And the most recent bombs had come very close to them: the theatre district of Istanbul - 'a little West End' with 20 or 30 theatres and cinemas - is in the same area as the British consulate.
As more information emerges about the most recent bombs in Hyderabad, many in India have begun to question the role of state and central government authorities, intelligence agencies and local police, asking whether they could have done more to prevent the attacks.
The most recent bombing, in Santa Ana, Calif., last month, killed Alex M. Odeh, the 41-year-old leader of an Arab-American organization, and injured seven people.
If its most recent bomb turns out to have used uranium rather than plutonium, the North could ramp up production far more quickly: the country has plenty of uranium-ore deposits and enrichment is easier to conceal.
Above all, Mr Singh is under strong pressure from his nuclear establishment, and from the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, which supervised India's most recent bomb tests in 1998, not to agree to anything that would curtail India's right to test again, should it so choose.
Near the scene of the most recent bombing, outside the Zain Abeddine mosque in the neighborhood of Midan, hundreds of soldiers, police and plainclothes men belonging to what is known as the "shabiha" militia were out in force to prevent the eruption of protests after Friday prayers.
A1 Rumsfeld Lashes Out at Iraq Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld denied Baghdad's assertions that civilians had been injured in the most recent bombing of an Iraqi antiaircraft site and accused the Iraqis of lying to inflame public opinion against the United States.
In the past decade he has made a name for himself by accusing the U.S. government of being behind the Oklahoma City bombing, the Sept. 11th terror attacks and the most recent bombing in Boston.
The key difference was that the most recent bomb was designed to detonate with a trip wire, whereas the first three were essentially pipe bombs concealed in delivery boxes designed to detonate upon opening.
Islamic State militant-linked terror attacks, including the most recent bombing on Tuesday, have killed over a hundred people, and clashes have escalated between Turkish government forces and the separatist militants of the Kurdistan Workers Partyy (PKK). .
Both local and foreign business interests have often forced the hand of conflict on the ground, have influenced policy making like that of Uganda's recent popular attempt to criminalize homosexuality and similarly, this most recent bomb attack by foreign militants is no different.
