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WARREN ELLIS'den

To answer a ton of email and
forestall some more: I wasn't in
London today, and I'm fine.

Right now, it's looking like seven
explosions, 150 injuries, two dead.
The dead count is obviously going
to go up -- the bus had its bomb on
the top deck, and it butterflied it --
but they're still bringing live bodies
out of the tube stations.  Blair,
standing with the G8 leaders as he
made his statement, has of course
been given a political gift.

Those of you trying to contact
London friends and family should be
aware that the mobile phone system
is still locked down in parts of the city.

I'd remind my foreign readers that,
although it's been a while, this sort
of thing is not something we're
unused to over here.  There's not
going to be a lot of freaking out from
the generations that remember
explosives in litterbins and bomb
threat drills in office blocks.  It was
part of the fabric of life for a very
long time.

Oh, here we go; footage of Blair
being lifted out of Gleneagles by a
military chopper.

See, if Paddy Ashdown had become
Prime Minister, he'd be in camo
gear, carrying a machine gun and
clambering into an Apache, proclaiming
that he was off to personally hunt
down and kill Osama.  I think the
country really missed an opportunity
there.

-- W

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