Car seized in London terror hunt
Detectives investigating last week’s attempted bomb attacks in London today seized a car thought to have been used by one of the bombers.
The car, a white VW Golf had been under surveillance, and was seized by officers in north London soon after 1pm. No arrests have been made and no explosives have been found in the vehicle so far.
It was seized in the Finchley area of north London, at the junction of Strawberry Vale and Chambers Gardens.
Part of the North Circular, the A406, between Finchley Road and Colney Hatch Lane, has been cordoned off. It is thought the vehicle may have been used by one of the four bombing suspects.
Two of the would-be suicide bomb suspects have been named by police as Yasin Hussan Omar and Muktar Said-Ibrahim, also known as Muktar Mohammed-Said.
Both men have been legally resident in the UK for more than 10 years.
Omar, 24, is a Somalian national who arrived in Britain aged 11 in 1992 as a dependant and was granted exceptional leave to remain in the country. In May 2000 he was granted indefinite leave to remain.
Ibrahim, 27, is a naturalised British citizen. He arrived in Britain from Eritrea as a dependant in 1992, aged 14, and was granted exceptional leave to remain.
In November 2003 he applied for naturalisation as a British citizen and was issued with his British passport in September last year.
Omar was staying at a north London flat, on the ninth floor of a 12-storey tower block in New Southgate. It is believed to have been used as a bomb factory by the suicide team who unsuccessfully targeted the London transport network last Thursday.
Explosives experts were today examining material found inside.
Today the cordon around their tower block flat was widened and police were searching lock-up garages nearby.
As the hunt for the bombers continued, Prime Minister Tony Blair met opposition leaders in Downing Street.
There have been no publicly confirmed sightings of the four bombers, who were captured on CCTV, since 1.05pm last Thursday when Ibrahim was seen getting off the 26 bus he had tried to blow up in Hackney Road, east London.
Detectives have no evidence they have left the country and believe they may all be hiding in a safe house in the capital.
They believe the bombers could have links with the suicide cell which carried out four bombings on the London transport network on July 7, killing 52 innocent people.
Meanwhile. the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent Brazilian electrician mistakenly gunned down by police, are in discussions with lawyers and may sue Scotland Yard.
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