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“Official: Diffused Bomb in Central London Would Have Caused Significant Damage”
Friday, June 29, 2007

( AP, FOX NEWS)

LONDON — Police thwarted a terror attack Friday near the famed Piccadilly Circus in the heart of London, defusing a crude bomb made of gasoline, propane gas, and nails after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a silver Mercedes outside a nightclub.

A British government official told FOX News that a number of people “were seen making their way away from the car,” leading Scotland Yard to believe detonation would have been accomplished remotely.

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Britain’s Sky News also quoted a police source as saying the device was to be set off remotely by cell phone. A police officer risked his life by removing the remote trigger from the vehicle before the device could be set off, the souce was quoted as saying.

Hours later, police closed a major road — Park Lane — and began asking people to leave the adjacent Hyde Park because of a suspicious vehicle.

Sky News reported that police were focusing on a vehicle in an underground parking lot and that there was a link to the explosives-packed car. A remote-controlled robot was being used to inspect the vehicle.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Britain’s new home secretary, Jacqui Smith called an emergency meeting of top officials, calling the attempted attack “international terrorism.”

“We are currently facing the most serious and sustained threat to our security from international terrorism,” she said afterward. “This reinforces the need for the public to remain vigilant to the threat we face at all times.”

Police planned to examine footage from closed-circuit TV cameras in the area, Clarke said, hoping the surveillance network that covers much of central London will help them track down the driver of the rigged Mercedes.”