London Bombings

It now appears that at least one, and possibly all of the bombers died in the attacks. This makes more sense to me than the previous reports that these weren't necessarily suicided attacks. After three decades or so of the IRA, I found it difficult to believe that someone could just leave a package on the underground without an arousal of suspicion. Even visiting London as a ten year-old boy, I was acutely aware that unattended bags and parcels were a very bad sign. The idea that Londoners somehow forgot this information in the intervening sixteen years struck me as unlikely.