This was an interesting piece from the Daily Times in Pakistan by Dr. Farish A. Noor, a Malaysian political scientist and human rights activist based in Berlin:

The notion of just what type of explosive was used in the London attacks may finally be starting to clarify with the detection of the bomb laboratory in Leeds.

Moazzam Begg spent two years in detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba after being picked up in Afghanistan. The U.S. accused him of being an aide to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden; he says he was in Afghanistan to run a school.

He offered some thoughts about Muslim anger in an interview with the Associated Press.

Salon's Joe Conason says the London bombings show how much damage the war in Iraq has done to Western interests. But even he admits there's no easy way out.

The NYT's Thomas L. Friedman on why so many suicide bombers are young Sunni Muslim men.

The NYT's Paul Krugman says Karl Rove's genius stems from his being the first to realize that politically speaking, contemporary America is a post-truth state.

The four London bombers are almost textbook-perfect representations of suicide bombers, say the experts.

I include links to some related stories, and I talk about the whiff of Columbine around at least two of the bombers.

That's how often an Iraqi civilian or police officer dies, on average, as a result of insurgent activity. It works out to about 800 per month, says the Iraq Interior Ministry.

But strangely, the number of Iraqi civilians killed by U.S. military operations in Iraq wasn't included in the 10-month, 8,175 total. Nor was the death toll in the Kurdish-controlled areas.

Support for Osama bin Laden has dropped significantly in some key Muslim countries, says a new Pew Global Attitudes Project poll.