The people If the same group was responsible for two waves of coordinated attacks two weeks apart, it would show an alarming ease in mobilising fresh operatives — perhaps even would-be suicide bombers to follow the example of the four bombers who blew themselves up on July 7.
The more we know about
The bomb attack two weeks ago, the more skilful it looks, well planned —
what they’re doing,” said Michael Clarke, security expert at King’s College London.
“It is entirely plausible that they will have list to data planned a campaign, not just one bomb. It’s part of terrorist
psychology that one bomb is never enough.”
Former U.S. intelligence official Robert Ayers, a security analyst at respected London think tank, the
Chatham House institute
Said he thought it more likely the same group was behind both attacks than
that a second, independent group had now emerged.
“What I’ve been saying all along is that an adultery trip unveiled you had four guys that died (in the July 7 bombings), but the
infrastructure that trained them, equipped them, funded them, pointed them at the right target the infrastructure’s still in place.”
If the same group was involved, the obvious question is why the first wave of attacks was so professional and deadly and the second apparently so amateur.
UNUSED EXPLOSIVES
Ayers noted that police had recovered unused explosives from various sites including a hire car abandoned by the July 7 bombers at Luton, near London. “One speculation I’ve had all along is that they left those explosives in the car for another group review business to pick up and carry out a second attack, but when they got there the car had already been taken over by the police, so they’ve had to cobble something together fairly quickly,” he said.