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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6256314.stm
Last Updated: Saturday, 30 June 2007, 01:45 GMT 02:45 UK
“Teenager charged over boy’s death”
PHOTO CAPTION: “Martin Dinnegan died after being stabbed in Islington”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Martin, 14, died after an argument involving up to 20 youths in Islington, north London on Tuesday, police said.
A 15-year-old boy from Islington, who was arrested on Wednesday, is due to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on Saturday morning.
Metropolitan Police officers are continuing to question a 20-year-old man also arrested over Martin’s death.”
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“Al-Qa’eda hunt after two London bombs found”
By Duncan Gardham and Philip Johnston
Last Updated: 9:24am BST 30/06/2007
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SNIPPET: “In pictures: Bomb terror returns to London
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A huge manhunt is under way for a group of suspected al-Qa’eda terrorists after two car bombs were planted in the West End of London.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Hyde Park, which is adjacent, was evacuated by police, although it was not immediately clear what sort of bomb was involved.
Last night police, who confirmed a definite link between the two incidents, were searching for the drivers amid fears the suspected terrorist may be part of an organised cell of extremist Muslims - which typically number up to five people. There was also widespread concern that other devices may have been planted, although police said they had no such intelligence.
However, London Mayor Ken Livingstone today said that people would be “completely safe” on the streets of the capital this weekend and he did not expect significant disruption to major events.
He praised Londoners’ ability to keep the threat from terrorism in perspective and continue with their normal lives. Today’s Gay Pride in central London, expected to attract up to 500,000 people, is to go ahead as planned.
The attempted attacks come at the height of the tourist season with Wimbledon in full swing and on the weekend of the Diana Memorial Concert at Wembley. They appear timed to coincide with Gordon Brown’s arrival as Prime Minister and came two years after the July 7 attacks on London. The row over Salman Rushdie’s knighthood may also be a factor.
Hours before the bombs were found, a message appeared on the internet, in the al Hesbah chat forum, a Sunni website frequently used by al-Qa’eda and the Taliban to disseminate propaganda. It read: “Today I say: rejoice, by Allah, London shall be bombed”. It attacked the author’s knighthood. “We, and the whole world has seen what Britain has done ... their intention to honour Salman Rushdie who insulted and slandered Islam.”
Security was stepped up at Parliament and extra patrols put on the streets in key areas of central London and across the capital as officers searched for other devices. Several theatres are situated within the security cordon and were waiting last night to see if they could open their doors. Commuters also faced severe problems getting home.”
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,2115451,00.html
“Car bombs come to London”
SNIPPET: “· ‘Iraqi-style’ device defused outside club
· Second explosive found nearby
· Massive hunt for culprits”
Vikram Dodd Richard Norton-Taylor
Saturday June 30, 2007
The Guardian
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Police were last night hunting a suspected al-Qaida-inspired terrorist cell after the discovery of two “Iraqi style” car bombs, which UK officials said were designed to cause mass murder. One was outside a London nightclub, and a second nearby.
Only luck and probable faults in the bombs’ construction meant that the first device, inside a metallic green Mercedes, could be disarmed, while the second, in a blue Mercedes 280E, failed to explode. Police say both were capable of causing severe casualties and were intended to have been detonated remotely, most likely by a mobile phone.
Counter-terrorism officials said the first device - made up of 60 litres of petrol, several propane gas cylinders, nails and a detonation mechanism - was similar to those used by al-Qaida in Iraq.
The second car, containing similar lethal materials, was given a parking ticket at 2.30am before being towed to a car park in Park Lane, central London.
Scotland Yard said the attempted attacks were linked. Counter-terrorism officials were last night fearful of further attacks, and were candid about the limits of how much they could know about the scale of the threat.”
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