Here it the 21st of July, and I wake up with my coffee in hand and am reading the morning news online. the headline says there have been two more explosions in london. Another on a bus and on sub way station.
I pray that no one was badly injured.
How does one fight guerrila war-fare in civilized countries, more specifacly citys? How do you fight something that you cannot see? Or that willingly will end itself as a supposed sacrifice to Allah? We appear to be fighting shadows.
And I am not sure if fighting is the word that ought to be used, maybe bear-baiting for terrorists.
There needs to be more security. THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE!
These people target the circulatory sytems of our countries. Think about England as a being and the road and busses and trains riding along the veins and arteries. Is London the heart of england? But what is the heart of London? What ways are there to this place? How easy is it to destroy those ways?
They do not seek to destroy us in one fatal swoop, but to toy with us and by doing so causing us to fear.
"Fear is the mind killer."
What can we do? We can focus on not being afraid. Knowing that if we allow ourselves to be afriad we would be frozen to one spot and far easier to destroy. We can up the security of the places terrorists like hitting. busses, trains, planes, highways and inner city roads. To do this we will simply have to slow down our need of traffic being fast moving. By slowing it down we can prevent the things we cannot see by it moving fast. We can deterr this way.
We can protect our borders.
In England I have heard that if your passport and all identifying information is either lost or stolen you can claim protection from that contry. Is this true? If so it needs to be changed. or at least monitored.
What else can be done?
We can pray.
Here is the article:
Blasts Hit 3 London Subway Stations, Bus
By ROBERT BARR LONDON (AP) - Explosions struck three London Underground stations and a bus at midday Thursday in a chilling but less deadly replay of the suicide bombings that killed 56 people two weeks ago.
Only one person was reported wounded, but the lunch-hour explosions caused major shock and disruption in the capital and were hauntingly similar to the July 7 bombings by four attackers. The London police commissioner confirmed Thursday that four explosions took place in what he described as ``a very serious incident.'' ``We've had four explosions - four attempts at explosions,'' Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair said outside police headquarters at Scotland Yard. ``At the moment the casualty numbers appear to be very low ... the bombs appear to be smaller'' than those detonated July 7.
Police also said an armed police unit had entered University College hospital. Press Association, the British news agency, said they arrived shortly after an injured person was carried in.
Sky News TV reported that police were searching for a man with a blue shirt with wires protruding. In a memo to hospital staff, officers asked employees to look for a black or Asian male, 6 feet 2 inches tall, wearing a blue top with a hole in the back and wires protruding.
The explosions did not shut down the subway system, although three lines remained closed more than two hours later. Blair appealed to Londoners to stay where they are until they hear more from police.
``What we don't want is lots of people going to railway stations,'' he said.
One witness told The Associated Press he smelled something similar to an electrical fire.
Police in chemical protection suits were seen preparing to enter the Warren Street Underground station. Sky News reported that police said no chemical agents were involved in the explosions.
Explosions also were reported at the Shepherd's Bush and Oval stations.
Emergency teams were sent to all three stations after the incidents, which began at 12:38 p.m. One witness told Sky TV that another subway passenger told him a backpack exploded at Warren Street and there were reports of smoke.
Stagecoach, the company which operates the stricken bus, said the driver heard a bang and went upstairs, where he found the windows blown out. The company said the bus was structurally intact and there were no reports of injuries.
Closed-circuit TV cameras on Hackney Road showed the No. 26 bus immobilized at a stop with its indicator lights flashing. The area around the bus had been cordoned off.
Prime Minister Tony Blair canceled his afternoon appointments as the developments unfolded.
The incidents paralleled the blasts two weeks ago, which involved explosions at three Underground stations simultaneously - quickly followed by a blast on a bus. Those bombings, during the morning rush hour, also occurred in the center of London, hitting the Underground railway from various directions.
Thursday's incidents, however, were more geographically spread out.
London Ambulance said it was called to the Oval station at 12:38 p.m. and Warren Street at 12:45 p.m. The July 7 attacks began at 8:51 a.m.
``People were panicking. But very fortunately the train was only 15 seconds from the station,'' witness Ivan McCracken told Sky news.
McCracken said another passenger at Warren Street claimed he had seen a backpack explode. The bombs which killed 56 people on board three underground trains and a bus in London on July 7 were carried in backpacks, police said.
McCracken said he smelled smoke and that people were panicking and coming into his carriage. He said he spoke to an Italian man who was comforting a woman after the evacuation.
``He said that a man was carrying a rucksack and the rucksack suddenly exploded. It was a minor explosion but enough to blow open the rucksack,'' McCracken said.
``The man then made an exclamation as if something had gone wrong. At that point everyone rushed from the carriage.''
Services on the Victoria and Northern lines were suspended following reports of a number of incidents, London Underground said.
``I was in the carriage and we smelt smoke - it was like something was burning,'' said Losiane Mohellavi, 35, who was evacuated at Warren Street.
``Everyone was panicked and people were screaming. We had to pull the alarm. I am still shaking,'' Mohellavi said.
He told the AP he did not see smoke but rather smelled something similar to an electrical fire.
Associated Press reporters Thin Lei Win and Kate Bouey in London contributed to this report.
07/21/05 10:27
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