“To think that we were just beginning to emerge from this state of permanent war and that the truly important subjects were starting to return to the top [of the agenda] at international level with a G8 dedicated to poverty in Africa and global warming. All that makes me sad.”
Gagarine
gagarine.ouvaton.org

“In July 2005 Paris learnt that it wouldn’t have the Games, London that it wouldn’t have peace.”
Emmanuel Raveline
eraveline.free.fr

“Do we need such tragedies to realise how much what we consider most important is not definitively granted to us, and that the words democracy and liberty are still considered as obscene by an odious, yes, odious, part of mankind. Today I was a Londoner.”
Journal of a Lawyer
maitre.eolas.free.fr

“My daughter is in London on a language trip, the first time she has been abroad without us. After a few hours of anxiety, obviously uncontactable on her mobile, a great [relief] when I heard her voice on the telephone”
Swahili
vanb.typepad.com

“If al-Qaeda is indeed responsible for these attacks, Blair is now paying for his foreign policy and his ‘intervention’ in Iraq. He would also pay for the relative tolerance shown to the worst terrorists and extremists living in London, sometimes nicknamed ‘Londonisation’.”
Adrien
bix.enix.org

“The French absence from Iraq is not due to a fear of terrorist attacks or any wish to seduce al-Qaeda. The absence of France from Iraq cannot, therefore, protect us from attack.”
libop
synapse.canalblog.com

“All my sympathies and thoughts to Londoners and all the victims struck today by terrorist attacks on the tube and a bus in London. For 11 years I have been going regularly to London. I stay in a lovely bed and breakfast 200 metres from King’s Cross station. So I know well those places, where I was strolling just four days ago.”
L’Homme qui marche
typepad.com

“The people of the world weep for London, and all other places where innocents are murdered.”
Mohammed Dhabi
Internet chat room

“A series of bombings has taken place in the metro and on a bus in London. They are talking about seven explosions. It’s horrible. My Londoner friends, my heart is with you."
Antoine Surville, 23, student
antoine.over-blog.com

“I think that the innocents are always the ones who pay. On the other hand, the English have no bloody reason to be in Iraq. Over there dozens of innocents are dying every day, but that’s routine. How do we make sense of that? "
Philsland
penseedenamnam.typepad.com

“Killing en masse during a G8 is going to force the anti-globalisationists to change their tactics. Attacking Blair, who is at the moment the western politician who has been doing the most for the economies of Africa and against climate change is perhaps a strategic error by Al-Qaeda."
Blase
penseedenamnam.typepad.com

“My condolence and prayers go to the bereaved families, the injured and all who are affected by this madness. I completely condemn this terrorist act and its inhuman perpetrators, regardless of the religion or ethnic background they belong to. I got a call this morning from my brother Hani who lives in London who wanted to inform us that he and his family are fine and were not affected. Thank God for that. He usually uses the public transport system to get to his work.

“The way to beat them is not to give in, and more democracy and democratic institutions, a complete overhaul of the education system in the Arab and Muslim worlds and the full separation of Mosque and State.”
Mahmood
maghreblog.net

“After English cooking, the bill from Al-Qaeda is steep! I am not the kind of person to rejoice in the misfortune of others. All the same, the English are in the process of paying for their engagement in Iraq. The Iraqis have been given a clobbering. Is the life of a Briton worth more than an Iraqi’s? Let’s not get into a debate about my dead suffering more than yours. There are a thousand ways of dying and a single way of finishing up under the ground. I spare a thought for the victims of London. Let’s hope that these attacks are not the beginning of a long series. What are the Islamists preparing for France?"
Ali
laetitiaandco.blogspirit.com

“I am against the bombings but I think that the extremists have a little right on their side. Westerners think that the world must live in their way. They think that democracy is the best way of living. Libya is not a democracy but people live well there, as they do in China."
Diaspora

naktan.freezee.org

“The British and Israeli Governments agreed not to divulge all the facts in the case, but it is only a question of time before Tony Blair is asked for an explanation on his failure to prevent the terrorist attack of July 7. The question is to know who knew what about these attacks before they happened and how was this information circulated, or not circulated.”
Jean-Paul Cloutier
www.leblogueur.com

“My heart was choked with grief to learn what happened to Londoners yesterday. Many of us are thinking of them. I also recalled their courage against the bombing in the Blitz 64 years ago. Those who were for holding the Olympic Games in London had hardly had time to rejoice at the choice of the Olympic committee.”
L’Homme qui marche
typepad.com

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