Bomb blasts in London

Reports on the news that 6 bombs have exploded in London, mainly on transport. 2 on London buses and also on the underground. Been watching it on the news, it does not look good the city is at a standstill, is thought to be terrorist attacks on the run up to G8.

My thoughts go out to the fatalities, and the injured


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Thank-you

It's a very terrible situation.
I hope justice will serve and everybody gets well

no respons from some friend who live's in london, i hope that they doning fine

I'm just gobsmacked, don't know what to think anymore.

This is real evil! can't think of another way to say this! My hart goes out to the victims and fam!

A very terrible situation has stood up here, my thoughts go out to all the innocent victims who are participants in a cowardly act commit by pigs, who may not live in this world and justice will speak,those which are responsible for these cowardly and inhuman act will become punished, so that there is no terror possible against the humanity.

I am in Holland know and I am glad that I am safe here, because I can live in London and planned to go there this week.

My sincere thoughts go out to all the injured and fatalities and all the brave people who are giving help to all who needs it.

I tried to phone lads who live in the Eastern part in London and no repsonse so far badly.. So I really hope everything goes well with them. I have BBC1 on for hours now to get the latest news on it. I heard that the police can take out mobile lines for safety reasons because some bombs can be connected to mobile phones.

If they need my type of blood I will fly over and give it.

Just from harderfaster.net

London is standstill now... The whole Eastern part of London is infected by the cowardly act but I heard that the mainline stations are getting cleared know so people can take the main lines to go to their relatives or homes. Nice one by the helping services.

still no news

Hang in there, I know mobile networks are down due to the sheer number of people trying to call out. I hope that you have news soon.

I think its safe to say that no-one is safe from these kind of attacks. Who knows where they could strike next, we just have to be vigilant.

No-one wants to have to live through fear that something may happen.

Kittylix,

I saw on you profile that you are visiting Holland soon. I live in a short time from the E-ffect.

I hope that everything goes well with everyone in London who have a place in my heart. My sincere thoughts go out to the injured and fatalities.

I have seen to much BBC1 for know, I hope that BBC3 can give me some other thoughts this evening.

Yes we are coming to visit and see friends, and party hard are you going?

I would love to be there though but I am not sure sorry. If I have the time I will be there though. I will keep you informed.

Party hard is always the best thing to do... I am still lauging about the fact that English lads heared 'terror' which I had with me on minidisc. They are familiar with the 'clubsounds' and UK hardcore, rave etc... They heard it for a few seconds and thet said to me 'Are you cheesy's mad or what? ' hahaha Nice one!

Nighty night kittylix

I'm a bit worried about two of my friends in London, too. I'm hoping they're okay.

My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone who has been affected by this.

its absolutely disgusting, and something has to be done...

We have the commonwealth games here next year.. i wonder what will happen then..

I hope that no one here has lost anyone in this tragedy. I just found out on one of the other boards I go to, that a woman lost her sister in one of the blasts.

I was horrified when I heared the news
And also frightened because some friends of my parents live and or work in London...
And there also was a chance my half sister was in London at the moment of the attack, but she was already on her way back to Castleford at the time so that was a relief

Bastards! Why do they have to take innocent lives? There is no passage in the Koran that justifies that!
So why do they act out of the Islam? It's so unfair...

Holland will probably also get attacked somewhere in the future, I won't let it effect my live but it will always be in the back of my mind unfortunately

Uitspraak van Shanna op vrijdag 8 juli 2005 om 10:00:

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Holland will probably also get attacked somewhere in the future

I still can't see any proof for that, except some ppl saying in the media that "we're on a list"

Only, I'm still waiting for them to offer a valid reason why. (No, it's not that we've had soldiers there, lots of other countries had that too.)

And besides, spreading panic = helping terrorism. I absolutely refuse to do that. Just see what it did to a country like the U.S. where nobody's really "free" anymore nowadays and where they use "war on terror" as an excuse for everything, even up to things like stricter abortion laws.

Uitspraak van KellyLynn op vrijdag 8 juli 2005 om 04:25:

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I hope that no one here has lost anyone in this tragedy. I just found out on one of the other boards I go to, that a woman lost her sister in one of the blasts.

Oh god thats awful news

Uitspraak van verwijderd op vrijdag 8 juli 2005 om 00:14:

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I would love to be there though but I am not sure sorry. If I have the time I will be there though. I will keep you informed.

Party hard is always the best thing to do... I am still lauging about the fact that English lads heared 'terror' which I had with me on minidisc. They are familiar with the 'clubsounds' and UK hardcore, rave etc... They heard it for a few seconds and thet said to me 'Are you cheesy's mad or what? ' hahaha Nice one!

Nighty night kittylix

Ok thanks, hope you can make it.....erm yes you mention Terror or Gabba to most english clubbers and they will all cringe.

How long were you in the UK for?

Uitspraak van verwijderd op vrijdag 8 juli 2005 om 11:09:

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Only, I'm still waiting for them to offer a valid reason why. (No, it's not that we've had soldiers there, lots of other countries had that too.)

Offcourse there are a lot of other countries who have soldiers in the Middle East, but we, or our govnerment supported Bush from the beginning, just like Spain and the UK
And I also think that we will sooner be attacked by terrorists than Japan, who also supported Bush from the start.
Just because of the simple fact that there are more fundamentalist muslims here than in Asia in general.

It's not that I'm in panic, it's just that I expect something to happen someday
I wished that I didn't have that feeling but I do

Uitspraak van Shanna op vrijdag 8 juli 2005 om 11:19:

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Offcourse there are a lot of other countries who have soldiers in the Middle East, but we, or our govnerment supported Bush from the beginning, just like Spain and the UK

Not quite.

While we *were* part of the "coalition of the willing", don't forget we were NOT one of the three instigators, i.e. the U.S., the U.K. and Spain.

So again, if we're not, why we? Why not Poland, Italy, Australia?



Now that just MUST be wrong, I'm sure (and besides, not every fundamentalist is a potential terrorist)

Still no contact with the people I want though... It is getting mad because even if I heard a single thing from them I can sleep well, for know I hope for them everything is okay there.. Yesterday my phone ring and it was an unknown number, it gets of a few times and then it stopped... So I kindly hoped that it was news from the East London lads and friends.

Kitty, yeah... I ment Terror or Gabba, for me this is kind of normal personally I don't like the slow and happy tunes but they quite like it but it's new for them.. Because it's not mainstream music and not very well known in there. Underground Styles mostly came in to the UK by foreigners though I know because of the UK DJ's who had gigs in the European main land.

If everything goes well I am staying in London or Birmingham when ever needed for my work, I can live in with mates and female friends. So when needed when I want to buy in designer clobber, shoes and accesoires in the UK I can stay with them. So the period of staying there can be as long as possible. Nice one for that! But, we are getting off-topic here. So we are jumping back to the topic subject.

ON-TOPIC

I am not scarry of another attacks though because when you are scared something will happen. You can be frightened but this will take a very large place in daily living then so you can't enjoy the days anymore because at everything you do, you're thinking about 'something can happen!' 'what's in that bag thats left there' 'what does that person doing there' 'can I get the bus safely?' 'Is a suspicious person on the bus or in the tube..' If you think like this, you WILL get mad and everybody or everything is a future perpetrator.

So I say, just live on and do the daily things you would like to do! Even if this is hard to do. Just try it! Because living scared isn't gonna help you further though. Live on... be proud, be strong, be brave and they will not get you down then!

StickHorsie I have read your posts and you are spot on mate! Nothing to add at your posts.

But, the main reason I am asking know is "Why is London attacked??"

Uitspraak van verwijderd op vrijdag 8 juli 2005 om 11:22:

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Now that just MUST be wrong, I'm sure

Damn you ARE right, forgot that Indonesia has the most muslims in the world
But still, I think we have a bigger risk of an attack than Japan (I know there has been an attack on the tube there but it wasn't Al Qaida I belief), dunno why, maybe just a feeling, maybe because of all the attention in the media...

At the moment, every moron with a grief calls his organisation al-Qaeda-something-or-other... also (indeed) because of the media attention "al-Qaeda" is getting

In fact, you can't even be sure anymore if these things are even remotely conntected to bin Laden's organisation... ppl just use the name to get more & rapid media attention

Uitspraak van verwijderd op vrijdag 8 juli 2005 om 11:50:

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"Why is London attacked??"

Somebody was mad at the U.K. government. Somebody was inspired by Osama bin Laden being still at large. Somebody thought: "They've had New York, they've had Madrid, they still haven't done London." Somebody was led to believe he would go to heaven for this.

That's all it takes, unfortunately

Like it was said on the news, it wasn't a case of "If" it was a case of "When" it would happen. It was always in the back of peoples minds.

It makes me sick to my stomach to see that there are some Fcuked up people in this world, who are intent on causing harm to innocent people.

I will never understand it

But we have to continue with our lives and carry on, just as many countries who are victims of terror, you can't let this take over your life...or then they have won.

Contrary to what many think, harming the innocent isn't the main object of terrorism. It's having people living in fear, disrupting their daily lives (and prompting their governments to disrupt it even more afterwards), and harming the infrastructure.

Had it been about "taking lives" then the objects have been poorly chosen. Just consider the number of casualities that could have been if they really would have been bent on that



Exactly. If we REFUSE to live in terror (which is the only way a "war on terror" should be fought), only then terrorism will be a thing of the past.

Living in fear, harming its pretty much the same thing, you don't need to harm alot of people for others to live in fear.

They only harmed a small number yesterday, but it still causes fear.

Yep, you're right, living in fear is "harm" too

In Hull, community police officers and representatives from asylum support services have been visiting mosques and services for refugees and asylum seekers to reduce the fear of reprisals.....

Uitspraak van verwijderd op vrijdag 8 juli 2005 om 12:02:

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In fact, you can't even be sure anymore if these things are even remotely conntected to bin Laden's organisation... ppl just use the name to get more & rapid media attention

i agree. bin laden is so irrelevant now. capturing/killing him and saying "terror is over now, we have bin laden" would be like saying, "the beatles have died, that's the end of rock music!"

the only way to stop 'terrorists' is to be understanding of one another. it's so simple. but, people will just continue to discriminate, make new laws, build new barriers and blindly escalate the problem.

And the media have a a lot of responsibility too here... in one of the Dutch topics we're discussing what would happen if the media from now on would refuse to name any terrorist organisation by name or cause (a kind of self-imposed censorship)

Taking away one of the most important reasons why (publicity for their cause) might pull a very big plug on terrorism...

Bytheway, I just saw some British ppl on TV, picking up the threads, doing their ordinary daily things again as undisrupted as possible... thumbs up for you guys!

Uitspraak van verwijderd op vrijdag 8 juli 2005 om 19:18:

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the only way to stop 'terrorists' is to be understanding of one another. it's so simple. but, people will just continue to discriminate, make new laws, build new barriers and blindly escalate the problem.

I agree, totally.

There is now a terror threat in Birmingham. See:

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1188565,00.html

or

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8524232/


I hope that everyone is safe.

Yeah the whole of Broad street entertainment area was evacuated....lots of pissed clubbers this morning.

I'm ok don't really go out clubbing in Brum much.

Still pretty freaky knowing that its going on all over the UK though, I just guess people have to be cautious.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are terror alerts all over London for the next few weeks, as there were here in America after September 11. People are bound to be a bit more on edge, and the government is less likely to discount information on potential threats.

Yeah thats true, terrible state of affairs really, I just hope that there are no more attacks. I know the government said we must carry on as usual, but you can't help be a little scared by it all.

I can't imagine what the US must have been like after 9/11

Kittylix, how is the situation now in Birmingham?

Please keep us updated.

I hope everything is going well in Birmingham and other places in England and the UK.

Yeah its all ok now....apparently there was another suspect package in Sutton where I live need to check out the news for more info on that one.

Thanks for asking though

Kittylix no thanks, thats the least I can do!

I hope the situation in Sutton will be back to normal in a very short time.

I believe that all the muslim extremists must be eradicated like cockroaches!