‘Madrid-Style’ Attack Thwarted in London

December 9, 2004

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Security services have thwarted a planned attack on London similar to the March 11 train bombings in Madrid by Islamic extremists, the British capital’s police chief said on Thursday.

“Thank God to date, and we have had to work extremely hard, we’ve thwarted attacks,” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens told the BBC.

Asked if his force had stopped a strike on the scale of the Spanish attack, he added: “Yes, I can’t discuss it because of court proceedings — but yes we have stopped a Madrid.”

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