European press review
The News Review:
- European press review
- For London’s dead, a moment of silence
- Here comes the Chinese Dragon
- London: Behind the face of terror
European press review
BBC News – Jul 15, 2005
Other dailies find President Chirac in rather poor form, while German commentators engage in a debate over school standards. Brutal awakening”Home-grown suicide bombers” reads the headline in Le Monde, as the French daily reflects on the origins of the men suspected of carrying out last week’s bomb attacks in London. “They were young people,” the paper says, “beyond all suspicion, good neighbours.
For London’s dead, a moment of silence
International Herald Tribune – Jul 15, 2005
For those who mourned the dead, now estimated by the police to number 53, it was the longest week, waiting for confirmation from the authorities that lovers, spouses, children, friends and other relatives had died when the four attackers struck three Underground trains and a double-decker bus, blowing themselves up in the process. And for others it was a moment to mark the battering of this city's sense of security, eroded by the discovery that all four bombers had been identified by the police as British-born. "You have to have a fear of the home-grown," said Alfie Proto, a civil servant, joining others on the sidewalk outside his office in bright sunlight as Big Ben tolled noon and silence fell. "It's like the hidden enemy and I suspect there's more anxiety to deal with. " The police have formally identified only two of the four suspected killers and are hunting a fifth man, possibly the bomb maker or mastermind. They issued images Thursday of Hasib Hussain, an 18-year-old man of Pakistani background thought to have traveled by car from his home in Leeds to board a suburban train at Luton, just north of London, at 7:20 a.
Here comes the Chinese Dragon
Jamaica Observer – Jul 15, 2005
The United States is hoping that China’s rapid development can to some degree be arrested. In an effort to do so it is calling on Americans to support home grown products while at the same time beseeching China to revalue its currency (the yuan) which has been pegged at 8. 28 to the US dollar since 1995. Only last month the Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan publicly called upon China to employ a more flexible exchange rate. Here is the conundrum facing the United States: It has long trumpeted free trade, open markets and the merits of capitalism and here is China taking it at its word but as the world’s largest communist nation. China’s rise has been noted but to say it will supplant the United States as the world’s top economy imminently is going a tad bit far.
London: Behind the face of terror
BBC News – Jul 15, 2005
But what led three ordinary, young British Muslims to join the ranks of the terrorists?Thursday 7 July was the day that Londoners’ worst fears were realised – a major attack on the capital by terrorists killed over 50 people and injured hundreds more. Since the attacks, the chilling news has emerged that a new generation of terrorists are operating in Britain, born and bred in our cities. Now new questions are being asked about why some young Muslim men are turning to radical extremism.