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The intelligence that prompted New York and Washington to raise their terror threat levels this week also pointed to Britain as an al Qaida target, Pakistani officials said. British officials, however, said the threat against Britain was vaguer than that against America, and did not, for example, name specific buildings. But opposition politicians, and much of the British press, clamored for more details. “We find it very worrying that the Americans seem to be at a much more advanced stage than us in contingency planning and police presence,” said Conservative MP David Davis. “They also share much more information with their public than our government.”
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