Oh no! London attacked :(

[Su-Yin]

- First explosion reported at 8.59am London time (17.59 AEST).

- At least one London bus blown up in Russell Square, reports of two others in Marylebone and South Kensington.

- Explosions reported at Underground stations Edgware Road, King's Cross, Liverpool Street, Old Street, Russell Square, Aldgate East and Moorgate.

- London transport system shutdown.

- At least 12 dead, 185 injured

Near simultaneous explosions rocked the London Tube and three double-decker buses at the morning rush hour today.

There were reports of deaths and scores of injuries along with fears of a coordinated terror attack.


Security experts said the apparent attacks bore all the hallmarks of the al Qaeda network.

"If what are looking at is a simultaneous bombing, and it does look like that, it would very certainly fit the classic al Qaeda methodology which centres precisely on that, multi-seated hits on transport and infrastructural targets,'' said Dr Shane Brighton, intelligence expert at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/general/12-dead-scores-injured-in-london-blasts/2005/07/07/1120704485774.html

[Bond]

Forty are confirmed dead now. The terrorists are once again trying to break our resolve by attacking not only us but our closest ally. And of course they are going after civilians, bastards.

[Professor S]

I'll go off on a rant later, but for today my heart is with Great Britain. We are with you all.

[Happydude]

*sigh* when will it end?

[Acebot44]

This is terrible. Another terrorist attack on innocent people :shakehead

[BlueFire]

This is truly sad. I give my best wishes to all those poor people.

[DeathsHand]

Forty are confirmed dead now. The terrorists are once again trying to break our resolve by attacking not only us but our closest ally. And of course they are going after civilians, bastards.

Or maybe this attack on London was actually aimed at London...
And they're trying to break the resolve of the people of England...

[MuGen]

Or maybe this attack on London was actually aimed at London...
And they're trying to break the resolve of the people of England...

Even if it WERE aimed at London, theres a certain thing called Cause and Effect. Since we're Britain's closest ally it will effect us more so then others, considering we've been attacked by terrorists before to.

The one thing that pisses me off is that all this time people were ranting about the Iraqi war when targets were military facilities, and how wrong it was to do that. That Iraqi war could have been evaded by Saddam. NOW... we're being attacked again by terrorism, and targeting civilians again.

I friggin hate terrorism....terrorists can suck on it. Cowards they are....

[Bond]

Or maybe this attack on London was actually aimed at London...
And they're trying to break the resolve of the people of England...
You do realize when I said "our" I was inferring the United States, Great Britain, and our other allies.

[Dyne]

Sheesh. And I thought Al Qaeda was all done.

I feel bad for all the families of London, because the Subway is usually a mix of people from everywhere. It's a greater area affected.

Stupid terrorists. They better get what's coming to them.

[MuGen]

Sheesh. And I thought Al Qaeda was all done.

I feel bad for all the families of London, because the Subway is usually a mix of people from everywhere. It's a greater area affected.

Stupid terrorists. They better get what's coming to them.

If they do, you think people will object to it like they did the first time we went into Afghanistan?

[DeathsHand]

You do realize when I said "our" I was inferring the United States, Great Britain, and our other allies.

Sorry, I was just still irritated with the fact that I woke up, turned on the news, saw the headline "TERROR ATTACK", and for a good 5-10 minutes got aboslutely no details on what had actually happened (no little captions or anything), but instead heard a bunch of stuff about how America is on Orange alert, New Yorker's know what they're going through, etc...

[Happydude]

Sorry, I was just still irritated with the fact that I woke up, turned on the news, saw the headline "TERROR ATTACK", and for a good 5-10 minutes got aboslutely no details on what had actually happened (no little captions or anything), but instead heard a bunch of stuff about how America is on Orange alert, New Yorker's know what they're going through, etc...
hehe...i find the picture of that amusing


DsH: Terror attack?!?!?! AHHH *hides under bed*


10 minutes later:

DsH: OHHHHHHH it's in london.....stupid TV, i'll give them a terror attack!

[Jonbo298]

I'm surprised it was only one bus. I was expecting at least say 3-5 more bus's to be blown since they are the easiest to go after.

BUt it is bad news. Shutting down London's train/bus network is very harsh to do. Just like killing all air travel for a week or so in the US was

[jeepnut]

I'm surprised it was only one bus. I was expecting at least say 3-5 more bus's to be blown since they are the easiest to go after.

BUt it is bad news. Shutting down London's train/bus network is very harsh to do. Just like killing all air travel for a week or so in the US was
I don't know if this is true or not, but I thought I heard them saying they found some bombs that didn't explode. They probably had planned to go after more than just one bus.

[Dylflon]

Grah. At least they got less people this time. Still heartbreaking. I heard about it on the news at 1 a.m. heading home from my road trip.

I think we need to analyze why these attacks are happening before we go back and act rashly. Not to say rash actions aren't needed. But it might offer some clarity.

And anybody who gives me that "It's because they hate freedom" line can die.

[Happydude]

apperantly london has cameras everywhere in downtown, including on busses...hopefully they will see whoever did this and be able to catch related people.

Article (http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/07/britain.constant.surveillance.ap/index.html)

[Bond]

And anybody who gives me that "It's because they hate freedom" line can die.
It's something like that. (I could elaborate if you so desire) And no, I'm not dying anytime soon.

[Typhoid]

It's something like that. (I could elaborate if you so desire) And no, I'm not dying anytime soon.


It isnt that they hate freedom.

They hate the western civilizations view of Freedom. They hate the western assimilation of Eastern Cultures and the like.

[Jonbo298]

Eventually, I expect them to release the video footage. With the amount of cameras London has, its almost guaranteed they caught this on video. They are just busy (obviously) analyzing frame by frame of the past like week to find out what may have occurred

[Dylflon]

(I could elaborate if you so desire)

Be my guest.

[Bond]

Muslim fundamentalism (terrorism) breeds from oppressive, theocratic, totalitarian governments. Many of these countries that practice this form of government live in poverty and the majority of the people are oppressed. The oppression of these people gives rise to terrorists who wish to take advantage of these oppressed people. A comparison could be used with Nazi Germany. The Nazis took advantage of an impoverished German working class and used the hard working Jewish people as a scapegoat for their agony, much in the way civilized Western countries are used as a scapegoat by Muslim fundamentalists. In any case, terrorists thrive on oppressive regimes. The introduction of democracy to the Middle East is a direct threat to the terrorist's power. Do you see anyone from democratic countries going half way around the world to blow themselves up? Why no, you don't. Democracies may breed domestic terrorism, but they most certainly do not breed international terrorism. While the terrorists may not hate freedom, they hate our democratic ideals that threaten their power base. It's somewhat hard to explain, but I hope that helped.

[Dylflon]

That's definently better fleshed out that "terrorists hate freedom". Thank you.

But I'm also thinknig that the attacks could be influenced by some of the western powers' foreign policy in those countries.

[Happydude]

wow....that was informative....thank you Bond.

[Bond]

No problem. A different perspective is always nice. :)