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We were lucky in London in June. A large car bomb was left just outside a crowded nightclub near Piccadilly Circus, and a second car bomb was parked nearby to catch those fleeing from the first bomb. Neither bomb went off, but if either had exploded, we would have seen casualties similar to those of the Bali nightclub bombings. The following day, two men tried to drive a car loaded with gasoline and gas cylinders into the main terminal of the Glasgow airport but were thwarted by the bollards outside the entrance. One man then set fire to himself, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Wessely is a professor of psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, and director of the King's Centre for Military Health Research, London.

This article (10.1056/NEJMp078149) was published at www.nejm.org on July 16, 2007.

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