| U.K. Home Secretary David Blunkett said it’s inevitable the country will face a terrorist attack and the security services need greater powers to apprehend suspects before they strike, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported. ``We cannot guarantee, and nor should we pretend to, that we can protect ourselves forever by security alone,’’ Blunkett told the BBC’s ``Newsnight’’ program late yesterday. Al-Qaeda and its allied terrorist networks are ``geared up’’ to suicide bombings that ``can take our lives at any time in ways that we’ve never perceived before,’’ Blunkett said. Security services need to be able to apprehend terrorists ``before rather than after they have committed the act.’’ |