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US mass transit alert goes to 'orange'
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-07-08 07:21
Security around the Capitol and at foreign embassies in Washington was
increased, particularly around the British Embassy. Law enforcement authorities
around the country were urged to step up security at United Kingdom diplomatic
offices, and the State Department ordered U.S. embassies around the world to
review their security arrangements.
"We will not yield to these people, will not yield to the terrorists,"
President Bush said in Gleneagles, Scotland, where he was attending the Group of
Eight summit. "We will find them. We will bring them to justice."
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Metro Transit Police Officer B. Hanna searches
a Metro train in Washington July 7, 2005. Security was increased in Metro
Stations after explosions rocked the subway system earlier on Thursday in
London. [Reuters]
| Signing a condolence book at the British Embassy in Washington, Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice wrote of Thursday's bombing victims, "They will not have
died in vain."
At the State Department, a British flag was run up a flagpole outside the
diplomatic entrance and then lowered to half-staff by two uniformed guards.
For many Americans, the bombings and heightened security revived the tension
many had felt after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but which had seemed
to recede in recent months.
"Everything is kind of vulnerable," said Bill Giel, 53, of Milford, Conn.,
who was riding a commuter train to work. "I just hope the authorities are doing
their job in keeping things secure."
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