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BLAST AT CITY TUBE STATION - FOUR BOMB EXPLOSIONS AROUND LONDON
Sky News ^ | July 7, 2005

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
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To: E Rocc

I know it's hard for you to focus...but this is a thread about THE BOMBING IN LONDON!!!!

If you want to rehash WWII foreign policy...use PM's.

Good grief!


2,361 posted on 07/07/2005 6:48:18 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Eng. K.I.A. 25 April 2005)
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To: AFPhys
Britain has to eliminate their radical Muslim hideouts

My thoughts exactly.

2,362 posted on 07/07/2005 6:48:20 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Whop-bobaloobop a WHOP BAM BOOM!!)
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To: RWR8189

How long before some prominent lib makes an asinine statement? I say before sundown EST.


2,363 posted on 07/07/2005 6:48:28 AM PDT by Scarchin (www.classdismissedblog.com.)
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To: All

To channel Bull Halsey, "When this is over, Islam will be practiced only in Hell!"


2,364 posted on 07/07/2005 6:48:30 AM PDT by sonofatpatcher2 (Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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To: mware

or better - death squads to hunt down zarqawi's thugs.


2,365 posted on 07/07/2005 6:49:07 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: pitinkie
My husband just called and said "we are at Harrods..we had to get out of the hotel" I yelled at him to get back there and dont go out!!! There could be more bombs! Gosh walking around...!

I would be doing the same thing as your husband. Don't give in to the terrorists on ANY front! Stand tall, be alert.

2,366 posted on 07/07/2005 6:49:27 AM PDT by Knute (W- Still the President!)
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To: defconw

Me too. The phones have been a bit messed up and there are friends and colleagues in London I can't contact right now.


2,367 posted on 07/07/2005 6:49:30 AM PDT by bernie_g
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To: bd476

But now they went out to Harrods!!!! I yelled to get back to the hotel!


2,368 posted on 07/07/2005 6:49:38 AM PDT by pitinkie (revenge will be sweet)
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To: defconw

"I'm wondering if anyone I know in London was killed today."

I hope not.


2,369 posted on 07/07/2005 6:49:42 AM PDT by LongsforReagan (Not a Hannity Republican who just spouts talking points.)
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To: steveegg

Thanks, I'm a little behind here.

Mr Netanyahu is a favorite of mine from Gulf 1.

I remember him reporting night after night, at times with a gas mask on. I wrote him a letter about the bravery of the Israeli people throughout that war and he sent me a handwritten letter back.


2,370 posted on 07/07/2005 6:49:54 AM PDT by WestCoastGal (If you're LURKING and reading you should be DONATING to the FReepathon!! Go Jr ~8~)
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To: All

Span 1 showing the British House of Commons


2,371 posted on 07/07/2005 6:49:57 AM PDT by defconw (ALLEN IN 08)
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To: PubliusEXMachina

Let the DUmmies and moonbats howl, I don't care, they aren't the majority thinkspeak in this country.


2,372 posted on 07/07/2005 6:50:04 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Whop-bobaloobop a WHOP BAM BOOM!!)
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To: hoosierham

Then act your age.


2,373 posted on 07/07/2005 6:50:17 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: Scarchin

Over at DU they are already starting. They are even comparising President Bush's reaction to 9-11 to Priminister Blair's response today. Sick Sick people over there at DUMMIE LAND.


2,374 posted on 07/07/2005 6:50:18 AM PDT by mzbzybee ((formerly, Beeline40 member since 3-20-1999))
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To: pitinkie

Hotels could be targets as well.


2,375 posted on 07/07/2005 6:50:19 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: AFPhys
Deporting them will not help. They need to be eliminated.

I'm a compromiser at heart.

How about deporting them in boxes?

2,376 posted on 07/07/2005 6:50:24 AM PDT by patriciaruth (They are all Mike Spanns)
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To: Knute

No I want them safe til they get home tomorrow!


2,377 posted on 07/07/2005 6:50:29 AM PDT by pitinkie (revenge will be sweet)
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To: texasbluebell

It'll be very interesting to hear Blair's reaction when some smug reporter asks him if he thinks he's in some way responsible for the attacks because of his support of Bush.


2,378 posted on 07/07/2005 6:50:30 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
"I don't believe it is clear that the interment camps were "mistakes". If even 0.01% of those Japanese jailed had a tendency to be enemy agents, jailing them saved untold American lives, and may have cut years from the war. Still, we didn't inter those with German or Italian ancestry, and we still managed to defeat them . . . before we defeated Japan..."

This is off subject, sort of, but Germans were one of two largest minorities in the USA in 1941, a lot of organizations were shut down and/or put under close watch in any event.

Japanese (asians) were much smaller minority, more insular, and not yet well accepted even on the west coast where they had been for generations. That and the fact that it was Japan that bombed US facilities & not Germany or Italy. The original round-up and vetting of an entire community was probably justified but the huge loss of property continued confinement afterward should not have been allowed.

("It's FDR's fault")

2,379 posted on 07/07/2005 6:50:40 AM PDT by norton (build a wall and post the rules at the gate)
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To: LongsforReagan

Thanks I will have to wait awhile to get ahold of them.


2,380 posted on 07/07/2005 6:50:47 AM PDT by defconw (ALLEN IN 08)
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