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MARKING 7/7 and diverse (4#) -

# London marks the July 7th terrorist bombings in a low key in accordance with the wishes of the surviving families. The PM laid a small wreath at Kings Cross subway station where the first bomb exploded. Four suicide bombers killed 52 commuters and injured many more on this date two years ago, sometimes referred to now
as 7/7. [sky]

# 7/7 survivor Rachel North's
harrowing story [dmail]

# French Housing Minister Christine Boutin's theories and suspicions about who was behind the 9/11 attacks have been heating up the conspiracy theories lately. Looks like a tempest in a teapot to me. [rue89]

# AFP reporting today that the still-Baathist regime of Syria is cracking down on the Internet, blocking access to a variety of websites. [fr24]

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