Infiltration
I have been trying to find time to write this review for over a week now. I have to get this done today after the bombings in London. This book is so pertinent to what happened it's scary....
Posted to Books by Lennie on July 7, 2005 09:52 PM
Muslims respond to London bombings
A few uninformed people still claim, incredibly, that they have not seen any Islamic leaders condemn such attacks.
Posted to Politics by Victor Plenty on July 7, 2005 08:10 PM
war of the worlds?
Besides New York, London is probably the only other city in the world that can claim to be a contender for the title of "capital of the world". London has this uncanny ability of being irrepressibly modern and yet steeped...
Posted to Politics by gsood on July 7, 2005 07:35 PM
A world under attack: My reaction to the London bombings
Since this morning, I’ve been trying wrap my mind around the events of the day. Moments before I found myself retiring to my bed to sleep away what to me was a bad day, I heard of the bombings in...
Posted to Politics by Regina Avalos on July 7, 2005 06:48 PM
London Eternal
Although I'm an American and live in Texas these days, I sometimes think I may always be a Londoner at heart. I lived there in the early 1970s and again for a bit in the 1980s...
Posted to Politics by Dave Nalle on July 7, 2005 04:46 PM
Terrorist Attacks, Shut Up Already
My parents are in London. I wrote that sentence in past tense first. Stupid me. My parents are in London and I have yet to know whether they are awesome, never better, great, fine, OK, bleh, or dead. It's 13:10 Pacific Coast time...
Posted to Culture by Temple Stark on July 7, 2005 04:24 PM
London Calling: A Time for Peace
The world, for the most part, is in mourning for the horrific attacks that took place in London this morning. In...
Posted to Politics by Natalie Davis on July 7, 2005 04:18 PM
Freedom Is The Best Defence
Well another group of cowards has struck. Three bombs were exploded in the London rush hour killing at least 40 people on a double Decker bus, and in two underground stations. A terrorist group claiming affiliation with Al-Qaeda has...
Posted to Politics by gypsyman on July 7, 2005 04:18 PM
After Today's Attack in London, A Prayer For Our Leaders
I don't pray often. But I pray that our leaders will gain wisdom after today's London bombings.
Posted to Politics by David R. Mark on July 7, 2005 02:41 PM
Al Qaeda Bomb London
Current reports number thirty seven confirmed fatalities.
Posted to Politics by Greg Smyth on July 7, 2005 02:23 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.