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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: ohioWfan
I just heard it again on a news report..........maybe a half hour ago??......... so I'm wondering if it's been verified.

Honestly, it would not suprise me if it were a homocide bomber. I just always figured they would hit the US first.

3,681 posted on 07/07/2005 1:46:11 PM PDT by retrokitten (www.takebackthememorial.org)
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To: LenS

There are many idiots on that side of the aisle, I am looking at press releases now, from everyone. Intersting!


3,682 posted on 07/07/2005 1:46:40 PM PDT by defconw (ALLEN IN 08)
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To: null and void; pitinkie; Chunga

I always go with the unwritten rule that in the live threads that rules of spelling and grammar are suspended. :-)


3,683 posted on 07/07/2005 1:47:55 PM PDT by retrokitten (www.takebackthememorial.org)
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To: Sacajaweau

I will always remember hubby's brother calling from California on the evening of 9/11, saying "I know you don't work anywhere near the Trade Center but I just had to hear your voice." There's enough terror to go around and I pray for everyone touched by this.


3,684 posted on 07/07/2005 1:48:03 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (fiat voluntas Tua)
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To: AFPhys

Of course, it wasn't a good day to be in the European markets; they all closed well down.


3,685 posted on 07/07/2005 1:48:18 PM PDT by steveegg (The regularily-scheduled tagline will not be seen until the FReepathon is over. HURRY UP!!!)
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To: retrokitten

Sky News is reporting that the bus was probably blown up by a homicide bomber, but it has not yet been confirmed by Scotland Yard. They are more interested in trying to trace the particles of the explosives used, as if they were not homicide bombers then they are still at large and that is of major concern. Source: FNC news crawl.


3,686 posted on 07/07/2005 1:49:57 PM PDT by defconw (ALLEN IN 08)
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To: kassie
That woman has zero talent

She's not even a woman, IMO.

3,687 posted on 07/07/2005 1:50:33 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (fiat voluntas Tua)
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To: Nomad817

A significant portion of the UK population, I've seen no recent polls but it's obviously a lot, will blame Iraq.

This is not good for Tony Blair, but I don't think it'll cause any immediate change in UK policy regarding Iraq.


3,688 posted on 07/07/2005 1:50:49 PM PDT by bernie_g
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To: defconw
MSM is now trying to separate Al Qaeda from "Al Qaeda wannabes". I guess they still haven't figured out we're at war with an ideology not just "separate" groups.
3,689 posted on 07/07/2005 1:51:26 PM PDT by tobyhill (The war on terrorism is not for the weak!)
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To: defconw
Thanks for that info, defconw. I guess we'll have to wait until all the facts are in to know.

It just would be interesting if the bus were a homicide bomber, and the tube bombs were detonated......

3,690 posted on 07/07/2005 1:51:41 PM PDT by ohioWfan ("If My people, which are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray.....")
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To: PubliusEXMachina
Interesting rant on DU about this.... To end on a rather ominous note, there have also been reports that the Tube system in London is due to close for days at a time for "improvements to be made". In the weeks and days preceeding 9/11 we know that the WTC was evacuated many times, sometimes for hours in "security drills". There were eyewitness reports of plain clothed men workmen working in the towers throughout said drills. On 9/11 the towers came down in a uniformed fashion akin to purposeful demolition. Larry Silverstein, the owner of the complex is also on record as saying that WTC 7 was purposefully brought down with explosives on that day. Explosives would have taken days or weeks to be placed. I therefore wish to ask who will be making the "improvements" to the London subway, what will they be doing and who will be monitoring them?

Remember the Kathlene(?) Harris/Tennessee Driver's license scandle? One of the people she issued phoney ID to had a contractor's work permit to 'fix' the sprinkler system at the base of the WTC, dated as few days before the attack.

The WTC doesn't contract out such work.

The smoke from the fires was jet black, not the lighter steam diluted color one would expect if water were actually making it to the flames.

3,691 posted on 07/07/2005 1:52:48 PM PDT by null and void (You'll learn more on FR by accident, than other places by design)
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To: tobyhill

I don't care what group the morons are from, I want them found and quick!


3,692 posted on 07/07/2005 1:52:51 PM PDT by defconw (ALLEN IN 08)
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To: radiohead
Does 'proper burial' include sewing them up in a pig's carcass?

For me, it does.

3,693 posted on 07/07/2005 1:53:42 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (fiat voluntas Tua)
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To: bernie_g
Is a significant portion of the UK population unaware that there was terrorism prior to 2003?

How could they seriously blame any terrorist attack on the war in Iraq? I know the leftists will do that, but a 'significant portion of the UK population??' It seems doubtful....

3,694 posted on 07/07/2005 1:54:14 PM PDT by ohioWfan ("If My people, which are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray.....")
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To: null and void

"Christine Amanpour on CNN now."

Hasn't she moved over to Al Jazeera yet? /semi-sarc


3,695 posted on 07/07/2005 1:55:07 PM PDT by SeaBiscuit (God Bless all who defend America and the rest can go to hell.)
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To: gipper81

>>In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled BLAST AT CITY TUBE STATION - FOUR BOMB EXPLOSIONS AROUND LONDON, gipper81 wrote:
Janene Garafalo on Air America said that the right-wing evangelist religious types are LOVING all of the this violence and bombings because it "hurries up" the rapture!!!

She's still around? Wasn't she taken out in "Team America?"<<

TEAM AMERICA!, "HECK" YEAH!


3,696 posted on 07/07/2005 1:55:35 PM PDT by yield 2 the right
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To: The_Englishman

As I awoke this morning early I turned to FreeRepublic to enjoy my cup of coffee with, the usual enjoyment was replaced with horror...

It took me just a few minutes to add the TV News to my morning routine and within a few minutes the level of what happened began sinking in. As it did the sobs and tears that I thought had been left back in the months following 9/11 came flooding back.

My prayers are with London.

Some call what I have a type of PTSD around events such as these...I call it anger, pure Godly anger.


3,697 posted on 07/07/2005 1:57:10 PM PDT by EBH (Never give-up, Never give-in, and Never Forget)
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To: defconw
I agree. It's time people quit separating terrorist and terrorist. I don't believe Muslims are taught to be terrorist, I believe they are bred to be terrorist regardless what they want to call themselves.
3,698 posted on 07/07/2005 1:59:08 PM PDT by tobyhill (The war on terrorism is not for the weak!)
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To: ohioWfan
NO matter what happens it is always Bush's fault,unbelievable how the rats will spin anything anywhere, anytime.NO patriotism for them at all.
3,699 posted on 07/07/2005 2:00:44 PM PDT by keysguy (Time to get rid of the UN and the ACLU)
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To: Republican Red

Not only are the dems using the "terrorists are trained by us in Iraq" as the "talking points...

but, their big thing today is, that "see, if Bush had just stayed in Afghanistan and gone after Osama Bin Ladin, this wouldn't have happened.."

Of course, what they don't admit is, that at least 17 military people died this last week, BECAUSE we are trying to get Bin Ladin, who is at the Afghanistan/Pakistan border!!

Also, that Al-Zarqawi, that was in Afghanistan, is NOW in Iraq, by way of the camp in the north part of Iraq!!!


3,700 posted on 07/07/2005 2:00:53 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Mark Levin for Supreme Court Justice)
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