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Too Much Hyperventilating

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Five senior British officials said the suspects were not prepared to strike immediately. Instead, the reactions of Britain and the United States in the wake of the arrests of 21 people on Aug. 10 were driven [by] fear that other, unknown terrorists might strike … officials said they were still unsure of a critical question: whether any of the suspects was technically capable of assembling and detonating liquid explosives … “In retrospect … there may have been too much hyperventilating going on.”

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