London and Europe Take up Full Armor in the Wake of Doomsday Bomb Warning

The mayor and police chief of the British capital have warned yesterday against an "inevitable" and grisly London doomsday with suicide bomb attacks and deadly terrorist assaults.

Notably, the doomsday predictions come as police revealed they were investigating links between London Islamist radicals and a prime suspect in the Madrid bombings. North African Jamal Zougam, who’s accused of building the 13 bombs tragically destined for Madrid trains, is said to have rung counterparts in London using his mobile phone.

The terrorist attack is expected to be very bloody, as described by London’s mayor, Ken Livingstone.

"There are people out there who want to take lives, in the hundreds and the thousands," said Mr Livingstone. "These are people who celebrate death. We would be fools to assume we will always be able to stop terrorists."

Anyway, Europeans are still quite confident to the hidden battle.

Sir John Stevens, the Metropolitan police commissioner, described the huge security effort, with hundreds of officers working at full stretch to try to prevent an atrocity. He dolefully admitted handling a "major catastrophe in London will not be easy".

Sir John and Mr Livingstone claimed London was one of the safest cities in the world and everything possible was being done to ensure it remained so.

Sir John added that intelligence is key in the fight against terrorism. Bombers could strike not just on the rail or tube network but virtually anywhere - pubs, nightclubs, buses or roads.

He stressed public vigilance was vital. "We, the police and security forces, cannot defeat terrorism on our own. The best weapon against terrorism is the community itself. They must be our eyes and ears."

On the other hand, the European Commission has suggested that the European Union's forthcoming summit in Brussels on 25-26 March should adopt a declaration of solidarity in the fight against terror.

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said "all of Europe was the theatre for terrorist actions". "We must, together, as Europeans, confront... terrorism," Mr Schroeder said at a joint news conference in Paris.

French President Jacques Chirac urged the international community to "rally together to fight terrorism".