London terror
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More than one year after the July 7 bombings that resulted in the deaths of 52 people, Londoners face an alleged plot to blow up planes from the UK mid-flight and cause ‘mass murder on an unimaginable scale’.
Six arrested in plot to attack Fort Dix
The US charged six foreign-born men with planning to kill US soldiers at a military base in New Jersey in a plot described as a “brand new form of terrorism”.
Number of global terror victims up 40%
Largely due to escalating Iraqi unrest
Five Britons found guilty in UK terror plot
Links with July 7 bombers revealed
Bombers’ escape casts cloud over operation
Five Britons found guilty in terror plot
Pakistan security fears rise after bomb
At least 28 people and injured 50
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Security measures
An anxious superpower meets its match in Mayfair
The refusal of a local council to yield to pressure and close off streets surrounding the US embassy in London shows how British and American attitudes to security can differ, writes John Lloyd.
Online discussion
How will the new airline security measures afffect the way we travel?
Comment
Why Britain’s Muslim leaders should think again
Leaders of Muslim opinion at this frightening moment in history should not argue for changes in foreign policy merely to assuage extremists, writes Martin Wolf.
Corporate response
Businesses and the terror threat
Over half of London businesses have resisted calls to set up continuity plans against the threat of another terrorist attack on the capital, but big companies are leading the way.
Counter-terrorism measures
Muslim officer warns on terrorism curbs
Counter-terrorism efforts pose a risk of criminalising Muslims at a time when a "generation of angry young people" are drawn to extremism because of western Islamophobia, the country’s most senior Muslim police officer has warned.
Analysis
Beware the ‘contagion’ spreading in the Middle East
A UN resolution could plunge Lebanon into a civil war, but there is greater danger: similar confrontations could be triggered elsewhere in the region, writes Mamoun Fandy of the IISS in London.
Analysis
Philip Stephens: Terror through TV’s distorting prism
Anyone listening to British Muslim leaders would understand that the struggle is as much within Islam as between jihadis and the west.
