Pro-Tibet demonstrators attempt to protest as Beijing Olympic flame is carried through London. Police moved them away from here

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A giant security operation, with crowds of police, and a rather sinister phalanx of Chinese security men was mounted to escort the Beijing Olympic flame in a relay across London. The Chinese ambassador had been expected to carry the flame through Bloomsbury, but police decided this would be too dangerous and in a last minute change of plan the torch was hidden inside a vehicle invisible to the angry crowd of protesters behind police barriers and also to the supporters down the road.

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Location: Bloomsbury, London, England, UK
Photo credit: © Peter Marshall / Alamy / Afripics
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