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LONDON - Without firing
a shot, police raiding apartments Friday in
London and Rome rounded up four suspected
attackers from the failed July 21 transit
bombings in Britain.
British police sources
told NBC they suspect they may also have picked
up a fifth bomber involved in the plot.
Two of the suspects
were arrested in west London, near the trendy
Notting Hill neighborhood, following raids by
heavily armed police wearing gas masks and
lobbing stun grenades.
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.
Tracing cell phone
calls across Europe, police in Rome arrested
Osman Hussain, a naturalized British citizen
from Somalia, said Italian 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
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