Egyptian Prosecutor General Maher Abdel-Wahed has indicated that Egyptian biochemist Magdy El-Nashar, arrested in Cairo over suspected involvement in the London bombings, will not be extradited even if he was charged. He said that the country’s constitution bans the extradition… Read moreEgypt won’t extradite 7-7 suspect
There are twin moral and intellectual traps most commentators are falling into vis-a-vis the London bombings. The first is the terrifyingly myopic and widespread consensus which is emerging that the attack “wasn’t about Iraq.” The increasingly predictable Christopher Hitchens writes… Read moreThe London bombings: context vs. apologia
A contributor to the TPMCafe blog offers an interesting commentary on the 7-7 attacks: Muslim Civil War – Second Front By thibaud Overlooked by most media outlets (but not by London bloggers) in the Edgware Road and Aldgate bombings is… Read more“Muslim civil war” behind London bombings?
The first apparent example of what Christopher Hitchens called “bloody foolishness” that he hoped Britons would be too civilized for following the London attacks. From Pakistan’s Daily Times, July 15: Pakistani shot dead LONDON: Pakistani national Kamal Raza Butt was… Read moreRevenge killing in London?
From today’s AP: Police are investigating whether four attackers died in last week’s London subway and bus bombings and have arrested one suspect after a series of raids Tuesday in Leeds, a northern city with a strong Muslim community. At… Read moreBritish army raids Leeds Pakistani community
Amazing — it took a full 24 hours before the ultra-Zionist media found a way to implicate the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in the Brit bombings: Explosives Used by Terrorists in London and Tel Aviv Identical 18:16 Jul 11, ’05… Read moreWhen in doubt, blame the ISM
From the London Mirror, July 8: WE CANNOT SURRENDER States which shelter these killers will know no peace by Christopher Hitchens SOMEWHERE around London at about a quarter to nine yesterday morning, there must have been people turning on their… Read moreChristopher Hitchens on the London attacks
Maryam Namazie of the Organization of Women’s Liberation in Iran (OWLI) gave the following speech, “Political Islam in the Heart of Secular Europe,” at the International Humanist and Ethical Union Congress in Paris the day before the London terror attacks:… Read moreIranian feminist decries “political Islam” in Europe
With all of the current horrors in the headlines, the world has paid little note to the tenth anniversary of the July 1995 massacre of 8,000 at the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica after it was overrun by besieging Serb… Read moreZ magazine supports genocide
Protesters are starting to leave Edinburgh, but at least four were re-arrested for violating bail conditions banning them from the city while actually trying to get out of town. Human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar told the court: “The situation with… Read moreEdinburgh aftermath: police over-reach, Wolfowitz praises Geldof
As this fairly comprehensive account from The Australian makes clear, the notion that the London attacks were carried out by a heretofore unheard-of “Secret Organization of the Jihad of al-Qaeda in Europe” originates from reports on the websites of Germany’s… Read moreWho was behind London attacks?
Collected by Mazin Qumsiyeh: http://www.masnet.org/takeaction.asp?id=2594 http://mpac.org/home_article_display.aspx?ITEM=790 http://icna.org/pr_london_attacks.htm http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050707/dcth034.html?.v=19 http://isna.net/index.php?id=35&backPID=1&tt_news=220 See our last post on the attacks.
