London: Car bomb packed with petrol and nails

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Shortly before 2am this morning a car bomb was found in a Mercedes car outside a popular club in central London, and in the last 15 minutes another bomb is believed to have been found in Park Lane. The Mercedes contained 60 litres of petrol, a large amount of nails and several gas canisters, police have revealed they have foiled a major terror attack after the "big" explosive device was discovered. Police said if the bomb had gone off it could have caused "significant injury or loss of life". Bomb squad officers defused it after police received reports of a suspicious vehicle close to the Tiger Tiger nightclub in Piccadilly Circus. An ambulance crew, who treated a person in the club in an unrelated incident, reported that there was smoke inside the car. There was so much petrol in the vehicle that the highly flammable vapour it gave off is believed to have looked like smoke The bomb was near the popular Regent Street shopping area, and security sources say it could have been timed to coincide with Gordon Brown's first day as Prime Minister. The discovery of the car bomb comes just under two years since suicide attacks killed 52 people and injured 784 on London's transport network on July 7, 2005. Whitehall sources said that the police and security services were 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.

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Britain please get stricter with your border policies. The undesirable factions are flocking to Britania.What are you waiting for??The Queen?


Fucking terrorists..why don't they blow themselves up, preferably at one of their camps.


What? Comment #1 is totally shit talking - Britain is as hard to get into than anywhere else - probably harder ... The threat in Britain is due to British Muslims who have British passports & who were born in the U.K - The U.K has a huge Pakistani population due to Pakistan / India being a former colony - it's generally these muslims who want to attack their home country b/c due to British Military in the middle-east ... At least in the U.K they generally manage to stop terrorist plots like the enormous plot last summer to blow up 12 transatlantic jets departing heathrow - whereas the u.s government had intelligence about 9/11 but didn't do anyhthing to stop it - I know where i'd rather live!


1. Are you from the US? if so, some nerve to accuse the UK of letting undesirables in....all the highjackers from 9/11 were trained to fly in US schools. Unless every country in the world stopped all immigration immediately, this will be ongoing. It's not a simple problem, maybe the public needs to start thinking about some ideas to be more alert. We all need to band together not badmouth.


where was tony blair?


Miss Tia : Tony left office a few days ago so Mr. Brown took his place.

As far as my comment, I love Piccadilly Circus and it hurts me that these people intended on hurting my fave spot to hang out in London...

To crack a smile.. is the angel okay?..lol


These terrorists suck.

Stay vigilant London.

Later,
Tom


It's Paris' fault...while these rag-heads were filling the car with gas and nails, everyone was distracted talking about Paris on Larry King/CNN the night before.

Seriously, the Brit who reported the suspicious car and the quick work by British police are to be commended.

BTW, #3..."US Government intelligence"...
now -there's- an oxymoron :D


Yes, I live in U.S. however this is the way I have processed the information.

Hold your egos in check. You don't know everything going on with how persons obtaining "status" can easily float throughout EU.
So. Shut the F*CK up.


I am waiting for your snarky no nothing asses to responnd.


#1 / #9

are u really that stupid? it's nothing to do with "obtaining status" ... it's about british muslims who were born & raised here & have every right to live here - it's them who sympathise with fellow muslims in the middle east & it's them who choose to harm their countrymen & the country of their birth ... perhaps do some research about all the huge plots the british have actually uncovered & saved god knows how many lives ... Those in the U.S don't understand the whole situation where british mosques or the mullahs in british mosques preaching hatred towards the U.K & the west & the young males are pretty much brainwashed into attacking the U.K usually following training in Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan / Pakistan ... The U.S doesn't really have the same problem regarding homegrown extremists - most islamist extremist here [u.s] are foreign born - not american born.


p.s - before you start going on about borders etc... then I bet that the people behind this plot are british - just like all the other people behind the other plots uncovered - borders have NOTHING to do with it!


That statement is peculiar. It's just the native UK born muslims that are to blacme? That is just absurd to say.


The color of "Muslim" is every shade.


Color of Extremist Fundamentalist is every shade.

To Replace the statement above.


UK born Muslims are Traders ,


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