Word: wakefulness
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...Johnston, after his breakfast with Hamas officials he was rushed by British diplomats to Jerusalem. He still seemed stunned by his long-awaited freedom: "It's hard to believe I'm not going to wake up in that room again...
...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 of Gordon Brown, who is a Scot and from Glasgow, and is a wake-up call to Scotland which has traditionally seen itself as immune to terrorism, a view based in part on strong historical ties with Northern Ireland during the height of Britain's conflict with the IRA. Saturday's attack, on the first day of the Scottish school holidays and possibly timed...
...that peace was shattered in the early hours of Sunday. In the wake of Saturday's car bomb attack on Glasgow's main airport - just a day after two cars packed with explosives and nails were discovered in central London - police raided a house on the Crescent that was home, neighbors say, to two men in their late 20s or early 30s who looked Middle Eastern or South Asian...
...speed with which authorities are responding in the wake of the plots is striking. Late Sunday, police detained two further suspects in Scotland. Including the two perpetrators of the attack on the airport and another arrest announced Monday night, the total number of people brought into custody now stands at eight. "It is no exaggeration at all to say that new information is coming to light hour by hour," Scotland Yard's Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke said. Links between the plots, he added, were becoming "ever clearer...
...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 of Gordon Brown, who is a Scot and from Glasgow, and is a wake-up call to Scotland which has traditionally seen itself as immune to terrorism, a view based in part on strong historical ties with Northern Ireland during the height of Britain's conflict with the IRA. Yesterday's attack, on the first day of the Scottish school holidays and possibly timed...