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07-29-2005, 01:45 PM
'All four' 21 July suspects held
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4727975.stm
All four failed London bomb suspects are thought to be in custody following armed raids in the UK capital and Rome.
Two London arrests are believed to be men wanted for one of the 21 July Tube attacks and the bid to bomb a bus. A third suspect was already being held.
Police said a fourth suspect arrested in Rome and named as Somali-born UK citizen Hussain Osman, was "of interest" to the inquiry.
Police arrested three people in raids in Notting Hill and north Kensington.
Officers also arrested two women at Liverpool Street station on Friday.
Footage broadcast on ITV News showed two men standing bare-chested on a balcony outside one of the raided flats.
A spokesman for the channel said: "Both men have a look of absolute surrender, they appear to be very shocked."
One man was arrested following the Notting Hill raid
Police have been questioning Yasin Hassan Omar, wanted over the Warren Street Tube attempted attack, since he was arrested in Birmingham on Wednesday.
The flats raided on Friday are in Peabody Buildings, Dalgarno Gardens, North Kensington, where two arrests were made and in Tavistock Crescent, Notting Hill, where police arrested one man.
In the Peabody Buildings raid one man identified himself as Muktar Said Ibrahim, and other said his name was Ramzi Mohammed, said head of the anti-terrorist branch Peter Clarke.
It is not clear to which incident Ramzi Mohammed or an unnamed man - arrested in Tavistock Crescent, Notting Hill, are being connected.
Muktar Said Ibrahim was earlier named as being suspected of trying to bomb a bus in Shoreditch.
Dep Asst Cons Clarke confirmed they would be seeking the return to Britain of the man arrested in Rome, identified as Hussain Osman.
Scotland Yard described Friday as their "best day yet" since 21 July.
Eyewitnesses to the raids say they heard three shots and a large explosion as officers wearing gas masks entered one of the properties.
In Dalgarno Gardens officers were continually shouting at someone in a flat to come out. They were addressing him as "Muhammad".
The police asked him: "What is the problem? Why can't you come out?
"Take your clothes off. Exit the building. Do you understand?"
One resident told BBC News 24 she was inside a block of flats on the estate at the time.
"They were shouting to him that he needed to come out with his arms up, in just his underwear.
"He was saying to them: 'how do I know when I come out, that you're not going to shoot me? I'm scared'."
Police assured him he would not get shot as long as he followed instructions and they knew he was not a risk to the police or the public, she added.
Officers told other residents on the 350-property estate to "get inside now".
Scotland Yard said they were not aware of firearms having been used.
In an separate raid in Notting Hill one eyewitness says a man dressed in a white forensic overall was taken away in an unmarked police car.
Another has spoken of seeing three other people being taken away in a police van.
Chris Stokes told BBC News: "We got told to move out of the way by armed police and within about five minutes we heard three gunshots go off behind the block of flats at Tavistock Crescent."
Allan Sneddon, who lives nearby, told BBC News: "There was this almighty bang... big enough to shake the ground."
BBC Correspondent Jane Hughes said loud noises heard by witnesses may have been explosives used to blow in the door to a property and CS gas may have been used to subdue people.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4727975.stm
All four failed London bomb suspects are thought to be in custody following armed raids in the UK capital and Rome.
Two London arrests are believed to be men wanted for one of the 21 July Tube attacks and the bid to bomb a bus. A third suspect was already being held.
Police said a fourth suspect arrested in Rome and named as Somali-born UK citizen Hussain Osman, was "of interest" to the inquiry.
Police arrested three people in raids in Notting Hill and north Kensington.
Officers also arrested two women at Liverpool Street station on Friday.
Footage broadcast on ITV News showed two men standing bare-chested on a balcony outside one of the raided flats.
A spokesman for the channel said: "Both men have a look of absolute surrender, they appear to be very shocked."
One man was arrested following the Notting Hill raid
Police have been questioning Yasin Hassan Omar, wanted over the Warren Street Tube attempted attack, since he was arrested in Birmingham on Wednesday.
The flats raided on Friday are in Peabody Buildings, Dalgarno Gardens, North Kensington, where two arrests were made and in Tavistock Crescent, Notting Hill, where police arrested one man.
In the Peabody Buildings raid one man identified himself as Muktar Said Ibrahim, and other said his name was Ramzi Mohammed, said head of the anti-terrorist branch Peter Clarke.
It is not clear to which incident Ramzi Mohammed or an unnamed man - arrested in Tavistock Crescent, Notting Hill, are being connected.
Muktar Said Ibrahim was earlier named as being suspected of trying to bomb a bus in Shoreditch.
Dep Asst Cons Clarke confirmed they would be seeking the return to Britain of the man arrested in Rome, identified as Hussain Osman.
Scotland Yard described Friday as their "best day yet" since 21 July.
Eyewitnesses to the raids say they heard three shots and a large explosion as officers wearing gas masks entered one of the properties.
In Dalgarno Gardens officers were continually shouting at someone in a flat to come out. They were addressing him as "Muhammad".
The police asked him: "What is the problem? Why can't you come out?
"Take your clothes off. Exit the building. Do you understand?"
One resident told BBC News 24 she was inside a block of flats on the estate at the time.
"They were shouting to him that he needed to come out with his arms up, in just his underwear.
"He was saying to them: 'how do I know when I come out, that you're not going to shoot me? I'm scared'."
Police assured him he would not get shot as long as he followed instructions and they knew he was not a risk to the police or the public, she added.
Officers told other residents on the 350-property estate to "get inside now".
Scotland Yard said they were not aware of firearms having been used.
In an separate raid in Notting Hill one eyewitness says a man dressed in a white forensic overall was taken away in an unmarked police car.
Another has spoken of seeing three other people being taken away in a police van.
Chris Stokes told BBC News: "We got told to move out of the way by armed police and within about five minutes we heard three gunshots go off behind the block of flats at Tavistock Crescent."
Allan Sneddon, who lives nearby, told BBC News: "There was this almighty bang... big enough to shake the ground."
BBC Correspondent Jane Hughes said loud noises heard by witnesses may have been explosives used to blow in the door to a property and CS gas may have been used to subdue people.