Posted on 07/21/2005 7:13:42 AM PDT by Srirangan
A number of Tube stations have been evacuated and lines closed after three blasts in what Met Police chief Sir Ian Blair says is a "serious incident".
Sir Ian appealed to Londoners to stay where they were and said the transport system was effectively being shut down.
The minor explosions used detonators only, a BBC reporter said.
In addition, a Number 26 bus in Hackney Road in Bethnal Green had its windows blown out by a blast. There were no injuries.
Large areas around Warren Street, Oval and the Shepherd's Bush Hammersmith and City line Tube stations have been cordoned off.
One person was injured at Warren Street. There were reports the injured person may have been holding a rucksack containing the detonator.
Lines suspended
Police said armed officers had been deployed to University College Hospital after an incident.
The whole of the Northern Line has been suspended, along with the Victoria Line and the Hammersmith and City line.
A number of other stations were closed including Westminster tube station, Waterloo tube station and King's Cross Thameslink. There were also reports that St Paul's tube and Oxford Circus tube station were closed.
Tony Blair cancelled events in the afternoon and will be attending a meeting of the Cobra committee along with Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
The BBC's Andrew Winstanley said devices had been found but appeared to have been dummies, containing no explosives.
London Underground went to an amber alert with trains taken to the next station and evacuated.
An eyewitness at Oval station said there had been a small bang, and a man had then run off when the Tube reached the station.
A spokesman for Stagecoach said the driver of the number 26 bus travelling through Shoreditch had heard a bang on upper deck, gone upstairs and seen the windows were blown out.
The bus driver was very shaken but said to be fine.
At Shepherd's Bush Hammersmith and City line station, police told reporters that a man had threatened to blow himself up and then ran off.
Sosiane Mohellavi, 35, was travelling from Oxford Circus to Walthamstow when she was evacuated from a train at Warren Street.
"I was in the carriage and we smelt smoke - it was like something was burning.
"Everyone was panicked and people were screaming. We had to pull the alarm. I am still shaking."
The BBC's Rory Barnett said there had been no smoke on the platform at Warren St.
Liz Edwards, who works near Warren Street Underground station, said the area was full of activity.
"There are police, fire engines and ambulances all around there. A guy from our office had just come back from the station and said the police were aggressively keeping people away from the station and that you could not get anywhere near it."
there are some even on FR that haven't figured that out yet, sadly.
Oh shit, my son is back in London today.
Any guess to the religious orientation of the person injured?
Agreed there. Especially since they mostly congregate in certain areas.
i'd rather have the ability to tap'em twice in Center Mass & follow up with a security round to the left eye socket, but then that's just me...
prayers for the victims and their families. priorities, people.
Prayering for your son's safety, Eva. How old is he?
My 19 year old son is leaving for London next Tues. I'm a worried Mama.
Prayering should be Prayers
I made a change as I proofread it and mispelled prayers.
Would that have prevented the bombings in London?
Only one person was injured. After I say a prayer for him do I have your permission to discuss terrorism?
I didn't see the picture. I think it was the post that was deleted. My sympathy and support for those who have to live through this. The only people at fault are those doing this. It's time that everyone get together and just take care of this problem. I'm in the "eye for an eye" stage at this point.
I'm not fond of guessing games, why don't you just tell us who you want exterminated and how you want it done?
proceed...
He's 23. I am so frantic. I don't have a phone here, where I am staying and I can't get my stupid husband to pick up his email. His blackberry must be driving him nuts, or he forgot to take it. I have been blasting him with emails.
To which attacks are you referring?
How about recognizing the threat and the risks?
Let's see - the threat is adult male terrorists hiding in the US and waiting to strike - not 5 year old girls playing in Mecca.
The risks of failing to nuke Mecca? There aren't any.
Muder and mayhem is part of their religion. You cannot tell which one will smile at you today and then blow you up tomorrow.
Which is why we need to kill Muslim extremists and preach Christianity to Muslims.
What's your argument, exactly? That Saudi Arabia is the Promised Land and we need to nuke its inhabitants off the face of the earth in order to purify this sacred Arabian desert? Are you arguing that Americans are really Jews and president Bush is Joshua and that God is commanding America to slay all Muslims?
Hint: it had to do with extermination.
It sure did. However, this extermination applied to seven now nonexistent nations living in the land of Canaan and the people of whom such behavior was authorized by God were the Israelites, not Gentiles.
They weren't supposed to coexist peacefully or try to understand their enemies' motivations.
So, in other words, you believe that the complete and utter extermination of billions of people is directly commanded by the Scriptures and is incumbent upon modern Americans?
Yet I'm sure there were those like you who thought that such commandments were only going to inflamme the Hitites, or be used as propogada by the Amalekites, etc.
So you really think that the orders given by God specifically to Israel concerning specific nations in a specific terrain are a general and eternal commandment enjoining genocide for all time and in all places?
You are a complete and utter Bible-hating lunatic.
The islamokazi's sh@t is weak, without "mules" their "BIG JIHAD" is as laughable as their culture......time to alleviate the world of the madrasses and their 16th century B.S.
"Now THAT'S a great idea!!!"
Only in an upside down world. Britain, like so much of Europe, has been more intent on persecuting politically incorrect speech (such as anti-immigration platforms) by those who are non-violent than they have been on capturing and deporting the Islamo-bombers in their midst.
Chief Moose would fit right in with them: let's close our eyes to the possibility that third-world immigrants might engage in terrorism, and go after those close-minded, anti-immigrant, third parties.
No wonder they're in such a mess.
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