London underground Explodes

[parsley]

just seen on the 6 o'clock news, that London (more specifically) along with most of the rest of England, stood still for 2 minutes yesterday..

Apparently they did the same in Germany - stopped all the buses and trains as well. Good on ya Fritz!

[scumdog]

After reading this thread and with the hope that any intended terrorists also reading the same type of info I hope they (the terrorists) realise they have accomplished NOTHING except killing a few innocents and pissing off a whole lot more people.

[TwoSeven]

They are just lucky they didnt blow up a pub. God forbid the loser who manages to spill the pints of a whole heap of poms. Would be worse if it had been in jordyville. Nuthin worse than a jordy with a suddenly short measure.

[Posh Tourer :P]

Well, sorry for being out of contact for so long, but I have been on the road. I was actually heading towards the M25 (London Ring Rd) when I heard the news. It didnt make much difference to the ring road, and the congestion hadn't reached out there until about 11, by which time I was happily off the M25 and down the M4 to Wales. However, all the electronic signs were warning "Avoid London Turn on Radio", which I think got everyone a bit nervous.

From what I've heard, London seems to have responded remarkably well as a whole, the people getting on with business, and the emergency services being very efficient. There was the story of the 88yr old woman who was going to the WWII memorial service, but found her bus had been cancelled. She was going to turn back, but when she found out that it was a terrorist attack (dirka dirka mohammed jihad!) she turned round and walked 5 and a half miles to get to the service! Basically she said 'look what happened last time we backed down to these type of people (WWII)', and refused to back down or change her plans because of them. Interesting....

There have been any number of debates going on in the talkback arena. There have been those who say it is all down to Iraq, those who say it is muslims, a muslim who claimed it was the CIA, and any number of other opinions.

I do not believe that Iraq had much to do with this at all, directly. The bombers were british born, and either through their social groups or through the newspapers/their experience, got so disillusioned with Britain that they decided to try something. Unfortunately, because of the great amount of media coverage suicide bombers have been getting, especially in the past 3 years, they turned to that as a way of making a point


I think the most interesting debate has been about the entire muslim faith.


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