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News 24 have just spectacularly cocked up w/r/t that andrew dude they've just interviewed

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 22 July 2005 10:28 (twenty years ago)

table legs that look like guns that people refuse to put down when asked in what is obviously a 'JDI' type situation... the police were wrong there, on balance, but they don't often shoot people *totally at random*.

tissp -- how?

― N_Rq, Friday, 22 July 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

They filmed him giving out his name and phone number to journalists--they realised half way through the number and killed the sound

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 22 July 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

At least it was only the sound they killed

(boom-tsh)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 22 July 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe this happened. I didn't find out about it until yesterday evening and was slightly puzzled by a message to the Clientele mailing list. This as unreal as The Secret Agent. It would be as funny as the book if it were not real. Now it's just puzzling and sad.

― youn, Friday, 22 July 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

what a strange day. security alerts *everywhere*. now one at canary wharf.

― N_RQ, Friday, 22 July 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

now one at canary wharf

"there's a man in there. We think he might be an Editor. He's got his hands on a newspaper, and he's willing to use it!"

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 22 July 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

the word i'm getting is:

stockwell dude had no bomb on him, was shot getting on northern line
BUT he had dumped bomb on victoria line train, so the police weren't shooting a random.

harrow road in maida vale is on lockdown.

― N_RQ, Friday, 22 July 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Kicking off at Harrow road now.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 22 July 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

what's the dealiyo-yo?

― N_RQ, Friday, 22 July 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

"666 new answers"!!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 22 July 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

Londoners should be very proud of a police force who are striving to protect you all.

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 22 July 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

Where are you getting your word, N-RQ? The street? Did you put a coin in a pretend blind man's cup?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 22 July 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

my girlfriend, i guess she must have the tv on.

― N_RQ, Friday, 22 July 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Oh, right.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 22 July 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

haha, just kidding -- i'm actually a high-ranking mi5 officer.

― N_RQ, Friday, 22 July 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

http://media.mth.net/jimmy_fr/v3/images/series/mi5/perso_105_105/tom.jpg

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Friday, 22 July 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

you got the right idea there!

― N_RQ, Friday, 22 July 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

they've put out cctv pix of 'the four', one in brix in a 'new york' hoody, one in westbourne grove area...

― N_RQ, Friday, 22 July 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41333000/jpg/_41333025_suspect_four_203x152.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 22 July 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

after 9/11 i remember seeing 'the cable guy':

"Oh my God! Oh my God! My twin brother has been shot! I think it was an Asian gang or something... There was this guy, he looked Asian... and he was speaking another language, I'm pretty sure it was... Asian."

― N_RQ, Friday, 22 July 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Warren Street:
http://img311.imageshack.us/img311/5390/suspect18iq.jpg

Oval:
http://img311.imageshack.us/img311/7223/suspect20pu.jpg

Nubmer 26 bus:
http://img311.imageshack.us/img311/1387/suspect32bm.jpg

Westbourne Grove:
http://img311.imageshack.us/img311/5791/suspect41yw.jpg

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 22 July 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

is the stockwell guy one of the four?

― N_RQ, Friday, 22 July 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Could someone put that first picture in the picture of Lee Harvey Oswald playing in a band, pls.

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Friday, 22 July 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

http://members.cox.net/billz3bub/lhoswald.jpg

This one, I mean.

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Friday, 22 July 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Zero tolerance for fare dodgers? He did jump the barrier, after all.

― Alex M (Alex M), Friday, 22 July 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Apparently Birmingham Moor Street and Birmingham Snow Hill stations have been evacuated, and a friend of mine has seen lots of police cars heading into the city. Theres nothing hit the news wires yet so i dont know if its anything to worry about.

― dmun drive-in (dmun), Friday, 22 July 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

PA SNAP PA
A man has been arrested at Snow Hill station in Birmingham under anti-terror legislation and two suitcases are being dealt with by explosives officers, British Transport Police said tonight.
end

― Alex M (Alex M), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4708373.stm

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 22 July 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I thought I was safe from the madness here in Berlin, but a plane has just crashed into the Reichstag!

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Quick! Move to Tokyo!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

So far it seems that either Ned or Momus are responsible for all these terror attacks.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

It's EDGWARE ROAD not Harrow Road...well, I suppose it's both.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

So far it seems that either Ned or Momus are responsible for all these terror attacks.

Unlike Ned, though, I was in New York on 9/11.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

I know, as was Ed. So I guess he's implicated too.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

One of my local news affiliates, in addition to suddenly pronouncing it "terra," is making a big deal out of the fact that one of the London suspects was wearing a "New York" t-shirt. Apparently terrorists in western cities are supposed to wear shirts that say "Osama-Wear" or baby tees that say "bomber" in pink sparkly script.

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 22 July 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

PHATWA FARM

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 22 July 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

The Muslim Council of Britain said they were concerned about a possible police "shoot to kill" policy.

Am I the only one who feels that the Muslim Council of Great Britain shouldn't be getting into this? I mean, if the police are constantly issuing statements telling people that they are not targeting Muslims, shouldn't the official Muslim spokespeople get behind that and at least make a show of believing them?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 23 July 2005 08:12 (twenty years ago)

Also, 62 people killed in bombings in Egypt's Sharm-al-Sheikh resorts. If you want to kill Europeans in Egypt, this is the place to do it.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 23 July 2005 08:13 (twenty years ago)

The Muslim Council of Britain are not the only body of people likely to be concerned about a possible 'shoot to kill' policy. This seems like irresponsible, unhelpful reporting.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Saturday, 23 July 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)

baby tees that say "bomber" in pink sparkly script.

I bet you can already get these in either Topshop or New Look.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 23 July 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

has anyone any grasp of a point behind bombing (or pseudo-bombing) an empty no.26 bus!?

on the bus to the FAP last night - a 55 - the driver told anyone who wanted hackney road they would have to walk from the far end of it (it is long - a good 25 mins walk min), as he was being detoured via bethnal green road, and therefore cambridge heath was his last offical stop before old street --- so lots of ppl grumpliy got out

then when he detoured via bethnal green road, he in fact made lots of i guess "unofficial" stops!! (the people who got off could have walked much less far, HR and BGR are parallel to one another)

(so maybe the point is just annoying disruption) (i totally don't blame bus drivers for being testy and not helpful btw --- after they're on buses, ie potential targets, all day, when you and i get on and off much sooner and are mostly NOT on buses)

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 23 July 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

im worried about you guys, you know that right?
hugs?

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 23 July 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

has anyone any grasp of a point behind bombing (or pseudo-bombing) an empty no.26 bus!?

i'm not sure if they've said where the bomber got on. at waterloo? the whole thing fucked up anyway, but i don't think it was meant to be a pseudo-bombing: his backpack had plenty of bomb in it; it's just that the detonator failed to set it off. maybe he spent the journey from waterloo trying to detonate it and gave it up as a bad job once the bus had emptied around hackney.

but um we're not being told *shit*, really, so that's half-hearted speculation.

― Enrique, naked in an unfamiliar future where corporations run the world... (Enri, Saturday, 23 July 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone confirmed that the guy they shot was trying to carry out a bombing?

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Saturday, 23 July 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

Do we know if the four attempts were simultaneous? It might have been a case of 'do it [X time], wherever you are'.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 23 July 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

jarlr'mai: no, they have not confirmed the stockwell man had a bomb. the now-silenced story is there was a bomb alert (smoke, etc) on the victoria line around the stockwell area. if this was connected i don't know. the dead man had a big coat, is about all the concrete justification we have.

martin: the tube explosions were roughly simultaneous about 12.30pm -- the bus explosion was reported an hour later.

re: why in hackney -- also, why at lunch? not exactly the busiest time.

― Enrique, naked in an unfamiliar future where corporations run the world... (Enri, Saturday, 23 July 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Hm, the bus explosion was about an hour later on 7/7 too - maybe this was to mirror that? Maybe they expected that the three tube bombs would have driven everyone onto buses by then, like last time?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 23 July 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

as i say, 'they' are not being too forthcoming about this. i think it's only 'luck' that prevented this being another real attack, and the implications of that are too grave for the authorities to admit? i'm reaching.

― Enrique, naked in an unfamiliar future where corporations run the world... (Enri, Saturday, 23 July 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

Nah, I think the authorities are deliberately careful about giving away too much information to the public in any major investigation. That way, if they bring someone in for questioning and they apparently start confessing, it's easier to tell if they start making stuff up.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 23 July 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

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