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New London bombings. Tony Blair to speak at 10am EST. [1025amEST. Still waiting. Scroll down for rolling updates]
South London reports:
Terrified Tube passengers were evacuated from trains as police dealt with “incidents” at three different London Underground stations.
Emergency services were also called to a bus in east London amid reports there was a device on board.
Passengers [...]

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 [...]

News coming in:
Reuters/Sky TV…
The bomber responsible for the attack on a London bus last week was killed in the blast, Sky television reported on Tuesday, quoting police sources.
It was not clear whether the man had intended to detonate the bomb on the bus, Sky said. Police would not confirm the report.
Sky said a decapitated head [...]

Val Prieto at Babalu Blog sends word of bomb explosions in Spain.

Al Jazeera (!) is reporting:
A metal coffee-maker packed with explosives has exploded in the doorway of the Italian Culture Institute in the centre of Barcelona, slightly wounding a policeman.
Although no one claimed responsibility, police were examining recent explosions by anarchists using similar devices for [...]

A bomb explosion in the capital of Trinidad and Tobago has injured at least 13 people. Was it an Islamist terrorist attack?

Here’s the list. Keep them all in your thoughts and prayers.
Hat tip: Andy Cochran at The Counterterrorism Blog.
President Bush vows: “We will not yield.”

Remember this famous photo of one of the 7/7 terrorist attack victims?

LondonToronto Sun columnist Mark Bonokoski has a moving piece today about the woman behind the mask and the man who assisted her:

“She never once cried.”
Her name is Davinia. His name is Paul. Read the whole thing.
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British expat Mamoon Chowdry is raising money for victims [...]

It’s back to terrorist-whitewashing business as usual at the BBC. The perpetrators of the 7/7 attacks are no longer “terrorists.” They’re just “bombers.”
Biased BBC has a round-up of BBC watchdogs. Harry’s Place has the lowdown on BBC’s editorial scrubbing; also here. Meryl Yourish keeps track here and here.
Smash notes:
When I was in [...]

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 [...]

Joe Gandelman blows the whistle on another 9/11 hijacking…by conspiracy-monger Oliver Stone.

Mickey Kaus has more (via Instapundit).
Maybe Oliver Stone will hire these French textbook writers to help out with the screenplay.
Meanwhile, Captain Ed (who I had the great pleasure of hosting for dinner last night, along with the First Mate!) raises questions about Steven Spielberg’s [...]

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.

Do you remember what happened on May 5, the day of the British parliamentary elections? A bomb went off at the British consulate in Manhattan. Reminder:
The blasts occurred at 3:50 a.m. and originated inside a cement flower box outside the consulate located at 845 Third Avenue in midtown Manhattan, said police department spokesman Noel Waters. [...]

Fox News reports between 41-45 dead and toll will likely rise, plus large number of wounded casualties–more than 300. The round-up:

Death toll rises in London explosions
Death toll in London attacks rises to 12
Reuters: At least 90 casualties at Aldgate station: Doctor
At least 90 casualties were being treated near Aldgate underground station in London after [...]

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, [...]

More at Instapunk , Flickr, and BBC.

808am EST. Tony Blair statement at G-8. We condemn utterly these barbaric attacks…all of our countries have suffered from the violent impact of terrorism…We are united in our resolve…to defeat this terrorism…an attack on civilized people everywhere…Here are at this summit leaders are striving to combat poverty and improve human life…The perpetrators of this attack [...]

Ugh. The 9/11 Commission is back for another round of self-aggrandizement, armchair general-ing, and Bush-bashing. Winfield Myers at The Democracy Project has predictions and some advice:
If you were worried about a dull season ahead, the media feeding frenzy that would result from the reconstitution of this committee should relieve you of those worries, albeit at [...]

Drudge has the headline.
Update: Nope. Thank God.

Bumping this story to the top from my a.m. post on the NYC blasts. A few more details from CNN:
The detainee works at the world body’s weapons inspection agency as an analyst, the official said. Another U.N. source said the man is a satellite imagery analyst.
The FBI is not calling the man a suspect, said [...]

It has happened. Again. Sometime before 4am, May 5, 2005, an act of terrorism took place in Manhattan. Outside the British consulate. CBS reports:
The blasts occurred at 3:50 a.m. and originated inside a cement flower box outside the consulate located at 845 Third Avenue in midtown Manhattan, said police department spokesman Noel Waters. The consulate [...]

From the Left Coast lunacy files, the Los Angeles Times reports today that the city of Portland is withdrawing its cops from the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force:
This city is expected today to become the first in the nation to pull out of an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, following a series of disagreements between [...]

There has been plenty of TV coverage of the school massacre in remote northern Minnesota. Tons of stories at Google News and Yahoo. Plus full Drudge treatment.
But that hasn’t stopped some grievance-mongers from complaining that racism against Native Americans is somehow affecting news coverage. Check out a few of the letter-writers to TV Newser (here [...]

Jeff Quinton continues to update his coverage on the Atlanta courthouse shooter.
AP reports that a U.S. customs agent was discovered shot to death in north Atlanta this morning:
[H]is blue pickup truck, pistol and badge were missing. Officials were trying to determine if the slaying was related to the courthouse rampage Friday. The body was found [...]

Jeff Quinton at Backcountry Conservative is liveblogging media coverage of the Atlanta courthouse shootout and has tons o’ links.
Michael King, Georgia-based blogger, is also keeping an eye on Atlanta while the search for the fugitive gunman continues.
Atlanta traffic billboards are alerting commuters. Here’s what they’re flashing.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution coverage is here, including a report on the [...]

Never forget.
Bloggers and others marking the one-year anniversary of the terrorist train bombings in Spain:
Faute de Mieux
Terrorism Unveiled
In the Margin
Townhall.com’s News Wire

Laurence Simon, who has characteristically tough words.

The Australian and New Zealand press are all over a report from GQ that actor Russell Crowe was targeted by al Qaeda. Weird. And scary. Scary weird:
Russell Crowe Protected By FBI
FBI: Russell Crowe a target for al-Qaida
RUGGED Australian Oscar winner Russell Crowe has revealed he was the target of a kidnap plot by al-Qaida terrorists.
The [...]

My good friend and fellow Philadelphia Daily News columnist Michael Smerconish has an important and incredible column today about the airline worker in Maine who encountered Mohammed Atta on 9/11:
MICHAEL Tuohey “stared the devil in the eyes and didn’t recognize him.”
Now he kicks himself for not having acted, although if he had, our government probably [...]

It was another sad milestone for 9/11 families today. The medical examiner’s office in New York has announced it will halt efforts to try and identify the remains of the 2,749 people who were killed in New York on Sept. 11, 2001:
Speaking in the Bronx yesterday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the remains would stay at [...]

Reader Joe L. reminds me that today was a significant day in the War on Terror–back when the Islamists had been waging the war, but most of us had failed to see it yet. Writes Joe:
It was on this date, 16 Feb 1989, that investigators announced that the cause of the 1988 crash of Pan [...]