Were the bombers tricked?

The London bombing might not have been of the (intentionally) suicide variety. Here's an excerpt from an article entitled, "UK bombers 'tricked' - All four paid for return train tickets", that explains why:

British police are considering the possibility that the four key suspects in the London terrorist attacks may have been tricked into triggering their bombs.

The theory comes as Scotland Yard issued chilling new images of the four terrorists setting off on their fatal journey from Luton station.

Police believe the bombers may have been tricked by a "master" who told them they would have time to escape when in fact the devices were set to explode instantly. Investigators are giving the hypothesis serious attention given the unusual behaviour of the four bombers for such a sophisticated terrorist action.

The four men are seen together on closed-circuit TV at Luton railway station at 7.20am on Thursday July 7, 90 minutes before the first bomb exploded.

Police issued the images at the weekend as they continue to seek new information. They also confirmed the names of the four bombers.

They were Muhammad Sidique Khan, 30, (believed responsible for the Edgware Road blast that killed six); Shahzad Tanweer, 22 (Aldgate, six dead); Hasib Hussain, 18 (the No30 bus, 13 dead); Germaine Lindsay, 19 (King's Cross/Russell Square, 26 dead).

All four men had paid their parking tickets before boarding a train at Luton, 40km north of London, for King's Cross station and had all bought return tickets to the capital.

"We do not have hard evidence that the men were suicide bombers," a Scotland Yard spokesman told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper.

"It is possible that they did not intend to die."

An unnamed security official said, "The bombers' masters might have thought that they couldn't risk the four men being caught and spilling everything to British interrogators."

Of course, the question is, who are the "masters"? The other question is, who benefits?