BBC: Police avert car bomb 'carnage' in London

Riot_Rain

Boy am I glad I'll be leaving here in 29 days!

:(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6252276.stm

London Calling

i have the same model and colour mercedes that was used, so i guess i wont be driving into london for quite a while :(

Riot_Rain

London Calling wrote:

i have the same model and colour mercedes that was used, so i guess i wont be driving into london for quite a while :(

That sucks.

There's a building site next to my office and the works often cause our desks to tremble and windows to rattle. Today, it is making me nervous :(

A real taste of what life is like in so many troubled parts of the world.

catefrances

just for a pleasant change the tyranny of distance is working for us aussies. sometimes tis good to live at the end of the world. be safe britfriends and irishpals.

binauralsounds

Remember kids.... It's Bush's fault!!! Oh yeah... Blair too.

Bwalker545

Nice of them to even give Brown a chance to make a diffrence...
Oh wait, they dont care who is in charge...

RolandTD20Kdrummer

I think there was video footage of Cheney double parking one of the cars himself

gotta pump that stock up!

(Oh and give Brown a reason to cut his teeth in the "right" direction)

darkcrow

it is quite scary to think there could be more car bombs around london. luckily i prob wont need to go into central london for a while but i have family and friends that do. the good thing is you cannot walk anywhere in central without being filmed by cctv so the fuckers should be put down quite quickly. god they better catch the bastards and string them up.

ThumbingMyWay32

catefrances wrote:

just for a pleasant change the tyranny of distance is working for us aussies. sometimes tis good to live at the end of the world. be safe britfriends and irishpals.

Safe from what?

bootlegger10

You now have people who were born in London who want to attack London. This is why we must require immigrants to assimilate. You now have these Muslim communities in London that are radical Muslims first and I doubt even consider themselves to be Brits. It's like they have their own country in the middle of London. Very scary.

What do we do with sections of town where even police do not feel comfortable going?

darkcrow

bootlegger10 wrote:

You now have people who were born in London who want to attack London. This is why we must require immigrants to assimilate. You now have these Muslim communities in London that are radical Muslims first and I doubt even consider themselves to be Brits. It's like they have their own country in the middle of London. Very scary.

What do we do with sections of town where even police do not feel comfortable going?

i think most of the 7/7 bombers were not even from london, they were northerners. only one or two lived here. who knows about these bastards that tried to ignite these nail bombs. i would not be surprised if they were were not from london either.

bootlegger10

darkcrow wrote:

i think most of the 7/7 bombers were not even from london, they were northerners. only one or two lived here. who knows about these bastards that tried to ignite these nail bombs. i would not be surprised if they were were not from london either.

You are from London. What is your take on the Muslim sections in town? Do they worry you at all?

CJMST3K

binauralsounds wrote:

Remember kids.... It's Bush's fault!!!

...yup. bush was in office when the planning for 9-11 began, after all the other terror attacks bin laden had gotten away with.

oh, wait, nope that was clinton.

So, I think your post should be revise to "It's Clinton's Fault".

CJMST3K

bootlegger10 wrote:

What do we do with sections of town where even police do not feel comfortable going?

the whole country will be converted over. give it 22 more years.

sorry man.

darkcrow

bootlegger10 wrote:

You are from London. What is your take on the Muslim sections in town? Do they worry you at all?

on the whole most of them seem quite fine. most understand this is britain and they live by british law. most dont expect to get any sorta sharia law or anything crazy like that, they just wanna worship and practice their religion. which is fair enough because we all wanna be able to do the same.

it is the fringe. the very edge of these communities that are the problem. they are telling dissafected youth things to manipulate them into going into this crazy fundermentalism.

darkcrow

CJMST3K wrote:

the whole country will be converted over. give it 22 more years.

sorry man.

nope, we will be fine thanks.

CJMST3K

darkcrow wrote:

nope, we will be fine thanks.

i hope so. from the news in the US from various reports, there's a bit of a problem with the Muslim community isolating themselves from the rest of those in London.

darkcrow

CJMST3K wrote:

i hope so. from the news in the US from various reports, there's a bit of a problem with the Muslim community isolating themselves from the rest of those in London.

the american press are overexagerating it, due to their own agenda. there are always isolated parts of communities, especially immigrant communities but its not a massive problem in london. the real problem is in the midlands in places like burnley. they have real ghettos there.

CJMST3K

darkcrow wrote:

the american press are overexagerating it, due to their own agenda. there are always isolated parts of communities, especially immigrant communities but its not a massive problem in london. the real problem is in the midlands in places like burnley. they have real ghettos there.

we're gonna bomb the UK for oil... and beer.

darkcrow

CJMST3K wrote:

we're gonna bomb the UK for oil... and beer.

lol we have no oil. we get it all from russia now lol. and our beer sucks. go to belgium and germany. they rock! it is all about LEFF!!!!!!!!!

CJMST3K

darkcrow wrote:

lol we have no oil. we get it all from russia now lol. and our beer sucks. go to belgium and germany. they rock! it is all about LEFF!!!!!!!!!

STELLA!!

darkcrow

CJMST3K wrote:

STELLA!!

that is a belgium beer by origin but does have a brewery in the uk.

Rushlimbo

False flag operation by the British spooks. Dont they have like 2 million cameras in London now? Where are the photos of the "terrorists" parking the vehicles?

London Calling

darkcrow wrote:

the real problem is in the midlands in places like burnley. they have real ghettos there.

I hope you meant the midlands AND burnley otherwise the midlands just got a whole lot bigger.

I think the whole press and police have exaggerted the whole British muslim affair. In Birmingham we regularly have raids and arrests made due to "terrorism". Unfortunately it no longer becomes news worthy when those people are released without charge or charged with some lesser offence such as possession of drugs.

Restless Soul

This is really scary - my sister works around haymarket and just by luck someone at her workplace called her yesterday and told her not to go in due to the place being cordoned off. They think the bomb could have been timed to go off in the morning which would hit workers (including my sister), commuters, tourists, buses, buildings everything.

You have to be grateful that someone took ill at the nightclub which brought the ambulancemen out who spotted the smoking car...

The thing that also worries me is that on the 7/7 london bombing aniversary (next week in fact) there is this giant Live earth concert (I wasn't lucky enough to get a ticket but some friends are going) - wouldn't that become a major target for London, considering the date and the mass of people that would be there in one place?

darkcrow

Restless Soul wrote:

They think the bomb could have been timed to go off in the morning which would hit workers (including my sister), commuters, tourists, buses, buildings everything.

not sure where you heard that... everything i ahve read, listened to, seen has said the bombs were thought to have gone off around the time the first car was discovered. in fact i am watching bbc news 24 now and they have a terrorism expert on saying the second car bomb was positioned so that it would blow up as survivours of the first bomb ran down the street.

how fucked up is that?!

catefrances

ThumbingMyWay32 wrote:

Safe from what?

just safe from shit. whatever happens. i don't necessarily mean terrorists bullshit. though that is obviously what this thread is about. more being safe generally in their day to day.

Restless Soul

darkcrow wrote:

not sure where you heard that... everything i ahve read, listened to, seen has said the bombs were thought to have gone off around the time the first car was discovered. in fact i am watching bbc news 24 now and they have a terrorism expert on saying the second car bomb was positioned so that it would blow up as survivours of the first bomb ran down the street.

how fucked up is that?!

We just assumed that maybe the bomb was being driven to its location (before the driver ran away), so that it would be set on a timer - just an assumption on our part I guess.

You know what, I didn't even know there was a second bomb until I read this thread!

catefrances

icarus wrote:

wasn't there a thwarted attack in sydney not too long ago? from what we always hear, italy, france and australia were always 'supposed' to be the next places that would be attacked by terrorists.

quite honestly i can't remember. and what exactly is the definition of 'thwarted attack'? is it when the authorities come in all guns blazing a la jack bauer style catching the bombmakers in the throes of setting the detonation sequencing code(irreversible of course)? or is it more the authorities heard a rumour, do some follow up, find something suspicious that is potentially dangerous but in no way imminently so and deal with it as they would any other threat or crime?
besides, do you know how far australia is away from everything? who's gonna be bothered sitting through a 22 hour flight in order to blow something up here.
you know sometimes i feel like im being a tad blase, but for the most part i really have no cause to be alarmed at this point. im not ignorant and im not easily freaked out when it comes to the 'unknown enemy'. if a terrorist attack happens in australia i'll be suitably pissed off, but i wont be surprised nor indignant. fortunately it's not something i spend a great deal of time thinking about, nor have i had to. plus, it's out of my hands.

binauralsounds

Rushlimbo wrote:

False flag operation by the British spooks. Dont they have like 2 million cameras in London now? Where are the photos of the "terrorists" parking the vehicles?

You're always funny!! LMAO!!!!!!!! Ahhh fuck, another conspiracy theory. ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Riot_Rain

catefrances wrote:

just for a pleasant change the tyranny of distance is working for us aussies. sometimes tis good to live at the end of the world. be safe britfriends and irishpals.

"Australian media have identified a man held in Brisbane as Dr Mohammed Haneef, 27, who formerly worked in Cheshire.

He was detained while trying to board a plane to India. A second doctor is also being interviewed in Australia."

He was on his way through, but still! And of course, innocent until proven guilty...