Terrorist Attack In London.

NZ Spurs · by **NZ Spurs** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:50 am

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NZ Spurs · by **NZ Spurs** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:53 am

Several people have been injured after explosions on the Underground network and a double-decker bus in London. 
 
A police spokesman said there were "quite a large number of casualties" at Aldgate Tube Station. 
 
And Scotland Yard confirmed one of several reports of explosions on buses in the city - in Tavistock Place - but said the cause was not yet known. 
 
One caller to BBC Five said his friend had seen "the bus ripped open like a can of sardines and bodies everywhere." 
 
PA also quoted union officials as saying sources had told them there had been at least one explosive device on the Underground. 
 
British Transport Police Surges took place at Aldgate, Edgware Road, King's Cross, Old Street and Russell Square stations. 
 
Scotland Yard confirmed they were assisting with a "major incident" and said there were casualties. 
 
A spokesman said officers were called out to Aldgate station at 8.50am to assist City of London and British Transport Police. 
 
"All of the emergency services are on scene. There have been some casualties. This has been declared as a major incident," said the spokesman. "It's too early to state what has happened at this stage," he said. 
 
The National Grid, which supplies power to the Underground, said there had been no problems with its system which could have contributed to the incidents. 
 
'Screaming and crying' 
 
Jacqui Head, from BBC News, who had just left King's Cross station on a Piccadilly Line train as an explosion happened, said: "Everything was normal. Suddenly there was a massive bang, the train jolted. 
 
"There was immediately smoke everywhere and it was hot and everybody panicked. People started screaming and crying." 
 
The train was kept in the tunnel for 20 minutes and no announcement was made to explain the delay to passengers, she added. 
 
London Fire Brigade said four crews were at Liverpool Street and more were on their way. 
 
Another passenger, who had left the Tube at Fenchurch Street Station, and walked to Aldgate East, told BBC Five Live that he saw injured people. 
 
"As I walked through the bus station I could see people lying on the ground, black, as if they'd been covered in smoke. There were about three or four people on the floor being treated." 
 
Eyewitness Paul Woloszyn from BBC News, who was at Blackhorse Road station on the Victoria Line, said: "We were told there was a bomb at Liverpool Street station. 
 
 
 
"I was on the Tube, and they stopped the train and told everyone to get off and evacuate the station." 
 
He said staff had said the entire Tube network had been affected, and leaflets had been handed out with details of alternative bus routes. 
 
Another eyewitness, Dorothy Molloy, had been on a Tube train at King's Cross and said "staff just chucked everyone out of the station". 
 
She said staff there had not given any details, but she said two passengers she had spoken to had said they had received messages saying there had been bombs. 
 
"People didn't really know what was going on, they were just huffing and puffing and saying how annoying it was," she said. 
 
"People don't seem to be panicked, but there's so many police and ambulances coming into the areas. People are just concerned, and some are just annoyed at the delay." 
 
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NZ Spurs · by **NZ Spurs** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:27 am

6 explosions, 1 on a bus other 5 underground. 
 
London completely shut down. 
 
At least 2 deaths, 90 casualties confirmed. 
 
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GrandeDavid · by **GrandeDavid** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:09 am

I'm watching reports on it right now on Fox News... <div style="text-align:center"><img src="http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/6171/GD.jpg"/></div>

missmyzte · by **missmyzte** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:09 am

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ace3g · by **ace3g** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 1:12 pm

it has been reported the Death toll in London blasts at least 40. 
 
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ace3g · by **ace3g** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 1:29 pm

Four London blasts kill 37, injure 700 
 
<blockquote>Quote:<hr>LONDON (AP) -- Four blasts rocked the London subway and tore open a packed double-decker bus during the morning rush hour Thursday, sending bloodied victims fleeing in the worst attack on London since World War II. Thirty-seven people were killed, British officials said, and 700 wounded in the terror attacks. 
 
A clearly shaken Prime Minister Tony Blair called the coordinated attacks "barbaric" and said they were designed to coincide with the G-8 summit opening in Gleneagles, Scotland. They also came a day after London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympics. A group calling itself "The Secret Organization of al-Qaida in Europe" claimed responsibility. 
 
The four blasts went off within an hour, beginning at 8:51 a.m. (3:51 a.m. EDT), and hit three subway stations and the double-decker bus. Authorities immediately shut down the subway and bus lines that log 8.4 million passenger trips every weekday. 
 
The bus explosion seemed to go off at the back of the vehicle, said bystander Raj Mattoo, 35. "The roof flew off and went up about 10 meters (30 feet). It then floated back down," he said. "There were obviously people badly injured. A parking attendant said he thought a piece of human flesh had landed on his arm." 
 
Doctors from the nearby British Medical Association rushed into the street to treat the wounded from the bus. "The front of BMA house was completely splattered with blood and not much of the bus was left," said Dr. Laurence Buckman. 
 
"It was chaos," said Gary Lewis, 32, evacuated from a subway train at King's Cross station. "The one haunting image was someone whose face was totally black and pouring with blood." 
 
As the city's transportation system ground to a near-halt, buses were used as ambulances and an emergency medical station was set up at a hotel. Rescue workers, police and ordinary citizens streamed into the streets to help. 
 
Some central London streets emptied of traffic. Groups of commuters who had been on their way to work gathered around corner shops with televisions, watching in silence. The mood was somber and subdued. 
 
At the request of Queen Elizabeth II, the Union Jack flag flying over Buckingham Palace was lowered to half staff. 
 
Blair, flanked by fellow G-8 leaders, including President Bush, read a statement from the leaders. "We shall prevail and they shall not," he said. 
 
"Whatever they do, it is our determination that they will never succeed in destroying what we hold dear in this country and in other civilized nations throughout the world," he said earlier. 
 
Returning to London, he promised an intense police hunt for those responsible. He said he knew most Muslims worldwide "deplore this act of terrorism." 
 
"They are trying to use the slaughter of innocent people to cow us," he said. "They should know they will not succeed." 
 
In Scotland, Bush warned Americans to be "extra vigilant," and his administration raised the terror alert for mass transit a notch to code orange. Security also was stepped up in the U.S. Capitol and in train and bus stations around the country. 
 
Much of Europe also went on alert. Italy's airports raised alert levels to a maximum. The Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, the Netherlands, France and Spain also announced beefed-up security at shopping centers, airports, railways and subways. 
 
The U.N. Security Council was expected to pass a resolution condemning the blasts later Thursday, an official said. 
 
A group calling itself "The Secret Organization of al-Qaida in Europe" posted a claim of responsibility, saying the blasts were in retaliation for Britain's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
 
The statement also threatened attacks in Italy and Denmark, both of which have troops in Iraq. It was published on a Web site popular with Islamic militants, and the text was republished on Elaph, a secular Arabic-language news Web site, and Berlin's Der Spiegel magazine. 
 
The statement's authenticity could not be immediately confirmed, but terrorism experts said the blasts had the trademarks of the al-Qaida network. 
 
"This is clearly an al-Qaida style attack. It was well-coordinated, it was timed for a political event and it was a multiple attack on a transportation system at rush hour," said Lawrence Freedman, professor of war studies at King's College in London. 
 
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Paddick said there had been no arrests, and it was unclear whether suicide bombers were involved. 
 
Asked about the claim of responsibility, Paddick said: "We will be looking at that ... at the moment we don't know if that's a legitimate claim or not." He added British officials had received no prior warning or advance intelligence that the attacks would occur. 
 
European stocks dropped sharply after the blasts, with exchanges in London, Paris and Germany all down about 2 percent. Insurance and travel-related stocks were hit hard, and the British pound also fell. Gold, traditionally seen as a safe haven, rose. 
 
The explosions also unnerved traders on Wall Street, sending stocks down sharply. 
 
Three U.S. law enforcement officials said at least 40 people were killed. They spoke on condition of anonymity and said they learned of the number from their British counterparts. 
 
In London, Paddick said at least 33 people killed in the subway system alone. He confirmed other fatalities on the bus but gave no figures. 
 
Buckman, the London doctor, said ambulance staff told him about 10 people died in the bus blast. BMA doctors treated about nine seriously wounded people in the building's courtyard, two of whom later died, he said. 
 
Officials at seven major hospitals surveyed by The Associated Press reported at least 393 people wounded. Among them, at least 45 were in serious or critical condition, including amputations, fractures and burns, officials said. British police confirmed 37 fatalities and 700 injured. 
 
London Mayor Ken Livingstone said the blasts were "mass murder" carried out by terrorists bent on "indiscriminate ... slaughter." 
 
"This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty or the powerful ... it was aimed at ordinary working-class Londoners," said Livingstone, in Singapore where he supported London's Olympic bid. Giselle Davies, an International Olympic Committee spokeswoman, said the committee still had "full confidence" in London. 
 
Jay Kumar, a business owner near the site of the bus blast, said he ran out of his shop when he heard a loud explosion. The bus's top deck collapsed, sending people tumbling to the floor, he said. Bloodied people ran from the scene. 
 
"A big blast, a big bomb," he told The Associated Press. "People were running this way panicked. They knew it was a bomb. Debris flying all over, mostly glass." 
 
"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," Belinda Seabrook told Press Association, the British news agency. 
 
Traces of explosives were found at two explosion sites, a senior police official said. 
 
Explosions were reported at the Aldgate station near the Liverpool Street railway terminal, Edgware Road and King's Cross in north London, Old Street in the financial district and Russell Square, near the British Museum. 
 
"I saw lots of people coming out covered in blood and soot. Black smoke was coming from the station. I saw several people laid out on sheets," office worker Kibir Chibber, 24, said at the Aldgate subway station. 
 
Simon Corvett, 26, on an eastbound train from Edgware Road station, described "this massive huge bang ... It was absolutely deafening and all the windows shattered." 
 
"You could see the carriage opposite was completely gutted," he said. "There were some people in real trouble." 
 
On March 11, 2004, terrorist bombs on four commuter trains in Madrid killed 191 people.<hr></blockquote> 
 
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by **Vallejo21** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:20 pm

My prayers go out to the citizens of London.

Blondie · by **Blondie** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:29 pm

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Bigdizave · by **Bigdizave** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:44 pm

I'm with everyone here with my sympathy. I freaking love the British. We're joined at the hip with them; arguably more so than we are with Canada.

ManuFanAndrea · by **ManuFanAndrea** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 3:12 pm

Horrible. <img src=http://www.sahoops.net/smilies/frown.gif ALT=":("> 
 
The image of that double decker bus splitting apart and flying across the streets is haunting me. 
 
My thoughts and prayers are with the Londoners. <div style="text-align:center"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/AndreaJB/astros02cos-1.jpg"/></div>

by **Lepramaniac** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 4:11 pm

Well, I hate the British but I don't condone this fu**** criminal acts.

Samr · by **Samr** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:14 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>The image of that double decker bus splitting apart and flying across the streets is haunting me. <hr></blockquote> 
 
Wait, they have VIDEO of that?!?!? ___________________________________________ 
 
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Bigdizave · by **Bigdizave** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:50 pm

Interesting point of view, Lepramaniac. I didn't know how Argentinians felt about Britain since the Falklands War. I guess there is still some animosity between your two countries. For the record Americans love both Britain and Argentina.

NZ Spurs · by **NZ Spurs** on Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:02 pm

"Well, I hate the British but I don't condone this fu**** criminal acts. " 
 
Didn't you pull the same @#%$ after 9/11? nows not the time man.

Terrorist Attack In London.