Police warn bombers could be lining up new terror attacks ALAN RODEN SENIOR police sources fear the terrorists behind the London bombings are still at large and could strike again. As the massive manhunt for the killers was stepped up, officials warned the bombers may target Britain for a second time, taking confidence from the fact their original plans had worked. <http://awrz.net/adclick.php?maxparams=2__bannerid=8234__zoneid=1157__source =%28other%29%2Fnews.scotsman.com%2Fprint.cfm%3Fid%3D763632005__cb=3a90b5bbdc __maxdest=http://archive.scotsman.com> The news comes as Prime Minister Tony Blair today conceded that security measures alone cannot protect the UK from further attack and said the underlying causes of terrorism must be "pulled up by the roots". Mr Blair said that "all the surveillance in the world" cannot stop people going on a bus to blow up innocent people. One senior al-Qaida member has been named as a key suspect in the hunt for those behind the London terrorist attack. Mohammed al Gerbouzi, 45, the head of the Group of Islamic Combatants of Morocco, has been linked to last year's Madrid train bombings and other terrorist atrocities in Casablanca. New information has also emerged on the timing of the explosions on the Underground. Police said they now believed that the bombs went off within around five minutes of each other, the first at Edgware Road station at 8.50am. This was originally logged as a person under a train, but by 9.17am police had realised that it was a bomb. The second blast, between Aldgate and Liverpool Street on the Circle Line, came at 8.51am, with the third, on the Piccadilly Line train between King's Cross and Russell Square, at 8.56am. The bus explosion in Tavistock Square came at 9.47am. A senior Scotland Yard source said that investigators were assuming that "the people who did this are still out there. They could do it again". A second attack would fit the pattern of recent al-Qaida activity in Europe, they said. Spanish security forces discovered a second stash of bombs after the Madrid bombings in March 2004. The terrorist suspects blew themselves up in a shoot-out with Spanish police. And in November 2003, the HSBC bank and the British Consulate in Istanbul were attacked five days after two synagogues in the city had been bombed. A police source has been reported as saying: "Our main fear is that this group is out there still sitting on a cache of high explosives knowing that their bomb designs worked. "We know from the two most recent atrocities in Europe that those groups always intended to make two attacks. Instead of going for perfect synchronicity in one spectacular, they have tried to hit the same target twice." One senior anti-terrorist official added: "The worrying thing is they live to fight another day." Police now believe only one bomber died in the London blasts - when he blew himself up on a double-decker bus and killed 13 people. The others are thought to have left their bombs, which were hidden in rucksacks and fitted with timed fuses, on the floors of three trains before escaping. But the massive operation to find the murderers was hit by a setback yesterday, when it emerged the CCTV cameras on the Number 30 bus were either faulty or not switched on, meaning vital clues have been missed. But police and intelligence services from around the world have volunteered to help find the terrorists. New York mayor Michael Bloomberg said the US would share intelligence with the British, while a team from Spain is already heading to London, bringing expertise acquired in the wake of the Madrid train attacks. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said police had "implacable resolve" to track down terrorists and "will bend every sinew" in the search. He said forensic investigation suggests each of the bombs had less than ten pounds of high explosive. Mohammed al Gerbouzi is said to have been living with his family in Britain for 16 years. It is understood he was granted indefinite leave to remain in the country, despite warnings from Morocco that he posed a threat. As head of the Group of Islamic Combatants of Morocco, he has been linked to the Madrid atrocities and bombings in Casablanca two years ago when 40 people died. A former pupil of cleric Abu Qatada - said to be Osama Bin Laden's European ambassador - Gerbouzi is alleged by the Spanish authorities to have spoken to some of the Madrid bombers twice in the hours before they blew themselves up as police closed in. Gerbouzi lived in England with his wife and children, but it is understood he vanished from his London flat in April last year. Last night, his family strongly dismissed claims that he is linked to the bombings. 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