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...terrorists who targeted Glasgow and London lacked the technical and planning skills to succeed, any hopes that their attacks were the work of crazed individuals have evaporated. Instead, a picture is emerging of a well-coordinated operation stretching from Scotland to southern England - with the hallmarks of a plot inspired by al-Qaeda. It has 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...
...animation is, in a way, the key to unlocking the feeling of dreams). A police detective hopes to solve a murder by telling his dreams to the sexy Paprika, who is also a staid researcher Atsuko. They're aided or threatened by the usual scifi-noir suspects; but the plot is so complicated, it's best not to worry about parsing it and just go with the somnambulist flow, which is where the movie finds its true life. Paprika alternates dream and reality, or abruptly fuses the two, until the detective, and the viewer, can't tell them apart...
...jihadist violence takes place mostly online, without much or any contact or direction from established extremist organizations known to police. The insulated, surreptitious environment that evolution takes place in makes the so-called "home-grown jihadist" almost impossible for authorities to identify as a threat when they go into plot mode. Because this European intelligence official says he knows British counterparts "weren't anticipating or suspecting any impending terrorist activity, and were taken completely by surprise by this", he and other experts expect the foiled attack will be uncovered as the work of self-styled, home-grown extremists...
...Indeed, there are echoes of a previous home-grown plot in this week's events in London. 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...
...home-grown radicals," says the European intelligence officer. "If you're talking about the gravest threat - the prospect of a very large, deadly attack being staged and successfully executed - then we're most worried about very skilled groups being transplanted here from elsewhere, notably north Africa. The London plot doesn't fit that kind of bill. It could have been terrible, but there's an amateurish feel to it." With reporting by Catherine Mayer/London