While their professional status may have accorded them an uncommon degree of trust in British society, security officials said there was little else to suggest that their profession would predispose them to carry out unsophisticated bomb attacks of the sort attempted in London and Glasgow.
But such desperate talk may well have accorded insight into the hearts and minds of the Liberty players.
As many as 1,100 people may have died, according to government officials.
It may have originated, according to Dr. Castle McLaughlin, an anthropologist at Harvard University, in Native American culture.
But the conditions that encouraged restraint two years ago may have changed, according to Elkhan Mehdiyev, the director of Baku's Peace and Conflict Resolution Centre.
While a spokesman for the San Jose Police Department denied using rubber bullets, he said he did not know what other tools officers may have used, according to the report.
Federal investigators have served Gov. John G. Rowland's wife, Patricia, with a subpoena, asking her to turn over financial documents, including records of any gifts she and her husband may have received, according to lawyers who are aware of the subpoena.
To be sure, there are tentative signs that the worst declines in used car sales have abated and that the market may have stabilized, according to some industry analysts.
