Ross Sheil, Staff Reporter"WE ONLY have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky every time."
Last Thursday's bombing of London's public transport system was unavoidable and an attack on United Kingdom or United States interests in Jamaica is not inconceivable either says Deputy Commissioner of Police Mark Shields.
"They choose soft targets anywhere ... Jamaica may be an unlikely target but experience shows that no city will be absolutely safe or exempt from the threat," said DCP Shields who once led Scotland Yard's Special Branch International Terrorism Unit.
"Attacks cannot be totally avoided, it was going to happen eventually," he said echoing a comment made by Scotland Yard Commissioner Sir Ian Blair last year.
So far, the United States embassy in Kingston, following the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has heightened its state of alert to orange, its second-highest level. Deputy British High Commissioner Phil Sinkinson would only say that the high commission's state of alert was now at a 'sufficient level'.
Denouncing the attack, Mr. Sinkinson insisted Britain would not allow the 2012 Olympics to be affected, having won the right to host the event just the day before the attack. "The feeling, to go from
euphoria to this, it must be absolutely tragic for Londoners. However, the British have always had to deal with this threat in mind." Mr. Sinkinson also insisted that despite the bombings, his staff at the high commission are "comfortable".
