Bombers lived with each other
Updated on 26 July 2005
Channel 4 News has learnt two of the suspected bombers lived in one block of north London flats with two others who are now under arrest.
The bombers rented 58 Curtis House, but neither Yasin Hassan Omar nor Muktar Said-Ibrahim lived at that address.
Instead it's thought they used the flat to make or store the bombs for last Thursday's attacks. Police have revealed they've found components of explosives in that flat and in the basement car park.
Channel 4 News has learnt the two suspect bombers lived upstairs with two other men who've now been arrested.
Police believe they have also found the car used by one of the bombers last Thursday.
Police revealed that forensic teams have found components of explosives in a dustbin and in a flat at Curtis House in New Southgate where the two named bombers were staying until last Thursday.
Police can't yet confirm if there were any similarities between the bomb material found here and the parts of the five bombs recovered after last week's aborted attacks.
Residents have told Channel 4 News that neither Hassan Omar or Said Ibrahim actually lived at flat number 53.
Instead it's thought they stayed with two other men who lived in flat 65, directly above. There could be a pattern here, the bombers from Leeds used one house to live in and the other to put their devices together.
Two men were arrested in number 65 on Sunday. Channel 4 News has also been told they were an Abdul Ali and a Firaj Ali, thought to be Eritrean or Sudanese.
A man approached journalists this morning claiming to be a friend of the two named terrorists and to have attended Islamic get togethers at number 65.
He was later questioned by police and released. Today more details of the two would-be bombers have emerged.
Muktar Said-Ibrahim
Yasin Hassan Omar
- is a 24 year old Somalian
- His £75 a week housing benefit was stopped in May
- He arrived in Britain in 1992 aged just 11 when he was given exceptional leave to remain.
- He was granted indefinite leave to remain last year.
Much of the Finchley area of north London came to a standstill this afternoon as police seized a car, thought to have been used by one of the bombers.
The white VW Golf had been under surveillance. Detectives decided to take it away, hopeful it might reveal more clues, it had a flat tyre, local residents said it had been left in the same spot for at least a month.
The vehicle was parked just off the North Circular, the 406 ringroad in north London. It had been left on the corner of Strawberry Vale and Chambers Gardens, just a couple of miles from the bombers flat at Curtis House.
Senior mosque figures in south London has told Channel 4 news that Yassin Hassan Omar, who tried to blow up a train at warren street, had been seen in the Stockwell and Brixton areas before last Thursday.
They also revealed that they told police a year ago that they were worried about some Islamic extremists that had come to the area, after the Finsbury Park mosque was closed down. We understand police are investigating links between the attempted bombings and an associate of a radical cleric.
