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...didn't you sign your teammate Ira Newble's petition protesting China's involvement in Darfur? Jonathan Braus, NEW YORK CITY...
...another have deployed at least 756 vehicle bombs around the world, according to research conducted for TIME by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland. At least 101 appeared in the U.K., many of them planted by the IRA. (From 1998 to 2004, the top car-bomb perpetrator worldwide was ETA, the Basque separatist group; al-Qaeda came in fourth...
...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, "it's the insurgency in Iraq that has adopted the tactics of Western groups such as the IRA rather than the reverse...
...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 day of the Scottish school holidays and possibly timed to coincide with the Queen's official opening of the Scottish parliament shows that "Scotland has to be as much on alert as the rest of the UK," he said...
...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. Yesterday's attack, on the first day of the Scottish school holidays and possibly timed to coincide with the Queen's official opening of the Scottish parliament shows that "Scotland has to be as much on alert as the rest of the UK," he said...