Looks like a new attempted terrorist strike in London

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Posted by George Smiley on Jul-21-2005 13:01:

Looks like a new attempted terrorist strike in London

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4703777.stm

Looks like it was a lucky escape. Four insidents - three tube stations and a bus. Looks like only detenators exploded - either on their own or cos they failed to detenate the actual bomb. Listening to a whitnes on the news now, she said the person that did it (on one of the tube trains) left his rucksack on the train (after the detenator had gone off) then ran off the train and up the stairs (which suggests to me his bomb failed but we dont know that yet)

Police are not at the moment treating the insident as a "major insident" yet

Posted by Dupz on Jul-21-2005 13:10:

Just saw on Sky news that the windows in the bus were blown out.. Still havent heard of any injuries yet though, which is good

Posted by Dupz on Jul-21-2005 13:11:

Armed police have entered a hospital, apparently after one of the fukcs that did a runner..

edit: make that University College Hospital near Warren St

Posted by George Smiley on Jul-21-2005 13:13:

quote:
Originally posted by Dupz
Just saw on Sky news that the windows in the bus were blown out.. Still havent heard of any injuries yet though, which is good

Yea I think we would have heard by now if there were any casualties.

There is a possibility that they were just detenators that exploded, just to cause fear and disruption. But the thing with that is that it means there are four terrorists still out there somewhere and will most likely be caught, meaning they might give info away. I thought it might be suicide bombers gone wrong cos at least suicide bomber 'destroy the evidence'

Posted by Dupz on Jul-21-2005 13:16:

quote:
Originally posted by George Smiley
Yea I think we would have heard by now if there were any casualties.

There is a possibility that they were just detenators that exploded, just to cause fear and disruption. But the thing with that is that it means there are four terrorists still out there somewhere and will most likely be caught, meaning they might give info away. I thought it might be suicide bombers gone wrong cos at least suicide bomber 'destroy the evidence'

Police have reported one injury at Warren St, while specialists in chemical protection suits are entering the subway at the same station

Posted by metalgearsolid on Jul-21-2005 14:21:

Thats pretty good news. Seems like no one has died. But on cnn they said they werent suicidal bombers. If they were there would be dead people.
they said there was a "sour" smell. What type of bomb is that??

Posted by Shakka on Jul-21-2005 14:38:

quote:
Originally posted by metalgearsolid
Thats pretty good news. Seems like no one has died. But on cnn they said they werent suicidal bombers. If they were there would be dead people.
they said there was a "sour" smell. What type of bomb is that??

Bloomberg was reporting that one of them was a "nailbomb" earlier this morning.

Posted by bubble on Jul-21-2005 17:32:

quote:
Originally posted by Yahoo
"An Italian young man ... said a man was carrying a rucksack (that) suddenly exploded, a minor explosion but enough to blow open the rucksack, and the man then made an exclamation as if something had gone wrong and ... everyone rushed off the carriage."

amateurs...

Posted by Q5echo on Jul-21-2005 18:20:

sounds like amatuer's taking advantage of some of the rhetoric pushing the country by way of Spain.

if thats the case it will backfire.

Posted by Fir3start3r on Jul-21-2005 18:41:

Anyone claim responsibility yet?
I haven't seen anything regarding that...

Posted by Dupz on Jul-22-2005 03:42:

quote:
Originally posted by Fir3start3r
Anyone claim responsibility yet?
I haven't seen anything regarding that...

I think 2 people have been arrested so far.

Posted by josh4 on Jul-22-2005 15:30:

I don't understand the motivation. I saw a piece on CNN that said the motive isn't usually fanatical religious beliefs but in an effort to get foreign troops out of a particular area. It would seem like it has the opposite effect, causing the West to spend more time in the middle east.

Posted by George Smiley on Jul-22-2005 15:46:

quote:
Originally posted by josh4
I don't understand the motivation. I saw a piece on CNN that said the motive isn't usually fanatical religious beliefs but in an effort to get foreign troops out of a particular area. It would seem like it has the opposite effect, causing the West to spend more time in the middle east.

Like Spain?

Posted by josh4 on Jul-22-2005 16:30:

quote:
Originally posted by George Smiley
Like Spain?

well i think you're refering to spain pulling out of Iraq which if i'm not mistaken wasn't in relation to bombings but because Zapatero didn't agree with the U.S.'s agenda and wanted U.N. control of the war. but you're right there have been bombings that caused a direct troop pull out. i cant think of any specific ones (Nairobi maybe?) but still anything on the scale of the London bombings are going to wipe clean any wavering feelings about the West's presence in the middle east (as in it's necessary to insure the West's security) and i'd expect the mujahideen to know this