THIS SEEMS LIKE GOOD NEWS:

The Muslim Council of Britain has expressed “shock and anguish” that their youth may have been involved in the London terror attacks. Secretary General Iqbal Sacranie pledged the council’s “absolute commitment” to bringing those responsible to justice. . . .

Earlier, the Muslim Council of Britain said it was considering a plan for a national demonstration of protest against the terrorists behind the London bombings. The inter-faith event, which has yet to be agreed, would involve marches in the capital and other cities across the UK.

At least it will be, if it happens.

IS THE WASHINGTON POST making up news?

YEAH, took the night off, pretty much. It was my grandmother’s 91st birthday party. We hung out, I helped my sister feed her horses, we watched old home movies. Back tomorrow.

GROWING PROTESTS IN IRAN: Publius has a roundup.

AUSTIN BAY is back from hiatus, and looking at changes in opinion in the wake of the London attacks.

MICKEY KAUS: Oliver Stone has ideas of his own!

Meanwhile, InstaPundit moves from the right to the center in under 100 words! (But without Les Nessman . . . .)

SECURITY, REAL AND IMAGINARY: Some thoughts over at GlennReynolds.com.

A LOOK AT NEWS MEDIA PRIORITIES.

UPDATE: Lorie Byrd has more thoughts.

BRIAN NOGGLE says that I’m overlooking some obvious benefits of surveillance cameras.

BRENDAN O’NEILL has thoughts on the London bombings and the reaction of some Britons.

MEDBLOGGING: This week’s Grand Rounds is up!

ARRESTS in the London subway bombings — which appear to have been suicide bombings:

LEEDS, England — Four bombers, each believed to have been armed with a separate bomb, died in last week’s terror attacks on London, Sky News reported Tuesday, quoting police sources.

The latest development gives weight to the theory that the blasts were carried out by homicide bombers. There had been earlier speculation that the explosives were detonated remotely, with timing devices.

Earlier Tuesday, authorities detonated explosives while raiding one of several residences in northern England as sources said police in London identified the body of the bomber of a bus destroyed in multiple blasts last week.

Sky News also said a number of arrests had been made in Yorkshire.

Scotland Yard planned to hold a press conference at noon EDT.

Stay tuned.

UPDATE: Lots more news at the Counterterrorism Blog.

REGULATING BLOGGERS — some possibly good news from the FEC:

The commission, which is evenly split between Republicans and Democrats and needs a majority vote to approve new policy, is expected to decide the issue this fall. Ellen L. Weintraub, one of the Democratic commissioners, said the FEC appears to have all but decided against regulating bloggers and is now hashing out what, if anything, it needs to do to protect them against government oversight. The FEC could give all bloggers the media exemption, or it could massage other provisions in the law to provide what some said would amount to similar protections.

But some bloggers said they won’t be satisfied with anything other than the media exemption. To do otherwise, Moulitsas of Daily Kos said, would be “creating artificial distinctions between what should be media.”

“Keep in mind, this isn’t the unbiased, free and fair journalist exemption. It’s the media exemption. It applies as much to ‘The Daily Show’ as much as it applies to partisan pundits as much as it applies to you at The Washington Post,” he said, referring to Jon Stewart’s satirical news program on cable’s Comedy Central. “There’s no reason why bloggers should be treated any differently.”

I agree with Kos.

I SAY, IF YOU’VE GOT IT, FLAUNT IT: After all, isn’t living well the best revenge?

UPDATE: Eugene Volokh has more thoughts:

What do you think is more snobbish, more of an assertion of your own superior standing over the common folk — (1) posting a picture of your “smiling famil[y] at the beach,” or yourself with your car, van, or even “a white sports car,” or (2) writing a New York Times article that faults such behavior as “brutish flaunting of wealth and leisure”?

Another lame effort at the NYT, I’m afraid.

THE TRIAL OF THEO VAN GOGH’S KILLER is underway, and Dutch blog PeakTalk is covering it. Don’t miss this post:

One of the absolute benefits of the Van Gogh trial is the fact that in Mohammed Bouyeri we have pure, unrefined jihadist material at our disposal like we have never had it before. The 9/11 hijackers perished together with their innocent victims, many hardcore al-Qaeda and Taliban members have been killed in Afghanistan, the al-Zarqawi division in Iraq is decimated regularly, a number of the Madrid bombers equally perished to the afterlife, and there’s no sign of the London attackers as of yet. What we have been able to incarcerate so far in my opinion is second-tier material, a number of the residents of Gitmo have started talking and some of them have even been released. Not so with Bouyeri, who is likely to remain behind bars forever, silently. And although he won’t say anything and refuses to co-operate, just by observing him we can paint a pretty scary picture, one that reminds us again of what we’re actually fighting.

Just keep scrolling.

TIM WORSTALL OFFERS ADVICE ON FACT-CHECKING to Time.

BILL QUICK experiments with a new, cheap compact video camera by reporting on a fire.

A RESPONSE TO BOB HERBERT, from Iraq.

PANOPTICONS, OLD AND NEW: My TechCentralStation column, on terrorists and security cameras, is up.

TIM WU IN SLATE:

The end of June marked the deadline for independent Chinese bloggers to register with the government. That requirement is another sign, along with Microsoft’s recent admission that its Chinese blog site would block titles like “freedom” and “democracy,” of the country’s efforts to control the Internet. . . .

China’s long-term vision is clear: an Internet that feels free and acts as an engine of economic progress yet in no way threatens the Communist Party’s monopoly on power. With every passing day the Chinese Internet reflects that vision more closely. It portends a future for the Web that we’re only beginning to understand—one in which powerful countries refashion the global network to suit themselves.

The ramifications go well beyond China, and the complicity of American companies like Microsoft and Cisco is disgraceful.

NOAH SHACHTMAN is blogging from Iraq.

MICHAEL DEMMONS notes that the already-meager Hurricane Dennis death toll seems to be exaggerated. This will serve as a further disappointment to those who root for the hurricanes.

YOU CAN BID ON LUNCH WITH RAY KURZWEIL in a good cause.

BILL ROGGIO AND MARVIN HUTCHENS have put together a Flash presentation on Al Qaeda attacks since 1998.

PORPHYROGENITUS is being deployed to Iraq.