Two car bombs were discovered and disarmed in London on Friday.  Had they exploded there would have been significant loss of life and damage.  The vehicles had been discovered separately hours apart but were clearly linked.  Could that happen here in the US?  We tend to think we're safe from that kind of situation but we are probably just as susceptible. 

"Security experts said that neither the bomb materials nor the cellphone triggering device was particularly sophisticated. Nor, said Sajjan M. Gohel, a counterterrorism expert with the Asia-Pacific Foundation, did the attack “seem to be very well planned.”"

"But the idea of a multiple attack using car bombs — a departure from the backpack suicide attacks of the London bombings of July 2005 — raised concerns among security experts that jihadist groups linked to Al Qaeda may have imported tactics more familiar in Iraq."

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