Malls targeted in Britain

BRITAIN’S shopping malls have been targeted by terrorists – although none have succeeded in recent years.

In 200 police foiled an Al Qaeda plot to detonate a fertiliser bomb at the busy Bluewater shopping centre in Kent.

Last year, Mohammed Rehman was convicted of plotting a bomb attack on the anniversary of the / attacks on London. He had asked his Twitter followers whether he should attack the capital’s Westfield shopping centre.

Security officials have made plans for an attack. Staff at The Mall at Cribbs Causeway, near Bristol, were advised to round up members of the public and barricade themselves in a shop.

An exercise in May involved a fake suicide bomber ‘detonating’ explosives inside Manchester’s sprawling Trafford Centre, sending 800 ‘victims’ running for cover.