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Last suspects in failed bombings nabbed
(AP)
Updated: 2005-07-30 08:40
LONDON - Police swooped down on a posh London neighborhood and traced
cellphone calls across Europe to a Rome hide-out Friday, netting the remaining
suspects in the failed transit bombings without firing a shot. The arrests
capped an eight-day manhunt that was one of the most extensive in British
history, AP reported.
At least three of the four suspects were of East
African origin.
Black-clad police armed with stun grenades and gas masks pointed assault
rifles at the doors of suspects on the outskirts of Notting Hill. Two young
children stumbled into the standoff a floor below a suspects' apartment, and an
armed officer tried to shoo them away from his dog.
Above them, a police team shouting for "Mohammed" forced two suspects to
strip to their underwear and eventually emerge onto a narrow balcony, where
television cameras recorded them with their hands above their heads.
In Rome, police arrested a Somali-born British citizen at the apartment of
his brother, who was also taken into custody. On Friday night, a police expert —
wearing white gloves and a jumpsuit to avoid contaminating possible evidence —
could be seen working inside a lighted room in the apartment.
Images captured on closed-circuit television cameras during the failed July
21 attacks helped lead investigators to the men, and interrogations of the
suspect captured first, 24-year-old Yasin Hassan Omar, may have helped as well.
Police said the anti-terrorist sweeps have been part of their most extensive
investigation ever.
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