Police confident of linking bombs to al-Qaida

DETECTIVES are confident they can find an al-Qaida link to the British bombers who killed 54 people in western Europe’s first suicide attack, London police chief Ian Blair said yesterday.

Warning that another attack is “a strong possibility”, Mr Blair said the hunt is now on for the financiers and bomb makers who supplied the four young killers in London’s deadliest peacetime bomb attack.

Reports that explosives found in Leeds properties connected with the bombers were similar to those used in other al-Qaida-linked attacks were described by Mr Blair as “a reasonably fair picture”.