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listening to radio 5 for information.
hell of a thing to encounter first thing in the morning.
apparently, folk there are less willing to simply assume al qeada did this than folk seem to be here: the organization claiming responsibility presents itself on a website as being something like a secret organization within al qaeada--bombs left on the tube and on a bus--it could have been anyone, really.
usually, if you think about it, there is a clear symbolic message to such attacks and it entails no disprespect to anyone hurt or killed to wonder about this from the outset--because if we do not think about this early on we will find ourselves watching the Official Interpretation closing over us.
it is a curious bit of timing.
one objective might have been to shake up the g8 simply to show that it can be done.
the olympics?
the type of action indicates a small group with minimal resources.
personally, i am not at all sure about the al qeada linkage.
i still find myself thinking that al qaeada and the bush administration are like two dysfunctional people in a violent codependent relationship. i am both curious and apprehensive about the type and amount of political capital the latter will attempt to extract from the folk who were killed or died. if it is al qeada behind this, they have found their status battered and would probably like being reinvigorated as public enemy number 1. the administration would probably in their heart of hearts like nothing better than an attack in order to start all over again the cycle of ideological production that has worked so well for them so far.
watching as information emerges--waiting for the next phase of this sad affair to unfold--obviously sympathies for the folk killed and injured.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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