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London Terrorist Attacks July 2005

  
  

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Sax
11:52 / 21.07.05
One injury being reported in Warren Street - poss bomber.
 
 
Ariadne
11:52 / 21.07.05
The BBC's now saying:

Dummy explosions using detonators only have sparked the evacuation of three Tube stations and the closure of three lines, a BBC correspondent has said.

Bizarre.
 
 
■
11:52 / 21.07.05
Woman on BBC saying there was no-one hurt at thye Oval, just a bloke with an exploding backpack that ran off.
 
 
haus of fraser
11:53 / 21.07.05
more from CNN on the same subject\

Ivan McCracken told Sky News: "I was in a middle carriage and the train was not far short of Warren Street station when suddenly the door between my carriage and the next one burst open and dozens of people started rushing through. Some were falling, there was mass panic.

"It was difficult to get the story from any of them what had happened but when I got to ground level there was an Italian young man comforting an Italian girl who told me he had seen what had happened.

"He said a man was carrying a rucksack and the rucksack suddenly exploded. It was a minor explosion but enough to blow open the rucksack.

"The man then made an exclamation as if something had gone wrong. At that point everyone rushed from the carriage."

ITV news are speculating that it may have been detonators rather than actual bombs going off as they're all much smaller explosions...
 
 
Future Perfect
11:53 / 21.07.05
Apparently the BBC are now reporting that it looks like dummy explosions went off using detonators only.
 
 
■
11:54 / 21.07.05
No injuries on bus, windows were blown out.
 
 
Smoothly
11:55 / 21.07.05
Windows blown out on the 26 bus in Hackney. For a detonator, that's still quite a bang.
 
 
Ariadne
11:55 / 21.07.05
An exploding backpack that ran off? Gives a new meaning to unattended baggage.

Sorry Cube!
 
 
Triplets
11:56 / 21.07.05
What the fuck is this, terrorism for the short-bus set?
 
 
■
11:57 / 21.07.05
Tchoh! I knew as soon as I hit send that looked odd.
[I must never use that or which for people. I must never use that or which for people. I must never use that or which for people. I must never use that or which for people.]
 
 
Olulabelle
11:57 / 21.07.05
Ba-dum tish.

Glad it seems only to be detonators.
 
 
Triplets
11:58 / 21.07.05
Windows blown out on the 26 bus in Hackney. For a detonator, that's still quite a bang.

Possibly not. Most buses these days are sealed fairly tight. Considering it's cold out today I imagine most of the windows were closed - detonator goes off > massive increase in pressure > windows give out.
 
 
illmatic
11:58 / 21.07.05
I know it isnt' but it reminds me of one of those bloody tabloid attempts to sneak into Buck House. "Our men with dummy backpacks bring London to standstill".
 
 
■
11:59 / 21.07.05
Could just have been people using emergency exits.
 
 
Quantum
11:59 / 21.07.05
Phew (so far). My heart was in my mouth just now.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
11:59 / 21.07.05
ITV news quotes Scotland Yard:

Oval - no explosion, evacuated.

SB - 'incident', no police statement as yet.

Unofficial source suggestions of nail bomb, Emergency services called to 26 bus incident.
 
 
■
11:59 / 21.07.05
The windows going out, that is.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
12:00 / 21.07.05
The unconfirmed nail bomb seems unlikely, as Sax says, to be same people as the attacks of two weeks ago.

Must... resist... cheap... gag.

For reasons mentioned before, it's dangerous to think of al Qaeda as a single entity with a set playbook, but this does seem a bit different... the report sounds like a detonator might have gone off without actiivating its payload...
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:01 / 21.07.05
The nail bomb rumour seems entirely unconfirmed so far - this is exactly the kind of thing that pisses me off, when something that would be a step-up from what we know happened starts being passed around in a panic...
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
12:02 / 21.07.05
BBC: Dummy explosions using detonators only have sparked the evacuation of three Tube stations and the closure of three lines, a BBC correspondent has said.

Police cordoned off large areas around Warren Street, Oval and Shepherd's Bush Tube stations.

Emergency services also attended an incident on a route 26 bus in Hackney Road in Bethnal Green.

Police in London say they are not treating the incidents on the underground as "a major incident yet".
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
12:03 / 21.07.05
Sky on the 'nail bomb':

At Warren Street there were reports of a nail bomb explosion. Sky's Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said police believe this may have been the sound of detonators going off.
 
 
Olulabelle
12:03 / 21.07.05
CNN seems to have the most information online.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
12:05 / 21.07.05
BBC TV broadcast: Westminster also closed, report from BBC reporter at W.
 
 
■
12:05 / 21.07.05
BBC confirms that most London houses still have roofs.
 
 
■
12:06 / 21.07.05
Warren Street eyewitness describes burning rubber smell, no explosion.
 
 
■
12:07 / 21.07.05
"It was an English guy... more like a firework than a big bomb" she says on BBC TV.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
12:08 / 21.07.05
BBC TV: eyewitness Caroline ? says rucksack explosion 'more like a firework than a bomb... like a mini-explosion'

Sounds designed to create panic rather than cause damage

Westminster re-opened.
 
 
Smoothly
12:09 / 21.07.05
Sky are reporting 'gunshots' on Warren Street platform.
 
 
Olulabelle
12:10 / 21.07.05
ITV News say 'while reports also say there has been a nail bomb at Warren Street.'

But if it's true there would have been casualties wouldn't there?
 
 
Smoothly
12:13 / 21.07.05
Reuters now reporting University College Hospital being cordoned off and armed police going in.
 
 
Saveloy
12:13 / 21.07.05
BBC say:

"One person was injured at Warren Street, although the person's condition is unknown."
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:13 / 21.07.05
This link good for situation report.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
12:15 / 21.07.05
BBC (tv) sources inside transport police talking about early paged reports of 'dummy nail bombs' - made to look like bombs, detonators but no explosive.

Evacuation on all stations on above 3 lines, likely to be completed by now.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
12:16 / 21.07.05
BBC TV: police stress that evacuation of all stations on 3 lines is precautionary, only 3 incidents on tube.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
12:17 / 21.07.05
The early speculations last time were so ludicrously out of kilter with the reality that it seems almost idle to engage as yet; I was on holiday, hearing that the explosive used was 'military grade' from 'experts' on TV. Turns out to have been the Bastard's Bathtub Mix.

So here I'm hearing about nailbombs and detonators and I'm thinking, well, could be. Or it could be an unrelated group doing their best with fireworks and drawing pins. One eyewitness says she saw a man threaten to blow himself up and then run away. If that's accurate, it doesn't seem to be in the same class as the last lot.

At which point, even as I write it, I expect the sky to fall in.
 
  

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