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

Magneze said:
Of course there is actually no firm evidence of that as yet. Although how he said the bombers wanted to destroy the "very essence of our society" on a similar lack of evidence is a bit stupid.
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I just think it's brilliant that they can stretch evidence to the point of stupidity when its in line with their aims but when its not its all "there's no evidence" etc...wankers.
 
Kid_Eternity said:
I just think it's brilliant that they can stretch evidence to the point of stupidity when its in line with their aims but when its not its all "there's no evidence" etc...wankers.
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Quite. :(
 
"Wrong. They're talking about mass: "less than 4.5kg".

And if it was Semtex, that'd be 3.2 litres; other plastique will have very similar density."

No, I didn't mean mass, what I mean is that they use "10lb of high explosive" as a measure of the force of a blast. If it was ammonium nitrate it might take 20 times as much weight, if it was nitroglycerine it might take 100 times less. I was trying to suggest that because a bomb had the force of "10lb of high explosive", that didn't mean someone was lugging around 5 bags of sugar, but could have been carryng smaller more powerful devices.
 
I'm not Galloway's number one fan but it was depressing how he was constantly interrupted and shouted down on Newsnight just now (by Gavin Estler?). He wasn't given an opportunity to make his point at all.
 
well red said:
No, I didn't mean mass, what I mean is that they use "10lb of high explosive" as a measure of the force of a blast.
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The Met said:
Anti-terrorist branch head Andy Hayman said devices with less than 10 lbs (4.5kg) of high explosive had been left on the floor in the Tube trains and may have been left on the seat of the bus.
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And I'm saying that if they say "4.5 kg of high explosive" there's no ambiguity: they're saying what kind of explosive, and what mass of it.

If it had been, for example, ANFO equivalent to 4.5 kg of HE, what earthly reason would they have for not saying so? It'd be important to jogging peoples' memories: "why yes, I wondered why that geezer wanted eight coffee-grinders back in May..."
 
Staff at Indian call centres have been working overtime to cope with the volume of enquiries about Britain's transport network after the bomb attacks.

One company based in Mumbai (Bombay) said that calls had doubled since the attacks, which brought the transport system in and around London to a near-standstill.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4661269.stm

how weird must it be going into work in india and answering the phone to freaked out british people wanting to know how to get into london to visit injured relatives, get to work, or generally live their lives around their city which has just been blown up.

and then you go home watch a bit of tv and go to bed.

headfuk
 
coventrycityfan said:
Stella reading the account of the central brixton story where did this small bang come from?
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Don't know but things are back to normal now, I'm happy to say. Traffic and people are flowing freely.

Maybe they were blowing up somebody's old burger carton.
 
well red said:
No, the reporter asked had he heard about reports that a police sniper had shot a suicide bomber, and he sniggerred a bit and then said "I've not heard any report that a police sniper had shot anyone". He acted like it was the most ridiculous thing he'd ever heard.
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No, what Paddick actually said, and this struck me quite clearly, was that they had had no reports of anyone being shot dead. Leaving open the possibility that someone had been shot but was still alive, in which case one would think they would want to interrogate them.

As to a Houndsditch bomb, Houndsditch is very near Aldgate East. It's probably like how people thought there were three bus bombs, because the one bus bomb was variously reported as being at Russell Square, Tavistock Place and Woburn Place, which are all actually parts of the same road.
 
coventrycityfan said:
Stella reading the account of the central brixton story where did this small bang come from?
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That area is full of small bangs. Usually someone in the market dropping pallets or something similar.
 
RubyToogood said:
As to a Houndsditch bomb, Houndsditch is very near Aldgate East. It's probably like how people thought there were three bus bombs, because the one bus bomb was variously reported as being at Russell Square, Tavistock Place and Woburn Place, which are all actually parts of the same road.
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STFC Loyal said on this thread on Thursday that he was working in an office on Houndsditch and they had been told to close blinds/get away from windows due to a bomb scare at about 10.30.

He hasn't posted since, so i'm assuming they were evacuated.

Edited; because i just checked his last post. He didn't mention a controlled explosion....
 
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