UK News 21-09-2000 2000: Year In Review: Rockets Fired At MI6 Building who: MI6 what: Headquarters hit by missiles where: LONDON when: Yesterday snippet: "Two explosions rocked the MI6 building in London last night," reports The Independent, "in an attack which was immediately feared to be the work of dissident Irish Republicans." "The high-security building was struck by at least one projectile, fired by either a rocket launcher or a mortar," says The Times, which somewhat underplays the drama of the situation by pointing out that it "caused slight damage to an eighth-floor window". "I heard two enormous blasts," a nearby petrol station attendant tells The Sun. "The second came about two or three seconds after the first and I thought that a bomb must have gone off." The explosions happened at about 10pm last night, says The Telegraph, although there was little danger to fifty-or-so employees who would have been working late inside. "The high-tech building, which cost £547 million, bristles with security features, including an extensive CCTV system and bomb and bullet proof walls and windows." [... more]

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