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London Increases Security to Stop Mumbai-Style Siege

Royal Navy guards River Thames.

London has deployed the Royal Navy and the Special Boat Service to avert a "Mumbai-style operation" from the waterway, Mayor Boris Johnson told the Times of London. "There is a great deal of work going on," he said. "There is substantial organization to guard against the possibility of some sort of riparian assault." The recent terrorist attack on the financial capital of India was launched via speedboat, a scenario that has UK counter-terrorist analysts worried about the upcoming 2012 London Olympics.

Read it at Times of London

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