Terror Alerts in London
 

Sorry if this is posted elsewhere and/or this is the wrong place.

According to Sky News and BBC the police may have foiled a terror plot after a vehicle packed with 60 litres of petrol, nails and gas canisters was dumped in Haymarket in the early hours.

Park Lane is also now sealed off due to a suspect vehicle.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/home

Its so scary, I'm meant to be going Oxford Street tomorrow but dont wanna go anymore!

Marble Arch is also closed. There are loads of sirens and helicopters. There are other suspect vehicles. It's scary.

In a new security alert, Park Lane and Oxford Street have been closed to traffic due to suspect vehicles.

They are talking about possible closure of the whole west end. Yay. I can go home early!

Hyde Park is shut off.

My Dad works in London - he was down the road from the Bus bomb on 7/7, had just left Kings Cross before the fire in the 1980s, and had to hide in his hotel cupboard as the hotel down the road from him exploded in Nigeria. :shocked:

Don't worry, Mel - they're all isolated incidents, and let's face it - London is going to be at its safest tomorrow, cause security will be very tight. Go and have a good time still! :thumbs:

Wonder if we'll see another police investigation crippled by political correctness.........:cloud:

I am worried about getting home. Apparently Oxford Circus is closed.

:thumbs: Shop till you drop Mel,dont let the bastards beat you.:thumbs:

That's a bit spooky, I was thinking about this a few days ago and wondering why there wasn't a warning to people, as Blair's last few days were approaching.

Has anyone noticed,that terroists are always really fugly.

Trust you!

Hope you can get home Baz

Me too! Fleet Street has been closed now!

Looks like you might be there for the night then. Dont worry we will keep you up to date on eviction

Nooooooo. Lol. I need BB. Haha. I am leaving in a minute anyway.

Don't worry about it..

my dads a detective and he's got this case :D

lol

oh thtas good then Baz hope you get home safely

I was visiting the channel 4 forum and already the conspiracy theorists are pointing out how convenient the timing is.

Maybe GB has had a few tips from GWB on how to fake terrorist attacks to make yourself look good

Where do these ideas get dredged up form?

:rolleyes:

I see know one is talking about the postal strike :wink:

Police have found a 2nd device now.

Hope you are speaing from your home PC Baz and not from the office!

Very worrying and it would appear that Iraqi tactics have come to London. Thank goodness the first car was found it looks like by accident? Someone maybe was affected by the gas fumes and if not for that there may have been a huge amount of fatalities today.
Doesn't bare worth thinking about but we have to because we have to ensure we are safe.

I am at home now Wiglet thanks.

It is very worrying. They only diffused the first bomb in the nick of time. It just doesn't bear thinking about. If that ambulance crew had not been called to the club, who knows?

It is worrying and if the Bombs did go off? Then the fear of terrorism is brought back again.

If you live in London, then you will know that if a bomb is going to go off, it is more than likely to be there.


Here is an article about it:-



Two Bombs Were Set To Blow In London
Updated: 21:13, Friday June 29, 2007

Police have confirmed that not one, but two massive car bombs were set to explode in the heart of London's West End.
The first car, in Haymarket, was a metallic green Mercedes packed with petrol, gas cannisters and nails, and was defused after police were alerted by an ambulance crew called to an incident at a nearby nightclub.
The second was in a car that was illegally parked nearby and towed to the Park Lane car pound.
Staff there alerted police because "it smelled of gas."

Car removed from sceneThat device has also been made safe and has been taken away for examination.

In a news conference Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke said the second car, a blue Mercedes, was parked a few hundred yards from the first in Cockspur Street which runs between Haymarket and Trafalgar Square.

It was issued with a parking ticket at around 2:30am before being towed to the Park Lane car pound where staff alerted police.

DAC Clarke said: "The vehicle was found to contain very similar materials to the first vehicle in Haymarket.

"There was a considerable amount of fuel and gas cannisters, as in the first vehicle. There was also a substantial quantity of nails.

"This device, like the first was potentially viable and was made safe by explosives officers. The vehicles are clearly linked."

"The discovery of a second bomb is obviously troubling and reinforces the need for the public to remain vigilant."

He also asked anyone who may have seen the blue Mercedes parked in Cockspur Street to come forward.


Hyde Park and Park Lane sealed offSky News sources say one of the first police officers on the scene of the Haymarket car bomb may have saved dozens of lives by defusing the explosives before the bomb squad arrived.

It is believed the quick-thinking cop recognised that the car was wired to blow up, jumped in and disconnected the trigger device, thought to be a mobile phone.

The device, which contained 60 litres of petrol, a large amount of nails and several gas canisters, was found in the Mercedes early this morning.

Police had received reports of a suspicious vehicle close to the Tiger Tiger nightclub in Piccadilly shortly before 2am.

An ambulance crew, who treated a person in the club in an unrelated incident, reported that there was smoke inside the car.

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said the UK is "currently facing the most serious and sustained threat" and authorities are doing everything they can to protect the public.

Police believe they have foiled a major terror attack and said if the Haymarket bomb had gone off it could have caused "significant injury or loss of life".

The timing coincided with hundreds of revellers leaving nightspots, but police said there was no intelligence to suggest such an attack.


Vehicle examined for cluesThe area was cordoned off by officers who examined the metallic green car, outside an American Express foreign exchange, and then discovered the device.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, head of Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command, paid tribute to those who manually defused it, saying they had not only saved lives but gave forensic officers the opportunity to gather a substantial amount of material.

He said it was too early to speculate about who was involved, and called on the public to remain vigilant.

Officers have appealed for witnesses who may have seen anything suspicious in the Haymarket area last night and early this morning. The number is 0800 789 321.

Extra police patrols are taking place across London following the incident.

Whitehall sources said that the police and security services are looking at possible international links - including similarities to car bombs used by insurgents in Iraq.

Mr Brown said the incident reminds us that Britain faces "a serious and continuous threat" and the public "need to be alert" at all times.


Device found in HaymarketThe Haymarket is in the heart of London's theatreland, which is packed with thousands of people through most of the day and night.

Police have begun an investigation and the suspect vehicle was removed from the scene for detailed forensic examinations.

Detectives will be looking at CCTV footage from the area surrounding the Haymarket and interviewing witnesses, including staff from the nightclub.

Congestion charge cameras, which recognise number plates and run 24 hours a day, will be able to track the route of the vehicle into the capital.

Former head of the Flying Squad John O'Connor said the attacker had most probably "bottled it" and was likely to be a homegrown terrorist.

There has been major traffic disruption to the area, with several roads shut, along with Piccadilly Circus Tube station.

The Home Secretary chaired an emergency Cobra meeting about the terror scare and then briefed the Cabinet.

Enhanced security measures have been put in place at the Houses of Westminster in the wake of the incident.

The discovery of the car bomb comes just under two years since suicide attacks killed 52 people in the capital.

Another 784 were injured when four bombs exploded on London's transport network on July 7, 2005.





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