London bombs need calm response
by John Simpson
BBC world affairs editor
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4671577.stm

Last Monday, when I wrote here that it was going to be quite a week, I didn't know the half of it.

I thought it would all be about the G8 summit at Gleneagles and the announcement of the 2012 Olympics.

Last week the single most-used word on the main search engines of the world was 'London'.

Now that the bombs have exploded, and thousands of newspaper pages and entire days of air time have been devoted to the horror of it all, and to the poor, decent people who are dead and missing, and to the misguided criminals responsible, perhaps we can stand back from it all and catch our breath.

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