] LONDON, Feb. 11 %u2014 Hundreds of British troops backed
] by armored cars took up position at Heathrow Airport
] today to guard against what the police called a potential
] Al Qaeda attack related to a major Islamic festival.
] The deployment, the first of its kind in the nine years
] since Irish republican guerrillas launched a mortar
] attack on the same airport, coincided with a growing
] sense of alienation between Britain and some of its major
] European partners over what is depicted in many parts of
] the Continent as Washington's headlong rush toward war
] with Iraq.