London underground Explodes

[mikey]

GUNS DONT KILL PEOPLE, reporters do

[Biff]

I've just managed to get through to my London based family, some that live in the city, others just over the river in Greenwich. Ms Biff and I panicked for a short while as it was proving impossible to get through by phone as all the circuits were busy.

My thoughts are with those effected by these cowardly attacks. Attacks most likely, although not confirmed, to have been carried out by Islamic extremists. Cowards that mercifully failed to detonate their explosives during the rush hour, because if they did you can guarantee that the death and casualty toll would have been much greater.

Let's not start with the verbal assaults against Muslims in general folks. It's these kinds of misdirected attitudes that have resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands if not millions of innocent people over the years. Intolerance breads violence, and this atrocity appears to have been caused by a very small minority of an otherwise peaceful religion.

Don't forget London, its inhabitants, and emergency services are used to these kinds of attacks. After all the IRA bombed the city for decades, killing hundreds of innocent people. Over the years the British people have learned to carry on with their lives, refusing to bow down to these attempts to weaken their resolve and effect their daily lives. If the scum that were behind this attack honestly believe that this will impact on the British, and indeed the belief of the western world as a whole, then they are wrong. London will be pretty much back to normal in a few days, the war against terror will continue, and these people will be hunted until the ends of the earth in order to bring them to justice.

Actually, the City of London has it's own police force - the Metropolitan Police.

Not quite correct. There are two overt police forces in London - City of London Police look after an area of around a mile square around parliment buildings, the Met look after the rest. Then there are the law enforcement and national security organisations you don't see.

[MSTRS:Me]

The half-life of Caesium-137 and Strontium-90 is around 30 years for each, so you probably want to wait approximately 600 years before returning to the region to pump the rest out...

More than enough time to grow those pubes back

And to read the Bible, Talmud , Koran in an effort to understand then give up & become a Buddhist

[TonyB]

Also, I'd suggest that if people dont know anything about religion - i'd refrain from commenting on it. Because a few people here are spreading FUD by quoting shite the've heard via the gossip tree and its rather embarrasing at best.

LOL. I for one wish I'd never opened my big uninformed gob....or is that typed with my big uninformed fingers?? No more FUD from me

[Ixion]

according to me... its alrite.. im not sure as to why I havent been hassled that much (apart from this one time at the airport) but other then that, all i can say is NZers, thank God are more educated / aware of what actually is going on then some Americans.

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That's good to hear.

[MSTRS:Me]

But one thing is for sure.... while in the mall or walking down the street... there are some who gives that "wierd" look - like they wanna say something but are too scared.. lol

Now be honest - most of us get nervous around burkhas & AK47s

[parsley]

I've just managed to get through to my London based family, some that live in the city, others just over the river in Greenwich.

Good to hear yours are alright. I got through to my sister last night and the immediate family's okay, but it'll be a while before I know about all my friends in London.

Not quite correct. There are two overt police forces in London - City of London Police look after an area of around a mile square around parliment buildings, the Met look after the rest. Then there are the law enforcement and national security organisations you don't see.

Okay, so I didn't know what I was talking about. But I think the point still stands - increased security in Scotland will not effect London policing.

[eliot-ness]

Peace will reign on earth when the last stone, from the last church, falls on the head of the last priest.
There has never been, nor ever will be, a religion that will not condone warfare as a means to it's own ends. Look back through history. The victors always had God on their side.

[MrMelon]

A letter to the terrorists, from london

What the fuck do you think you're doing?

This is London. We've dealt with your sort before. You don't try and pull this on us.

Do you have any idea how many times our city has been attacked? Whatever you're trying to do, it's not going to work.

All you've done is end some of our lives, and ruin some more. How is that going to help you? You don't get rewarded for this kind of crap.

And if, as your MO indicates, you're an al-Qaeda group, then you're out of your tiny minds.

Because if this is a message to Tony Blair, we've got news for you. We don't much like our government ourselves, or what they do in our name. But, listen very clearly. We'll deal with that ourselves. We're London, and we've got our own way of doing things, and it doesn't involve tossing bombs around where innocent people are going about their lives.

And that's because we're better than you. Everyone is better than you. Our city works. We rather like it. And we're going to go about our lives. We're going to take care of the lives you ruined. And then we're going to work. And we're going down the pub.

So you can pack up your bombs, put them in your arseholes, and get the fuck out of our city.

[placidfemme]

Thats a good letter and it pretty much sums it up...

[Lou Girardin]

It seems from the timing of the attacks that the bus bomb was carried on by a suicide bomber when they were loading the buses with people evacuated from the tubes. Evil, but cunning aren't they.
But as another post said, you really don't want to rouse the Poms, there may be a show trial of some of those who did this. But most will quietly vanish with a little SAS and MI 6 help.

PS I've just realised the inappropriateness of my previous sig. Might just quietly change that for a while.

[Big Dave]

What i 'pray' for - apart from that it never happened and no-one was hurt of course - is that at the moment the suicide bomber presses the button, he comes to the horrible realisation that the entrance to ANY heaven is barred to fuckers that kill innocents - and he completely shits himself as his last thought is of his own stupid death and the fact that his soul is going to rot in whatever hell he belives in.

[El Dopa]

Let's not start with the verbal assaults against Muslims in general folks. It's these kinds of misdirected attitudes that have resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands if not millions of innocent people over the years. Intolerance breads violence, and this atrocity appears to have been caused by a very small minority of an otherwise peaceful religion.

Hear, hear. I don't go round slagging off ALL catholics becuase IRA scum kill innnocent people, so think before you react.

Myself and my wife are still waiting to hear whether everyone we know who might have been in the area is ok, including her best mate.

London has dealt with this shit in the past, and will deal with it now.

I was in Central London when the Baltic exchange bomb went off, close enough to hear it.

The IRA bombed platform 3 at Victoria, which was where I used to catch a train south.

The Brixton, Brick Lane and Soho bombs were all set in places me and my wife used to hang out. A guy I know avoided getting blown up in Brixton by going to have a beer instead of catching a train.

But if anyone wants to make some smart cracks about 'the french', or make some other stupid point that really should be kept for another time, please, think before you open your gob, and STFU.

[FROSTY:Me]

Folks just a bit of information for those of ya that don't know.
Anyone wanting to totally disrupt London and cause maximum Meyhem will attack the public transport system. Bomb a building and london will cary on. Bomb the tubes and you could stop london in its tracks

[Biff]

But I think the point still stands - increased security in Scotland will not effect London policing.

You're not wrong mate - The Met have around 30,000 police officers. That’s not far off half the entire British mainland’s total number of officers. Add to that the Specials - (part time members of the public that assist without pay), civil patrol/civic wardens etc (almost like police - but without the complete arresting powers), then add in the City of London police & British Transport Police and you're up to a potential general policing workforce that numbers between 35 – 40 K people. Plenty to go around me thinks..

And then there are the military/paramilitary types.