Like other 21 July suspects believed to be from east Africa

Like other 21 July suspects, believed to be from east Africa. Arrested in Birmingham last Wednesday after being stunned with a Taser.* Ramzi Mohammed, age unknown, accused of trying to detonate bomb on Underground between Oval and Stockwell stations. Other travellers tried to detain him when smoke came from his rucksack, but he escaped. A Somalian refugee who came to Britain aged 11, fostered, then given a flat at Curtis House, New Southgate in north London, which he shared with Muktar Said Ibrahim; rent paid by council Both said to have attended Finsbury Park Mosque.

Arrested in Dalgarno Gardens, North Kensington, west London, last Friday after brief siege.* Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, accused of trying to bomb a Tube train at Warren Street. Convicted in 1996 of violent mugging, he may have been radicalised in young offender institutions Given British citizenship last November. And keep an eye out for unusual splashes or marks in the water that might be the ‘footprint’ of a whale.”

We do as we’re told, but in the end, it comes out of the blue. Eritrean-born, he joined refugee family in north London in 1992. From a Jamaican background, he converted to Islam and married a British woman, also a convert; she is pregnant with their second child. Met up with other bombers at Luton, but how he first became involved with them remains unknown.* Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27, suspected of attempting to detonate bomb on bus in Hackney Road, Shoreditch.

He knew Hussain and Tanweer through the Muslim communities of West Yorkshire Travelled to Karachi with Tanweer last year Unconfirmed reports linking him to Finsbury Park mosque. He was arrested for disorderly conduct last year, and later travelled to Pakistan with Khan.* Germaine Lindsay, 19, killed 25 with bomb on Piccadilly line near King’s Cross A carpet fitter from Aylesbury. Was he the ringleader? What were his connections to radical clerics?* Shahzad Tanweer, 22, killed seven people on Circle line train at Aldgate. A sports science student from Leeds Metropolitan University, his family run a fish and chip shop in the Beeston area and have said they were “shattered” by his involvement. Where was he during the “missing hour” between the Tube explosions and his bomb being detonated? Did he really intend to detonate the bomb?* Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, killed six at Edgware Road Oldest of group; married with one daughter. He was a youthful tearaway said to have been radicalised on a trip to Pakistan in 2003 Arrested for shoplifting in 2004. But his friends have also suggested a simpler explanation: that he did not hear a challenge – or one was not delivered.Mr de Menezes was buried in his home town of Gonzaga last Friday afternoon.

About 8,000 people lined the streets.The Suspects* Hasib Hussain, 18, killed 12 people in a bus explosion in Tavistock Square. In Brazil, police regularly shoot suspects, so he might have feared a similar fate. The IPCC may find some of the answers in close-circuit television footage.Why might he have run?Mr de Menezes was, according to witnesses, running by the time he reached the Tube train. There are several overlapping possible explanations for this.

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