London terrorist attack ?!

[Morgana]

At 9.00 this morning ( English ) time several explosions occured in London . A doubldecker red londonbus blew his top off .
Is terrorisme coming to Europe ?
You can read all about it here ;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4659093.stm

I go to London every year , and stay in the area the bus exploded . It's really stranges to see familiar surrondings on TV in that state . The bus , the witness accounts :stunned: . The area is full of hotels , with lots of tourists .

[Morgana]

Now it seams that there where 6 explosions . . . and there were casualties !
Also the complete underground is at a stand still .there are lots of people trapped in the tubes .

[MacKahlia]

I just saw on TV... HOW HORRIBLE!
I'll be sending good and loving thoughts and prayers to the people of London ---
Oh how terrible.
:cry:

[Ysobelle]

Is it coming to Europe?

When I lived in London, not a week went by without some manner of attack by the IRA. A shooting, a bombing-- something. G-d. That's awful.

[Lady Laurel]

go to London every year , and stay in the area the bus exploded . It's really stranges to see familiar surrondings on TV in that state . The bus , the witness accounts . The area is full of hotels , with lots of tourists

Yep I know what you mean I was there last summer. We took the tubes that were bombed into London. I feel so bad for them.

[KissMeKate]

Information is coming in every minute, but it will probably be days before we know most of the details. I know I will be listening as long as I can today.

It doesn't appear to be IRA. Not only have they been fairly quiet, but there was no warning before the attacks happened.

One thing that really irks me about American reporters. They concentrate on the death count, as if that number can be compared to other occurences to determine how severe the situation is. There is more to an event than that - injured, missing, destruction and damage to buildings and other surrounding areas. Get with the program, people! :x

[Lady Longfellow]

According to sources, al-Qaeda is taking credit for this horror in London - and here, I thought it was the disgruntle French for loosing the bid for the 2012 Olympics (I know, bad humor). :roll:

[I'Cin]

It is horrible - several of the attorneys in my firm's London office thake the tube and the buses but luckily all have been accounted for and, apparently, uninjured. It's making me think twice about taking the metro here in DC home, though. . . .

Cindy

[WenchLadyKate]

I've been watching it this morning. :shock: So far, I think they said 40 casualties. This sucks. Bet our Terror Alert will rise to plaid or whatever.

My heart goes out to them. Perhaps I'll go light a candle. Yea... I think I'll do that.

[Lady Sarah]

I've been watching it this morning. :shock: So far, I think they said 40 casualties. This sucks. Bet our Terror Alert will rise to plaid or whatever.

My heart goes out to them. Perhaps I'll go light a candle. Yea... I think I'll do that.

I know it's in poor taste, but when I read "rise to plaid" I heard John Candy's voice in my head.

This is terrible. When I woke up to the newscast this morning, I first thought it was a bad dream and I was halfway taken back to the 9/11. Y'know, the Brits are one nation of people I honest to god wouldn't wanna bomb or piss off. It didn't work for the Nazis and it's not gonna work for the Al-Qaeda.

[Cyranno DeBoberac]

It didn't work for the Nazis and it's not gonna work for the Al-Qaeda.
You beat me to it.

London survived The Blitz; a handful of barbarians with backpack bombs is a mosquito bite by comparison.

[Janelle of Warren]

Besides shock and empathy for the people of London, I'm seriously wierded out by this. I was out with some faire friends last night and what, of all things, came up? 911 (and I actually introduced the topic). Then I wake up this morning to the news of the terrorist attacks in London. :stunned: I'm somewhat unsettled by the "coincidence."

['Nise]

Call me paranoid but I'm not counting it as Al-Queida till the investigation is over. They are well known enough that if I was another terroist group I'm set them up for the blame. I imagine in a few weeks we'll have a clearer picture of what happened.

As of this morning there was no plans to raise the US terror alert, although general warnings have been issued about strange packages on mass trasportation. Right now there are only 4 confirmed bombing.

Quite frankly I am amazed. Relativily the casualty count has been nearly miracously low. This could have been so much worse.

Love
'Nise

[Jeannie Fitzgerald]

Call me paranoid but I'm not counting it as Al-Queida till the investigation is over. They are well known enough that if I was another terroist group I'm set them up for the blame. I imagine in a few weeks we'll have a clearer picture of what happened.

As of this morning there was no plans to raise the US terror alert, although general warnings have been issued about strange packages on mass trasportation. Right now there are only 4 confirmed bombing.

Quite frankly I am amazed. Relativily the casualty count has been nearly miracously low. This could have been so much worse.

Love
'Nise

My money is on either Al-Quaida or a splinter faction fancying itself to be Al-Quaida. Part of the purpose pf terrorism is to draw attention to the terrorists cause and force the people thir victims represent to comply with their desires. Shifting blame to another group would normally defeat that purpose.

[Alys Twopenny]

We, my husband, my daughter and myself lived in London and have travel there yearly before and after our residence. We still have 2 very dear friends that live in/near the city center, I'm relatively certain that neither of them travels in the areas struck by the bombs, but the very erie thing is that while we lived there (Kensington) my daughter attended school just off Edgeware Road and the Edgeware Road station that was bombed was HER station (it was my stop when I went to the gym) she would get off the train just before 9 am every morning.
London (next to my birth place Los Angeles) is my most beloved city and my heart goes out to it's citizens.
Alys

[*Gremco]

My mother-in-law called me yesterday to give me the news. Its horrible. My fiance will be attending the University of East London this year. I was quite fond of the Underground when I visited. Very tragic to see all those people hurt. My thoughts go out to them.

[*Gremco]

My mother-in-law called me yesterday to give me the news. Its horrible. My fiance will be attending the University of East London this year. I was quite fond of the Underground when I visited. Very tragic to see all those people hurt. My thoughts go out to them.

[*Gremco]

My mother-in-law called me yesterday to give me the news. Its horrible. My fiance will be attending the University of East London this year. I was quite fond of the Underground when I visited. Very tragic to see all those people hurt. My thoughts go out to them.

[Lady Laurel]

It is just horrible. I am with Nise thoough. There are so many people that take the tubes everyday it could have been worse.

[LdyJhawk]

I have a small herd of friends in London, and all of them were more annoyed at the delay than terribly shocked. It's a very stiff upper lip thing, I imagine. To the point where BBC showed a guy who had been on the bus that exploded saying calmly "I wonder if I should just go home or find another bus to work". They survived more than this, and at least the IRA had the polite dignity to phone in tips with code words so people at least knew the explosion was going to happen. Pff..it's been said there before "We've been bombed by a higher quality of bastard than you". My hearts go out to the families and victims, and my admiration to a city that doesn't let the true terror win. They just keep going on