London bomb made safe - Page 2

Halcyon · 29-06-2007, 10:53

Thank goodness that whatever the device was, it didnt go off.
That is the most important thing.

As has been said already, I think we do need to be extra careful at the moment, especially in the lead up to 7/7.

**Damien** · 29-06-2007, 14:13

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I thought that earlier, didn't they hold those airport exercises to cover something up a few years back?

Werent people arrested for that? It turned out to be a plot of some kind didnt it?

TheDaddy · 29-06-2007, 14:33

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Originally Posted by Damien

Werent people arrested for that? It turned out to be a plot of some kind didnt it?

I really can't remember, I just remember seeing tanks at airports and the like

**Damien** · 29-06-2007, 14:42

Nor Can I, I might be confusing it with the 2006 plot.

**Hugh** · 29-06-2007, 14:47

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

I really can't remember, I just remember seeing tanks at airports and the like

BBC

Perceived threat, but I can't remember if anything was ever disclosed, besides it was personally authorised by TB.

Xaccers · 29-06-2007, 15:36

How's the postal strike doing on the news?

**Maggy** · 29-06-2007, 16:29

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Originally Posted by Xaccers

How's the postal strike doing on the news?

It's been mentioned..which why I realised that I hadn't got my wage slip.

handyman · 29-06-2007, 16:36

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Originally Posted by Derek S

My personal feeling is the car was on it's way to join some others before an organised attack in the next week or so and when the driver lost control he did a runner rather than explain why he has several gas canisters and bags of nails in the back seat.

He's not going to get his deposit back on those gas tanks :-)

Derek · 29-06-2007, 16:38

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He's not going to get his deposit back on those gas tanks :-)

Nope. And seeing the story has changed somewhat to being the ambulance crew say the car with smoke in it I may have to change my initial opinion.

etccarmageddon · 29-06-2007, 16:43

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Originally Posted by Derek S

And seeing the story has changed somewhat to being the ambulance crew say the car with smoke in it I may have to change my initial opinion.

eh? I've read that sentence 3 times and still aint got a clue what you're on about!

Derek · 29-06-2007, 16:46

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eh? I've read that sentence 3 times and still aint got a clue what you're on about!

Well initially the story was someone had crashed the car into the bins and done a runner.
A bit later on the story changed to being that an ambulance crew were called to Tiger Tiger (if its anything like the one in Glasgow a vet might have been more appropriate) and while treating someone noticed a car nearby with smoke coming from it.

etccarmageddon · 29-06-2007, 17:47

yikes - thanks, I understand now.

Osem · 29-06-2007, 20:52

Just heard DAC Peter Clarke (Head of New Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command) confirming that a second and very similar car bomb was left in a neighbouring street last night. Apparently it was towed away to a car pound due to a routine parking offence and later found by police to contain similar explosives.

Xaccers · 29-06-2007, 22:17

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Originally Posted by Osem

Just heard DAC Peter Clarke (Head of New Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command) confirming that a second and very similar car bomb was left in a neighbouring street last night. Apparently it was towed away to a car pound due to a routine parking offence and later found by police to contain similar explosives.

Sorry, just had an image of someone going to collect their car from the pound after paying their fine only to have it destroyed by the car with a bomb in it (with no one getting hurt of course).
That would be a seriously bad day!

**Chris** · 29-06-2007, 23:23

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Originally Posted by Osem

Just heard DAC Peter Clarke (Head of New Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command) confirming that a second and very similar car bomb was left in a neighbouring street last night. Apparently it was towed away to a car pound due to a routine parking offence and later found by police to contain similar explosives.

And so on the one hand we have a preoccupied ambulance crew attending to a load of drunk clubbers staggering out of Tiger Tiger at 2am but still with enough spare wits to spot something wrong with the first car ... while on the other hand we have some jobsworth council traffic 'warden' who lifted the car onto the back of his lorry without at any point thinking there was anything strange about all the cans of petrol and gas loaded into it.