Why Bomb London?
By Julia Zhu Nobody foresaw it, but it happened. On July 7, London suffered from a series of public transportation explosions that claimed at least 55 lives and injured hundreds. While crying for the dead, caring for the injured, searching for the lost, heightening alert, and reinforcing the security system, people wonder: why London? Why now? In the course of tracing the answer of this question, a number of ironies are exposed. As we all know, the bombings came while the UK hosted the first full day of the 31st G8 summit at Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire. It follows a rational line to infer that these cruel attacks had something to do with the G8 summit. In fact, many people have come to this conclusion. Yet, in my eyes, it is not a sufficient cause. Especially when there was already the larger “cause” which all but guaranteed that al-Qaeda would attack Britain at some point; al-Qaeda had professed defiantly soon after the 9/11 attacks that England was their next target. Many of us ha
