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Security Screening Considered For Tube And Rail Stations

The Home Office is asking for proposals that don’t slow us down.

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Security, Fear And Terrorism: A Few Notes

Security, surveillance and paranoia.

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Four Plead Guilty To London Stock Exchange Bomb Plot

The Mayor and the American Embassy also on the supposed target list.

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Free Olympics Tickets For London Bomb Survivors

364 free tickets for victims and their families.

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SAS Reported To Be Checking Shopping Centres Over Olympics Terrorism

Can that headline get any scarier? Expect more of this stuff before next summer.

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MP Stabbing: The Al-Qaeda Link

It has emerged that Roshonara Choudhry, the 21-year old found guilty yesterday of attempting to murder East Ham MP Stephen Timms, may have been radicalised by Anwar al-Awlaki, the US-born Yemeni believed to be the man behind recent terror plots emanating from the Arabian Peninsula, …

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“Simultaneous Strikes” Terror Plot Disrupted

Advanced plans for “simultaneous strikes” on London and other European cities have been foiled. Sky News sources reported last night that the threat of a “Mumbai-style” attack by militants based in Pakistan has been averted by Western intelligence sharing. Britain’s national threat level remains at …

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Blair Almost Ordered London Plane Shot Down On 9/11

Those who were in London on 11 September 2001 may recall the wild speculation flying around about potential attacks on our own city. Several hijacked planes were heading for London, the whole of Canary Wharf was being evacuated…anything might happen. Fortunately, we were hit by …

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Ceremony Remembers 7/7 Bombings

Five years ago today, 52 people lost their lives during London’s worst terrorist incident. At midday, a ceremony and minute’s silence will be held at the Hyde Park memorial (right). A separate service will take place at Chatham House in St James Square followed by …