LONDON (Reuters) - British police defused a car bomb in central London on Friday and said the device made up of gasoline, gas cylinders and nails could have caused significant loss of life.
The bomb was left in a car parked outside a nightclub in the busy heart of London shortly after 1 a.m. (midnight GMT), when "hundreds" of people were in the vicinity, Peter Clarke, the head of London's anti-terrorist police, told a news conference.
"It is obvious that if the device had detonated there could have been significant injury or loss of life," he said.
He said he could not ignore the similarities between the latest case and an earlier plot, uncovered in 2004, in which an al Qaeda militant had planned to detonate gas-fuelled bombs inside vehicles in London and other cities....
