Explosions in London

[fidlerre]

7 explosions on the tube and in at least one bus this morning in London.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/07/07/london.tube/index.html

Splarg, check in with us here when you get a chance, will ya?

[fidlerre]

Bill I love ya, but keep the politics crap out of this...

Now they are reporting 3 tube blasts and the bus explosion. BBC is speculating that the tube explosions affected more than one tube stop - as the explosion may have occurred midway through two stops - so it seemed like more.

[Bill Archer]

It is most certainly NOT "political crap" to point out at this time that anyone who says "there is no terrorist threat" is a moron.

It is absolutely unarguable, fid.

For those who are able, Fox News has switched to Sky News and the coverage is impressive.

One report just told of "body after body" being pulled from Randall Square.
Station.

[Placid Casual]

Sky is usually impressive. BBC america decided to show Cash in the Attic instead.

[ripman88]

maybe it's just pissed off French for not getting the olympics

[Placid Casual]

maybe it's just pissed off French for not getting the olympics


Not funny.

[Zak]

how long before this thread gets locked?

[fidlerre]

Guys, seriously, is it that hard to have a serious discussion about an tragic event?

Good grief. Keep the jokes to yourself -- and stay on-topic.

[Bill Archer]

Sky now reporting 45 dead, 1000 injured, 150 criticals.

[Placid Casual]

Sky now reporting 45 dead, 1000 injured, 150 criticals.


To be honest, we have been seriously lucky if it is that low.

[Zak]

It's gone from two dead to forty-five dead in the span of two hours, sadly I expect worse. Is there any audio available on the web from Blair's remarks this morning?

[Placid Casual]

It's gone from two dead to forty-five dead in the span of two hours, sadly I expect worse. Is there any audio available on the web from Blair's remarks this morning?

Try the BBC, Sky News or ITN.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4659933.stm has links to bbc radio coverage.

Ken Livingstone was completely right with his comments

[Placid Casual]

Blairs statement:


I'm just going to make a short statement to you on the terrible events that have happened in London earlier today.

And I hope you understand that at the present time we are still trying to establish exactly what has happened.

There is a limit to what information I can give you and I'll simply try and tell you the information as best I can at the moment.

It is reasonably clear that there have been a series of terrorist attacks in London.

There are obviously casualties, both people who have died and people who are seriously injured, and our thoughts and prayers, of course, are with the victims and their families.

It is my intention to leave the G8 within the next couple of hours and go down to London and get a report face-to-face with the police and the emergency services and the ministers who have been dealing with this and then to return later this evening.

It is the will of all the leaders of the G8, however, that the meeting should continue in my absence, that we should continue to discuss the issues that we were going to discuss and reach the conclusions that we were going to reach.

Each of the countries round that table have some experience of the effects of terrorism and all the leaders, as they will indicate a little bit later, share our complete resolution to defeat terrorism.

It is particularly barbaric that this has happened on a day when people are meeting to try to help the problems of poverty in Africa and the long-term problems of climate change and the environment.

Just as it is reasonably clear that this is a terrorist attack or a series of terrorist attacks it is also reasonably clear that it is designed and aimed to coincide with the opening of the G8.

There will be time to talk later about this.

It is important, however, that those engaged in terrorism realise that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire impose extremism on the world.

Whatever they do it is our determination that they will never succeed in destroying what we hold dear in this country and in other civilised nations throughout the world.

Thank you

[9 Rush]

Man, what a fcking disaster. Before I moved to sunny Ohio I'd get on the tube at Aldgate, or Aldgate East, and depending on lazyness, around 10 to 9 was when I'd saunter down there. Thankfully, all my mates are ok.

I'd say there's a fair bit of massaging of casualty numbers going on the moment. At rush hour there would have been 50 people on the top deck of that bus alone. Most of them couldn't have had much of a chance for starters.

[Bill Archer]

Sky just confirmed there are three trains trapped underground. No one has been able to reach any of them yet.

[9 Rush]

Sky just confirmed there are three trains trapped underground. No one has been able to reach any of them yet.

Have they said what stations they're at or close to Bill?

[Brook]

BBC.com has a map and describes where the explosions on the Tube took place.

[Bill Archer]

http://www.bloggledygook.com/bloggledygook/images/_41277031_central_londonblast3_map_3.gif

[Zak]

Ken Livingstone was spot on. If you've not heard his remarks, his summations are very good.

[Looper121]

terrorists suck.