For the second time in as many weeks, four terrorist attacks jolted a quiet Thursday in London. Again, the targets were the Tube and a double-decker bus. Again, the capital shuddered to a halt. The relief that there was no repeat of the carnage and that the attacks appeared to have been bungled was tempered by the attackers' sinister message: that the four suicide-bombers who took 56 lives on July 7th were not alone. The attackers struck shortly before lunch in Tube stations at Oval, in south London, Warren Street to the north and on a train near Shepherd's Bush to the west. The bus, a number 26, was to the east in Hackney, possibly completing a cruciform of terror, like the one that was mapped out on July 7th.
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