Unfathomable jihadist forces Britain to confront ever-changing terror threat

As in Ottawa, last week's London attack has prompted a review of parliamentary security.

Security at the gate attacker Khalid Masood entered appears to have been stepped up since last week's killings outside the British parliament buildings.Photograph courtesy of Les Whittington

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

March 29, 2017

LONDON, U.K.—When terrorists struck in London in the summer of 2005, the United Kingdom was plunged into shock of the kind that reverberated across the United States after 9/11. Tony Blair, who as prime minister was hosting world leaders at the annual G8 summit at Gleneagles golf resort in Scotla...

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