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...aftermath of terrorist attacks like the London subway bombings, it is often tempting to conclude that those who purposely commit suicide in the service of mass slaughter must be sick, evil, not quite human; they are not us. But as investigators pieced together the fragments of the plot that left at least 55 dead, Britons were forced to confront a reality nearly as disturbing as the attacks themselves: the killers were their own. 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...
...British authorities were also pursuing a British-born Pakistani who entered England through a Channel port two weeks before the blasts, despite being on a security watch list as a suspected al-Qaeda member. London police said there was nothing yet to link him to the plot, but a Pakistani official told Time that two British investigators traveled to Islamabad last week to check on his contacts and whether he went to the frontier region where Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, may be hiding. Working with Britain and Saudi Arabia, the U.S. froze bank accounts...
...terrorism offenses being lodged against eight men in Britain last August. Khan's former boss, Abu Faraj al-Libbi, a Libyan in U.S. custody who may be bin Laden's No. 3 and is believed to have directed al-Qaeda's cells in London, told his interrogators about a plot to attack London's transport system in May that was later aborted, according to Pakistani investigators. British officials are trying to gain access to Zeeshan Siddique, a British national arrested with a false passport in May 2005 in the frontier town of Peshawar; he eventually confessed he was part...
...September 2004 a plot to blow up the Italian embassy in Beirut, above, was foiled when Lebanese authorities arrested 10 people, including al-Qaeda operative Ismail Mohammed al-Khatib. Al-Khatib died of a heart attack in custody...
...month earlier, at a regular briefing with corporate executives and managers of critical infrastructure systems, MI5, Britain's domestic intelligence agency, had downgraded its threat alert to the lowest level since Sept. 11, 2001. An aide to Blair, asked about the failure of the security services to detect the plot, said, "There will be a time to ask questions about what happened. But for now we need to let the security services get on with the very big job they have...