In retaliation for Osama bin Laden’s death, al Qaeda supporters may try to carry out attacks in the United States. Widely reported threats from the Pakistani Taliban and others have put officials on the alert for small-scale acts that can be executed quickly.
Just 48 hours after the president’s announcement of bin Laden’s death, police in the U.K. detained five London men in their 20s sitting in a vehicle near a nuclear plant in West Cumbria. They are being held pending further investigation.
Given the alerts and a heightened sense of impending acts of terrorism, is there anything the public can do to help foil terrorism on our soil?
