Police have confirmed that not one, but two massive car bombs were set to explode in the heart of London’s West End.
The first car, in Haymarket, was a metallic green Mercedes packed with petrol, gas cannisters and nails, and was defused after police were alerted by an ambulance crew called to an incident at a nearby nightclub.
The second was in a car that was illegally parked nearby and towed to the Park Lane car pound.
Staff there alerted police because “it smelled of gas.”
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1272910,00.html
OK, so I did hear correctly—two separate bombs in cars. I pray there are not more of these incidents.
I just saw a report that one of the perps has already been recognized from the surveillance cameras, and he was once detained before and released. If true, surprise, surprise.
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“British police have a “crystal clear” picture of the man who drove the bomb-rigged silver Mercedes outside a London nightclub, and officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com he bears “a close resemblance” to a man arrested by police in connection with another bomb plot but released for lack of evidence. Officials say the suspect had been taken into custody in connection with the case of al Qaeda operative Dhiren Barot (pictured), who was convicted of orchestrating a vehicle bomb plot involving targets in London, New York, Newark, N.J. and Washington, D.C.
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U.S. and British law enforcement officials tell ABC News it is increasingly clear Friday’s bomb plot in London involves multliple vehicles, and is described by a senior official as a “terror plot involving lslamic extremists.”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/terror-plot-inv.html