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...most of my life. I am as proud of this country and its value system as any native-born Briton. Recently, for the first time, I have felt like a stranger in my own country. It will be a long time before I can take a rucksack or other bag on the tube without being looked at suspiciously by fellow passengers and the police, and I do not blame them. The responsibility lies firmly with the terrorists who caused this situation and not with the police or my fellow commuters. It is vital that all Britons stand united and show...
...most of my life. I am as proud of this country and its value system as any native-born Briton. Recently, for the first time, I have felt like a stranger in my own country. It will be a long time before I can take a rucksack or other bag on the tube without being looked at suspiciously by fellow passengers and the police, and I do not blame them. The responsibility lies firmly with the terrorists who caused this situation and not with the police or my fellow commuters. It is vital that all Britons stand united and show...
...identified the amiable 22-year-old his contemporaries called Kaki as Shehzed Tanweer, who traveled from Leeds to London on July 7, boarded a Circle Line train on the London Underground in the direction of Aldgate station and, eight minutes into his journey, detonated an explosive charge in his rucksack. As the police investigation into the bombings continues, a conversation is taking place on streets and in cafés, mosques and church halls, playgrounds and council chambers. Its purpose: to try to fathom why Kaki and three other apparently happy, home-loving men turned to slaughter. The outcome...
...there was no firm evidence the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers and said that each of the bombs on the trains probably contained less than 10 lbs. of explosives. The confidential Aegis report guessed that each weighed just 5 lbs., small enough to place in a small rucksack. The bombs, police said, were placed on the floor of the train cars. In the case of the bus, shortly after the explosion a TIME reporter saw a tall, thin man in a black pinstripe suit telling police officers, "I think I saw something," and mentioning a man with...
...chronicled the remnants of neolithic Britain. Published in 1998, it sold more than 30,000 copies?not bad for a 2.3 - kg slab of a book with a $50 price tag. Like its predecessor, The Megalithic European is an immensely practical - as long as it's not in your rucksack - gazetteer of more than 300 sites stretching from northern Denmark to Malta, from Crete to Portugal. Entries are sprinkled with 800 photographs, copious illustrations and maps, along with local lore and diary entries from his visits. The book opens with a series of essays in which Cope sifts through...