BLAST AT CITY TUBE STATION - FOUR BOMB EXPLOSIONS AROUND LONDON

Sky News ^ | July 7, 2005

[PubliusEXMachina]

Who has the best coverage? Youd think Fox would with Sky News as the sister network.

[Peach]

Prime Minister of Israel denies they were told London would be attacked. Says it's early, bad reporting.

The jihadists love to start rumors and find a way to blame the Jews.

[leadpenny]

C-SPAN getting a live feed from Scotland via the European Broadcasting Union.

[Dog]

No Euro....I just woke up.

Thanks for the ping.

[OXENinFLA]

British Prime Minister Tony Blair (L) speaks with U.S. President George W. Bush as they arrive at the venue of the first G8 meeting at the Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Scotland July 7, 2005. The meeting began as a series of underground train and bus explosions rocked London. REUTERS/Jason Reed

[onyx]

Thnak you, thank you. Perhaps the cameras can yield some information.

This is so upsetting. Absolutely horrific.

[Lazamataz]

Thanks. I'm just hoping there aren't too many casualties. There were some grisly eye witness reports. I'm amazed at the resolve of people who will give interviews to television when their faces are covered in soot and bleeding.

Don't be amazed. I am ever-impressed with the steely resolve of the British people. You are a special breed of people, and I salute you.

I also send my prayers and my love.

[advance_copy]

EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT: "I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang, I turned round and half the double decker bus was in the air ... It was a massive explosion and there were papers and half a bus flying through the air, I think it was the number 205. There must be a lot of people dead as all the buses were packed, they had been turning people away from the tube stops. We were about 20 metres away, that was all." -- Belinda Seabrook, who was on a bus travelling from Euston to Russell Square, London

[ChadGore]

Re: I'm just hoping there aren't too many casualties.

Just a note on the word "casualties" it indicates injury, not necessarily death, and the numbers we hear as this story unfolds should be treated as such.

[kendu]

Heading in now, after a prayer a kiss to my babies.

[Flyer]

Berni_g confirmed the cameras to me in #940.

[Republican Red]

I got a snotty "border control" freepmail from the poster when I told him to sod off.

There is a time and place for it. Not now

As you said, people are dying out there.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Just getting up here..

Horrible news. So very glad you're okay.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Sorry if you've already seen this, but I'm a couple of hundred posts behind right now. Looks like RoyalsFan figured out why it was today, along with a narrowing of the suspects:

A search of Middle Eastern History shows this as significant for July 7: On July 7, 1937, the Peel Commission published its recommendations, which included the partition of western Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state.

http://brneurosci.org/israel-terrorism.html

[Peach]

Blair up.

[GiveEmDubya]

Blair on now.

[colette_g]

Blair Speaking now

[latelyjez]

London has a gazillion cameras, yeah. They say the average London resident appears on camera 27 times a day. Or 17. Or 38. Anyway, a dozen or two. There are cameras on the second level of buses, too, so anyone who placed a bomb up top would have been photographed, unless the explosion took out the recording.

Blair's speaking now...

[Howlin]

Blair's on!

[billclintonwillrotinhell]

Wow, Kilmeade on Fox just made the point that terrorism, not global warming, should have been at the top of the G8 agenda!

Amen! (But I think we beat him to the punch a few hundred posts earlier on this thread.)