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Explosions In London
Topic Started: Jul 7 2005, 11:16 AM (176 Views)
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'There were three explosions on the Underground - which police said left 33 dead - and one on a double-decker bus in which an unknown number died.'
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:( A sad day, indeed. Here's hoping that number doesn't increase, although I feel certain that it well.
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The UN reacts: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=430518
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I just came out of the room for an exam of several hours (summer holidays now, yay) and I read up with the news and this at the same time. I was kinda shocked and speechless and could not think up more more then "veel sterkte" which is wishing someone strength, basically. I noticed it was Dutch after I posted and thought I'd leave it until I got home.
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It's okay. Feel free to do it more often.
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The Herals this morning said there were 37 confirmed dead, but they hadn't started counting at the bus explosion site at that stage.
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I've seen 55 but the BBC is sticking at 37
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Before everyone runs around proclaiming that the world's going to end, that we really have to have ID cards now, and abolish the civil liberties built up over centuries, can I just step back and point out the actual scale of yesterday's London bombings?

The death toll is going to end up in the region of 50 - about the size of your medium-sized rail crash, with perhaps three or four times that many people suffering long-term serious injuries, physical or mental. Now that's horrible for them and their families, but it is about the equivalent of one week's death toll on the roads.

Then there is the disruption in central London - "chaos on the streets" as the media proclaims. Well actually, the problems were in the same order of magnitude as is achieved quite regularly by a good semi-tropical storm, working in cahoots with the inadequate Victorian drains.

Perhaps we should look at this from the other end of the telescope, and realize that despite the endless scare stores about "dirty" bombs, chemical weapons, even nuclear bombs, this was all al-Qa'ida could achieve.

There will be endless post mortems, and indeed there are good questions to ask. I'll admit the advantage of hindsight, but wasn't London, on the day of the G8 summit, when Bin Laden's enemies were making at least a reasonable stab at portraying themselves as environmentally aware humanitarians, in a notably similar position to the Spanish just before their election?

Bin Laden, or at least those working on his model, have patterns that can, and should be checked and predicted, yet we're told London was on the lowest level of alert for years.

Accounts have it that 1,500 Met police are being rushed home from Gleneagles. Shouldn't they have been here in the first place, rather than tearing around Scottish fields trying to stop men in clown suits and women in tie-dye getting within shouting distance of George Bush?


from http://philobiblion.blogspot.com/2005/07/p...proportion.html
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TBlack,Jul 8 2005
07:55 PM
I've seen 55 but the BBC is sticking at 37

Frigging John Howard's running around claiming that there are 'definitely 52 confirmed dead', while all the police are saying is that the number is greater than 40, and not likely to reach 100. And to think he got re-elected with not only an increased majority, but also got control of the Senate!
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According to the BBC:

'He said he had information the official death toll would rise to 52. The UK has so far confirmed 37 people were killed.'

:lol:

Good God Enn, why is he in power?
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09:46 PM

Look, I can't help. I'm still 12 days from getting the vote, and my parents both voted against the Coalition. You can't blame me!
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I was eligible 10 days after the election.
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'at least 50' according to Sir Ian Blair
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