// BEGIN editorial data
var i = 0;
var LondonBlastsInvestigation = new Array();
LondonBlastsInvestigation.ID = "LondonBlastsInvestigation";
LondonBlastsInvestigation.ID_WB = 8755003;
LondonBlastsInvestigation.sPubDate = "7/30/2005 8:43:37 AM GMT";
LondonBlastsInvestigation.navsectionID = "3032571"
LondonBlastsInvestigation.appFmt = 2;
LondonBlastsInvestigation.itemsPerPage = 1;
LondonBlastsInvestigation.appWidth = 624;
LondonBlastsInvestigation.appHeader = "timeline|Key events in London attacks and investigation";
LondonBlastsInvestigation.appNavStyle = 3;
LondonBlastsInvestigation.appLayout = 3;
LondonBlastsInvestigation.copyWidth = 500;
LondonBlastsInvestigation.copyMargin = 9;
LondonBlastsInvestigation[i++] = new Array("","Deadly blasts
July 7","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Maps/Europe/London_bombing/London_blasts_small_v3.gif","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "297", "440", "", "", "", "", "");
LondonBlastsInvestigation[i-1].body = "
Three bombs explode at around 8:50 a.m. on subway trains near Liverpool Street, Edgware Road and King’s Cross stations in London. Nearly an hour later, a bomb destroys a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. Police later identify the four suspected suicide bombers responsible for the blasts as: Hasib Mir Hussain, 18, Shezad Tanweer, 22, Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, all U.K.-born Pakistanis from the Leeds area, and Jamaican-born Germaine Lindsay, 19, from Aylesbury. The four suspects and 52 commuters die as a result of the bombings. More than 700 are injured.";
LondonBlastsInvestigation[i++] = new Array("","Pakistan link
July 18 ","Hasib Hussain","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/050714/hasib2_bomber_app.small.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "right", "", "Metropolitan Police via AP", "198", "159", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
LondonBlastsInvestigation[i-1].body = "
Pakistani officials confirm that Hussain, Tanweer and Khan visited Pakistan within the last year. Pakistani police begin to make arrests and question students at Madrassas – Islamic religious schools – in connection with the London probe.
";
LondonBlastsInvestigation[i++] = new Array("","Attempted bombings
July 21","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Interactives/News/TerrorismSecurity/London_attacks_072105/London_bombingsSMALL_050722.gif","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "297", "440", "", "", "", "", "");
LondonBlastsInvestigation[i-1].body = "
London is hit by four more attempted bombings at midday on subway trains near Shepherd’s Bush, Oval and Warren Street stations, and on a bus in Bethnal Green. The bombs fail to fully explode and no one is injured, but police warn that had they functioned properly the casualties would have been equal to or greater than those of July 7. Police believe the bombers intended to die in the attacks and a manhunt is launched. Two bombing suspects are later named as Eritrea-born Muktar Mohammed Said, 27, and Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, a native of Somalia.";
LondonBlastsInvestigation[i++] = new Array("","Subway shooting
July 22","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
LondonBlastsInvestigation[i-1].body = "
British police officers staking out a residence believed linked to the July 21 attackers shoot a suspected suicide bomber dead at Stockwell Station in South London. Police later say that the man, 27-year-old Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes, was not connected to the attacks. The prime minister and metropolitan police commissioner express their regrets for his killing and an inquiry into the shooting is launched. Two men are arrested in Stockwell in connection with the failed attacks; one is later released.";
LondonBlastsInvestigation[i++] = new Array("","Fifth bomber?
July 23","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
LondonBlastsInvestigation[i-1].body = "
A bomb similar to those used by the July 21 attackers is found at Little Wormwood Scrubs in west London, prompting speculation that a fifth bomber from that group may still be at large.
A man is arrested in Tulse Hill, south London, and an apartment is raided in Streatham Hill, also in south London.";
LondonBlastsInvestigation[i++] = new Array("","Explosives found
July 25","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
LondonBlastsInvestigation[i-1].body = "
Officers find a large quantity of possible explosives in an apartment in New Southgate, north London, where Omar, the July 21 bomb suspect, lived.
Police say two more people have been arrested.";
LondonBlastsInvestigation[i++] = new Array("","Key arrest
July 27","Yasin Hassan Omar","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/050729/050729_ap_omar.small.jpg","","", "", "", "", "", "right", "Str", "AFP - Getty Images", "198", "145", "#000000", "", "", "", "");
LondonBlastsInvestigation[i-1].body = "
Omar, suspected of attempting to bomb the Warren Street subway train on July 21, is arrested in Small Heath, Birmingham, after being stunned by police with a Taser gun. Three other men are detained in Birmingham, and three women are arrested in Stockwell on suspicion of harboring offenders.";
LondonBlastsInvestigation[i++] = new Array("","Africa detention
July 28","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
LondonBlastsInvestigation[i-1].body = "
U.S. officials say Haroon Rashid Aswat has been arrested in Zambia in connection with the London investigation. Aswat has previously been named as a co-conspirator in a plot to create a terrorist training camp in Oregon in 1999-2000.
Nine people are also arrested under the Terrorism Act at two properties in Tooting, south London.
Photographs of a nail bomb appear in the U.S. and British media; ABC News reports that British authorities investigating the July 7 attacks found 12 bombs and four improvised detonators in the trunk of one of the suspected suicide bomber’s cars, in Luton, north of London.
";
LondonBlastsInvestigation[i++] = new Array("","Dramatic U.K., Italy round-up
July 29-","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
LondonBlastsInvestigation[i-1].body = "
The three remaining suspected bombers from the July 21 attacks are arrested. Police raid an apartment near Notting Hill, London, and detain Muktar Mohammed Said and Ramzi Mohammed. Meantime, a fourth fugitive is arrested in Rome after police trace cell phone calls to the Italian capital. A fifth suspected bomber, believed to have dumped his explosives in a park, is reportedly held in a separate West London raid. Sources name him as Wahbi Mohammed, a brother of another suspect.";
// END editorial data