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We are still here. We still live, work and play. We can vote. We can travel where we want, meet whom we choose, say what we like. We still enjoy due process of law. The only absurdity is that in the eighth year of the government of Tony Blair we need to remark on these facts. I do so not because some fanatics have bombed London. We have, most of us, been there before. I do so because in the three weeks since the attacks began a howling mob has clambered aboard the terrorists’ bandwagon and claimed right of passage....

LONDON (AP) - Police believe they have identified all four suicide bombers who carried out the deadly attacks on London subway trains and a bus last week, the city's police chief said Thursday. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair told the Foreign Press Association that police believe "that we know who the four people carrying the bombs were ... and we believe they are all dead." "We are as certain as we can be that four people were killed and they were the four people carrying bombs," Blair said. His comments were the first public confirmation from police that the July...

The following are excerpts from a Friday sermon at Tehran University by Ayatollah Mohammad Amami-Kashani, which aired on Iranian TV Channel 1 on July 8, 2005 Kashani: Regarding the bombing incidents in London, the Islamic Republic and the foreign ministry have expressed their position and condemned them. The entire Iranian people condemns this. Massacring women, children, old and young is entirely inappropriate for a human being, and cannot be accepted by anyone with a conscience. Iran has expressed its people's solidarity with the survivors of these incidents in London.You speak of terror and Al-Qaeda. Have you forgotten who the mother...

When stories as big as London's first break, it's obvious you'll cover nothing else. The topic picks you, rather than the usual other way around. Yesterday, I asked WRKO/Boston morning hosts Peter Blute and Scott Allen Miller whether they'd even considered discussing another issue on Friday's show. Their answer: a definite no. But what about this weekend? That's where it gets trickier, not just for talk radio, but for the blogosphere as well. It seems appropriate to cover other stories today, with an eye on the latest London developments, but the financial and other specialty programs on talk radio today...

Fifty people died and 300 were wounded in Thursday's bomb attacks in London, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy quoted British Home Secretary Charles Clarke as telling him. "I've spoken to the British interior minister twice today, the last time half an hour ago. He told me that the provisional toll was 50 dead, 300 wounded, including 50 very seriously," Sarkozy said on France 2 television.

(Washington, D.C.) This morning, the world learned of multiple terrorist attacks that have killed dozens of men and women in London and wounded hundreds more. National Libertarian Party Executive Director Joe Seehusen issued the following statement: "Today is not a day for politics or posturing. Instead we should focus our thoughts and prayers on the victims and their families. As the people of the United Kingdom mourned our losses on September 11th, we do the same for them today. Our hearts go out both to those who have lost loved ones today and to all of the victims who remain."...

Former Mayor of New York Rudolph Giuliani said the London terror strikes were an "eerie reminder" of 9/11 . Mr Giuliani, who led the Big Apple through the devastating attacks, said he was only yards away from the first explosion this morning, while on a visit to London. The politician said: "They are a very eerie reminder of September 11, I was right near Liverpool (St) station when the first bombing took place, so I could hear the sirens and then kept hearing reports of different bombing, in different parts of the city. "As we were walking through and driving...

Yahoo alias - Timbuk3_98 My sympathy goes out the the families of our good, liberal friends in London.The war supporters deserve everything bad that happens to them. This blood, too, is on their hands. This sort of reaction is barely a step above those who did the killing. The victims of these attacks were simply innocent people going about their business. They deserved none of this and the blood is only on the hands of those who killed them... with maybe a bit left over for those who are unwilling to do anything about it. (link to story to see...

The whole of Europe was on alert Thursday following a series of bombings in London, Italian officials said, while security officials were assessing Italian security and Italy's airports raised their alert level to a maximum. Italy's European commissioner called the explosions in central London on Thursday a terrorist strike against Europe. The Italian Foreign Ministry said at least two Italians were injured in the blasts, without giving details. "What has happened is the tragic confirmation that terrorism strikes once more at the heart of Europe," said Franco Frattini, Europe's commissioner for justice and home affairs, in comments reported by Italian...

Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was in London on Thursday when four bomb explosions rocked the British capital, and said the blasts were an "eerie reminder" of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States Giuliani, whose response to the 2001 hijacked airliner attacks won him worldwide praise, said he had been close to London's Liverpool Street station when the first bomb exploded in an underground train nearby. "We could hear the sirens, and then we kept getting reports of more bombings in different parts of the city," he told Sky television. "They were a very eerie reminder of...