With my heart on the floor, I’ve gone around the web trying to understand what happened today in London. I am making an effort to remain reasonable while the sadness and anger take a grip on me.

Who wins from these attacks, really?

Someone left the following comment on the Rigourous Intuition blog:

If you don’t believe the “official” story line of 9/11, there is no way to believe the “official” story all ready being spun of these attacks in London. It makes watching the news of these devastating events all the harder to watch as the rhetoric seems so calculated to prop up the old lies by telling new ones.

Keep connecting it to the attacks of 9/11.
Keep making it a part of the “war on terror”.
Keep the people afraid.
Maintain the necessity of an ongoing war.
Maintain the “us against them” ideology.

The above motivations have already flashed through my head - distraction from Rove, bring England back into the fold, generate support for Blair.
And the thing that bothers me the most is that we live in a country, in a time, when it is so easy to believe all of the above.

Knowing what I know, I have to agree with that.

Kurt Nimmo had other observations to make:

Now that multiple bombs have gone off in London, Tony Blair will have no choice but to talk about terrorism and Iraq, as the two are irrevocably bound together. Attending the G8 neolib confab (or conspiracy conclave) in Gleneagles, Scotland, Blair has focused on Africa and the environment, anything but the Iraq occupation and his servility to the Bushcons, a growing source of unpopularity and condemnation, especially with the Downing Street Minutes revelations and the obvious fact Bush and Blair lied their countries into an illegal and immoral invasion and occupation. Even though Blair was returned to office for a third term, he suffers a sharply reduced majority in Parliament. Grumblings have started, a murmuring chorus calling for Britain to get its troops out of Iraq. “British military officials are planning to withdraw a large number of troops from Iraq over the next 18 months,” the UPI reported on July 5. No doubt all of that will change now with the echo of explosives fresh in the ears of Londoners. “It’s particularly barbaric that these attacks are designed to coincide with the G8 summit,” said Blair, described as “sombre looking.” Tony has it right—the explosions were “designed to coincide with the G8 summit,” but not in the way he would have us believe, not perpetuated by an elusive and mercurial al-Qaeda “in Europe,” and not as a message sent over the internet by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Osama bin Laden that Britain get out of Iraq. Of course, as the corporate media cranks up its propaganda machine—the Manichean proclamations of good versus evil are already flying furiously, especially over at Fox News—inconvenient facts (the war is illegal and Blair is a war criminal) will be pushed far in the background as the “war an terrorism” gets a fresh infusion of life, at least until the smoke clears in London’s financial district.

And the guys at What Really Happened made a good observation:

Islamic group claims London attack
But MSNBC TV translator Jacob Keryakes, who said that a copy of the message was later posted on a secular Web site, noted that the claim of responsibility contained an error in one of the Quranic verses it cited. That suggests that the claim may be phony, he said.

“This is not something al-Qaida would do,” he said.
Posted Jul 7, 2005 10:33 AM PST
Category: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS

Of course the claim is phony. This is another obvious frame-up.

Another sad day for humanity.