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Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London
M3rk1n_Muffl3y writes "There were six explosions around London this morning. Information is still emerging, but looks like there were bombs detonated on a bus near Russel Square and several others on the Underground around the City and King's Cross. It's been difficult to reach people on their mobiles."
Poor people :(
Fucking Al Qaeda shitheads.
you guys are slack.
Here in London we don't particularly appreciate your cretinous attempts at humour. Why don't you grow up?
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I'm not quite sure this is a TERRORIST attack moreso than a hippy "peaceful protest" attack. Four seperate explosions, yet so little casualties...Perhaps the terrorists wanted to just make their presence heard...or they botched the job. I"m used to hearing a lot more casualties for terrorist bombings...something doesn't seem right here.
Why, it wasn't enough that you bombed Iraq? Killed countless people who had done *nothing* to you? Thousands of women and babies? Was that fair?
Use common sense. Bush & Blair LIED and killed an incredible number of people, and created a terrorist breeding ground where there wasn't one!
Bush & Blair are as much to blame for the deaths of poor innocents in their countries as the idiot terrorists.
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I bet it's the New Yorkers pissed off at them not getting the olympics.. :P
I came up with this tag first!
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When I listened to Blair's response, I couldn't help but think that his description of the attack on London could very well have applied to the attack on Iraq ... apart from the small fact that only a handful of people died in London.
Honestly people, death and destruction is bad, no matter who is involved. One thing I can't handle, however, is hypocritical arseholes like Bliar, Dubya and hoWARd bombing the Christ out of other countries and then proclaiming their shock when someone stikes back.
Remember that Bliar was well aware before the invasion of Iraq that the decision to go to war had been made, and that intelligence was being 'fixed' around the policy. So how innocent is Bliar, or the British people who returned him to power? Certainly not as innocent as the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have been killed since the invasion.
But who does the world cry for?
Why the fuck should we mourn? At most, a few hundred people died. There are still more than six billion people left. Maybe when a few hundred million die, I'll be concerned, but until then, you and your false empathy can fuck yourself.
France or the US in my opinion...
Shortly after the UK announces it wants to give more aid to Africa and cut CO2 emissions and the US says it doesn't... BOOM.
Shortly after London wins the olympics... BOOM.
I don't remember Bush attacking Iraq when planes did the work in 2001.
I think it's fucking stupid that we're in Iraq but don't be a fucking idiot and blame this on Bush. If you must, if you're a Brit, blame it on Tony Blair.
Or how about this for fun....
BLAME IT ON THE FUCKING PEOPLE WHO PLANTED THE FUCKING BOMBS!
"Fighting the underpants gnomes since 1998!" "Bruce Schneier knows the state of schroedinger's cat"
You couldn't care less that people have died? What a miserable person you are.
"Troll?"
Well, you can mod down this one too:
Tell that to the Islamic Holy Warriors
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
No, the reason the terrorist chose London is probably because they where recently chosen to host the 2012 Olympic summer games. This is the french retribution. All of this could have been prevented simply by ceasing all forms of professional sports. How many more people must die before we stop this madness?
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I find it really interesting that this went straight to +5 Insightful, but as Americans wake up, and can't take the truth, it gradually gets modded down.
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Only on slashdot would this post be modded as troll. Now mod mine equally, I don't give a fuck!
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that if we surrender to the enemy, the violence will stop. Surrender = Peace.
Honestly, these animals kill innocent people and you want to surrender?!?!?
Peace is NOT as important as freedom.
Who acted suprised? This is what these spineless, gutless cowards DO. They blow people up from safely out of range. When that can't be done, they blow themselves up, like the geniuses they are. Nobody's suprised anymore. They're just sick of it.
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As a large group, however, for those same reasons, they can be very dangerous and easily manipulated.
Or putting it more accurately, a large demograph of the U.S. population is extremely ignorant, very well-armed, and led by evil men wrapped in flags who know how to manipulate all the emotional triggers built into the public.
Those triggers are. .
Number 1 blinds and deafens people to lies from presidents so that number 2 can be used in a manipulative way. And number 3 is where corruption and torture come from. (Torture is a way of 'feeding' on those less fit, same way jocks terrorize geeks).
9-11 was deliberately manufactured/helped along by the U.S. Shadow Government, and this latest spate of bombings was either IRA, or set up by U.S./British/Israeli black-ops to keep the war fires burning and the people from thinking clearly. When the Fear button is pushed, people stop thinking and questioning and give away their freedoms in return for the perception of safety. Heck, at this point, it's even possible that genuine, un-manipulated jihadists were responsible. But I seriously doubt it. They have too much to lose; they want the invaders gone, not more pissed off. The only group which has anything to gain from this action is the Shadow Government.
-FL
Kings Cross and Charing Cross stations? You know, this might not be normal terrorists after all. Harry Potter book 6 comes out in a week or two, this could be a publicity stunt by Rowling's publicity engine. Wonder if Voldemort's going to claim responsibility.
Sniff, sniff. What's that smell? My karma, up in flames :-)
Amen
De Oppresso Liber
Bin Laden & his groupies were pulling shit WAAAAY before we started killing them on their own ground. Take a look at the first WTC bombing. I don't recall anything in particular the US was doing, other than being a world economic leader. Not to mention, the "west" would be targeted by Islamic idiots (ok, terrorists is the more popular term now) for simply backing the creation of Israel after WWII. There's a lot more to things going on today than "Oh, the US attacks on Iraq/Afghanistan are causing more terrorism." I call bullshit. They've been pulling this crap since then. How many suicide bombers have blown themselves up in the name of Allah? How many times do a pound my head on a brick wall thinking "If only these dumb asses would LISTEN to the religion the proclaim to worship under, and love ALL fellow man"? Every single major religion carries the same basic sentiment, but becuase one group decides blowing someone else up with suicide belts is a better solution, we have to deal with this crap. I say glaze the whole fucking middle east over with some tactical nukes. The root of the problem grows from the bad seed of Islam radicals...
Actually, there's good documentary evidence that the Japanese offered to surrender before any nuclear bombs were dropped. The US refused to accept this surrender because it was not "unconditional" (Japan wanted to keep their Emperor). So the bombs were dropped. Japan then repeated the same offer of conditional surrender, and it was accepted. So the bombs effectively made no difference in terms of ending the war.
Additionally, as jedigeek pointed out, choosing to drop the bombs on cities was pretty unnecessary.
I think that the dropping of atomic bombs on Japanese cities were the 2 greatest war crimes of all time.
Actually, he did it because Bill Clinton proved that the American people had no stomach for war casualties in the Somalia debacle. This made him believe that he could attack America with impunity.
He found out differently, much to his chagrin.
We must be alert to the danger that public policy could become captive to a scientific-technological elite. - Eisenhower
Twat.
FL - do you get a discount on bulk purchases of aluminum foil?
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You only give out this "root causes" nonsense because you think that perhaps the terrorists have some good ideas---you dislike globalization, or you don't like the idea of American military hegemony.
You say that People generally become terrorists because they are upset about something., and go on to say that we should address the reasons that they're upset.
Fair enough. How, then, do you propose to deal with the Army of God? Shall we outlaw abortion, because it tweaks some people so hard they feel the need to murder real live adult humans to make their point about the sanctity of life?
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
For those idiots here that think they know about warfare and national security, sit back shut up and do what you do best, type code at your bosses bark. If you don't have military combat experience or have members of your family involved in the war on terror then do not comment. The most some of you idealists have seen of war is playing call of duty, so shut it. Your pathetic arse will be saved by the strong and brave who dodge the bullets from these ruthless killers. You will still get your pathetic pay check so you can preach your anti war rhetoric and chant your idealisms. For those of you with respect, dignity and the wisdom to not comment on subjects you know nothing about, thankyou. It is a tough time for us brits right now.
At this point it is still much to early to say with certainty who is responsible for this terrorist attack. But after being invaded and occupied based on bogus claims of WMD. After witnessing the wholesale destruction of their cities and the murder of more than a hundred thousand of their civilians, Iraqis have about as much moral right to set off bombs in London as the U.S. had in attacking Japan after Pearl Harbor.
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It's not needed and hopefully we won't whore this like September 11th was.
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The fact that you blokes re-elected Blair doesn't give me warm fuzzies on this.
But don't feel bad - we were retarded enough to re-elect Bush. .
My guess? in response to 7/7, Britain will attack. . . Belgium.
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
You goddamn nerds know nothing about the political and emotional reality of the world. 'Ignoring' terrorism is a stupid and unrealistic and most probably ineffective solution to terrorism. Its funny how you people think your solutions for things are logical and pragmatic when it is tainted by anti-American zeal and your proclivity to condemn anything large and powerful, who you see as 'bullies.' No one who thinks like the vast majority of people on slashdot will ever be elected to a position of power and stay there to succeed, ever. Thank god all you people will do is stick to tinkering with your computers.
It was invade Iraq, or do nothing, get kicked out of Saudia Arabia, and be forced to lift the embargo, which could, and probably WOULD result in Saddam rearming himself (the French were lining up to sell him weapons) and threatening his neighbors again.
There was no choice. It was fight in Iraq now, or do it all over again in 10 years.
Perhaps you should reconsider your religion and realize they're the "good" Muslims according to Allah?
the Political Inquirer
we negate their culture and try to encourage them to use our? Do we shove Coca-Cola and BigMacs down their throats? Do we force them to go to our movies and listen to our music at gun-point? Or do you think maybe they do it out of their own free will, because they actually like our culture, because they find it liberating and exciting? Negation of culture? PUH-LEEZ. Islam is nothing but the negation of other people's cultures till they all bow down in the direction of Mecca, speak Arabic, and think that everything that happened outside of 7th Century Arabia- whether it's the poetry of Persia, the monuments of Egypt, the spirituality of India- is worthless trash. Come back to us when you can tell us something about the complete destruction of Buddhism in Afghanistan, of Zoroastranism in Persia, of Christianity in Iraq, Egypt, and North Africa, Hinduism in Western and Northern India and every other culture unforutnate enough to live along one of Islam's bloody borders. Come back to us then, when your mind is free of the ignorance, hypocrisy, and/or self-hatred so ambly disabled in your post.
"every time you bomb one of our cities, we reduce a major city of yours to molten glass. Still want to play?"
sounds good to me by now.
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I agree. When people stop respecting the intellectual property rights of recording companies, morals have already gone out the window.
Because you can't spell "slaughter" without "laughter"
Thank you for clarifying that, Adolf.
GREAT POINT!
actually, anything takes presidence over 'mans' law since The Law is simply a form of bondage that the handful of rich & powerful scum puts on the other 6.5 billion of us.
Big-Al-Queda did NOT do this.. it is NOT in their interests to bomb people who are against the war in iraq.
This reeks of the jewz & bush, inc.
I will gladly loose all of life's battles.. in order to win the war..
I wouldn't be running my mouth like that, knowing that alot people are pissed off at what the jewish-mafia is doing to this planet.
REMEMBER to NEVER_FORGET that *Hitler* almost won the first time around..and ALOT has been learned since then, on what it takes to *get-it-right* this next time around...
-- dammed kikes always making my fingers hurt from typing!!
I will gladly loose all of life's battles.. in order to win the war..
for scum like you, sooo when your done *defending* me, i can spit on your grave AND be the richer for it
I will gladly loose all of life's battles.. in order to win the war..
Bomb THEM? THEM who? If you knew who THEM was, you could arrest THEM ahead of time.
ah that would be everyone who isn't US, you know those funny looking people not from our tribe, we should hit them with big rock!
Ah yes, the same old completely worthless Lancet study that's been flogged in the media since the November 2004 US elections... Note that if you actually read the thing, it says (in very small letters, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard"):
"We estimate there were 98000 extra deaths (95% CI 8000-194000) during the post-war period."
Here's a layman's translation of that bolded bit:
We, the esteemed authors of this study, are 95% confident that the number of extra deaths during the post-war period fell somewhere in the range of 8,000 to 194,000. In other words, our sample and methodology both suck so hard that we really have no clue. However, for the sake of drama we'll choose a number about halfway between those upper and lower bounds and go with that as our estimate.
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Lesson for other meta-suckers: Don't believe the hype!
Huh?
You spinless...jewmerican.
Oh yea, save us the time of having to bring-you-to-justice..and just kill yourself.
You have NOTHING to live for.. and I have everything to live for, espcially waiting for the tide to turn, against monsters like you. :)
I will gladly loose all of life's battles.. in order to win the war..
" america's astoundingly arrogant foreign policy?"
Yes, it was extremely arrogant to aid Israel and Kuwait against destruction. You're simply defending racists like Bin Laden who are no better than the KKK, by blaming America for their racist policies of destruction to non-muslims.
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Nope, terrorists say "Allah akbar" and blow themselves up so I don't sound like a terrorist, especially since I'm not speaking in sand nigger speak. In fact I sound just like someone who has suggested a logical solution which is to get rid of all the rag-heads. Then we will know for sure that there aren't any terrorists in the country.
And if most Muslims do not support terrorists you'd think they'd be less hostile to actually allowing the police to search their mosques for bombs instead of constantly crying about religious discrimination. And when's the last time a rag-head reported one of their relatives to the police because they suspicted them of terrorism?
"Oh please, then what triggered 9/11?"
STFU you ape. How about a million Arabs killed by the actions of your government in Iraq alone before 9/11? http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0707-31.htm
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I WILL!! LOL!!
Ahhhhnd YOU keep calling people names and laffing, so the good-decent-innocent Muslims and all other good people, can slip up from behind you, and bring-you-some-old-fashion-JUSTICCCCCCE!!
I will gladly loose all of life's battles.. in order to win the war..
So much hatred. You need therapy. oh, and bush and blair suck.
Meh.
But of course, your (typical) reaction is what terrorists are hoping for. If everyone said "no biggie" like the parent poster, we wouldn't have terrorism because no one would be terrorized.