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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: Peach

I'd love to see the entire G-8 pass a resolution right on the spot to join with Britain to hunt these Bastards and their masterminds down to a man.


461 posted on 07/07/2005 3:09:54 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: Flyer
Any alerts for you?

It's quiet here at the moment.

I'm headed to London on R&R next month. A co-worker just asked me if I intend to scrap those plans.

I said NO, that the terrorists will NOT force me to change my plans and I'm not going to be afraid of them.

They'll probably need the tourism support in London then, too. I'll be glad to do my littel bit to help.

462 posted on 07/07/2005 3:09:56 AM PDT by Allegra (On the Rocks With Salt, Please...)
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To: MadIvan
We'd appreciate your assistance in skinning alive the bastards who did this and dipping them in a vat of flaming iodine

I live in Houston, chemicals are no problem here. Flaming iodine, coming right up.

Christ, what a mess.

You know, if Blair comes back to London now, Bush and some of the others might want to come with him. That raises the possibility that the enemy will anticipate that impulse and may be laying for them.

Ears up and eyes wide, pal.

463 posted on 07/07/2005 3:10:02 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: newzjunkey
Is this any sort of ANNIVERSARY date?

7-7

464 posted on 07/07/2005 3:10:03 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hello mullah, hello fatah, here I am at camp jihadah...)
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To: happinesswithoutpeace

True they can attack whenever they please but they LOVE symbolism.


465 posted on 07/07/2005 3:10:05 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Remind Liberal Cowards Why America Freed Iraq: http://massgraves.info/)
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To: GermanBusiness

YES, I am deadly serious. MSM will have to wake the hell up. This a a major attack.

Blair is not a Chirac. He'll go for the gold and Bush will be right with him.

Let MSM blame Bush -- that will only embolden him and make our people mad. The Left will lose big time on this one.

People fear for their own safety.


466 posted on 07/07/2005 3:10:06 AM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: colette_g

Sky News : Stockwell station closed after suspect package found


467 posted on 07/07/2005 3:10:11 AM PDT by colette_g
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Commuters that had been displaced from the earlier-bombed trains. DIABOLICAL B-A-S-T-A-R-D-S!!!!! ---

UNREAL!

468 posted on 07/07/2005 3:10:21 AM PDT by beyond the sea (No more legitimate hearing room ever again, Conyers......... to the broom closet ! ;-))
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To: Peach

A year or so ago, the Jihadist boards were saying they were going to hit London first and NYC second on the same day. BE SAFE NEW YORKERS TODAY!!!


469 posted on 07/07/2005 3:10:36 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Ditto that, HiTech.


470 posted on 07/07/2005 3:10:50 AM PDT by Peach
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Early reports of first WTC bombing were that an electrical transformer exploded below ground. Officials like accidents better than attacks.


471 posted on 07/07/2005 3:10:53 AM PDT by jaykay
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To: newzjunkey


7 explosions on the 7th day of the 7th month?


472 posted on 07/07/2005 3:11:07 AM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: leadpenny

Someone on FreeRepublic or on the news? I should not have really commented because I was in bed when 9/11 occurred.


473 posted on 07/07/2005 3:11:15 AM PDT by Eva
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To: RWR8189

MANY prayers for our British FRiends!


474 posted on 07/07/2005 3:11:36 AM PDT by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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To: colette_g

Fox reporting 90 casualties so far...and the major networks still hesitant to call it terrorism.


475 posted on 07/07/2005 3:11:42 AM PDT by Junior_G
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To: pitinkie

Thank God, pitinkie. Thank you so much for letting us know that your most dear are OK. Praise God. They will now be OK--don't you worry none, as my dad would say. Don't you worry none, pitinkie.


476 posted on 07/07/2005 3:11:50 AM PDT by Miss Behave (Do androids dream of electric sheep?)
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To: Peach

still looking. I will ping you.


477 posted on 07/07/2005 3:11:53 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: jimbo123

great


478 posted on 07/07/2005 3:11:55 AM PDT by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: radu

So we crashed Iraq's party -- and the Bastards just picked up their plans in some other Allah-forsaken country. Maybe Iran is involved with this one.


479 posted on 07/07/2005 3:12:03 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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To: MadIvan

Ivan,

I suspect by the time the dust clears on this that the culprit will be a militant group of Irish potato farmers or the power surge. In the U.S., our authorities would float every possible non-muslim theory until the sheeple finally buy into it.


480 posted on 07/07/2005 3:12:12 AM PDT by sargunner
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