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.
Now it's time for us to call you, my friend. Shall we rise up to the challenge and destroy these bastards once and for all?
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If I may play off a paraphrase of Vito Corleone: "Because you have been a good friend, the scum who did this to you will soon be suffering".
God bless the casualties.
The US might go to level Orange soon.
We will be with you always MadIvan.
Bush and Blair to speak shortly.
It's just a goddamn shame. Everyone was euphoric here yesterday about the Olympics. Now it's back to reality. But until they (and we) recognize the problem is Islamists living among them, it's going to happen. Security in Britain is really pretty good. Hard to see they could do any more without seriously restricting civil liberties.
MSNBC: Double Decker Bus destroyed by blast.
Subway systems in NY and DC will no doubt be a nightmare this morning.
Revenge, perhaps, is best served cold.
I agree with you about Mansoor. Get rid of him...a phony!!
I was walking through Tavistock Square the other day...eerie and awful.
Regards, Ivan
Grrrr. . .
Are there any pictures of those destroyed buses?
Sky: "...a major terrorist attack....numerous fatalities"
Well that's rather stupid. Now to sow FUD about transportation security in London, that's obvious.
Anything we can do?
Help with bundling all the damned radical fuzzies off the island at the double?
Ricin, indeed -- good thing Scotland Yard found their unholy little stash, or you know they'd have used it this morning somehow.
Another explosion just occurred. They are still under attack.
Sky News as well reporting a new explosion at Tavistock square were a bus blew up earlier. Hopefully it was a controlled explosion.
SKY NEWS: "Major terrorist attack." "Numerous fatalities."
Another explosion reported on Fox, no details, bringing the total to 8...JFK
Sky News now calling this a MAJOR TERRORIST incident!
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