US offers to help investigate explosions in London
8/7/2005 9:46
The United States on Thursday offered to help Britain investigate the deadly
explosions in London that killed some 40 people and injured hundreds. "We
have offered to help (the British) in any way that we can on intelligence
matters, law enforcement matters," US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said
in an interview with the BBC, adding that she spoke with British Foreign
Secretary Jack Straw to make that offer. "Of course it may take some time to
untangle this. But whoever did this, it is a part of clearly a concerted
campaign to try and terrorize innocent people and it is certainly not going to
succeed, " she said. Earlier Thursday, Rice issued a statement in which she
strongly condemned the explosions in London and expressed condolences to the
victims of the explosions. Britain has been the strongest ally of the United
States in the Iraq war.
Xinhua news
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