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London Bombings (Originally: Tube warning after 'bang' heard)

fitinferno said:
But I guess the series knows most of the names/numbers of the people important to them? Maybe they'll tell them if something's happened to someone they know, but otherwise not?
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I think you've hit the nail on the head! Wasn't BB-US running when 9/11 occured? I'm sure a similar stance was taken there as well.... I could be wrong of course!?
 
I just want to express my sympathy for you guys in London, and all of England. My hearts go out to you, and I know the sick feeling you have right now. It's that hold your breath feeling, where you don't know what to think.
 
edesignuk said:
They've even closed the Wetherspoons!!!!! It must be serious!!!!!
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

So, what's the latest with yourself - are you still couped-up in the Wharf?
 
people have been sending videophone footage into the news channels..hopefully it will start to come online soon so we can start to understand just what it was like inside those trains.

an aunt of mine who was on her way to work at south kensington was TWO TRAINS behind one of the bombed ones. I'm sorry, but if that happened to me i would be *totally* freaked out.
 
Jaffa Cake said:
The source is unconfirmed, but the transcript is up on the BBC.
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from the statement:
We have fulfilled our promise and carried out our blessed military raid in Britain after our mujahideen exerted strenuous efforts over a long period of time to ensure the success of the raid.
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sounds like it's over, eh? this round, anyway.

edit: for those who haven't clicked, the group claiming responsibility is the Secret Organisation Group of al-Qaeda of Jihad Organisation in Europe.
 
So my question is what does the governments do with subway systems? Is it possible to check every single person that goes onto the subway and busses? is that where we are now?

also apparently this group that claimed responsibility also stated for denmark and italy to pull their troops out of Iraq.....
 
Lau said:
I hope they're ok. Although it seems really scary, it is still a reasonably small number of the London population affected. Even though your friend works nearby, they are probably ok. My thoughts are with you, mate. (And anyone else who is worried about loved ones).

The only person i know who would have actually travelled through those stations is my dad, and as he's a lazy bastard he was just traveling in from Essex, and my brother phoned him and he went back home again.
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It is a reasonably small number, so that is good. And most of the people I know are poor students who can't afford the tube. I'm sure he's fine...it's just, I don't know how he travels to work, but I know he generally gets there very early. So he was probably already at work...but he's on Vodafone, so I can't confirm...kinda frustrating.

Glad to hear your dad wound up turning around and going home! It's always good just to be able to be sure your ppl are safe.
 
eva01 said:
Is it possible to check every single person that goes onto the subway and busses? is that where we are now?
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not without increasing travel times 10 or 100 fold. anyone wishing to disrupt any organized system has entropy on their side. it's not possible to defeat terrorism, so long as the desire to effect political change through violence remains.
 
Who was it?

Public transport is popular in London and the terrorists are hoping that people will be scared off busses and trains. Maybe they just wanted to hurt as many people as possible. Who knows? The frustrating thing about these attacks is that no-one has taken responsibility for them, leaving a lot of angry and confused people to clean up the mess.
 
Michael Howard's being interviewed now, bit of a contrast between him and Blair. Howard seems a bit bumbling and rubbish. Although it's different to doing a speech, I suppose.
 
My thoughts go out to everyone who was affected by the daft actions of others.

We are just lucky that there were only a few fatalities, and I just hope that the government will be able to sort this out quickly and thoroughly, and that G8 will be able to continue help ths world.

::20ROGERSC::
 
Sol said:
Public transport is popular in London and the terrorists are hoping that people will be scared off busses and trains. Maybe they just wanted to hurt as many people as possible. Who knows? The frustrating thing about these attacks is that no-one has taken responsibility for them, leaving a lot of angry and confused people to clean up the mess.
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That seems to be something they really do want to do when it comes to terrorism in London. But it's not necessarily that they want to scare them off buses and trains in general. They want fear overall. They want you to be afraid to go out of the house and they want you to worry about what will happen to you when you do. And in many cases, it works. One of my friends last year couldn't wait to get out of London because she was so scared of something happening to her on a tube or a bus.

The way I see it, however, is that if I were to be scared into not taking the tube or bus, the terrorists win. And, various things can always happen when you go out. There's a number of ways that one could wind up getting hurt or killed upon leaving the house and even within the house. I took out the last sentence here because I felt it's not explained well enough. Increased advertisement doesn't mean increased statistics is what it added up to, though.
 
Apparently one report is stating that there are people trapped in a subway station now. I hope they get to them safely
 
20rogersc said:
We are just lucky that there were only a few fatalities...
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I've got a horrible feeling that the number of fatalities is going to increase greatly. With many of the bombs going off in underground tunnels, it's very likely that there are a lot of bodies down there. We won't get a clearer picture until the emergency services have had a chance to really get into the scene of the explosions.
 
I really hope that our respective nations can come together and first, try to keep London's citizens safe, keep their economy strong, and then once we make sure that all this is taken care of, that we can go after these people who have "no respect for human life"
 
fitinferno said:
The way I see it, however, is that if I were to be scared into not taking the tube or bus, the terrorists win. And, various things can always happen when you go out. There's a number of ways that one could wind up getting hurt or killed upon leaving the house and even within the house. I took out the last sentence here because I felt it's not explained well enough. Increased advertisement doesn't mean increased statistics is what it added up to, though.
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Well said. Assuming that the DLR is running by the time I leave work I'll be taking it home without hesitation. You are probably more likely to be run over by a bus than blown up on one (at least in London).
 
I don't mean to cause excess alarm but I have a mate working at Churchill Insurance in Bromley South - Extreme SE London (i live the next town over), and he says he can't leave the building - Bromley South station is closed and guarded and their Croydon office has been evacuated due to yet another bomb scare. This day could get worse.
 
it's a sad day when we have to worry about using the public transport

i've been following the news all day and i am still shocked with whats gone on today - i just hope this is the end of the attacks and not the start of things to come.

my heart goes out to all people in london and there familys involved in this dreadfull attack

we will not change our way of life for these evil people
 
20rogersc said:
We are just lucky that there were only a few fatalities
::20ROGERSC::
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While I understand what you are saying, it's not the body count that terrorists try to go after. It's the fear that they want to instill in you. Even if there weren't any deaths, there could be a hospital room full of 90+ injured people. You also have people afraid to go out and spend money, which will cripple the economy.

Just think about what you write before you submit it. Try telling what you said to the families that lost loved ones. Again, I know what you meant, and I'm greatful that more people didn't lose their lives, but just they way you worded it sounded harsh to me.
 
I just ran across these pictures, one of them is a cell phone pic of someone in a subway. I hope they all get out okay.

Subway Pic
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I hear lots of people are receiving pics from their friends and families.
 
hob said:
I don't mean to cause excess alarm but I have a mate working at Churchill Insurance in Bromley South - Extreme SE London (i live the next town over), and he says he can't leave the building - Bromley South station is closed and guarded and their Croydon office has been evacuated due to yet another bomb scare. This day could get worse.
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They are trying their best to keep people in their places. All the stations, I would guess, are being guarded today, at least if they are anywhere within Zone 1 and 2 here.

Since he is working there, they have a better time forcing them to stay in. The place where I live is trying to get us to stay in (SE1), but since we live here, they can't really force us...
 
hob said:
I don't mean to cause excess alarm but I have a mate working at Churchill Insurance in Bromley South - Extreme SE London (i live the next town over), and he says he can't leave the building - Bromley South station is closed and guarded and their Croydon office has been evacuated due to yet another bomb scare. This day could get worse.
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Hopefully it's a false alarm. they closed Swindon station earlier because of a suspicious package on the platform, and obviously took it mega seriously, and evacuated trains, station, everything, then had to do a controlled explosion. It turned out to just be a package some arse had left on the platform.

So I expect they are (quite rightly) taking everything that could possibly be suspicious as very suspicious, and hopefully it's just a false alarm.
 
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