- Tuesday the 16th, Spain absorbs the shock of the Madrid train bombs and mourns the 201 dead.
- Tuesday the 16th, the chief of London’s Metropolitan Police John Stevens said that a terrorist attack in the city is inevitable.
- Tuesday the 16th, London’s mayor Ken Livingstone said that it would be “miraculous” if London escaped an attack.
- Tuesday the 16th, cabinet minister Peter Hain said the UK was a “frontline target” for attack by international terrorists.
- Monday the 15th, Home Secretary David Blunkett said it was “quite likely” a terror attack was being planned now against the UK.
- Tuesday the 16th, UK Foreign Minister Jack Straw tells us “I do not believe we are less safe as a result of the activity we have taken [in Iraq]”.