London Explosions News Sources

Here's a combined feed of all major UK news sources.

Wikinews has a page for it, as well as Wikipedia.

KCRW World News is doing a live streaming feed of live BBC coverage.

Also, if you want to see an interesting combination of 'Net reaction, news and information, a little bit of speculation and people trying to find out news on their loved ones, here's a LiveJournal community devoted to what's happened, and a list of confirmed survivors.

Edit: You can't really call The Sun a reliable news source, but they have excellent pictures. Click here for their bombing story, and scroll down for a link to a slideshow of the devastation. The bus explosion pictures are particularly horrific.

I'm finding this quite interesting - Elonka, who is fairly well known for her expertise in cryptography (and who's a great blog read and a very nice person) is currently at the Manchester airport on her way to London, ultimately heading back to the U.S. tomorrow. She's pretty much liveblogging her experience during this, and it might be an interesting comparison post-9/11 reaction and security. Her blog might be one to watch today.

LBC 1152 AM is London's main talk-radio station. Here's a link to their print coverage of the London bombings. They also have a live-stream link to their station, which is doing live coverage.

If anyone knows enough Arabic to read it, here's the Al Quaeda letter on Der Spiegel. I couldn't read a word of it, but at least I know enough German to navigate the site. Dr. Seifert would be proud. EDIT: Here's the English translation.

Oh God, I spent the whole day looking at sources without turning to possibly the ultimate composite source for global news - Global Voices Online. Here's their London Bombing page, which has links to Flickr and Technorati feeds. DoWire has set up a "London Responds" wiki page, which has a lot of live blog coverage in several areas. And BoingBoing, as always, has a pretty comprehensive look at blogosphere coverage

I've tried to put what I could find different and useful on here since around 5 am this morning, when I woke up to the breaking news. There's no way to even begin to compile all the things I've seen and read today, and how much more I adore Brits (and I was already a wee bit obsessed.) "Stoic" is a word I've heard a lot today to describe the attitudes of Londoners. I prefer "strong". They got through the initial shock, realized that this is something that they've dealt with for thousands of years and will doubtless face again, and are showing that the best revenge is to live without fear. Whomever was truly behind this will find that this was possibly the most counter-productive move they could have made.

The best quote I've heard today was from British MP Simon Hughes at the end of Larry King Live, and it personified exactly how I feel they are dealing with what happened, how many Brits seem to feel about what has happened, and how we as a global society need to look at it to find a solution to the continued terrorism issue, even if it's not always a comfortable or easy thing to examine ourselves at the same time we examine our enemies:

You heard quite rightly that people have been very resilient. There was amazing calm really today. We've been there before. We'll come through. We're grateful for support. And very sincerely -- it actually does unite those of us who have suffered together.

There's always a bit of a tension that government wants to overreact in terms of legislative proposals. We're debating identity cards at them moment. People like me have always argued against them. We don't believe they're fundamentally what's needed. So there may be some arguments as to clamping down on the restrictions of the citizen.

But...the citizens could be anybody. And I hope that we remember the big battle is the battle against fundamentalism. And we have got to fight that on all continents. And get to the seeds and the roots of that. And it's the next generation who we have to wean away from fundamentalism in any faith and in every faith.