Explosion In London

[JoeM]

The bus explosions must have been suicide bombers, Im sure unaccompanied packages or suitcases would have been noticed by the bus drivers.

Seriously unlikely. Buses are always used because you don't need to be there to detonate them.

I don't know where you are, but buses in London at rush hour are so full you can't see your own feet.

 

[Suppersalmon]

The bus explosions must have been suicide bombers, Im sure unaccompanied packages or suitcases would have been noticed by the bus drivers.

not if it was placed on the upper deck its often very hard for drivers to see much stuff up there

 

[Rik Meleet]

I've taken the liberty of correcting your post.


1210 The BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner says BBC monitoring services have located a website linked to al-Qaeda with a 200-word statement claiming responsibility for the bombings

Have you got a link ?

 

[Mise]

The G8 sumit, more than these two.

That was why the UK was targetted now, not why it was targetted at all.

 

[Dell19]

Yeah, but why was the UK targetted?
1) The Iraq War
2) The Olympics

Most people didn't mind the War so long as the UK wasn't targetted by terrorists; now that we've been hit so hard it really wouldn't surprise me if Blair was blamed.

I agree with Iggy that Blair won't be blamed.

 

[JoeM]

@Rik Meleet:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4659331.stm

I'm getting a reliable connection to the bbc now.

 

[JoeM]

Can't find what the actual Arabic website is, though I'm sure it won't be in English anyhoo.

 

[fe3333au]

Have you got a link ?

It is being mentioned in BBC World News ... however no title has been stated other than that it is based in European and that it is being translated

 

[Sickman]

The Germans were good losers and let the Anglo Saxon victors reform them, train them and reeducate their twisted minds, so that Germany today is a civic place. We did the same to Japan too.
Now, the time is to reeducate the Arabs

Well I guess you Provolution are then Anglo-Saxonist (or whatever you want to call it)

I let you go now, have no time to waste to such people as you.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Mise, Joe and Supper, oh I see. In the US, or around here at least, bus drivers walk up and down the bus and give it the once over before letting everyone get on. Would a bus driver notice if somebody at a stop got on the bus with baggage, and then got off without it? Im sure in light of the G8, authorities must have told the bus companies to tell their drivers to be extra alert.

 

[ThERat]

my sympathies for those affected...it always hits those who least deserve it, innocent citizens

and what these actions want to do: cause more hatred and fear, so they can then recruit even more of for their cause...you people here in this forum already blame each other...leftists and rightists...blaming anarchists...have those who oppose G8 in the west ever attacked innocent people the way it happened today?

the so called war on terrorism won't succeed the way it is going right now...sadly it won't as much as I would love this senseless terror to stop

 

[allhailIndia]

BBC seems to be working fine now..at least the intl. edition...

My sympathies with all londoners...I think I have some family there, though with Indians you can never know where you will find family

All the same, a horrific act...coming so soon after a similar attack on Ayodhya to try and whip up communal passions, I think this has also been perpetrated to whip up anti-Muslim feelings in Britain....

 

[Dell19]

Mise, Joe and Supper, oh I see. In the US, or around here at least, bus drivers walk up and down the bus and give it the once over before letting everyone get on. Would a bus driver notice if somebody at a stop got on the bus with baggage, and then got off without it? Im sure in light of the G8, authorities must have told the bus companies to tell their drivers to be extra alert.

I think they would find it hard to notice except perhaps when the bus returns to the bus station.

 

[Iggy]

Yeah, but why was the UK targetted?
1) The Iraq War
2) The Olympics

Most people didn't mind the War so long as the UK wasn't targetted by terrorists; now that we've been hit so hard it really wouldn't surprise me if Blair was blamed.

As other have said the timing is due to the G8 summit, this is a message not just for the UK, but to the world leaders. Had the G8 been in any of the other 7 countries the same may well have happened there.

One other thing to bear in mind is that bombs in London are not a new phenomenon for people in their 30's and older. Blaming our government for the acts of these bombers is seen to be almost agreeing with their actions.

 

[Suppersalmon]

I was listening to the radio and one of the presenters who lives in Brighton ( South coast of England) says the main ttrain station there is closed because theres a suspect package although its an unconfirmed report

 

[Mise]

Mise, Joe and Supper, oh I see. In the US, or around here at least, bus drivers walk up and down the bus and give it the once over before letting everyone get on. Would a bus driver notice if somebody at a stop got on the bus with baggage, and then got off without it? Im sure in light of the G8, authorities must have told the bus companies to tell their drivers to be extra alert.

Well, most bus drivers are pretty dumb... But really, there's no way that bus driver would (a) remember if person X has a bag or not , and (b) notice that they don't have a bag when they leave. People leave the bus in the door in the middle, and drivers are more concerned with people getting ON to the bus for free than people getting off it.

 

[EzInKy]

@Rik Meleet:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4659331.stm

I'm getting a reliable connection to the bbc now.

There are also reports on TV that Al Arabia is reporting a jihad cell of AQ is claiming responsibility. I keep checking Aljazeera's English site but nothing like that there yet.

 

[aneeshm]

Its a Western thing. We place so much importance on individuals, that just a few deaths have a great impact on us.

So did we place importance on individual life . So will you . Until this sort of thing starts happening every other day . You do tend to get desensitised when there is a terrotist attack every day . Then you'll just read about it , shrug , and move on , almost totally apathetic . Hope you never reach that state , though .

 

[-0blivion-]

Glad my father is OK, he was using the underground this morning, but we got a phonecall letting us know he was fine. That bus picture is horrible.

I think Blair is handling the situation well..i just wish this sort of thing wouldn't happen at all

 

[Mise]

As other have said the timing is due to the G8 summit, this is a message not just for the UK, but to the world leaders. Had the G8 been in any of the other 7 countries the same may well have happened there.

Then why was London the target and not Scotland? The timing may be due to G8 but the reason was not.

One other thing to bear in mind is that bombs in London are not a new phenomenon for people in their 30's and older. Blaming our government for the acts of these bombers is seen to be almost agreeing with their actions.

These bombers or the bombers from years ago? They terrorists have changed and so have their motives -- a war we had no business fighting.