Comments on: London Bombing Mastermind Identified

By: Danny Carlton (aka Jack Lewis)

Danny Carlton (aka Jack Lewis) — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:07:59 +0000

London bombing mastermind IDed arrested

...or is he just the chemist? Whatever, it's still all just a guessing game at this point. Coverage: Jawa Report,...

By: bryan

bryan — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:15:59 +0000

The stories are all horribly written in the stream of consciousness, inverted pyramid style taught in J-school to get around the limitations of typeset newspapers.

The inverted pyramid style originally came from the limitations of the telegraph as a means of transmitting news from the place it was happening to the home office. It continued through the typeset press because it was easy to cut off the end of a story to make it fit.

Either way, the writers of these stories aren't writing for the web, they're writing for print publications which are porting the material to the web site.

There are very few writers who really write "for the web," even though they have the unlimited space to do so.

By: Hyscience

Hyscience — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:42:05 +0000

College Professor Implicated in London Bombings; Fourth Bomber Jamaican

A chemistry instructor at Leeds University has been implicated as the possibe mastermind behind the 7/7 bombings, but the fact that the bomb-making materials were found in his apartment puts him squarely at the center of the conspiracy