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...deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, may be hiding. Working with Britain and Saudi Arabia, the U.S. froze bank accounts of the London-based Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia, which is believed to be an al-Qaeda front. A huge fear among counterterrorism officials is that the London bombings may be part of a wave of attacks. French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard says French and Spanish investigators have been asked by their British counterparts to collaborate in finding "two or even three other teams" of suicide bombers that could be part of the Pakistani-led networks responsible for the London attacks...
Sitting alone on the top floor of a double-decker bus, it occurs to me that the reason for my solitude may be the fact that the bomb, which exploded on a double-decker bus, destroyed mainly its upper floor. But no, soon the floor fills with Londoners who will not let themselves be perturbed. Injunctions to continue as if nothing happened are indeed the most frequently heard refrain in the days after the attack—“we shall not let ourselves be affected,” the Brits say, “to give in would...
...Ranting is your word. I would say this: I don?t call anybody a Nazi. I don?t call anybody a fascist. I don?t drop the F bomb on anybody. But I can give you a list as long as your arm of my friends on the left who do that all the time...
Sometimes simple ideas make more sense. The day of the London bombings, New York officials cut cell-phone service in tunnels leading into the city--in case anyone was planning to detonate a bomb with a cell phone. Once we accept that some attacks are inevitable, we can do sensible things to limit the damage and disruption--like using blast-proof glass in buses. Even things like emergency lighting can save lives. In London, it took more than an hour to clear the Underground. Many could not get out of cars or navigate pitch-black tunnels...
...have always condemned the use of the atomic bomb against Japan but I could not do anything at all to prevent that fateful decision." ALBERT EINSTEIN, in a recently discovered 1953 letter to Japanese philosopher Seiei Shinohara, responding to Shinohara's criticism of the renowned physicist's role in the development of nuclear weapons...