New Media Reporting From London
Over 50 people were killed and 700 injured on Thursday July 7, 2005 when four bomb explosions ripped through three subway trains and a double-decker bus in what appears to have been a coordinated terror attack during London's morning rush...
Posted to Culture by Margaret Romao Toigo on July 8, 2005 06:53 PM
G8's Perhaps Good, Not Great, Day
The G8 summit in Scotland is over. Hopes were high that the leaders of eight of the world's most powerful nations would create significant, positive change in addressing major issues, including African poverty and climate change. The fact that there...
Posted to Politics by Natalie Davis on July 8, 2005 03:23 PM
London bombings leading to global cooperation?
Hearing about the bombings in London, almost immediatly after they happened, is not what one would like to start his/her day whith. Reading what is currently known and is still under investigation did point to some intresting thoughts. Inquiry so...
Posted to Politics by Floris Vermeir on July 8, 2005 12:27 PM
Terrorists Bomb London - RETALIATE!
Do I hear gloating? Sad to say, but yes, I'm pretty sure that's what I hear. The wild, wild Left is full-swing into their "I told you so agenda" before the bodies are even cold. Those Islamic...
Posted to Politics by HE!D! on July 8, 2005 11:13 AM
Middle East Condemns The London Terror Attacks
I have nothing personal I can add to the terror attacks in London that would be significant. Suffice to say that for many people this matches the level of abhorrence reached during The World Trade Center attacks and Spain’s bombing....
Posted to Politics by Jeremy H. Bol on July 8, 2005 04:41 AM
The London bombings and the national mindset
here is Scotland Yard's transcript of events, which gives a basic summary of what's happened. Four separate explosions over the course of 45 minutes and 33 fatalities. I've heard figures as high as 50 fatalities. So, that's it...
Posted to Politics by Leoniceno on July 8, 2005 01:23 AM
End the War on Terrorism
It is an error to confuse terrorism with war, despite the lethal means they share. According to General Schwartzcopf, war requires "killing people and breaking stuff." But that is where the similarity between war and terrorism ends. Terrorism...
Posted to Politics by James D. Carmine PhD on July 7, 2005 11:51 PM
A plea for proportion
Before everyone runs around proclaiming that the world's going to end, that we really have to have ID cards now, and abolish the civil liberties built up over centuries, can I just step back and point out the actual scale...
Posted to Politics by Natalie Bennett on July 7, 2005 10:24 PM
London Terror
Can Terrorism Defeat Terrorism? You can't beat terrorism with shallow words of bravado or military reprisal. There, I've said it so it all you war mongers out there can...
Posted to Politics by Blog Bloke on July 7, 2005 10:15 PM
Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - Andrew Ian Dodge
Thanks Eric.
2 - Eric Olsen
best wishes Andrew
3 - Dawn
It certainly seems to me that the left's idea of letting the terrorists alone and embracing them with hugs and kisses isn't going to do much at keeping them from trying to kill us.
This one area I strongly support Bush - it is clear that while al Quaeda might be clever, they aren't very smart.
Making enemies around the world isn't doing much for their general popularity. I hope Blair hunts down every single one of them and vivisects them and leaves their corpses rotting in the streets.
Savage motherf*ckers.
4 - Eric Olsen
appeasement is surely not the answer
5 - SFC Ski
This is terrible news, I hope the Brits will find the terrorist cells quickly and take them out.
One thing I doubt the Brits will concern themselves with is, "Why do they hate us?"
6 - bhw
It certainly seems to me that the left's idea of letting the terrorists alone and embracing them with hugs and kisses isn't going to do much at keeping them from trying to kill us.
As a lefty, I can honestly say that I've never advocated hugging or kissing terrorists, or even just leaving them alone.
But I can see now how going after Saddam has taken care of all those terrorists around the globe.
;-)
7 - Eric Olsen
we might as well just give them back Spain and get it over with
8 - SFC Ski
They want the world.
9 - Eric Olsen
couldn't we non-Islamists just move to Mars or something and let them have earth, which clearly Allah has deeded to them?
10 - Andrew Ian Dodge
The interesting irony of course is that there is a major lead-up going on to this Sunday reminding people of Londoners who stood up to Nazism and made it through the blitz. I think it might have an effect on Londoners determination to continue. (Not that bombs are a new thing in London.)
11 - SFC Ski
Well, I can only speak of the Brits that I know; I really this attack making them back down the way the Madrid attacks affected the Spaniards.
12 - Matt
As long as my iPod works on Mars, and you can get Sirius Satellite radio there, I'm game.
13 - Eric Olsen
perhaps this will encourage us all to get over whatever our political reticence is to capture and/or liquidate bin Laden
14 - Eric Berlin
Dawn -- Who on the left is "embracing the terrorists with hugs and kisses"? No one I know, in person or government or public life...
Woke up this morning to the news of the London attacks. Ever since 9/11 (when I witnessed the attacks occur from a San Francisco television station control room) I wake up every morning half-expecting to hear abominable news.
This morning I did.
15 - Nancy
Perhaps it IS time to stop being politically correct, & just start shutting down mosques & deporting muslims back to the middle east they all come from. BTW, I haven't heard a peep from any muslim news source concerning any muslim authorities or organizations whatsoever condemning this latest outrage. Therefore I infer they approve. More reasons to turn them into sheets of nuclear molten glass.
16 - Eric Olsen
I would say Dawn's message is aimed farther left than most anyone around here
17 - SFC Ski
In Iraq, the kidnappers of an Egyptian envoy released a video claiming that the killed him. Probably won't get much press due to the events in London.
18 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
hang on, though, have any of the claims of responsibility actually been verified? an hour ago they were saying that a loada fanatics and groups had claimed they were behind it, but no-one knows yet.
19 - Eric Olsen
perhaps the G8 aspect of this will actually aid the coordination between the nations in the fight against terror - the proximity to the attacks might inspire a few leaders as well
20 - Dawn
My comment is aimed directly at the apologists who think that these attacks are our fault ("our" being Western civilization) for doing what we do best: thriving and being successful.
Unless you are apologizing for that, then clearly I am not talking to you.
21 - Eric Olsen
I say coopt the fuckers even more aggressively than in the past
22 - Eric Berlin
Dawn -- ANYONE who says that is obviously on the fringest of the fringe and barely seems worthy of discussion.
23 - Dawn
Eric B. - Please - there are millions of people who say and think that way, surely they can't be ignored.
24 - Jon Sobel
"the apologists who think that these attacks are our fault"
There are such apologists, but they are a fringe. The problem is, anyone who proposes actually thinking things through and figuring out why things are the way they are - in other words, actually using their brain - is labelled immediately by the knee-jerk Right Wing as being an "appeaser" (cf. Karl Rove's recent ridiculous and offensive "therapy" comment).
25 - Andrew Ian Dodge
JS: You can try to figure out what hell is going on with Islamists without being called an "appeaser". It does help if you don't start by giving them excuses for their behaviour. Trying to understand why people do such things is fine but excusing them is not.