London 7/21 Attack Stories & Columns - Arrests & Shooting (Updated)

By Andrew Cochran

NOTE: Last edit to this post at 10:30 pm Eastern time. MSNBC: Two arrests, one of which is connected to 7/21 attacks. London Police release pictures of 7/21 attack suspects - see below. BBC: "Police hunting four bombing suspects have searched an address in the Harrow Road area of north-west London." London Times: "A man was also arrested under anti-terror legislation at Birmingham's Snow Hill station tonight and bomb disposal experts dealt with two suspect suitcases as the station was evacuated."

London Police killed suspected bomber this morning - Sky News: "Police believed the Asian man was responsible for an attempted attack on the nearby Oval Tube on Thursday and had set up surveillance on him...Initial examinations though...did not discover any explosives on the suspect." Dead man not wanted in connection with 7/21 attacks but a "terrorist suspect." Fox News: "An American once accused of trying to set up a terror training camp in Oregon is being questioned about a man sought in the London bombings, U.S. officials said Friday."

CT Blog Experts: Steven Emerson on Fox News this morning: "Phenomenally easier to solve 7/21 attempts because of materials left behind - number one factor in future attacks will be whether Muslims renounce jihad within community - Al Qaeda likes to revisit scene of crime, as they did at WTC years later" - will be on MSNBC at 4:15 pm and 6:00 pm ET, and Fox News On the Record at 10:00 pm, all times ET. See also Walid Phares column: "These bombers are Jihadi terrorists with a worldview and designs against the UK and other democracies. Investigating the nature of the explosives is a normal process, but exposing the lethal ideology and its ramifications in society is the center of the battle." Daveed Gartenstein-Ross on Fox News Dayside at 1:30 pm ET. Matthew Levitt on CNN tonight. Bill West on KSFO Radio discussed Euro-Jihadists and U.S. Visa Waiver Program - potential threat to US - keeping inciters out of US (Tariq Ramadan and Yusuf Islam cases) - need for tougher border controls and interior immigration enforcement. See Dennis Lormel's post on terrorist financing investigations and BBC article quoting him. See also Michael Chandler quoted in another BBC article on terrorist financing. Zeyno Baran on Fox News at 9:50 am Eastern time on Saturday.

Abu Hafs al Masri Brigade, al Qaeda-linked group which claimed responsibility for 7/7 attacks, claims responsibility for 7/21 attempts. But see Evan Kohlmann's cautionary post above on their lack of capabilities and ties.

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center analysis: �Islamic Legitimacy for the London Bombings�: "In the past two weeks, two major controversial positions appeared on Jihadi web sites and in the Arab media. These statements were made by two of the most important and influential clerics of the Jihadi-Salafi current of global Jihad."

"Worldwide Conspiracy?" Newsweek: "A U.S. law-enforcement official confirmed to NEWSWEEK on Wednesday that the FBI is also seeking a man believed to be the same suspect, Haroon Rashid Aswad, as part of a New York-based terror investigation."

Homeland Security had eyed lowering terror alert before latest London attacks

MSNBC Photo of Stockwell Station shooting scene & Suspects' Pictures:

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