GENEVA, July 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Swiss newspapers commented on the day after the attacks in London Thursday that the British capital was always going to be a target of terror, according to an article on the Swiss official website Swissinfo.

    Amid extensive coverage of the horror and carnage on London's streets and underground, commentators agree that "combating poverty ... is the correct response to this provocation," Swissinfo said Friday.

    "9/11 in London" was the headline across the German-language Blick, which rushed out a special edition for commuters on Thursday evening.

    Other papers spoke of "blind terror" that was now a permanent reality, and some spoke of a destabilization of the West.

    A French-language newspaper La Liberte pointed out that a city has never experienced such a brutal transition. On Wednesday, London was celebrating having won the 2012 Olympics; one day later it was reeling from terror attacks.

    "From happiness to horror in less than 24 hours. And with the striking image of [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair having problems to find words of comfort," it says.

    The editor-in-chief of another French-language newspaper Le Matin did not mince his words in describing the worst carnage in the British capital since the Second World War. "[The militant Islamic group] Al-Qaeda is becoming what the German Nazis were 60 years ago: a major threat to each and every one of us."

    The paper commented that the attacks on London will almost certainly not be the last because they were part of "a war" and not an "isolated act".

    The Tribune de Geneve was concerned that terrorists are making the laws. "Modern terrorism is not a sporadic threat. It is on the contrary a permanent danger on the international scene." It added that the "rebel reality" of the terrorists is making the world "less secure than ever".

    The headline of Neue Zurcher Zeitung was: "G8 Summit in the Shadow of Terror".

    "If the suspicion hardens that Islamic extremists are responsible for the London attacks, this will cast a further dark shadow on the interim assessment of the global fight against terrorism," it said. Enditem