Peter Taylor - Just waiting to happen

Tariq Ali - The price of occupation

Robin Cook - The war against terror cannot be won by military means

Tony Benn - In the name of security

According to an NYT story, the London subway bombs worked on mechanical timers, not cellphones like in Madrid.

But investigators say there are enough similarities between the two incidents to bear a close look.

'Red Ken' would be Ken Livingstone, mayor of London and once Labour Party Leader Tony Blair's bete noir. He was reacting to the London bombings. He was quoted in The Guardian:

This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful. It was not aimed at presidents or prime ministers. It was aimed at ordinary, working-class Londoners, black and white, Muslim and Christian, Hindu and Jew, young and old.

This was a disquieting lede in an NYT story:

The bombings in London today knocked the summit meeting that had just gotten under way here off of its carefully scripted focus on global warming and African poverty and turned it into a forum for (U.S.) President (George W.) Bush and other world leaders to express their unity in confronting terrorism.

University of Ottawa professor Mark Salter was on CTV this morning, commenting in the wake of this morning's terrible bombings in London.

He made the point that we who live in the West may have ...   more »

London, England's subway system has been hit by at least four blasts. The latest estimate is 38 dead and about 700 wounded.

A previously unknown Islamist organization has claimed responsibility for the attacks in a statement on a known Islamist website. However, they can't yet be confirmed.

 "The organization calls itself the Secret Organization Group of al-Qaeda [literally the base] of Jihad Organization in Europe," the BBC said. It has a translation of the statement available.

For full coverage, go to BBC Online or CTV News Online. Here's some special sections:

BBC - The London attacks

The Guardian - The terrorism threat to Britain

The Times of London - London bombs

Tom Popyk put up links to a number of blogs and British online news sites at CanadianJournalist.ca.