London Transport terrorism?

[mr2mk1g 10]

Looks like the London transport net is currently under a terrorist attack... possibly... conflicting reports are still comming in though.

http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=12352&cid=8&cname=News

[CornishChris 5]

Bomb in Tavistock Sq and 'seperate incidents' in 5 stations. Speculation pointless at this stage but it is looking, unfortunately, like a terrorist attack.

Makes me so fucking angry but as my bro has said many times, you want to cripple London - hit the Tube.

CJP

Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

[CornishChris 5]

6 explosions according to the Police.

CJP

Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

[mr2mk1g 10]

Just heard at the moment there are 20 confirmed dead.

[CornishChris 5]

Where was that? Got the beeb on and nothing on there...

CJP

Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

[CornishChris 5]

Police confirm 2 dead.

CJP

Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

[mr2mk1g 10]

sorry - my use of the term "confirmed" is missleading. I ought to have said there were now reports of 20 dead.

[Erroll 80]

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Looks like the London transport net is currently under a terrorist attack... possibly... conflicting reports are still comming in though.

http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=12352&cid=8&cname=News

Saw on CNN that it could have been powersurges in the tube, but now I see reports of three buses also blown up!

[mr2mk1g 10]

Blair's making an announcement at noon... so presumably we'll see the text on the net in 15 minutes or so.

[CornishChris 5]

Power surges apparently caused by the bombs. Definitely been explosions on tubes.

CJP

Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

[mr2mk1g 10]

Washington post says: Blair urged Londoners to "stay where you are. All of London transportation is shut. Do not call emergency services" except for life and death situations.

otherwise little new in the link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/content/articles/london070705.html

[Remster 30]

Just saw Blair's speech. Called it a terrosist attack. 7 UG station had explosions, and 1 double decker bus. 2 people confirmed dead. Rescue operation still in operation at Kings Cross.

Remster

[mikkey 0]

Sucks big time. Just heard from my sister in law who arrived in London yesterday. Lucky they were still doing breakfast before taking the tube for sightseeing.... Going myself for a visit next month..... hmmm....

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[bodypilot90 0]

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Sucks big time. Just heard from my sister in law who arrived in London yesterday. Lucky they were still doing breakfast before taking the tube for sightseeing.... Going myself for a visit next month..... hmmm....

Glad to hear she was ok... Are people still worried about terrorists' right. The gallows are to good for this lot or a slower more painful death

[mr2mk1g 10]

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Are people still worried about terrorists' right

find them guilty of terrorism and you can do what you like to them as far as I'm concerned... till them they're just suspects.

[metalslug 36]

Sky News is reporting that a group affiliated to Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility.






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[bodypilot90 0]

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find them guilty of terrorism and you can do what you like to them as far as I'm concerned... till them they're just suspects.

let's say when you arrest the suspects you find bomb making supplies. And one tells you there are 4 more bombs in London set to go off in half a hour. What would you do to get the location of the bombs...... Are you concerned about rights or lives of london people?

[mr2mk1g 10]

So you'd cut his toes off one by one till he told you some bullshit story about where the bombs were... making yourself a terrorist too will never save lives.

We learned in the 70's and 80's that stooping to the level of the IRA didn't work. It won't work with Al Qaeda either.

[Tonto 1]

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let's say when you arrest the suspects you find bomb making supplies. And one tells you there are 4 more bombs in London set to go off in half a hour. What would you do to get the location of the bombs...... Are you concerned about rights or lives of london people?

Blah, Blah, Blah.. Lets just short circuit this one, shall we? The bombs are everywhere, and the only way to find out where they are is for everyone to push their most loved child feet first through a giant blender.

Do we do it?

Who is the greatest threat?
A couple of unhinged nutters with limited resourses, or your elected government of calm, rational, educated men who think terrorist attacks are "Barbaric" but would authorise the action you beleive is so nessesary?

It's the year of the Pig.

[mr2mk1g 10]

One thing I don't get is why it is "particularly barbaric" that it was timed to coincide with the G8 summit" (Blair).

It's as if it would have been somehow less barbaric had all these people been killed on any other day of the year.

[markd_nscr986 0]

Witnesses reporting suicide bomber on the Tavistock sq. bus

latest unconfirmed reports 40 dead over 300 injured,also a train collision as well

Marc SCR 6046 SCS 3004

[mr2mk1g 10]

The collision's new info to me. Do you know where and when that happened?

I did wonder about the possibility of this being a or a number of suicide bomber(s).

We don't have any bins or lockers or anywhere to leave things on our public transport systems following our experiences of living with the IRA bombing campaign for so long... we're also very strict on unattended luggage so London and the UK in general would be one of the harder targets in the world to hit like this (not to say it wouldn't be frighteningly easy in any case).

Of course no system can be perfect and standards have slipped significantly since the IRA quit trying to blow us all up... but a suicide bomber would be the most effective way round the physical measures we do have in place.

[CornishChris 5]

The collision may be that at Russell Sq. the bomb blew a hole into the train going the other way too...

CJP

Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

[ViperPilot 0]

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Who is the greatest threat?
A couple of unhinged nutters with limited resourses, or your elected government of calm, rational, educated men who think terrorist attacks are "Barbaric" but would authorise the action you beleive is so nessesary?

Innocent people have been murdered this morning and yet people still find time, and feel it's relevant, to complain about a couple administrations...unbelievable. Who's the greatest threat? Well, gee, I'd say the asshole murderers who's sole goal is to kill as many innocent people as possible. But no, you don't like Blair or Bush and their War on Terror ideas, of which you take no part in I'm sure. Hell, no sweat off your back. Why's it your's or anyone else's problem that innocent people are dying, and are in great danger of terrorism every day? Well, I'm damn glad I chose to do something about it, and I'm glad I have a lot of friends that made that choice. Well, off to try and stop crap like this from happening while 1,000's of people sit on their useless asses and do nothing to help...or even worse, hinder the effort. Sorry bout that, just really pissed off right now.

p.s. Everyone please feel free to continue the mundane complaining about our government heads...the toll's only up to 45 brits anyhow. Not like they're important....right?

[markd_nscr986 0]

Reports indicate train collision after bomb detonation at Edgeware st. station

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,161768,00.html

Marc SCR 6046 SCS 3004