Americans urged to be vigilant on terror threat

THE US Government is urging Americans to be vigilant about suspicious activity after British police defused a bomb in London’s West End, but officials said they saw no potential terrorist threat in the United States ahead of next week’s Fourth of July holiday.

“At this point, I have seen no specific, credible information suggesting that this incident is connected to a threat to the homeland,” Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in a statement.

“We have no plans at this time to change the US threat level,” he said. The current national threat level is yellow, or elevated, meaning there is a “significant risk” of terrorist attacks.