Larry’s Log

Here are the current headlines in the top stories section of my my.Yahoo.com account:

• Attacks kill 33 in London, Blair breaks off summit - 14 minutes ago
  Four blasts rocked London during rush hour early on Thursday, killing at least 33 people and disrupting a summit of Group of Eight leaders in Scotland in the deadliest peacetime attack on London.
• London-like attack not expected in U.S.-officials - 20 minutes ago
  The U.S. government raised the terrorism alert level for buses, subways and trains across the United States on Thursday in the wake of deadly bombings in London but said it expected no similar attack in the United States.
• Bush orders U.S. vigilance after London blasts - 3 hours ago
  President Bush directed U.S. security authorities on Thursday to be extra vigilant and take precautions in response to a series of apparently coordinated attacks in London.
• London blasts fit al Qaeda pattern - analysts - 30 minutes ago
  Apparently coordinated blasts across London’s transport network on Thursday bear similarities to last year’s Madrid bombings and suggest an attack in the style of al Qaeda, security analysts said.
• World recoils in horror at London attacks - 11 minutes ago
  The world recoiled in shock on Thursday after bombs tore through London’s transport system killing at least 33 people in a coordinated rush-hour attack.
• Al Qaeda says kills Egypt envoy in Iraq-Web - one hour ago
  Al Qaeda group in Iraq said on Thursday it killed Egypt’s top envoy to Iraq for representing a “tyrannical” government allied to the “Jews and Crusaders.”
• London blasts throw G8 summit into disarray - 15 minutes ago
  A series of attacks in London threw the Group of Eight summit into disarray on Thursday, forcing British Prime Minister Tony Blair to rush from the venue in Scotland to handle the crisis.
• Taliban vow to kill ‘captured’ U.S. commando - 2 hours ago
  The Taliban reiterated on Thursday that they are holding a U.S. commando who has been missing in Afghanistan for more than a week and vowed to kill him, but the U.S. military said it had no information to support the claim.

While I expected most of the stories to be about the London bombings it’s the two other stories that I’m looking at and seeing a common thread. Acts of violence in the name of Islam is the only thing newsworthy at this moment. What is sad is that I don’t see this being uncommon. What is even sadder is that some people will see these headlines and not get angry with the people who set the bombs or killed the diplomat or threatened to kill the captured soldier, they will get angry at Tony Blair or George Bush.

There is something very wrong with that.

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