Why did the UK just raise its terror threat level to critical?

Published September 15, 2017 8:44pm ET



On Friday evening U.K. time, around 12 hours after a terrorist bomb attack targeted commuters on a London Underground train, the British government raised its terror alert level from “severe” to “critical.”

This means that Britain’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Center (JTAC) believes an attack is “expected imminently.”

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