There were already questions about whether the bombers were actually suicide bombers. Reuters has chipped in - with their own hat tip to The Mirror newspaper - with a report that says the police here aren’t using the word ’suicide’ to describe the bombers. I’m going to pay closer attention to the language the police use but I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re keeping their options open.

The Daily 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.

I heard elsewhere they even bought parking tickets for their cars at Luton station. But it’s the lack of suicide notes - either religious rants or else something for their loved ones - that really puzzles.

It also makes one wonder about the charges the masterminds will face if they’re ever caught. I assume they’ll be charged with being accessories to murder with regards to the innocents that were slaughtered in London. If it transpires though that they deceived the bombers, telling them they were merely planting the bombs when, in fact, they would die in the explosions then surely they’ll receive murder charges for the actual killings of the bombers?

It’ll make an interesting trial. I hope we get to see it…