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Olympics - lessons for security as well as sport

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Monday, 13 August 2012 (on August 13, 2012)
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Biggest UK peacetime security operation
Legacy could have implications for civil liberties

At times it seemed there had been a kind of benign British coup. No traffic allowed in Whitehall or the..


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