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...Moroccan man with al-Qaeda links was arrested in December for his alleged role in Madrid...
...bombings, the official toll was 49 dead--a figure expected to rise--and some 700 injured. About 100 were still in hospitals around the capital, 22 listed as "severely injured." While the initial casualty figures were lower than in some previous attacks, such as the train bombings in Madrid in March 2004, the shock of the London bombings reverberated because they occurred in circumstances--and in a city--that are familiar to so many around the world. The first images of the hellish scenes in the London Underground came from cameras on passengers' cell phones, the latest innovation...
...British support of the U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Two days after the attacks, British police said no arrests in connection with the bombings had been made. But late last week a British official told TIME that the investigation is gravitating toward the possibility that as in Madrid, the attacks involved al-Qaeda-linked Moroccans, perhaps drawn from Britain's Moroccan community, coupled with outside guidance and bombmaking help. The official says authorities believe there may be links between the London bombers and those behind the Madrid attacks. "There's a lot of concern that the group...
...links to the Madrid bombings are tantalizing. London's Sunday Times reported that Spanish security sources are said to have warned four months ago that Mustapha Setmariam Nasar, 47, a Syrian, had identified Britain as a likely target and had set up a sleeper cell of terrorists there. Eric Denécé, who heads the French Center of Intelligence Research in Paris, says that "there is some evidence" that Nasar helped plan the Madrid attack, and that "it wouldn't surprise me at all if he's found to have overseen London from afar as well...
...British knew it was coming. They didn't know when, they didn't know where, they didn't know how. But ever since Sept. 11, 2001--ever since New York and Bali and Jakarta and Karachi and Riyadh and Casablanca and Madrid and Baghdad were hit by radical Islamic terrorists--Londoners had recognized that sooner or later, the bombers would get around to them too. "I don't feel angry," said research student Kevin Benish, 21, as he placed a bunch of lilies on a makeshift shrine outside King's Cross station the next day. "I knew it wasn...