British police and security agencies are currently monitoring 30 terrorism plots, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said in extracts of a newspaper interview released on Saturday.
"We now face a threat level that is severe. It's not getting any less, it's actually growing," she said in an interview to be published in Sunday's News of the World.
"We task the police and the security agencies with protecting us ... There are 22,000 individuals they are monitoring. There are 200 networks. There are 30 active plots," she said.
Grand Forks RCMP received a report of a suspicious looking wooden box in city park containing several chemicals. The box was located on a tree stump behind the BMX track.
Investigation revealed eight 500 ml bottles. Their contents was identified as Chromium Trioxide, Potassium Ferro Cyanide, Potassium Chromate, and Potassium Cyanide, all dangerous and poisonous if ingested or inhaled.
The fire department, department of environment and conservation were notified, and the chemicals were successfully removed from the site are awaiting a team from the Ministry of Environment to attend and properly dispose of them. No injuries were reported, and anyone with information regarding the origin of these chemicals is urged to contact police.
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New bombing threats spread terror (Pakistan)
Sunday, April 13, 2008
LAHORE: The law enforcement agencies are alarmed by the reports from intelligence agencies that two more suicide bombers have entered the city, sources told Daily Times on Saturday.
Sources said that the law enforcement agencies were conducting raids to arrest Afghans and Africans who were suspected to have links with militants. They said that there was information that two more suicide bombers had entered the city in addition to the already present threat. “All what we know about them is that one of them is called Naeem and the other is Sudanese. They belong to the group run by Taliban Commander Maulvi Abdur Rehman and they will target the installations of the law enforcement agencies,” they said.
Sources said that such intelligence reports were also received in the last quarter of 2007, but that the city police were unable to prevent the following suicide attacks.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C04%5C13%5Cstory_13-4-2008_pg7_38
Thank you MamaDearest.
I’ll link to this.