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On July 9, 2005, we were given the reactions of the American Fox news channels owned by Rupert Murdoch:
- Brit Hume, the Washington DC managing editor for Fox said: "Just on a personal basis ... I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, humm, time to buy."
- The host of a Fox news programme, Brian Kilmeade, said the attacks had the effect of putting terrorism back on the top of the G8's agenda, in place of global warming and African aid. "I think this works to our advantage, in the western world's advantage, for people to experience something like this together, just 500 miles from where the attacks have happened."
- Another Fox news host, John Gibson, said before the blasts that the International Olympic Committee "missed a golden opportunity" by not awarding the 2012 games to France. "If they had picked France instead of London to hold the Olympics, it would have been the one time we could look forward to worry about terrorism. They should blow up Paris and who cares?" "This is why I thought the Brits should have let the French have the Olympics -let somebody else be worried about guys with backpack bombs for a while."