In reassembling the bodies investigators can work out the exact direction of the blast and the location of the bombers, whose remains are also being identified. Israeli experts involved in analysing suicide bomb attacks have demonstrated that bombers experience a distinct pattern of trauma on their bodies.The fact the No 30 bus and the Tube trains were crowded with commuters means that some people were buffeted from the effects of the blast. In theory two people could have the same tattoo."Every body part recovered by the forensic teams working on the investigation is given an individual serial number. However, the process is expected to be complicated because of the fragmentation of the bodies.In an interview with this paper, Dr Scheuer, from the Royal Free and University College Medical School in London, said that remains from all four blast sites were being examined separately.Dr Scheuer, who was expected to meet the bomb investigation team yesterday, said: "You have to be really sure, otherwise the emotional consequences [for the families] are terrible. Inquests have already been opened at coroner's courts across the capital, including those at Westminster and St Pancras, into the deaths of the 41 identified so far.This paper has learnt that Scotland Yard is drafting in a leading forensic expert who was instrumental in identifying victims of mass killings in Kosovo after the 1999 Nato bombing campaign.Dr Louise Scheuer, a forensic anthropologist who already has experience working with the Metropolitan police's anti-terrorist team, will be on standby to help with the process of establishing the identities of the dead.Forensic anthropology involves the analysis of human remains which is critical to the successful outcome of the investigation. But for other families the agonising wait drags on and the long mourning process cannot begin, because incomplete remains may be all that is left of their loved ones. Efforts to identify victims have been hampered by the advanced decomposition of some bodies and by the fact that the blasts took place in confined spaces which madeinjuries more extensive.The harrowing task of identifying all the victims of the bombings is expected to take weeks. A few have already received the news they have been dreading, that their children, relatives or friends were among those who lost their lives in Britain's worst terrorist atrocity.
We know they travelled together on a Thameslink train to King's Cross."Did you see these four men? Did you see them together in the days before the attack? Do you have information on any of these men?"You can contact police on the confidential Anti-Terrorist Hotline on 0800 789 321, or electronically online via . More than 6,000 CCTV tapes are being analysed.Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, the head of the Anti-Terrorist Branch, thanked the public for coming forward but added: "We still need to find out more about these four men and their movements, both on the morning of the bombings, and in the days and weeks beforehand."We are this evening releasing a CCTV image showing the four men at Luton train station at approximately 7.20am. You get a warning and go through fixed procedures, evacuation, you know not to use a mobile phone. This paper has learnt that all Britain's chief constables met at a "terror summit" last Tuesday at Scotland Yard to draw up national strategies. Current procedures are based on the experience of dealing with the IRA and do not give advice to officers on dealing with suicide bombers.The Association of Chief Police Officers has circulated a memo to all forces urging them to revise their procedures on evacuating civilians and dealing with suspects planning an attack.A senior anti-terror police source said: "We are familiar with how to deal with Irish terror and bomb explosions. Bomb attacks on US consulate and French naval personnel killed 24 in2002.
Senior al-Qa'ida figure Ramzi Binalshibh caught months later. Police chiefs are completely rewriting their official manual on how to deal with terrorists in the wake of the 7 July atrocities. US journalist Daniel Pearl kidnapped and murdered in operation masterminded by Briton Omar Saeed Sheikh. Hotbed of militancy and sectarian strife, possible refuge for bin Laden. Capture of al-Qa'ida computer expert Naeem Noor Khan last July led to wave of arrests of alleged al-Qa'ida figures in BritainKarachiCountry's largest city. Pakistan's secret services presided over the birth of the Taliban here in the 1990sLahoreTwo arrests yesterday in wake of London bomber Tanweer's alleged visit to madrassa near Pakistan's second largest city. Scene of two assassination attempts on President Pervez MusharrafQuettaFormer Taliban leaders said to live openly in city, which has close links with Kandahar, their former headquarters.
