Jaded
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LONDON - Explosive experts "made safe" a suspected bomb in a vehicle parked near Picadilly Circus in central London on Friday, authorities said.
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Police did not offer any details about what they called a "potentially viable explosive device" or how they dealt with it.
Terrorist police were investigating after explosives officers were called about the suspected bomb shortly before 2 a.m. local time, police said in a statement.
"They discovered what appeared to be a potentially viable explosive device," police said. "This was made safe."
Sky News showed images of a blue tent-like cover that it said forensic officers had placed over the vehicle, which was parked outside an American Express foreign exchange office.
The station cited witnesses as saying bouncers from a nearby night club had reported that someone had crashed a blue Mercedes sedan into garbage bins and ran away.
The area around the vehicle was cordoned off as a precaution on Friday morning while police examined the vehicle. London transport officials said the Picadilly Circus underground train station was closed.
The alert comes a week before the second anniversary of the July 7 London bombings, when four British Muslim suicide bombers killed themselves and 52 bus and subway passengers.
For more than a year, the government has held the country's terrorist threat level at severe — which means a terrorist attack is highly likely.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070629/ap_on_re_eu/britain_bomb_defused
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Police did not offer any details about what they called a "potentially viable explosive device" or how they dealt with it.
Terrorist police were investigating after explosives officers were called about the suspected bomb shortly before 2 a.m. local time, police said in a statement.
"They discovered what appeared to be a potentially viable explosive device," police said. "This was made safe."
Sky News showed images of a blue tent-like cover that it said forensic officers had placed over the vehicle, which was parked outside an American Express foreign exchange office.
The station cited witnesses as saying bouncers from a nearby night club had reported that someone had crashed a blue Mercedes sedan into garbage bins and ran away.
The area around the vehicle was cordoned off as a precaution on Friday morning while police examined the vehicle. London transport officials said the Picadilly Circus underground train station was closed.
The alert comes a week before the second anniversary of the July 7 London bombings, when four British Muslim suicide bombers killed themselves and 52 bus and subway passengers.
For more than a year, the government has held the country's terrorist threat level at severe — which means a terrorist attack is highly likely.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070629/ap_on_re_eu/britain_bomb_defused
which is being loaded up to be towed away as I type this. No doubt there would have been extensive damage and loss of life. 
