London – Police raiding apartments today in London and Rome rounded up the last of the four suspected attackers from the failed July 21 transit bombings in Britain, officials said.
Two of the suspects were arrested in west London, near the trendy Notting Hill neighborhood, following raids by heavily armed police.
Video of the arrests broadcast by ITV News/Daily Mail in London showed two men identified as bombing suspects stripped to the waist and emerging at gunpoint on a balcony of an apartment after police apparently fired tear gas inside.
Italian police in Rome arrested Osman Hussain, a naturalized British citizen from Somalia, as part of an ongoing investigation in the bombings, said Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu. Hussain, who reportedly fled London and stopped in Milan and Bologna en route to the Italian capital, was “the fourth attacker,” he said.
With those arrests, as well as that of Yasin Hassan Omar on Wednesday in the city of Birmingham, authorities believe they have captured all four men whose photos they released following last week’s botched bombings, a police official said.
“We have four people in custody we believe are the images we released,” said the official, who asked not to be identified in accordance with British practice, referring to the images, taken from closed-circuit TV cameras on July 21.
