JULY 13-JULY 19,2005
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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INTERNATIONAL
Four bombs rattle UK
Peter Macdiarmid/AP PHOTO
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A front view of the bus which was destroyed by a bomb in London on July 7, is seen July 8. Commuters in London reluctantly descended into the Underground on the morning of July 8, attempting to return to routine in the aftermath of four rush-hour blasts that killed at least 50 people the day before. Police said the attacks had the signatures of the al-Qaida terror network.
LONDON — Police raised the death toll in London's terrorist bombings to 52 on July 11 as forensics experts identified the first of the victims — a 53-year-old mother of two from outside London. Prime Minister Tony Blair promised a "vigorous and intense" manhunt for the attackers.
As workers searched the twisted wreckage for more bodies, millions of Londoners rode subways and buses to and from work, tense but intent on resuming their routines four days after the strikes.
"We won't let a small group of terrorists change the way we live," Ken Livingstone, London's mayor said.
In a somber address to the House of Commons, his first since the attacks, Blair said it seemed probable that Islamic extremists were responsible for what he called the "murderous carnage of the innocent."
No specific intelligence could have prevented the strikes, Blair said.
"Our country will not be defeated by such terror," Blair told lawmakers. "We will pursue those responsible wherever they are and will not rest until they are identified and ... brought to justice."
President Bush expressed solidarity with Britain and said, "America will not retreat in the face of terrorists and murderers."
Officials raised the confirmed death toll, from 49 to 52 as workers searched for corpses in mangled subway cars marooned in a hot, dusty, rat-infested tunnel, and warned that the body count likely would climb.
"That will rise," Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Ian Blair said outside the King's Cross station near the site of
"They still have to get underneath the carriages, and it is possible they will find more," he said.
the worst of the four bombings an explosion that killed at least 21 people on one of the Underground's deepest lines.
Two other subway trains and a double-decker bus also were destroyed in the attacks, which wounded 700 people. Fifty-six
remained hospitalized on July 11, many in critical condition officials said.
Police said they had identified the first of the victims — Susan Levy, 53, of Hertfordshire outside London. Forensics experts said it could take days to weeks to put names to the bodies, and would have to be identified through dental records or DNA analysis.
Police have suspects in London bombings
BY THOMAS WAGNER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEEDS, England Police are investigating whether four attackers possibly suicide bombers died in the London subway and bus explosions on July 7. Police have arrested one suspect after a series of raids July 12 in Leeds, a northern city with a strong Muslim community.
At least three of the suspected bombers came from the West Yorkshire region, which includes Leeds, said Peter Clarke, head of the Metropolitan Police anti-terrorist branch.
Closed-circuit TV video showed that all four had arrived at King's Cross station by 8:30 a.m. on July 7, about 20 minutes before the blasts began that killed at least 52 people Clarke said.
Meanwhile, the BBC reported that explosives were found in a car at a rail station in Luton, 30 miles north of London. Police said earlier they carried out a controlled explosion on a car that was parked at the station and believed linked to the attacks. Metropolitan Police officers from London examining the car carried out the controlled explosion, Bedfordshire police said.
In a Scotland Yard news conference, Clarke said police had "strong forensic and other evidence" that the man believed to have carried a bomb onto the subway train that exploded between the Aldgate and Liverpool Street stations died in the blast. Police are awaiting confirmation from the coroner and are trying to determine whether the other three also died in the explosions.
One of the suspects had been reported missing by his family at 10 p.m. on July 7, and some of his property was found on the double-decker bus where 13 died, Clarke said.
Some witness accounts suggested the bus bomber may have blundered, blowing up the wrong target and accidentally killing himself. Media reports have quoted an eyewitness who got off the crowded bus just before it exploded and said he saw an agitated man in his 20s fiddling anxiously with something in his bag.
"Everybody is standing face-to-face and this guy kept dipping into this bag," Richard Jones, 61, of Berkshire, told the BBC.
Investigators also found personal documents bearing the names of two of the other men. Police did not identify the men.
Acting on six warrants stemming from those developments, British soldiers blasted their way into a Leeds house July 12 to search for explosives and computers. Streets were cordoned off and about 500 people were evacuated.
No one was in the house at the time of the raid, said Miles Himsworth, police inspector.
"It's a very,very complicated investigation," Himsworth said. "It will be a very slow and very meticulous search in order that any evidence that is there can be gathered carefully."
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