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U.K. Police Say Terrorist Attack Thwarted
Topic Started: Jun 29 2007, 02:30 AM (211 Views)
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LONDON - Police closed a major road in central London on Friday because of a suspicious vehicle, hours after defusing a car laden with explosives.

A police spokesman said there was no immediate information about the vehicle on Park Lane, on the eastern edge of Hyde Park. He said there was nothing immediately to suggest it was linked to the earlier incident.

Earlier Friday, police said they thwarted an apparent terror attack near Piccadilly Circus, after finding a car loaded with gas cylinders, nails and a detonator after an ambulance crew reported seeing smoke coming from the vehicle.


The explosives were powerful enough to have caused “significant injury or loss of life” — possibly killing hundreds in an area famed for its nightlife, British anti-terror police chief Peter Clarke said.

Police planned to examine footage from closed-circuit TV cameras in the area, Clarke said, hoping the surveillance network that extends throughout the city would help track the driver.

Officers were called to The Haymarket, near Piccadilly Circus, after an ambulance crew — responding to a call just before 1:30 a.m. about an injury at a nearby nightclub — noticed the smoke, Clarke said.

A bomb squad was called to the scene, and manually disabled the bomb.

Early photographs of the silver Mercedes showed a canister, bearing the words “patio gas,” indicating it was propane gas, next to the car. The back door was open with blankets spilling out.

The area — packed with restaurants, bars, a cinema complex and theaters — was busy and buzzing at that hour. Haymarket links Piccadilly Circus to the north to the Pall Mall at its southern end.

Link other terror plots?
A British security official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information, told The Associated Press that Britain’s domestic spy agency MI5 also would examine possible connections between the bomb attempt and at least two similar foiled plots — including a planned attack on a West End nightclub in 2004 and a thwarted attempt to use limousines packed with gas canisters to attack targets in London and New York.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who took office on Wednesday, said the foiled bombing was a reminder that Britain faces a serious and continuous threat of terrorist attacks and that people should be alert.

“I will stress to the Cabinet that the vigilance must be maintained over the next few days,” Brown said.

The attempted bombing comes just days after Brown succeeded Tony Blair as prime minister, and a week before the second anniversary of the deadly July 7 London bombings.

Security at Wimbledon was increased in response to the thwarted attack.

“We are a high-profile event and the championships take security very seriously,” Roger Draper, Lawn Tennis Association chief executive, told Radio Five Live.

Msn.nbc.com
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I have just been listening to this on the morning new's.Is knowhere safe anymore
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Well it would seem that way these days.
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We were very lucky that they found them in time. Its shocking.
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Yeah it was lucky,especially where they were parked aswell.On the new's here it had a video of what the place looked like a few hours before and it was packed with people.....
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I'm just glad that they were able to keep this terrorist attack from happening. I can't imagine what turmoil people would have been going through.
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