BBC reports that a short statement claiming responsibility has been found on an Al Qaeda site. Not confirmed though. Police now say 7 blasts.
This is one of the buses. Seen from the front, the two circles are showing you the left and the right half of the top deck.
BBC radio just reported that the bus bomb was the work of a suicide bomber. My heart and thoughts go out to all the London-based BS posters.
Radio Five Live's online broadcast is the best source of updating information for anyone that is bothered and can manage to connect - the site is getting hammered, obviously.
Seen Blair speak - usual stuff about atrocities and not letting the terrorists win. Looked properly shaken. He announced he was leaving the G8 summit to return to London for a briefing with police, security services, armed forces and responsible ministers. G8 summit will continue until his return to Gleneagles later tonight.
Yes. But can we agree here and now to call these things from here on out HOMICIDE bomber. Enough with the 'suicide' stuff. Don't call these Islamics that anymore, OK?
so they've found a way to kill other people without killing each other. Looks like they caught up with the rest of the world with something, too bad it was that
This ain't the first time that bombs have gone off in London - yadda-yadda-yadda... Us Brits are outwardly tougher though. We are all crying inside...
Oh, knock it off. There is a very clean disitinction between someone who sets a bomb and someone who detonates it while wearing it on his back. Oh, and drop the racist crap now please.
yeah i just heard it'd happened before, of course when it did I either wasn't alive or was too young to remember. It's just weird cause i was looking at apartments in london last night, 9 years in advance but that's beside the point. It just surprises me how everyone is calm about it considering what happened, whereas in new york it was just complete chaos for 3 days.
New York event was huge. Everyone saw it happen. The majority of blasts would have been miniscule in comparison and done in the cover of the Underground... A Bus exploding is nothing new really... IRA did alot worse. The mentality is lot different as well... But you shouldn't really compare the two. Different issue altogether...
I'm not sure if he said it in his speech and i didn't hear due to my having a tendency to bop in and out of things but he's going back to scotland tomorrow
Just checked my messages and my mate Tak is fine. Which is not too surprising as he never goes to work. Hmmmm. I don't have any friends who work in Central London, well not ones whom I am on first name terms with...