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Local restaurant El Oriental de Cuba in Jamaica Plain was destroyed by a firebomb this week. Boston City Councillor John Tobin visited the scene and filed this video report: Watch QuickTime Video "That's our job as elected officials to get this resuarant open as soon as possibnle to get the tenants back in their apartments and build this place up better than ever. We've also offered to help find other restuarant jobs if that's what they desire. Let the Boston Police and Fire departments conduct their investigations and hope that the person or persons responsible for this outrageous act in our community are found and brought to justice." Boston Globe: Cuban eatery finds help on the menu.

On MSNBC's Hardball, host Chris Matthews said Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) "looked more witchy" because she criticized the Bush administration's homeland security spending priorities on July 8, a day after the London bombings. Matthews and his guests, New York Post Washington bureau chief Deborah Orin and Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr., were initially discussing Clinton's July 10 comment that "I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Neuman is in charge in Washington," a reference to the Mad magazine mascot and his slogan, "What, me worry?" Discussing those comments, Matthews asked Orin, "Why is she [Clinton] putting the shiv in the very week, weekend and weekday, right now, Monday, when the people are rallying around the president because of the latest terrorism?" Later, Orin called the timing of Clinton's homeland security criticisms "tone-deaf" because July 8 was "not the day to immediately whack the president," at which point Matthews chimed in: "It's a fact. You look more witchy when you're doing it like this." From the July 11 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews: MATTHEWS: E.J., let me ask you this. I know this is red meat for you, Deborah. You write for the New York Post. Hillary Clinton yesterday in Aspen, Colorado, at a think-tank thing -- I was at part of it last week -- she came out and said that the president is Alfred E. Neuman, the guy in Mad comics, the idiot guy on the front page of the magazine for all those years, Mad comics, and all he can say is, "What, me worry?" She's apparently been using this as her stock and trade the last week on terrorism. ORIN: I don't get it. I honestly don't get it. And she is starting to get some firing back. I mean, this is not exactly appropriate stuff -- MATTHEWS: Why is she putting the shiv in the very week, weekend and weekday, right now, Monday, when the people are rallying around the president because of the latest terrorism? ORIN: I don't know the answer to that. I think it is dumb. She is usually quite smart. And I think it's dumb. MATTHEWS: OK. Why did she accuse the president of -- here's a smarter one, E.J. She accused the president last Friday of cutting $50 million from subway security. Right at the moment the attack on the subways in England, the underground, she's whacking the president for cutting defense money, security money for our own subways. DIONNE: And that's true. I talked last Friday to Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican of Maine, the chair of the Homeland Security Committee. She didn't attack the president, but she made the same point, that we have underinvested in mass transit security. We've underinvested in port security. I think this is going to be a big issue in the coming days. So, I think it is a perfectly legitimate thing to say. Are we spending our homeland security money right? Are we safer now than we were a year ago? [crosstalk] MATTHEWS: And she is safe being this anti-Bush? DIONNE: She also said, like everybody else, that, of course, our hearts go out to the people in London. You ought to be able to do a couple of things at the same time. [laughter] MATTHEWS: You think you can set two different tones at the same time, national solidarity and whack the president in the kneecaps the same day? DIONNE: Well, no, national solidarity and where do we go from here? How do we protect ourselves? [...] ORIN: I agree with you, Chris, and I disagree with E.J. I think that was not -- it was tone-deaf. It was a day of tragedy in London. And that's not the day to immediately whack the president, you know, "And if it happens here, it will be your fault" sort of thing. [crosstalk] MATTHEWS: I hate to say this. I'm not going to hate to say it. It's a fact. You look more witchy when you're doing it like this. Let me ask you about this argument. DIONNE: By the way, [Sen.] Chuck Schumer [D-NY] was there with her saying -- MATTHEWS: I know. OK. Well -- [crosstalk] DIONNE: -- there's a real problem with mass transit and security. And we don't call him a witch. [crosstalk] MATTHEWS: Funny we only heard one of them. DIONNE: Yes.

I couldn't help but noticing how different my media consumption has been surrounding the terrorist attacks in London from September 11th. When my girlfriend came and hammered on my door on the morning of September 11th I turned on CNN and just watched. When I heard about the bombings in London I looked it up on Flickr, Nowpublic, Wikipedia, Wikinews to mention a few. It seems the editors/writers/journalists at the dinosaur blogs did the same. In fact, not only did these old school media folks go online for their news gathering, but they took citizen's media and ran front page stories with it. You probably saw the image that Adam Stacey took on his cameraphone: It was posted here with a Creative Commons license. Then the image immediately appeared here, then here, then here and then onto the cover of many newspapers in London and abroad. It has been viewed almost 70 000 times on Flickr, as well as millions of times on other more popular sites and newspapers. This was just one of the examples (among many) where normal people became frontline media gatherers. On Thursday morning in London, only minutes after the fourth terrorist bomb blew the top off a red double-decker bus in Tavistock Square, editors at the Times of London on-line unit called for readers to e-mail photos of the disasters unfolding around the city. The BBC website did the same. Over at the Guardian Online, editors directed people to post digital pictures on the popular photo-sharing site Flickr.com. One cellphone snapshot at Flickr, which captured the murky despair and chaos on a crippled Underground train, became an early icon of the attacks and was picked up by the websites of the Guardian, the Evening Standard and other papers. Globe and Mail A grainy cell phone video taken by a survivor gave viewers worldwide their first look at the London Underground bombing -- and shined a spotlight on a small but growing part of electronic newsgathering. Hollywood Reporter Among the more striking photos appearing online after Thursday's coordinated London explosions was one of a double-decker bus, its front intact but its sides and top ripped open. The image, on the BBC's Web site, came not from a staff photographer but from an amateur who happened on the scene with a digital camera. Forbes As journalists scrambled to cover the London bomb blasts, ordinary citizens went online to share pictures snapped by cameraphones and reports of what they saw. At Technorati.com, a search engine for blogs, eight of the top 10 searches Thursday were related to the blasts. Wall Street Journal Some of the most intimate images of yesterday's bomb blasts in London came from cell phones equipped with cameras and video recorders, demonstrating how a technology originally marketed as entertainment has come to play a significant role in up-to-the-minute news. Washington Post All of this inspired me to want to capture the day I'd like to remember not for the attacks (although I'll never forget) but for the day citizen's media officially went mainstream. So I created this screencast (~40 MB .mov) of the Wikipedia entry for the attacks as animated by Dan Phiffer's Wikipedia Animate Greasemonkey script. The idea was inspired by Jon Udell's screencasts. It shows the first 923 edits to the Wikipedia entry. You can also see the date and time of the edits flashing near the top. I sped the video up to keep it short and the result is a time lapse in the development of a Wikipedia entry as events unfolded that day. The entry itself now has over 2300 edits. I think I created this as a response to how I feel about the events. Terrorism represents the absolute worst in humanity whereas the response to these attacks, from the Wikipedia, to the blogs, to the international solidarity, to the overall resilience of the Brits represents the best! citizenjournalism london londonbombing citizenmedia screencast wikipedia

We went to New York for vloggercue this weekend. On our way there, we spent some time contemplating the meaning of security. We felt it was important to give some thought to the orange alert in effect around us. Here are a few things we noticed.

This was one horrific day, my deepest sympathies go out to all who have been affected by this terrible event.

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Here's a roundup of how some Fox News hosts and reporters responded to the July 7 terrorist attacks in London: Fox News host Brian Kilmeade stated that the attack near the G8 summit "works to ... the Western world's advantage, for people to experience something like this together." From Fox News' July 7 breaking news coverage between 8 and 9 a.m. ET: KILMEADE: And he [British Prime Minister Tony Blair] made the statement, clearly shaken, but clearly determined. This is his second address in the last hour. First to the people of London, and now at the G8 summit, where their topic Number 1 --believe it or not-- was global warming, the second was African aid. And that was the first time since 9-11 when they should know, and they do know now, that terrorism should be Number 1. But it's important for them all to be together. I think that works to our advantage, in the Western world's advantage, for people to experience something like this together, just 500 miles from where the attacks have happened. Fox News contributing correspondent Simon Marks distinguished between Arabs and "regular" Londoners, in reporting on the scope of the attacks, as the weblog Daily Kos noted. From Fox News' July 7 breaking news coverage between 9 and 10 a.m. ET: MARKS: It [Edgeware Road] is an area that has a very large Arab population. Surrounding that station, a large number of Middle Eastern restaurants. So, it's a further indication, if in fact these attacks were carried out by Al Qaeda-affiliated cells, that these people are, if necessary, prepared to spill Arab blood in addition to the blood of regular -- of non-Arab people living in London. Fox News Washington managing editor Brit Hume said that his "first thought," when he "heard there had been this attack" and saw the low futures market was "Hmmm, time to buy." From Fox News' July 7 breaking news coverage between 1 and 2 p.m. ET: HUME: You know, the market was down. It was down yesterday, and you know, you may have had some bargain-hunting going on. I mean, my first thought when I heard -- just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, "Hmmm, time to buy." Others may have thought that as well. But you never know about the markets. But obviously, if the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm about it. But there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way that -- partly in the way the Brits handled all this, but also in the way that officials here handled it. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here, although there's no indication that we here had any advance warning. Fox News host John Gibson stated one day before the attacks that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) "missed a golden opportunity" when it awarded the 2012 Olympic Games to London because if France had been selected to host the games, terrorists would "blow up Paris, and who cares?" Following the London attacks, Gibson reiterated that the IOC should have selected Paris instead of London because the British should "let somebody else be worried about guys with backpack bombs for a while." From the July 6 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, guest-hosted by Gibson: GIBSON: By the way, just wanted to tell you people, we missed -- the International Olympic Committee missed a golden opportunity today. If they had picked France, if they had picked France instead of London, to hold the Olympics, it would have been the one time we could look forward to where we didn't worry about terrorism. They'd blow up Paris, and who cares? From the "My Word" segment of the July 7 edition of Fox News' The Big Story With John Gibson: GIBSON: The bombings in London: This is why I thought the Brits should let the French have the Olympics -- let somebody else be worried about guys with backpack bombs for a while.

The day before the July 7 terrorist attacks on London buses and subways, Fox News host John Gibson stated that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) "missed a golden opportunity" because, if France had been selected to host the 2012 Olympics, terrorists would "blow up Paris, and who cares?" Following the London attacks, Gibson reiterated that the IOC ought to have selected Paris instead of London, because the British should "let somebody else be worried about guys with backpack bombs for a while." From the July 6 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, guest-hosted by Gibson: GIBSON: By the way, just wanted to tell you people, we missed -- the International Olympic Committee missed a golden opportunity today. If they had picked France, if they had picked France instead of London to hold the Olympics, it would have been the one time we could look forward to where we didn't worry about terrorism. They'd blow up Paris, and who cares? From the "My Word" segment of the July 7 edition of Fox News' The Big Story with John Gibson: GIBSON: The bombings in London: This is why I thought the Brits should let the French have the Olympics -- let somebody else be worried about guys with backpack bombs for a while.

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The following exchange between Fox News host Brian Kilmeade and Fox News business contributor and substitute host Stuart Varney occurred during breaking news coverage of the attacks on London subways and buses on the July 7 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends: KILMEADE: And he [British Prime Minister Tony Blair] made the statement, clearly shaken, but clearly determined. This is his second address in the last hour. First to the people of London, and now at the G8 summit, where their topic Number 1 --believe it or not-- was global warming, the second was African aid. And that was the first time since 9-11 when they should know, and they do know now, that terrorism should be Number 1. But it's important for them all to be together. I think that works to our advantage, in the Western world's advantage, for people to experience something like this together, just 500 miles from where the attacks have happened. VARNEY: It puts the Number 1 issue right back on the front burner right at the point where all these world leaders are meeting. It takes global warming off the front burner. It takes African aid off the front burner. It sticks terrorism and the fight on the war on terror, right up front all over again. KILMEADE: Yeah.

During Fox News' coverage of the July 7 London bombings, Washington managing editor Brit Hume told host Shepard Smith that his "first thought," when he "heard there had been this attack" and saw the low futures market, was "Hmmm, time to buy." Smith had asked Hume to comment on the lack of a negative U.S. stock market reaction to the London attacks. From Fox News' July 7 breaking news coverage between 1 and 2 p.m. ET: SMITH: Some of the things you might expect to happen, for instance, a drop in the stock market and some degree of uncertainty across this country -- none of that really seen today, and I wonder if the timing of it -- that it happened in the middle of the night and we were able to get a sense of the grander scheme of things -- wasn't helpful in all this. HUME: Well, maybe. The other thing is, of course, people have -- you know, the market was down. It was down yesterday, and you know, you may have had some bargain-hunting going on. I mean, my first thought when I heard -- just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, "Hmmm, time to buy." Others may have thought that as well. But you never know about the markets. But obviously, if the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm about it. But there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way that -- partly in the way the Brits handled all this, but also in the way that officials here handled it. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here, although there's no indication that we here had any advance warning.

The attacks in London today by individuals who may, or may not, be from al qaeda, will affect the political landscape for some time. Conveniently enough, the attacks came on the first day of the G8 meeting in Edinburgh, and when the world leaders now meet and make decisions, it will be in an atmosphere of heightened sensitivity to the horrors of living in a society taken hostage by a few individuals with a few bombs, working together. What I fear will happen is this: The counter-terrorist methods will prove to be equally harming to the society as a whole. Cities will be held hostage to fear of terrorism; the fear that any moment a suspect might decide to kill himself, and take you down in the process. The ill-defined War against Terror will gain ground in the rhetorics of world leaders, and we will see a growth in measures for our safety . The big problem today, as I see it, is the great distance between our world-views. To most people, the IRA, or Al Qaeda, are mere terrorists, to be fought down. To some, however, they are freedom fighters. To some people, around the world, the USA is the big bully on the international scene, while to others the United States is the world s legitimate police force, our guarantee against chaos and mayhem. What are we to do now? Well: We need to keep sane. We need to figure out who did this, and put them to trial. We need to figure out what went wrong in security, and then figure out what we can do to prevent these things in the future. However, we must also realize that no, there is no quick solution. We cannot lock ourselves in in our western world, pretending that we are to be free from all the chaos of this world, while ourselves profiting on the chaos in other countries, other continents. The world is global; one large village. There are dangerous people everywhere, and with the growth of centralized metropols like London or New York, we are living like a steam of small fish. There are sharks out there, and the shark might be a desperate Arab with 10 pounds of dynamite attached to his body. The Question: How can we prevent more bloodshed? How can we let empathy win? Don t Lose It. Oh, yes, and an enclosure with a different expression. Music sample: The Prodigy: Firestarter

The following exchange between Fox News host Brian Kilmeade and Fox News business contributor and substitute host Stuart Varney occurred during breaking news coverage of the attacks on London subways and buses on the July 7 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends: KILMEADE: And he [British Prime Minister Tony Blair] made the statement, clearly shaken, but clearly determined. This is his second address in the last hour. First to the people of London, and now at the G8 summit, where their topic Number 1 --believe it or not-- was global warming, the second was African aid. And that was the first time since 9-11 when they should know, and they do know now, that terrorism should be Number 1. But it's important for them all to be together. I think that works to our advantage, in the Western world's advantage, for people to experience something like this together, just 500 miles from where the attacks have happened. VARNEY: It puts the Number 1 issue right back on the front burner right at the point where all these world leaders are meeting. It takes global warming off the front burner. It takes African aid off the front burner. It sticks terrorism and the fight on the war on terror, right up front all over again. KILMEADE: Yeah.

Tony Blair's statement (Video) From Jamaat al-Tandheem Al-Sierri (secret organization group) Organization of Qaeda't al-Jihad in Europe, claiming responsibility for the terrorist attacks in London this morning: In the name of God the most merciful... Rejoice the nation of Islam, rejoice nation of Arabs, the time of revenge has come for the crusaders' Zionist British government. As retaliation for the massacres which the British commit in Iraq and Afghanistan, the mujahideen have successfully done it this time in London. And this is Britain now burning from fear and panic from the north to the south, from the east to the west. We have warned the brutish governments and British nation many times. And here we are, we have done what we have promised. We have done a military operation after heavy work and planning, which the mujahideen have done, and it has taken a long time to ensure the success of this operation. And we still warn the government of Denmark and Italy, all the crusader governments, that they will have the same punishment if they do not pull their forces out of Iraq and Afghanistan. So beware. Thursday 7/7/2005 Jamaat al-Tandheem Al-Sierri (secret organization group) Organization of al Qaeda't al-Jihad in Europe. Ahh, religion. You consistently make our world a better place to live by giving hope and strength to Al Qaeda terrorists, abortion clinic bombers, the IRA, and a growing number of fundamentalist Christians who want to make America a theocracy. Thank you religion. Thank you. To my U.K. friends, I'm so sorry.

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New York, Madrid, London - this space gets updated. Refresh page for newest info from around the net BBC News Technorati will update this one continually, mostly with quotes from blogs and online news sources 20 people supposedly dead. The news reports are still confused. At first the BBC was saying it was probably a power surge on the Tube, but now there is a report of a double-decker bus being bombed. They ve dropped the power surge idea. Technorati Tags: London, Terrorism Ireland.com (sub. req.) is saying twenty people are dead and at least 90 injured. So far it s been reported five underground stations and three buses were hit. News sites such as the BBC and Guardian have already started slowing down and may be unreachable due to the weight of traffic. TV news may be a better alternative. 12.52 CET BT: Mange er døde og skadet etter eksplosjoner på flere T-baner og minst en buss i London. Alt tyder på at London er rammet av en forferdelig terroraksjon. 12.55 Seks eksplosjoner Sky News melder at fem t-banestasjoner er rammet av eksplosjoner. Dette gjelder Aldgate, Edgware Road, King s Cross, Old Street and Russell Square. BBC bekrefter eksplosjoner på Aldgate, Edgware Road og Russel Square. Noen minutter senere skal en buss ha eksplodert på Tavistock Square ved Russel Square, melder Sky News. Øyenvitnet Belinda Seabrook forteller: - Jeg satt i bussen foran og hørte et forferdelig brak. Så så jeg halve dobbeltdekkeren i luften. Bussen som eksploderte, skal være en turistbuss med to etasjer. Russell Square er et svært populært turiststrøk. BT.no 12.58 Speculations abound: The day after the 2012 bid was announced and as the G-8 summit begins… I don’t think its just me that’s smelling something fishy. If this whole thing is a planned attack based on the 2012 bid, whats the bet that there was a crew of miscreants waiting in Paris to create havoc there if they won the bid… There’s lots of theory’s about this whole thing. Everybody has their own ideas. Won’t know for definate for a while still, but whoever planned these things, has some serious issues. [link] 13.00 The Met Police Commissioner Ian Blair has just been on the television to give three messages: 1. Stay where you are 2. Do not contact the emergency services unless there you have a life-threatening situation 3. He will return with information as soon as possible [link] 13.02 Blair holds press conference. Can t go watch on TV now, anyone got url for live feed? BBC news site wont start on me. 13.07 At this point we still do not know what caused the explosions, London Underground are saying it was a power surge, others are convinced it was bombs. The capital has all but shut down and out lying railway stations have been evacuated. A strange silence has descended here and you can feel that the atmosphere has changed. It feels like 9/11 all over again, although this time it is much closer to home. Please spare a thought for those that got caught up in these terrible blasts. [link] 13.12 Me: Going to the office, will post again in 10 min 12.28 Blair confirmed: Terrorism UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said it was reasonably clear there had been a series of terrorist attacks. He said it was particularly barbaric that the attack was timed to coincide with the G8 summit which he would be leaving to return to London. [link] 13.49 Been browsing more news, finally saw Blair s speech, and it is online here. 14.07 Wordpress being a bitch on me; it takes several minutes to make a minor edit to this blog entry. I appreciate Wordpress not requiring rebuilding, but this is just anal. I need a blogging system that is Fast, flexible, and easy to use. Should not require rocket science, guys. 14.22 Closing this post. Will videoblog about this later today.