{"id":16799,"date":"2009-12-20T16:02:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T16:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/sunday_times_police_expect_mumbai-style_terror_attack_on_city_of_london\/"},"modified":"2009-12-20T16:02:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T16:02:57","slug":"sunday_times_police_expect_mumbai-style_terror_attack_on_city_of_london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16799","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Times: Police expect Mumbai-style terror attack on City of London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland Yard has warned businesses in London to expect a Mumbai-style attack on the capital.<\/p>\n<p>In a briefing in the City of London 12 days ago, a senior detective from SO15, the Metropolitan police counter-terrorism command, said: \u201cMumbai is coming to London.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The detective said companies should anticipate a shooting and hostage-taking raid \u201cinvolving a small number of gunmen with handguns and improvised explosive devices\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>The warning \u201d\u201d the bluntest issued by police \u201d\u201d has underlined an assessment that a terrorist cell may be preparing an attack on London early next year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/crime\/article6962867.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland Yard has warned businesses in London to expect a Mumbai-style attack on the capital. In a briefing in the City of London 12 days ago, a senior detective from SO15, the Metropolitan police counter-terrorism command, said: \u201cMumbai is coming<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16799\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,199,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}