Explosions In London
 

Several trains blown up in the eastern end of central London, and a bus blown up at Russel Square.

Some fatalities.

Not good. :|

Looks like terrorism to me, but no-body's come forward to admit anything yet.

Bastards.

Wonder if they'd have blown up the Paris Metro if the vote had gone the other way?

Heard about this as soon as it happened. Very tragic.

I too suspect terrorism via al queda or the IRA. the ira has been fairly inactive as of late, and it seems al-queda has greater motives [g8 disruption, olympic plans for london]

An article about the explosions.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe...ube/index.html

can not hold of any one I know down there . F**king bastards.

Likewise. I have 2 uncles and their families in london :|

both my uncles work in the financial district this is going on in =/

Watching on a live newsfeed, some points:

Three explosions, one on a double decker bus and two on the underground train network

Somehow the attacks are being linked to the Olympics announcement yesterday.

Germany's train networks are being monitored.

Bombs have been in packages, the one on the double decker was placed on the top tier at the back

The Army are mobilising on London!!

I'm anxiously awaiting details. An explosion on a tube train, during rush hour...

6 explosions on the tube and one on a bus up to 20 dead

I f-ing hate this BS! I'm soo sick of people doing this shit.The Olympics are about a comming together of counties, the very opposite of all this terrisom crap. NOTHING big has happened in London till they are set to have the olympics.... I'm not even close to london.... but can you imagine if they would have announced that NY was granted to Olympics.... Imagine this in our subway system... ugh!

AQ have claimed responsibility.

If you have people in london, the cell phone network is suffering from volume of calls. That and they've probably cut the traffic so that the emergency services can co-ordinate and also to prevent remote detonations.

It's all gone a bit Pete Tong at the mo. It was London's turn soon and we're used to dealing with bomb threats.

You're suggesting that there were people (now confirmed as suicide bombers) in 5 five different countries, ready to launch a co-ordinated attack on whoever was granted the 2012 olympics.

I got out of Liverpool st station at 8:45. I know cause I checked my watch to see if I had time to get a coffee on the way in to work.

Heard a bang and the alarms went off with the 'Do not enter' signs flashing.

Evidently the first one hit at 8:49 just outside liverpool st station.

It was a toss-up between Paris and London.

The Eurostar is an easy way to get across, and you can also catch a ferry in an afternoon.

The market was bouyant after the olympic news.
If you were a terrorist organisation that needed funds, and you planned to take advantage of the stock market with an attack, what major event announcement do you think you could use to plan your attack? I personally don't think it's coincidental, if I were a terr I'd do it.
I'd be checking the market logs for any odd movements of funds yesterday.

Also, it puts a security fear on anyone planning to invest, or visit in 2012. And that's a major bonus for anyone trying to incite terror.

What did you see, WillyPete?

Hmmm.

The market has really tumbled.
the FTSE has asked trading companies to turn off their automated trading systems that respond to market movements. They've been dumping stocks.

I'd call it a 2-4-1 for any terrorist organisation.

It is hard to imagine these days that in any given country AQ or some other terrorist org is prepared to pounce at any given time? Its only 5 countries....

Nothing really.
I heard a bang and thought it was one of the overground trains shunting into a carriage. The alarms went off and I chalked it up to another typical London underground event.

If you're watching CNN and see images from choppers above a tube station, I work right around the corner from it.

The choppers are overhead right now.

Bloomberg.com has a live feed.



The city was planning on investing about $30billion for the olympics. Do the math.

Glad you're ok WillyPete!!! I hope our other friends in the london area fared as well. :icare:

rather try with email - their work and their home address.
The mobile phones are quite poo at the mo. And they'll all probably calling immediate family to tell them they're ok.

The bombs went off at a time that most people would have been at work already.

8 - 8:30 is the big rush.

The bus blast.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/4...00_245_obi.jpg

BBC news:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4659093.stm

I think this is a pile of bullshit. These bastards timed this with the start of the G8 summit so as to cause as much damage and disruption to peace processes and peoples lives as possibles.

It could have been worse. London, unfortunatly enough, has had many terrorist hits before and knows how to deal with them. It doesn't excuse anything though.

I'm all in favour of closing ports and airports, breaking out the army and hunting down some people. :mad:

I still think it's about crippling london when there's a combination of factors.

Tony Blair was up in Scotland on a well publicised trip to G8.
The mayor was in singapore with the london bid.
Spotlight was on London re 2012 and UK re the g8.
Live8 recently would have lowered security with the sheer load of people moving through the city.
Market was hit badly enough to indicate someone with funds started a 'run' by knowing about the attack and coinciding the confusion with the knowledge that the trader systems will automatically dump stocks if enough movement happens. Couple that with the obvious communication shutdown of mobile phones and other data, would have cause massive panic on the exchange. Major financial damage to the UK.

Just got a hold of some of my friends. One is a home watching it on the telly and the other is stuck in Trafalgar Square not sure how he is going to get home to South London...

Still a few more people to contact.

This really sucks.

IS the truth ! was it a mistake or a cause of damage limitation, to cause max disruption. My brother was at work at 8.30 this morning in Kensington

I cant remember where exactly Strange Famous lives....and I cant get on aim here at work to see if he's on....does anyone know if he's in London?

Just heard on the news here, up to 50 dead? God..

AQ are a bunch of sickos who have no honour. they are not even human, and are invisible to God.

Strange lives in Norwich, which is about 100miles outside London.

thanks jwoody!!!

i just heard it was 45... it's rising fast. 2, 10, 12, 45 and you say 50? nooot good.
:confused:

Monstrous, sickening and cowardly, but not altogether surprising.
We all know the agenda here.
I only hope this will further strengthen world opinion regarding terrorism against the West.
Very sad. My condolences.

I think we are already quite resolved that terrorism is a bad thing and this it should be stopped... as usual we tend disagree on how to stop it.

yes, it was only a question of time when the enemy in this war will strike back.

My sister is in Edinburgh, Scotland right now ... I hope this is contained ... because the G8 is also a nice target as well :(

Logically, I'd say if they wanted maximum amount of casualties, they would have gone with Hyde Park on Saturday with the Live8 concert, that would have also given them (whomever them is) a helluva stage for whatever message they wanted to deliver.

The news keeps reporting that this was the height of rush hour, but I'd imagine that if this occurred earlier or later, the count of those killed and injured would be a lot higher. The objective of terrorism, I think, is not to kill as many people as possible, but to be as disruptive as possible and to cause as much fear and terror as possible.

I really don't understand this stuff. Those groups really HATE us. The depths of their hate boggles the mind. I hope they enjoy spending eternity in hell.

I heard this from a friend working in the city:

I think London and the people of London should be proud of their calm, steadfast and pragmatic response to real crisis, and for getting things working again so quickly after a coordinated attempt to disrupt.

Thankfully for them, they didnt have it near as bad as it could have been

zen_tom, that's pretty impressive.