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Sat 06 Jun 2007Car bombs put terror at top of Brown's agendaBRITAIN:Terror cast its shadow over the second meeting of Gordon Brown's new cabinet yesterday after police foiled the first of two car bomb attacks that would have brought "carnage" to the streets of London's West End.Explosives experts carried out a controlled explosion on the metallic Mercedes car parked outside a packed nightclub in the Haymarket, near Piccadilly Circus, after an alert ambulance crew spotted smoke or vapour inside the vehicle.