Posted July 7, 200520 yr comment_2785996 I know we have a couple folks from the UK posting here, and I hope they're ok after the bombings in London this morning.
July 7, 200520 yr comment_2786066 Definitely. My sympathies to the London folk here. That's incredibly freaky too, after they received the 2012 Olympics yesterday.
July 7, 200520 yr comment_2786075 I'm glad I didn't go training today, if I had I'd have probably got blown to pieces walking out of Russell Square station. This shit is really fucked up. The entire transport system is likely to be down for days and the G8 meeting is screwed. Mercifully there have only been a couple of deaths so far and the majority of the damage is structural but this probably doesn't bode well for a brown guy like me living in London.
July 7, 200520 yr Author comment_2786298 Reports now are saying at least 40 killed, 300 injured. They expect the numbers to rise once they can get to the wrecked cars.
July 7, 200520 yr comment_2786370 Now apparently our enconomy is going down the tubes right now on the stock markets. God knows how much that trip to Spain will cost me by tomorrow.
July 7, 200520 yr comment_2786963 Wow, I woke up and heard about this happening. Just the crap we needed right now in the world. >_< Stupid people. So stupid.
July 7, 200520 yr comment_2790012 I'm trying to check all my sparring buddies that train at SOAS round the corner from Russell Square are alright. Hopefully everything will be cool.
July 7, 200520 yr Author comment_2790087 Not knowing is the worst, after 9/11 I got tons of people asking if I was OK (at the time the reports only said flight 93 crashed "near Pittsburgh"). I heard from people on other boards that the phone lines in London were either down or just jammed from overuse. I hope you'll be able to reach everyone.
July 7, 200520 yr comment_2793372 What's scary is that these guys are still on the loose, so what's stopping them from doing this again and establishing that the government and the law enforcement agencies are inadequate?
July 7, 200520 yr comment_2793482 It's a fucked up world we live in. It makes me sad that I chose to bring two other lives into it, much like I felt during 9/11. I remember holding my newborn daughter on that morning, watching the news in a state of "War of the Worlds"-like paranoia. I apologized to her aloud for her having to be here, for me bringing her into a world filled with such irrational, nefarious and savage people who think that violence and taking the lives of others can actually be somehow justified. My deepest sympathies and sincerest heartfelt condolences go out to ANYONE touched by this latest tragedy, not just those in London or in the UK. We're ALL citizens of the WORLD and like this board has proven, we all have friends and family all over it.
July 8, 200520 yr comment_2793889 When my mother called me about this today, she reminded me that if this had been 2000, I'd have been in class at King's College in London, near Waterloo Station, on my Study Abroad trip. My hopes and prayers are with the British people as well as all travellers who are stuck there right now trying to contact their families.
July 8, 200520 yr comment_2795524 I wanna extend sympathies to members of the board from the UK, namely Cam and Mortimer, who are living with this up close and personal.
July 8, 200520 yr Author comment_2801750 I was just checking out CNN.com and saw how Prince Charles and Queen Elizabeth are visiting the injured in the hospital. As much grief as they get for being out of touch, it's cool to see them doing some good.
July 8, 200520 yr Author comment_2802838 Who was responsible for this? They don't have any solid proof yet, but conservatives are itching to link it to Zarqawi, who according to them, is either near death on one leg in Iraq or personally masterminding terror attacks across the globe.
July 8, 200520 yr comment_2803343 So, then aside from Al-Queda, are there any other suspects other than the usual suspects?
July 8, 200520 yr comment_2803451 Zionists or Al Qaeda are to blame, depending on which wing you are on.
July 8, 200520 yr Author comment_2803466 It was probably an offshoot al queda cell that managed to stay off the radar till now. Despite what the news tells you, al queda isn't a top-down group where the top terrorist tells a certain cell to attack, it's more of a loose group of like minded individual cells. That'll probably make it hard to decisively pin down who all is involved.
July 8, 200520 yr comment_2803511 It's most likely a cell of Al Queda. I could also see a slim chance some of those G-8 protestors might've done something but I would seriously doubt it. Though the news has been horrible with the coverage. CNN seems to think OBL is the be all end all of terrorists. The kooks are moving in record time as they're already blaming the Jews and Karl Rove for this.
July 8, 200520 yr comment_2803874 Jews? And Karl Rove? Did Michael Savage Weiner pull the Jewish card out already?
July 8, 200520 yr comment_2803945 The Jews get blamed for everything eventually. The Karl Rove stuff is interesting as it's basically a conspiracy theory to go with a conspiracy theory. Those Democratic Underground posters I guess are really getting out there over this.
July 10, 200520 yr comment_2821389 I am getting a little concerned. I have e-mailed two our board members to make sure they are ok and have not heard back from either one of them. If anyone hears from Famous Mortimer or Nik Johnson (Dazed) or sees their names on the board, let us know. The best case scenario is that both just happen to be away from the computers at the present time. We don't want to know the worst case so if anyone , or if Nik or Mortimer pop up, let us know!!!
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