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Time, of course, works to the terrorists' advantage. The other lesson underscored by the London bombings is that despite losing their command-and-control structures, the terrorists have adjusted. After Richard Reid's foiled attempt to detonate the bomb in his shoe on an American Airlines flight in December 2001, jihadists have mostly avoided hard targets such as planes and government buildings. Instead they attack nightclubs, hotels--and commuter rails. The newer terrorist network has found that even in a war zone like Afghanistan, spending a little on motorcycles and satellite phones can make killing infidels that much easier...
...there is no sign Blair will pay a political price for the bombings. A remarkably phlegmatic British public blames al-Qaeda and not his war in Iraq--although future terrorist attacks linked to the insurgency there could change that. After the Olympics win, Blair reportedly joked he would stay PM until 2012 (which Brown would not find funny). Of course, what the political gods give, they can take away. Churchill was thrown out of office just as Britain won the war he had brilliantly led. But a U.S. official who saw Blair and Bush go off for an hour...
Some three dozen Madrid-bombing suspects are in custody. In October 2004 Spanish authorities detained about 30 North Africans connected with a terrorist cell that was planning to attack Spain's national court in Madrid. This June, police arrested 16 terrorism suspects across Spain, including 11 who were allegedly recruited for suicide missions in Iraq and have ties to Iraq terrorism kingpin Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi...
...London and had in his possession city and Underground maps of London. U.S. authorities said there was no evidence of an imminent threat against the U.S., but a senior U.S. intelligence official told TIME that the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies have stepped up surveillance of possible terrorists or terrorist sympathizers on American soil...
...might those people be? Britain has long had a radical fringe with links to jihadist terrorist groups. In the past few years, British Muslims have been involved in terrorist plots not just in Britain but also in Pakistan and Israel. At the same time, the very openness and multiculturalism on which London prides itself--to say nothing of the relatively tough standards that police have to satisfy to make a case against political radicals--have for decades made the city a haven for jihadists from all over Europe and beyond...