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.
Sorry, but they know that a 'Rat takeover of the Congress will help them, so they'll lay on an event for us, just like they did in Madrid, and for the same reason.
They actually would have done themselves more good if they could have pulled this stunt before Blair called for elections, but the British system doesn't give them much time to react. Ours does. They'll be ready to go.
Most of the bombings in the UK up until now were by the IRA.
Last I heard, they had not embraced Islam.
CBC Newsworld showing images from cell phone cameras of smoky train interiors...
Ok, thanks.
This thread's movin' too fast 
sorry..Red Ken is a menace to yhe free world..
Democrats, with help of the MSM, Will try spinning the London bombings. The question is Will the public believe it or Will the public turn further away from them?
This isn't the first time. Last time, the Saracens were driven out of Europe.
yup , ol' Eric doesn't know the facts of life yet , ROP Alert , but there are tepid degrees for some folks
The majority of those who aren't terrorists do sympathise with the terrorists. I'm just waiting for the reports of celebrations in the West Bank, Gaza, Damascus, Tehran.....
Didn't we recently release some Brits from Gitmo? Who were given probation or ankle bracelets or something like that when they got back to Britain?
Another poster stated that London, Madrid and New York started at 8:49.
I had not realized this.....but have no idea of the significance.
Another FReeper said Mayor is a panderer.
Perhaps this is his wake up call.
I make it a habit to sit out snowstorms instead of trotting off to work.
If I were near any terrorist high value target on the way to work, I would do the same today.
"In light of 9-11, the insurgency in Iraq, and now this attack in London, it seems like a good safety procedure. That's why similarly, I assume all guns are loaded.
When a group of people are identified as murdering savages and those that are of their similar religious and ethnic beliefs do not stand united against and forcefully condemn them, it is prudent to trust none of them. These savages are using the very thing we hold dearest, our personal freedoms, to destroy us. The only thing we have going for us is that they all do resemble each other. As long as we have that edge we must utilize it to the fullest esxtent. Time to do away with the P.C. bullsh*t and institute rigid and uncompromising racial profiling.
Perhaps he might change - seeing the camel's nose is well under his tent.
But I imagine he would want some words retracted:
"Similarly, last summer, the Egyptian-born Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, a leader of the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood movement and a vocal advocate of suicide bombings, also spent time in London, where he was given a hero's welcome by the city's ultra-Leftist mayor, Ken Livingstone.
Livingstone, who was booted out of the Labour party in 2000, was just recently accepted back into the fold by Tony Blair. At a January 11 press conference, Livingstone defended his decision to host Al-Qaradawi, saying at one point, "On behalf of the people of London, I want to apologize to the Sheikh for the outbreak of xenophobia and hysteria in some sections of the tabloid press which demonstrated an underlying ignorance of Islam."
Livingstone went on to call Al-Qaradawi, "a progressive figure who is moving [Islam] in the correct direction," andsuggested that the criticism of the fundamentalist sheikh was part of a Zionist plot. Mind you, this is the same Sheikh Al-Qaradawi who has issued a fatwa (religious decree) calling for the abduction and killing of American civilians in Iraq, and who has endorsed suicide bombings against Israeli civilians as well. Al-Qaradawi has also advocated the use of female suicide bombers, and has written a book supporting wife-beating."
https://www.nationalreview.com/comment/stakelbeck200502090757.asp
Don't you think we'd be seeing this right now in NYC if we had gotten the games yesterday? The terorists are here right now!!! I certainly hope that our security are on the ball.
Dems are in big trouble...let' them hold more hearings about "abuse" at Gitmo, "debasing" Korans, and the Downing Street Memo...that'll get them a lot of votes..
that statement deserves a thread of its own, IMO
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