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July 2005 London bomb blasts: UPDATES AND NEWS ONLY - NO DISCUSSION

Wess said:
I posted the 50 because it was broudcast on the TV just now on SBS World news Aust....hopefully they are wrong (and I should have checked on the net)

sorry...I should have confirmed it myself.

lets just hope not.
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CONFIRMED REPORTS PLEASE......wild speculation, will only spread worry and confusion lets try and keep things clear and try and only report confirmed headlines.....

blair speaking

joint statment from g8

condem barbaric attacks and sens condolonses

all countrys have sufferd from terrorism and those responsable have ne respect for human life

this is an attack on all nations and civilised people everywhere

we will no allow violence to change our way of life or distrupt this summit

we will continue to make a better world

the terrerists will not succed

we shall prevail and they shail not
 
PLEASE: this thread is for news about the explosions in London.
If you wish to discuss Bush's speech please start another thread (or add to one if there's one already extant)..
 
Several people dead at Edgware Road. :(

My parents are in a coach on their way to London to visit -- looks like they'll be turning back.
 
PacificOcean said:
So it was just the one bus, or have the other two happend and not just been confirmed offically?
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what probably happened is that there was the one explosion, which caused lots of people to phone the police, giving different directions/areas/names. This gets reported as being differnet explosions, IYSWIM
 
William of Walworth said:
To counter the general mood, large Museums in South Kensington are open completely normally.

Small number of visitors at the moment, though.

I know SW7 is a long way from most of the reported incidents, but I do think there's a danger of saying EVERYTHING is in chaos, when to me the picture seems a bit more varied than that.
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I posted too soon earlier on it seems. See my post further up about internal evacuation. Sorry!! :oops:
 
BERLIN AP:

A group calling itself "Secret Organisation - al Qaida in Europe" has posted a claim of responsibility for the series of blasts in London, a German magazine reported Thursday.

Der Spiegel magazine reported that the group posted its message on a website popular with Islamic militants, which it did not name.
It said the group claimed the explosions were in retaliation for Britain's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"Rejoice, Islamic nation. Rejoice Arab world. The time has come for vengeance against the Zionist crusader government of Britain in response to the massacres Britain committed in Iraq and Afghanistan", read the statement, a photograph of which was displayed on Der Spiegel's website.

"The heroic mujahadeen carried out a blessed attack in London, and now Britain is burning with fear and terror, from north to south, east to west", it said.

The statement went on to warn the governments of Denmark and Italy that they would face "the same punishment" if they fail to withdraw their troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

AP

Story Filed Jul 7, 7:49 AM EDT
 
Mrs Magpie said:
Charles Clarke said Woburn Place which is between Russell Sq. and Tavistock St. which may have led to the '3 buses' confusion.
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PaciicOcean...don't know if you saw this earlier...
 
flimsier said:
My wife works for Reuters at Canary Wharf. I thought they'd all left!
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No two of my old work colleagues are there at the moment feeding me the stuff on the live feeds as it comes in.
 
re. blood supplies

someone from royal london hospital says blood supplies have been fine, and well managed. so its probably best to stay put if you wanted to give blood, and were in london
 
flimsier said:
My wife works for Reuters at Canary Wharf. I thought they'd all left!
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I'm in one of the buildings on Bank Street opposite the tube and we've been told the safest place to be is inside. Anyway theres no way of going anywhere except on foot and its raining so I'm waiting here for a while. Go to get back to Wimbledon, god knows how?
 
Just spoke with someone who's a civil servant (works between the MoD and Downing St). He said everyone is ok, the atmosphere is very tense and the local police have all been replaced by armed police. None of them are allowed to travel so they're stuck there for the time being.
 
Juice Terry said:
I'm in one of the buildings on Bank Street opposite the tube and we've been told the safest place to be is inside. Anyway theres no way of going anywhere except on foot and its raining so I'm waiting here for a while. Go to get back to Wimbledon, god knows how?
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Blackfirars > Thameslink running south to Wimbledon..
 
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