The bus explosion happened right outside BMA House (from BBC News)
Posted on 07/07/2005 12:15:11 PM PDT by CAWats
A GP who helped treat casualties following today's bus explosion outside the London headquarters of the British Medical Association has described the scene.
Dr Laurence Buckman, from the BMA's GPs committee, said the front of BMA House in Tavistock Square was splattered with blood and body parts were strewn across the road.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
That's one thing I've been wondering about. We've only heard about 2 deaths in the bus bombing. There must be more than that, given the pictures.
The Guardian will now apologize to the terrorists for buildings subways near the bombs.
Some of those poor folks are going to be hard to count.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were many more than two deaths, however, enclosed structures like busses and airplanes suffer much worse effects than many other things. in the cases of buses, this is because the blast force is applied to the whole surface area of the roof, and buses are not designed to hold in that type of force - even if it were only a few pounds per square inch. Once a point lets loose, the whole top gets pealed off.
Animals.
Hard to see how many people would make it out without at least serious injury.
It's probably a matter of wanting time to contact relatives before confirming the fatalities.
Islamofascists are too CHICKEN and BACKWARD to meet our warriors on a battlefield.
They can only pick on innocent civilians - such as women, children and the elderly - like the half-a$$ed punks that they are. They're pathetic LOSERS!
YOU IDIOTS, THEY WANT TO KILL US ALL!..........................I want to scream this into the faces of Dick Turbin, Boxer, Schemer, and (Burp!)Kennedy!........
God help those poor people--the ones who were killed, and the ones who had to witness the carnage.
Still, the casualty figure is low, compared to 9/11. To me this shows that the Islamofascists are weakening in their attempts to cause major loss of life.
Granted --this is horrible and traumatic for the British public. I hope now they will not be so open to the radical mosques and hatefilled Imams who populate their city.
The UK police have been foiling attacks at the rate of close to one a week since at least Iraq if not earlier. That's in effect what some counter-insurgency spook was saying on the news earlier.
One of the reasons we've been doing so well at it until now is that we let the loudmouths run around feeling safe so that we can watch them. Our security services, during the long campaign against the IRA learned not to lightly trade good human intelligence for politically visible "results."
I'm confident that the perpetrators will either be arrested by the police, or more likely, will be quietly shot by SAS.
We need a picture of that building to be seen on the front page of every paper in the world.
I have no doubt that your security services are the best in the world, which is why these attacks have not happened sooner and more often. Still, there's very little to be done about a suicide bomber unless you catch him in the act.
I suspect that Al Quaeda and their associates will take this tack now in Europe and the U.S. now that the terrorists are strapped for cash and being watched closely.
This is the only type of attack they can pull off.
Which, in itself, is a great credit to the security forces in both our countries.
Quite so. I actually think this will have relatively little impact. Most Britons become extremely stubborn when someone tries to intimidate us. Even leftists like Ken Livingstone.
We all knew this sort of thing was going to happen when we signed up to support the US. Some of us thought it was a fair price to pay and some of us didn't. Either way, nothing has changed.
We've had 20 years of IRA bombings. We aren't intimidated.
From what I understand the location was fortunate in a way. The trees outside BMA house stopped the explosion from blasting the windows into the building. The BMA building was full of doctors who rushed outside and did their stuff to help.
When I go to London, if I'm in my usual hotel, that's where I stand to wait for a bus or a taxi to my office there ...
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