From FOXNews:
All four men suspected of trying to plant bombs in London’s transit system on July 21 are now in police custody in London and Rome, several media outlets reported Friday.
Two of the suspects were picked up in west London following raids by heavily armed police, the reports said. London police did not confirm their identities.
Italian police in Rome arrested Osman Hussain a naturalized British citizen from Somalia, as part of an ongoing investigation in the bombings, said Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu.
Police said they raided two residences Friday in west London and arrested two men at one address and one at another, a Metropolitan Police spokesman said on customary condition of anonymity.
So far, about two dozen people have been arrested in connection with the attacks last week in which bombs in backpacks failed to detonate on three subway trains and a double-decker bus. Those attacks caused no injuries, unlike the July 7 attacks in London that killed 56 people, plus the four suicide bombers.
The police operation was carried out in at least two locations in Notting Hill about a quarter-mile apart.
The latest reporting suggests that a fifth bomber may still be at large.
Current thinking also suggests the 7/21 bombers were meant to be suicide attackers, and that their quick capture is the result of their not having a contingency plan for hiding out after the failure of the devices to detonate.
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update: BREAKING: London police are executing another raid (via FOXNews)
Poor training. If they followed US Military protocol for completing a mission they’d know the sequence: Plan, Brief, Execute, Debrief. In the “Brief” phase, you work out all the contingencies and what if’s.
I’d guess, for a homocide bomber, the Debrief happens w/ the 72 virgins.
Contigency plan for suicide bombers whose bombs don’t go off:
1. Commit suicide
Glad to hear they got all four. I guess that’s one of the upsides of living on an island – easier to cover the exits.
Kyle – That statement blows most of my Natalee theories all to hell.
Wait just one second. Aren’t all terrorists everywhere, “sophisticated”, “coordinated” and part of “an upsurge in attacks/violence”?
hehe, executing another raid. nice choice.
spam word: europe.
’Got the Bastards’. I love the smell of moral clarity in the morning….
spam word: awakened