BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair, on holidays in Barbados, praised the enormous of amount of cooperation between Britain and the United States in thwarting an alleged airline bomb plot.Mr Blair's office issued his remarks, after the Prime Minister received his latest briefing on how London's Metropolitan Police foiled the alleged plot to blow up US-bound flights from Britain. “I would like to pay tribute to the immense effort made by the police and security services who for a long period of time have tracked this situation and been involved in an extraordinary amount of hard work,” Mr Blair said.
“I thank them for the great job they are doing in protecting our country,” Blair said, according to the statement. “There has been an enormous amount of cooperation with the US authorities which has been of great value and underlines the threat we face and our determination to counter it,” he said.
A spokeswoman said Mr Blair had been in “constant contact” with the Government over the plot. Asked whether there were any plans for him to return to Britain, she said: “We're not going to say anything more.”