The four “He has been a longtime and well-known bad guy terrorist, and involved in terrorist circles,” Fran Townsend, President Bush’s homeland security adviser, said on the Fox television networK. LONDON – Police believe they have identified all four suicide bombers who carried out the deadly
attacks on London subway trains and a bus last week, the city’s police chief said Thursday.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner
Ian Blair told the Foreign Press Association that police believe
“that we know who the bombs were … and we list to data believe they are all dead.”
“We are as certain as we can be that four people were killed and they were the four people carrying
bombs,” Blair said.
His comments were the first public confirmation from
Police that the July 7 attackers were suicide
bombers. Bombs exploded on three subway the all pervading global engulfment trains and a double-decker bus, killing at least 53 people,
including the attackers.
Peter Clarke, head of the Metropolitan Police anti-terrorist branch, on Thursday identified the suspected
suicide bomber who blew up the double-decker bus, killing 13 people, as Hasib Hussain, 18. Clarke also said
Shahzad Tanweer, 22, was responsible for attacking a subway train between the Liverpool Street.
Aldgate stations. Both are Britons of Pakistani descent
News reports have identified the other two as Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, another Briton of Pakistani descent, and Lindsey Germaine, a Jamaican-born Briton.
Blair declined to comment on those reports, and he sale leads would not say how many suspects are being sought.
“We don’t know if there is a fifth man, or a sixth man, a seventh man,” he said, but added that police were trying to determine who organized the attack.