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...alarm over safety (though a still mysterious incident late Saturday afternoon in Glasgow, Scotland, where a car crashed into an airport terminal and apparently exploded into flames, has heightened security concerns). London is reacting with its usual sangfroid to its latest brush with terrorism. A plot to bomb central London was foiled yesterday, not by police or the security services but by one of the world's most effective counter-terrorism agents: luck. Ambulance attendants called to treat someone taken ill in the nightspot Tiger Tiger noticed that a metallic green Mercedes parked just outside the club had filled with...
...bomb was made safe and its constituent parts taken away for forensic analysis. Later, a second device was found, in a car pound in Park Lane that is overlooked by some of London's swankiest hotels. Traffic police had towed a second Mercedes, illegally parked near Tiger Tiger, to the pound early yesterday morning. The cars will provide ample forensic evidence but for now the facts of the case remain enveloped in a smog of speculation and confusion. Early reports that the driver had crashed the first car into a trash can outside Tiger Tiger, then abandoned the vehicle, have...
...British media have quoted unnamed police sources saying that the bomb could have caused "carnage" if it had detonated, but it's still far from clear how effective it would, in fact, have been. In 2002, bombers in Bali killed 200 night-clubbers and wounded hundreds more by detonating two separate devices, one to draw curious onlookers and a second that exploded in the midst of the assembled crowd. Dr. Peter Neumann, the director of the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College, London, told TIME that, based on the limited information available about the London car bombs...
...security services are currently monitoring 1,600 individuals involved in terrorist activity, 200 networks and 30 plots. The source says investigators are keeping an open mind about the identity and motive of the bomber. Britain's current terrorism threat level has been deemed "severe" since the plot to bomb trans-Atlantic jets was uncovered last August. That means an attack is thought highly likely...
...local forces involved." The biometric scans were a major technological advance. The Iraqi police had a reputation for corruption and secret allegiance to the militias, but the allegiances of these men were not going to be secret. If any of those fingerprints turned up on a bomb, the culprit would be identified. "We're beginning to build a fairly significant database," Petraeus said...