The cruel, evil jerks who blew up the London subway last week, despite appropriating al-Qaeda’s name for their website and T-shirts, have about as much to do with al-Qaeda as a Beatles tribute band has to do with the Fab Four.

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(I have a lot of time for Palast but he’s a better investigative reporter than polemicist. I imagine this piece was meant more for an American than UK audience but I can’t help feeling it was spectacularly misjudged.)