9-11 was a prelude of what is to come, just like 1993 was a prelude to 9-11. Wake up people. Radical Islam is spreading and is interested in only one thing: the world converted to Allah, and Israel, Christianity and the west wiped off the map. Too many don't recognize the next World War has already started. If we don't face this with intellectual honesty and democratic courage, and try diplomacy with them rather than taking the fight to them (they only retreat with force, never with threats), we will find the cost of this fight will continue to grow until we will be faced with nuking Mecca and Medina. This is a religious war who's insurgents don't have an ideology such as Communism or Nazism, but have a zealous, distorted form of Islam who are willing to both kill and die in the hope of spreading it worldwide. Iran, the leader in this Islamofascism, is a regime with the mentality of a suicide bomber that is willing to go up in smoke as well, in the hope of wiping Judaism and Christianity off the map. Lest you forget, Mahmoud Admadinejad, president of Iran, said at his Holocaust-denying conference just days after the release of the Iraq Study Group Report, "The US, Britian and Israel will eventually disappear from the world like the pharaohs. It's a divine promise." They proved on 9/11 that their choice is to fight us on our soil. We must never let that occur again.

Hi Brian Ross,

In your video report you mention that he may have been high or drunk. I think it is likely that he may have been high from the fumes of the gasoline. Check with a expert on this, but I think gasoline vapor will make you high.

Jon

John, I think you need to wake up and realize that we've been in the middle east bombing the crap out of them for over a decade; I think they're justified in their hatred of the US, and I'm ashamed to call myself a US citizen.

Our government has gone rampant in their quest for power, and there's nothing they won't do, including the other 'false flags' (look it up on wikipedia) and they certainly don't mind killing a few thousand of their own citizens.

Yea, sure this was al Qaeda. Is one of al Qaeda's trademarks bombs that don't go off? This is another distraction from reality, from serial law-breaking in the WH, from the cowards of the Congress.

Phil: If you are so ashamed of your US citizenship, the Saudis or others would be very happy to have you amongst them once you convert. Or Iran.
In any case, we are at war and we are trying to help them while they are trying to kill us. Collateral damage is their fault not hours. And it is people like you who make this war go on longer because who keep us from truly fighting it like John suggests. You want the Geneva convention, neat beginnings and ends, rationality and enlightenment, in a fight with the primeval barabarian. Leaving is not an option and not fighting is not an option; they will spill over and kill us in Europe and kill us in America. Leaving Iraq to its fate does not end the war, it only makes the next round even larger. Remember, rubble makes not trouble. That is not what I want and not what you want but that is what will come if we can't fight and win this thing now. Have you ever read history? It took Europe centuries to sort out the path to the nice comfortable modernity in which you can avow that you are ashamed of your American citizenship. The thirty years war was brutal not to mention the two world wars. Those wars engulfed the world. Islam is going through its own confrontation with modernity. We can not escape it as we are the yin to its yang; we are the hated other that nags at their brains like a buzzing they cannot escape. They have embraded us in a death grip and the only way to be released is to kill it.

What scares me even more is how quickly we use these attacks and, luckily this time, near misses to justify whatever agenda we subscribe to--the shotgun approach to fighting terror by invading previously non-Al Qaeda countries like Iraq OR justifying terrorism because of US foreign policy. Both are reactive and reactionary and serve only to divide us. AKA--the terrorists win.

Let's look at facts. The US has poor foreign policy in the Middle East, but these Al Qaeda fanatics will hate us for a long time no matter what we do. Next, the Iraq War is a failure, a drawing away of precious resources from where they are needed--Homeland Security and dealing with the Pakistani Al Qaeda connection. If we can't face that then, again, a terrorist victory.

I was reading about the bomb in London and I think I have some questions that may be relevant. News reports indicate that the man was picked up and released for lack of evidence in another terror case.

What???

No surveillance after that... Scott Free? Plus, his cell phone, yeah the one in the bomb? Wasn't there some surveillance of the phone? I guess not. Who was called on the phone? Or does Britan not use cell phone surveillance?

Is this a gap in the system? I think it is revealing that there was no tip despite the phone being dismantled and wired to a bomb. Shouldn't there be some countermeasures built into the phone? I think so. Seems like a worthwile effort to make phones more difficult to use in detonation devices. We should have seen this coming. Where is the big partnership between the government and industry to stamp out terror. If someone dismantles a phone then it should pulse the MI5 or MI6 or somebody to be alert that a user is dismantling a phone. There is really no need for a user to do this, but to change the battery, and investigation or purchase records could reveal legitimate dismanting. A good time to bug the phone is when someone dismantles it. They blow stuff up after that.

Jon

listen people this is real , there is no doubt that these cowards are plotting ! those bombs didt go off because of the WH or congress, most likely these cowards rigged those cars purposely NOT do go off weather its a signal to londons new boss to back off or this is the begining of something that could get real bad!

Why is it that everyone I hear saying how much they are 'ashamed to be an American' or 'despise their American Citizenship'...never actually leave and go live with these death worshipping hordes who never made it out of the 6th century???

Our Middle East policy should continue to be "support Israel". Let's face it the liberals hate Israel almost as much as they hate America. How else could they, like Phil support groups that deliberately target children, and other innocents

Al Queda , is really not doing good. Terrirosm is like an insect in our society which is growing it's community slowly.
We, as an educated civilians, have to do some efforts regarding this and to spread the education to educate persons that all these activities are not good for any human being but it can destroy the basic moral of life....that there is also Love remained.

This is Phil's country as much as anyone else's and he has the right to point at injustices and abuses without being called a traitor.

this is more lies from The Blotter.

Hey I'd back the US against Al Quada anytime.

Can I run and hide now?

Keep spreading that fear MSM.

Calm down people, this clearly was a incendiary device and not explosive, It would have made one heck of a bang and a spectacular fire. Propane containers rupture when they explode and don't shatter into shrapnel.

Phil: what do you suggest? Appeasement perhaps with the enemy? That is the offshoot of self-loathing. Rather than believe that those who wage war against us are evil, you suggest we should view ourselves as evil for retaliating, or, even worse, for preemptively striking to prevent a sure danger to regional or world security. The reason we went to Iraq was to take the fight to the terrorists rather than let them bring it to us. In this we have been very successful. Nearly every terrorist organization in the world is now in Iraq, and we are holding them at bay. The chaos in the streets is not a sign we are losing but a sign of a very difficult war that we are fighting, a type that we have never fought before. We need to hold our resolve to see it through, otherwise, we will find the next fight even that much more difficult to win. I too am ashamed that you call yourself an American.

I'm surprised no one is reporting that the second (towed away) car was parked in front of the 'Texas Embassy' cantina/restaurant -- another nightclub. Surely, this isn't a coincidence.

I don't beleive any of this nonsence about London Bombers. Just another Booga Booga scare tactic.

I agree with Robin, we should continue to support Israel and while we support them we could learn a few things about counter-terrorism from them.
God Bless America.

These thugs are proof that a distorted religion is just as, if not more, dangerous than any more familiar criminal enterprise. Lacking a state, they should be regarded as illegal, criminal combatants who must be identified, hunted down and put out of business in the most efficient manner available. Approval by the Marquis of Queenbury may not be possible.