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jasroth

The London Underground...

Jul 07, 2005 22:43

Weird. I mean... the Brits aren't exactly the most pro-war member of the coalition. Granted, they're a member, but popular English support obviously isn't with the war. Strange that they'd suffer an attack. It's the sort of thing that prompts people to get pissed and fight, look what S-11 did for the US... it's like someone wants to the Brits to ( Read more... )

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pixsky July 7 2005, 12:59:34 UTC

G8, maybe?

druiman July 7 2005, 13:37:13 UTC

i think G8 was just an excuse for attacks to occur. I mean - massive shortage of security because they are all in scotland etc. but i think its more to do with britain's decision to stick with the US. the group who took responsibility right now are said to be connected with an iraqi line of al qaeda

dawnfrenzy July 8 2005, 00:09:38 UTC

I don't really think terrorists would pay much attention to the opinion polls of popular support for the war. And it will make people angry, and it'll probably help blair quite a bit. Pity for the people hurt.

jasroth July 8 2005, 03:56:44 UTC

I'm sure you know much better than I do, Jeremy, but I was lead to believe at one point that opinion polls were reasonably important to the more prominent global organisations... but I could be completely mistaken.

dawnfrenzy July 8 2005, 08:57:31 UTC

what...why?... (I have no idea why that sounded biting...)
Just terrorists, not prominent global organisations... I just giggle stupidly at the thought of Bin Laden straining over the latest Nelson polls. I'd paint them as more impetuous characters.

miss_peanut July 8 2005, 00:29:59 UTC

There are now 37 confirmed dead. 700 injured. I guarantee you it isn't the IRA - they always warn people. I guarantee you it isn't the anarchists - they usually just riot and break things.

It could be another Madrid. But there is plenty of people disaffected by the current Blair government. However, it is likely this awful Al-Qaeda in Europe group. It makes me so sick people could do this. If it is Al-Qaeda, these people are now choosing symbolic dates - Bali was one year, one month and one day after 9/11. Madrid was just a few days before a very important election. London is the day of the G8. These people know how to get attention when the world is already watching. And now we are distracted from G8
And in London, there is always a lot of security. However, resources would have been stretched, the top dogs wouldn't have been in London.

Sorry. I'm ranting. This is just so disgusting.

jasroth July 8 2005, 04:01:05 UTC

Rant away, hardly a pleasant situation. Death toll still rising. Number of people in a critical condition pretty high too.

I'm very curious to see how the British public react to this, very curious indeed. S-11 pushed the US in one direction, Madrid had a very different effect. I'll bet that, at very least, this results in those 'indentity chip' things that Blair's been ranting about.

miss_peanut July 9 2005, 11:00:21 UTC

The English will pick it up and keep it going. They're so used to bombs/tube fires it isn't funny. They didn't get away with much after the various rounds of IRA bombings except extra police at Christmas. I doubt much else will change. There was monumental changes to evacuation plans after the terrible fires that happened down there where people were trapped. Not much more tho.
Non-Brits are forgetting that the British are very used to attacks on home soil - they've been going through it since the Blitz and they were expecting it. No one expected them to attack a place like Madrid. But London? That's a target.
Venting again. I geuss I'm trying to say that the Brits are used to destructive terrorism and violence. The shock here is after the elation of live8/olympics, not the fact that there was a terrorist attack.