[Mb-civic] Attacks Bear Earmarks Of Evolving Al Qaeda - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Attacks Bear Earmarks Of Evolving Al Qaeda

Targets, Timing Both Familiar

By Steve Coll and Susan B. Glasser
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, July 8, 2005; Page A01

After Sept. 11, 2001, the world learned that counterterrorism 
specialists had seen that kind of attack coming, they just did not know 
when and where it would take place. In a similar sense, they saw 
yesterday's London bombings coming, too; they have been warning of such 
a strike on European soil for much of this year.

It took only a few hours for British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to 
conclude that the assault bore the "hallmarks of an al Qaeda-related 
attack." And while investigators were still sifting through the 
evidence, the available facts -- the British venue, the soft targets 
with economic importance, the timing during the Group of Eight summit in 
Scotland and the relatively simple operational techniques -- conformed 
almost precisely to the methods of what specialists describe as an 
evolving al Qaeda movement.

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