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An Attack on London

(Jerusalem Post) Jeff Barak - For years, Britain's top security officials have been saying that an attack on London was inevitable and that the capital's public transportation system was the city's soft underbelly, but it took time for the authorities to confirm what seemed blindingly obvious to anyone with prior experience of a terror attack. Still, once confirmed, the drills that had been practiced by the emergency services over the past few years swung into action, and the calmness under pressure, for which the British like to pride themselves, soon took over. The media, too, played its part: There were no close-up shots of the blown-up bus, no cameramen following the wounded into hospital emergency rooms. And there was no hysterical speculation as to what the final casualty toll might be. The writer, a former editor of the Jerusalem Post, is the managing editor of the Jewish Chronicle in London.
2005-07-08 00:00:00
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