London tubes

[Rat Faced]

thanks bush

Dont forget our own knobhead of a "leader"..

[GepperRankins]

thanks bush

Dont forget our own knobhead of a "leader"..

i was under the naive impression that al-qaida realised we (the public) didn't support the war or isreal or anything like that. i guess voting blair back in must've wound them up.

[Rat Faced]

They want us to retaliate, hopefully going overboard...

It increases their recruitment and the personal power and status of the leaders.

It may well be that they think the UK will pull out of Iraq sooner rather than later if Bush doesnt move @ G8... it may be their way of inviting us to stay there indefinatly.

Or, they may just be taking advantage of the fact that half the Met were in Scotland to help in the G8 security..

Who knows the mentality of nutters?

[DanB]

F'king bastards

They have been finding more devices all day, East Croydon train station was evacuated and a device was disarmed. Kingston was locked down after an 'incident', Sutton shopping centres were also evacuated at lunchtime due to another 'incident'.

To start off with the mobile networks were shut down cos they thought thats how they were setting the bombs off but later on the networks were handed over to the emergency services.

It seems there could have been inside knowledge though, because its only last night 1000 Met officers were taken to Gleneagles for the G8 conference following yesterdays rioting.

[Gemby!]

wow, i didnt think this was anythign serious at first, but guess it is ...

had to walk home from college, all buses that go near there have been stopped. been a bit frantic today - calling family and friends who are in central london.

[vidcc]

My sympathies go to the victims and their families.

It may be small Consolation but the British should be proud of their emergency services and their professionalism.

[DanB]

My heart goes out to them too. Its been a fucked up day today

[Snee]

Bunch of nutters if they are who they say they are.

So scared of what'll happen if people start thinking for themselves, which they will if there isn't a common threat like the invading forces.

[JPaul]

My sympathies go to the victims and their families.

It may be small Consolation but the British should be proud of their emergency services and their professionalism.

I totally agree with both sentiments. Requiescant In Pace to the dead, get well soon to the injured and thank you to those who helped them

I also agree with RF that what we need is a measured response. Remember these bombs were indiscriminate. There is no religion which is responsible. No colour which is responsible. No nationality which is responsible. The terrorists killed whoever happened to be there, regardless of creed, colour, sex or age.

Part of the problem we had in Ireland was the heavy handed tactics in the initial stages, emptying a whole street to look for a possible weapon, maybe in one house. Doing this at 5am by getting people out of bed and out onto the street to search their house. Hopefully we have learned that these type of tactics don't work.

Knee jerk reactions only help the terrorists, to recruit and to see that their tactics work. So let's do it properly, using due process and not by making scapegoats out of potential victims.

[RPerry]

our thoughts are with you British friends


Rob & Dawn