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09 July 2005

Bin Bags Will Not be Collected Today 

(Written on Thursday the 7th)

After having been watching the BBC News for about an hour, they finally had enough information to make a "London bombs" newsbar at the bottom of the screen, and all these terrible news items kept popping up and being repeated. During the press conference gathering all the official leaders of the special incident alert mission, the last piece of information on the bar was "bin bags will not be collected today". A bit of surreal triviality there in the midst of all the horror.

So, the Olympics yesterday and then terror today. This has indeed been a busy week for London. And it's not over yet. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not. I read about the terror attacks on the Norwegian paper VG's website of all places - the very same paper that gave me yesterday's Olympic news. Same borough mentioned both times; Stratford. There was no bomb here, though. They did, however, close down the whole tube system as well as park all Central London buses, and basically people are at the time of writing fucked if they want to get back home from work, pardon my American. Just like the "9/11" attacks this day started out with our not being quite certain how big a deal it was. We still don't have the whole picture and we're not sure if this is over yet. But that is of course what the terrorists want. Messing with our minds (and some of our bodies) like that. PM Tony looked like he was going to start crying at midday when he did a brief speech from Gleneagles, and apparently this has been his worst nightmare, quite literally keeping him awake at night.

They say al-Quaeda claim to be behind this and they also claim to be fundamental Muslims. As far as I know, Islam is as interested in terrorism as all other major faiths are. It's still a bit unnerving that as all this was going on a few tube stations away from me, I was sitting in an Internet café posting in my blog and listening to a Muslim prayer that the guy who works there had found on the radio or something. Oh, this is doing wonders for my prejudice, isn't it?

I think I need to put some soothing music on.

Current track: Nothing, strangely enough.

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