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...basis of a string of previous cases, it had become conventional wisdom that Islamic terrorists would attack Britain from within. But the suspects in the car-bomb cases are all from outside the U.K. So how much difference does that make...
Britain's intelligence services have identified 1,600 potential terrorists in the U.K., but officials can keep constant tabs on only a few at a time. Terrorists no longer need to travel to Afghanistan, Pakistan or Iraq to learn their trade; they can just as easily obtain bomb blueprints and network with like-minded jihadists over the Internet. Information and expertise now flow in all directions. Car bombs, for instance, have become commonplace in Iraq, but not all Iraqi insurgent tactics originated there. "If anything," says Charles Shoebridge, a security analyst and former counterterrorism officer in the British army...
After the car-bomb suspects were arrested, the Scottish Daily Record concluded, "It is reassuring that the bombers were not Scots. It would be more depressing if our attackers were homegrown." But getting fixated on national identities is a plan without a purpose. In the U.K., there are 1,985 doctors from Iraq, 184 from Jordan and 27,558 from India. One of the suspects in the car bombings is from Iraq, one is from Jordan, and two are from India. Whether al-Qaeda or other organized groups directed these individuals isn't all important. The vast majority of would...
...London and Glasgow cases are an excellent reminder of how thin the line is between a near miss and a catastrophe. An alert ambulance crew, an efficient parking-enforcement crew and a faulty bomb design may have prevented a massacre. And yet as the news of the car bombs broke, some politicians were more inclined to credit London's wondrous surveillance system. "The Brits have got something smart going. They have cameras all over London," said U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman. "I think it's just common sense to do that here much more widely...
...desk. Their contents-essential reading to help her master her complex new brief-kept her busy until late in the evening. Then she returned to her London home and went to bed-to be woken a few hours later by the news that there had been an attempted car-bomb attack in the capital. Less than 12 hours after she'd taken office, Britain was facing a full-scale terror crisis, and she was the point person...