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Chaos, death and disaster - several bombs have just exploded in London ;-(



 
 
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Old July 8th 05, 12:18 PM
Shaun aRe
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"Slack" wrote in message
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bomba wrote:

spademan o---[) * wrote:

Bomba is holed up in his office ATM.
The whole thing really sucks, must be bloody scary for anyone in London.



Aye, London's not a happy place at the moment. Pretty much the only
sounds are sirens and helicopters.

As far as I can tell, all my family and friends are ok. I've had a fair
few concerned phone calls and e-mails, as I normally work out of an
office round the corner from Moorgate (scene of one of the blasts).
However, I'm working out of our other office today.


Good to hear ya blokes are alright... well, relatively speaking (sans
Shaun)


WTF?!? Why, what's wrong with me Slack ya gret goof! Heheheh...

Shaun aRe ',;~}~



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Old July 8th 05, 12:38 PM
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"dardruba" wrote in message
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Sarah wrote:
"Shaun aRe" wrote in message
news.net...


It's not like there is any sense to their thinking!


Unfortunately there is.
This attack was well thought out, apparently by people who
live here. We'll probly get to hear more of this as the investigations
continue, right day, right time, right place etc.

By chance our daughter and her husband who both work in the City
were out of town today at opposite ends of the country.
Also safe are her husbands relatives. Dad left v. early and was in
Chambers, Mum stayed off work at home today waiting for a plumber,
two kidsare at school in the City and are staying there overnight
with friends, the other child is at school in Islington well away
from the target area. What a relief.


So glad to hear they're OK mate! Sheesh, I'd have been a nervosu wreck...

Just to introduce a light note, some morons posted early today
saying they thought the bombs had Made in France on the side because
Paris lost out to London in the 2012 Olympics.
They quickly came back to eat humble pie when the true horror
became known.
Mike


Silly sods! Funny you should mention that - this is what our kid Taryn came
back from school saying, heheheheh...


Shaun aRe


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Old July 8th 05, 12:40 PM
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"bomba" wrote in message
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On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 18:00:39 +0100, dardruba wrote:

It's not like there is any sense to their thinking!


Unfortunately there is.
This attack was well thought out, apparently by people who
live here. We'll probly get to hear more of this as the investigations
continue, right day, right time, right place etc.


I disagree. Four bombs, in the middle of London, at the height of rush
hour. If they'd been well organised, and / or aiming for maximum civilian
casualties the death toll would / should have been far greater.


I'm with you on this Jon - if they knew what they were doing, or were going
for maximum impact, there'd be hundreds if not thousands dead...

Enough to make one wonder WTF exactly was going on.


Shaun aRe


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Old July 8th 05, 12:42 PM
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"limey" wrote in message
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"Shaun aRe" wrote in message
Article he

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4659093.stm

Since the article, MANY more than the 2 first mentioned confirmed dead.
This
is bad, real, real bad...

I hope any of you in London, or who have friends or relatives in

London -
well I just hope to hells you are ALL alright/. Be safe.

Shaun aRe


I watched in horror early this morning but didn't post because I was on my
way to a medical appointment and beyond. What a senseless loss of life

and
limb and what cowards they are. I also post on a UK newsgroup and was
amazed by several responses: "We don't live in London so why should we
care?". Are people really that blasé at home anymore?


None that I'd care to know, Dora. ;-(


Shaun aRe


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Old July 8th 05, 02:14 PM
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On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:29:10 +0100, bomba wrote:

On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:18:09 -0700, Chris Glidden wrote:

Latest word from round here is that people are queueing over London
Bridge to get in to the station. It could be a long night...

Be safe getting home brother.


Turned out ok. Everyone tried to get out of London at 5 (hmm,
post-terrorist attack, let's see if we can form the largest crowd
possible(?)), so by the time I got out the pub everywhere was pretty much
deserted.


Best of luck to you and thanks for the reports.

Sue(tm)
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Old July 8th 05, 02:29 PM
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"Shaun aRe" wrote:

And how in all hells, do you target and destroy, a group consisting of
individuals, spread out amongs innocents all the heck over the globe, with a
hug ilitary machine? Oh I know - bomb the hell out os wherever you feel the
ratio of terrorists to innocents is greatest, and stuff the innocents,
because well, after all, they are just casualties of war, and doing so will
not have more people become terrorists, and plant more bombs, that will kill
more innocents, that will see huge military machines, bombing more innocents
etc. etc. ad NAUSIUM.


Living in England, I would hope you could see the difference betweeen
"bomb the hell out of wherever..." and what was done in Afghanistan.
London experienced the reality of your statement. Afghanistan didn't.

Violence begets violence.


If it were only that easy. Read Al Qaeda's charter. Basically, we
all have two options. One, convert the entire world to a Taliban-like
Islam society. Dress your women in burkhas, get rid of all the music,
etc.

Or exterminate them like the cockroaches they are.

No matter WHAT we do (including calling off the war on terror), we're
infidels that must be eliminated. They don't really need any excuse
to kill us, in their mind.

Mark Hickey
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Old July 8th 05, 02:32 PM
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No matter WHAT we do (including calling off the war on terror), we're
infidels that must be eliminated.


And just why do you suppose that is?


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Old July 8th 05, 02:38 PM
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JohnH wrote:

No matter WHAT we do (including calling off the war on terror), we're
infidels that must be eliminated.


And just why do you suppose that is?


They're nuts...?

Pastorio
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Old July 8th 05, 02:41 PM
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[follow-ups trimmed]

In our last episode,
, the lovely and
talented Mark Hickey broadcast on alt.skunks:

If it were only that easy. Read Al Qaeda's charter.


Literature has a rather large stack of manifestos that promised
paradise to the faithful and decreed mayhem to infidels until
they were extinguished. They are dead letters because they were
deprived of the base they spoke to. They didn't lose that base
to genocide. They lost because material conditions changed and
the grievances upon which they fed were redressed.

Basically, we all have two options. One, convert the entire
world to a Taliban-like Islam society. Dress your women in
burkhas, get rid of all the music, etc.


Or exterminate them like the cockroaches they are.


Sorry, but you present a false dilemma.

No matter WHAT we do (including calling off the war on terror), we're
infidels that must be eliminated. They don't really need any excuse
to kill us, in their mind.


But they do need soldiers. When we stop recruiting for them,
they will soon run out volunteers.

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Old July 8th 05, 02:44 PM
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"JohnH" wrote in message
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No matter WHAT we do (including calling off the war on terror), we're
infidels that must be eliminated.


And just why do you suppose that is?



No need to suppose. Read their *book*. It's all there. It has nothing to
do with oil, money, or divine persuasion. It has everything to do with
hate--going back millennia.

--Yankee Viejo


 




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