The Associated Press
LONDON- The investigation into the London bombings will likely reveal a clear al-Qaida link, the city’s police chief said Friday, adding that there was a “very strong possibility” of further terrorist attacks in Britain.
“What we expect to find at some stage is that there is a clear al-Qaida link, a clear al-Qaida approach, because the four men who are dead, who we believe are the bombers, are in the category of foot soldiers,” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair told British Broadcasting Corp. radio.
“So therefore what we have got to find is who encouraged them, who trained them, who is the chemist. Those are the things in which we are now so interested.”
He added that “there is a Pakistan connection, but there are also connections in other countries.”
Three of the bombers who carried out last week’s terror strikes were Britons of Pakistani origin. Pakistani intelligence officials said Friday that local authorities are looking into a connection between one of the three and two al-Qaida linked militant groups in that country.
Blair also said that the threat of further attacks remained.
“We have said repeatedly that this is a very strong possibility,” he said.