On edge The images seemed chillingly familiar after the attacks two weeks ago. For hours afterward, the city remained of security alarms as police tracked down suspicious packages. From at least two subway stations – Oval, south of the Thames and Warren Street in central London -initial reports from witnesses said suspects had fled, one of them into a hospital.
Two people were detained after
The attacks, but, by early evening, there were no formal arrests.
In one case, television footage showed a man in dark clothing laying on the
sidewalk across the Whitehall dataset thoroughfare from Downing Street – the prime
minister’s office. Two armed police officers in bullet-proof vests approached the
man and one of them kept him in the sights of an assault rifle as he raised his hands.
Aloft then wriggled free of a backpack he was wearing
The police made no immediate comment on the similarities with the July 7 attacks.
Like then, the targets were three economic impact on communities subway trains and a bus, and the timing appeared to
be coordinated. Also like then, the attacks were also distributed to all four points of the
compass. Unlike July 7, the strikes did not come during rush hour.
We can’t minimize incidents such as
This because they obviously have been serious in four different places, as we know,” Prime Minister Tony Blair told reporters, after
huddling with security and intelligence chiefs in sale leads an emergency conclave known as the Cobra group.