terrorism incidents

Apparently there has been a controlled explosion in Leeds, and now armed police are taking cover behind their vehicles. Does anyone know anything more?

Michael Scheuer has written about Al Queda's intent in Through our Enemies Eyes and Imperial Hubris (which coincidentally is the our book club selection of the month.) Here is Juan Cole's description of Scheuer's views...

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3500452.stm They threatened they'd start bombing again, I suppose all we can hope for is that this won’t be a prelude back to the 70s scale of terrorist murders.