19/07/05 - News section
Terror police 'still to determine bomb type' Police are today still trying to establish the type of explosives used in the London bombings, which killed at least 56 people. Forensic experts are scrutinising the four blast sites to determine the exact make-up of the substance and to see whether it can be linked to the home-made explosives found at a so-called "bomb factory" at a property in Leeds. Early reports suggested the bombers had used a military plastic explosive during the attacks on the capital's transport network. It was later claimed that police had found acetone peroxide - a highly volatile mixture also known as "Mother of Satan" or TATP - in a bath during a raid on a property in Leeds. A security source said it appeared that home-made explosives had been found at an address in Leeds - thought to be a flat in Alexandra Grove in the Hyde Park area of the city. However, the source said police were still carrying out tests to establish its exact make-up and to see whether there was any link to the substance used by the four London bombers. Three bombers travelled to Pakistan It emerged yesterday that three of the four suicide bombers in the July 7 attacks travelled to Karachi in southern Pakistan last year. Pakistani officials said 18-year-old Hasib Hussain - who detonated his device on a bus in Tavistock Square - arrived a year ago aboard a Saudi airliner. Shahzad Tanweer, 22, the Aldgate tube bomber, and Mohammed Sadiq Khan, 30, who was responsible for the Edgware Road blast, then arrived in Karachi in November aboard a Turkish Airlines flight. Security officials were trying to establish what the three men - who are all from Leeds - did during their visit. Pakistani intelligence officials have already claimed that Tanweer briefly stayed at a religious school and met with a member of an outlawed domestic militant group. Police have until tonight to continue questioning a man arrested in connection with the bombings. He was arrested during the first wave of raids in Leeds last week and is being held at high security Paddington Green police station in central London. CCTV analysed Last night, Scotland Yard revealed the unprecedented scope of the police inquiry into the bombings. More than 2,000 police officers have worked on the inquiry so far, with 500 expected to continue as permanent "core" staff. Officers have already analysed 6,000 CCTV tapes, but by the end of the investigation they expect to have collected a total of 25,000, according to the figures. More than 1,000 witness statements have been taken, 3,500 documents - such as letters, phone records and bills - have been seized and police are trying to follow up information from 3,500 calls to the Anti-Terrorist hotline. Blair in talks with Muslim leaders Meanwhile, Prime Minister Tony Blair will today meet leaders of the Muslim community in No 10, along with Tory and Liberal Democrat leaders Michael Howard and Charles Kennedy. Mr Blair's official spokesman made clear the premier hopes the talks will build on a meeting last week with Muslim MPs, after which they called for their community to confront the "perverted" interpretation of Islam identified by Mr Blair. British Muslim religious leaders and scholars issued a fatwa outside the Houses of Parliament yesterday in response to the London bombs. It condemned the use of violence and stated that suicide bombs were "vehemently prohibited". The fatwa comes amid a planned controversial talk next month by a Muslim cleric who praised suicide bombings by Palestinians. Egyptian-born scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi, 79, who is banned from entering the United States, has been asked to speak at a conference in Manchester. Yesterday, Britain's three major political parties also reached agreement in principle to co-operate on fresh anti-terror legislation. After the meeting, Home Secretary Charles Clarke said there were "no main outstanding issues of difference" between the parties on his proposals to create new offences of indirect incitement of terrorism and acts preparatory to terrorism. The legislation is expected to become law by December. _____ Find this story at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id= 356259&in_page_id=1770 C2005 Associated New Media [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. 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