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.”