(Christian Science Monitor) Rail and underground networks across the Continent are bristling with heightened security following the Thursday bombings on Spanish commuter trains that killed 200, as the implications of a first al-Qaeda-linked terror attack on European soil hits home. Dana Allin, an expert in European security and defense policy at the Institute for International Strategic Studies in London, said, "The French, for example, know they are targets." France may not have backed the Iraq war, but it has cooperated in fighting Islamic militants in North Africa. Germany, too, opposed the Iraq war, but its involvement in Afghanistan and its law enforcement efforts at home have put it on the firing line.
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