London Blasts

[Stan]

I hope all our Cantr friends in London are ok. Such a shame.

[Cookie]

I hope everyone in London is ok.

[Stan]

Yep, you're right.

[Dee]

I love London

[formerly known as hf]

If you haven't heard the news, this morning, between 8 and 10am, about four explosions went off across London. They hit buses and tube trains at rush hour. There are pictures of double decker, red London buses with the top deck simply ripped apart, with no roof anymore. Emergency operations are being performed on staion floors, and nearby hotels have been converted into temporary emergency stations, and buses have been taking wounded to hospitals.

Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced it to be a co-ordinated terrorist attack on the capital, and he has just left the G8 summit to return to London, and the G8 talks are to continue, rightly refusing to let the terrorists halt proceedings. The US, and the rest of the world, on the announcement of the attacks, have stepped up security. On the internet, Al-Qaeda have proclaimed responsibility, but that, obvioulsy, is yet to be confirmed.

Amazingly, considering the targets and the time, fatalaties are low, approximately only two deaths have been confirmed, although it might be as many as twenty, and the major injuries are around 150 at the last estimate. A lot of this is due to the quick response of the emergency services, which, as anyone who reads the news in the UK will know, have rehearsed for terrorist attacks extensively.

I'm not close enough to the explosions in the office here to have been fully affected - although roads nearby have been cut off, and many people who rely on public transport have left so they can walk home. Thankfully, my dad is ok, he's out covering the Russel Square incident for channel four news.

By the looks of things, it is no where near as serious as it could have been, and, as we have seen in New York, can be. Except for the affected areas in central London, most people seem to be getting on as normal. Which is a good thing to see.

My thoughts are with all those affected, and also with the emergency services, and the extra members who have been called in, who are doing an amazing job.

[SekoETC]

Last night I had a very anxious feeling and thinking about bad things happening (car accidents mostly). Auguring the bombings?

[Schme]

45 dead now.

Skotec, you do not even live in England.


Well, here it comes. Prepare for martial law.

[Chris Johnson]

With all due respects schme, neither do you .

London and Great Britain has had many years experience of terrorist outrages, and whilst this is easily one of the worst in terms of casulties, it far from augers a move toward Martial Law. A more typical Londoners response is typified by the following quote I've seen on line

Yes, you’ve tried it now b****r off. We’re not scared, no, you won’t change us. Even if we are scared, you can still b****r off.

[Nick]

I had thought there would be a terrorist attack at the G8...

But I was even more sure something would happen on the 4th of July, so I dismissed the thought of something happening at G8...

[Pie]

so, is everyone in londen alright? I hope so, becous it just wouldn'g be cantr without some british in the game.

Heres a question. If London has even more Terorist attacks than America, why isn't london even more involved with the war on terorism? I'me(HA! I spelld it right.) not quite shure how involved it is, but why?

[west]

Heres a question. If London has even more Terorist attacks than America, why isn't london even more involved with the war on terorism? I'me(HA! I spelld it right.) not quite shure how involved it is, but why?

Than you probably shouldn't talk at all.

Britain is the US's major ally in the "War on Terror"

side note: Everytime the US starts a war on a concept it just makes the problem worse: Drugs, Poverty, Terror. Way to go US

(Hope everyone in London is okay)

[Pie]

hmm, i just herd that some of the Eurapian countryes don't support the war on tarrorism.(like france, maby, or it was germany? i don't know ile shut up now)

[Talapus]

Thank you Farmer for letting me know what actually happened (more or less). I haven't got a TV nor newspaper right now (I should be checking news online, but I haven't been), so it is nice to know what everyone was talking about. My heart goes out to you, London. And let us try to keep this thread from deteriorating into politics, so go start another thread for that. This thread is about something important, so leave your trivial bickering at home for now.

[Nick]

I'me(HA! I spelld it right.)

... uh, sure you did...

[SekoETC]

Skotec, you do not even live in England.

What has that have to do with anything? Most of the people in this topic are not in England.

I just find it weird that I get a bad feeling about busses, I felt like telling my mom I don't wanna go to the town tomorrow, if we take the bus then there'll be an accident. But there was no accident here. It was in another country and it wasn't an accident, some people did it on purpose.

And I have been to London once. I used the underground only on one day. But still thinking something like that could have happened then. A very slight chance and you couldn't even dream of something like that happening. Nor did those people. They were just going to work, just like every morning. Then there's a flash of light and a loud bang... the car stops and the speakers start screaming a message of emergency situation... It's all dark and the air starts smelling like smoke.

Yes I have only heard about it in the news!!! ...but it touched me. Like it must've touched many people in here.