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The article presents information about the installation of surveillance cameras in Lower Manhattan, New York designed to detect, track, and deter terrorists. The camera system will be the first in a U.S. city. It is similar in design to the system used in London, England. British officials used images from such cameras to help track suspects after the London subway bombings in 2005.

The article reports that leader of the terrorist bombings of London, England's public transportation system, Omar Khyam, has received a life sentence in Great Britain. As a result of his case, the U.S. now has concerns about the open visa program it currently has with the British government. There are over three quarters a a million British citizens with ties to Pakistan. Khyam was became a militant supporter of the Khashmir cause while visiting relatives in Pakistan.

This article reports on the verdict in the case of five British Muslim men accused of planting bombs in London and fallout from the investigation that led to their conviction. Surveillance during the case suggested that these men were linked with two of the four plotters who pulled off the 2005 transit attack that killed 56 people. Immediately there was a call for an investigation as to why the deaths could not have been prevented.

Looks at the long-term impact of the July, 2005 London subway bombing on the prevention of terrorism in Europe. Report that European security leaders are learning to combat terrorists among their own populations; Discussion of the development of terrorist organizations from the control of Al Qaeda to independent operations in a variety of countries; Description of cooperation between terrorists of differing nationalities and ideologies; Details of the ethnic and religious demographics of bombers in two separate attacks on London during July; Formation of counterterrorism policy in Great Britain and throughout Europe in light of changes in the nature of terrorist threats.

Focuses on Leeds, England, where many South Asian men struggle to find their way as they confront their parents' traditional values, a working-class culture and a radical form of Islam. Why these young British-raised South Asian men in Beeston, a neighborhood of Leeds, are rejecting Western culture and embracing fundamentalist Islam; Implications of their transformation; Questions over what motivated these men to bomb fellow Britons; Muslims' sense of injustice at events both at home and abroad; Alienation of increasing numbers of educated European Muslims from their parents' rural South Asian culture; Topic of Islam and politics; Impact of the belief that the West is waging a war against Islam, a notion strengthened by the invasion of Iraq.

Reports that police in London and Rome arrested the remaining suspected bombers in the July 21, 2005 failed attacks in London. Review of how law enforcement and intelligence officials say the police have not been able to establish a connection between a round of bombings on July 7, 2005 and the botched attacks of July 21; Similarities between each event; Description of how and where each arrest took place. INSET: Four Arrests.

Reports that some police officials in London, England, are considering the possibility that the four bombers who attacked the mass transit system on July 7, 2005 did not plan to commit suicide and were duped into dying. Examples of evidence to support this theory; Belief that the men may have been tricked into carrying bombs onto the trains and leaving them, thinking they would explode later; Evidence that suggests they were suicide bombers; Complications in the investigation, including conflicting witness accounts of the July 21, 2005 attackers' behavior; Why the suicide question has major implications for the investigation and for the assessment of the terrorist threat to London; Debate within the investigation and wider intelligence circles; Issue of an unknown mastermind who might have organized both attacks and who could be organizing others.

Reports that British police arrested a Somali man believed to be one of the bombers behind the London attacks of July 21, 2005. Author's view that the arrest is the biggest breakthrough yet in the investigation; Review of the arrest, in which a twenty-four year old British resident named Yasin Hassan Omar was subdued by authorities in a predawn raid in Birmingham; Report from a senior European intelligence officer that the house in which the suspect was arrested contained finished bombs and a variety of bomb components.

Offers a look at the investigation of terrorist bombings in London, England and Sharm el Sheik, Egypt as of July 25, 2005. Efforts of officials to determine possible connections between the incidents; Investigation of the potential role of Al Qaeda in each bombing; View of counterterrorism investigators that a direct connection between the British and Egyptian bombings is unlikely; Discussion of increasing terrorist activities and political violence in Europe and the Middle East; Profile of the work of international intelligence officials to investigate and prevent terrorism.

Reports that Britain's Scotland Yard admitted that a man police officers gunned down on a London subway had nothing to do with the investigation into the recent bombing attacks there. Background on the death of electrician Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian, who was gunned down in full public view; Perception of the incident as a setback to the investigation into cells suspected of subway terrorism; Developments in the investigation into the July 7 and July 27 attacks in London; Reactions to the killing of de Menezes; Debate over the arming of British police officers; Alarm of the country's Muslims; The rising tension in London; Background on de Menezes.

Reports that plainclothes British police officers fatally shot a suspect on a subway train as horrified passengers looked on. Review of the officers were on a shoot-to-kill order following the terrorist attacks that have traumatized Britain; Summarization of the incident, in which a man was shot five times at point blank range after being chased by police; Discussion of the photographs of four terrorist suspects released by British authorities that were taken from closed-circuit television cameras. INSET: Four Suspects.

Looks at how old mill towns in New Jersey and upstate New York have drawn many immigrants to neighborhoods teetering between blight and renewal. Review of how the four suicide bombers in the July 7, 2005 terrorist bombings in London were from old mill towns; Statistics related to the population of Pakistani immigrants in the New Jersey and New York area; Authors view that the differences between the mill towns in American and those in the United Kingdom outweigh the similarities; Review of statistics related to household income; Discussion of the history social conditions of old mill towns in New York and New Jersey.

Reports that police investigating the terrorist bombings in London have begun a worldwide hunt for a former aide to one of Britain's most militant Islamic clerics who they believe may have played a key role in the attacks. Review of how Haroon Rashid Aswat, originally from Dewsbury, in north-central England, was a senior aide to Abu Hamza al-Masri, a militant cleric who preached at the Finsbury Park mosque; Possibility that Aswat provided support for the four suicide bombers that carried out the attacks.

Discusses the impact of the 2005 London Subway Bombings on subway monitoring in New York City. How police officers will guard the entrances to all of New York's underwater subway tunnels; Questions over how best to guard subway tunnels; Consideration of how New York has become less secure since just after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Reports that less than a month before the London bombings, Britain's top intelligence and law enforcement officials concluded that no group was able or intending to strike the country, according to a confidential terror threat assessment report. Observation that the previously undisclosed report was sent to British government agencies, foreign governments and corporations; How the assessment by the Joint Terrorist Analysis Center prompted the British government to lower its threat assessment; Excerpts from the report, which stated that terrorist-related activity in Britain was a direct result of violence in Iraq; Reactions of Prime Minister Tony Blair and other British government leaders; Call by some British politicians for an inquiry into whether the attacks represented a failure of intelligence and whether the investigation has been handled properly.

Discusses the implications of the London Islamist suicide bombings on July 7, 2005, the first of such strikes in Western Europe. Views of terrorism experts; How, although the danger of suicide attack is rising, it is still socially condemned; Possible emergence of suicide as a weapon for native Muslim terrorists in Western Europe; Rationales for violence; Warning that European jihadists who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan are returning with new skills; Ways that Palestinian suicide bombers defy simple categorization; Backgrounds on the London suicide bombers; Suggestion by Jessica Stern, author of "Terror in the Name of God," that violent Islamism may have become a fad for some young Muslims.

Observes how those who were killed in the London bombings reflect the diversity of their origins and the indiscriminate nature of the bombs. Problems identifying the victims; Role of the Identification Commission, a group of doctors, police officers and forensic scientists; Uncertainty of friends and relatives of those who are still officially missing; Experience of Mari Fatayi-Williams, a Londoner from Nigeria, whose son Anthony is still officially missing; Portraits of some of the victims, many of whom were young; Investigation to trace the steps of the four bombing suspects. INSET: Tracking the Suspects.

Updates the ongoing investigation by British authorities into the London subway bombings. Description of the information received from the surveillance camera tapes; How investigators believe that a fifth man seen on the tape may be the mastermind; Reactions of members of England's Parliament, including Muslim Labor member, Mohammed Sarwar, to the bombings; Comments by England's Prime Minister, Tony Blair; Discussion of possible retaliation against Muslims in England.

Reports that British police have announced that four British-born men carried out the terrorist bombings in London. Announcement that one man's body was found in the wreckage of the London Underground and that property belonging to three more was found at the location of the other blasts; Review of how authorities stopped short of declaring that the attacks were suicide bombings; Search of six houses in the northern city of Leeds; Discussion of how the four men, whose names have not been released, were recorded by closed circuit television cameras arriving at King's Cross station carrying backpacks just before three of the bombs exploded. INSET: Developments in the Investigation.

Reports that British investigators believe that the bombs used in the coordinated terrorist attacks in London, England contained sophisticated high-grade explosives, according to British and European counterterrorism officials. Similarity of the material used in the bombs to the kind manufactured for military use or highly technical commercial purposes; Comments of counterterrorism and law enforcement officials; Theories of investigators, who suspect there was at least one technically savvy bomb maker; How determining the physical origin of the explosives is crucial to helping investigators determine the origin of the bombs that tore apart three trains in the underground and a bus; Details of the investigation; Reference to the terror cell in Spain which was responsible for the commuter train attack in Madrid in March 2004.

Looks at the reaction of the British news media to the terrorists bombings of buses and subways in London. Review of how many of the top British news crews were in Singapore during the attacks, following the decision by the International Olympic Committee to award the 2012 Games to London; Author's view that when the bombs went off, the story seemed to unfold in slow motion; Discussion of reporting of the event was hampered by inaccurate official information, a lack of access to the attack sites underground, and the cautious approach of British television news.

Focuses on the recovery effort in the subway tunnel between King's Cross and Russell Square in London, following the terrorist attacks their that killed forty-nine people and left some eight-hundred people injured. Review of how the tunnel located between King's Cross and Russell Square in one of the London transit system's deepest; Statistics on the depth and size of the tunnel; Reports on how recovery have been working in a nightmarish scene of mangled remains, twisted metal, and high temperatures looking for victims of the attack.

Reports that British intelligence officials, frustrated by their failure to quickly crack the worst terrorist attack here since World War II, have sought help from counterparts in the United States and two dozen European allies to develop possible leads. Review of how a private meeting was held in London between Scotland Yard and MI5, Britain's domestic intelligence agency, that brought together law enforcement officials from the United States and Europe; Summarization of the London bombings, which killed forty-nine people and left more than seven-hundred injured.

Looks at the impact of the July 7, 2005 London subway bombings on the celebration of London's win of the 2012 Olympics. Contrast between the media coverage of London's successful Olympic bid with coverage of the bombings, which occurred the following day; View of International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) president Jacques Rogge that the bombing was not connected to the Olympic announcement; Influence on the risk of terrorism on the decision of where to host the 2012 Olympics; Discussion of security management strategies planned for London's Olympic games.

Contends that terrorist attacks almost never sow the kind of lasting confusion and mass anxiety that the perpetrators presumably want. Reference to the attacks in London, Madrid, Israel and New York City; Views of analysts; Suggestion that Western cities are resourceful and structurally sound, and people are adaptable; How certain kinds of threats can deeply unsettle a worldly population; Issue of a climate of fear; Focus of Al Qaeda on Western society's loss of confidence; Psychological implications of Western governments' immediate response to terror; Attitudes of people in the West; Topic of the fragility of society; Anxiety over bioterror attacks; Reactions to the so-called dirty bomb. INSET: Target: Ground Transportation, by Bill Marsh.

Considers the risks of terrorism for insurers. Reference to the London bombings; Question of whether the U.S. government should continue to be the main provider of terrorism risk insurance; Significance of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, enacted after the September 11, 2001 attacks, which obligates the government to reimburse insurance companies for most of their losses from terrorism; Why the issue is crucial to New York City and other major cities; Opposition of the President George W. Bush administration and Congressional Republican leaders to extending the legislation, despite lobbying efforts for a renewal; Overview of the political battle, which is between urban and Democratic-leaning states; How the battle poses fundamental economic questions about who should bear risks against catastrophic events.

Focuses on the search for the missing after London, England, was rocked by four explosions leaving at least 49 dead and 20 to 50 people unaccounted for by hospitals, coroners, friends and relatives. How photographs of the missing can be seen on public buildings, in newspapers and Web sites; Observation that the pleas are reminiscent of the posters in New York City in the days after the September 11, 2001 attacks; Efforts of crews to reach the wreckage of a subway car at King's Cross; How many of the missing reflect the diversity of London; The persistence of families and friends of the missing in their search.

Suggests that, long before the London bombings, Britain had become a breeding ground for hate, fed by a militant version of Islam. Role of such extremists as Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammed in calling for holy war against Britain and urging Muslim men to join Iraq's insurgency; How London became a crossroads for would-be terrorists who used it as a home base, including terrorists involved in attacks in Madrid, Spain and in the September 11, 2001 plot; Efforts of Britain to pass antiterrorist and immigration laws; Claim by critics that Britain's tradition of civil liberties and protection of political activists have made the country a haven for terrorists; How the anger of London's militant clerics turned on Britain after it offered support for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq; Debate within the government; Difficulties of British investigators identifying Islamic militants among Britain's Muslim population.

Details the results to date of the ongoing investigation into the terrorist bombings of the London subway and bus. Belief of investigators that bombs were crude and the possible work of a home-grown group; Description of a possible suspect in the bus bombing by witnesses; Discussion of continuing investigation and efforts to recover other possible victims of the bombings; Comments from Andy Trotter, deputy chief constable of the British Transport Police.

Reports that markets across Europe and the U.S. were thrown into turmoil following the subway bombings in London, England, but recouped much of their losses by the day's end. Initial reactions of traders in Europe; Performance of the DAX Index, the FTSE 100 stock index and the New York Stock Exchange; Similarity of the trading patterns; How the London Stock Exchange remained open after the four terrorist attacks, though the market closed lower; Overview of the international markets; Observation that in the weeks and months after the initial shock of terrorist attacks, stock markets have been resilient; Views of economists, who fear a possible lowering of consumer confidence in Britain; How, in the U.S. the full impact of the attacks on consumer confidence will be evaluated in the weeks leading up to the next Federal Reserve policy-making meeting; Significance of the rebound in the price of oil. INSET: London Exchange Continues With Trading, by Heather Timmons.

Examines reactions of Americans to the London subway terrorist bombings. Comments of residents of New York City, Chicago, Boston, Miami and San Francisco; Concerns over safety and terror preparedness; The American psyche since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; Issue of fatalism; Puzzlement of some law enforcement officials over why terrorists had not tried to attack the transportation systems of major U.S. cities; Ways that Americans are handling the anxiety of a possible next attack. INSET: Giuliani Was near Site of Bombing.

Reports that bomb explosion tore through three subway trains and a double-decker bus in a coordinated terror attack during rush hour in London, England, killing at least 37 and wounding about 700. Reactions throughout the city; Details of the explosions near Liverpool Street station, King's Cross station, Edgware Road station, and on a bus at the junction of Upper Woburn Place and Tavistock Square; Closure of the subway network and bus services as rescue workers searched for the dead and wounded; Statement from Prime Minister Tony Blair, who was hosting the Group of Eight summit meeting in Scotland; Increased security precautions for mass transit systems in the U.S. and Europe; Scope of the bombings; Theories about the strategy and methodology of the bombings.

Reports that investigators searching for clues in the bombing attacks in London, England, said that the three bombs used in the subway apparently were detonated by timers, and that a fourth device may have been intended for a target other than the city bus that it destroyed. How officials drew parallels between the London bombings and the ones that struck commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, which were carried out by a Qaeda-inspired cell; Questions confronting Scotland Yard; Issue of the unexpectedness of the attack, including the lack of a warning; Comments of Brian Paddick, deputy assistant commission of the Metropolitan Police; Observation that the terrorist alert level was not raised to coincide with the opening of the Group of Eight summit meeting in Scotland; Overview of the investigation by counterterrorism officials in London; How, like Madrid, the attacks on London were aimed at ordinary workers.

LONDON -- For five months the stories poured out into the courtroom, describing the worst and best of human behavior. Stories of bystanders fighting their way into mangled, pitch-black subway cars and refusing to leave passengers whose lives were slipping away. Stories of body parts strewn in the rubble of a sliced-open bus. Stories of grievously wounded people who somehow cheated death because of resilience, luck and the extraordinary efforts of strangers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Britain will amend rules allowing the police to hold terrorism suspects for up to 28 days before they must be charged with a crime or released, officials said Thursday. A new limit of 14 days will take effect on Tuesday, said Damian Green, a Home Office minister. The 28-day detention rule was introduced by the Labour government in 2006, after the London bombings of July 2005, but the police have not held anyone longer than 14 days since July 2007, Mr. Green said. Nonetheless, he said that officials would draw up emergency laws to prepare for ''very exceptional circumstances'' when a longer detention might be necessary. Home Secretary Theresa May plans to announce more details of a sweeping review of the government's counterterrorism measures on Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article was reported by John F. Burns, Landon Thomas Jr. and Ravi Somaiya and written by Mr. Burns. LONDON -- Hit hard by the London transit system bombings in 2005, Britain keeps a close eye on Islamic extremists, and MI5, the covert domestic security agency, has said it specifically monitors Muslim campus groups. Yet one student president of the Islamic Society at the prestigious University College London, a British security official said Tuesday, had ''never shown up on the radar screen'' as a threat. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Saudi man linked to Al Qaeda and suspected of being the mastermind of the 2005 bombings of London's transit system was arrested Wednesday in Pakistan, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The man, identified as Zabi ul-Taifi, was one of seven men arrested in a predawn raid on a house in Bara Qadeem, a village on the outskirts of Peshawar. The officials said that other arrested men included Arabs and Afghans and that they were believed to have planned attacks on trucks taking supplies to Western forces in Afghanistan. In the July 7, 2005, bombings, four British Islamist militants killed 52 people and wounded hundreds when they carried out suicide bombings on three underground trains and a bus in central London. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Three British Muslims accused of helping the suicide bombers who carried out the attacks on London's transportation system in July 2005 went on trial on Thursday, in the first case against people accused of helping plan the attacks. The jury was shown a home video, previously kept secret, that depicted Mohammed Sidique Khan, believed to have been the leader of the bombers, bidding farewell to a young daughter before a trip to Pakistan in late 2004. The video offers a personal side of a man who later cast himself as a soldier in a war against the West. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on a police watchdog group's report on British people being misinformed by the London Police about shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian electrician. It reports on misleading the people through false information on shooting the innocent person for his suspicious link with the 2005 terrorist attacks in London, England. It blames the assistant police commissioner Andy Hayman for the misinformation. Four East African men were convicted for the attacks.

The article reports that four men including Muktar Said Ibrahim, Yassin Hassan Omar, Ramzi Mohamed and Hussain Osman who were accused of plotting to blast the transit system in London, England, have been sentenced to life imprisonment. All the four accused who were Muslims of African origin planned to bomb the system which failed to explode on July 21, 2005. It has been reported that the blasts were connected with earlier terrorist attacks on the transit system which killed 52 commuters.

The article reports on the acquittal of three of four suspects arrested in connection with the 2005 London, England transit bombings. They were released on May 15, 2007. They were arrested in the first week of May 2007. Those released were in the 20-30 age group. They included Mohammed Shakil, 30 and Sadeer Saleem, 26. No charges have been filed in the bombings. The investigation is on.

The article reports that the police of Great Britain has arrested three men and the widow of a suicide bomber in May 9, 2007 on suspicion of involvement in the terrorist attack on the London transit system in 2005. Those arrested include Khalid Khaliq, Arshad Patel, Imran Motala, and Hasina Patel, wife of suicide bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan.

The article reports on the British police charges leveled against three Muslims in connection with 2005 London terrorist bombings. The suspects of British and South Asian descent have been charged with conspiring in planning the attack, which killed 52 people in July 2005. The charges were leveled after investigation into the attack for 21 months. The charged men include Mohammed Shakil and Sadeer Saleem.

The article reports on police investigations related to the London suicide bombings of July 7, 2005 in Great Britain. Under the investigation, the police has arrested three men under counterterrorism laws for. It is informed that evidence has emerged of a possible link between the July 7 bombings and a failed attack two weeks later.

The article reports on the arrest of three suspects in England in connection with 2005 London terrorist bombings. The arrest made on March 22, 2007 was first in Great Britain for the bombings in London transit system on July 7, 2007 in which 52 passengers were killed. Two of the suspects were arrested at the Manchester airport, when they were about to board a plane for Pakistan. Another person was arrested in Leeds.

The article reports that Pakistani officials have confirmed Rashid Rauf, the main suspect in the London bombing plot, has married and settled in Bahawalpur, Pakistan.

The article analyzes the role of Pakistan in hiding the members of the militant group Al Qaeda, responsible for the 2005 London Bombings in London, England.

The article reports that Britons paid homage to the victims of London bombing on July 7, 2006 to mark the anniversary of the bombing.

The article presents information on the poor performance of rescue operations in London, England, after the terrorist bombings on May 7.

The article focuses on the call of a prominent lawyer on the Parliament of Greece to investigate the accusations that a group of Pakistanis had been kidnapped and psychologically tortured in questioning in Athens linked to the July 7, 2005 bombings in London.