[Changleen]

There has been a co-ordinated bombing attack in London. It appears that 7 bombs went off in major London stations and on some Busses.

At this stage it is being attributed to 'Al Queda' by most sources.

There are no concrete reports of the number of dead, although it appears it is a low number at this stage.

 

[stevew]

I'm happy they aren't showing the double decker bus that got blown in half.

I hope the brits that post on this board are okay.

 

[Changleen]

They are on the Beeb

 

[Changleen]

Between 2 and 90 deaths are being reported at this stage. - Most people are reporting a low end number.

 

[N8 v2.0]

Reporting 2 dead and 180 wounded on the news here this morning...

 

[enkidu]

I hope our fluffie is ok.

 

[N8 v2.0]

 

[N8 v2.0]

I hope our fluffie is ok.

ditto....

 

[fluff]

I'm fine. It's a few years since I lived or worked in London though I still have plenty of friends up there who work in affected areas that I hope are OK.

Atmosphere is strange even where I am a hundred or so miles away and our local train station and some roads are shut (presumably a precautionary measure).

It was only ever really a matter of time until something like this happened.

 

[N8 v2.0]

I'm fine. It's a few years since I lived or worked in London though I still have plenty of friends up there who work in affected areas that I hope are OK.

Atmosphere is strange even where I am a hundred or so miles away and our local train station and some roads are shut (presumably a precautionary measure).

It was only ever really a matter of time until something like this happened.

Glad to hear you are safe... hope your mates are as well...

 

[enkidu]

I'm fine. . .

It was only ever really a matter of time until something like this happened.

Good to hear that you are alright. . . We can't afford to lose our in-house reclusive wizard.

It really was a matter of time. As a former CIA analyst, Michael Scheuer, writes in Imperial Hubris (p.263) as long as our policies toward the Muslim world are not changed they will only serve to fuel the Islamists' explosive hatred. Which, in turn, generates anti-Muslim hatred.

"The Islamists in al Qaeda, in other similar groups, and ordinary Muslims worldwide have been infected by hatred for U.S. policies toward the Muslim world. America's support for Israel, Russia, China, India, Algeria, Uzbekistan, and others against Islamists; its protection of multiple Muslim tyrannies; its efforts to control oil policy and pricing; and its military activities in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula, and elsewhere - these are the sources of the infection of hatred spreading in the Islamic world."

Are we to "stay the course" of this spiral widening of the hateful chasm?

 

[pnj]

how much safer are we?

 

[Toshi]

how much safer are we?

you and i are safe. one would assume that densely populated cities (nyc, dc, boston even), especially with mass transit as in london, would be the most likely targets.

in the sense that the united states and britain basically share the same policy we're all equally at risk.

 

[pnj]

you and i are safe. one would assume that densely populated cities (nyc, dc, boston even), especially with mass transit as in london, would be the most likely targets.

in the sense that the united states and britain basically share the same policy we're all equally at risk.

didn't they stop a plot to blow up the space needle?

 

[manimal]

didn't they stop a plot to blow up the space needle?

i thought that bug took off with it in MEN IN BLACK?

 

[Toshi]

didn't they stop a plot to blow up the space needle?

show me the conviction. rumors and fear are easy to, uh, monger, but are also quite divorced from reality (especially when the govt is doing the gossiping)

 

[reflux]

blah blah blah...lots of stuff about "them" hating our freedom

Gawd, isn't American propaganda great?

 

[Changleen]

Gawd, isn't American propaganda great?

??? Are you being sarcastic or did you misunderstand it?

 

[enkidu]

blah blah blah...lots of stuff about "them" hating our freedom

Gawd, isn't American propaganda great?

. . . our freedom to ram through ineffective destructive policies which only exacerbate pain and suffering of "them" and "us"?

 

[Changleen]

Ah, I see. Excuse me. I thought he was addressing the whole thing.

 

[reflux]

??? Are you being sarcastic or did you misunderstand it?

It's a poor attempt at e-sarcasm. Saddly enough, the average American thinks that brute force is the only way to solve a problem. What's worse is that politicians use this to their advantage. For what? To get elected to another damn term.


F'ers.

 

[reflux]

. . . our freedom to ram through ineffective destructive policies which only exacerbate pain and suffering of "them" and "us"?

Well said my e-friend.

**edit - fyi, the is sarcastic**

 

[Changleen]

Messages of sympathy and condolences poured in from European and Middle Eastern nations, particularly those whose civilian populations had been targeted by militants.

"We Spaniards know well the suffering that the British people are going through today," Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said, referring to train bombs in Madrid which killed 191 people last year. "We unite with their grief as they and so many other people united with ours."

Prime Minister Tony Blair said the attacks were "barbaric", London Mayor Ken Livingstone called them "mass murder" and Queen Elizabeth referred to "the dreadful events in London".

Iran and Syria, both on Washington's list of states sponsoring terrorism, joined an unbroken chorus of condemnation, as did the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and Lebanon's Shi'ite Muslim Hizbollah guerrillas.

Wow. Not bad. These guys arn't going to last long.

 

[chicodude]

Wow. Not bad. These guys arn't going to last long.

looks like nobody likes the new kid. Good.