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Glasgow Attack Seen Tied to London Bombs
One car was abandoned outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub on Haymarket in the heart of London's entertainment district. The other had been towed after being parked illegally on nearby Cockspur Street and was discovered in an impound lot about a mile away in Park Lane, near Hyde Park.
London police said extra officers were being deployed at landmarks, airports, train stations and bus terminals across the capital Sunday, and had been ordered to step up the use of stop and search powers. Armed police would patrol at major rail stations, it said.
  Two police officers view screens in the Central Communications Command Centre for the Metropolitan Police, where all CCTV footage is recorded for use by the Metropolitan Police , in south London, Saturday June 30, 2007, following Frioday's two failed car bombs. The Centre is where Police watch the whole of London on thousands of CCTV cameras, across the region. Detectives are Saturday scouring the two vehicles for forensic evidence and examining hundreds of hours of CCTV footage for hints about the identities of the bombers. (AP Photo/John Stillwell/PA) (John Stillwell - AP) PHOTOS |
At least 450 officers would monitor a rock concert at London's Wembley Stadium on Sunday to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana, police said.
Airports and mass transit systems around the U.S. were also tightening security, though the U.S. did not plan to raise its terror alert status, the Bush administration said.
In the New York area, officials at the airports went on a heightened state of alert and police manned vehicle checkpoints. No threats had been made against the airports, said Steve Coleman, spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Brown came to office pledging to win back the support of voters disenchanted over the Iraq war. But he backed Tony Blair's decision to send troops to Iraq in 2003 and has shown support for greater anti-terror measures that have angered Britain's some 1.8 million Muslims.
The Glasgow incident carried reminders of a foiled plot in December 1999 to attack Los Angeles International Airport, when customs agents stopped an Algerian-born man in a car packed with 124 explosives. He was jailed for 22 years and prosecutors said he was intent on bombing the Los Angeles airport on the eve of the millennium.
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