Tag: london
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crying wolf over more fake terror
my worry here is that we’re being softened up by all these phony terror plots. so that when al-CIAda really hits, we’ll be completely blindsided & dumbfounded… so incompetent as to be almost laughablefrom talking points memo: “So incompetent as to be almost laughable.” That’s how former Scotland Yard detective John O’Connor described the botched…
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london police defuse car bomb
from npr: Police defused a car bomb in the busy Haymarket area of central London on Friday, and the new government called an emergency meeting of senior security chiefs to investigate what many feared could have been a planned terror attack. Police said the car – a silver Mercedes parked near busy Piccadilly Circus -…
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london braces for attack, ‘miracle’ if there isn’t one
from abc news: British intelligence and law enforcement officials have passed on a grim assessment to their U.S. counterparts, “It will be a miracle if there isn’t a terror attack over the holidays in London,” a senior American law enforcement official tells ABCNews.com. British police have been quietly carrying out a series of key arrests…