Special report: 1st anniversary of London bombings
LONDON, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The Dublin International Airport was evacuated again on Friday after a suspect package was spotted in the arrival hall, an airport spokesman said.
The spokesman said an Irish army team has been called in to check the package.
This has been the second evacuation since Tuesday when police arrested a Dublin man who claimed he had a bomb in the bag he was carrying. But the bag was found to contain clothes and papers later.
About 20 passenger jets were on the ground by 9 a.m. (0800 GMT), an hour after the evacuation began, but no passengers would be allowed to disembark until the alert was over, the spokesman said. Enditem
Related: London bomber warns more attacks in last testament
Policemen stand guard near a blast site following a series of blasts targeting subway stations and buses in London July 7.(Xinhua/AFP photo) |
BEIJING, July 7 (Xinhuanet) -- On the eve of the first anniversary of the attacks on London's transit system, a video surfaced Thursday purporting to show one of the four suicide bombers warning that the attacks were only the beginning of a campaign of terror.
The video aired by Al-Jazeera TV showed Shehzad Tanweer pointing his finger at the camera and declaring there would be a string of attacks unless British troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Iraq.
"What you have witnessed now is only the beginning of a series of attacks that will continue and increase in strength until you withdraw your soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq, and until you (the British government) stop your financial and military support for America and Israel," Tanweer said in English on the video.
The chilling last testament was filmed before Tanweer, 22, boarded a train on the London Underground's Circle line and detonated the bomb that killed himself and six others.
The four bombers killed themselves and 52 victims in attacks on three subway trains and a bus on July 7, 2005.
The tape also showed what seemed to be some kind of terrorist training camp and a map of London with areas circled as potential targets.
British police did not directly confirm the authenticity of the tape.
Prime Minister Tony Blair's official spokesman said Blair had no comment on the video.
"We want the attention to focus on the quiet reflection of the nation as a whole tomorrow. We don't think anything should be able to get in the way of that," the spokesman said.
The timing of the broadcast seemed intended to overshadow preparations for a relatively muted anniversary to be marked with two minutes' silence at noon, church services and the unveiling of commemorative plaques at the places where the bombers struck. Enditem
(Agencies)
