Police and security services are monitoring potential terrorists in Britain after the suicide bomb attack which killed four US soldiers in Iraq, David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, said yesterday. Although security forces had no intelligence about a heightened terrorist threat the country should be “alert but not alarmed”, he said. Saturday’s attack has underlined concerns that suicide bombers may be used against British, European or American targets. Police in Britain have made contingency plans to deal with suicide attacks. Iraqi leaders have said the taxi bomb which killed four soldiers from the US 3rd Infantry Division at a checkpoint near Najaf would be followed by others. Iraqis in Britain, mixing with dissidents and exiles from Saddam Hussein’s regime, are being monitored. Full Story
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