James Forsyth of The Spectator has an important comment:
One of the great delusions of our time is that once Blair, in the UK case, and Bush, in the American one, stepped down from office the terrorist threat would disappear. The news that a car bomb attack was foiled in London last night illustrates just how wrong this belief was. Although, the fact that the vast bulk of planning for the 9/11 attacks was done during the Clinton presidency should have shown people how wrong-headed this idea was in the first place.
Even George Galloway might have difficulty pointing to this attempted outrage as down to Brown’s close relationship with the USA. Probably won’t stop them trying, though.