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Scotland Yard's Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke stated that the attacks "resonated with previous plots." Last year, a British-born Muslim convert named Dhiren Barot was sentenced to 40 years in jail for plotting attacks on the U.K. A 39-page list of possible targets and methods that Barot prepared for his al-Qaeda contacts included a plot he dubbed the Gas Limos Project. This proposed using propane gas cylinders and fuel to turn stretch limos into mobile bombs that could then be left in parking lots underneath key buildings...
Once the doors were opened, the smoke cleared to reveal something much more sinister-a device fashioned from gasoline, gas canisters and nails that, according to Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, the head of Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command, could have caused "significant injury or loss of life" had it detonated...
...still far from clear how effective it would, in fact, have been. In 2002, bombers in Bali killed 200 night-clubbers and wounded hundreds more by detonating two separate devices, one to draw curious onlookers and a second that exploded in the midst of the assembled crowd. Dr. Peter Neumann, the director of the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College, London, told TIME that, based on the limited information available about the London car bombs, he didn't think they could have brought down a building, not least because the devices would have been too small...
...that many in his party and country deplored. "I think Iraq will turn out to be a positive legacy for us both," President Bush told a British newspaper. The President also confessed he'd tried to persuade Blair to stay until his White House term expired. Peter Brierley, waiting in Downing Street to witness Blair's departure, was sad to see him go too. Brierley's soldier son was killed in Iraq in 2003. "I wanted Blair to stay until we got him into court," said Brierley, cradling a picture of his smooth-faced...
...will follow, some into communities that currently have no full-time police presence. Rumors of their arrival have spread among Aboriginal people, many of them exhausted by a long string of failed policies. "Half the people here don't know what's going on," says one leader wearily. Dr. Peter Beaumont was working last week as a locum in Jabiru when soldiers turned up. They told locals they were "just looking around," he says. "Maybe they were, but people were nervous." Old fears linger: the inquiry found sexual abuse often went unreported because people were afraid their children would...