Bombs blast London!!
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GlimmerMan
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Amos Stevens said:
I thought exactly the same thing man - it looks exactly like it did two weeks ago. Apparently there was only one casualty. On the news I saw a guy who was surrounded by armed response and taken away in handcuffs. On the news also, there were eyewitnesses who said that there was a guy on a train with a backpack and his backpack exploded, but not with sufficient force to kill or do any damage. Apparently the guy with the backpack cursed as if something had gone wrong and then fled the scene. It's insane.
HardtoKill said:
Huh?
Lollipop said:
There is no need to feel any guilt, Lollipop. The UK stood next to the US because you are our friends! I don't wish to sound desensitised, as what is happening at the moment is a serious situation, but even this is nothing compared to 9/11. We have been very lucky so far, in my opinion.
GMan (watching out for moving sand dunes...)
GlimmerMan
Huge Member
Oh yeah baby! It hasn't been a bad move to go with Bush, although I preferred Clinton. What he did with that cigar was very cool! 
Storm
Smile dammit!
They never give up do they! Scum.
I know many muslims and Asians in my area and most are decent people,but there is a minority of fanatics,in a religious fervour who want to go to heaven by doing this.
Incredibly,my niece was in the same class at school as the guy who claimed most lives in the attacks. His pic was in the local paper in a school pic with her!
She has been asked if she knew anything about him...
Lollipop,we were proud to stand with US when other European countries wrung their hands when faced with military involvement.
Now we pay the price,but so did Spain. Terrorists must never win,and goverments never cowed by cowards..
I know many muslims and Asians in my area and most are decent people,but there is a minority of fanatics,in a religious fervour who want to go to heaven by doing this.
Incredibly,my niece was in the same class at school as the guy who claimed most lives in the attacks. His pic was in the local paper in a school pic with her!
She has been asked if she knew anything about him...
Lollipop,we were proud to stand with US when other European countries wrung their hands when faced with military involvement.
Now we pay the price,but so did Spain. Terrorists must never win,and goverments never cowed by cowards..
I know this is serious business, so I thought this might lighten the gloomy mood a bit...
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http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/archive.asp?nextform=viewcomic&id=1036
GlimmerMan
Huge Member
Good post, mate.
It's unbelievable man. Like you rightly said - most Muslims and Asians are decent, hard working, law abiding citizens. To call them all fanatics would be like calling all Irish people terrorists.
The governments of those countries who stood idly by while our boys were getting wasted in the deserts of Iraq ought to be ashamed! The only way to defeat this terrorism is by unity.
GMan
Storm said:
It's unbelievable man. Like you rightly said - most Muslims and Asians are decent, hard working, law abiding citizens. To call them all fanatics would be like calling all Irish people terrorists.
The governments of those countries who stood idly by while our boys were getting wasted in the deserts of Iraq ought to be ashamed! The only way to defeat this terrorism is by unity.
GMan
Littledragon
Above The Law
Police: Brazilian shot not tied to bombs.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Police say the man they shot dead at a London Underground station was a Brazilian national "not connected" with this week's attempted bombings on the city's transit system.
London police identified the man as 27-year-old Jean Charles de Menezes.
"For somebody to lose their life in such circumstances is a tragedy and one that the Metropolitan Police Service regrets," the police statement said Saturday.
During a news conference following Friday's shooting, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair said "this shooting is directly linked to the ongoing and expanding anti-terrorist operation."
Despite the apparent setback, Blair said Saturday he was pleased with the probe and the work that investigators are doing.
"I think the Metropolitan Police [are] performing absolutely outstandingly, and I'm very proud of them," he said.
De Menezes on Friday left a south London apartment building that had been under surveillance as part of the investigation into the attempted bombings Thursday.
Officers followed him to the Stockwell Underground station. The man's "clothing and suspicious behavior at the station added to their suspicions," a police statement said.
He challenged police and refused to obey orders before he was shot and killed Friday morning, Blair said Friday.
A witness to the shooting, Mark Whitby, said he was sitting on the train when "I heard a lot of shouting."
"I saw a chap run on to the train," Whitby said. "He was running so fast he half sort of tripped. He was being pursued by three guys. One had a black handgun in his hand."
"As he sort of went down, two of them sort of dropped on to him to hold him down, and the other one fired. I heard five shots."
Meanwhile, police said Saturday that a second suspect had been arrested in connection with the attempted bombings.
The man was arrested in Stockwell on Friday night by anti-terrorism officers, police said.
The first arrest came Friday in the same neighborhood.
Police said the two detained men, who have not been identified, were to be questioned Saturday.
The arrests came after police released images of four men caught on closed-circuit television at sites where and around the time the attacks were attempted.
On Saturday evening, police mounted an armed raid in South London near the Oval Underground station, where one of the attacks took place Thursday. Police said no arrests were made in the raid.
Friday's shooting is a rarity in London, where police generally are not armed except for special response units.
The latest attacks came two weeks to the day 52 people were killed in four bombings targeting the city's mass transit.
As in the July 7 attacks, three subway trains and a double-decker bus were attacked, but in Thursday's case, the four homemade bombs stuffed in backpacks only "partially detonated," said Assistant Police Commissioner Andy Hayman.
One person was wounded. (Full story)
Hayman said police searched three locations Friday, one in West London. Scotland Yard identified the area "in West Kilburn, W9." Police cordoned off part of Harrow Road in that area.
Images released
The first CCTV -- or closed circuit TV -- image released by police Friday showed a young man in a dark top that they said had "New York" written on it. He was apparently fleeing the Oval station, where a bomb was left on a train.
Hayman said the man had traveled there from the Stockwell station, one stop away. Police later found his shirt in an adjacent neighborhood, Brixton.
The second image showed a middle-aged man with a moustache wearing a gray T-shirt with a palm tree image on it and standing on the top deck of the No. 26 bus in Hackney, east London.
The third image shows a man leaving Warren Street Underground station in central London at 12:39 p.m. on Thursday. He was wearing dark clothes.
The fourth image showed a man at Westbourne Park Underground at 12:21 p.m. He later traveled west on the Hammersmith and City line to Shepherd's Bush underground, where he ran off. He was wearing a dark shirt and trousers, and was seen later wearing a white vest.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Police say the man they shot dead at a London Underground station was a Brazilian national "not connected" with this week's attempted bombings on the city's transit system.
London police identified the man as 27-year-old Jean Charles de Menezes.
"For somebody to lose their life in such circumstances is a tragedy and one that the Metropolitan Police Service regrets," the police statement said Saturday.
During a news conference following Friday's shooting, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair said "this shooting is directly linked to the ongoing and expanding anti-terrorist operation."
Despite the apparent setback, Blair said Saturday he was pleased with the probe and the work that investigators are doing.
"I think the Metropolitan Police [are] performing absolutely outstandingly, and I'm very proud of them," he said.
De Menezes on Friday left a south London apartment building that had been under surveillance as part of the investigation into the attempted bombings Thursday.
Officers followed him to the Stockwell Underground station. The man's "clothing and suspicious behavior at the station added to their suspicions," a police statement said.
He challenged police and refused to obey orders before he was shot and killed Friday morning, Blair said Friday.
A witness to the shooting, Mark Whitby, said he was sitting on the train when "I heard a lot of shouting."
"I saw a chap run on to the train," Whitby said. "He was running so fast he half sort of tripped. He was being pursued by three guys. One had a black handgun in his hand."
"As he sort of went down, two of them sort of dropped on to him to hold him down, and the other one fired. I heard five shots."
Meanwhile, police said Saturday that a second suspect had been arrested in connection with the attempted bombings.
The man was arrested in Stockwell on Friday night by anti-terrorism officers, police said.
The first arrest came Friday in the same neighborhood.
Police said the two detained men, who have not been identified, were to be questioned Saturday.
The arrests came after police released images of four men caught on closed-circuit television at sites where and around the time the attacks were attempted.
On Saturday evening, police mounted an armed raid in South London near the Oval Underground station, where one of the attacks took place Thursday. Police said no arrests were made in the raid.
Friday's shooting is a rarity in London, where police generally are not armed except for special response units.
The latest attacks came two weeks to the day 52 people were killed in four bombings targeting the city's mass transit.
As in the July 7 attacks, three subway trains and a double-decker bus were attacked, but in Thursday's case, the four homemade bombs stuffed in backpacks only "partially detonated," said Assistant Police Commissioner Andy Hayman.
One person was wounded. (Full story)
Hayman said police searched three locations Friday, one in West London. Scotland Yard identified the area "in West Kilburn, W9." Police cordoned off part of Harrow Road in that area.
Images released
The first CCTV -- or closed circuit TV -- image released by police Friday showed a young man in a dark top that they said had "New York" written on it. He was apparently fleeing the Oval station, where a bomb was left on a train.
Hayman said the man had traveled there from the Stockwell station, one stop away. Police later found his shirt in an adjacent neighborhood, Brixton.
The second image showed a middle-aged man with a moustache wearing a gray T-shirt with a palm tree image on it and standing on the top deck of the No. 26 bus in Hackney, east London.
The third image shows a man leaving Warren Street Underground station in central London at 12:39 p.m. on Thursday. He was wearing dark clothes.
The fourth image showed a man at Westbourne Park Underground at 12:21 p.m. He later traveled west on the Hammersmith and City line to Shepherd's Bush underground, where he ran off. He was wearing a dark shirt and trousers, and was seen later wearing a white vest.
