London Police Defuse Massive Car Bomb

AP:

LONDON - Police thwarted an apparent terror attack early Friday after an ambulance crew reported seeing a smoking car parked near Piccadilly Circus that turned out to be packed with gasoline, nails, gas cylinders, and a detonator.

The explosives -- safely defused by a bomb squad -- were powerful enough to have caused "significant injury or loss of life" -- possibly killing hundreds, British anti-terror police chief Peter Clarke said.

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