London Blasts
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free skin care · Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:28 am

My thoughts and prayers are with all in London. I hope our EDS friends are safe and sound as well.

The terrorism just doesn't stop...these fiends who have no concept or care for their fellow human beings.

Someday they will have to answer to someone far greater...

So sad.

My heart is with all.

Maria

free skin care · Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:50 am

This is so dreadful!!!! When will it stop? I can only imagine the panic in London this morning....I feel ill at the thought.

free skin care · Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:57 am

loopylori wrote:

It is wicked and my thoughts and best wishes go to everyone who has been affected by this act of terrorism.
What good does this do anyone?

Hi loopy.

We bomb them, they bomb us, they feel as justified in their actions as we do. Confused

free skin care · Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:43 am

Lolli wrote:

K. I just heard on CBC they've shut the mobile networks down because terrorists in Madrid used mobiles to detonate.

Sorry about that bit of misinformation!

free skin care · Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:57 am

To London with Love...
Pudoodles

free skin care · Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:38 am

I wish to all people from London, which I met trough this forum,to be safe.
So sad, I just don't know why ordinarly people have to pay with their life for a cause which we don't care about.

free skin care · Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:04 am

My wishes go out to everyone in the London area. My husband and brother were at a meeting near the WTC on 911 so I know how scary it can be.

It does seem truely mad that some people think good can be accomplished through these sort of acts.

free skin care · Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:53 pm

My thoughts and prayers are with all of those affected by this tragedy. I hope all of our UK friends and their families are OK.

Being from New York I know how horrible these events are. It is amazing, though, how people come together during crisis.

Thu Jul 07, 2005 1:45 pm

My thoughts and prayers are with all EDS members and their friends/family who are in London..

I hope they find the culprits soon - bad karma for them!! Mad

Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:24 pm

This is a scary world we live in, and we take our freedom, safety & daily lives for granted. I hope that my friends in London haven't been effected by today's incident, and have just sent emails.

free skin care · Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:43 am

all kicking off again.

Police have shot dead some guy on the tube.

free skin care · Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:53 am

What happened yesterday? When I turned on the TV when I got home, there was a caption on CNN that said "London Terror," and I thought that they were just giving an update on the investigation since 7/7, but then I flipped to the other news stations and each time and I got in on the tail end of the report about additional attacks yesterday. Was anyone killed? Did the bombs explode, or where they found and diffused in time? The only thing I can find on CNN.com at the moment is the breaking news about the shooting this morning (BTW - I thought British police didn't carry guns...?).

What the hell is going on over there??? God, I can't imagine how unnerved America would have been if there had been another attack just two weeks after 9/11 so I can only imagine how Londoners must be feeling right now.

free skin care · Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:00 am

carekate wrote:

Was anyone killed? Did the bombs explode, or where they found and diffused in time?

The bombs failed to detonate properly. According to the police the bombs were similar to those used on the 7th July and they believe that the bombers yesterday were intent on causing mass casualties. Luckily, they failed in their attempt. One person was injured. Not sure if this was an innocent bystander or if it was the bomber.
This morning police have shot (and allegedly killed) a suspect. Not clear whether he was one of those involved in the attempted bomb attacks yesterday or if he was another suicide bomber who was about to get on the tube. I presume he was acting suspiciously and was going to detonate a bomb. The police must have thought he was of immediate danger to the public.

free skin care · Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:19 am

I just don't know what this world is coming to...

Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:41 am

Something just came up on the news about the police in London shooting a suspected suicide bomber. Don't know how they knows this and judging by the repetitive sound bytes running over and over on the news at the moment, the media doesn't know either... :s

free skin care · Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:43 am

carekate wrote:

What happened yesterday? When I turned on the TV when I got home, there was a caption on CNN that said "London Terror," and I thought that they were just giving an update on the investigation since 7/7, but then I flipped to the other news stations and each time and I got in on the tail end of the report about additional attacks yesterday. Was anyone killed? Did the bombs explode, or where they found and diffused in time? The only thing I can find on CNN.com at the moment is the breaking news about the shooting this morning (BTW - I thought British police didn't carry guns...?).

What the hell is going on over there??? God, I can't imagine how unnerved America would have been if there had been another attack just two weeks after 9/11 so I can only imagine how Londoners must be feeling right now.

hi kate most british police don't carry weapons, you do see some in the larger cities and airports etc and of course when things like this happen. There were reports that some were plain clothed police involved in todays episode.

Round where I live they picked up four asian fellas for acting suspicious, they were released but people are certainly more jumpy.

free skin care · Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:58 am

FYI - in the U.S., when we say “Asian,” we’re referring to Oriental people (Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, etc.).

When we talk about people from places like Pakistan, Afganistan and Iraq, etc, we call them “Middle Easterners.”

So every time I hear a report that says the Brit police took an Asian man into custody, or the suspects were Asian, or whatever, I my brain thinks “Hey, waitaminute, why did they arrest some poor Chinese guy? I thought they said the terrorists were suspected to be from Pakistan or are Palestinian or something....” until I remember that “Asian” means something completely different to us then it does for you.

Causes just a wee-bit of confusion when they show news excerpts from the BBC or whatnot!

free skin care · Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:00 am

It is beyond me how these people can justify this sort of attack. What sort of person gets up in the morning as normal,straps a bomb to themselves and goes off to sit on a bus or train knowing they were about to die along with god knows how many innocents?
I can't get my head around it?
One of the men apparently involved in the events of 7/7, was a respected member of his community in Yorkshire, even helping out at a local school with the kids. His neighbours saw him the day before before he blew himself and all those poor poeple to death and he was apparently quite 'normal'.

free skin care · Fri Jul 22, 2005 7:22 am

carekate wrote:

FYI - in the U.S., when we say “Asian,” we’re referring to Oriental people (Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, etc.).

When we talk about people from places like Pakistan, Afganistan and Iraq, etc, we call them “Middle Easterners.”

So every time I hear a report that says the Brit police took an Asian man into custody, or the suspects were Asian, or whatever, I my brain thinks “Hey, waitaminute, why did they arrest some poor Chinese guy? I thought they said the terrorists were suspected to be from Pakistan or are Palestinian or something....” until I remember that “Asian” means something completely different to us then it does for you.

Causes just a wee-bit of confusion when they show news excerpts from the BBC or whatnot!

we just call everyone asian! Laughing

free skin care · Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:17 pm

My thoughts and prayers are with the London residents in the forum. I admire how Londoners have courageously refused to let those horrendous acts of terrorism paralyze them. I know its not easy to do this, I live in NYC. God bless London!

free skin care · Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:53 pm

Im sorry for you too Liz...I cant understand how these people can do these things,not just in the west part;i mean its horrible,but countrys like for example some parts of africa,asia,or east europe suffer evry single day from poverty and hunger.Its unbelivable how they can go through tat all...I have so much respect for for example all these refugees,and the people who help them(UNHCR...).I cant understand how they can still have their intire will,probably are their love and their hope the only thing they have.People pay a lot of attention on things like 9/11,what is absulut understandable,but we shouldnt forget these things too...

free skin care · Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:06 am

Did y’all hear that the subways in Toronto was shut down for hours yesterday after a bomb threat? Apparently this was hugely disruptive because their “tube” system carries 1.4 million people *per day.* It’s getting to the point where the terrorists are actually winning, when the mere threat of a bomb is enough to frighten and traumatize us and disrupt our lives. I mean, how many people weren’t able to get to their jobs in Toronto yesterday because of this? Sooner or later, there’s got to be some trickle-down effect that impacts a country’s economic backbone. It’s like, after Sept 11th, if the murder of 3,000 innocent world citizens (remember, not everyone who died that day was American: there were Brits, French, Canadian, Swiss, Pakistani, Japanese, Australians...) was horrific enough, the true damage to the very foundation of America was to our economy. It shut down our national transportation systems (planes, trains, buses) which caused serious consequences to businesses that are integral to our country’s financial well-being. How many thousands of people lost their jobs because Sept 11th singlehandedly delivered the coup-de-grace to our commercial aviation industry? Remember, immediately following the attacks, all of our major airline carriers were reporting catastrophic financial losses and needed the U.S. government to bail them out, and almost four years later, our airline industry is still crippled.

I know that our leaders have to weigh public safety against the possibility of future terror attacks, but when those monsters are able to bring entire metropolises to their knees without having to actually detonate a single bomb, doesn’t that mean that they are winning in their bid to instill fear and disrupt our ways of life?

free skin care · Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:22 am

Carekate: I agree with you. The long term effects on the way people think and act and the economic and psycic impacts are the worst. I know it's not popular to say but over 10X the people die in car accidents per year (1/2 from drunks), the same order of magnitude from smoking and accidental gun wounds but these do not seem to change behaviour or cause the same fear or outrage (nobody would cancel a vacation because they might be killed by a drunk driver yet that is much more likely than being killed by a terrorist).

Anyone can be a murderer if they do not care about the consequences. Only we can defeat them by not becoming fearful or hateful and by behaving responsibly.

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