Two More Arrests In London Probe
Bomb Suspect Charged In Rome; Tight Security On London Subways
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Suspect now identified as Hamdi Issac, also known as Osman Hussain, was charged by police in Rome under Italy's anti-terrorism laws. (AP)
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From left, Italian anti-terrorism chiefs Carlo De Stefano and Lamberto Giannini at press conference in Rome, Monday Aug. 1, 2005. (AP)
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Italian police were also able to confirm Issac's identity by the presence of a wound on his right leg, which British police said was sustained as he tried to jump over a barrier to escape the London subway station following the failed attack.
Issac was being held in a Rome prison and was awaiting possible extradition. "I believe that it won't take long," De Stefano said.
De Stefano said that the investigation so far indicated that Issac was "part of a loosely knit group rather than a well structured group."
Also arrested were two of the suspect's brothers who live in Italy: Remzi Issac, in whose apartment the suspect was hiding; and Fati Issac, picked up Sunday in the northern industrial city of Brescia and accused of destroying or hiding documents sought by investigators.
Remzi Issac was charged Monday with possessing false documents, said the defense attorney, Sonnessa.
De Stefano said the brothers were not linked to any terror activity or investigation.
In Britain, police were questioning the three other men suspected of trying to detonate bombs in London subway trains and a double-decker bus on July 21.
Police say the four suicide bombers who carried out the July 7 attacks, which killed 52 victims, are all dead. And they believe they have arrested all the failed July 21 bombers, whose explosives detonated only partially and took no lives.
Police have dismissed speculation they're specifically concerned about another individual cell of attackers, but they do believe there are accomplices at large connected with both attacks last month, Roth reports. They believe all the bombers are accounted for, but they think there are suspects still at large who financed, or supplied or hid them.
Investigators are also searching for links between the two terror cells, one made up mostly of Pakistani Britons and the other mainly of east African immigrants to London. The groups struck exactly two weeks apart, each attacking three London Underground trains and a red double-decker bus.
A spokeswoman for London's Metropolitan Police said investigators believed there were more people at large who played some role in the attacks.
"It's extremely likely there will be other people involved in harboring (suspects), financing and making the devices," she said, speaking on condition of anonymity, because the department does not allow her to give her name.
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