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Post by Bazza on Jul 7, 2005 6:06:11 GMT -5
Latest news:
Scotland Yard said explosions have been reported at Edgware Road, King's Cross, Liverpool Street, Russell Square, Aldgate East and Moorgate.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said there had been at least six explosions, but said the picture was still "very confused".
All London Underground services have been suspended indefinitely and bus services in central London (Zone One) have been halted.
Tony Blair is to make a live televised statement on the explosions in London at 1200 BST, Downing Street added.
A spokesman for Vodafone said emergency services were being given priority access to the mobile phone network which was causing problems for other users.
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Post by Bazza on Jul 7, 2005 6:11:43 GMT -5
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Post by scootergeek on Jul 8, 2005 22:58:50 GMT -5
Sorry to hear it. It's always the ordinary people everywhere who have to suffer when presidents, prime ministers and priests decide to fight over whether capitalism or religion rules the world.
Mankind shall not be free until the last king is strangled in the entrails of the last priest. -- Denis Diderot
No war but the class war.
cheers, scott
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Post by Bazza on Jul 9, 2005 3:14:39 GMT -5
I see the far right are using the London bombings to stir up racial hatred. One nazi site I was looking at was printing the home addresses of leading Muslims.
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Post by rotefront on Jul 9, 2005 11:15:52 GMT -5
Our thoughts are with you in the USA.
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Post by Bazza on Jul 13, 2005 3:51:00 GMT -5
Looks like the bnp are using the London bombings for political gain - Clicky
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Post by scootergeek on Jul 13, 2005 18:18:58 GMT -5
Never underestimate fascism's willingness to capitalize on other people's misery. They can't do that so much on this side of the atlantic since some of their own have already blown up government buildings here.
cheers, scott
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Post by Bazza on Jul 16, 2005 14:43:35 GMT -5
BNP fails to capture council seat The British National Party, which used images of the bombed London bus on a leaflet, has failed to gain a council seat at a by-election.
Labour held the Becontree seat in the east London borough of Barking and Dagenham with a majority of nearly 800.
The BNP used a photograph of the bus with the caption, "maybe it's time to start listening to the BNP" .
In another by-election in the borough last month the BNP lost its only council representation in London.
The winning candidate, Alok Agrawal, said after the result: "It was very sad using a national tragedy in order to try and gain votes."
"They thought people were fools. They thought people would fall into a trap.
"But the voters have massively rejected them. They have told the BNP 'We don't want you in Barking and Dagenham'."
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Post by Bazza on Jul 24, 2005 5:51:03 GMT -5
Family and friends of a Brazilian man shot dead by police have said there was no reason to believe he was a terrorist.
Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was killed by officers on Friday morning as he tried to board a Tube train at Stockwell, south London.
Detectives later established he was not connected to attempts to blow up three Underground trains and a bus in the capital the day before.
Brazilian media reported that Mr Menezes was an electrician who had been living legally and working in England for three years.
GloboNews TV reported that his body was identified by his cousin, Alex Alves Pereira, who also lives in London. Mr Pereira told Sky News that his cousin had "nothing to hide from anyone''.
"If he had a bomb with him they had to stop him before he got a bus or Tube.
"They had time to stop him and make sure. Instead they let him go to the tube and shot him from behind,'' he said.
"We grew up together. I was the first person to help him when he came to this country.''
The build-up to the fatal shooting began when Mr Menezes emerged from a house in Tulse Hill, south London, which was under surveillance because of a suspected link to Thursday's attempted bomb attacks. His clothing and behaviour added to the officers' suspicions, police said.
He caught a bus to Stockwell Tube where he was challenged by officers, who told him to stop. The man then bolted down an escalator, according to witnesses.
It appears he tried to board a train before being shot five times in the head by an officer with an automatic pistol.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair had said that the shooting was "directly linked'' to anti-terror operations.
However, Scotland Yard said: "We are now satisfied that he was not connected with the incidents of Thursday, July 21, 2005.''
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