When four bombs went off in London during the G-8 summit my first thought (like yours) was Al Qaeda.

I didn't blog it. I'm glad of that now.

It turns out, according to British police, that the four suicidie bombers here were British citizens, natives. Three from Leeds, one from Luton. True, their parents were Pakistani immigrants, but the people who carried this out were local. The British police, who have done wonderful work on the case so far, are now trying to find out who put them up to this.

Again, let's not pre-judge. This might be an Al Qaeda "sleeper cell." But they could have been working under a British-based Islamic radical. Their targets may not have been Englishmen, but Muslims, since all four bombs went off in areas where many Muslims live.

I don't know. Neither do you. Let the system work.

But the face of this attack is looking less like Osama Bin Laden....

...and more like Timothy McVeigh (right).

Before 9-11 the biggest terrorism incident in this nation's history was the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. It was done by Timothy McVeigh, an American. He was executed for it.

McVeigh, it turns out, was twisted into a weapon against the government by people who decided the government was at war with them. Their cries of Ruby Ridge and Waco resounded in McVeigh's ears, and turned him into a weapon of mass destruction.

This may have happened in England as well, only here the cries may have been of Jerusalem and Iraq, of assimilation and non-Islamic behavior by secularized Asian-born citizens. Those who have used terrorism as an excuse to kill "the other" conveniently ignore, and forget, McVeigh, and all the other McVeighs who might be out there.

They also forget Eric Rudolph, now serving life without parole for (among other things) the Atlanta Olympic bombing.

Those who want to draw conclusions and commit mass murder before the evidence is in should do us all a favor, and shut up.