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...armed, the weight of evidence suggests the attackers deliberately immolated themselves in the first-ever suicide bombings on British soil. What remains murky is just how much help the homegrown killers received from like-minded jihadists scattered around the world. "We need to establish a number of things," said Peter Clarke, head of the antiterrorist branch of Scotland Yard. "Who actually committed the attack? Who supported them? Who financed them? Who trained them? Who encouraged them?" The biggest police investigation in British history has already unearthed a number of links between the bombers and al-Qaeda, which counterterrorism officials fear...
...Cardiff University's business school, sees a happy ending at Rover. With Britain "the first place to get major Japanese investment" in its auto sector, "it would be in keeping to get the first major Chinese offshore investment," he reasons. Could the good times catch on over at Volkswagen? Peter Hartz, head of personnel at the German carmaker, quit last week in connection with a bribery and sex scandal. Separately, the firm unveiled a cost-cutting plan aimed at restarting the firm. Said Wolfgang Bernhard, chairman of the Volkswagen Brand Group: "If we cannot survive here at Volkswagen, then industrial...
...parent of three, Linklater can understand that instinct, but thinks it's sad. Losing, after all, is common, whether it's not getting to make the Texas high school football movie Friday Night Lights (Peter Berg, second cousin of the book's author, got to make it), or having the western that you're still proud of bomb, or watching John Kerry lose an election. "Most of us are losers most of the time, if you think about it," he says...
...partly because European nations like Britain have a tradition of welcoming immigrants from North Africa and Pakistan. The children of those immigrants--many of them jobless and ghettoized in insular suburban tracts or city centers--often feel alienated from the ambient permissiveness of London or Paris. Alienated and bored: Peter Bergen, author of Holy War, Inc., wrote in the New York Times last week that the unemployment rate among 16- to 24-year-old Muslim men in Britain is 22%. He cited a British government report leaked to the Sunday Times in London last year that estimates between...
...PETER ACKROYD...