London is Falling Down

So the city of London gets the Olympic games for 2012 and someone sets off some very morbid fireworks. Details are still sketchy obviously. Initial death toll is 33 but I imagine that more people will die of their wounds later. Mrs. X has a rather poignant thought on her new site, a thought that I had honestly forgotten about when it was initially made.

I'd say the principle difference between the way London will react to this and the way Madrid reacted is experience. London has had problems with the IRA doing things like this before, although not to this scale. But I imagine this will give them a leg up on getting this cleaned up, finding out who is responsible, and bringing said persons to justice. Londoners also recently reelected their government which will preach a message of staying the course. We'll see.

Right now its best to stick with the major news sites although Instapundit does have a bunch of links to various sites that are reporting on different aspects of the attack.