This is a discussion about the explosions around London that just happened. Post your opinions, generally talk about it. People in London, if you can, shed a little light on the situation.

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

The following stations have been affected:

Liverpool Street/Aldgate (Liverpool Street's been closed altogether)
Aldgate East
Edgware Road
King's Cross
Russell Square
Moorgate

Liverpool Street is my connecting station to London, Aldgate and Aldgate East are very close by, ditto King's Cross, Moorgate etc - it looks like they targeted a specific area, if it was a premeditated attack.

My mate lives on the Croydon-Victoria train line, she can't get any further than East Croydon so I'm thinking Victoria station is shut too.

Oh no. Is everyone from Ichigos alright?

Yes, because the meetup ain't till Saturday - not that it's gonna happen I don't think, me and Sephi have had to cancel and I think others will too. Thorn said he was going to Birmingham today... I hope he didn't have to go via London :/

yeah my dad got stuck. I heard about it before it was on the news but I didn't know it was so many explosions.

Um the whole transport system is down in and around London. First explosion was at 8:46 I think. They're saying it could be a terrorist attack. Especially when the G8 meetings are taking place and the timings of the explosions.

No doubt London was vulnerable, since they won the bidding for the Olympics. This is horrible.

My brother is on the other side of london, so he's not affected. We are tryng to ring him, but are unable to get through because of the phones being shutdown. it has been declared as a major thing, not a fault in a system of some description.

I stand by my decision that this was mostly to do with the olympics

EDIT: i feel stupid, the G8 hadn't occured to me

:copied from london meetup:

London aint gonna be safe for a while and on top of that it might be a lockdown for a while as well. you can guarantee that they aint gonna be lettin any cars or trains run though today.

but I've come up with something. Don't you find it ironic or extremely close coincidence that the DAY after london gets named as the host for the olympics bombs are goin off.
A grudge perhaps, show that london aint safe and not fit to host the olympics by having bombs go off maybe. do it earlly whilst theres still chance to reconsider

As far as i know everyone's ok. no one lives that deep into london i dont think. Just saw a man nearly crying on t.v talking about his experience on the train when it went off.

Many motives, I think. They picked the time well, there's a number of groups that could have done it. Bastards. Don't wanna tear myself away from the news...

Originally posted by BELINDA SEABROOK@ RUSSEL SQUARE, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4659243.stm


I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang, I turned round and half the double decker bus was in the air.

It was a massive explosion and there were papers and half a bus flying through the air, I think it was the number 205.

There must be a lot of people dead as all the buses were packed, they had been turning people away from the tube stops.

We were about 20 metres away, that was all.

One word: ****.

hm.. explosion in the busy morning when commuters take the public transport to work..

even if it was totally accidental, terrorists would probably claim responsibility

Personally I think it's more the G8 meetings when Mr Blair is busy somewhere else. A country with no prime-minister means decisions can't be taken immediately. You can't plan something like this in a day so that rules out the Olympic stuff if you think about it.

Blair's making a statement on live telly in ten minutes.

Oh yeah phone lines are down in London by the way mysetery editor so it's going to be hard to get hold of your relatives.

Will it be worldwide? i'd assume so, but...

Thanks. We already tried, so we kinda figured out that they were down

Mobile networks are disrupted as well, guys - the network providers are giving priority to the emergency services.

Originally posted by madmazda86@Jul 7 2005, 08:53 PM
Mobile networks are disrupted as well, guys - the network providers are giving priority to the emergency services.
Either that, or to help prevent secondary attacks.

ooh wow!! its all over the TV RIGHT NOW!!!! and im like "crap!!!" and immediatly ran to the computer to see if you guys was ok...

so ya.. i hope everyone is alright!!! and i hope nothing bad happend to any of your friends or relatives or anything...


and the meet up was this saturday!!!! dang!!! such timing
well im glad that your all ok!!!
take care all of yaz!!!

My brother got through to us. rejoycing has commenced that he is safe and well!

but i'm one of the lucky ones...

Crud, my friend is in a London school right now and now the whole school is being evacuated into the underground for some reason.

Originally posted by Roy Mustang@Jul 7 2005, 08:56 PM
Either that, or to help prevent secondary attacks.
If there was to be follow-up attacks, I'd imagine it'd also be coordinated so that mobile phone usage wouldn't be necessary. It's only emergency services it's for.

At least, that's what I think :P

crap!! this is gettin scary

how many explosions were there originally? so far there has been 7 reported over here

Originally posted by Talon@Jul 7 2005, 09:02 PM
If there was to be follow-up attacks, I'd imagine it'd also be coordinated so that mobile phone usage wouldn't be necessary. It's only emergency services it's for.

At least, that's what I think :P
I'm only repeating what's been said on the telecast.

Yes, 7 is correct so far... just watched Blair's live statement, he's very very angry, you can tell. At least he gives decent unprepared speeches, unlike Bush.

wow dang it!!! soo many explosions!!!!

what time is it there?? its early ya?? =S

It's nearly 12:15pm - explosions happened during morning rush hour, the fuckers.

And the home secretary is goign to give a statement soon.

woah, it happened 2 hours ago already?!?! time flies when you're worried stiff

Will there be other attacks as G8 goes on? Who knows...

fwah!!! 2 hours ago?!!!
crap.. and i only found out like 10 mins ago!!!

so its only been explosions?? so nothing else has happend?? better not...
but dang it!!! 2hrs ago!!!! and its still going crazy!!!!
and from what i heard... a bus or somthing also blew up too =S that means lotsa people inside....

I think i speak for all Ichigos members here when i say

I hope not

so do we know if it was bombs or anything??
as in.. do we know the cause of it all yet?

Yes, a bus blew up on Tavistock place - one fatality from that, two confirmed dead overall, though that will mount I think. It's not the scale of 9-11 in terms of the death toll, but the shock factor isn't any less. It's believed to be a terrorist attack designed to disrupt the G8 summit - someone doesn't want the UK to have a say in the summit, clearly.

My friend's back at school now.

Well, it wasn't an electrical fault, and they were very well organised, so it most likely was bombs

^ its good he's ok

It seems a bit too big for Globalists... they usually prefer shouting and stuff <_<

It looks like an Olympic issue - and it wasn&#39;t necessarily planned in "1 day" - they (whoever they are) could have everything ready and were just waiting for the Offcial Decision, after which they----

Bastards...

ok.. so im a little behind in news and info... but.. whats G8??

G8 is the global summit designed to discuss issues such as African poverty etc - The charity concert, Live8, was designed to coincide with it.

"designed to discuss Global Issues..." (not just Developing countries)

thats a very stupd time to attack, if you want suport for your cause the G8 isnt the best way.

just woundering if all london members have checked in?

let&#39;s see... Spoon? DM? Chi-Chi?

Where&#39;s DM? And Sephiroth? And Zach and KK?

EDIT: Chi-Chi&#39;s should not be in London. x_x

True, but i doubt that there will be any progress with these explosions

Zach and KK are one and the same... or so i heard

DM is on holiday. She did say ages ago.

DM&#39;s well out of it, she&#39;s in Hong Kong.

Sephi was on here a minute ago

An-kun I&#39;m talking to on MSN

Spoony I tried phoning, no answer, texted her - she might still be asleep, I haven&#39;t heard from Angelic either.

Chi-Chi&#39;s in Newcastle, no worries there

SA&#39;s in Cumbria, no worries there either

Zach, not heard from

KK neither

PFT&#39;s just appeared

I&#39;m alright

Red Stone I&#39;m talking to on MSN

Thorn went to Birmingham today, not sure if he went through London or not.

Where are they though? there are some people who are in london, but aren&#39;t online. hopefully nothing happened to them

EDIT: it&#39;s hard to post where you want with this particular thread, so it may not make sense in the end of it

Just texted Thorn - hope he didn&#39;t get stuck somewhere X_X

Zach&#39;s probably sleeping. He&#39;s not in his university because it&#39;s holidays so he should be fine. I don&#39;t think he lives in London either unless he&#39;s in uni. Um I think that&#39;s all the people from London listed there.

Thorn&#39;s alright, he wasn&#39;t allowed to go to Birmingham &#39;cause of the attacks anyway. Just Zach, Spoony, Angelic and KK to check in now.

alright. lets hope they are all safe and stay that way

i hope they are all ok&#33;&#33;&#33;
im glad that soo many are all good and healthy... but still soo many to worry about&#33;&#33;&#33;

and KK?? is that karie??

KK = KidneyKai

KidneyKai.

oh lol.. im a sad little person... sorry....

omfg how helplss i feel. i just don&#39;t know what to think. i feel so devoid of anything at the moment. i hope everyone is faring all right :s -inu

As I said on MSN:

In a way, I half-wish I was there, I know that sounds really peverse, but I just want to help in some way. I have a first aid certificate - if I&#39;d been there maybe I could&#39;ve helped out - but then again, if I&#39;d been there, maybe I&#39;d be dead. Wish I&#39;d donated blood. Or something. Anything - I don&#39;t know.

It just would&#39;ve been so fucking easy for them - London Underground, it&#39;s not like trying to sneak a bomb on a plane; you can throw what you like onto the tracks and nobody would notice, let alone care. All this stuff, the cordons, the shutdown of the transport system - it&#39;s locking the stable door after the horse has run away. And that&#39;s how it&#39;s going to continue to be - with something as public as the transport system you can&#39;t do anything until after the incident has happened.

inu- i feel the same. i dont&#39; know anyone in london, but i still feel useless, not knowing what do to or whatever.

we just heard that students are being kept in their schools, that&#39;s another factor for not being ble to reach some people.

I don&#39;t wish i was there, but i wish i could help to do something.

Originally posted by June Kelly : Edgware Road : 1310 BST
The police have confirmed there have been a number of fatalities at Edgware Road.

A number of people have been seriously injured, and then there are the walking wounded. Police say everyone is now out of the tube station.

Two trains were caught up in the explosion here. Witnesses have spoken about glass showering down on them and being plunged into darkness.

People who got out are very shaken and have told us in dramatic detail about getting out, but the very bad news is that some people have died here.

:(

Edit: I spy a Spoony.

... why did this have to happen? it didn&#39;t really...

This is terrible, I just saw it on the news. I have to say I&#39;m worried about Spoon..

she just logged on

Ah, I noticed now ^^;

Just about everybody&#39;s checked in then save Zach and KK :)

thats good news. i&#39;d still feel better seeing a post from all of teh others, though. at least, at some point

No need to worry about me, Spoonsville is quite far from London. Angelic&#39;s with me too, and we&#39;re both safe and well. Just hope everything will be okay soon. It&#39;s such a terrible thing to happen.

agreed. i wish that it had never happened, or that no one dies at least

Two have already been confirmed dead. There&#39;s pictures of the bus explosion and there&#39;s blood spattered on the building next to the bus. There&#39;s also some pictures of inside the destroyed trains.

The pictures are chilling... so much destruction :(

i heard that fatalities are in the double digits. its weird looking at the attacks its in like an area to try and cut off central london. it all goes in a circle. some people at my mums work reckon that that was justa minor attack to seal off all entry to that area and then a second 1 bigger than the 1st to just destroy the center.

I truly hope they&#39;re wrong

I hope so too... by sealing off London they&#39;ve trapped everyone inside :/

Originally posted by Spoonpuppet@Jul 7 2005, 02:26 PM
Two have already been confirmed dead.
Really? On Swedish news, they said 45 people had already been confirimed dead.

ive just watched the official meeting thats still going on now with all the major departments thats involved. they say that 33 are confirmed dead and they&#39;re still counting from the bus incident.

This is terrible.. it&#39;s really sad and shocking at the same time.

My deepest condolences to the innocent victims... At least 45 dead now from what I have heard on the news, and the number of casualities according to the British officials will increase..

Originally posted by Sephiroth@Jul 7 2005, 03:11 PM
i heard that fatalities are in the double digits. its weird looking at the attacks its in like an area to try and cut off central london. it all goes in a circle. some people at my mums work reckon that that was justa minor attack to seal off all entry to that area and then a second 1 bigger than the 1st to just destroy the center.

I truly hope they&#39;re wrong
I heard some theories about that aswell. Another theory is that the bombing of London was just a decoy, as in, they would bomb another city with much more resources.

hmm.. perhaps my grandfather&#39;s prediction was correct.

See, after london won the bid, i asked my grandpa why new york didnt win. He said that new york is already old and not very stable as well as it used to be. And even if they won there would be attacks on new york from the terrorists when the olymphics occur. So then he predicted that since London won the bid, there could be a terror attack in london sooner or later. I dont know why he said that but ironically he was right.

Since i just woke up, I will not say anything further about the london attack.

Have also just finished watching the press conference - I have to say I am impressed by the measures they had in place for such incidents, and clearly it helped, particularly in the case of moving the tubes into stations, as every second makes a difference for the critically injured.

I think this whole thing has nothing to do with the olympics but everything with the G8 meeting.

Oh. Then forget what i said before. But how do you know the G8 meeting is realted to this?

Hey, Maz texted me earlier to see if i was alright coz i hadnt signed onto here- i&#39;m fine, i heard about it before i set out to birmingham.

those people are just evil, murderous cunts and need to be taught they cant do this kinda thing- its just going to lead to more conflict, and will result eventually in war, then more will get killed

Originally posted by Hiei@Jul 8 2005, 01:28 AM
Oh. Then forget what i said before. But how do you know the G8 meeting is realted to this?
&#39;Cause Tony Blair said so, and he knows things that the general public don&#39;t, I expect. Funny how we&#39;re so reliant on the newspapers for news, really.

Originally posted by Hiei@Jul 7 2005, 05:28 PM
Oh. Then forget what i said before. But how do you know the G8 meeting is realted to this?
I don&#39;t think those terrorists would care about the Olympics really. They managed to pull off a large scale attack in a country where the political leaders of several big countries are represented - that seems a more obvious reason to me.

I think it&#39;s got something to do with the G8 summit, definitely. It&#39;s too big an event for something not to happen. I&#39;m just glad Thorn, Maz, Angelic-san, Spoonpuppet-san, and everyone else (save Zach and KK, although I hope they&#39;re OK...) from Ichigo&#39;s is OK. *hugs everyone* The bastards from my school were saying "Oooh, I&#39;m gonna fight in the war&#33;&#33;&#33;" ****.......

oh... my god

I&#39;m so glad everyone here is ok. My throughts and prayers go out to the victims of this horrible act.

The bastards from my school were saying "Oooh, I&#39;m gonna fight in the war&#33;&#33;&#33;" ****.......

who? people supporting the attacks??

Has anyone heard from Zach? Or know what part of England he&#39;s in?

Originally posted by Thorn@Jul 7 2005, 03:59 PM

who? people supporting the attacks??
A little idiot who goes to Cadets and is too war-obsessed for his own health and safety. I told him war is not good, but the stupid fool won&#39;t listen. And he got out his bomb (found somewhere X_X) and started showing everyone what it would be like. And he decided to go around and tell everyone they&#39;re heading for the North East. Little prick.

(EDIT) No, not heard from Zach.......... and I don&#39;t know where he is, somewhere in London. X_X I bloody hope he&#39;s OK~&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;

Originally posted by Gand@Jul 7 2005, 04:03 PM
Has anyone heard from Zach? Or know what part of England he&#39;s in?
zach&#39;s not in london. he&#39;s in east england i believe

Spoon said he attended a London Uni though... :/ She couldn&#39;t remember whether it was ICL or UCL :mellow: KK goes to UCL as well.

Originally posted by Sephiroth@Jul 7 2005, 04:08 PM
zach&#39;s not in london. he&#39;s in east england i believe
Oh, that&#39;s good. ^^

no i havent- he hasnt been on MSN. i hope he&#39;s okay


A little idiot who goes to Cadets and is too war-obsessed for his own health and safety. I told him war is not good, but the stupid fool won&#39;t listen. And he got out his bomb (found somewhere ) and started showing everyone what it would be like. And he decided to go around and tell everyone they&#39;re heading for the North East. Little prick.

twat- its obvious where he keeps his brains- how could he be so insensitive? he should have been sent home or suspended or sumat

Yeah, also the Olympics thing was just announced. They really wouldn&#39;t have time to plan it. Whereas this G8 thing had been planned for quite some time and Blair is presiding over it.

i dont think it would happen because of the Olympics- its too petty for such a huge attack

Yes - so close together and nearby, it had to be premeditated and over a much bigger issue.

Originally posted by Thorn@Jul 7 2005, 04:13 PM
no i havent- he hasnt been on MSN. i hope he&#39;s okay



twat- its obvious where he keeps his brains- how could he be so insensitive? he should have been sent home or suspended or sumat
I know, he took out his little old bomb thing and kept twisting the thing round, and saying "Look, I&#39;ve activated it now&#33;&#33; =D" And I said: "You activate that and I&#39;ll kill you." He is........... so damn friggin&#39; insensitive. X_X

i&#39;d have rammed it up his arse

Go Thorn XD

Originally posted by Thorn@Jul 7 2005, 06:25 PM
i&#39;d have rammed it up his arse
Spoon: Like a big fat dildo ~

you think i&#39;d waste a dildo on him??

lets everyone, just stay calm.....i&#39;m really scared you guys.

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aa

Try *not* to flod this topic, okay?

Geez, like nobody reads my posts. If you didn&#39;t read them, you&#39;ve repeated what I&#39;ve said like 10 times. And if you didn&#39;t read what I said about Zach, he&#39;s not in university because it&#39;s already the end of the term.

@maz - you wouldn&#39;t really be able to help anyway because the police would probably usher you to a safe place.

People in England are quite calm in light of the situation so you guys shouldn&#39;t worry so much.

Originally posted by an&#045;kun@Jul 7 2005, 11:06 AM
People in England are quite calm in light of the situation so you guys shouldn&#39;t worry so much.
Yes, people of England are being quite strong despite all this. It&#39;s hard not to admire their bravery.

no i havent- he hasnt been on MSN. i hope he&#39;s okay

i did read, and that comment i wrote earlier applies to him- i really do hope he&#39;s okay- especially as its been longer now :unsure:

Originally posted by Tranquil_Feather@Jul 7 2005, 07:17 PM
Yes, people of England are being quite strong despite all this. It&#39;s hard not to admire their bravery.
We&#39;re quite used to loonies trying to blow us up after going through so many years with the IRA blowing stuff up, though admittidly they did offer warnings most of the time first to minimise civ casualties. In a nice twist to all this the terrorists claiming responsiblilty put a letter on a website, possibly already mentioned in this thread havent read it all, saying how they&#39;d caused panic across the land, I see no panic

Lol. Amen to that.

This is all CNN&#39;s been broadcasting today, man.

Originally posted by Spoonpuppet
There&#39;s pictures of the bus explosion and there&#39;s blood spattered on the building next to the bus.Depressing stuff. Those fsckers.

I don&#39;t get the point of terrorist bombings. Are they trying to disrupt foreign affairs, cause terror (I&#39;d assume the term "terrorists" have something to do with this..), or just kill for the sake of it? Dumbasses. It&#39;s horrid that this keeps happening and at the same time wasting so many lives in attempt to accomplish something that will never be accomplished (unless they&#39;re just killing for the sake of killing. Then fsck them, too).
With each tragedy, this world darkens.. but we only grow stronger.

I&#39;m glad nobody here from Ichigo&#39;s got caught in London.

For now, my condolences to the victims..

May the vicitms of this blast rest in peace

My brother managed to ring me, and he said it utter chaos, or it was about 10 hours ago (i kinda went to sleep, so this is a little late)

these terrorists are going too far with their schemes. who knows who could be next? i hope that they just stay where they came from, and die there.

while upset by these avents im of the opinion that we need to stay strong, panic is what they want.

also a bit releived, all family is safe, friends family is safe, just a few people left, but they are lazy anyway

Anyone heard from Sora? I know he&#39;s British, but I don&#39;t know whether or not he&#39;s a Londoner. :think:

I hope everyone is safe.

Sora&#39;s in America I think...

well, it seems that my school&#39;s annual trip to London is scrapped... >.<

sucks for you man :sweatdrop:

Ouch. I read about this on ichigos yesterday, but got to see more of it on the news, though I didn`t get all of it since it was in Japanese. I hope the victims families will be able to recover from this incident soon.

again y is teriorst making every one mad? they already haver america on their hands. they do need more ppl to be mad at them?

the terrorists aren&#39;t making me mad. i just have no idea why they are doing this

their statement claimed a sense of fear and terror and the west running for cover...rubbish

we are strogner than them. We walked back into london today, we went back about our lives, they have not one, they will not win

hurrah for human emotions&#33; they conquer all&#33;

all we can do is continue with our lives. if we tried to avoid everything we wouldnt live at all, and that&#39;s what they want. and no they will not win.

i was on a bus yesterday and a muslim man got on- this guy behind me shouted "fucking murderer&#33; get him off the bus&#33;" and it made me so angry- you cant blame a whole group of society for something a few did

You should have said something to the guy who shouted out then.

And get your head kicked in? Nice as it is to defend society, sometimes self-preservation comes first :/ People who express those kinds of views that strongly (the man insulting the Muslim that is) usually aren&#39;t afraid to resort to violence against anyone who speaks out against them.

Well you have self defense maz. There&#39;s a whole bus of people and no offense, but I don&#39;t think a white guy would be that brave (stupid?) to do that in public.

EDIT: of course I may be wrong but usually people who use violence are too cowardly to attack you fairly.

Which is why incidents happen such as the guy who got beaten up in the road behind my house a couple of nights ago - an off-duty copper stepped in to help but he got the crap beaten out of him too, and he would&#39;ve been taught all the regulation self-defence techniques etc. X_X You just don&#39;t know whether it&#39;s worth the risk - one night you might just piss off somebody who&#39;s carrying a Stanley knife, and for the most part taekwondo techniques really aren&#39;t gonna save you there :/

Yup I&#39;m wrong again, yup I feel stupid, yup I&#39;ll shut up.

Butbut, you were right :blink: People who do use violence are too cowardly to attack you fairly. I was just illustrating your point :heh:

I herd this on the news:

There was a guy who survived the 9/11 inncodent in New York 4 years ago. Trying to flee such actions, he moved to London. Durring the bombing, he was killed instantly. He was the only American who died in the inncodent.

:cry: that. SUCKS.

what bad luck

apparently there are three more explosions today. :S though it's not considered to be serious yet.

Actually I may be wrong, it's just an alert at the moment.

Warren Street's station just went up :( as well as a bus

when did this happen? it hasn't been on the news nearly as much as far as i know...

They are only early reports. London's just at code amber but i'm very doubtful that it is serious. Just seizes up the trains again <_<

it has been comfirmed that 3 bombs (well, the detonators) went off in London... 2 were on tube trains and 1 was on a bus... the overground stations are still open, but some of the underground has been sealed off...

omg, another one happened!

Atleast no one dies....

oh em ef gee .

why are they doing this to my favorite place in the world?

because they're childish idiots who feel that blowing things up is the way to get the things they want.*is pissed*

Anyone notice that whenever, wherever this happens, it just brings everyone closer together, with heightened resolve? Happened in NYC, its happening in London. The terrorists aren't doing a very good job of spreading terror.

I'm so relieved noone was killed...

yeah, it just bakes the bonds thicker. They try to get back at us, but I dont even know why they are attacking anymore, its that old.

Also, about a week ago, in the news paper I red that suicide bomber are starting to attack kids now. Thats a new low.

yeah, the soldier was handing out candy to kids to keep them away from the street...

That was very sad. Thring to get rid of the next generation. There was a picture of a baby that was just born less then a month before that, and it got injured in the exposion...Almost made me cry

i'm so thankfull that no one got hurt

I'm taken the stiff, British upper-lip to the whole scenario. I say (excuse my language) f**k right off to whoever thinks I'm changing any part of my life-style to this. It's a joke that they think we're going to hide in fear from what might happen, in our own country. Acts of terrorism are simply cowardly and only discourage the British goverment to co-operate with any terrorists. People suffered for four days in heats of up to 60'C, choking to death on some ammounts of francium and sulfur - completely disgusting in my opinion.