Major incident occuring on the London Underground.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-07-07 09:58am

weemadando wrote:FTSE 100 -126.20/5103.40

FTSE 250 -158.90/7338.00

FTSE ALLSHARE -61.43/2554.23

Not bad at all... Its climbing from what I can tell.

DJIA: -39.59/10,231.09
NASDAQ: -7.31/2,061.34

Post by **weemadando** » 2005-07-07 09:58am

And the FTSE is DEFINATELY climbing, its now only down 90.50 apparently.

Tiger Ace · Post by **Tiger Ace** » 2005-07-07 10:00am

Archaic` wrote:I'm not sure who's got it worse. Rudy, or that guy Channel 7 were talking to earlier who was walking out of Kings Cross station at the time of the explosion, who had also been at Bali and had only left the Sari club 2 minutes before that went up in flames.

Talk about horrible luck.

Ubiquitous · Post by **Ubiquitous** » 2005-07-07 10:00am

weemadando wrote:And the FTSE is DEFINATELY climbing, its now only down 90.50 apparently.

That's amazing. I'm quite sure that at 11am or so it was down 180 points.

Post by **weemadando** » 2005-07-07 10:01am

London Stock Exchange

Just on the front page there, you can see the FTSE climbing back rather rapidly on todays graph.

Post by **weemadando** » 2005-07-07 10:03am

Just looked at the Dow Jones IA graph at the LSE site - goddamn, those Yanks know how to make a market plummet.

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2005-07-07 10:06am

God be with you England.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2005-07-07 10:08am

CBC Newsworld saying that Canadian flags are being ordered to fly at half mast.

Post by **weemadando** » 2005-07-07 10:09am

Well, with news slowing down, I'll be heading to bed now (with BBC World on the radio of course).

Again, godspeed to all the emergency services people and my thoughts with all those with family and friends in unknown circumstances.

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2005-07-07 10:14am

Having England hit with a terrorist attack is like having it hit at home. Many consider England to be our Brother/Sister, and most of remember the tribute given by England after 9/11.

Ubiquitous · Post by **Ubiquitous** » 2005-07-07 10:16am

Apparently Blair has arrived in London and also all G8 discussions on poverty and climate have been postponed until tomorrow.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2005-07-07 10:18am

Just been catching up with the news. I got up this morning completely oblivious to what was happening, my mind more on my own health issues than anything esle when I get a call from my dad.

"Check the TV, CNN, FOX, anybody."

I got a chill down my spine. My brother made a similar call to me on 9/11 and I saw the second plane hit live on TV.

I switch to CNN and there's coverage about the London bombing. I remember there's no work today for me and I whisper a thank you because being stuck on a NYC subway after hearing about this scares the shit out of me. My friends at work told me there are NYPD everywhere, at nearly every station and the National Guard are out in force in Grand Central and other key stations.

Our London Office is still trying to account for everyone.

My heart goes out to all Londoners and English in general. I know you guys have been through this and worse in the past but that doesn't mean you can't use a word of encouragment and support this day.

Netko · Post by **Netko** » 2005-07-07 10:18am

My condolences and sympathies to all that are affected by this incident.

I'm very impressed by the way the Brit people and officials are treating this. The speach the London mayor gave (Livingstone right?) was truly great, and Blair, while not being as eloquent, was driping true resolve that nothing will change.

As for the people, well, its best explained like this. One of our local TV stations managed to get the our previous ambassador in the UK who now workes in London as a banker. When asked about work he simply said "Today, there are about 30% employees not at work due to transportation issues, tommorow we expect everyone to be at work". That, the calm interviews with the people who were on the trains and the whole emergency response team handling of the situation just gets a whole crapload of respect from me.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2005-07-07 10:23am

Me & a couple of my friends have been saying something like this was due to happen, but we always figured it would happen somewhere in the US. We had NYC, LA, San Fran, Chicago, and Boston as the most likely targets for a transportation terrorist attack.

I don't know what to say, this is just awful.

Skelron · Post by **Skelron** » 2005-07-07 10:24am

Indeed I'm proud of the way Londoner's and my fellow Brits have been handling this situation. I'm proud of our leaders, and I'm normally very anti-Blair, today he showed the same promise he did when he first took office. I'm even more impressed with Ken Livingstone, his statement was perfect.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2005-07-07 10:28am

Tiger Ace wrote:
Archaic` wrote:I'm not sure who's got it worse. Rudy, or that guy Channel 7 were talking to earlier who was walking out of Kings Cross station at the time of the explosion, who had also been at Bali and had only left the Sari club 2 minutes before that went up in flames.
Talk about horrible luck.

Actually, I'd say it's damn good luck. I'd take that kind of luck any day of the week.

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2005-07-07 10:29am

England has a lot of experience dealing with terrorists. I hope they bring down the full weight of their resources on hunting these scumbags down and their entire network making England, and the world a better place.

Post by **Edi** » 2005-07-07 10:35am

Fuck! I logged off a bit before this happened and didn't log back in until now, after watcjhing a bit on the news. My condolences to the UK.

aerius wrote:Me & a couple of my friends have been saying something like this was due to happen, but we always figured it would happen somewhere in the US. We had NYC, LA, San Fran, Chicago, and Boston as the most likely targets for a transportation terrorist attack.

I don't know what to say, this is just awful.

I wouldn't start painting devil's on the walls, as we say here, because there isn't anything to indicate that this incident would be the last of its kind. I hope I'm wrong, but I expect that this kind of shit will be going down every couple of years, as there isn't really much you can do to stop this type of attacks.

Edi

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2005-07-07 10:42am

A group, the "Secret Organization group of al Qaeda Organization in Europe," claimed responsibility in a Web site posting. The authenticity of the claim could not immediately be verified.

CNN

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2005-07-07 10:43am

Edi wrote:I wouldn't start painting devil's on the walls, as we say here, because there isn't anything to indicate that this incident would be the last of its kind. I hope I'm wrong, but I expect that this kind of shit will be going down every couple of years, as there isn't really much you can do to stop this type of attacks.

Edi

And that's what scares the hell out of me. Chances are small that they can pull off another attack on the scale of 9/11, but medium sized attacks such as this one which can still paralyze a city are not that hard to do.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2005-07-07 10:45am

This could be only one attack of a couple. Since the G8 summit is a couple of days, for all we know there could be another hit elsewhere in another major city like Birmingham, Manchester or Edinburgh.

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2005-07-07 10:46am

MAN! Some people just piss me off. I was going through some blogs and xanga rings. And people are writing a line or two saying, "Yikes! another attack!" And spending the next several paragraphs writing about how their significant other pissed them off, what they had for lunch or writing how London got the Olympic bid. Some people.. wow.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2005-07-07 10:47am

I have just heard Terminal 3 of Heathrow has been evacuated. I'm amazed they've not stopped air travel, especially with the busiest airport in the world next door to these attacks.

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2005-07-07 10:49am

Admiral Valdemar wrote:This could be only one attack of a couple. Since the G8 summit is a couple of days, for all we know there could be another hit elsewhere in another major city like Birmingham, Manchester or Edinburgh.

That's what I fear too.. a perfect opportunity to get attention

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2005-07-07 10:51am

Update on specifics, currently there were 3 bombs on the subway, but one or more of the bombs affected another train so it appeared to be 4 bombs, and then some trains had two exits so it appeared to be 6 bombs.

If that "multiplying bomb" illusion was planned those terrorists were devious indeed, but I'd mark it down to confusion and luck...

Subway will be online in 1 day, buses this afternoon, supposedly.