Terror Again

News of explosions in London. Unfortunately, yewitness reports and pictures from the scene indicate that the current death toll of 2 will soon rise dramatically.

I guess it could be expected; The world's attention is on the G8 summit, it's been a while since the last big hit, there was an Olympic announcement yesterday, and Britain is - if anything - overdue, given its involvement in Iraq. But I wonder if the sleeper cells weren't waiting for the Olympic announcement? New York, Madrid, Moscow, Paris and London are all G8 cities and big targets with easily-accessible transit systems, ripe for backpack bombings.

I'm surprised by the current lack of info and documentation of this attack. The BBC has some camera-phone photos up, but London is one of the world's most snap-happy cities. Between that and the comments from the police chief, it lends an air of eerie calm to the whole situation, but then, I don't have a TV...

London's police chief Sir Ian Blair said there had been 'many casualties' but it was too early to put a figure to those killed or injured...

Sir Ian urged people to stay where they were and not to call emergency services unless it was a life-threatening situation.

He reassured the public that an emergency plan was in place and the situation was 'steadily coming under control'.