London Bombings (4 Years On)

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It has been four years since four suicide bombers detonated bombs on London's transport system killing 52 people. At 8:50 this very day four years ago three bombs went off at or around 0850 BST on underground trains just outside Liverpool Street and Edgware Road stations. Normal day heroes rushed to help the injured.
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Timeline Of Events
08:50: Initial reports of an incident between Liverpool Street and Aldgate tube stations, either an explosion or a collision between trains. The reports from the two stations were initially thought to relate to two separate incident
08:50: Explosion on train between King's Cross and Russell Square tube stations. Eyewitnesses report explosion appeared to come from outside the train (this explosion was initially reported to have happened at 08:56).
08:50: Explosion on train at Edgware Road tube station (this explosion was initially reported to have happened at 09:17).
09:28: Tube operator Metronet says the incident was caused by some sort of power surge.
09:33: Reports of an incident at Edgware Road tube station. Reports that passengers on a train hit by an explosion attempted to break windows with umbrellas in order to escape.
09:46: British Transport Police announce there had been more explosions at King's Cross, Old Street, Moorgate, and Russell Square.
09:47: Explosion on number 30 bus travelling between Marble Arch and Hackney Wick at Upper Woburn Place/Tavistock Square.
09:49: Entire London Underground system shut down.
10:00: National Grid announces there had been no problem with power surges.
10:40: First report of fatalities, government source speaks of 20 dead.
11:08: Bus services suspended across central London.
11:10: Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair confirms fears that it is a coordinated terror attack, but appeals for calm, asking people not to travel to London or make unnecessary calls to the emergency services.
12:05: Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks out on the incident, calling the attacks a coordinated series of 'barbaric' terrorist attacks.
17:30: Having flown back from Scotland, from the G8 Summit, Prime Minister Tony Blair emerges from a meeting in Downing Street and urges the public not to 'be terrorised'.
18:13: Deputy Assistant Police Commissioner Brian Paddick confirms 37 fatalities: two in the bus explosion at Upper Woburn Place/Tavistock Square, seven at Liverpool Street/Aldgate, seven at Edgware Road, and twenty-one in the King's Cross/Russell Square blast, as well as around seven hundred injuries, with roughly three hundred of those being transported by ambulance to London hospitals.
21:40: The Metropolitan Police announce that a person injured in one of the blasts has since died in hospital care.
 
I never knew that happened. Makes me not want to ride on public transportation.. Well I dont, but still...
 
The next day most of the undergound was closed but londers were not afraid to go to work.We went to work and we did not let the terroists win.
RIP 7/7 Victims
 
That is crazy. I have personally served in the US Army against the fight against terrorist and we need to all pull together to stop them! Soon after my surgeries over the next 2 years I plan to get back in the service and go over seas and continue the fight!
 
Dude, you can't stop these people with brute force. You're just going to end up getting another 100,000 CCTV cameras put up all over London.
How about y'all stop bombing their countries?
 
I watched a conspiracy theory the other day about the 7/7 London Bombies, they were supposedly setup by the MI5 and the goverment knew all about it.

After watching the show, I came to the conclusion that terrorists did in fact blow themselves up. As the conspiracy theory was just a bit stupid and had no hard evidence that it was setup by MI5.

As for 9/11 twin towers (which is going off topic), I do believe they were setup, as there is a lot of videos around YouTube that show bombs blowing up floor after floor whilst the tower is collapsing, there is a video where you can see explosions happening on several floors and blasting out smoke BEFORE the tower has collapsed to that floor. A quick search on YouTube of something like 9/11 conspiracy well bring up a few interesting videos.

Anyway, a lot of people died in the london bombings as well as 9/11, so to all that died, R.I.P.
 
So 7/7 is kinda like 9/11 for Americans? RIP 7/7 victims, even though I never heard about this on the media (or I was too young to care then).
 
Well, it is sort of like 9/11.

9/11 was a bit more serious because it was the first mass terrorist attack on a superpower nation.

RIP to those who died on 7/7.
 
London is a superpower nation too we had a empire you didn`t lol.
Anway ON TOPIC.
 
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iCrazy said:
London is a superpower nation too we had a empire you didn`t lol.
Anway ON TOPIC.
London? London is a city 😛

If you mean the UK, they may be a world power, but the only superpower, by definition that's left is the US.
 
This do show a massive problem in the world nowadays...

In the UK we seem to hear every little thing that happens in the US. You can't escape what is happening in America and what Barrack Obama is up to. If anything like the London Bombing happened in the US, we would hear about and it would take up over half of the news programme. When it is the other way round, no one in the US knows about the bombings in London.

It kind of surprises me why in the UK we put so much emphasis on what is happening in the US while in the US, they seem to not bother talking about what is happening in the UK... Even when there is an attack like this where loads of innocent people lost their lifes. You can't get much bigger news then that so i can't understand why it wasn't a main story in the US.
 
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Fowler said:
This do show a massive problem in the world nowadays...

In the UK we seem to hear every little thing that happens in the US. You can't escape what is happening in America and what Barrack Obama is up to. If anything like the London Bombing happened in the US, we would hear about and it would take up over half of the news programme. When it is the other way round, no one in the US knows about the bombings in London.

It kind of surprises me why in the UK we put so much emphasis on what is happening in the US while in the US, they seem to not bother talking about what is happening in the UK... Even when there is an attack like this where loads of innocent people lost their lifes. You can't get much bigger news then that so i can't understand why it wasn't a main story in the US.

It was a main story.

I remember the whole ordeal back in 05.. I was like 13 or 14. It was seriously all over the TV.
 
Well, Ghost would have only been 12 or so then.. it happened when I was 13 or 14 and at that age ( still now ) I am a news junkie, political guy, etc...so it explains why he didn't see it.

Theezy, I don't know though.

Probably 75% of americans don't know about 7/7, come to think of it now.
 
I can't speak for either of them but it's hard to not notice when one of the 5 most powerful countries in the world is hit with a terrorist attack.

As I said, come to think of it I was probably wrong.. The majority of Americans are watching Entertainment and Tabloid trash tv...
 
That I found very unusual that the world didn't seem to react to 7/7 like they did 9/11.. or 11/9 lol

I will say in defense of the 'conspiracy theory' concerning 7/7 that the theorists are going by the history of government terrorism when they make the observation that it was MI5.

MI5 planted bombs all over N. Ireland for their own political purposes. And I find it insane to think that if your government is willing to kill people overseas, they'd never kill their own people.
In a way they killed their own people, because most of the targets the MI5 took were Protestant civilians.

This 'conspiracy theory' isn't as far-fetched as it first seems.
 
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