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for fuck's sake INTERN ALL MUSLIMS WITH LINKS TO JIHADIST GROUPS NOW.

― slb1, Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

Oh, now I see it. The white building looks like the Sainsburys building at Holborn.

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Oh God no! My mother just woke me up and told me they were reporting about this on CNN here in the States. I've been away for a few days housesitting (haven't really had access to a computer until now) but I figured I'd check the reaction here.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: the crown prince of understatement. (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Hammersmith and City line was closed from Paddington to Barking, or wherever it goes. And it is underground, at least from Paddington to Euston Square.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

the white building is our new hospital. i work just next door to it

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

guess i'll be walking to bethnal green tomorrow, then.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4703777.stm

BBC says detonators only

our reuters box is on the fritz

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

Hammersmith and City line was closed from Paddington to Barking, or wherever it goes. And it is underground, at least from Paddington to Euston Square.

It's not underground at Shepherds Bush though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

windows blown out on the bus, but no injuries, according to reuters (via radio 5 live)?

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Fuck's sake...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

bus is no.26
no injuries
just windows blown out
soz if already posted, just skimmed end of thread

― emsk, Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

and, just for those people who keep forgetting, NONE OF THE HAMMERSMITH AND CITY IS A TUBE LINE.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

(I love the British being pedantic and British about their railways, even in the midst of a crisis.)

x-post ... CRIKEY.

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

eyewitness live on bbcnews24: *pause* "sorry, moving out of the way because there are reporters everywhere and i don't want them to hear what i'm saying."
do you not realise who you're talking to? dumbass

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

for fuck's sake INTERN ALL MUSLIMS WITH LINKS TO JIHADIST GROUPS NOW.
-- slb1 (sl...), July 21st, 2005 12:51 PM. (later)

what, have sex games with them with a cigar then smoke it?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

one injury reported at warren street.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

Kate: was that crikey at me? If so I'm sorry for shouting.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

dahlin it sounded to me like she'd just said 'fucking' and was trying to recover from it

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

so what happened to mr rucksack? surprised he wasn't ripped limb from limb by NOTW readers tbh.
-- g-kit (kittenslikemil...), July 21st, 2005.

guardian readers are so much more tolerant of their potential assailants! this is bad news -- either incompotent bombers (detonators only) or they are trying to scare us.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

makes me wonder if this is the work of some inexperienced copycats...
yay for incompetance in that case...

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I was wondering what happened to the rucksack bloke. Would not be surprised at all if he got the shit kicked out of him.

I'm a bit worried, my wife was on her way through central London and she's not answering her phone. She was supposed to be taking the Victoria line from Green Park to Finsbury Park.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

Tube for me refers to the entire London Underground network, whether its actually deep level tunnels, or cut and shut, or whatever.

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

(No, the X-post and crikey were about the 26 getting its windows blown out.)

((It is on the tube map and goes underground = IT IS A TUBE!!!))

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

watching tv - eyewitness report from Oval said something about a man who legged it out of the station following the explosion and who wasn't caught, also manages to say "fuck" on BBC at 2pm.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

why detonators only?
is it more likely to be a blunder or a warning of sorts?

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

This makes less than zero sense.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

Still not as many "fucks" as Snoop, though. (xpost)

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it's some fucked up BNP supporters...

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

I think this warrants a fuck or two.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

I'd have thought it more likely to be a Richard Reid-style blunder.

((It is on the tube map and goes underground = IT IS A TUBE!!!))

Grrrr! ;-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

detonators 'go off' without triggering bombs. i think this is what happens at the end of 'the peacemaker'.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Nicole Kidman to thread.

― Huey (Huey), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

WHat the saying fuck but, the Hammersmith & City line being a tube (which it is) or these attacks two weeks on which may be meant to scare (scare being a few notches down from terror I suppose).

Yes, that is waht happens at the end of the peacemaker, just before one goes to the box office and politely requests your money back.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

First as tragedy, then as farce.

What a load of cock.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

London Underground Shuts Down In Code Amber alert

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

I'd have thought it more likely to be a Richard Reid-style blunder.
i wish the detonators had been in their shoes and blown their toes off.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

it must be pretty damn incompetent if they messed it up in all 4 occasions.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

OK, someone give me a clue as to the best way to get from Finsbury Park to Victoria without using the Victoria or Picadilly lines.

I take it that this isn't at the "stay where you are" level or severity yet...

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

i guess it only takes one person to badly make four bombs, thank god.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

Eve. Standard:

Witnesses at Shepherd's Bush said a man of Asian appearance was carrying a rucksack which exploded. The man jumped out of the southbound train and staggered along the tracks, they said.

Stephen Requa, a 60-year-old writer was waiting at Shepherd's Bush station when he saw the man staggering along the tracks northbound before the station was evacuated.

"I saw this guy jump down on the tracks and he was injured. He was staggering north along the tracks. He had been injured by the bomb."

"People who had been on the carriage with him said some Asian guy had been on the train with a backpack and it blew up. It knocked him down."

"I though he was drunk because he was just staggering along the tracks. They closed the station immediately."

― Alex M (Alex M), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

19 bus then change to 38 bus at islington - piccadilly stretch. This route avoids the cureent incident zones which will probably have diversions.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

I would give as much credence to the "dummy explosions" as I would to the "power surge".

― Venga (Venga), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

The impression I get is that there are no bombs, just detonators.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

colonel, moblie networks seem to be totally fucked at the moment so try not to panic about your wife. no one in the office here can use their mobiles currently.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

i blame dom joly

my boss just said: this is a diversion to get everyone running round in one area of london, for a later incident

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

it must be pretty damn incompetent if they messed it up in all 4 occasions.

Or maybe the bombs were all put together by one cack-hander. Xpost.

OK, someone give me a clue as to the best way to get from Finsbury Park to Victoria without using the Victoria or Picadilly lines.

District to Monument, Northern (if that bit of it's running) to Moorgate, main line service to Finsbury Park.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

The bus on camera has all windows intact and no debris on the road beside it.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

Aye, thanks Pete.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

am fearing this is a diversion
get all emergency services somewhere then do something somewhere else
cf security experts @ g8

― emsk, Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

OK, someone give me a clue as to the best way to get from Finsbury Park to Victoria without using the Victoria or Picadilly lines.
I take it that this isn't at the "stay where you are" level or severity yet...

-- James Mitchell (jame...), July 21st, 2005 1:01 PM. (James Mitchell) (later)

how about bus? 29 or 253 to camden and then 24 to victoria?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

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