Alan. "A decade ago the very thought of such an incident on a British street would have been unthinkable."

Surely you haven't forgotten the murders of Stephen Lawrence and Anthony Walker? Hardly broad daylight middle of town either of them, but the only "crime" any of these victims committed was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and in the "wrong" ethnic group.

Yes, I agree with Peter K's comments about the damage which Britain and the US are doing in Afghanistan. But the only effect which yesterday's slaughter will have is to deepen the wedge currently being driven between the Christian and Muslim communities in this country. And that of course is exactly what these ratbags wanted, just like their counterparts on the far right.

Strange and sad how fascists and Islamic fundamentalists end up as a mirror image of one another.