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[SNooKY]

A tragic day for London, a tragic day for the World. I just don't know WHEN and IF these attrocities will ever end. I live a few minutes from Canary Wharf (East London) and being that close to something as eventful as that of today's acts really makes you think. Although thank God no one close to me has been involved in today's despicable events, I can only pray for those friends and familys who are victims to the global acts of cowardness and sheer unhumane ways of expressing extremist views.

Condolences to anyone who has lost a loved one because of these bastards...

[Bencrest]

I remember travelling across the Docklands Light Railway after the Canary Whard bomb [which I'm pretty sure was down to the Real IRA], and seeing as how I was living out in fens even then [I think I was probably about 12] it was a serious eye-opener.

Theres several ways of looking at today, and none of these are intended to be taken as me making excuses for Al-Qaeda, or pretending it never happened....

a) People keep going on about how this was 'meticulously coordinated' - if that was the case, all the 'bombs' would have gone off at exactly the same time for maximum confusion. Don't give the perpetrators credit they don't deserve.

I'll admit that this was a disgusting act, and while it was atrocious in that people have been killed, thank god they didn't start using nerve agents, and didn't use 'serious' explosives. If you want to know what 'serious' explosives are, I can tell you.

So there you have it, I would say more but would probably be taken off the internet. As it stands, I feel great sympathy for those who are suffering any form of loss due to todays events, although I also accept that it could have been so much more devastating.

That isn't intended in an offensive way, it is intended as a true statement.

I'm not one to say 'I told you so', but those that heard me saying that 'The olympics being hosted here will be a security nightmare' will now understand what I mean.

I only hope that this wasn't the 'thin end of the wedge', because in all probability it probably is.

[shaun2097]

i agree to some part bencrest. just imagine if it was a "dirty bomb" that was used today! unspeakable!

[barcrest]

I think ben raised some pretty valid points.

So great was the planning that the fourth bomb went off in the wrong place... It looks pretty likely that this was supposed to be on another tube but somehow didn't make it. This was probably due to the tube services stopping.

But picking up on a point bencrest made it would not make sense to set all the bombs off at the same time, it has a far greater impact if you stagger them as people are then in fear of where the next one is and when that will go off. All at once and it's over instantly, one at a time you never know when the last one has gone off. An old terrorist trick is set off a small device and then set off a second bigger device in the same place once the rescue teams arrive.

No one would fancy going back to help them then.

[troglodite]

Im a truck Driver, I was about 1/2 mile away from aldgate St. down by whitechapel road, I was there about half an hour after it happened delivering on a normally very busy side st which was eerily quiet. I could hear the sirens going all over the place, around the corner buses had been stopped, and they did STOP. 3 buses pulled into the side street where i was and just dropped all the passengers off, they were walking around lost asking where they could catch a train / taxi . I was amazed at the calmness of the people, yet the chaos it brought to the streets. After my delivery it was time to go park up at the services, it took me 3 hours to get there , which would normally have taken 45 mins. Police had blocked most roads nad the road by the royal london hosp which i needed to use.
Many of us have 'badmouthed' the police for some reason or other in the past but they did an excellent job, along with the other emergency services and even the bus drivers going back into london to act as mass hospital transport. I have never witnessed anything like this, and hope never to again.

All our hearts go out to those people involved and families of those killed.

Britain will stand strong.

Mike

[Gazeyre1966]

All our hearts go out to those people involved and families of those killed.

Britain will stand strong.

Mike

WELL SAID SIR.

I was on my way home from work today. Roads had been closed, police and the army everywhere. Suddenly I heard this roar and looked up to see Bush's plane Air Force One flanked by about 5 chinook helicopters leaving Prestwick airport. I never realised it could fly so slowly. I always had this vision from Top Gun....lol

When this is happening in the West of Scotland....so far away from London and political influence then you have to wonder what the world is coming to....or rather, what kind of nanny state have we let it become. Why do we Kowtow to these people?

I thought the headline in the Daily Star summed the way everyone is feeling up perfectly. It simply had the front-page headline "Bastards".

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