by Gouda » Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:32 pm
<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/26/film.united93.ap/index.html">edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOW...index.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> 'Artist' behind London bomb scare</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Wednesday, April 26, 2006 <br><br>LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A "performance artist" sparked a major security alert in London on Wednesday when she left five packages, one with nails sticking out of it, across a busy area of the city during the morning rush-hour, police said.<br><br>The woman, who has not been named, told officers she had strategically planted the "devices" around the Shepherds Bush and Hammersmith Grove areas of west London, a major traffic and transport hub crammed with commuters on their way to work.<br><br>Police, fearing a possible repeat of last July's suicide bomb attacks that killed 52 people on the capital's transport system, rushed bomb squad officers to the scene and threw a cordon around the area.<br><br>About an hour later they scaled down the operation, which caused chaos for thousands of travellers, after the woman went to police and claimed responsibility.<br><br>"Whilst officers were responding to the incidents a 36-year-old woman attended a west London police station," a police spokeswoman said.<br><br>"The woman, who is from the Shepherd's Bush area and who described herself as an artist, was then arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance and taken into custody where she remains."<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>