July 03, 2007

U.K. Terror Scare Puts U.S. Cities On Alert

As has been the case on every Fourth of July since the 9/11 attacks, many Americans will be chomping on hot dogs and waving tiny American flags as heavily armed police and security forces stand by.

CNN reports that the Transportation Security Administration is dispatching special counterterrorism teams to subway and commuter systems in eight major cities: Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

The extra precautions are being taken as British officials seek to unravel what looks to have been an unsophisticated but coordinated car bomb attack in that country. The relative ease of assembling a crude car bomb in a major metropolitan area has security officials on both sides of the pond re-evaluating their anti-terrorism strategies.

BBC News, the Guardian and the Telegraph have the latest on the British investigation.

Posted at 1:05 PM
Posted to: Europe, Terrorism, U.K.
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