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.
You (and I) wish.
Thanks for posting that link.
BUMP
mayor of London is great with his remarks. I knew NBC, CBS ABC would not report his stmts.....
His remarks need to be replayed over and over.
Official list of explosions
Aldgate East
Norgate
Russell Sq
Liverpool St
Edgware Rd
Kings Cross
It is usually much less likely to lose your people if you detonate enemy munitions from a safe distance rather than tinker with them.
Without cell phones to coordinate when they were to detonate, the suicide bombers just deciced on their own when to go boom.
I think that Kennedy, Leahy, and the ACLU would get together and OBJECT to rounding them up!
Same here, I had to do alot of work today. Got to work checked news and now this.
IMO all mosques should be locked down in London, all financial and other documents confiscated. Everthing searched thoroughly, if any anti-west propaganda found. Close the place down and auction it, proceedings to the families of the killed.
Man I cant believe I went to DU and read that crap. Those people are infantile, outright stupid and weak.
Terrorist threats such as this seem to be discounted by all the markets now. It is a bit weird to me, but that is the way our markets work.
Uh huh.
You're government would bever lie to you...
Idiot.
We need to count the blessings in frightening times. Not having doofus Kerry at the helm is a biggie.
He is not an idiot he is grabbing a political opportunity of a lifetime
Mobile phones were out this morning but seem to be working OK now, I've just been calling around all my friends and colleagues in London and thankfully they all seem to be OK.
But keep them in context with other remarks. You could only hope this is the real Red Ken.
I definitely agree with you!!!!!
Two of those were targets in the film "Dirty Bomb". Chilling. Just imagine if these were dirty bombs.
The operative word in your post to steveegg is it USED to be a double-decker bus!
It's at least 10% -- Daniel Pipes estimated that figure -- but others think that's way too conservative.
But even at 10%, that's at least, what?, 300,000 in the US alone who are working against this country.
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