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.
"A message of Solidarity" - sadly, for most of these "world leaders" talk is cheap and action will be lacking.
Typical.
OK.
Let's hope it's a rumor. There's a lot of confusion over there just now.
Keep yer chins up, brother Britains!
What can you do though - if you get a bomb threat can you risk not evacuating?
oh!! but we made the muzzies mad by standing in the way of their march for world control
Don't get snipy about it. We do not now, nor in the future will we want anything in this fine conservative forum from "liberladrivel.blah".
Please take this advice to heart.
What's curious to me as I watch this, is that the explosions appear to have been spread out over a period of about an hour-- not all at once. First one at ten to nine, the second over a half hour later, then another ten minutes later, then another ten minutes... like that.
Seems odd. Not that it means anything... but you'd think they'd plan it closer.
There were internment camps in central Alabama for Germans. When I lived in Alabama, there were news stories about the camps. There must have been an anniversary date of them being released or something. But I could be crazy, and my memory could be flawed.
Thanks for the laugh break.
Where's Eric Cartman when you need him?!
They may have found something they think is too dangerous to try and disarm.
The Mayor of London's statement was VERY good!
He has either had a complete change because of this, or he is a good actor, acting like a Rudy Guiliani!
Terrorists want to watch people panic and they also want to watch what happens when a particular area is spoke of as a target. Let's hope, anyway.
Dude, this is going to get worse, there's supposedly a note found in Pakistan concerning a Al-Q "Summer offensive". I don't like this. We gotta stop these guys.
I wonder if this Mosque was behind the attack again
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,76012,00.html
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