In a website posting yesterday the Abu Hafs al Masri Brigade have one more time claimed responsibility for terrorist attacks, in this case yesterdays bombs in London. It should be remembered that this group also claimed the Madrid bombings and the July 7 bombs. Just how much credibility should be accorded to [...]

This news is just in:
Police shot a man at a London subway station on Friday, a day after the city was hit by a second wave of terror attacks in two weeks. The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately clear, nor was the man’s condition….
Passengers reported a man ? described as South Asian ? [...]

The Times has a pretty reasoned assessment of the state of play. We are still with the same two theories, the copycats, and the same group. I don’t like the copycat one since it seems to overlook some basic details. These attacks are not so easy to carry out logistically. Normally there is a high [...]

The press and TV stations are begining to report a series of new incidents on the London underground. I use the word ‘incidents’ since things are so confused it is not clear what is happening. In one incident a rucksack apparently exploded, but the explosion was small. I will update as more [...]

The New York Times is running a story about a document prepared by the Joint Terrorist Analysis Center (the coordinating nerve centre of Britain’s anti-terrorism activity) in June of this year. The document was apparently furbished to the NYT by a ‘foreign security service’ and “was not disputed by four senior British officials who were [...]

This paper from the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) is causing an awful lot of fuss at the moment.
What it doesn’t say
“The question you have to pose is: what is this report suggesting we should have done? It is suggesting we should simply have put our heads down and hoped that we weren’t [...]

News is coming in of an explosion on a minibus in the Turkish Aegean coast holiday resort of Kusadasi. Reports are at this stage confused. It seems four people may be dead, two of them foreign tourists. Several British tourists are said to be seriously injured. The attack may be the work of a female [...]

There is considerable speculation taking place at the moment about the nature of the connections (if any) between the British born bombers and militant jihadists in Pakistan. One of the names which keeps appearing is that of the group Jaish-e-Mohammad. Now this name should remind us that this is not the first time [...]

As regards his more general attitude to the war, you must not rely too much on those feelings of hatred which the humans are so fond of discussing in Christian, or anti-Christian, periodicals. In his anguish, the patient can, of course, be encouraged to revenge himself by some vindictive feelings directed towards the German leaders, [...]

Police in Cairo may well have arrested Magdi el Nashar the chemistry PhD who is being sought by police in connection with the London bombings.
“Security forces in Egypt have arrested a man suspected of helping to make the bombs that killed 54 people in London last week. Scotland Yard has confirmed the arrest, saying that [...]