London police name 2 suspects, make new arrests in botched bombing

LONDON -- A clear plastic food tub could be a significant clue for police hunting those behind the botched London transit bombings: Detectives said Monday that the four bombs, and a fifth discovered later in a park, were all made using the same kind of humble kitchen container.

London police also identified two of the four suspects, and their chief said the force was "racing against time" to find the bombers, who fled three subway trains and a bus when their devices failed to fully detonate last Thursday.

At a televised press conference, Peter Clarke, head of the Metropolitan Police anti-terrorist squad, held up one of the white-lidded, 1.65-gallon containers and urged any shopkeeper who had sold five or more of them to contact police. In another similarity between the bombings, he said the containers were all placed inside dark-colored bags or backpacks.

Earlier, Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized for the killing of a Brazilian electrician mistaken for a terrorist as officials confirmed that undercover police shot him eight times -- one in the shoulder, seven in the head. Police identified two of the suspects as Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, and Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27, also known as Muktar Mohammed Said, but did not give their nationalities.

Authorities also released new closed-circuit images of the four suspects and gave details of their movements, recounting how one bolted from a subway station pursued by passengers, while another jumped through a subway window and fled down the tracks.