London Bomb!

Atrios:

Watching the CNN coverage of the thwarted car bombing in London I'm struck by how the coverage makes something that didn't happen thousands of miles away sound like something around the block. You know, foiled bomb plot in London! Terrorists crawling up through your toilet!

Let me add the usual caveats about the media's reporting. This may very well be an al Qaeda plot hatched by Osama bin Laden directly, with a conspiracy stretching across the globe for daily bombings everywhere! Or it could be a single, disaffected, sociopath, moron who wants headlines. I'll wait for the details before evaluating it's level of seriousness.

Update: Here's some more details.