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Vet truck chec (is to stop truck bombs
14th June 2007, Page 12
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AFTER A WARNING this year from Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair about truck bombs, extra security checks are being carried out on vehicles on key routes into London. Vehicles likely to be targeted on these routes include petrol and chemical tankers, cement mixers and other trucks that could easily be used by suicide bombers.
The anti-terrorism campaign is being run as an addition to Operation Mermaid, launched in 2006. in which trucks are checked to ensure they are roadworthy and their loads are safe.
Last year an Al-Qaeda terrorist was convicted of planning a series of vehicle-linked attacks in London — and petrol tankers have been successfully hijacked and blown up in Baghdad.