Major Terror Attack Foiled In London

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Police have thwarted a major terrorist attack in the heart of London's West End after a "massive" explosive device was found in a car.
Eyewitnesses said a man crashed the vehicle into bins near a nightclub and then ran off.

The foiled attack was in Piccadilly, close to the popular shopping area of Regent Street.

Suspect car covered upA member of the public alerted police to the suspicious vehicle in The Haymarket shortly before 2am this morning.

The area was cordoned off by officers who examined the car, outside an American Express foreign exchange.

They discovered what appeared to be a potentially explosive device, which was then made safe by specialist teams.

It is believed that the vehicle was a silver Mercedes which also contained two propane gas canisters and a large number of nails.

The Haymarket is in the heart of London's theatreland.

An investigation has been launched by the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command.

Bomb scare in HaymarketOfficers are keeping an open mind about who was behind the foiled attack.

Sources say the device was "massive" and the perpetrators are unlikely to be Irish, suggesting Islamic extremists were the likely suspects.

Sky's Tim Marshall said: "No doubt this was an attempted terror attack."

He said the target was probably civilians because there are no major political institutions in the area.

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.

Authorities are warning of major traffic disruption in the area, with several roads shut along with Piccadilly Tube station.

Also, "enhanced security measures" have been put in place at the Houses of Westminster this morning in the wake of the incident.
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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1272910,00.html
 
I just saw it on Bloomberg a while ago. Strange how they catch all these people before it happens. Not that I'm complaining. :)
 
"Terror attack? Someone scared stiff, were they? What? OH, you mean a TERRORIST attack! Well why didn't you SAY SO!"

Sorry, but that particular media stuff up annoys the crap out of me. Every time I hear about a terror attack I think of several octogenarians that are adamant that they were just visited by Casper the not-so-friendly ghost. :rolleyes:
 
kiepie said:
I just saw it on Bloomberg a while ago. Strange how they catch all these people before it happens. Not that I'm complaining. :)
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Surveillance? Few people have a good reason for having a bomb in the boot :D
 
No, this guy was seemingly caught by sheer stupidity on the part of the driver and good luck on the part of the cops. personally I have my doubts about the whole 'terror attack' angle. Looks to me like 2007 isn't too late for 1984.

A helium balloon is a potentially explosive device.
 
Leitmotif said:
No, this guy was seemingly caught by sheer stupidity on the part of the driver and good luck on the part of the cops. personally I have my doubts about the whole 'terror attack' angle. Looks to me like 2007 isn't too late for 1984.

A helium balloon is a potentially explosive device.
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Helium is an inert, non-flamible gas :confused:
 
I'm also a bit skeptic about this "terror attack"
They immediately link it to Islamic extremists, all Einsteins when it comes to making bombs and hiding from the military but when it comes to detonating the stuff they're the f@cking retarded cousins of the Marx brothers.

This has government involvement written all over it. Maybe a ploy to have Gordon Brown show his nuts. Codename "In Gord we trust"
 
Tell us the shampoo and hairgel one again! :p
 
zeb said:
I'm also a bit skeptic about this "terror attack"
They immediately link it to Islamic extremists, all Einsteins when it comes to making bombs and hiding from the military but when it comes to detonating the stuff they're the f@cking retarded cousins of the Marx brothers.

This has government involvement written all over it. Maybe a ploy to have Gordon Brown show his nuts. Codename "In Gord we trust"
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Actually when I tuned this morning they were mentioning the possibility of a connection with Ireland :p
 
alanf85 said:
Actually when I tuned this morning they were mentioning the possibility of a connection with Ireland :p
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Now that's another story.
Irishman builds bomb to get back at English for past injustices; celebrates way too much; crashes Mercedes; drinks more to forget stupid mistake :p
 
zeb said:
Now that's another story.
Irishman builds bomb to get back at English for past injustices; celebrates way too much; crashes Mercedes; drinks more to forget stupid mistake :p
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Yeah highly plausible. :D

Then again he crashed near a night club and ran away in the opposite direction. So that I guess rules them out :o
 
alanf85 said:
Yeah highly plausible. :D

Then again he crashed near a night club and ran away in the opposite direction. So that I guess rules them out :o
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:D
Ha ha, brilliant observation. Definitely NOT the Irish.
 
zeb said:
99% certain it will, with or without collaborating evidence.
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They certainly found more than enough collaborating evidence linking the 7/7 bombing to Islamists, and hopefully all and sundry will wait till the evidence comes to the fore on this one before linking it to Islamists.
 
Looks to me like they got lucky, nothing about foiling plans. Sheer blind luck that they got it
 
Frankie said:
They certainly found more than enough collaborating evidence linking the 7/7 bombing to Islamists, and hopefully all and sundry will wait till the evidence comes to the fore on this one before linking it to Islamists.
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Rather ask yourself how 4 kids from yorkshire (or whereever) managed to gather materials and construct 4 bombs without the knowledge of 'the authorities' in one of the most security conscious countries of the world and managed to explode those bombs on the same day that "other parties" were running 'similar scenario' bombing exercises.

All the indicators of a typical false flag operation.

(what a fiasco: closing down piccadilly will surely bring the message home.)
 
And the BS conspiracy theories will also surface, but thank goodness only sh!theads fall for that.
 
Frankie said:
And the BS conspiracy theories will also surface, but thank goodness only sh!theads fall for that.
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Would you like a bad post warning? You missed "4 kids from yorkshire and most security conscious country in the world?"

Or perhaps:

In response to the flood of incoming email messages, Peter Power --who is a former senior Scotland Yard official specializing in counterterrorism-- responded in the form of the following "automatic reply":

"Thank you for your message. Given the volume of emails about events on 7 July and a commonly expressed misguided belief that our exercise revealed prescient behaviour, or was somehow a conspiracy (noting that several websites interpreted our work that day in an inaccurate / naive / ignorant / hostile manner) it has been decided to issue a single email response as follows:

It is confirmed that a short number of 'walk through' scenarios planed [sic] well in advance had commenced that morning for a private company in London (as part of a wider project that remains confidential) and that two scenarios related directly to terrorist bombs at the same time as the ones that actually detonated with such tragic results. One scenario in particular, was very similar to real time events.

However, anyone with knowledge about such ongoing threats to our capital city will be aware that (a) the emergency services have already practiced several of their own exercises based on bombs in the underground system (also reported by the main news channels) and (b) a few months ago the BBC broadcast a similar documentary on the same theme, although with much worse consequences [??]. It is hardly surprising therefore, that we chose a feasible scenario - but the timing and script was nonetheless, a little disconcerting.

In short, our exercise (which involved just a few people as crisis managers actually responding to a simulated series of activities involving, on paper, 1000 staff) quickly became the real thing and the players that morning responded very well indeed to the sudden reality of events.

Beyond this no further comment will be made and based on the extraordinary number of messages from ill informed people, no replies will henceforth be given to anyone unable to demonstrate a bona fide reason for asking (e.g. accredited journalist / academic).

[ signed ] Peter Power"

(quoted in London Underground Exercises: Peter Power Responds, Jon Rappoport, July 13 2005)
[source]
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Ya 4 kids from bradford carried out one the worlds most successful bombings. Gathered the materials, built the bombs but nobody knew about it (in a country which suffered years of IRA 'terrorism.')

Surely only the "sh!theads" fall for that?
 
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