Terror searches up five fold in UK since Doc plot

AP/NY Times:

Scotland Yard is carrying out five times more counterterrorism spot searches since failed car bombings in London and Scotland in June, according to figures released Monday.

The number of counterterrorism searches on people or vehicles has risen from a monthly average of about 2,100 in 2006-2007 to nearly 11,000 in July, said London's Metropolitan Police, also known as Scotland Yard.

Officers were being encouraged to conduct more searches following the attempts to detonate cars packed with gas canisters, fuel and nails in central London and at Glasgow Airport in Scotland, police said in a statement.

''To complement our more covert methods of fighting terrorism we must have a more visible presence to deter and prevent terrorist activity,'' Police Commander Rod Jarman said.

The searches were a response to the ''real and serious'' terrorist threat, a police spokesman said, on condition of anonymity in line with force policy. ''The level of terrorist activity has intensified and increased.''

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Can you imagine the paranoia of the angry left if President Bush was ordering these kinds of searches. After suggesting that the terrorist have won they would also be calling it a police state. I just hope they manage to catch the terrorist before they explode and kill non combatants. If they do that the inconvenience will be worth it.

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