I suppose we scribes always go for the Big Story – the Lebanese intelligence boss blown to bits in the Syria-style bomb assassination.
In the event of a Madrid-style bomb here, it will be electorally useful to Brown and his team to be able to say they have been doing what they can to protect Britain - in contrast to the feckless Tories.
Were we being led down the garden path?" They faced one key decision, Dobson says: whether to design a gun-style bomb, like the one dropped on Hiroshima, that used a sawn-off howitzer to crash two pieces of fissile material together, or a more complex implosion bomb, like that dropped on Nagasaki.
That's the equivalent energy of detonating one atomic Hiroshima-style bomb every second for 75 straight years.
On Sunday, Lebanese performance artist Rima Najdi took to the streets of Beirut clad completely in black oh, except for a big, fake, red TNT suicide vest-style bomb strapped to her chest.
"He has conditioned the American public not to expect an Iraq-style bombing.
In a recent article (written with Reuf Bajrovic) he draws comparisons between Homs in Syria and Srebrenica, and argues that the West should arm Syrian rebels and launch a Libya-style bombing campaign.
It's worth British politicians bearing this in mind when they rage against Jean-Claude Juncker or Angela Merkel over Britain's outstanding EU bill – probably best to avoid big-ass US-style bombing metaphors or, you would think, allusions to the German chancellor's less illustrious predecessor (cf Nazism, below).
By most accounts a Libya-style bombing offensive is off the table, and some opposition figures have backed less intrusive measures, such as the deployment of international "peacekeepers," ostensibly to protect civilians, or the establishment of "safe zones" near Syria's borders with Turkey and Jordan.
