The onus on us all

ONLY the ineptitude of the would-be bombers, some well-placed concrete barriers and the spontaneous intervention of have-a-go members of the public this weekend prevented Glasgow from joining a growing list of global terrorist atrocity sites. It is a list already etched in innocent blood from Bali via Madrid to London and New York. As if a reminder were needed, the bungled airport attack also reinforced the message that radical Islamic terrorism recognises no national frontiers in the pursuit of maximising the shock propaganda value of mass casualties. More chillingly, the first indications are that the footsoldiers prepared to carry out both the Glasgow and London attempts were probably "home-grown" second or third-generation jihadis recruited from the UK's wider Asian community.