UK explosion triggers alarm"
A TV image shows flames and smoke rising from
the Buncefield depot.
Posted on 12/11/2005 5:28:38 AM PST by indcons
Three large explosions have rocked a fuel depot north of London, shooting flames hundreds of metres into the sky.
Thirty-six people have been injured, four of them seriously.
Police say that at this stage they are treating the blasts as an accident.
The three explosions woke up residents dozens of kilometres away from the big fuel depot at Buncefield, near Luton airport north of London.
Houses kilometres away have reported buckled front doors, cracked walls and blown-out windows.
The area near the site has been evacuated, while police have advised residents living nearby to keep their windows and doors closed due to fumes.
The depot is a major distribution terminal storing oil, petrol and kerosene for supplying airports across Britain including Heathrow.
Hertfordshire Police Chief Constable Frank Whitely says hundreds of emergency workers are at the site.
"We're anticipating that there will be further explosions during the morning and we want to reassure the public that that is nothing untoward and is now expected," he said.
"We are appealing to people not to panic buy petrol.
"There is nothing to suggest that there will be a fuel shortage as a result of this incident."
- ABC/Reuters
In other developments: Police have no evidence to suggest that massive explosions at a fuel depot near one of London's airports on Sunday were "caused by anything other than an accident," a police spokeswoman said. (Full Story)
It'll be interesting to see if there are any connections to the ROP. At present, the British police are denying any ROP connection.
ROP?
Religion of "Peace"
I call it TARP™-- The Alleged Religion of Peace®
IIRC the commies defined peace as the absence of resistance to their agenda for total control Using that definition of "peace" ... Islam may indeed consider itself to be the religion of peace.
That's how I recall it, too.
I can't fully remember the story, but there's one of a famous Roman General who laid waste to a city, and it was said,
"He made it a desert, and called it 'peace...'"
I think the ROP recently called for disrupting oil supplies.
If some of those people were close to the explosions, they may wish they were dead. I wouldn't doubt that there were some pretty bad burn injuries. Those are the worst.
How can they determine that so fast????? I know after 911 there were an abnormal amount of refinary explosions - but none were "terrorist related". Has any freepers kept track of the refinary and fuel debot explosions pre and post 911?
Explosions rock UK oil depot
From: Agence France-Presse From correspondents in London
December 12, 2005
"MASSIVE" explosions struck an oil depot near one of London's large airports yesterday, filling the sky with orange flames and shattering windows and doors at nearby homes, police and witnesses said.
Police said there had been two or three explosions at the Buncefield oil deport in Hertfordshire, northwest of London, about 20km from Luton airport, just before 7pm (AEDT). The blast was so powerful that it was heard as far as west and south London.
"We woke up around five to six and there was an absolutely massive loud bang," Dave Franklin, who lives about a kilometre from the depot, said.
"It actually broke two windows in the flat above us... There are just flames everywhere. Orange flames. The whole sky has just turned orange and black."
Other local residents said they could smell a powerful scent of fuel, and that their first thought was that an aircraft might have crashed.
"I thought we'd been hit by a thunderbolt," another witness said.
Luton airport is used for budget and charter flights to destinations in Britain and abroad. The area is also close to the M1 motorway which links London to the north of England, a section of which was immediately closed.
A reporter for Sky News television said he heard a "low, loud rumbling" near Saint Albans, the biggest town in the immediate area, followed by a "massive" explosion.
Orange flames and smoke could then be seen in the sky up to a great height, just east of the town.
Other witnesses reported hearing up to four separate blasts over the course of 30 minutes.
Another witness said the force of one blast blew in windows at a hotel near Saint Albans, which is around 40km north of the British capital, with some injuries reported.
Four people were seriously injured and 32 others were lightly hurt, a senior police officer said.
Police believed there are about 36 casualties at the Buncefield oil terminal, north-west of London, but "the vast majority of these are not serious injuries", Hertfordshire Police Chief Constable Frank Whiteley said.
Mr Whiteley underlined previous police reports that the explosions appeared to be the result of an accident, but added police were "keeping an open mind".
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Police say that at this stage they are treating the blasts as an accident.
If these are three simultaneous explosions, the statistical chances that these are accidental is near zero.
In my life the technological improvements in plant management have greatly reduced catastrophic accidents.
Putting accidents aside, one has to wonder what is motivating western politicians to induce the Islamic lunatics into our societies. Here is my poll question.
1. Are Western politicians receiving Saudi payoffs in Swiss bank accounts?
2. Are Western politicians receiving payoffs from wealthy elite to do their bidding, like swamp American labor with cheap Temporary Guest Workers? and payoff the Congressional socialists. Face it; party politics is petty soap opera to distract the masses while all the pigs go to the trough.
3. Have illegal intergalactic aliens arrived and told our leaders to destroy national boundaries?
Something is going on out there that does not comport with the average citizen. What is it?
" If these are three simultaneous explosions, the statistical chances that these are accidental is near zero."
Who said there were three simultaneous explosions? The first explosion was at just past 6am this morning, and there were further explosions later as the fire spread. The police said that they expected there to be more explosions during the day, in a press conferance at about 11, but don't know if there have been any since then.
"The depot is 60 percent-owned by Paris-based Total, and Chevron's Texaco Inc. has the rest. It handled 2.37 million metric tons of fuel in 2002, Total said. About 400 road tankers use the depot each day."
My comment this AM to someone else via freepmail:
When the Oklahoma bomber blew himself up, I learned many things, such as the Pres. of the university is a closeted homosexual, was connected with the CIA in the past, and there is apparently a Saudi connection. Maybe you know all this. The Saudis (according to some stuff I read that sounded reasonable and very likely true) maintain a "party house" in DC to which they invite politicians, supplying prostitutes of both sexes. They then videotape the proceedings, and use the evidence as blackmail. If this is true, who knows how many politicians are in their back pockets?
Thunderbolt????????????????????
But - but - aren't there winged pigs??
Please supply some links. Sounds interesting if true.
Pinging those who might have the info at their fingertips, or the tip of their brains.
I remember reading it all, but find it? I'd find my youth faster.
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