ALERT UK

[dArKeR]

Mar 15 2004

3,000 police to stop terror

By Jeff Edwards, Crime Correspondent and Alexandra Williams

BRITAIN was last night warned to take no chances over a possible terrorist attack similar to the one in Madrid.

While police chiefs insist there has been no specific intelligence about an al-Qaeda strike here, they admitted the threat was real and we could be hit anytime.

Speaking on the day before 3,000 extra officers were due to start patrolling the streets, a Scotland Yard source said: "We would be foolish to take any chances."

The anti-terror squads, made up of Met and British Transport Police staff, will be concentrated mainly in central London and its main rail routes, paying particular attention to the 12 terminus stations.

Dogs trained to sniff out explosives are to be at trains and stations.

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Just think of of extra buried cost to the world's tax payers are getting just so that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gingrich, Delay... can get rich!

[ixion]

1. One World Police State

very sad... who the hell wants to live in a world where there are armed guards on every corner? I wish people would wake up and stop this madness.

[fedsron2us]

2. I shall be able to sleep soundly knowing the British government

is so concerned for my welfare. Every working day I have the privilege of traveling on the UK's clapped out rail system. On the platform I am regularly warned by pre-recorded messages over the public address system that 'unattended parcels and bags will be removed without notice'. Since over 50% of British stations are unmanned it is not clear quite who will be carrying out these checks. In recent years our privatized rail network has proved particularly adept at killing members of the traveling public through the negligence of the operating companies. They need very little assistance from Islamic terrorists

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/465475.stm