Posted on 12/26/2005 2:10:32 PM PST by ncountylee
LONDON - The terror attacks on London on July 7 have changed Britain — and the British way of life. The Houses of Parliament, Scotland Yard and a number of City landmarks have been surrounded by rings of concrete and steel and, once more, station platforms are bare of litter bins. Armed police patrol the streets and suspicious glances penetrate the veneer of traditional multi-ethnic tolerance.
Memories of the series of suicide attacks on tube trains and a bus on July 7 flash back with every trip down the tube escalators, and every journey on a traditionally red bus.
The four bombers killed 52 people, many non-British, and injured more than 700 in their devastating strikes on three trains and the Number 30 bus.
Six months on, some normality has returned to daily routines, but there remains a ‘grave threat’ to public transport in the UK, parliamentarians have warned. “The attacks were a savage reminder of current terrorist dangers. It is unlikely that any workable protective security system for transport networks can be completely effective at all times”, the House of Commons Transport Committee has warned.
Meanwhile, following the example of New York, X-ray screening and body scanners will be tried out on selective London train routes in 2006.
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Well, I certainly hope that the government isn't listening to any terrorist phone conversations or checking any terrorist email. It's an invasion of privacy. So is scanning for radiation. Better people die than have any of that going on.
The ROP has changed much of the world since 9/11.
Seems this change is letting the terrorists have control.
How so?
As a match to dry tinder, what we see now must change, upon being sparked by the next sufficiently heinous act of Islamist terror.
Americans, if not Brits, will demand a reckoning fight, that we might once again live without fearful police or military presences to protect us. We're not inclined simply to grit our teeth and take it on the chin.
HF
But how soon will the British forget about their 9/11?
And how exactly will we forget? Did we forget about the IRA bombing campaign on the mainland?
It's a new world, folks.
Patent tosh. There were security barriers in place and armed police patrolling at sensitive sites in London well before last year. And as for 'no bins on stations', that has been the case since the mid 80's when the IRA started putting bombs in them. I certainly don't have 'flashbacks' to July 7th whenever I go down an underground escalator!
This article sounds like wish thinking, rather than any attempt to actually find out the real situation.
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