[Mb-civic] Police Raids Shock Neighbors of Alleged Bombers - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Police Raids Shock Neighbors of Alleged Bombers

Suspects From Northern City Apparently Kept a Low Profile, Avoiding 
Attention of Intelligence Officials

By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, July 13, 2005; Page A17

LEEDS, England, July 12 -- The raids started shortly after dawn, as 
scores of police officers fanned out across this industrial city and 
surrounded the working-class homes of young British men of Pakistani 
descent. The men had been conspicuously missing since Thursday, the day 
more than 50 people were killed in bombings in the heart of London in 
the worst terrorist attack in British history.

<>When police barged into and searched six houses a few hours later, it 
became clear that the investigative trail from London had suddenly led 
to Leeds, an ethnically mixed city of about 700,000 people about 200 
miles north of the capital.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/12/AR2005071201581.html?nav=hcmodule 

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