London Police Make Seven More Arrests By <http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=bylL&v1=ALAN COWELL&fdq=19960101&td=sysdate&sort=newest&ac=ALAN COWELL&inline=nyt-per> ALAN COWELL http://query.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?tntget=2005/07/31/international/europe /31cnd-london.html <http://query.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?tntget=2005/07/31/international/europ e/31cnd-london.html&tntemail0=&emc=tnt&pagewanted=print> &tntemail0=&emc=tnt&pagewanted=print LONDON, July 31 - The British police today widened their hunt for people involved in attempted terrorist bombings in London on July 21, seizing six men and a woman at an apartment house in Brighton on the south coast. The resort 60 miles south of London is more usually known for holiday trips, excursions to the seaside and the restorative breezes of the English Channel. But, just two days after armed police in London and Rome detained men suspected of being the July 21 attackers, police shifted their search for accomplices to two locations in Brighton. Police did not identify the new suspects by name. The arrests, which witnesses said took place at an apartment house called Fairways about one mile from the sea, brought to 19 the number of people being detained in relations to the July 21 bombings. They include five men - four held in Britain and one in Rome - suspected of planting bombs on July 21 in an attack that mimicked a far bloodier assault on July 7, when 56 people, including four bombers, were killed. The police that the arrests in Brighton, all made under counter-terrorism laws, were part of a hunt for a so-called third cell of bombers alluded to in a British newspaper report. But a police spokesman in London, speaking in return for anonymity under police rules, said: "There may well be further suspects out there with similar intentions" to the earlier bombers. "And there may be others who assisted them. We would expect that they would have had other persons involved," he said. The spokesman said the police had never specifically referred to the existence of a "third cell," even though senior officers have warned repeatedly that Britons still face a serious threat, despite Friday's arrests. British authorities are seeking the extradition of the suspect held in Rome, identified variously as Hussain Osman and Osman Hussain, a 27-year-old naturalized Briton of Ethiopian or Somali background who fled London last Tuesday aboard a Eurostar train to Paris. He has also been identified as Hamdi Isaac. He is suspected of attempting to bomb a subway train near Shepherd's Bush station in west London on July. Witnesses at the time said that, when a bomb in a backpack failed to detonate properly, he jumped from a subway train onto the tracks - above ground at that point - and fled. Mr. Osman told Italian investigators that the July 21 bombers intended their action only as a "demonstration" and did not mean to kill anybody, a person with firsthand knowledge of the interrogation said on Saturday. But Sir Ian Blair, the head of London's police, had said earlier on several occasions that the bombers made a single mistake - which he has not explained in detail - that prevented carnage on the same scale as on July 7. British officials today questioned how Mr. Osman - identified after the July 21 bombings in closed-circuit television images released by the police - could have slipped out of the country so easily at a time when immigration officers were supposed to be on high alert. A spokesman for the Home Office said Britain had ordered its immigration services to introduce passport checks at all ports after the first bombing on July 7. That order had been relaxed on July 17 but reimposed after the failed attacks on July 21, when explosives failed to detonate properly, the spokesman said, requesting customary anonymity. According to Italian officials, the fugitive had told investigators in Rome after his arrest that he fled Britain five days after the July 21 attacks. David Davies, a spokesman for the opposition Conservatives, said the ease with which Mr. Osman left the country showed "the vital and immediate necessity for the government to get a grip on our porous borders, both in terms of people coming into the country and in terms of people leaving." Under Britain's anti-terrorism laws, police have 14 days to question suspects - from the time of their arrests - before they are obliged to charge or release them. The first arrest of a July 21 suspect was last Wednesday when a man described as a Somali, Yasin Hassan Omar, was arrested in Birmingham, central England, accused of trying to bomb a subway train at Warren Street station. In London on Friday, three more men were arrested - Muktar Said Ibrahim, suspected of trying to bomb a doubledecker bus; Ramzi Mohamed, suspected of attacking a subway train at Oval station, and Wahbi Mohamed, wanted in connection with suspicions that an attempt to bomb a fifth target on the same day was abandoned. In the hunt for suspects, a 27-year-old Brazilian electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, was shot dead by accident by police on July 22, and since then some Muslims have said they fear being singled out by police because of their appearance. "Every Muslim in the community is living in fear of harassment, arrest and possible execution," said Imran Waheed, a spokesman for the radical Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, which held a meeting of several hundred supporters in London today. The organization is outlawed in some countries. But the police insist they will continue to stop and search people from groups seen as most likely to be a threat. "We should not waste time searching old white ladies," Ian Johnston, the head of the British Transport Police, told the Mail on Sunday newspaper. "What it means is, if your intelligence in a particular area tells you that you're looking for somebody of a particular description, perhaps with particular clothing on, then clearly you're going to exercise that power in that way," he said, referring to police powers to stop suspects on the street. In Italy - among more than a dozen searches carried out in the last few days - the police today announced the arrest of a man identified as Fati Issac, though he was not charged with an terror-related crimes. Several accounts in the Italian press said he was a brother of Osman Hussain, arrested as one of the bombers in the July 21 attempt. A police official in the northern city of Brescia, where the suspect was arrested, would only confirm the arrest and say that he was charged with crimes connected to documents. ANSA, an Italian news agency, cited unidentified police sources as saying that he was charged with destroying documents after being taken into custody on Saturday. The agency said the suspect's girlfriend, identified as a Bosnian, was also questioned but later released. A lawyer representing the July 21 suspect captured in Rome has said the extradition could take up to two months, even under an expedited extradition process approved by Italy only last week. cowell Ian Fisher contributed reporting from Rome for this article. * <http://query.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/copyright.html> Copyright 2005 <http://www.nytco.com/> The New York Times Company All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. FAIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with "Fair Use" criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of "Fair Use" was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. 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