Bollocks! British Bombers Bourgeois Bios Baffle the Banausic!

Well, well, well. Nice, educated, middle class British Moslems blew themselves up and slaughtered dozens of innocent commuters. So much for the Poverty Causes Terrorism Theory.

Police removed materials from tidy single-family houses Wednesday in this northern city that is home to a large Muslim community, searching for evidence in the neighborhoods where three of the four suspected London suicide bombers lived. The British Broadcasting Corp. reported that a fifth suspect is being sought, citing unidentified sources. Police refused to comment.

In a series of raids on six residences Tuesday, police hunted for explosives and computer files that could lead to the mastermind behind what were believed to be the first suicide bombings in Western Europe. They arrested a man, identified by the British news agency Press Association as a relative of one of the suspected bombers.

At least three Britons of Pakistani descent are suspected of carrying out the July 7 attacks that killed 52 and injured 700. Surveillance cameras captured the men as they arrived in the capital 20 minutes before the explosions began.

News reports have identified three of the four as Shahzad Tanweer, a 22-year-old cricket-loving sports science graduate; Hasib Hussain, 19; and Mohammed Sidique Khan, the 30-year-old father of an 8-month-old baby. Press Association, citing police sources, said police had identified the fourth suspect, but no name was reported.

Police have not publicly confirmed any of the identities. Investigators will now have to determine whether the men acted alone — or had help in planning the bombings.

Tanweer's uncle, Bashir Ahmed, said his nephew had gone to Pakistan earlier this year to study religion, and that the family believed he was attending "some religious function" on the day of the bombings.

"It was total shock, I mean, it's unbelievable," Ahmed told reporters.
"Our lives have been shattered. It's impossible to describe it. We have had a very pleasant time here. I don't think we can continue here."

In London, Prime Minister Tony Blair met with British Muslim lawmakers and pledged to open dialogue to tackle a "perverted and poisonous misinterpretation" of Islam. He also said his government would begin consultations on new anti-terrorism legislation.

Addressing the House of Commons, Blair said the government also would look urgently at how to strengthen the process for excluding from the United Kingdom those who incite hatred and make it easier to deport such people.

Neighbors of Tanweer in Leeds' rows of Victorian-era red brick houses were apprehensive and hostile, walking fast past reporters gathered at the cordons. One warehouse worker, who would only give his first name, Saj, said Tanweer was a "good lad" and athlete.

"He was quiet," he said. "He was religious. He went to every mosque here. There are loads of mosques here."

Press Association said the men had driven a rental car to Luton, 30 miles north of London, and then boarded a commuter train to London's King's Cross station. Police closed Luton's train station Tuesday and carried out nine controlled explosions on a parked car, which the BBC reported contained explosives.

Closed-circuit TV video showed all four men arriving at King's Cross by 8:30 a.m. on July 7, about 20 minutes before the blasts began, said Peter Clarke, head of the Metropolitan Police anti-terrorist branch.

U.S. intelligence agencies are checking the names of the men against their databases looking for any U.S. connection, President Bush told chief executives Tuesday at the White House.

Two militant Islamic groups have claimed responsibility for the bombings.
Although police stopped short of calling them suicide attacks, Clarke said "strong forensic and other evidence" suggests one of the suspects was killed in a subway bombing and property belonging to the three others was found at the sites of the other blasts.

Bad ideology causes terrorism. Moslems around the world must cleanse their religion of these anti-human beliefs.

And soon.