Explosion In London

[JoeM]

There's a report of an unexploded bomb in Brighton now.

Got a link?

We're finding it hard to get online news, understandably...

 

[fe3333au]

Blair will be issuing sttt at noon

 

[CoolioVonHoolio]

But no time for jokes,

GAH! read post 72

 

[Akka]

everyone thinks im trying to be funny! im not, did you see the videos of the french when they heard their not getting the olympics? what if some guys wernt right in the head? and they decided to go blow stuff up in london? it could happen nowadays. when they find out who did it; if its not the french i will apologize.

I know that Marla is wild, but if you really seriously think that French did it just because they were pissed that Paris wasn't selected...
Well, I can't really add more, because I'll be warned for flaming, but you're just ridiculous.

Notwithstanding that preparing the bombing in one night is a damn fast work...

 

[Bozo Erectus]

This does meet their modus operandi, though. A coordinated attack at rush hour on transportation. It seems like a squib compared to 9/11, but they don't have the capability or opportunity at the moment to pull off another 9/11. Look at the Madrid bombings. That was AQ, but a comparitivly small toll when compared to New York.

We'll know for sure it was AQ if evidence emerges that the buses were blown with suicide bombers.

 

[JoeM]

Map of explosions from BBC site:

 

[CoolioVonHoolio]

ok lets just umm, drop the subject of the french and talk about the explosions. its obviously offending people

 

[zulu9812]

I'd just like to make a point:

Whilst the entire focus of the entire British Police Force was directed at us protestors and what we might get up to at Gleneagles, they ignored the real threat from actual terrorists.

Secondly, National ID cards would not have prevented this. 6 bombs, in a coordinated attack on the transport infrastructure of the capital city? That is a major operation, which should have been picked up by 5/Special Branch regardless of any ID cards.

 

[FriendlyFire]

iam watching it on BBC coverage

and there saying AQ like co-ordinated attack,

 

[CoolioVonHoolio]

wow, i just heard 90 casualtys

 

[Rik Meleet]

ok lets just umm, drop the subject of the french and talk about the explosions. its obviously offending people

Drop the subject of "who's done it?" altogether until it is clear what happened exactly.

 

[Akka]

ok lets just umm, drop the subject of the french and talk about the explosions. its obviously offending people

Honestly, I'm not offended. It's far too dumb as a theory to allow me to take any offense. I mean, someone who seriously launch such a theory sinks himself so deep into ridicule, that I don't have any offense nor revenge to get, as he's already punished himself

 

[bigfatron]

Well, precisely.
It's rush-hour time, and still it doesn't seems to have a lot of deaths, and it seems that most wounded were able to walk. Like if the charges have been planted precisely to explode in a way that cause minimal deaths.

So it's maybe a sort of "warning", like "you see, we can bomb you right into the rush hour, we've been nice this time, but imagine what it could become if we go for maximum casualties".

Londoners are used to this kind of thing (though we've had a few years to forget since the IRA ceasefire) - it would be harder to plant large bombs without being noticed, as in Madrid.

Also we simply don't know what casualty figures will end up at - at the Kings Cross blast they are only just starting to bring out the seriously injured from the tube tunnel. The dead will come out last.

To give you an idea of the scale of this, the Hilton Hotel has been taken over as a triage centre for one of the main hospitals.

If you think these blasts were designed to avoid death and injury you are kidding yourself.

 

[JoeM]

Two confirmed dead in Underground explosions. - BBC News Alerts

"1118 London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair tells the BBC he knows of "about six explosions", one on a bus and the others related to Underground stations. He says he believes the six affected areas are Edgware Road, King's Cross, Liverpool Street, Russell Square, Aldgate East and Moorgate, but says it is "still a confusing situation". He advises Londoners to "stay where you are - all of London's transport is currently disabled" - he refuses to confirm any fatalities "

-bbc.co.uk/news

 

[JoeM]

wow, i just heard 90 casualtys

That's injured, and is a quote from the doctor on site at the Underground balst in Aldgate.

 

[fe3333au]

Too soon for blame ... I feel sorry for muslims living in UK

 

[HAND]

Well i'm still waiting to here from my brother, but chances are hes ok... its a big city. The mobile/cell phone network has gone down due to everyone trying to phone friends and family i assume.

Latest: at least 6 explosions, 40-90 dead *unconfirmed* dead , Buses and tube trains hit and not operating.

Can't get through to the BBC news website either again probably a everyone trying to find out whats going on. Looking at Cnn.com at the moment.

Downing Street is expected to give a statement at midday.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Londoners are used to this kind of thing (though we've had a few years to forget since the IRA ceasefire) - it would be harder to plant large bombs without being noticed, as in Madrid.

Also we simply don't know what casualty figures will end up at - at the Kings Cross blast they are only just starting to bring out the seriously injured from the tube tunnel. The dead will come out last.

To give you an idea of the scale of this, the Hilton Hotel has been taken over as a triage centre for one of the main hospitals.

If you think these blasts were designed to avoid death and injury you are kidding yourself.

Very good points. We still dont have a clear idea of the number of casualties. Still, whatever the casualties are, they would have been much higher if this had taken place yesterday.

 

[Akka]

If you think these blasts were designed to avoid death and injury you are kidding yourself.

Well, no. I just took the reports I got so far, which talked about few deaths.
I precisely used italics for "seems" and "maybe" to make clear that it's simply a guess on the little info I'd got.

Sadly, it seems now that the toll is growing quickly.

 

[Oruc]

I'd just like to make a point:

Whilst the entire focus of the entire British Police Force was directed at us protestors and what we might get up to at Gleneagles, they ignored the real threat from actual terrorists.

that is a very cheap thing to say, if you werent protesting the police wouldnt have been there.