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National Review’s John Derbyshire believes “Britain will yield”, because they will decide not enough is at stake to keep up the fight.

I still think not. See for example, the words of a David Frum reader from London:

It is simply ridiculous to state the one of the most important things to do is to grieve. Give me a break. People are free to grieve privately if they wish, but spare me the candle lit marches. I don’t care why these people do things like this, they are going to lose. My kids were in school this morning on time, I was on the subway during rush hour, and everyone in my office was here on time, even though we’re a stone’s throw away from bombs. The Brits may whine about health and benefits but they take bombs well.

On September 11 I told my sons that the day they wrap my daughters in burkas every single male member of our family had better be dead. I stand by that today. They can grieve later.

(Derb’s article seen via Let It Bleed.)

The news from London is awful today, but I expect we’ll see the reaction of Londoners will be much different than what we saw after Madrid.

From the Blitz to the IRA, the killing of innocents with bombs is not new to Britain, and it has never succeeded in achieving its desired effects.

Some commentators today noted the timing of the attack, coming just after Live 8, the Olympics 2012 announcement, and the start of the G8. Although less recent, I offer two dates that are more relevant : June 6, 1944, and October 15, 1805.

Paul Wells’ post Some Chicken, Some Neck sums it up in one line:

If you were a fanatic murderer who liked to flatter yourself on your knowledge of history and you wanted to terrorize a population, could you possibly choose a worse target than the people of London?

The title of Wells’ post refers to a Dec 30, 1941 address by Winston Churchill to a joint session of our Canadian Parliament. CBC audio clip of the speech is here, skip forward about 2:45 for the relevant bit.

In an update, Wells also links to a blogger from London who bluntly responds to the men who did this evil (NSFW).

The was quite a bit of speculation about what exactly caused Arafat’s death.

Finally, there’s an answer that makes sense. It was Canadian laser beams.

(Seen at The Corner.)

I don’t know exactly what led to this verdict, or what could have been done to reach a different outcome, but it’s maddening.

Canada has failed in its duty to bring justice to the men who did this evil.

Not Guilty
Ripudaman Singh Malik, 58, And Ajaib Singh Bagri, 55
Innocent
331 Victims, 135 of them children, who died on June 23, 1985

Here are the names of victims, whom we failed. (from the Globe)

Vinay Jalan, 2 months old,
Sidhant Bhat, 5 months,
Syed Quadri, 8 months,
Kevin Kumar, 1 year old,
Ahkur (Ankur) Seth, 1,
Ratik Singh, 1,
Suneal Dhunna, 2,
Anita Jalan, 3,
Rashirashmi Khera, 3,
Sandeeta Lazar, 3,
Arishiya (Arshya) Quadri, 3,
Saroda Sankurathri, 3,
Vikas Sharma (Narain), 3,
Ajai Singh, 3,
Pankaj Soni, 3,
Sumitra (Sumitha) Subramanian, 3,
Aditya Bery, 4,
Marc Chatlani, 4,
Robyn (Robin) Daniel, 4,
Julie Gambhir, 4,
Arun Gossain, 4,
Vishal (Vishai) Thakur, 4,
Sumenta Harpalani, 5,
Ramya Murugan, 5,
Amit Puri, 5,
Ramya Swaminathan, 5,
Akhil Wadhawa, 5,
Amit Gupta, 6,
Sabrina Kapoor, 6,
Srikiran Sankurathri, 6,
Priya Bery, 7,
Dalip Bhalla, 7,
Aparna Gossain, 7,
Preethi Lakshmanan, 7,
Natasha Merchant, 7,
Thejus Radhakrishna, 7,
Kavita (Kavitha) Sagi, 7,
Rina Sharma, 7,
Sarah Ahmed, 8,
Ruby Daniel, 8,
Justin Jacob, 8,
Narayana Murthy, 8,
Rubina Quadri, 8,
Alpana Seth, 8,
Ruby Sharma, 8,
Abhinav Singh, 8,
Veena Subramanian, 8,
Padma Swaminathan, 8,
Serina Wadhawa, 8,
Simon Alexander Jr., 9,
Jatin Bedi, 9,
Deepak Bhat, 9,
Tina Bhatt, 9,
Angi (Angeline) Gambhir, 9,
Arti Gupta, 9,
Deepa Harpalani, 9,
Jancey Jacob, 9,
Amar Singh, 9,
Shalini Singh, 9,
Kuldip Uppal, 9,
Reena (Rena) Alexander, 10,
Bhavani Murthy, 10,
Lavanya Murugan, 10,
Shilpa Seth, 10,
Neeraj Sharma, 10,
Anuj Sharma (Narain), 10,
Rina Soni, 10,
Parminder Uppal, 10,
Virkam Upreti, 10,
Elizabeth Asirwatham, 11,
Anita Gadkar, 11,
Vishal Gupta, 11,
Kiranjit Rai, 11,
Meghan (Meghana) Sabharwal, 11,
Kalpana Sagi, 11,
Swati Sharma, 11,
Versha Sharma, 11,
Moneka Soni, 11,
Deepak Turlapati, 11,
Rupa (Kupa) Anantarman, 12,
Jissey Jacob, 12,
Chaman (Ashu) Puri, 12,
Neeta Trivedi, 12,
Parul Trivedi, 12,
Mala Chatlani, 13,
Jyoti (Jyothi) Radhakrishna, 13,
Pratibha Ramachandran, 13,
Sunil Sakhawalkar, 13,
Krishnan Subramanian, 13,
Hannah Asirwatham, 14,
Anu Bedi, 14,
Manju Bhalla, 14,
Arindar Das, 14,
Rajesh Dhunna, 14,
Teena Job, 14,
Rajiv Raghuveeran, 14,
Pushpa Sahu, 14,
Rajasri Sarangi, 14,
Sandhya Sharma, 14,
Shobna Singh, 14,
Aruna (Arvha) Anantaraman, 15,
Bina Bhatt, 15,
Vandana Gupta, 15,
Anuupama Jain, 15,
Rama (Ramadevi) Kammila, 15,
Neesha (Nisha) Mehta, 15,
Arati Pada, 15,
Mukul Paliwal, 15,
Janaki Ramaswamy, 15,
Surekha Sakhawalkar, 15,
Anand Swaminathan, 15,
Anita Thomas/Kythakuzhical, 15,
Sanjay Turlapati, 15,
Sharad Berry, 16,
Anita Das, 16,
Shashi Dhunna, 16,
Ritu Gogne, 16,
Anumita Gupta, 16,
Rikki Jain, 16,
Sharmila Kapoor, 16,
Nicola Laurence, 16,
Monish Lulla, 16,
Nilish (Nilesh) Mehta, 16,
Rahul Nadkarni, 16,
Pradeep Sahu, 16,
Sandeep Sharma (Narain), 16,
Vinod Thomas/Kythakuzhical, 16,
Lyon (Michael) Travasso, 16,
Marayanan (Rodger) Balaraman, 17,
Seema Marjara, 17,
Deven Nadkarni, 17,
Bipan (Bipin) Patel, 17,
Pouja (Foaja) Rauthan, 17,
Dara Singh, 17,
Chitra (Chitralskha) Tumkur, 17,
Harish Bharadwaj, 18,
Ruchi Jain, 18,
Shyamala Laurence, 18,
Brinda Pada, 18,
Sanjay Sakhawalkar, 18,
Ratna Chug, 19,
Manju Khandelwal, 19,
Lorraine (Lucy) Travasso, 19,
Athikho Kashipri, 20,
Ivy Tachettu (Thachettu), 20,
Anu (Anjubala) (Anju) Bajaj, 21,
Indira Kalsi, 21,
Chandra Khandelwal, 21,
Sandeep Kochher (Kochnar), 21,
Rammohan Tumkur, 21,
Reema Bhasin, 22,
Gurmit Kaur, 22,
Rahul Aggarwall, 23,
Krishna Gopalan, 23,
Sharon Lasrado, 23,
Suseela Raghavan, 23,
Hideharu Koda, 24,
Kulbir Minhas, 24,
Shaiesta (Shaista) Quadri, 24,
Jagit Singh, 24,
Hideo Asano, 25,
Sukmar (Sukumar) Chandrasekhar, 25,
Leena Kaj, 25,
Rahamathulla Khan, 25,
Parag Bhat, 26,
Pamela Dinshaw, 26,
Parmjit Kaur (Bassi), 26,
Atul Malhotra, 26,
Renu Mukhi, 26,
Rita Phansekar, 26,
Primajit (Primaljit) Sran, 26,
Shyla Aurora, 27,
Chand Bhat, 27,
(Jaipuriya) Mala Jaipuria, 27,
Priya Thakur, 27,
Shyama Gaonkar, 28,
Sangeeta Ghate, 28,
Suman Khera, 28,
Manju Kumar, 28,
Vijaya Thampi, 28,
Juliet Vaz/Alexander, 28,
Freddy Balsara, 29,
Adush Bhagat, 29,
Leena Bisen, 29,
Shila Jalan, 29,
Chitra Kumar, 29,
Irene Shukla, 29,
Geetha Venkatesan, 29,
Balwinder Verma, 29,
Neli Kashipri, 30,
Nirmal Bhalla, 31,
Kalpana Gossain, 31,
Sujatha Sagi, 31,
Sadhna Seth, 31,
Sukuvanam (Sukunanam) Venkatesan, 31,
Rochell (Rachelle) Castonguay, 32,
Rita Jutras, 32,
Alain Martel, 32,
Elaine Rodricks, 32,
Bhag (Bhagrani) Dhunna, 33,
Manjari Sankurathri, 33,
Sunil Shukla, 33,
Joyosree Singh, 33,
Saroj Bedi, 34,
Ramachandran Kumar, 34,
Prabhavathi Molakala (Reddy), 34,
Sushma Sharma, 34,
Noshir Vaid, 34,
Shingara Cheema, 35,
Santosh Gambhir, 35,
Devkrishan Jalan, 35,
Lena (Lina) Mainguay, 35,
Mohanbhai Patel, 35,
Usha Singh, 35,
Inder Thakur, 35,
Sukhwinder Uppal, 35,
Shashi Gupta, 36,
Rani Jain, 36,
Nagasumdara Radhakrishna, 36,
Neelam Bery, 37,
Celine Daniel, 37,
Ramwati Gupta, 37,
Sumithra Murugan, 37,
Bimal Saha, 37,
Swantantar (Satantar) Gupta, 38,
Sylvia Lazar, 38,
Karan Seth, 38,
Satish Seth, 38,
Indu Sharma, 38,
Ranjina Singh, 38,
Brijbeheri (Brig) Srivastava, 38,
Jayalakshmi Subramanian, 38,
Indira Swaminathan, 38,
Ruth Asirwatham, 39,
Santosh (Santash) Kapoor, 39,
Usha Soni, 39,
Anchanatt (Atar) Alexander, 40,
Saradambal Balaraman, 40,
Jamshed Dinshaw, 40,
Rashmi Harpalani, 40,
Aleykutty Jacob, 40,
Kanakasabapaphy (Kanaka) Lakshmanan, 40,
Sam Madon, 40,
Susheela Murthy, 40,
Qutubuddin (Qutbudin) Quadri, 40,
Vasantha Raghuveeran, 40,
Budi (Budhi) Rauthan, 40,
Manmohan Sharma, 40,
Akhand Singh, 40,
Nirmal (Nirmala) Trivedi, 40,
Hema Upreti, 40,
Satwinder Bhinder, 41,
Varghese Daniel, 41,
Annie James, 41,
Chandralekha (Chandra) Mehta, 41,
Shyam Sharma (Narain), 41,
Vinu (Vinubhai) Bhatt, 42,
Daljit Grewal, 42,
Zebuniska Jethva, 42,
Rajinder Mamak, 42,
Deepak Mullick, 42,
Babubai (Babubhai) Patel, 42,
Sumitra Sharma (Narain), 42,
Anjami Sinha, 42,
Lakshmi Subramanian, 42,
Ramachandran Balasubramanian, 43,
Parash (Praeash) Jain, 43,
Aleykutty Job, 43,
Veena Puri, 43,
Uma Sharma, 43,
Surendra Singh, 43,
Gyandra Upreti, 43,
Chandrabala (Chandra) Bhatt, 44,
Nita Chatlani, 44,
Ruby Das, 44,
Sampath Lazar, 44,
Gnanendran Murugan, 44,
Gopalsamudram Subramanian, 44,
Anne Travasso, 44,
Jogeshwar Berar, 45,
Rajesh Gupta, 45,
Bulivelil Jacob, 45,
Umar (Ujy) Jethva, 45,
Bishan Kaushal, 45,
Collette Allard, 46,
Sharvan Sharma, 46,
Balvir (Balbir) Singh, 46,
Kanaya Thakur, 46,
Molly Thomas, 46,
C.F. (Alex) Travasso, 46,
Krishnan (Trichur) Venketeswaran, 46,
Indra Ahmed, 47,
Davinder Marjara, 47,
Vishnu Pada, 47,
Bhavani Anantarman, 48,
Barsa Kelly, 48,
Donald Lougheed, 48,
Kishonechandra Mehta, 48,
Homai Furdoonji, 49,
Dattatraya Sakhawalkar, 49,
Usha Sakhawalkar, 49,
Muktha Bhat, 50,
Nishith Mukerji, 50,
Shefali Mukerji, 50,
Ram Sahu, 50,
Om Sawhney, 50,
Balwinder Minhas, 51,
Annamma Alexander, 53,
Kurian Thomas/Kythakuzhical, 53,
Simon Alexander, 54,
Gaston Beauchesne, 54,
Om Sharma, 54,
Mukhtiar Singh, 55,
Hanse Narendra, 56,
Dara Dumasia, 57,
Santosh Gupta, 57,
Mohan Kachroo, 57,
Marazban Patel, 57,
Ronald Desouza, 62,
Nasib Manjania, 62,
Yelabarti Nayudamma, 62,
Gopalkrishna Yallapragada/Murthy, 63,
Bhagwanti Gogia, 65,
Joseph (Pere) Leger, 65,
Shakuntala Sharma, 66,
Sugra Sadiq, 67,
Ardeshir Enayati, 68,
Shampari (Champari) Chopra, 69,
Jagdish Chopra, 71,
Anthony Desa, 72,
S. Gupta, age not known.