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London When people on Folkestone Street talk about mysterious outsiders, they are usually referring to the yuppie families who are attracted to its long rows of Victorian townhouses with steep walk-up steps, considered real-estate bargains by some.
Here on the streets of Walthamstow, in the working-class suburban streets of northeast London, the Pakistani families who arrived in the 1950s are long-standing and accepted members of the community. It is a place where cockney pubs sit next to halal butchers, the poor whites and conservative Muslims making awkward but generally peaceful neighbours.
But when dozens of police burst into houses on this street and five others in Walthamstow early yesterday morning, another kind of mysterious stranger emerged: Young men from moderate families who had quietly grown beards, started praying and dropped out of mainstream society.
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Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060811.wbomb-suspects0811/BNStory/Front
Here on the streets of Walthamstow, in the working-class suburban streets of northeast London, the Pakistani families who arrived in the 1950s are long-standing and accepted members of the community. It is a place where cockney pubs sit next to halal butchers, the poor whites and conservative Muslims making awkward but generally peaceful neighbours.
But when dozens of police burst into houses on this street and five others in Walthamstow early yesterday morning, another kind of mysterious stranger emerged: Young men from moderate families who had quietly grown beards, started praying and dropped out of mainstream society.
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Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060811.wbomb-suspects0811/BNStory/Front
