London Paralysed By Bombs
All around me, explosions are rocking London, at least 6 since 8.45am, the nearest of which at Kings Cross happened a little over a mile from here. I can hear helicopters overhead and sirens from ambulances and police cars. The top deck of a bus was blown off in Tavistock Square. There are at least 2 dead, people have lost limbs, probably more than 100 injured. The capital's transport system, buses, underground, trains, has been totally stopped.
The London police chief Sir Ian Blair (not everyone in charge here is called Blair) just asked everyone here to stay where they are and not to call the emergency services unless life is threatened. Breaking news via the BBC is that Al Qaeda are claiming responsibility, 200 words on a European website laying claim to this death and destruction.
The atmosphere is so far calm, Londoners responding with customary stoicism. There is plenty of time to panic. It has not really sunk in yet. The phone networks are saturated. Images are just arriving from wrecked underground trains captured on mobile phones. People are still trapped at Kings Cross station, apparently.
What a twist in this nation's history - one moment proud and happy hosts of the G8, celebrating for having won the Olympic bid, our leaders on a moral mission to make poverty history and save the planet, the next thing, solemn and tragic.
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On foxnews.com this morning they had a clip maybe 20 minutes after the initial explosions. The news caster said there where 6 explosians....6? I remember only 4 that was reported at the time, I thought nothing of this and continued on with my day...around 12 o'clock PT, they announced on ABC that US officials said that there were 2 bombs that where found that didn't explode.....hhmmmm...OK Foxnews is a right wing controlled, they obviously had someone tell them from Washington that there where 6 explosians...the only problem is 2 didn't go off....OOPS. I frantically tried to pull up the clip as soon as I heard this on foxnews.com...but of course the clip had been taken off the site. I leave you with this...
1. Why did the newscaster say 6 explosions?
2. Who told him that there where 6 explosions?
3. Why would the US release that information first before the English news?
Answer me that folks, because the fact is, Europe hates the fact we are in a war, that much is proven by Tony Blair barely winning his re-election. Europe has no support for the war because they have no stake in it...so why not give them something to fight for? Cause a little chaos and get the hornets nest stirred up, so they will get as blood thirsty for revenge as the US did when 9/11 hit.
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