Amateurs

Well, that didn't take long did it? Less than a week after the bombing we know who the killers were and where they came from. The Met can call this a success. I think, though, that it may have been relatively easy. The bombers arrived together on a train. They carried identification with them that was found at the crime scenes. One of their families, perhaps unaware of why he was in London, reported their son missing. As terrorists go these were amateurs compared to that other bunch of murderous pychopaths we have been dealing with for decades, the IRA.

I think that the organisation that inspired these people to do these things will regard the clues that led to their early identification as errors. Inspiring terror in the populace requires the threat to remain. Assuredly, now that we are almost certain that these were suicide attacks, the threat will remain as there will be other indoctrinated young people ready to die. However, to maximise terror it would have been more effective for the killers to have remained as anonymous as possible for as long as possible. They have been found within a week and the evidence discovered and the information obtained from individual arrested yesterday will begin, in a small way, to close down the threat.

The Islamofascists took a blow yesterday but those who are not brought under the police's scrutiny will learn from their comrades' mistakes. They are amateurs now, but for how much longer?