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On this first anniversary of the July 7th Tube and bus bombings, I've been re-posting some of my commentary from a year ago. Scroll down for my initial reaction, and some thoughts on Europe's "twice promised land", but first here's a column from The Daily Telegraph of July 19th 2005 that makes a sobering read. What happened to all those calls for British "identity"? The usual nine-day media wonder, and then back to appeasing squishiness as usual. Re-reading my final paragraph here, I found it hard to reach any conclusion other than that Britain is over - a very sad...

Who funded Mumbai bombers? UK cops quiz cabbie after Manmohan told Tony it's time The investigations into last week's serial train blasts in Mumbai that left over 200 people dead and over 800 injured have now been expanded to cover other countries with the Scotland Yard questioning a Coventry-based cabbie serving a nine-year term for raising funds for Lashkar-e-Taiba. This follows a day after Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh spoke with his British counterpart Tony Blair on the sidelines of G-8 summit in St Petersburg in Russia reminding him of his promise to block funds being provided to Lashkar-e-Taiba by...

This one is not just going away. A final death toll has not emerged at this writing, but it has reached 200. Mumbai (Bombay), a city already battered by terrorism, is slowly coming to grips with the enormity of what happened. The horrific imagery of the blast rivals that of 9/11, and the comparisons have already begun: "Gruesome scenes from Tuesday's attacks dominated Indian television, which began referring to the day as 7/11. Images of a middle-aged man, his body severed in two, crying for help as his fellow passengers carried him away, were broadcast repeatedly." If the "falling man"...

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