Wednesday, August 03, 2005

How cellphone tracking led to bombing suspect

A New York Times article by Heather Timmons, via The International Herald Tribune, reports that:

The 27-year-old Briton who was arrested in Rome on Friday and accused of planting a bomb on a British Underground train had entered Britain using fake documents and an alias, the authorities say. He managed to escape the country on a Eurostar train to Paris, although grainy photos of him plastered the walls of the London train station, Waterloo.

Yet the police swiftly tracked his escape, for the most mundane of reasons - he did not turn off his cellphone.

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