Posted on 07/07/2005 5:49:25 AM PDT by MadIvan
A terror group linked to al Qaeda says it carried out a series of terror attacks on London that have left a number of people dead and hundreds injured.
A previously unknown group calling itself "Secret Organisation al Qaeda in Europe" said it carried out the attacks as revenge for British "military massacres" in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Two London hospitals have reported a total of 185 wounded after a series of blasts hit locations across the city on buses and Tube stations.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said there was evidence of explosives at at least two of the six sites.
Scotland Yard has denied reports they were warned of an attack by Israel minutes before the blasts.
Two people have been confirmed dead and at least 90 people injured in the explosion at Aldgate Station.
Prime Minister Tony Blair, issued a joint statement from all the leaders at the G8 summit.
"This is not an attack on one nation - it's an attack on all nations and civilised people everywhere," he said.
"It's important however that those engaged in terrorism realise that our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people."
Witness, Angie, saw the bus explode in Russell Square. She said: "There were a whole lot of people around the bus. Next thing I was on the floor and there were a lot of people on me.
"I thought I was going to be crushed. The bus was ripped out at the back. It must have been a bomb."
The entire Tube network has been shut down and police have confirmed blasts at four sites: Russell Square and King's Cross Underground; Moorgate, Aldgate, and Liverpool Street Underground; Edgware Road Underground; and Tavistock Square where there has been a confirmed explosion on a bus.
One witness said the packed underground train he was on was 200 metres from King's Cross when there was a huge flash.
The train stopped and people were using umbrellas to smash windows of the trains. Passengers were led out of the train by underground staff.
He added people were milling around King's Cross covered in soot.
I don't think these people understand the Brits any better than they understand the Americans.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Jamais reculez á tyrannie un pouce!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! Never give an inch to tyranny!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
An attack on Britain is an attack on America.
Further, an attack on Britain is an attack on western civlization.
We have three alternatives:
1) Convert ourselves to fascist police states and surrender our personal freedoms.
2) Convert ourselves to Wahhabist Muslims and surrender everything
3) Identify, target and destroy ALL Muslims in the western world who merely insinuate any act of violence or hostility towards us, and keep a very close eye on all the rest of them.
We are war with radical fundamentalist Islam and can no longer afford the luxury of permitting them a forum, a pulpit, a school, a paper or ANY means whatsoever of promulgating their hatred and violence towards us.
And as for those vermin at Gitmo - they should stop treating them like captured P.O.W.s with basic human rights, beat the hell oout of them to get as much information as possible from them, and then kill them.
Releasing any of these vermin we capture is setting a match to our own homes.
If anything, the responses of our western leaders to these attacks has been too moderated, too measured, too "western".
We're with you today, heart and soul.
They really think a city that survived everything from the Blitz to V-1 and V-2 attacks is going to knuckle under after a few bombs?
I'm sure Special Branch is clearing cell space as we speak.
Prayers for England.
I am so angry.
I haven't heard any news people talk about the fact that it was done at around 08:50 am. Wasn't that the same time as 09/11? Is that a coincedence?
Glad you are ok. Our prayers are with you all
Why We Fight!
Ivan, our thoughts and prayers are with you and your fellow countrymen. That sounds trite and cliche, but I mean it wholeheartedly. My family had prayer for all that were hurt or killed in this horrible attack.
Thank you.
Nothing is a coincedence.
Thank you.
What a juvenile name. What are they, ten years old?
Murderous thugs with the mindset of spoiled children.
You are right on! And, included in the many, is the entire current Democrat Party. Any American that votes Democrat is voting for their own death. Democrats are nothing but traitors and are all guilty of treason against the United States. The American people better wake and destroy these idiots at the polls in 2006 and 2008, once and for all. If not, many innocent American heads will be rolling down the streets of the good ole USA. Bin Laden is rubbing his hands. He just loves Democrats!!!
I don't think the Brits are quite the same as the Spanish.
They are made of much tougher stuff.
Normally I fly an American Flag in front of my house.
For the next few weeks I'm flying the British Flag.
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