Posted on 07/08/2005 8:38:48 AM PDT by NO_2_CORZINE
More than 50 people died in the London bomb attacks, the head of the Metropolitan Police has said.
Sir Ian Blair said the final death toll was unlikely to top 100, but warned an unknown number of bodies remain in the blast-hit Tube train at Russell Square.
The police chief confirmed that 13 people were killed in the bus blast at Tavistock Square.
The police had an "implacable resolve" to track down those responsible for the bombings, the Met Commissioner said.
The blasts on three Tubes and a bus left 700 hurt, with 100 held overnight in hospital and 22 serious or critical.
It was "blindingly obvious" that a terrorist cell was operating in Britain, Sir Ian said, as massive intelligence operation to find the perpetrators moved into gear.
"This was an attack which was entirely arbitrary, random, irrespective of race, of colour of gender and age," he said.
If it turns out to be 50, or 75, or 100, that's a lot of innocent people murdered. But it's lucky it's not far more, given the modus operandi.
The same was true of 9/11. A lot of people were murdered, but we can thank God it wasn't 20 or 30,000, which it might easily have been if not for a lot of lucky breaks. I personally have two relations who escaped death because of what seemed to be lucky breaks. One of them was a son, who was supposed to be speaking at a breakfast meeting there but got in late the night before from a business trip and had to cancel. The other was a similar story. And I've read of several others who escaped by pure good luck or providential intervention.
The London deaths could easily have reached several hundred. I think God was watching out for them.
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I wish the Muslims would realize that they are no longer welcome in our society and just leave.
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They know they are unwelcome, and that's why they are here: to install sharia.
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