Posted on 07/09/2005 9:39:29 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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It was done by Al Qaeda....no doubt in my mind.
The high explosive would explain the damage to the Russell square train..
I was watching CNN after the bombing and the dingbat female reporter was focusing on the notion that the bombs were almost 26 whole minutes apart that "somebody" shoulda done something - - never mind that the bomber SHOULDN'T HAVE blown up innocent people.
Soledad O'Brien....CNN's answer to Fox News...
She even said the people looked like they had "war wounds"....Hello Soledad....it is a war!
The bus was diverted according to a caption on a BBC map. Could that diversion prevented another Underground blast? Did that diversion take the bomber away from the subway entrance?
Kinda like the homemade bombs that tore apart the Murrah buldings reinforced concrete and steel...
Very professional job using very professional munitions..
imo
But I'm informed by some infobabe that these bombs were just crude home made bombs.
If it had been near the entrance it probably would have made escape from the other blasts more difficult.
Al-Queda trained.
Whats the chance on this being one guy?
Zip around in the tube for an hour planting bombs then hang out for an hour before you disintegrate yourself along with a bus load of innocent bystanders?
Especially when precisely this kind of attack has been conducted before.
London Terrorism:] British "Covenant of Security" with Islamists Ends
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An Islamist British group called Al-Muhajiroun - "the immigrants" in Arabic - for some time publicly stated that Britain was immune from Islamist violence because of its acceptable behavior toward Muslims within the country's borders. In an April 2004 conversation, the 24-year-old Sayful Islam, who heads Al-Muhajiroun's Luton branch, announced that he supported Osama Bin Laden "100%" in the quest to achieve "the worldwide domination of Islam," but went on to voice an aversion to himself performing terrorist acts in Britain.
Yet, Mr. Islam endorsed terrorism in Britain in a broader sense "When a bomb attack happens here, I won't be against it, even if it kills my own children. But it is against Islam for me to engage personally in acts of terrorism in the UK because I live here. According to Islam, I have a covenant of security with the UK, as long as they allow us Muslims to live here in peace." He further explained. "If we want to engage in terrorism, we would have to leave the country. It is against Islam to do otherwise."
Covenant of security? What is that? In an August 2004 story in the New Statesman, "Why terrorists love Britain," Jamie Campbell cited the author of Inside Al Qaeda, Mohamed Sifaoui, as saying, "it has long been recognized by the British Islamists, by the British government and by UK intelligence agencies, that as long as Britain guarantees a degree of freedom to the likes of Hassan Butt [an overtly pro-terrorist Islamist], the terrorist strikes will continue to be planned within the borders of the UK but will not occur here."
The New Statesman story drew from this the perversely ironic conclusion that "the presence of vocal and active Islamist terrorist sympathizers in the U.K. actually makes British people safer, while the full brunt of British-based terrorist plotting is suffered by people in other countries."
A Syrian immigrant to Britain who headed Al-Muhajiroun, Omar Bakri Mohammed, confirmed the covenant of security, describing companions of the Prophet Muhammad who were given protection by the king of Ethiopia. That experience, he told the magazine, led to the Koranic notion of covenant of security: Muslims may not attack the inhabitants of a country where they live in safety. This "makes it unlikely that British-based Muslims will carry out operations in the U.K. itself," Mr. Mohammed said.
One of the first things that went into my old mind was how similiar the Mayors of Portland, Oregon are to the mayor of London.
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