Bombings in London

McRocket

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om3ga said:
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"Business as normal" insists Mr Blair, who is being briefed on developments. Downing Street says it has no intention of giving a "running commentary" on the on-going police operation in London.


Business as normal asks Blair? Right. I don't see him riding the public transit to work (though he does actually live where he works) or around town for meetings. Easy for him to ask for calm.
I understand what he means though. But I for one would be a bloddy lot more nervous today then I was a 3 weeks ago. No matter how calm he wants me to be.
 

om3ga

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mcrocket said:
Business as normal asks Blair? Right. I don't see him riding the public transit to work (though he does actually live where he works) or around town for meetings. Easy for him to ask for calm.
I understand what he means though. But I for one would be a bloddy lot more nervous today then I was a 3 weeks ago. No matter how calm he wants me to be.

Actually the British government has just closed down for their summer holidays and will re-convene.....in October 2005.

However I agree with your comments. As a Londoner, if I could afford a Taxi service to work every day (instead of our subway), I would.

I'm beginning to tire of hearing "business as usual" and that "London can take it." What I'd like to know is how can our government (and our Mayor) make fine soundbites about fighting terrorists then allow Muslim fundamentalists who support suicide bombing into the UK to make speeches? If Louis Farrakhan (Nation of Islam) can be banned from visiting the UK, surely the same laws can be applied to others.

If I'm wrong about the above statement I'm happy to be corrected. However, when experts appear on the BBC claiming the Western democracies will have to accept that this brand of "global terrorism" could last for 10 - 20 years, "business as usual" is not enough.

If checking our baggage before going on the Underground means taking up our time, so be it. At least it means our leaders are taking action.
 
The guy shot dead was under surveilance. I think they knew he had a bomb on him and were watching to see who he was meeting. However, he decided to go into a subway station and that was kinda the end of the road for him.

I have no evidence, but those undercover police were a little more highly trained than your average street bobby. The took him down by smothering him (incase the bomb went off), then shot him five times.

I can only think of one UK organisation that operates like this and who do not usually take prisoners. Looks like the elite forces are patrolling London :bowdown:
 
The police officers who took him down were SO19, basically the police's version of the SAS and trained by the SAS. Normally armed police have to go for body shots however when it comes to suicide bombers the protocol is for head shots. The preferred method is to shoot the suspect through the mouth in order to sever the spinal column to get an instant kill and which stops any further movements, however on this occassion it is reported that between 3-5 shots were fired into the suspects head :D

This guy was not related to yesterdays failed bombings but he must have been involved somewhere in the chain and he was wearing a padded jacket according to reports. Anyway, now that the photo's have been released of the suspects for yesterday's failed attempts, I hope that the people in the Muslim communities will turn them over to the police and not give them refuge.
 

McRocket

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Ludovico said:
The police officers who took him down were SO19, basically the police's version of the SAS and trained by the SAS. Normally armed police have to go for body shots however when it comes to suicide bombers the protocol is for head shots. The preferred method is to shoot the suspect through the mouth in order to sever the spinal column to get an instant kill and which stops any further movements, however on this occassion it is reported that between 3-5 shots were fired into the suspects head :D

This guy was not related to yesterdays failed bombings but he must have been involved somewhere in the chain and he was wearing a padded jacket according to reports. Anyway, now that the photo's have been released of the suspects for yesterday's failed attempts, I hope that the people in the Muslim communities will turn them over to the police and not give them refuge.

Heaven help the poor Muslim that at one time or another knew one of these terrorists and takes to wearing thicker then normal clothing in London - yet is no more a threat to Londoners then Blair is.
I completely understand why the police did what they did. But I wonder if these bombings had not occured would they have ended his life? My guess is no.
All I can say is I hope he was (and assume he was) one of the terrorists.

There are stun guns - used in the Untied States for one - that instantly and completely incapacitates the target. It interferes with his/her brain impulses and makes it impossible for a target to do anything but collapse for 5 or 10 seconds or so. But the range is apparently only about 20 metres or something - I believe.

There is NEVER a good killing. NEVER. It is just a killing. And I am NOT religious.
 
I condemn any terrorism and "we" the West and the East must unite together around the globe to defeat terrorism.

The man shot to death was under surveillance in the house based on the fingerprint left behind on the backpack on the bus yesterday.

He came out from the house and the British plain clothes anti-terrorism special unit followed him until close to the Tube and attempted to chase him away.

The man then jumped the rail and ran down to the subway station but was stopped and five shots were fired to kill him from pulling the device to set off the bomb.

Do the special British anti-terrorist unit have the right to kill him? Absolutely Yes !

The terrorists had already won by "creating fear" in London results in so many Londoners are taking the taxis and avoiding the Tube and the buses if they can afford the taxis.

Despite each countries have different agenda, we must defeat the fundamental Muslims with the purpose to commit mass murders to kill innocent people in public transit !

I do have to give credit to the Scotland Yard and the British infrastructure,

London has the highest density of surveillance camera in the world and there are more than 180 times you could be taken pictures of and monitored throughout downtown London.

Does America have the technology and resource to provide such surveillance cameras to protect the American ? The answer is NO !
 

McRocket

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hotrod11inches said:
Does America have the technology and resource to provide such surveillance cameras to protect the American ? The answer is NO !


I have no idea what the point to the last statement was. Unless it was to prove that the UK has something that the US doesn't.
Either way, doesn't bother me. I'm Canadian. My Dad was British. I like Britian alot more then the U.S.
But I would rather be geographically closer to the US then the UK. One, the US will kick anyones ass that tries to invade us (unless of course it is the US who is doing the invading). And two, the US is alot more fun place to visit (so I hear and assume - because I have never visited the UK. But it CANNOT be more fun then America. It cannot even be as fun as Las Vegas.
But if I had to live in either place it would definitely be the UK.

BTW...since my Dad was born and lived in England (but died a Canadian citizen) does that mean I could immigrate to England if I wanted to? ANyone know?
 
hotrod11inches said:
Are you aware Bush Administration endorsed a new policy in which all porno websites must be changed within two years in http://www.freeones.xxx

Impossible because the US does not own the internet. How will he force that on the rest of the world? In the US, if it is handled like the current 2257, then it will be kicked out anyway and I hope that Bush's Administration is willing to pay for all the new arguments over the domain names fiasco they will cause. Too many cases of "get rich quick people" buying up stuff like "freeones.xxx" and forcing huge sums of money to the respectives sites to buy back. Will never ever happen!

hotrod11inches said:
The British troops can not speak Arabic and pushed all the way into southern part of Iraq and set up check-point and one suicide bomb went off.

Now came my friend's uncle loaded up with 10 members including his wife and 9 children from 16 years-old to 2 years old.

They could not understand English and the what the heck was the British troops saying at the check-point and kept on "trucking" and all were shot to death including 6 women , the youngest is only 2 years old !!

Cannot find any news about that at all and I know if that had happened it would have been a major talking point in the UK. I have never ever heard of this... however

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2904911.stm

You sure it was British soldiers?
 

om3ga

It's good to be the king...
To all involved - I thought you may appreciate this (if already posted, I apologise):

http://www.lnreview.co.uk/news/005167.php

More seriously though, I don't recall any news about British soldiers involved in a checkpoint massacre either (as described by hotrod11inches).
 

McRocket

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Great! Now it turns out that the man who police shot to death had nothing to do with the attempted bombing and probably (according to a police spokesman as quoted on globeandmail.ca) nothing to do with the July 7 bombings.
All you people that were so for blowing his head off should have to meet this guys Mom and tell her that they should have shot him. I do not care what any of you say...there was another way, and killing him was not necessary.
And to those of you that say he might have blown up something so they had to kill him to prevent him from acting. What about detonators that go off on ther own. Ones that are held together in a mans hand and detonate if the man IS killed. ANd there are TONNES of other types of detonators that go off if the host is killed. ANd since the police did not know whether he had a bomb or not then they could not have known what kind of detonator it was.
If this had happened before July 7 he would probably still be alive. I know alot of you watch-too-many-movie and play-too-many-video game types love killing under the right circumstances. I find it sad. Even if the guy is a dickhead.

I understand why the cops did it and why most of you supported it so strongly. But it was wrong...period. And those of you that supported it were also. Period.
 
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When i commented this thread everyone was telling each other how they heard about it and how they fealt....now its turned into a riot.....

hotrod 2nd amendment states: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" To live in this country means you have to follow the laws/regulations. There is a law about murder. There is a law about owning an un-registered gun. Basicly if you are a citizen of the US then you have these rights, and you must follow the rules no matter if you are/arent a citizen. You may own a gun, but the laws say you cannot use it against people. Your just retarted, someone once said to me "know your shit, before you talk"

mcrocket, everything is an arguement to you..no matter what. Even if there is no arguement, you start one.(offtopic) And yes I bet if Georges had the chance to save lives...he would kill a scum bag terrorist. I would in heartbeat only because someday in the future he is going to attribute to another attack on the freeworld. You need to stop flaming, keep it cool, and let one have there opinion in peace. "I understand why the cops did it and why most of you supported it so strongly. But it was wrong...period. And those of you that supported it were also. Period.".....another arguement started by the way


What I would Like to say about this whole discussion:

Sure democracy is good, but it has its faults.... no one is saying its the ideal government for this world but its working right now and it seems the only one working too.

Terrorists are scum bags, and who ever disagrees is obviously messed up.

The war in Iraq...where to begin with...

In some cases it was the right thing to do
In some it wasn't...
Saddam yes is bad man and commited atrocities that are un-imaginable
The "proof" used to go to war in Iraq was considered trustworthy at the time....people make mistakes and yes sometimes big ones like this. Bush didn't lie. If you are given evidence about wmd's being constructed trustworthy or not...especialy in an un-stable country you cannot CANNOT ignore it. What if we were right and we didn't go into iraq.......then saddam could either be stockpiling for a war plan, and or selling them to terrorists. Before we went into iraq.. people couldnt vote agaisnt saddam, women barely had rights....and who ever opposed of saddam were removed....including there family.....mass graves are found every day...Explain that?..not normal

Yes there are other countrys that were a bigger threat ex: North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia....none of these countrys at the time were known to be making wmd's so you can forget about the question: "Why didn't we invade them instead?".....North Korea agreed to attend peacetalks, Saudi Arabia isnt an immediate threat, and Iran is currently underway in peacetalks with Britain, Germany, and France. Grow a brain......
 

McRocket

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Surferman774 said:
hotrod 2nd amendment states: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" To live in this country means you have to follow the laws/regulations. There is a law about murder. There is a law about owning an un-registered gun. Basicly if you are a citizen of the US then you have these rights, and you must follow the rules no matter if you are/arent a citizen. You may own a gun, but the laws say you cannot use it against people. Your just retarted, someone once said to me "know your shit, before you talk"
Yeah, by far the most powerful military in the world; and the U.S. needs a powerful militia. You ignorant Americans (or American lovers) and your treating the constitution like it was written by God him/herself. That was written in the 1700's when American's were not allowed to form a militia. And they did not have an army or navy. The words made sense then. They are obsolete now - and should be treated as such. And I do.

mcrocket, everything is an arguement to you..no matter what. Even if there is no arguement, you start one.(offtopic) And yes I bet if Georges had the chance to save lives...he would kill a scum bag terrorist. I would in heartbeat only because someday in the future he is going to attribute to another attack on the freeworld. You need to stop flaming, keep it cool, and let one have there opinion in peace. "I understand why the cops did it and why most of you supported it so strongly. But it was wrong...period. And those of you that supported it were also. Period.".....another arguement started by the way

I did not realize that you have heard or read everything I have ever said - that is the only way you could know that everything is an arguement to me...which it is not obviously.
But when ignorant and/or angry people like you start talking about stuff like this; I feel the need to educate you on how wrong you are. And if that doesn't work (which is usually the case) then just to piss you off is fine. Maybe that will get you using more of your brain. Something has to. OR maybe you will just eventually grow up - who knows.


What I would Like to say about this whole discussion:

Sure democracy is good, but it has its faults.... no one is saying its the ideal government for this world but its working right now and it seems the only one working too.

Terrorists are scum bags, and who ever disagrees is obviously messed up.

Hmmm. so the mothers of the terrorists are screwed up? So the friends of the terrorists who think their friend has lost it but doesn't think they are scumbags is 'messed up'. So, their children are messed up? So everyone in the middle east that (wrongly) looks at them as their only hope to end generations of repression and poverty is 'messed up'. That's alot of people.
Way to act like all the other uninformed and ignorant on here and put blank labels on huge groups of people.
I don't think they are all scumbags. I think they have been brain washed.

The war in Iraq...where to begin with...

In some cases it was the right thing to do
In some it wasn't...
Saddam yes is bad man and commited atrocities that are un-imaginable
The "proof" used to go to war in Iraq was considered trustworthy at the time....people make mistakes and yes sometimes big ones like this. Bush didn't lie. If you are given evidence about wmd's being constructed trustworthy or not...especialy in an un-stable country you cannot CANNOT ignore it. What if we were right and we didn't go into iraq.......then saddam could either be stockpiling for a war plan, and or selling them to terrorists. Before we went into iraq.. people couldnt vote agaisnt saddam, women barely had rights....and who ever opposed of saddam were removed....including there family.....mass graves are found every day...Explain that?..not normal

Fine. They went in and most Iraqi's are grateful (apparently). Now FAR and away most Iraqi's want them to leave (according to opinion polls). SO get out.
And as long as the UN inspectors were there they could not stockpile. That is from many in and out of the UN.
And this mass graves thing. How many people were in these graves? Hundreds? Thousands? You people! Far more Iraqi's have died since the U.S. occupation started then have died under Saddam's regime in what? 10 years? 20? And it is just going to probably get worse. Iraq is headed to a civil war - almost guaranteed.
The AMerican's may have done good (for selfish reason's) by overthrowing Saddam. But they are fucking it up royally since then. And it is costing thousands of American and over 100 thousand Iraqi lives.
All to install a democracy and give the Irqi people freedom of choice - even though the IRaqi's want the US to leave and the US won't. So it's democracy on the United States' terms. Sounds more like colonialism to me.


Yes there are other countrys that were a bigger threat ex: North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia....none of these countrys at the time were known to be making wmd's so you can forget about the question: "Why didn't we invade them instead?".....North Korea agreed to attend peacetalks, Saudi Arabia isnt an immediate threat, and Iran is currently underway in peacetalks with Britain, Germany, and France. Grow a brain......

How naive can you be? North Korea already has nukes. SO the peacetalks are too late. And you actually think Iran is NOT going to develop nukes? Of course they will. ANd they have the backing (quietly) of the entire middle east. Who does Iran hate more the U.S. or Israel? Israel or course. And Israel has nukes. Lots of them. And IRBM's to deliver them. IRan (quite understandably) wants the same. And they will have them. They have lived without the West for years. What are Western sanctions going to do to Iran? Little. Iran WILL have nukes within two years. And they would be stupid if they did anything else.
And if you knew a fraction as much as you act like you do about the world; you would know that Saudi Arabia is possibly a more repressive society then Iraq ever was. They don't have as many people dieing in custody as they did in IRaq - although it does happen in Saudi land also. But they are far more repressive to women's right's and freedoms. They aren't much better then the Talaban were when they ran Afghanistan.
Saudi Arabia is probably a safer place then Iraq was under Saddam. But otherwise, it is more repressive of basic human rights. Especially for women.
Do some reading of non biased material next time before you speak or type on a subject you clearly know not much about.
 
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om3ga

It's good to be the king...
Re: Bombings in London (one year on)

In rememberance of those innocent dead and injured victims who suffered one year ago....

And remembering those who suffered in New York, Madrid, Bali, the Grand Hyatt, Radisson and Days Inn hotels in Amman, the United States embassy in Nairobi...and countless other atrocities on forgotten souls world-wide.



Regardless of our opinions, killing innocent people does not further one's cause (regardless of the immediate publicity generated).

It diminishes it.
 

georges

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My thoughts and prayers go to the families of the victims of these horrible attacks.
Terrorists are cowards who only kill civilians because they have no balls and no courage to fight against soldiers or law enforcement personnel. The only way to deal with terrorists is with a barrett gun. Israel lives daily terror and fights terror with efficient measures. Terrorists are fanatics and fanatics aren't normal persons so killing them is a necessity. Like one my cousins who is in the USMC said to me:"Peace flows through the barrel of gun".
 
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