Bombers expected to escape: Sleuths

He was commenting on a report in The Daily Mirror, suggesting the bombers, who all died in the July 7 explosions, may have thought they had time to get away after planting the devices.

The Mirror report said several factors cast doubt on the suicide theory—two of the men had pregnant wives, they did not carry the explosives strapped to their bodies, and they bought return rail tickets from Luton to London. It quoted unnamed security sources as saying the bombers may have been duped into believing they could escape.

The parents of bombing-suspect Mohammad Sidique Khan said on Saturday that their son ‘‘may have been brainwashed into carrying out such an atrocity…We urge people with the tiniest piece of information to come forward…to expose these terror networks, ’’ they said.

Pakistan’s education minister Javed Ashraf Qazi said there was no evidence of military training at madarsas. ‘‘If the British government has any evidence, it should tell us and we will certainly look into it.” Meanwhile, Pakistan’s security forces detained four men for suspected links with Shehzad Tanweer.