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...funding bill backers also included some of the most influential leaders of the computer game industry, including the legendary Richard Garriott, known by game fans as "Lord British," who now heads Korean giant NCsoft's Austin design company. NCsoft is just one of the 80 game developers in Texas, which is the third biggest game development center in the country, behind only California and Washington. "There is an intersection between the film industry and the game industry. Especially in animation there is a huge crossover in the workforce," said Katy Daiger, the film commission's liaison to the game design...
...unclear what link the tenants at the property had with any of the terrorist attacks. (Some British media have suggested it was home to the airport attackers.) But Daniel Gardiner, a local real estate agent who leased the property to a man in April, told TIME his Let-It agency was contacted by police in the hours before the Glasgow attack. Police told the agency that the agency had recently called a cell phone number linked to the failed London bombs. And following the attack on Glasgow airport, one of a list of names given by police to the agency...
...After British authorities over the weekend raised the national terror threat to "critical," its highest level, security has been beefed up at major transport hubs. Glasgow's airport reopened Sunday, a day after the burning Jeep Cherokee plowed into the terminal building at the hub serving Scotland's largest city. One of the Jeep's two occupants erupted from the vehicle, in flames and bellowing, to be felled by punch from a tourist who later told a British newspaper, "He was a big fellow and was disorientated, otherwise I would not have been able to knock him down...
...Scotland Yard's Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke earlier 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...
...trial earlier this year of a group of British terrorists ensnared by the security services in an operation dubbed Crevice revealed some of the conversations between members of the group, who plotted to use fertilizer bombs against targets in Britain, including another London nightclub called the Ministry of Sound. This wasn't simply selected as a soft target, but as an emblem of Western corruption. "No one can even turn around and say 'Oh they were innocent, those slags dancing around,'" said one of the conspirators during a discussion recorded by the security services...