London bombings

  • What America doesn't understand

    Homegrown U.K. terror is a growing threat, multicultural "tolerance" can't combat it, and the war in Iraq will only make it worse.
    By Andrew Brown August 11, 2006

  • London bombing -- one year later

    While it's business as usual in the tube, many Brits fear their liberties are under siege, and relations with Muslims are more strained than ever.
    By Sean Kenny July 7, 2006

  • Is it OK to shoot a suspected terrorist in the head?

    Britons debate a post-9/11 police policy that led to the killing of an innocent man.
    By Andrew Brown September 7, 2005

  • Bush's dirty war

    Whatever the president wants to call the fight against terrorism, his tactics, in marked contrast to Britain's, are severely hampering the global effort.
    By Sidney Blumenthal August 5, 2005

  • London jogging

    In the wake of the terrorist bombings, some city commuters are dealing with their fears by putting on their running shoes.
    By Hans Nichols July 23, 2005

  • The Pakistan powder keg

    Ahmed Rashid, an expert on militant Islam, says unless the West turns up the heat on Musharraf, al-Qaida will continue to flourish there.
    By Matthias Gebauer and Charles Hawley July 23, 2005

  • Tunnel vision

    For Bush, it's always either the day after 9/11 or the day before the Iraq invasion. He needs to rethink his war on terror.
    By Sidney Blumenthal July 21, 2005

  • The enemy is closer than we think

    A top counterterrorism expert says the London suicide bombers may not have acted alone -- and America may be next.
    By Mark Follman July 19, 2005

  • An honorable withdrawal

    The London bombings remove any doubt about the damage the Iraq war has done to Western interests. Now, we must figure out the wisest way to extricate ourselves.
    By Joe Conason July 15, 2005

  • The lower depths

    The images from the London bombings awakened an elemental fear that we all do our best to keep buried.
    By David Thomson July 12, 2005

  • Radical Islam's rising war on Europe

    EU investigators say that terrorists operate in small, flexible groups, making it almost impossible to catch them -- and that the Iraq war has made their task infinitely harder.
    By Andreas Ulrich, Holger Stark, Cordula Meyer and Dominik Cziesche July 12, 2005

  • Sticking to the flypaper

    Americans don't think the war in Iraq is making them safer anymore. The White House says they're wrong.
    By Tim Grieve July 12, 2005

  • Dick Cheney sees all, tells all

    "Greeted as liberators"? The "last throes" of the insurgency? What about London, Mr. Vice President?
    By Tim Grieve July 11, 2005

  • Get out of Baghdad

    The London bombings should spur Bush and Blair to pull out of Iraq and renew the fight against our real enemies.
    By Joe Conason July 8, 2005

  • "The time of revenge has come"

    Blowback from Bush and Blair's incompetently pursued war on terror has hit London. When will the U.S. figure out how to fight smart?
    By Juan Cole July 8, 2005

  • "Londoners will not be divided"

    Mayor "Red" Ken Livingstone says London is a city "where freedom is strong," and that the terrorists can never win.
    July 8, 2005

  • "No way to stop it"

    In the New York subways, commuters think of London, 9/11 and the likelihood of more attacks.
    By Rebecca Traister July 7, 2005

  • London blogging

    Eyewitness accounts and reactions to the four bomb attacks that rocked the English capital.
    Compiled by J.J. Helland and Ira Boudway July 7, 2005

  • A political bombshell for Blair

    Now that terror has struck London, will the British blame their leader?
    By Andrew Brown July 7, 2005
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