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 London’s Olympic Stadium |
LONDON — Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency has asked for a “brick-by-brick” search of the 2012 Olympic Park site in east London because of the “real possibility” al-Qaida terrorists have planted smart bombs on the site, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
The Security Service demand came when John Patten, a former Home Office minister and security adviser to the British Olympic Association, warned that inadequate security procedures have left the venue “vulnerable to terrorist attack.”
The new MI5 warning is included in a list of the 30 “potential targets” it is tracking this year. The highly classified list is marked “eyes only” for Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
“Smart bombs could already have been planted in the foundations currently under construction,” the report claims.
Patten, a cabinet minister in the last Conservative government recognized as one of Britain’s leading security experts after his service as Northern Ireland secretary, fears the threat to the Olympic site could be great.
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Patten claims “well-placed sources in the Security Service” have briefed that the Olympic project is “suffering from a lack of security planning.”
Patten believes the acrimonious departure last year of Scotland Yard’s assistant commissioner, Tarique Ghaffur, who was in charge of Olympic security, has left serious problems.
Ghaffur resigned claiming “racial issues” had hindered his work.
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