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+  From: Architexturez-IN <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:23:03 +0530
The government wants major new buildings to be designed with panic rooms, truck-bomb barriers and limited glazing to counter terrorist attacks in a policy which architects have warned could blight the attractiveness of towns and cities.

Home Office counter-terrorism experts will this summer begin training designers to reduce the carnage caused by suicide and vehicle bombs detonated in crowded places such as shopping centres.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/22/terrorism.uksecurity

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