Re:London Underground

Just heard report on radio suggesting bus expolsions could have been suicide bombers

Bloody horrific. Let's just hope that we don't go into any knee-jerk reactions a la the US and we react with dignity, not violence.

Trouserpress wrote: Bloody horrific. Let's just hope that we don't go into any knee-jerk reactions a la the US and we react with dignity, not violence.

I second that

Jim Garten wrote: Radio 4 just confirmed a suicide bomber is responsible for the bus explosion; this is the first such suicide attack in Britain, and would appear to point the finger directly at Al-Qaeda... What a day!

They would have been planning this for ages.
How could a person not have anything better to do than that.
A human life reduced to an incendary device.
How could anyone possibly spend two years just doing everything with the single intention
that at 9:10 am on the 8/7 they are going to blow themselves up and everyone around them
for a ticket to paradise.

As Dream Theater said in 'Sacrificed Sons'  'Scriptures they heed have misled them'.


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sigod wrote: Stuck in London (Battersea) at the moment. There are no busses, no trains but the airports are still open and we are all walking home I guess. Our Prime Minister (Tony Blair) is on his way back from Scotland so that he can talk to the Police and help co-ordinate things. There are reports that the Army are on the streets of Covent Garden and I've also heard that the bus that was blown up by a suicide bomber but nothing is yet full confirmed. There have been six reported explosions so far. Those fu*kers.

I think all of us in other areas of the world are really thinkin of you guys over there
at the moment. Can't do much more than try and show how we are feeling for you all.

richardh wrote: This is terrible but we have been expecting a terrorist attack on the capital for a while.The timing is not surprising really.(G8 and the Olympic celebrations.) .I don't think there will be any knee jerk reaction as such.We have had IRA atrocities on mainland GB for years like the Warrington bombings.All it will do is strengthen our resolve to defeat terrorism.

You can't "defeat" terrorism. It's not a tangible enemy.

Snow Dog wrote: Maybe its the French! They are mighty pissed about the Olympic Bid!

One Chirac farth would be enough to annilhilate the whole of  Great Britain, so that's not it. No need of bombs in the subway!

Some have sp[oken of the IRA , but as with Madrid last year and the Basques , I do not believe a word of it.

This leaves IRAK!!!!!

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ONE THING I HAVE ALWAYS ADMIRED ABOUT THE BRITISH IS THEIR MARVELLOUS SENSE OF HUMOUR,FROM MONTY PYTHON TO MORCOMBE AND WISE,THE GREAT EALING COMEDIES OF THE FORTIES AND FIFTIES,THE GOODIES,THE CARRY ON MOVIES,THE GREAT COMEDIANS...

THE LIST GOES ON AND ON

THAT SENSE OF HUMOUR HAS COME THROUGH AND CARRIED BRITAIN THROUGH ITS DARKEST HOURS OF WAR AND HARDSHIP(AND CRICKET LOSSES TO AUSTRALIA!) AND HAS BEEN AWONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF HUMAN ENDURANCE AND COURAGE IN TRYING TIMES.

AND NOW WE HAVE ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THAT FOIBLE OF HUMAN NATURE THAT ALLOWS THE BITTER DARKNESS OF FANATICAL HATRED TO COMMIT PEOPLE TO ACTS OF CRUEL DEPRAVITY,TO SHORT CIRCUIT THAT SENSE OF MORAL PROPORTION THAT RECOGNISES THE RIGHT OF EXISTANCE NO MATTER WHAT ONES BELEIF IS.

I HOPE THAT SENSE OF HUMOUR SHINES THROUGH AND SHOWS THE WORLD ONCE AGAIN THAT THE PEOPLE OF BRITAIN ARE BETTER THAN THE ANIMALS THAT PREY ON THEM.

Trouserpress wrote: richardh wrote: This is terrible but we have been expecting a terrorist attack on the capital for a while.The timing is not surprising really.(G8 and the Olympic celebrations.) .I don't think there will be any knee jerk reaction as such.We have had IRA atrocities on mainland GB for years like the Warrington bombings.All it will do is strengthen our resolve to defeat terrorism. You can't "defeat" terrorism. It's not a tangible enemy.

I think Trouserpress is right in that Islam itself is an ideological nationhood and fanatic elements within Islam have no material territorial borders in that they have no allegiance to no one except their interpretation of the 'scriptures that mislead them' (DT). There has always been terrorism in the world in one form or another but never in this form.

To be the ultimate assassin is their aim and  their 'cause' the most evil of corrupt motivations. Spiritual promises of eternal self-satisfaction. All westerners and non believers are 'infidel' and therefore unworthy and expendable. Men, women and children - there is no remorse, there is no mercy. Once they commit to it, if you are in the way, you are an expendable target. (Unfortunately, this sounds to much like a western term, collateral damage doesn't it)

There is no reasoning with that type of thinking though. I have seen footage of Hamas training videos from a documentary where they indoctrinate 'pre-school' children that the pinnacle of achievement in their life is to be able to strap a bomb to their body and go into a crowd of Jewish citizens and kill as many of them as possible. Beautiful, innocent children being trained to be merciless killers.

How do you reason with thinking like that.

The only possible way to eliminate a threat like this is to get a genuine and sincere agreement and collaboration between ALL states including those with sharia law and governed by Islamic fundamentalists, to be rid of it, but thats about as possible as Osama Bin Laden converting to Christianity.

What can I say........................................