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Greater Manchester Police said it would deploy extra traffic patrols and police horse units

Greater Manchester Police said it would deploy extra traffic patrols and police horse units.In the West Midlands, 4,000 posters in nine languages were put up yesterday, calling for extra vigilance. There will be a more visible police presence outside Sikh Gudwaras, Hindu temples and mosques.In Bradford, Istiaq Ahmed, director of the city’s Race Equality Council, said: “There is a great deal of concern in the community after the racial attacks in London We feel Bradford could be the next target.”. THE HOME-MADE nail bombs used in the terror campaign are simple, lethal and difficult for the public and police to detect. The bag bomb, a simple explosive device with a basic timer or mercury switch, is becoming one of the tools of choice for terrorist groups and extortionists.
The bombs, although crude, have proved sickeningly successful Of the three bombs in London, all have exploded. None has been detected, none defused.A series of bombing campaigns by a variety of groups, including the IRA, animal rights activists and lone extortionists, have shown how easy it is to construct the devices and how the materials to make them are readily available.Among the four neo-Nazi groups that have claimed responsibility for the current campaign are Combat 18 and a breakaway unit called the White Wolves. Both have the resources and knowledge to produce nail bombs, although an investigation by Scotland Yard concluded that C18, the larger group, is incapable of carrying out a sustained race terror campaign. Police intelligence has indicated that C18 membership amounts to the equivalent of “no more than two football teams”.Last year the White Wolves published a 15-page manifesto with diagrams of bomb timers and detonators and suggested targets to attack, which would “start the war”.

One diagram showed a “simple clock bomb timer” similar to those used for the recent London bombs. The manifesto stated: “The race war is not about to happen so we must start it ourselves.”Sophisticated weaponry is not necessary to start the ball rolling. A suitcase bomb at the Notting Hill Carnival would certainly upset the blacks. Anything which stirs the racial pot is justified.”Multiracial clubs and bars should be targeted Petrol bombs and dart bombs. We do not believe that alone we can win the race war but we can start it!”It says a cell can “do immense damage”. It adds: “That is what the authors of this document intend to do.”The group’s latest pamphlet, “The Wolf”, stated: “We are political soldiers with a purpose, that being to bring down the world order and rid our nations of the alien scum.”In each case the bomber appears to have used commonly available metal nails with about half a kilogram of home-made explosives triggered by a battery-powered timer.In the second device, between 6lb and 10lb of metal nails of various sizes up to seven inches long were packed next to the explosive.The damage inflicted by last night’s explosion suggested that the bomb was more powerful than the first two.A succession of court cases involving bomb makers has shown that many terrorists have gained their “expertise” from the Internet, firearms manuals and magazines, and through collecting information on previous attacks.

Bomb-making manuals have been posted on the Internet and anarchists have produced books with detailed information.The effectiveness of the three devices – home-made explosives often fail to detonate – suggests the culprits may have had a military background.. SOHO, once the sleazy heart of the capital’s sex industry, has been cleaned up over the past two decades by determined civic planners. By day, it is now a bustling commercial centre; by night its pubs, bars and restaurants draw thousands of Londoners and tourists. Soho is also, famously, London’s gay village, and Old Compton Street is its centre. The nail bombers waging a hate campaign against Britain’s minorities could not have chosen a more symbolic place to strike at the country’s gay community.
Even in these enlightened times, displays of homosexual affection remain discreet in many public places.

On Old Compton Street, gay men stroll along hand in hand, out and proud.Scores of businesses cater to the “pink pound”; there are gay taxi firms, gay builders and gay lawyers with premises in Soho, as well as dozens of coffee shops, bars and nightclubs where gay men and women congregate.There are five thriving gay pubs in Old Compton Street alone, including the Admiral Duncan, where last night’s bomb went off. Rainbow flags, symbolic of gay liberation, flutter in the street, proclaiming its identity as a heartland of homosexual culture. In nearby Rupert Street is Prowler Soho, which claims to be Europe’s “first gay superstore”.Peter Tatchell, of the gay rights group OutRage!, said last night: “A lot of gay people saw the Old Compton Street area as a safe haven. They felt able to relax and hold hands without fear of attack. This outrage has destroyed that cosy assumption.”Soho is not just a gay playground. For Londoners of all persuasions it is one of the capital’s most popular neighbourhoods for nightlife.