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Three of the bombers lived in Leeds, an industrial city in northern England, and had grown up conventionally. All four were Muslims described by associates as amiable and law abiding but whose lives had taken a turn toward radical Islam that their loved ones did not detect. And contrary to the early assumption that the bombers had hidden explosives in their rucksacks and left them to explode or were unwitting mules for bombs their bosses had secretly armed, the weight of evidence suggests the attackers deliberately immolated themselves in the first-ever suicide bombings on British soil...
...DIED. JOHN KING, 87, pugnacious Thatcherite tycoon who in 1981 masterminded the transformation of the foundering state-run British Airways (nicknamed "Bloody Awful" by suffering Brits) into a profitable international powerhouse; in Leicestershire, England. After slashing 30% of the jobs and revamping BA's image, he sparred with arch rival Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic, who accused him of such "dirty tricks" as computer hacking and poaching passengers. King ultimately was ordered to publicly apologize and pay libel judgments to Branson and Virgin...
...There's no denying it's payback for what's happened in Iraq and Afghanistan. You've been bombing people for the last two to four years, so you are going to get a backlash." SARAJ QAZI, Muslim shop owner in Luton, England, on possible reasons for the attack...
DIED. ROWLAND WILSON, 74, cartoonist for Esquire, the New Yorker and, most famously, Playboy, where his full-page watercolors were a relatively sex-free staple of the men's magazine; of heart failure; in Encinitas, Calif. A longtime painter of witty ads for New England Life Insurance, he helped animate such Disney films as Tarzan and The Little Mermaid...
DIED. JOHN KING, 87, pugnacious Thatcherite tycoon who in 1981 masterminded the successful privatization of the foundering state-run British Airways (known to suffering Brits as Bloody Awful) and transformed it into a profitable international powerhouse; in Leicestershire, England. After slashing jobs 30% and revamping BA's image, he sparred with archrival Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic, who accused him of such "dirty tricks" as computer hacking and passenger poaching. King ultimately was ordered to publicly apologize and pay libel judgments to Branson and Virgin...