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.
Bibi was called AFTER the first blast, and told to stay put. And it was Scotland Yard which called him, not Israeli intelligence who somehow knew about it. There are so many Jew-haters in the UK, this lie was not surprising
perhaps a bit sarcastic, but this does provide an interesting point.
No mass transit then no way to put a bomb on a bus or metro.
I read some of a DU thread, and most just expressed sympathy for the victims. Some decided to blame Bush/Blair though...
Thanks, I was just going off the headline and what I heard this morning on TV before leaving the house. How many bombs were there? Any update on number of casualties (although that will probably change quite a bit in the next few days)?
Our public services look like they still have their act together. They got a lot of practice at this sort of thing during 20 odd years of the IRA doing it.
In general public reaction here is about what I'd expect. Calm and stubbornly unmoved. This isn't going to change anyones mind here about the war on terrorism I think.
Whatever they thought about it already, they'll probably carry on thinking. What isn't going to happen though, and what didn't happen for the IRA is the British people letting themselves be intimidated or influenced by this.
Bombing us has been tried. It doesn't work.
perhaps. but clearly in the UK, they have not been vigilant enough to break up cells amongst their native British islamofascists - I doubt this attack was carried out by an "imported" team, its home grown.
I'm very pessimistic. We should have turned Mecca into a parking lot after 9/11 but we didn't. Instead we heard speech after speech about what a great religion islam was and how tolerant we were of it. Almost four years after what have we done? True, we've removed Hussein (mach shemo), but aside from frisking little old ladies at airports and refusing to "discriminate" against "the other," what have we done?
All we do is talk talk talk. We cry, we suffer nobly, we rededicate ourselves to a multiculturalism that would outlaw criticism of islam even as it mercilessly attacks the "host religion" for its "bigotry."
Can you imagine what the world would look like today if we had had this attitide back during World War II? How did the victorious West come away from that conflict burdened with all the guilt of the vanquished foe, even as its twin Communist brother came out full of self-righteousness?
I don't understand it, but for some reason all the guilt of the Axis was transferred to the non-Communist allies of that war, despite the fact that we had lost thousands upon thousands of men destroying it. To this day we pat ourselves on the back for winning the war against Germany and immediately switch to hand-wringing over defeating the Japanese and for being suspicious of the poor innocent little Commies during the ensuing "Cold War."
Ever since World War II the West (which defeated the Nazis) has borne the guilt of Hitler (mach shemo!). Instead of learning of the importance of defeating a deadly enemy we have instead spent all our time fretting over a "domestic Hitlerism" in the form of anti-Communism and "bigotry" against "the other." What must our sainted dead of that war think of us as they look down at us and see us celebrating our victory in World War II when the only "lesson" we have learned is that we are always wrong and "the other" is always right?
Gad. You'd think at least we'd have some moles buried deep within the enemy to get the job done without implicating us. We don't seem to intend to ever do anything but react, suffer, and remain true to the bizarre "lesson" we "learned" from the Second World War!!!
Has Lady Thatcher issued a statement..? I hope she does..
interesting tidbit there regarding Spain's market....
My son has emailed me, so the computer lines are working. That seems like the best way to contact your family.
We're all Londoners Today.
Just what we would expect of the British people. Good for you!
Also, she was the one featured on CNN when XXX-president Clintonw as killing Christians in Yugoslavia in fgavor of the Muslims (1995 and again 1999).
Yes, Terry, he's fine, but there are three kids in his group that are unaccounted for. Thanks for asking.
Great news from a bad situation.
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But I'm still considering "7" as the key number as it is July 7th and if you turn the 7 upside down, it is an "L". Pretty easy to pass around a one number (or letter) clue to activate a bombing sequence. Wonder what a 77 or 777 address would produce in the heart of London?
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