Really.When the bomb he tried to detonate aboard a London Tube train failed to explode, police say Osman Hussain jumped out a carriage window, ran along the track, then hopped through backyards before melting into the city's bustle.
After going underground for five days, Hussain boarded a train at Waterloo station -- possibly walking past his picture and those of three other suspected July 21 attackers on posters that blanketed the city. Then he slipped away, traveling from London through France to Rome.
His ability to escape a massive British dragnet, coupled with the arrest of another suspect in Zambia with al Qaeda ties, raised fears about the global reach of today's terrorists and the depth of their networks.
"The way people fanned out after the bombings, it's brought it home to people . . . that it is part of a kind of a network, interconnected -- all the fingerprints are there," said Michael Cox, a professor at London's Royal Institute of International Affairs specializing in the post-Sept. 11 terrorism threat.
"They'd have to have a much wider support base than just those who are active suicide bombers."
And welcome to the Global War on Terror.
Oh wait. We're not calling it that any more.
It's now the “global struggle against violent extremism."
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