You are here  London Bombings  I imagined what the reaction
would be had something like that happened in the US, and was
moved what I saw of the actual reaction of Londoners. The same
was true of the Madrid bombings in 2004. And indeed the same was
true of New Yorkers in 2001, even though the media and
government very quickly defiled those human feelings.  Robert
Fisk's piece in the Independent suggests how these bombings will
be used to inflame racism:  Then come the Muslims of Britain,
who have long been awaiting this nightmare. Now every one of our
Muslims becomes the usual suspect, the man or woman with brown
eyes, the man with the beard, the woman in the scarf, the boy
with the worry beads, the girl who says she's been racially
abused.  I remember, crossing the Atlantic on 9/11 -- my plane
turned around off Ireland when the United States closed its
airspace -- how the aircraft purser and I toured the cabins to
see if we could identify any suspicious passengers. I found
about a dozen, of course, totally i