"We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock
of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down.
Give us the tools and we will finish the job." -- Winston Churchill, 1941
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.
I'll defer to Mike on Qatie (Qadie), but I stand by Al-Roquer
Leftists are children. They are self-centric like 5-year-olds and think that all they have to do is behave a certain way, and the adults around them will cowtow. When that doesn't happen, they throw tantrums and plot rudimentary revenge. They are willing to lay themselves on the line to obtain the nanny state. Just like children want their mommies.
Brit is the best, Shep can pound salt, he's nothing more than a rat.
Until we are ready to intentionally level a mosque to a pile of smocking rubble, until we are ready to summarily execute terrorists, until we are ready to utterly disregard Muslim "sensitivities" in the interest of our security, until we are ready to employ torture and constant surveillance to gather information, until we are ready to stop apologizing for using every means at our disposal to hunt down and kill every Muslim who lifts a hand against the West, until we are ready to fight a long war to the death with these animals, then we are just dreaming.
It's probably some old lady's knitting, but such is the nature of insidious terrorism.
It really gets hard not to say "I quit. I will go into a cocoon."
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You only cut and pasted half of my statement! I am not a quitter, I just said it was hard to keep involved in the face of the depravity of America's internal enemies.
I hear you on this side of the pond.
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Al-Roquer it is then.
We need to first secure our borders.
Then we need to reduce or preferably eliminate our dependence on Muslim oil.
Then we need to deport all non-citizen Muslims who are citizens of questionable countries back to their homelands: Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Syria, Lebanon, etc. Maybe even France.
Then we need to stop doing business with these questionable countries completely.
Then we need to disallow visitation from everyone in those questionable countries until they self-police their own sewer of a nation and weed out the jihadists in their midsts.
Then we tell these questionable countries that when they clean up their own mess and when their citizens learn to be civilized people instead of the animals they are then they can rejoin the rest of the world.
In short, we need to throw up a big fence around the jihadi world until they clean themselves up or die in the process.
LQ, WHO HAS FORKING HAD IT WITH THESE PEOPLE AND WHO IS JUST AS IRATE AS SHE WAS ON 9/11!!!!
Hey, everybody, guess what? The UN Security Council has unanimously passed a resolution condemning the attack.
Now, doesn't that make you all feel better?
Leftists also act as if everything is just a little game of one upmanship, rather than real life. No matter how serious the situation.
So many ways, so little time.
Check out FNC .. they had video of folks walking across the bridge
Reminds me of NY
Prayers for your son, and, prayers for those living in London.
A question though : if we are to stop doing any business whatsoever with Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, etc...where will the oil come from ?
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