FANTASY has all but achieved parity of esteem with reality in political debate, so maybe it’s possible to use it, even if a nightmarish kind, to make a point.

Authorities today released an Egyptian chemist detained for questioning following the July 7 bombings in London, saying he had been cleared of suspicion, an Interior Ministry official said.

Authorities today released an Egyptian chemist detained for questioning following the July 7 bombings in London, an Interior Ministry official said.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair today expressed his sorrow over the death of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, who was mistaken for a suicide bomber at Stockwell station on London’s Underground and shot five times in the head by plain clothes’ police.

An al-Qaida-linked group that claimed responsibility for the London bombings threatened today to launch “a bloody war” on the capitals of European countries that do not remove their troops from Iraq within a month.