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.
its not hate in yer heart , yer just real mad,... GOOD , I'm so mad I could chew 2lbs. of 16p nails!!
Look, that could be true for all we know, but there is no way in hell they'd know this in such short time. In fact, if they did know this, they'd end up looking very bad, as it would mean that they had reasonable intelligence that he was planning something yet did nothing.
The Brits are still processing the crime scene, and while I'm sure they have some "likely candidates," there's no way for certain that they know just who it was.
So to say it was a recent Gitmo inmate is just speculation at this point.
No, it doesn't make you a bad person, it makes you a sane, rational thinking person!
What end of Cuba is GITMO on?
ooooh, ooooh, Mr.Kotter, I'm not a goofball... oooh, oooh!
Hugh also calls Freepers the modern day coast watchers.
That is also a room in hell.
That is VERY creepy!
There may be one difference....the shark could be more of a story in Natalee's case!!! if you know what I mean?
Please get real. Do you honestly believe that UK forces will be pulled out of either Afghanistan or Iraq as a direct result of this attack? Not a chance in hell. Why do you think this to be the case? We lost hundreds of UK citizens during 9/11. Nothing is going to change in our support for the war on terror as a result of this atrocity. The IRA couldn't do it and neither will these scum!
Weren't there Olympics in the USA that year?
I've long suspected she was feed to the sharks.
You need to get yourself educated as to what's going on in Iraq before you spout off on this forum, newbie. People around here make it a point to be up to speed on the facts and not believe what the MSM is shoving down our throats. Your ignorance is showing.
But nice try.
I hope so, because the thoughts I have about them are not exactly rational. I cannot fathom suck lack of humanity and utter soul, that they could walk among people and still be called human themselves.
After seeing the beheading videos, with the terrorists using bare hands and dull knives to butcher human beings like pigs, it defies any attempt to assume that these people are not but pure evil. To have only cold, black hearts to do such unspeakable things. They do not deserve the term "human", they just simply are not.
I am assuming that is a good thing...
The goofballs pop up a lot, but they are usually ZOTTED pretty quickly...or sent to the Smoky Backroom!
They are about to get blasted by a hurricaine then!
Oh, man. The activist judges and liberal lefties screamed loud and long over Bush's "inhumanity" at GITMO. And let's not forget ABU GHRAIB, broadcast ad nauseum by our enemies and our MSM media press. They hammered and hammered at Bush and his administration. Unfortunately, if the result was that we were forced to release a homicide bomber....that's pretty damn sad....
The Euro News' political and economic segments are actually well-done & informative, and (surprisingly) less laden with anti-American vitriol than CNN.
But those lifestyles segments...uggh. They call it "Le Mag." Yes, Europeans really are a queer bunch (sorry to offend any Euro Freepers, but it's true).
Then our idiot Prime Minister says "Canadians shouldn't worry, the terrorists are not going to attack us".
Pompous A**!!!!!
Is Martin on the Al-Qaeda payroll or something?
And the Hurricane will be Bush's fault also, in Durbin's mind, I bet!!!!
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