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...moment he gave up his job as a journalist to join Blair's team in opposition in 1994 until his resignation four years ago. Edited down from over 2 million words to 350,000 and with passages excised that Campbell feared could breach the Official Secrets Act or undermine Gordon Brown's government (Campbell admits to pruning accounts of the TB-GBs, as the bitter spats between the former and current Premier were known), the diaries are still the most substantial inside account yet to emerge from Blair's inner circle. Some of Campbell's revelations are unexpected. Royal biographers...
...Smith's boss, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, had entered Downing Street only two days before, as Tony Blair left office after 10 years, and Brown, Finance Minister for all that time, assumed the job he had long cherished and for which he had long been marked. One theory, not ruled out by 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...
...that two of the three vehicles were Mercedes? "Typically [terrorists] use throwaway vehicles, not a luxury car like that," worried CNN anchor John Roberts. What about the fact that the suspects appear to be doctors from outside the U.K.? Those did not fit recent patterns either. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, "It is clear that we are dealing, in general terms, with people associated with al-Qaeda"--though his security chiefs conceded it was too soon to say for sure...
...Smith's boss, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, had entered Downing Street only two days before, as Tony Blair left office after 10 years, and Brown, Finance Minister for all that time, assumed the job he had long cherished and for which he had long been marked. One theory, not ruled out by 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...
...also revealed the manpower limitations of the country's electronic surveillance system. David Capitanbchik, a terrorism expert at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, also suggests the attack in Glasgow may be in response to last week's elevation to the post of Prime Minister of Gordon Brown, who is a Scot and from Glasgow, and is a wake-up call to Scotland which has traditionally seen itself as immune to terrorism, a view based in part on strong historical ties with Northern Ireland during the height of Britain's conflict with the IRA. Saturday's attack, on the first...