' desperation for clues, the police appealed to citizens to hand over any images taken at the sites of the attacks with cameras or cellphones because they might contain crucial information. At least 49 people were killed and more than 700 wounded in the attacks on three subway trains and a double-decker bus, the worst terrorist attack in Britain in decades. >From a balcony at Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth II and her family watched a wartime Lancaster bomber drop one million red poppies over a crowd of thousands of veterans thronging the Mall in bright sunshine in front of her. The commemoration of the ending of World War II had been arranged months in advance, but it became a display of Britain's ambiguous mood - part resolve, part nervousness - after the terror attacks. "The terrible thing today is that we don't know our enemies," said Dennis Jardine, an 81-year-old veteran in a wheelchair outside a memorial service at Westminster Abbey. "I knew who my enemy was because we all had our uniforms. So what can you really do against it?" While rescue workers toiled deep underground to retrieve bodies from one bombed subway tunnel, the country's most senior Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders gathered, anxious to head off religious tensions caused by the attacks, which the authorities have said bear the hallmarks of Islamic extremists. A number of retaliatory acts against Britain's Muslim population have been reported since the attacks. The religious leaders sought to distinguish between Islam as a faith and as a label for the terrorists. Sheik Zaki Badawi, head of Britain's Council of Mosques and Imams, said: "Anyone claiming to commit a crime in the name of religion does not necessarily justify his position in the name of that religion. People do things in the name of Islam which are totally contrary to Islam." He was speaking alongside other religious leaders - Sir Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi; Rowan Williams, the Anglican archbishop of Canterbury; Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster; and David Coffey, the moderator of the Free Churches. Each took turns to read from a shared statement urging what Dr. Williams called "the continuing efforts to build a Britain in which different communities - including faith communities - can flourish side by side." At St. Pancras Parish Church, close to Tavistock Square where 13 people died in the Thursday bombing of a No. 30 double-decker bus, Paul Hawkins, the vicar, urged 100 congregants to "name the people who did these things as criminals and terrorists, but we must not name them as Muslims." None of the 49 people believed to have been killed have been formally identified under painstaking British procedures, and so there is, so far, no official list of the dead. Charles Clarke, the home secretary, said he was "very optimistic" that the bombers would be captured. But, like other officials, he warned of possible future attacks. "Our fear is, of course, of more attacks until we succeed in tracking down the gang that committed the atrocities. That is why the No. 1 priority has to be the catching of the perpetrators." Sir John Stevens, the former head of the Metropolitan Police, said in a newspaper interview on Sunday that the bombers were "almost certainly" British. "I'm afraid there's a sufficient number of people in this country willing to be Islamic terrorists that they don't have to be drafted in from abroad," he said. He said the probable suspects would be "highly computer literate; they will have used the Internet to research explosives, chemicals and electronics." He said he believed that the suspects would be "apparently ordinary British citizens, young men conservatively and cleanly dressed and probably with some higher education." "They are also willing to kill without mercy - and to take a long time in their planning," he said. "We believe that up to 3,000 British born or British-based people have passed though Osama bin Laden's training camps over the years," he said. "Plainly, not all went on to become active Islamic terrorists back in the U.K., but some have. " The bombings also rippled through the world of arts and entertainment with the inevitable moments of bitter irony and bad taste. Waterstone's bookshop in London scrambled to cancel print advertisements for "Incendiary," a new novel written in the form of a letter to Mr. bin Laden by a woman whose husband and son died in a London terrorist attack, the BBC News reported. But some of the ads were irretrievable, including posters already hung in the London Underground, where three of the four bombs went off. Vandalism at New Zealand Mosques WELLINGTON, New Zealand, July 10 (AP) - Four mosques were vandalized in northern New Zealand overnight Sunday, leaving windows smashed and walls splashed with graffiti, the police said. They declined to say whether the attacks were linked to the bombings in London on Thursday. But Prime Minister Helen Clark immediately condemned the attacks, linking them to retaliation. "New Zealanders across all communities are horrified by the terrorist attacks in London, which are the work of evil people," she said in a statement. "But it is wrong to target the Muslim community here in retaliation." Souad Mekhennet and Jonathan Allen contributed reporting for this article. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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