U.K. police say terrorist attack thwarted

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Posted: 6/29/07 at 11:09am

U.K. police say terrorist attack thwarted
Police defuse explosives-laden car found near London's Piccadilly Circus

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.

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

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19495826/?GT1=10056


Yikes!!

Our dear Miss Pennywise is over there on vacation which made my heart jump over this news.