LONDON - Police in London’s bustling nightclub and theater district on Friday defused a bomb that could have killed hundreds, after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a Mercedes filled with a lethal mix of gasoline, propane and nails, authorities said.
The bomb near Piccadilly Circus was powerful enough to have caused “significant injury or loss of life” — possibly killing hundreds, British anti-terror police chief Peter Clarke said.
Authorities believe the bombers had intended to set the bomb off remotely, by cell phone, Sky News television reported, citing sources.
Britain’s new home secretary, Jacqui Smith, called an emergency meeting of top officials and later called the attempted attack “international terrorism.”
Hours later, police closed a major road, Park Lane, on the edge of Hyde Park after reports of a suspicious vehicle.
Sky News reported that the second vehicle was connected to the car bomb found earlier. But, prior to the television report, a police spokesperson said there was nothing to immediately suggest it was linked to the earlier incident.
All I can say here is that this is what a real terrorist threat is suppose to look like, unlike the multiple Department of Homeland Security's fantasy terrorist threats we've been exposed to by the Bush administration. The U.K. police did their job here.
Shall we take a trip and see all the fantasy terror warnings that were issued by the Bush administration? Here's a little two part reminder by Keith Olbermann:
The Nexus of Politics and Terror, Part One;
The Nexus of Politics and Terror, Part Two;
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