High-Alert Holidays

JOHN D. McHUGH/AP

ON GUARD: Britain has been on its second-highest terror alert for almost a month

It's a busy time in the war on terror. German police last week announced the arrest of a 29-year-old Iraqi, identified only as Mohammed L. He is suspected of having dispatched a dozen locally recruited radicals from Germany to Iraq to carry out suicide attacks against U.S. troops; four men were arrested on similar charges in Italy and Germany the week before. Syria handed over 22 suspects sought by Turkey in connection with the November Istanbul terror blasts. French police rounded up four people accused of assisting an al-Qaeda operative last year as he passed through France on his way to...

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