London 7/7: Evening Quotes

> Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360: “There was a sense of inevitability — that this was bound to happen — and it happened today.”

> Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News: “It was the largest attack on London since World War II. Only this time, no one saw the attacker. And the subway system that London turned to for shelter in World War II was not the place to be today.”

> Shep Smith, FNC’s Fox Report: “Four bombs going off within an hour at the height of the morning rush, causing chaos and carnage in the streets of America’s most loyal ally in the war on terror.”

> Keith Olbermann, MSNBC’s Countdown: “…There is a growing awareness that the casualty totals seem remarkably low, given that four separate bombs went off, three of them, underground, at rush hour. But the fear, and the sense of universal threat, has been burned into London as if this had been Madrid, or even 9/11.”

> David Haffenreffer, HLN’s Showbiz Tonight: “Once again, Americans awoke this morning to shocking images of death and destruction.”