Explosions hit London!

[Dinny]

Originally Posted by Anarky

Well, but people knew that London was competing for the games. And they could have planned in advance sort of "If we get the games, we're going to blow up London". Have you never made a "In case"-plan?

Yes that's possible, but as I said before, those who will be effected by the building of Olympic sites will be relocated to better homes. No one in London didn't want the Olympics. Also with these sort of things there's no backing out at the last minute, they take months of planning and I imagine they cost lots of money. So if Paris had won, they couldn't have simply not done it.
As you said Anarky, they were most likely planned to coincide woth the G8 meetings. Over 1/2 of London's police went to Endinburgh, so the city was as defenceless as it could be. The fact that London won the plympics the day before made it even more dramatic from a terrorists point of view.