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...government security sources, is that the terrorists timed their plot to mark that transition. Brown and Smith were surely busy; soon after the first car bomb was discovered, a second was found in London and the next day, shaky footage of a Jeep in flames plowing into a Glasgow Airport terminal recurred on television newscasts like a bad dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calm at the Center | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...pile of nails outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub in London. About the same time, parking authorities discovered a blue Mercedes containing a similar cocktail of matériel. The very next day, a green Jeep Cherokee filled with gas cylinders and fuel blasted through the check-in entrance of Glasgow Airport in Scotland, bursting into flames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotting the Terror Threat | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotting the Terror Threat | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...gadgetry alone is inadequate. In June 2006, Glasgow Airport installed a high-tech license-plate-recognition system that would be the envy of many U.S. airports. The system activates a barrier at the entrance to the inside lane around the airport. Only taxis and buses with registered numbers are allowed through. When the men in the green Jeep pulled up, however, they simply tailgated behind a registered car and sped past before the barrier closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotting the Terror Threat | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...GLASGOW Investigating failed U.K. terrorist attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dashboard: Jul. 16, 2007 | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

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