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Police arrest three suspects at Heathrow Airport
LONDON (AFP) - Police arrested three people at London's Heathrow Airport under anti-terrorism laws but said no link had been established with the terror bombings.
"Three people have been arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act at Heathrow Airport but it is not known at this stage whether those arrests are linked to this inquiry or not," Commander Brian Paddick told a news conference on Sunday.
"Those people are still being detained."
Paddick warned against linking the suspects to the attacks.
"I am told that it is inappropriate and pure speculation at this stage to be drawing any direct linkages with the attacks in London, and at this stage we are not in a position to give any further information."
They were the first terrorist-related arrests to be announced since the deadliest peacetime attack on Britain was perpetrated July 7, killing about 50 people and injuring some 700.
But "people are arrested under the prevention of terrorism act very, very frequently. It happens on a weekly basis and it's happened again at this time," Trotter said.
Britain's Press Association said the men were three British nationals who had been detained as they arrived from abroad, but it quoted sources as saying they were not being linked to the bombings.
Police said they had received valuable information from the public, who had flooded a tip-off line with 1,700 calls.
The confirmed death toll from four blasts that decimated a double-decker bus and crumpled subway trains was 49, but police were still searching for trapped bodies deep below street level near London's Russell Square station.
The three London Underground bombs were detonated within 50 seconds of one another at about 8:50 am (0750 GMT), a level of coordination that bore the hallmarks of an attack by suspected Al-Qaeda operatives.
There have been two claims of responsibility by groups linked to Osama bin Laden's organisation.
As police continued their painstaking search, a former police chief warned that the bombers were probably British and that there were many people in the country willing to take part in such atrocities.
In a column in the News of the World tabloid, Sir John Stevens, the former head of Scotland Yard, said "the terrorists at the center of the London bombing this week will almost certainly be British born and bred, brought up here and totally aware of British life and values."
He said he had heard suggestions the bombers had come from abroad.
"But that's just dangerous wishful thinking, a damaging illusion," wrote Stevens, who quit his job as Britain's most senior police official early this year.
"I'm afraid there's a sufficient number of people in this country willing to be Islamic terrorists that they don't have to be drafted in from abroad," he said.
Stevens said he thought the likely suspects would be "apparently-ordinary British citizens, young men conservatively and cleanly dressed and probably with some higher education.
"They are also willing to kill without mercy - and to take a long time in their planning. They are painstaking, cautious, clever and very sophisticated.
"We believe that up to 3,000 British born or British-based people have passed through Osama bin Laden's training camps over the years," he wrote.
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Police arrest three suspects at Heathrow Airport
LONDON (AFP) - Police arrested three people at London's Heathrow Airport under anti-terrorism laws but said no link had been established with the terror bombings.
"Three people have been arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act at Heathrow Airport but it is not known at this stage whether those arrests are linked to this inquiry or not," Commander Brian Paddick told a news conference on Sunday.
"Those people are still being detained."
Paddick warned against linking the suspects to the attacks.
"I am told that it is inappropriate and pure speculation at this stage to be drawing any direct linkages with the attacks in London, and at this stage we are not in a position to give any further information."
They were the first terrorist-related arrests to be announced since the deadliest peacetime attack on Britain was perpetrated July 7, killing about 50 people and injuring some 700.
But "people are arrested under the prevention of terrorism act very, very frequently. It happens on a weekly basis and it's happened again at this time," Trotter said.
Britain's Press Association said the men were three British nationals who had been detained as they arrived from abroad, but it quoted sources as saying they were not being linked to the bombings.
Police said they had received valuable information from the public, who had flooded a tip-off line with 1,700 calls.
The confirmed death toll from four blasts that decimated a double-decker bus and crumpled subway trains was 49, but police were still searching for trapped bodies deep below street level near London's Russell Square station.
The three London Underground bombs were detonated within 50 seconds of one another at about 8:50 am (0750 GMT), a level of coordination that bore the hallmarks of an attack by suspected Al-Qaeda operatives.
There have been two claims of responsibility by groups linked to Osama bin Laden's organisation.
As police continued their painstaking search, a former police chief warned that the bombers were probably British and that there were many people in the country willing to take part in such atrocities.
In a column in the News of the World tabloid, Sir John Stevens, the former head of Scotland Yard, said "the terrorists at the center of the London bombing this week will almost certainly be British born and bred, brought up here and totally aware of British life and values."
He said he had heard suggestions the bombers had come from abroad.
"But that's just dangerous wishful thinking, a damaging illusion," wrote Stevens, who quit his job as Britain's most senior police official early this year.
"I'm afraid there's a sufficient number of people in this country willing to be Islamic terrorists that they don't have to be drafted in from abroad," he said.
Stevens said he thought the likely suspects would be "apparently-ordinary British citizens, young men conservatively and cleanly dressed and probably with some higher education.
"They are also willing to kill without mercy - and to take a long time in their planning. They are painstaking, cautious, clever and very sophisticated.
"We believe that up to 3,000 British born or British-based people have passed through Osama bin Laden's training camps over the years," he wrote.
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