LONDON – Britain Tuesday said it was training extra firearms police amid growing fears of a ‘Mumbai-style’ terror attack. “We are working to prepare for any terrorist incident including a Mumbai-style attack in the UK,” said Security Minister Pauline Neville-Jones.
The government was training more police officers to respond to an armed attack and enhancing existing levels of firearms training, she said during a conference at the Royal United Services Institute in central London. Government ministers were also involved in ‘very testing’ training exercises to help them to respond to such an attack, Neville-Jones said.
In September, it was revealed that Western intelligence agencies had uncovered an al Qaeda plot to launch attacks in Britain, France and Germany by Pakistan-based extremists. The BBC reported that commando-style teams of militants planned to seize Western hostages and murder them, in a manner similar to the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai.
