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Headline: “London mayor defends Muslims as bomb plot foiled.” The back story: Mayor Ken “Red Ken” Livingstone is a longtime apologist for jihadists.

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3:48pm Eastern update. Peter Clark, head of anti-terrorist command, is giving a press conference to announce the discovery of the second explosive device and second vehicle. Similar materials found in second car as in first Mercedes–fuel, “substantial quantity of nails.”
3:31pm Eastern update. New developments…2nd explosive device found, also in Mercedes…Accomplice of AQ henchman [...]

John Howard’s former chief of staff has a worthwhile piece in the Times of London on why their counterterror programs have been successful. It’s refreshingly direct:
the Australian system takes Islamist ideology seriously. It does not deal with radical Islamists. It confronts extremists’ views, rather than seeking to co-opt “pragmatic” radicals who happen not to [...]

***scroll for updates, including new info from Annie Jacobsen (remember Flight 327?)…who were the ringleaders of Bojinka II (is there a better name? let me know)…here’s the reason for the liquid ban: ABC says the jihadists were going to hide the explosives in sports drink bottles…reports of dry runs…USNews now also reporting details involving hydrogen [...]

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I went to bed last night after blogging about the Dearbornistan terror arrests and the still missing 8 Egyptians. Twenty minutes after I went to sleep, the news broke about a massive terrorist plot to blow up several aircraft mid-flight between the United States and Britain using explosives smuggled in hand luggage.
Are [...]

Just received from the University of Arizona regarding Jeff Goldstein’s blog stalker, Deborah Frisch:
Michelle,
I have word from the head of Human Resources here that Deborah Frisch has tendered her resignation.
Jeff Harrison
University Communications
The University of Arizona
I haven’t been able to get through yet, but Protein Wisdom is reportedly back online.
Frisch says she is headed to Eugene, [...]

Remember?
It’s the one-year anniversary of the 7/7 London jihadi bombings. Pajamas Media has extensive, extended coverage throughout the day. Andrew Ian Dodge expresses my feelings today:
“I am still incensed that the Muslim community spends more time whingeing about “islamophobia” than they do trying to route out extremism. I am incensed that whenever question about terrorist [...]

Melanie Phillips has the depressing diagnosis of British dhimmitude as the one-year anniversary of the 7/7 jihadi bombings approaches:
The day after tomorrow, Britain commemorates a sombre anniversary that is also ringing the loudest of alarm bells. On year on from last July’s London bombings by two groups of British Muslim boys, the mortal threat to [...]

Conservative radio talk show host and NRO contributor Michael Graham has been suspended from WMAL-AM without pay in Washington, D.C., for bluntly challenging Islam last week on air and this week in a column. Excerpt from his JWR piece:
I take no pleasure in saying it. It pains me to think it. I could [...]

New developments in the continued hunt for the 7/7 terrorist bomb plotters. ITV reporting:
Armed police are attending an incident – connected to the attempted London bombings – in the Notting Hill area of the capital after a series of small explosions were heard.
Unconfirmed reports suggest the police are shouting instructions to someone inside a flat [...]

1224pm EST. University College Hospital in London is now on “high alert” as London police search for today’s terror bombing suspects. All four bombing locations have been cordoned off. Intelligence sources telling Fox News’ Simon Marks that the mastermind of the 7/7 bombings is not in custody and still at large.
The latest from the Guardian [...]

The father of 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta applauds the 7/7 London terrorist attacks. Via CNN:
CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) — The father of one of the hijackers who commandeered the first plane that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, praised the recent terror attacks in London and said many more would follow.
Speaking [...]

Don’t eat or drink anything while you read this piece of tripe from Dilpazier Aslam, a Muslim Guardian “trainee journalist” attempting to explain away the 7/7 terrorist bombing attacks:
“The Muslim community is no monolithic whole. Yet there are some common features. Second- and third-generation Muslims are without the don’t-rock-the boat attitude that restricted our forefathers. [...]

Magdy El-Nashar, an Egyptian man with North Carolina ties, is wanted by London police in connection with last week’s terrorist bombings.
El-Nashar had a PhD in biochemistry. He studied chemical engineering at North Carolina State in 2000. Based on this list of recent graduates, it appears he did not complete his course of study at NCSU.
Police [...]

The NY Times echoes what I noted on the 7th, and what many other War on Terror watchdogs have warned about for years: “For a Decade, London Thrived as a Busy Crossroads of Terror.” The Washington Post runs a similar story: “In London, Islamic Radicals Found a Haven.”

Mediacrity takes a closer look at one of [...]

Early yesterday morning, Cliff May at The Corner asked: “Won’t it be interesting to see whether those gathered in Scotland to protest the G8 will — or will not — protest the terrorist bombings?”
Well, I headed over to the UK’s Indymedia G8 2005 site to see what exactly the protesters did and didn’t do. It’s [...]

London mayor Ken Livingstone earned praise yesterday for his stalwart statement condemning the 7/7 attacks. “Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail,” he said, addressing the terrorists directly.
There are some things you should know, though, about Mayor Livingstone before you applaud his steadfastness against evil. Despite his strong words lambasting terrorism, Livingstone, [...]

The Brits are on a manhunt. Via the Wall Street Journal:
British police have asked their European counterparts for information on a Moroccan man, Mohamed Guerbouzi, in relation to the terrorist attacks in London yesterday, a Brussels-based European police official said. Mr. Guerbouzi has been under investigation in Britain in connection with two previous attacks, a [...]

Reports are still sketchy on whether the Tavistock Square bus explosion was caused by a suicide bomber. (Eyewitness reports here and here.) If the bombing was indeed caused by a Brit-based suicide bomber, it wouldn’t be a surprise. London has been a breeding ground for bomb-loving Jihadists:
December 2001: London-born Richard Reid, the so-called Shoe Bomber, [...]

Christopher Hitchens delivers a strong antidote to the moonbats blaming the 7/7 attacks on Bush/Blair/Iraq:
My son flew in from London at the weekend, and we were discussing, as we have several times before, why it hadn’t happened yet. “It” was the jihadist attack on the city, for which the British security forces have been braced [...]

Here’s the text of DHS chief Michael Chertoff’s statement:
Statement by Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff on the Bombings in London
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
Contact: 202-282-8010
July 7, 2005
We have been closely monitoring the bombings in London. Our sympathies and condolences go to the victims of this incident and the people of London.
We have [...]

You won’t be able to persuade the conspiracy nuts otherwise, but those early reports of Israel being warned in advance of the bombings were erroneous. See Power Line and The Corner for details.

Der Spiegel reports:
A letter posted on a Web site frequently used by al-Qaida claims that the “Secret Organization of al-Qaida in Europe” is responsible for today’s massive terrorist attack in London. In it, the group also issues warnings to Denmark and Italy.
In a letter located by SPIEGEL ONLINE on a Web site trafficked by al-Qaida, [...]