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...advancing swiftly. I've never seen the British quite this alarmed." British authorities are tight-lipped about their concerns, but the nation has been on its second highest terrorism alert for about a month now. "Given the number of operations by British police," says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard, "they're apparently going after more than one plot and group." Three weeks ago, London Mayor Ken Livingstone said police had thwarted four separate plots "to actually cause mayhem and take life in this city...
...advancing swiftly. I've never seen the British quite this alarmed." British authorities are close-lipped about their concerns, but the U.K. has been on its second-highest terror alert for almost a month now. "Given the number of operations by British police," says French terror expert Roland Jacquard, "they're apparently going after more than one plot and group." Two weeks ago, London Mayor Ken Livingstone said police had thwarted four separate plots "to actually cause mayhem and take life in this city." In Britain, a 24-year-old man, accused of conspiring with convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid...
...have dried up. But that may not add up to a decisive blow as al-Qaeda reverts to its roots as a diffuse brand name for the ideology of international Islamic terrorism. Even without direct ties, bin Laden provides the militants' inspiration. Al-Qaeda, says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard, has become the mentor for "local actors plotting and launching attacks along the guidelines and long-term instructions of al-Qaeda leaders." According to the CIA, 70,000 to 120,000 recruits went through bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan, graduating with lethal know-how just waiting to show...
...surrogates seem to have abandoned any concerns about causing Muslim deaths or alienating Muslim public opinion. "You have Islamist terrorists attacking innocent victims as an indirect manner of striking Arab or Islamic governments that militants condemn as corrupt," says the adviser to Morocco's King. France's Jacquard calls the tactic a new "strategy of rupture." The purpose, he says, is to force Muslims "to finally, fatally decide whether they are for or against righteous jihad." Jacquard says Saudi intelligence officials told him the Riyadh bombers who struck on Nov. 8 picked their target, knowing the apartment complex housed many...
...meanwhile, has taken measures to counter the government's crackdown, which began after terrorists struck a Riyadh housing complex on May 12, killing 34 people. A CD found with radical Islamists in Saudi Arabia shortly before the al-Muhaya bombing and provided to TIME by French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard shows four Saudi jihadists praising bin Laden and warning infidels, "We will not let you live safely." They go on to tout an "impending act" that, they suggest, they won't survive. Intelligence sources tell Jacquard that the four participated in the May bombing. The CD also features a bone...