• Emails being sent in to The Sun.
• Someone has already turned the attacks into a comic. Incredible turnaround time.
• Specific details on the blasts from The Guardian.
• Flickr: The London Explosion Pool.
• At the Huffington Post, Andrei Cherny suggests that the bombings will be a test to see if the U.S. can reciprocate Tony Blair’s pledge to America during 9/11 and Simon Jenkins pleas for normalcy.
• “The front of the building was covered with blood.”

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• Cameraphone video showing trapped commuters.
• Raised alerts everywhere in U.S. but San Diego. Why?
• Sterling drops to 19-month low.
• American Communist Party issues statement condemning attacks.
• Queen in shock, Buckingham Palace sealed off.
• Eyewitness account from Marketwatch.
• Mayor Ken Livingstone calls attacks “mass murder.”
• David Plotz in Slate.
• Israel also holding economic conference near one of terror sites.

• Eyewitness reports from BBC.
• Wikipedia has an entry up on the attacks with some emergency numbers, if you need help. I understand that mobiles are down, but you can still text message.
• Numerology probably has nothing to do with this, but is there any significance to 7-7?
• The Guardian is now reporting 40 dead, 350 injured.
• London hotels are being overrun by commuters.
• Stocks take a dip on news of London bombings.
• Putin says attacks demonstrate that world is not united.
• G-8 talks postponed.
• Here in San Francisco, subways are delayed and many cops are patrolling the streets. I saw at least ten during my walk up Montgomery Street.
• CNN: “U.S. government sources told CNN that there was no specific or credible information indicating that there might be a threat to the United States.”
• Already, UPI is pinning this on al-Qaeda.

• IOC: London will still be home to 2012 Olympics.
• Blair says terrorists are behind attacks.
• Text of Scotland Yard statement.
• Flickr London
• US warns to be vigilant in subways.
• Australian narrowly escapes subway blast.
• There are apparently a total of four explosions: three on trains, one on a double-decker bus. First attack: 8:51, 7 people dead. Second attack: 8:56, 21 dead. Third explosion: 5 dead. Bus explosion: fatalities, unknown. This news report says 40.
• US to step up security on public transportation.
• Eyewitness account of paralyzed London.
• Is this a G8 protester or Al Qeada? Or someone else?
• By way of comparison, I should also point out that last year, there was a Moscow subway explosion that killed 39 people. But it didn’t receive nearly this amount of coverage.
• Warren Ellis updating. (via Bookslut)

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Jesus Christ. Major explosions have rocked the London Underground. Numerous fatalities. More news as time permits and I can link to it today. My heart goes out to anyone who has lost loved ones.