London Attacks
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  • Posted On: Jul 7 2005 2:58pm
Thankfully we just got in touch with the last remembers of my family, and they're all safe.

Thanks all who have given their best wishes to England at this time.
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  • Posted On: Jul 7 2005 3:06pm
It's one thing to attack America, but it's another to attack Mother Britannia! You've my sympathy guys, and good luck finding out the ones who truly commited the crime. And when you do, you've got my sword.
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  • Posted On: Jul 7 2005 4:02pm
:( This is awful.
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  • Posted On: Jul 7 2005 4:19pm
My thoughts and prayers are with you guys. (((hugs)))
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  • Posted On: Jul 7 2005 4:20pm
Yeah I only heard it about it myself an hour earlier. Terrible news, 7 confirmed explosions, 1 in a bus, 6 in the underground tube, I know people on other sites, one of which has a aunt in the tube that they haven't been able to contact. From what I gather, lots of people may be trapped in the tube, which may have suffered a tunnel collapse or three? This is certainly the last thing I expected, it seemed as if Britian was going to tear it's self apart over the issue of the war. Torwards that end, in addition to other possible motives, when are the next elections in Britian?
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  • Posted On: Jul 7 2005 4:34pm
Torwards that end, in addition to other possible motives, when are the next elections in Britian?


We just had a national election in May. Four years before we decide on whether we want to change our government.
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  • Posted On: Jul 7 2005 5:40pm
Seth, Steda, and others who live across the pond from us, you have my support and sympathies.

Indeed, this is terrible news.

Glad you are all safe.
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  • Posted On: Jul 7 2005 5:45pm
Thankfully we just got in touch with the last remembers of my family, and they're all safe.


Ditto, all safe and accounted for, my condolences and thoughts are with those that weren't.

Thanks all who have given their best wishes to England at this time.


Yes, same here. It is much appreciated, thanks again everyone.

From what I gather, lots of people may be trapped in the tube, which may have suffered a tunnel collapse or three?
Edgeware Road. The bomb on one train blew up and took out a wall, which then also took out two other trains.

Everyone has now been rescued I do believe. The response has been amazing the emergency services have been unbelievable, London did not panic.

700 people injured, roughly 37 people killed.

I can tell you now its not panic we're feeling.

...and if the people who did this think we are then they couldn't be more wrong.

Double decker buses were commandeered to ship the injured to hospitals, ferries and barges on the Thames are now operating for free to get people to and fro.

People's reactions have been fantastic, and have made me feel proud to be British.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4661059.stm

Eyewitness pictures:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4659489.stm


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  • Posted On: Jul 7 2005 6:08pm
Wow. There's not much left of that double-decker bus.
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  • Posted On: Jul 7 2005 6:16pm
Yes, it was also packed, full, so no-one knows exactly how many people were on there.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4660563.stm

As you can see it was decimated.