EXPLOSIONS REPORTED ON LONDON TUBES. BREAKING NEWS
x | 21.07.2005 12:28
Details are only now emerging. It does not appear too serious. Radio 5 also seem to be providing good coverage.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2005/07/21/incidents_on_the_tube.html
By Neil McIntosh / UK news 01:15pm
1315 We're getting new reports of a "series of incidents" on the tube network. Warren Street, Oval and Shepherd's Bush tubes have all been evacuated, and emergency services are attending. Services on the Victoria line and Northern line have been suspended.
Sky News is reporting a minor explosion on one tube at 1254. A passenger's backpack blew apart, but did not cause further damage. There was panic on the train, but passengers were able to disembark.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2005/07/21/incidents_on_the_tube.html
By Neil McIntosh / UK news 01:15pm
1315 We're getting new reports of a "series of incidents" on the tube network. Warren Street, Oval and Shepherd's Bush tubes have all been evacuated, and emergency services are attending. Services on the Victoria line and Northern line have been suspended.
Sky News is reporting a minor explosion on one tube at 1254. A passenger's backpack blew apart, but did not cause further damage. There was panic on the train, but passengers were able to disembark.
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unconfirmed
21.07.2005 12:37
ghuy
You can't get the staff these days...
21.07.2005 13:17
What do these Al Qaeda wannabes have in common with the BNP? Both want us to think that Britain is crawling with thousands of super-trained terrorist fanatics. Both want to start a hate war.
Come on London - are we really going to let these people scare us?
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Man wanted
21.07.2005 14:29
Support
Yes
21.07.2005 14:52
Matt K
Death to all terrorists!
21.07.2005 15:38
Why would anyone want to support these terrorist? They should be hanged instead!
bh90210
At least that's what they'r called when they slaughter Jewish kids
21.07.2005 16:02
Please, not "terrorists" call them Freedom Fighters
You know, like when the Freedom Fighters blow up innocent Israelis...
Why not support the Freedom Fighters that continue to attack London?
They not "terrosrists" they're freedom fighters
I'm not denying that there's a threat
21.07.2005 16:03
I do live in London and I refuse to go about my life being scared over this kind of thing. Neither do I have too much sympathy with my chainsmoking bingedrinking fellow citydwellers keeping themselves awake at night worrying about dying from terrorism.
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Conguency instead of Inter-Penetration by Nails
21.07.2005 16:55
white societies, called empire or multitude such as tube scale as thumb bewitched backlash against human fucked up's. The dominancy is scripted again in mediophobic announcement of racist categories to defy a secularianism in everywhere'how to demand Paki's/Jamaican's...in scrumble fo a blast for FTSE100
victims shameless speculation.
Fuck Off White London!
Black Block Paki
Save the whale
21.07.2005 17:09
...Citizen 'Wolfie' Smith is alive and well........
Jografer
Britian is a fascist undemocratic country
21.07.2005 17:23
"'Why did bush knock down the towers?" - Jadakiss
George Washington
you people have got to be kidding
21.07.2005 18:34
not only is the jury out on what happened a fortnight ago, but as for today's events, who can say?
the information we get is almost preposterous: there were no charges, only detonators! suspects seemed as if "something went wrong" and ran off with wires trailing out of their clothes!
does this sound ridiculous to you? when compared with the brutal perfection of the previous attacks, we are now to believe that these jokers are in the same league? what?
here, since you are all tossing in verdicts without evidence, let me try:
the four "bombers" of the 7th seemed like young men with everything to live for. if you ask me, they thought they were running drugs and on the way to a big pay-off, not wired to blow up! they bought return tickets, paid parking, were in high spirits... supposedly to "fool us?" oh, come now! those men were tricked, they were expendable to some madmen pulling the strings. and until some actual reasonable evidence is shown, why do you assume these Al Quaida quacks are behind it?
as for today, now put on the thinking cap, why on earth would the fools have detonators only? so they could be witnessed by hundreds of people, captured on video and caught? and oh, no doubt these fellows really did plan on blowing up! but that does not have any "resonance" to the earlier attacks, if you ask me. quite the opposite. in the first case, you have some young fools who thought they were making easy money, ending up as unwitting bombers. in the second case you have blokes who wanted to cause harm, caught-red handed. they were set up to take the fall.
well, that's how one cheese-eater sees it! and stand a pint for the soul who actually proves that "radical islamists" are behind this, and not some other sinister people who are adept at running these covert operations.
skeptic
Britian is a fascist undemocratic country...yea, whatever
21.07.2005 20:59
I love an American ex-president's quote being used to extole freedom. Oh the irony....
Boab
Pulled thread
21.07.2005 21:16
It was on the front page of this site at 21:40 UK time.
dave
Ben Franklin was never a US President
21.07.2005 22:24
Boab "
um.....Boab, Ben Franklin was never a US President. He was the postmaster general for the colony of massachusetts, and helped start the American Revolution. He was also an inventor, musician, anti slavery advocate and statesman.
"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power." - Ben Franklin
George Washington
SO19 shoot-to-kill
21.07.2005 22:25
Simon
support?
21.07.2005 23:58
On what grounds? Please enlighten me. Do you know something the rest of us don't? If you don't maybe you shouldn't start calling this a witchunt against brown people. Wait for the facts to come out. Anything else makes you look like a moron. You could potentially be organizing support for a terrorist.
And oh yeah, go get some medication for your extreme case of paranoia.
Ed
Just curious
22.07.2005 00:15
If you got your foot blown off in a bombing on the tube by terrorists who didn't want British troops in Iraq and you also didn't want troops in Iraq would you try to seek revenge on Blair (somehow) or would you seek revenge on terrorists who blew your foot off?
Jerzy Czenjolzk
why so sure
22.07.2005 00:26
YES BUT SURELY THATS UNLIKELY GIVEN THE BRITISH POLICE FORCES' RECORD WITH TERRORIST SUSPECTS. HOW MANY ACTUALLY GUILTY PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED FOR THE IRA BOMBINGS IN ENGLAND AND HOW MANY DETAINEES WERE INNOCENT?
justwondering
Why feed trolls?
22.07.2005 06:39
BRB
no food for trolls
22.07.2005 13:06
Anyone that is trying to organize support for an individual accused of a terrorist act, especially when no facts have been brought forth, is a complete dipshit, and not worthy of any self-respecting human being's respect.
This sub-human slime makes indymedia look horrible, and that's hard to do.
I'm done.
Ed
Yeah
22.07.2005 15:30
Matt K
terrorism
22.07.2005 19:20
Are you saying that they weren't terrorists?
If you are, you're really stupid.
EMR