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Last Updated: Friday, 29 June 2007, 09:26 GMT 10:26 UK
“Car bomb found in central London”
SNIPPET: “Police have disabled a car bomb containing gas cylinders in the heart of central London.
Officers carried out a controlled explosion after reports of a suspicious vehicle parked in Haymarket shortly before 0200 BST (0100 GMT).”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “John O’Connor, former commander of Scotland Yard’s Flying Squad, told BBC News the incident bore all the “hallmarks” of a failed suicide bomb attempt. And it was “lucky” the police had received the tip-off.”
Note: Photo included.
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PHOTO CAPTION:”Police forensics officers load a Mercedes car which police said contained a “potentially viable explosive device” onto a lorry in Haymarket in central London.”
Photo: AFP
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/police-defuse-london-bomb/2007/06/29/1182624155333.html
“Police defuse London bomb”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Terrorism experts said an al-Qaeda connection to the potential attack could not be dismissed.
“We couldn’t rule it out,” a security source said, noting that the threat from international Islamist terrorism was the main reason the official British threat level is placed at “severe”, the second highest level.
“Numerically speaking, al-Qaeda is a strong possibility but it just is too early to attribute specifically.
“It would be wrong and short-sighted to rule out domestic options as well. Obviously there are various extremist groups out there too,” the source added.”
