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World's police co-ordinate terror fight
(China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-11 05:36

Three blasts within minutes

Police revealed at the weekend that, contrary to earlier reports, the bombs on the underground had not occurred over a 30-minute period as had been previously thought. There had been speculation that this meant a solo bomber could have placed the devices on the tube trains.

But after analysing technical data provided by the London Underground, the police confirmed the three devices detonated within moments of each other.

"We can clarify the position that the three bombs exploded almost simultaneously," said Scotland Yard Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Paddick.

"Maybe that lends more towards timing devices than people actually with the bombs manually detonating. But we are not ruling out either possibility," Paddick said. He declined to comment on whether a timer had been found at the scene of one explosion.

Privately, intelligence experts say they now believe the London Underground data suggests at least four terrorists were at work last week. The fact that the type of explosives used was not hand-made, but small 10lb commercial high explosives, probably linked to a timing device, suggested a level of sophistication and financing.

MI5 is combing through its files and is believed to be focusing on almost 100 suspects who could have carried out the operation.

Meanwhile experts at Qinetiq, the government's former research agency, are to begin creating computer simulations that will show the locations of where the bombs were planted and the directions of the blast.
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