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Re: Major Explosion on the underground

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:53 pm
by Illinoisblue
the advent of camera phones is a good thing - people need to see what happens when a bomb goes off.

I've no problem with joe public becoming the media.

Of all the photos, perhaps the most poignant is the one of the British Medical Association buidling splattered with blood.

Re: Like a broken record-1 more time

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:23 pm
by Deuce Bigolo
NO further correspondence will be entered into

Birmingham as well ???

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:34 pm
by jaybo
... Or just the public being over alert to abandoned baggage , and the police with itchy trigger fingers ? . JJ .

Re: Old World vs Modernity

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:38 pm
by Deuce Bigolo
Very well put Woodgnome

When you consider the perilous journeys many traverse to escape from the multitude of oppressive regimes around the world they truly don't stand a chance

You can preach the way a person should live their lives but unless this makes them content you will lose them everytime

The real attraction of Western Democracies which draws immigrants like moths to a flame isn't just the increased standard of living but its tolerance of different cultures and the right to practise your faith,whatever that may be

cheers
B....OZ

Re: Major Explosion on the underground

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:41 pm
by Bob Singleton
Shiola wrote:

> Our security services have had nearly four years on full alert
> since 9/11 to step up security. The fact that they failed to
> detect a conspiracy to detect not one but several bombs, a
> co-ordinated effort, all happening on the same day is a major
> lapse.

It is not outside the realms of possibility that a lone operator was responsible for all the bombs. While less likely than a group, if it is the case it was a loner, then the authorities would have had an impossible task to detect this "conspiracy"

It's equally likely, given the timings of the tube bombs (all within 50 seconds of each other) that they were planted by only one or two people, as all the lines targeted can be reached from a fairly central point. Again,if this is the case, the size of the group would make it virually impossible for the authorities to detect.

Until we have all the facts, and that won't be for several more days of forensic investigation at the earliest, then I suggest you stop posting your drivel.