London Attacks

[Clementine Kruczynski]

My thoughts go out to those in London or with relatives or friends in the city. (I wish we had an emoticon for times like this)


This is the latest from MSNBC

MSNBC News Services
Updated: 6:02 p.m. ET July 7, 2005
LONDON - Four blasts rocked the London subway and tore open a packed double-decker bus during the morning rush hour Thursday, killing dozens in well-coordinated attacks that experts and British officials said bore the signature of al-Qaida.

Thirty-seven people were confirmed killed, and more than 700 were wounded in the attacks.

[Celtic Ceilidh]

My thoughts and prayers are with the victims of the terrorist attacks.

[artemisia14]

All of us here in NY were grateful for your support (the UK). I remember the bobbies here in Washington Square Park, ready to help us in any way they could. Our thoughts are with you and our deepest sympathy

[Brian]

I'm doing this out of respect for our friends across the pond. I rarely ever delve into issues outside of LOST on this board, but I'm making an exception today.

My thoughts and prayers are with all the people of London and the UK today. I've read a lot, I mean a lot about this on the various blogs I visit before I find my way to LOST-TV. The support is world wide, as it should be. Like those attacked on 9/11, the people of London were doing nothing more than going to work to provide for their families this morning and certainly didn't deserve what happened to them. The resiliency of the British people showed through today.

It was good to read the thoughts of several British folks who said that after the initial chaos subsided somewhat, they continued on with life as normal. In today's day and age, it's amazing what "normal" has come to mean. To do otherwise would signal defeat or apprehension and most of those I know online refuse to allow that to happen. Thanks to the IRA, the British have been exposed to this before, although I don't think on this large a scale.

I'm sure that those in London and the UK know that we are united in this fight and our support for you will never waiver just as your support for us, and Spain, never waivered. I thank each of you for that personally. If at all humanly possible, I'd love to attend the Olympics in London purely out of support for what happened today.

I can't remember who said it, or the exact quote but, "If we're going to have war, let it be in my time so that my children will know peace."

Just as the British people displayed the US flag in the days following 9/11 as a show of support, I do the same here today.

[chrisberni]

Yesterday I was thinking of everyone who is, or has relatives, friends, acquaintances in London, and I still am thinking of you all today. A friend of mine who works in London had a narrow miss - I was so relieved when I heard she was safe!

[Warthawg1]

it's amazing what "normal" has come to mean

What's a bit frightening is there are people that will accept terrorism as "normal". I was talking to a Japanese fellow and somehow we fell upon the subject of the war on terrorism. This chap noted he disagreed with our troops being overseas because we just needed to accept that terrorism is part of todays world, and we can't do anything about it.

Pardon me if I say that I find that thought sickening. If anyone want's to accept terrorist attacks as a "normal" risk of everyday life, then let them.... but I for one will not.

[Clementine Kruczynski]

The latest from MSNBC on the types of explosives used. Hope the cetch the bastards who did this.


MSNBC News Services
Updated: 4:45 p.m. ET July 8, 2005
LONDON - Thursday's deadly blasts in London's transit system were likely caused by easy-to-make and easy-to-conceal explosives set off by simple timers, explosives experts said Friday.

More than 50 people were confirmed dead in the four blasts, which were timed for London's morning rush hour, and hundreds more were injured. Rescuers were struggling through wreckage in the tunnels deep under London hunting for bodies and clues.

Police said the four bombs that hit the London transportation network on Thursday weighed less than 10 pounds each, small enough to be carried in a backpack. They were left on the floor of the subway trains and either a seat or the floor of the the double-decker bus that was ripped apart in the Bloomsbury neighborhood, said Assistant Police Commissioner Andy Hayman.

The bombs were likely crude homemade devices, probably made from simple, relatively easy-to -obtain plastic explosives, not the higher-grade military plastics like Semtex, said Andy Oppenheimer, a weapons expert who consults for Jane's Information Group. Higher-grade explosives would have killed far more people, he said.

[artemisia14]

I'm kinda hoping they throw them in the Thames and let the fish eat them very slowly.

Russell Square is 173 steps down. I know because I was in that tube in the summer of 2002 and freaked when I realized how deep it is and never took the tube again.
Most of the tube seems 2-4 stories deep but I think there is an elevation in that location and that's why they can't retrieve the bodies yet. There is no escalator at that stop, only an elevator.
I took the NYC subway foa a year and a half after 9-11 and then one day I saw 30 CTU and that was it for me.

Just what kind of idealogy is this? What do they hope to prove? These people make Hitler look innocuous.

Londoners-you make us proud!

[feigenbaum]

Thank you everyone for the prayers and support.Really appreciate it.I was on holiday in the south of England when it happened.I had to fly back to Scotland the day after which was quite weird with all heightened security.
Thanks again.

[Mattie]

Glad to hear you are alright feigen. Our thoughts are with you...