Terrorism Late Alarums, Failed Alerts

"Toshiba bombs" had surfaced in advance of Flight 103

Just what do governments owe the traveling public by way of warnings against possible terrorist attacks? A lot, say families of the victims killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky over Scotland by a bomb on the night of Dec. 21. In the wake of new disclosures last week suggesting that authorities on both sides of the Atlantic had received several detailed and credible | alerts of a terrorist threat, many relatives want to know exactly what American and British transport officials knew -- and when they knew it. And then they want to know why...

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