SAS Officers Warn That Britain Is Unprepared For A Mumbai-Style Attack -- The Telegraph
Two former senior commanders of the SAS have warned that Britain's security forces would be unable to cope with a Mumbai-style terrorist attack in central London.
Colonel Richard Williams and Lieutenant General Sir Graeme Lamb said that such a "paramilitary threat" would "overmatch" any land-based police force and turn London into a war zone.
Writing in The Sunday Telegraph the two officers said an attack launched against an office block in Canary Wharf could result in up to a thousand office workers being trapped in a single building, where they could be "murdered one by one, floor by floor".
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My Comment: One can say the same thing for every other Western country. A Mumbai style attack on any European or American city will result in massive casualties, law enforcement distributed on a level that is unprecedented for peace time, and governments pondering on what measures will be needed after all the shooting has stopped.