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Sinéad O'Connor Rebel Roots: Dublin, Ireland Reggae Sound: Her next album, Throw Down Your Arms, features Jamaican musicians and Marley songs. Island Cred: She embraces the Rastafarian faith--and the notion of hair as a statement...
...bombing suspects may turn out to be easier than what comes next. Of the July 7 and July 21 suspects, only one had previously even tweaked the interest of the security services, implying that a lot more networks of homegrown terrorists could be out there--Pakistani, Somali, Eritrean, Jamaican, North African, perhaps many others in a country with 1.6 million Muslims. In a poll of British Muslims published last week, 4% of those surveyed said they believe "it is acceptable for religious or political groups to use violence for political ends." One official estimates there are at least 800 Muslims...
...year-old described by friends as a "gentle giant," dressed that morning like the universal teenager, in denims and a sloppy jacket; a 22-year-old cricket fan who worked in his family's fish-and-chip shop in Leeds. The fourth was a 19-year-old Jamaican who had become a British citizen, married a British woman and had a young son, a man who seemed just an "ordinary Joe Bloggs to me," in the words of a neighbor. All four were carrying military-style backpacks, but even a vigilant passerby might have found that coincidence unremarkable. After several...
...year-old described by friends as a "gentle giant," dressed that morning like the universal teenager, in denims and a sloppy jacket; a 22-year-old cricket fan who worked in his family's fish-and-chip shop in Leeds. The fourth was a 19-year-old Jamaican who had become a British citizen, married a British woman and had a young son, a man who seemed just "an ordinary Joe Bloggs to me," in the words of a neighbor. All four were carrying military-style backpacks, but even a vigilant passerby might have found that coincidence unremarkable. After several...
...seen with a fifth man, still wanted by police. Authorities seized two rental cars left in the parking lot at Luton. One had been hired in Leeds by Shahzad Tanweer, 22, who transported Hussain and Mohammed Sidique Khan, 30, to Luton. The other was rented by Germaine Lindsay, a Jamaican convert to Islam who lived in the nearby town of Aylesbury with his English-born wife. Explosive materials in one vehicle were washed out with high-pressure hoses before police took the cars away. In Leeds, police evacuated 500 residents and searched all the bombers' houses and other properties, including...