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“British Police Defuse Bomb in London”
June 29, 2007 - 7:26am
By DAVID STRINGER
Associated Press Writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “LONDON (AP) - Police thwarted an apparent terror attack Friday, discovering a parked silver Mercedes that was packed with gas containers and a large number of nails. The attack would have caused “significant injury or loss of life,” police said.
A British security official told The Associated Press that there were similarities between the device and vehicle bombs used by insurgents in Iraq.
“Forensic staff are still examining the device, but once we know more about it, we’ll know more about what type of individuals are behind this,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the security details.
The official said Britain’s domestic spy agency MI5 also would examine possible connections between Friday’s incident 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.”
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017161.php
June 29, 2007
UK police had “no advance intelligence” of London bomb
Watch out: there could be more. From Bloomberg:
``The police did not have any advance intelligence of this which is worrying,’’ said Paul Wilkinson, chairman of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St. Andrew’s University in Scotland. ``They will be concerned there might be other devices in the area or elsewhere in central London because if it is al-Qaeda one of their characteristics is to set off coordinated devices.’’
Posted by Robert at June 29, 2007 7:38 AM