Mayor: London has thwarted 10 terror attacks since 9/11

The Mayor of London says there have been 10 attempted attacks on Britain’s capital since 11 September 2001 and two of them since the July 7 bombs.

Mayor Ken Livingstone told the BBC that the terror threat is “fairly disorganised” and involves small groups of disaffected people.

He said London was not the focus of a “great organised international conspiracy with orders flowing down the chain”.

But he said there had been 10 attempted attacks since 11 September 2001; two of which had come since the July 7 bombs.

MPs recently stated a “deadly threat” to the UK’s transport system remained.

On Radio 4’s PM programme, Mr Livingstone said there had been “a couple” of attempted attacks since suicide bombers killed 52 people on London’s Tubes and a bus on July 7.

He added there were eight other attempts between the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US and July 7 this year.

In November the Commons Transport Committee warned that the UK’s transport systems were “highly vulnerable to terrorist attack”.

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