Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam five shots to the head and he is dead the Brazilian with the warm bulky coat 50 degrees north of his normal temperature regime.

Did the plain clothes guys with the black automatic weapons speak Portuguese? Did the dead man speak or understand English or did he just see someone chasing after him with a gun?

Would you run from a gunman in Buenos Aires shouting something unintelligible at you in Portuguese?

Something else to be afraid of on the Clapham Omnibus or Underground eh? The price of freedom. The AQ guys must be laughing themselves silly. Pandora's box comes to mind. But folks, we've just got to get used to it. It will never get as bad as Baghdad though so that's some small comfort. Even the 88 killed in Egypt today is a fraction this week's toll in Iraq.

"Find the Cost of Freedom buried in the ground. Mother Earth will swallow you. Lay your body down."