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...Warren Street tube station on one of the busiest shopping streets in the heart of London, police wearing fluorescent yellow jackets swarmed the station while riders filed out of subway cars to safety above ground. Sofiane Mohellebi, 35, was traveling on the Victoria line when he smelled what he describes as "burning tires and wires" in his car. Mohelleei said that he did not hear anything, and did not see any smoke, but that the smell was overwhelming. He said that people started to panic as soon as they smelt the burning. "I could not figure out why people were...
...said, "but like everyone else, I was trying to get out." According to Adofo, an IT trainer who was heading back home to East London when the incident occurred, even though there was panic, the subway passengers thought of their fellow riders as they tried to leave the station. "People were helping each other," she said...
...confusion, and unexplained incidents. Michelle Sinclair, 24, was eating lunch at a nearby restaurant when the events occurred at Warren Street. When police cordoned off the street she said, she saw a call pull up with two members of the British transport police inside. They went into the station and grabbed a tanned skinned man with shoulder length hair, wearing a backpack and hurried him into the back of the car. According to Sinclair, the man did not struggle as car sped...
...four men who met at London's King's Cross railway�station must have looked ordinary enough to the thousands of commuters rushing to work on the morning of July 7. Three were British born--a 30-year-old grade-school teacher with a baby daughter and a reputation for devotion to his learning- disabled students; an 18-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...
...pose as businesspeople or students, have no diplomatic immunity and so are much more vulnerable if caught spying. They often work abroad for U.S. companies that have secret agreements with the CIA to take them in as employees or for front companies the agency sets up. A former CIA station chief tells TIME that it can cost the agency anywhere from $500,000 to $1 million to establish an NOC overseas, depending on how deep and extensive the cover must...