The Sunday newspapers carry conflicting theories about who was responsible for Thursday’s bomb attack on London. The Sunday Telegraph reports (registration required) that “ministers now believe that the bombings - which left at least 49 people dead in Britain’s worst terrorist attack - were the work of a ‘very, very small number’ of individuals who arrived from mainland Europe or North Africa on false passports within the six months”.
Sir Stevens, the former Metropolitan Police commissioner, disagrees in the News of the World. “The terrorists at the centre of the London bombing this week will almost certainly be British born and bred, brought up here and totally aware of British life and values,” he insists. “It is true that … international terrorists may have provided expertise, know-how or even possibly foot soldiers for this week’s onslaught. But essentially, sadly, this will almost certainly have been a home-grown operation.”
The most way-out theory crops up in the Independent on Sunday, which reports that police and intelligence agents are investigating the possibility “that a gang of white ‘mercenary terrorists’ was hired by al-Qa’ida to carry out last week’s devastating attacks on London”. This theory was given credence, according to the paper, “by the fact that the security services had no advance warnings, suggesting that the bombers were not known extremists”.
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