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.
Let's hope you're right that Egypt may send troops to Iraq...but I don't think their leader has the stones to do it.
You may be right. I believe they tried to give aid to the Iraqi people before but were held back.
I'm wondering if anyone I know in London was killed today.
Their presence among us is what causes the threat of terrorism.
The other thing we need to do is get off Middle Eastern oil all together. This could possibly be done, in part, by investing in algae pond facilities, which produce biodiesel.
My husband just called and said "we are at Harrods..we had to get out of the hotel" I yelled at him to get back there and dont go out!!! There could be more bombs! Gosh walking around...!
Yeah, she is great. Chemo is not going to keep her down. God Bless Her.
Maybe Madogga will change her tune now that it hit her country.
Tell us what you really feel.
I don't believe it is clear that the interment camps were "mistakes". If even 0.01% of those Japanese jailed had a tendency to be enemy agents, jailing them saved untold American lives, and may have cut years from the war.Nonsense. The total number of US citizens of Japanese descent convicted of espionage: zero.
Even Hoover was against internment.
-Eric
No chance.
MSNBC reporting that jihadists have killed Egyptian diplomat, Ihab al-Sherif, in Iraq.
Don't put too much stock into that; there have been later reports contradicting it.
Absolutely!!! The date for the city selection has been known for at least a year. As far as sophistication, how sophisticated is this? Explosives and cell phone detonators. Go and rent The Longest Day. It took one quattrain from a Verlaine poem to set in motion all kinds of action by the Maquis, and all coordinated by time, The Invasion within 24 hours. How much les difficult to accomplish this vicious attack. This may or may not have anything to do with London's selection, but al Queda likes statements and symbols anf the coincidence, I think, is too great.
YOU have some concept of history, and don't listen to all the liberal and libertarian drivel.
Some people refuse to listen to what common sense and history try to teach.
funny thing about Evil... it is devilishly intelligent most of the time but inevitably dumber than toast. The nazi's were effective until nutty decisions cost them their empire. AQ are this century's nazis and they are led by five-year-olds with explosives and nuts that would make hitler blush. They have a few himmler's, goebells, etc. but the one's who control the mobs are kooks and 86'ing the egytian embassador is one minor miscalculation following a MAJOR miscalculation in bombing London. The pieces are going to fall together soon enough against these islamopsychos.
Sounds like that's starting. Did you hear the caller to Laura's show who said NPR was saying that already, over an hour ago?
Zaquawi has, if I recall correctly, been telling Iraqis to "strike in the West" to drive the US and UK out of Iraq.
I'll see if I can find the link later. It was in an analysis of the insurgency at the Institute of Strategic Studies site or someplace of that kind.
Ann Coulter for Chief Justice!!
Is that you Mr. Goldberg???
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