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BLAST AT CITY TUBE STATION - FOUR BOMB EXPLOSIONS AROUND LONDON
Sky News ^ | July 7, 2005

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
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To: tomkat

Who has the best coverage? Youd think Fox would with Sky News as the sister network.


961 posted on 07/07/2005 4:01:31 AM PDT by PubliusEXMachina (Ashely's Story)
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To: onyx

Prime Minister of Israel denies they were told London would be attacked. Says it's early, bad reporting.

The jihadists love to start rumors and find a way to blame the Jews.


962 posted on 07/07/2005 4:01:39 AM PDT by Peach
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To: RWR8189

C-SPAN getting a live feed from Scotland via the European Broadcasting Union.


963 posted on 07/07/2005 4:01:52 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: Eurotwit
No Euro....I just woke up.

Thanks for the ping.

964 posted on 07/07/2005 4:02:01 AM PDT by Dog (Now through Time Life Records.Order your copy of Al-Zarqawi's Greatest Hit's for $19.95..)
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To: All

British Prime Minister Tony Blair (L) speaks with U.S. President George W. Bush as they arrive at the venue of the first G8 meeting at the Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Scotland July 7, 2005. The meeting began as a series of underground train and bus explosions rocked London. REUTERS/Jason Reed

965 posted on 07/07/2005 4:02:08 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: jjbrouwer; MadIvan

Thnak you, thank you. Perhaps the cameras can yield some information.

This is so upsetting. Absolutely horrific.


966 posted on 07/07/2005 4:02:12 AM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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To: jjbrouwer
Thanks. I'm just hoping there aren't too many casualties. There were some grisly eye witness reports. I'm amazed at the resolve of people who will give interviews to television when their faces are covered in soot and bleeding.

Don't be amazed. I am ever-impressed with the steely resolve of the British people. You are a special breed of people, and I salute you.

I also send my prayers and my love.

967 posted on 07/07/2005 4:02:16 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Looks like the Supreme Court wants to play Cowboys and Homeowners.)
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To: Northern Alliance
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT: "I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang, I turned round and half the double decker bus was in the air ... It was a massive explosion and there were papers and half a bus flying through the air, I think it was the number 205. There must be a lot of people dead as all the buses were packed, they had been turning people away from the tube stops. We were about 20 metres away, that was all." -- Belinda Seabrook, who was on a bus travelling from Euston to Russell Square, London
968 posted on 07/07/2005 4:02:16 AM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: jjbrouwer
Re: I'm just hoping there aren't too many casualties.

Just a note on the word "casualties" it indicates injury, not necessarily death, and the numbers we hear as this story unfolds should be treated as such.

969 posted on 07/07/2005 4:02:20 AM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Heading in now, after a prayer a kiss to my babies.


970 posted on 07/07/2005 4:02:27 AM PDT by kendu
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To: onyx

Berni_g confirmed the cameras to me in #940.


971 posted on 07/07/2005 4:02:28 AM PDT by Flyer (I'm looking for the FReeper that recommended Glory brand canned greens)
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To: Howlin

I got a snotty "border control" freepmail from the poster when I told him to sod off.

There is a time and place for it. Not now

As you said, people are dying out there.


972 posted on 07/07/2005 4:02:29 AM PDT by Republican Red (''Van der Sloot" is Dutch for ''Kennedy.")
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To: MadIvan

Just getting up here..

Horrible news. So very glad you're okay.


973 posted on 07/07/2005 4:02:31 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Howlin; RoyalsFan
Sorry if you've already seen this, but I'm a couple of hundred posts behind right now. Looks like RoyalsFan figured out why it was today, along with a narrowing of the suspects:

A search of Middle Eastern History shows this as significant for July 7: On July 7, 1937, the Peel Commission published its recommendations, which included the partition of western Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state.

http://brneurosci.org/israel-terrorism.html

974 posted on 07/07/2005 4:02:32 AM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: onyx

Blair up.


975 posted on 07/07/2005 4:02:33 AM PDT by Peach
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To: leadpenny

Blair on now.


976 posted on 07/07/2005 4:02:35 AM PDT by GiveEmDubya
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To: onyx

Blair Speaking now


977 posted on 07/07/2005 4:02:39 AM PDT by colette_g
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To: onyx

London has a gazillion cameras, yeah. They say the average London resident appears on camera 27 times a day. Or 17. Or 38. Anyway, a dozen or two. There are cameras on the second level of buses, too, so anyone who placed a bomb up top would have been photographed, unless the explosion took out the recording.

Blair's speaking now...


978 posted on 07/07/2005 4:02:39 AM PDT by latelyjez (American expat in London)
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To: MadIvan

Blair's on!


979 posted on 07/07/2005 4:02:47 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: Northern Alliance
Wow, Kilmeade on Fox just made the point that terrorism, not global warming, should have been at the top of the G8 agenda!

Amen! (But I think we beat him to the punch a few hundred posts earlier on this thread.)

980 posted on 07/07/2005 4:02:49 AM PDT by billclintonwillrotinhell
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