London bombings.

[Chris]

Yeah dude, it seems like Denmark is the next target.

[Freya]

"The Egyptian ambassador to Iraq has been murdered by his captors, in a killing claimed by the group of Al-Qaeda's Iraq frontman Abu Musab al-Zarqawi," the office of President Hosni Mubarak said.

http://www.eitb24.com/noticia_en.php?id=74199

Denmark and italy targeted is there gonna be something bigger happening? But they can wait since things only happen every couple years. I hope nothing more happens.

I hope the injured get well.

[lordblazer]

I don't mean to be offensive, but I advise all Britons to be wary of the dangers of nationalism that will come in the immediate aftermath of these attacks. Do not allow yourself to be filled with national pride, or similar nonsense. Instead place your pride somewhere more productive. Be proud of the human spirit, and of human kind, but placing your pride in your country can have devastating results. I know that from first hand experiance.

its not really nonsense in all to have pride in something nik.You create a lot of paradoxes btw.

anyway i liked how organised the londoners were.Things are pretty chaotic there right now in the hospitals but hopefully yall recover well.It took 3 months for us okies to recover form the memorial bombing.

[nik0tine]

its not really nonsense in all to have pride in something nik.

It depends on what that 'something' is. National pride is bad. It has done nothing but get people killed, and strip people of thier rights. I've yet to hear a single, valid argument for patriotism. It's just blindness.

You create a lot of paradoxes btw.

Such as??

[The Man]

It goes without saying that this really, really sucks. I've been afraid all day that people I know from the Internet were probably harmed in these attackes, and I really have no way of knowing. Even if I don't know anyone who was hurt, it's still absolutely terrible.

That said, I found a nice blog piece that pointed out something I've been trying to articulate for most of today:

insomnia[/url]]Something to think about.

If we as a country should repudiate and renounce acts of terrorism, then perhaps we should address some of our moral blind spots too.

While civilian terrorist attacks are widely despised, it's worth noting that the terrorists, by attacking civilian targets inside London, attacked targets which were arguably far more valid than many of the civilian targets which are routinely attacked inside Iraq. By bombing London, they attacked targets that were as valid in many ways as those destroyed during Sherman's March to the Sea, the bombing (and subsequent firestorms) of Hamburg, Dresden, and Tokyo, the atomic blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the B-52 carpet bombing of cities in North Vietnam, and arguably about as valid as many of the civilian targets in Iraq which the coalition have attacked at times.

Approximately 130,000 Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the war so far, with the majority of the deaths credited to Coalition attacks. Prior to the war, another million or so Iraqis died as a result of sanctions -- sanctions which the U.S. kept racheting up, despite the reported civilian deaths, the increasing poverty and hunger, the inability of Iraqi hospitals to obtain needed medical supplies, and the inability of their country to obtain goods needed to supply their people with fresh drinking water. It was a sanctions program so ruinous that the head of the UN program stepped down in protest of the humanitarian disaster.

The attacks on London were horrible, awful, inhumane, and unacceptable, but...

The Iraqis lose over five times as many people per capita to the war every day.

Imagine over a thousand such attacks and you start to get the full picture.

[SomethingBig]

It depends on what that 'something' is. National pride is bad. It has done nothing but get people killed, and strip people of thier rights. I've yet to hear a single, valid argument for patriotism. It's just blindness.

What are you talking about? Look where national pride got us! The US is a paradise, right now!

Where's the logic in torturing the criminals? A slow and painful death won't bring back the victims any faster than a quick and painless one.

[The Man]

The U.S. is a nice place to live in a lot of ways, but I wouldn't call it a paradise. A lot of European countries actually have higher standards of living than we do, and also the cost of living is a lot higher here than it is in a number of other countries with a comparable amount of technological development, like New Zealand.

[SomethingBig]

I was being sarcastic.

National pride only leads to hate and racism. It happened in Germany(only there, it wasn't totally racism) and it sure as heck happened, and probably still is happening, in the US.

[The Man]

ah. posting at 1:10 AM makes me a bit slow to recognize people's sarcasm when I don't know them well, sry about that. xD

[Old Manus]

I heard on the radio that it is 38 officially now, but everywhere has different numbers.

[tomamar04]

Some newspapers are saying as many as 75 could have been killed.

There are still people trapped at King's Cross.

[Doc Sark]

the reason for the bus bomb. i had a second thought on the matter. the news. the picture of a red bus torn apart will be on the front page of every newspaper tomorrow. the tube trains cannot be accessed by the media and so they would be no picture of it for tomorrows newspaper. to get a picture like that on the front page is a coup for the terrorist as it will be a constant reminder in people's mind.

The popular theory coming from Police sources at the moment, is that the bomb on the bus went off by accident or early. The bus was diverted from it's normal route when one of the tube bombs went off and it is more likely that the bomb was actually intended for another tube train.

However, there is no doubt that mistake or not, the front pages of the newspapers, picturing a big red London bus, a symbol of London life, and essential to commuters, blown apart, has epitmised the carnage.

What's all this garbage about having no national pride, and national pride causing racism etc. The people of Britain, particularly London where people of all races/religions live together in harmony under one country's flag are uniting together and helping eachother out, showing the terrorists, and the world that the Great British spirit cannot be so easily dampened.

[Aurora_sword]

the news has been nonstop since last night. i deeply feel for them, i have a few friends in the UK, luckily no one lives in london.

[Dreddz]

I was on my DOE bronze at the time of the attacks, a girl in the year above told us, and advised us to see if our parents were OK, it was a sight seeing loadz kids on there phones contacting home, some were crying because they were worried, all were ok ( including mine ) apart from a girl called Cloe, whos dad was near the No. 30 bus when it exploded. When I got back, I looked at a Metro and saw the images, the buses were torn apart, and there were pictures taken of buildings which had blood sprayed on, it looked awful.
What was also scary, was that while I was one the train, there were men, with bomb detecters about, when i was walking down my road, i saw people checking cars..

I blame the G8 myself

[GooeyToast]

Very sad indeed.