Governments must keep a step ahead of militant groups' changing tactics, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said on Saturday, urging greater international cooperation in the wake of the London blasts. Villepin, speaking two days after at least 50 people were killed by a series of bombs that targeted London's transport network, said security measures needed to be constantly updated to keep the terrorist threat at bay, Reuters reported. "We remain vulnerable, faced with the blind determination of splintered, mobile groups who know how to exploit the smallest crack in our security measures," he told members of France's Radical Party meeting in the southern French city of Perpignan. "We therefore have to constantly adapt our methods of response and prevention, to anticipate changes in the nature of the risk," he said. Villepin said no one was immune to militant threats, and that increased cooperation was needed to combat them. "In the face of new threats, vigilance is necessary, as is a further increase in efforts to coordinate with European and other big states." Villepin said France had tightened security since the London attacks. "Since the London attacks I have taken all the necessary steps ... You can count on the government's unfailing determination," he said.
