Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. - Yoda

German Engineering, Arab Hatred

by Lee

The Religion of Peace™ decided to leave a little welcome gift to new British PM Gordon Brown.

Police thwarted an apparent terror attack Friday near the famed Piccadilly Circus in the heart of London, defusing a bomb made of a lethal mix of gasoline, propane gas, and nails after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a silver Mercedes outside a nightclub.

The bomb in the city’s theater district was powerful enough to have caused “significant injury or loss of life” - possibly killing hundreds, British anti-terror police chief Peter Clarke said.

Britain’s new home secretary, Jacqui Smith called an emergency meeting of top officials, calling the attempted attack “international terrorism.”

“We are currently facing the most serious and sustained threat to our security from international terrorism,” she said afterward. “This reinforces the need for the public to remain vigilant to the threat we face at all times.”

The only good infidel is a dead infidel.

Update: Unlike the Bush administration, the Religion of Peace™ apparently had a backup plan.

Police cordoned off part of a major road in central London due to reports of a suspicious vehicle hours after a massive explosive device was defused in the capital, a spokesman said.
Amid heightened security after the overnight bomb alert, television pictures showed traffic disrupted around Park Lane, next to Hyde Park, while Sky News reported that a red London tourist bus had been stopped.

“Police are attending a suspicious incident in Park Lane,” a Scotland Yard spokeswoman told AFP. “Park Lane is closed at Marble Arch and Hyde Park Corner and a 200-metre (yard) cordon is in place.”

Asked if the incident was linked to the explosive device found in a car outside a nightclub in nearby Haymarket, she said: “Not at this stage.”

She would not say whether counter-terrorism officers were in Park Lane, nor what the vehicle was.

But she confirmed that a “gold control”—the police’s highest command system during emergencies—had been set up in response to the discovery of the car bomb, which officers said could have caused carnage if it had exploded.

Water is wet, the sky is blue, and Muslims are bloodthirsty savages.

Comments

Posted by on 06/29/07 at 08:54 AM from

The cops haven’t ruled out Irish terrorists yet.

Posted by on 06/29/07 at 09:22 AM from

I’m being evacuated right now - speak later guys!

Posted by on 06/29/07 at 11:44 AM from

I worked from home today, as I did on 7th July 2005.

Muslims are bloodthirsty savages

Isn’t that a teensy bit of a groundless generalisation, a bit like saying white, male Americans are bloodthirsty savages because Timothy McVeigh was?

Posted by Manwhore on 06/29/07 at 04:21 PM from

My friend there said they were trying to bomb som fudge-pcking festival going on this weekend. I guess Bush really wouldn’t have classified it as terror, but the terrorist would really lose some liberal cheerleaders for such action. Or not, PJ doesn’t seem to be swayed.

Posted by Manwhore on 06/29/07 at 04:24 PM from

Muslims are bloodthirsty savages

Isn’t that a teensy bit of a groundless generalisation

Haha, the irony in that little quip there could trump Hitler’s invasion of Russia after Napoleon’s.

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