Posted on 07/07/2005 1:45:13 AM PDT by RWR8189
There has been an explosion at Aldgate East underground station in London, causing the closure of the entire Tube network.
There are also reports that a second incident took place at Edgware Road station in north west London.
The Aldgate East blast was caused by "some kind of power surge", according to Tube infrastructure company Metronet, which is responsible for maintaining the Metropolitan line.
A spokesman said: "We don't know the extent of the problem yet."
A London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: "We have just sent some resources out to the scene."
British Transport Police confirmed that there are "walking wounded" and said paramedics have responded to one report of a person classed as "life at risk".
"It's chaos, with people trying to work out what has happened," said a spokesman.
"All we know at the moment is that staff reported a loud bang at 8.49am. No one is sure what caused an explosion, but it is thought it could have been a collision, a power cut, or a power cable problem."
One witness said the packed underground train he was on was 200 metres from Kings Cross when there was a huge flash.
The train stopped and people were using umberellas to smash windows of the trains. Passengers were led out of the train by underground staff.
He added people were milling around Kings Cross covered in soot.
Throttling the US economy has been a long-standing goal of the Soviet Uni...er, Russia and France, and a mid-standing goal of the others.
In light of 9-11, the insurgency in Iraq, and now this attack in London, it seems like a good safety procedure. That's why similarly, I assume all guns are loaded.
Their timing is crucial to their "raids". They want us dead and they will not stop. Dow futures are down, down, down, just like they planned. Destroy the economy, their mantra.
Exactly, maybe the world will come to London's side quicker than it did to ours.
This one could be significant.....thanks for the long list.
[despite the efforts of the Dems to impede, we have NOT been hit..unlike Madrid, London, and other places]
This is not a metric. And deaths of US soldiers in Iraq are also not a metric on who is winning. Please read "War of the Worlds". In a real war, we'd be taking hits regularly until the enemy is defeated. Bush has been playing "chicken" with Al Qaeda by fighting them on the installment plan. Liberate a country here...wait two years...liberate another country...wait two years...liberate half a country (Lebanon is really divided into liberated and Hezbollah)...wait two years? That is why we haven't taken any hits. We fighting a slow motion war. Iran and Syria are behind this and it really doesn't matter if I am wrong about that. One of them needs liberation now because of this. If we don't change another regime this month, the terrorists will get away with this and the liberals will be saying that Bush and Blair did not keep us safe.
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You're kidding, right?
Until we fix the border problem, the US would be *cake* to hit - pretty much at any point that the bad guys wanted to.
Go read the stats about how many millions of illegals waltz right in every year.
How many of those do you think belong to AQ, or any other group?
We have a serious problem in that politics (and pandering to different interest groups) is trumping our security - and it needs to be fixed, and fixed now. Of course, the horses are already likely out of the barn..
If you're right, then he's a sociopath like Clinton.
Red Ken (which tells me what I want to know)
Ack, it's the apocolype.
July 7, 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court
prisoner6
Pope Benedict has CONDEMNED these attacks as BARBARIC.
Thanks for the moment of optimism.
I'm still thinking this came from french extremists who are torqued about not getting the olympics :)
Well it's 8:48 EDT right now
W take no merde... Pardon my French
And this one:
July 7, 1986 It is reported Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction
Definitely the apocalypse! :oO
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