Another London Attack Hoax Email
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Email claims that the London Metropolitan Police are preparing for another terrorist attack on the London underground ( Full commentary below. )
IMPORTANT INFO REGARDING LONDON UNDERGROUND – STATEMENT BEING ISSUED FROM MET
PLEASE SEE –
The Metropolitan Police will be strongly advising everyone that the they will be putting officers on tube stations 24/7 for the next week as they highly expect another attack within this time.
The police force have been in meetings all morning and will be publicly confirming this later on this evening. They will be advising the public to avoid the tube at all costs for the time being.
This news will filter through to the media in the next few hours and if it is not in the Evening Standard it will be on the 24 hour news channels.
Please take care on your journeys home, please pass this on to as many people as you know who use the Underground.
Piccadilly Circus & Leicester Square were closed for 3 hours earlier today (14/07/2005) and the bomb squad carried out a minor controlled explosion around the station area – this is going on all over Central London.
PLEASE BE CAREFUL TRAVELLING
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