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The backpack butchers
Murderer ... Shehzad Tanweer
By GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON
Deputy Political Editor and
MIKE SULLIVAN, Crime Editor
THIS is one of the four young Britons who carried out the London suicide bombings that killed 70 commuters.
Shehzad Tanweer, 22, blew up a Tube train at Aldgate, East London.
Two other killers were 19 and 30.
The fourth member of the Yorkshire gang, who all wore backpacks, is thought to be a teenager.
CCTV cameras filmed them smiling and chatting at King’s Cross station just 30 minutes before Thursday’s devastating attacks.
Then they split up — each carrying up to 10lbs of explosives and a timing device in his rucksack.
Home grown ... Shehzad Tanweer\'s birth certificate
reveals he was born in Bradford
And at 8.50am they began to trigger four blasts which left 70 commuters dead.
Shehzad Tanweer was named as one of the killer\'s last night.
Another bomber was a 19-year-old reported missing by his family on the night of the explosion after telling them he was going to London to meet friends.
Sources said last night he was Hasib Hussain, from Beeston, Leeds, who died on the No 30 bus in Tavistock Square.
A third bomber is too badly charred to be identified yet, but is believed to be a teenager.
He blew himself up just after the Piccadilly Line train left King’s Cross in the direction of Russell Square.
The fourth was named as 30-year-old Mohammed Sadique Khan, from Dewsbury. His documents were found on the Edgware Road train.
But the al-Qaeda Mr Big who planned the 7/7 atrocity is feared to have fled the country hours before the bombs exploded.
Three of the killers drove down the M1 from West Yorkshire to Luton where they met an accomplice. They then boarded a Thameslink train to King’s Cross.
The bombers were captured on CCTV at 8.20am walking through a subway at King’s Cross.
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Terror on streets ... armed cops take up position
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One security source said last night: “They looked like they were going for a hike. They were chatting to each other and smiling.”
The four were identified after police sent a specialist liaison officer to see the 19-year-old’s family in West Yorkshire.
It is believed the family’s unwitting involvement played a key role in helping piece together the bombers’ movements.
Experts were shocked that even the family of one of the bombers had no idea of his evil intention.
They said it showed how hard it is to identify terrorists until it is too late — and how many may be at large.
All three of the bombers identified by police were “fresh-skinned” who were not known to security services.
They were all British-born and came from families who emigrated from Pakistan.
Explosives were found in a car parked at Luton station yesterday.
The explosives were due to be blown up in the fifth of a series of controlled blasts. A second vehicle found at Luton was taken to police storage in nearby Leighton Buzzard for examination.
A bomb factory was found during raids on six addresses in Leeds and Dewsbury, West Yorks.
A male relative of one of the bombers was arrested during one of the dawn swoops.
Armed police and bomb disposal experts yesterday gave 500 families just five minutes to collect their belongings and evacuate homes surrounding a house in Alexandra Grove, in the Burley area of Leeds.
Police laid on buses to take families away. They were later told to stay away overnight.
Army explosives experts were called in to carry out a controlled blast to break open the door — as cops with sniper rifles kept watch for nearly two hours.
West Yorkshire Chief Constable Colin Cramphorn revealed that suspect material had been discovered in the raids.
He added: “There is material in those premises that cannot be identified as harmless.
“Therefore, we are treating it as potentially hazardous until we are satisfied that it is harmless. We intend not to let people back until we are certain it is safe to do so.”
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Raids ... how events unfolded
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The day of drama began at 6.30am when police swooped on five other homes.
They included two semis knocked into one family home where
Tanweer lived in Colwyn Road, in Beeston, Leeds. He shared the house with his parents, brother Rezween, 17, and two sisters.
Just 400 yards away in Stratford Street cops stormed a house owned by Asian businessman Mohammed Fiaz and wife Hamida Begum. They are not thought to have lived there for several years.
But their sons — Nadeem, 26, and “Jacksey”, in his 30s — would drop in for a few days at time, then leave again.
A mile away, officers swooped in the Colenso Mount home of Mahmood Hussain, his wife Manizaand and their their sons Shazia and Hasib.
7/7 .... scenes of horror
They shared the house with three other Asian men — Misbia and Aqsa Imran and Imran Mir.
In Dewsbury cops removed a silver Ford Escort and a silver Honda from outside the bungalow where retired teacher Farida Patel lived with her son Arshad, his wife and their baby in Thornhill Park Avenue.
A police source said the owner of the Escort was one of the bombers, and added: “The guy who drove that won’t be using it again. He’s dead.”
Officers also stormed the council house in Lees Holm where Arshad’s sister Hassina lived with her husband and young child.
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