Saturday, June 03, 2006

Britian Searching Desperately for Lethal "Chemical Vest"

Within hours apart, Canada foils a terror attack and in London a nervous informant tips off the M15 with details of a new terrorist device. More than 200 police conducted a raid. Is the United States next and possibly soon?

Via The Times - London
A DESPERATE search is under way for a “chemical vest” that a British suicide bomber was ready to deploy in a terror attack on London.
Police fear that the strike, using a home-made chemical device, was imminent after an informant told MI5 that he had seen the lethal garment at the home of two young men.
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He said that there had been no time to conduct further surveillance, which suggests that the police believed a terrorist was close to launching an attack. The fear is that if chemicals were to be used then a likely target could be a train compartment on the London Underground.
Another theory is that a suicide attacker, wearing the vest under a shirt, could trigger the device in a crowded venue, such as a pub full of people watching an England World Cup match.

All the suspects were Muslims both in Canada and England.

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