Police now have 4 of the 7-21 bombers

Times:

EVERY suspected member of the July 21 suicide bombing team was under arrest last night after an extraordinary day of police operations stretching from a West London housing estate to the backstreets of Rome.

While police are jubilant following a series of successful armed raids across London they believe that the masterminds behind the London terror campaign are still at large.

The suspected July 21 suicide bombing team will be questioned today in the hope that they will disclose the identity of the bomb builders and planners behind last week’s failed attacks. It is also hoped that they know details of the deadly attacks on London’s transport system on July 7 that killed 52 innocent people.

Scotland Yard now believes that it has the four known failed suicide bombers in custody and has also arrested the mystery “fifth man”, alleged to be Whabi Mohammad, 22, the brother of Ramzi Mohammad, held in connection with the failed bomb at Oval station.

Three suspects were arrested in West London while a fourth man, thought to be the Shepherd’s Bush Tube bomber, was arrested by police in Rome acting on information from Scotland Yard.

The pace of the arrest suggest that the man picked up yesterday must have given the locations of the others. So for, the UK cops have done very good work in quickly finding the bad guys. If there is a mastermind that is still in the UK, he has to be very uncomfortable at this point.

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