NEW TERROR ALERT IN BRITAIN – AT 9:26 A.M. ET:  They're coming one after another, and sooner or later...  From The New York Times:

LONDON — British authorities raised the level of terrorism alerts at transport hubs including railroad stations and airports on Friday but left the national assessment unchanged at “severe,” its second highest level, news reports said.

Without confirming the reports, Scotland Yard said the current national level meant that “an attack is highly likely,” promising to “police accordingly and use a range of covert and overt tactics which remain under constant review.”

But the police declined to offer specific details of those tactics or to discuss whether the threat levels had been raised or not. Television footage showed police wearing flak jackets and armed with automatic weapons patrolling airport check-in halls, accompanied by dogs trained to sniff out explosives.

British security authorities use a twin-track security alert system, setting a national level, which is usually made public, while making assessments, usually kept secret, of threats to specific areas.

COMMENT:  There were many terror attempts by Islamist groups all over the world last year, and some succeeded, in the Middle East and South Asia.  There were close calls in the U.S., especially in Times Square, New York.

Terrorist training continues, and will probably improve.  So will the technical skills of the trainees.  After all, we know they can be training to crash airliners into buildings.

On guard, always.

January 7, 2011