Posted on 06/29/2007 11:58:30 AM PDT by Pyro7480
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A second car found on a London street on Friday contained possible bomb materials, sources told CNN, hours after police disarmed an explosives-filled car in the city's busy theater district.
The second car was towed from Trafalgar Square to Park Lane overnight, because it was illegally parked, the sources said.
At the Park Lane garage, workers called authorities when they became suspicious after news of the first incident, because the car smelled of gas.
Police and security sources say the car was found to contain components very similar to the first car -- definitely fuel, and possibly much more.
They said the car is of grave concern, and could potentially be a second car bomb.
A senior U.S. official with knowledge of the London investigation told CNN the car was linked to the vehicle outside the club, and that some materials found inside the car were very similar to explosive materials found in the car near Piccadilly.
Security sources told CNN they believed the first device found -- loaded with fuel, gas cylinders and nails -- was set up for remote detonation.
Police said it could have caused huge numbers of casualties.
British police anti-terror chief Peter Clarke said detectives were examining security camera footage after the car was found outside a nightclub in the heart of London's theater district shortly before 2 a.m. on Friday (10:00 pm ET Thursday).
Police deactivated the explosives but the incident stoked renewed fears of a terrorist strike, almost two years after London's transport network was hit by deadly suicide bombers.
Security sources told CNN that the "relatively crude device" found in the first car near Piccadilly Circus contained at least 200 liters, or about 50 gallons, of fuel in canisters.
Clarke said the explosives would have resulted in significant injury and loss of life had they detonated.
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If it’s al queda their hallmark is simultaneous attacks. Seem to shoot for four hits, maybe get two. My own observation.
I’ll wager there are at least 2 more...
Bumper sticker mentality?
Dearbornistan = Londonistan = Jersey Cityastan
We need to start to look at the targets......the nightclub with 1700 in it...then another in Trafalgar Square..
Shouldn’t this be in breaking news???
Makes sense...Scotland Yard speaking now. 2nd vehic contained similar device..
Two more Mohamacide bombers.
It’s the Sidebar Moderator’s discretion to move this to Breaking News or keep in FrontPage. I thought that since this is an update, it would be more appropriate to post it to FrontPage.
They better catch them fast...
If true, that's amazing.
They need to have a course in feeding the parking meter at suicide school.
CNN has finally mustered the courage to label the 2nd car as “suspiscious”
Ah, it was the Germans!
Were there any John Edwards bumper stickers found on the vehicles stating there is no global war on terror?/sarc.
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