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...back out. Flight policy mandated that once a passenger checked her bags, she must board the flight. Without any cell phone or way to contact family members, Biskup got on the plane with her friend, both of them a bit nervous. "We were thinking, 'Is this a terrorist threat against the U.S. or the U.K.?" Biskup recalled. "How many flights were there between the U.S. and U.K.? Is there a chance that something could have slipped by, even with the extra security...
...Security. "After seeing what's going on in the world in general, I don't know how you can worry about this," she said later in a phone interview. "I still think I have a greater chance of being hurt in a car accident than getting killed by a terrorist. I just don't think you could worry about this on a daily basis...
...when exactly the arrests occurred, but another U.S. official, Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, tells TIME the suspects were detained in mid- to late May, not two months after Carroll was recovered. He says the story was withheld to give the military enough time to investigate possible connections to other terrorist cells in Iraq. Also, he says, "we were simply trying to respect Jill's wishes - we didn't want to talk about these events before she was ready to talk about...
With 24 people in custody in Britain and five more at large, the British police have been careful to point out that the latest foiled terrorist plot wasn't the work of any one community, but a small group of criminals. According to reports, some of the suspects rounded up last night have connections to Pakistan - one senior Pakistan official told TIME that nine men have been arrested in Pakistan over the past few days in connection to the plot. And French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said in a press conference today that the "team of terrorists appears...
...always knew there were homegrown terrorists," says Michael Clarke, professor of defense studies at King's College London. "But the assumption was that they were going to commit their terrorist acts somewhere else, like Afghanistan or the West Bank. But July 7 created the idea that we've got them, they're suicide bombers?which was a first for Britain?and they're attacking us." That reality hit home again last month, when a video of Shehzad Tanweer, one of the four July 7 suicide bombers, was released on the eve of the bombings' one-year anniversary...