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posted July 29, 2005 at 2:45 p.m.

July 21 terror suspects arrested in Rome, London

All four would-be London bombers now under arrest.

By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com

Raids in London and Rome on Friday led to the capture of the last of the four men suspected of trying to bomb London buses and subways on July 21. Reuters reports that British police arrested two men in west London near Notting Hill, after firing tear gas into their apartments. Italian police arrested the fourth suspect in Rome.


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"I heard six loud bangs, which I found out from a policeman were stun grenades I believe, and then I heard two shots," [British] witness Patrick Ball said [about the London raids.]. "The noise that I heard was an extremely loud bang."
The area is near west London's Little Wormwood Scrubs park, where police on Saturday found a dark backpack containing a fifth bomb connected to the July 21 attack.

The BBC offers several eyewitness reports of the morning raids on apartments in the West of London.

The Guardian reports that Italian police says that the monitoring of mobile phone conversations between the suspect and his brother-in-law, who lived in Rome, led to the capture of the suspect. British police had give Italian police the mobile number.

Meanwhile, Scotland Yard refused to comment on a British man arrested in Zambia in connection with the July 7 bombings in London that killed 56 people.