It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. - Churchill

Back in November, this story:

British Spy Chief Reveals Hunt for Dozens of Suicide Bombers
November 10, 2006 9:31 AM
Rhonda Schwartz Reports:
In an extremely rare and frank public speech, the head of Britain's MI5 intelligence section said her agency is aware of nearly 30 active terrorist plots linked to al Qaeda, meant to cause "mass casualties" in Great Britain, Europe and Canada, and warned that "young teenagers were being groomed to become suicide bombers."

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And in today's news:

New Al Qaeda Message Expected As Terror Anxieties Already High in Europe
December 18, 2006 11:53 AM
Hoda Osman Reports:
With European law enforcement officials warning of an imminent holiday terror attack, Web sites associated with al Qaeda announced today that the group's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is about to issue a new statement entitled "the truths about the clash between Islam and atheism."

(You will recall that anything outside of Islam is the crime of not believing in God)

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/12/new_al_qaeda_me.html

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The Regathering Storm
Along the ungoverned border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Al Qaeda is training would-be jihadists from the West to attack their home countries.
By Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau And Mark Hosenball
Newsweek

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Dec. 25, 2006 - Jan. 1, 2007 issue - For the past year, a secret has been slowly spreading among Taliban commanders in Afghanistan: a 12-man team of Westerners was being trained by Al Qaeda in Pakistan for a special mission. Most of the Afghan fighters could rely only on hearsay, but some told of seeing the "English brothers" (as the foreign recruits were nicknamed for their shared language) in person.

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Mujahedin fighters return to Spain from Iraq: report

(AFP)17 December 2006

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MADRID - Mujahedin fighters have returned to bases in Spain after gaining combat experience in Iraq and are now a potential threat to European security, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Sunday.
According to El Pais the fighters worked alongside cells controlled by late Al Qaeda senior leader and Jordanian extremist Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, killed in June.
‘They are the new Trojan horse of Al Qaeda and its satellites on our territory and they are already preparing themselves,’ deputy director of the European police network Europol, Mariano Simancas, told El Pais.
‘They represent a serious threat for the countries of the European Union,’ Simancas added.
El Pais quoted anti-terrorist sources as saying that an unspecified number of formerly Spanish-based Algerians and Moroccans who had gained experience in handling arms and explosives in Iraq had now returned.
‘But they are doing nothing for the moment. They are biding their time, which complicates things when it comes to making arrests,’ one unnamed expert told El Pais.

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/December/focusoniraq_December92.xml&section=focusoniraq

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Spain's Operation Suez Reveals al-Qaeda Support Rings in Europe
By Kathryn Haahr November 21, 2006

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Two recent counter-terrorism developments in Spain highlight how Spanish officials are trying to confront the threat posed by Islamist terrorism. In the first incident, the attorney general attached to the Spanish Federal Court announced in mid-November that the court is seeking prison sentences—totaling 270,885 years—for the 29 Islamists involved in the March 11, 2003 (known as 11-M) terrorist attacks in Madrid, whose trials begin in February 2007. As part of the proceedings against the accused, the attorney general released a 2003 document prepared by Spain's intelligence agency, the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI), that had warned of Islamist terrorist attacks in Spain [1]. The second development concerns the Spanish National Police's arrest of four North African Muslims for their involvement in providing material support for an "Islamist terrorist organization," namely al-Qaeda.

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http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370214