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PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:07 am 
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Emergency services called to three tube stations

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:13 am 
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This is getting silly.


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:27 am 
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Yeah, as soon as I woke up, I heard the announcement. I guess it was smoke reported at first. Then, immediately shutting down three subway stations. I sure hope no one got hurt. This is fuckin' ridiculous.


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:41 am 
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So these probably weren't actual bombings then?


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:43 am 
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At least one of them was. Nail bomb on Warren Street that went awry; dentonator went off without setting off anything else. Apparently, a backpack exploded and the wearer vented his frustration.


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:44 am 
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This is so sad and scary and pointless. ugh

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I hope it wasn't actual bombings and just a false alarm.

If it is a false alarm I suspect there will be more instances like this. I remember in the year after 9/11 stuff would get shut down over the smallest thing.

I remember in Atlanta a guy was running through the airport trying to make his flight to go to the UGA/Ole Miss game. He apparently didn't stop at some check point and kept running to make his flight.

They grabbed the guy and shut down Hartsfield airport for 6 hours. All flights.

It's part of living in a post-terrorist bombing world.


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:54 am 
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Thursday, July 21, 2005; Posted: 9:47 a.m. EDT (13:47 GMT)

Manage Alerts | What Is This? LONDON, England (CNN) -- Four small bombs have exploded on Underground subway stations and a bus in London, two weeks after the July 7 terror attacks, police said.

Police said there were small explosions at Warren Street, Oval and Shepherd's Bush stations and an incident was reported on a bus in east London.

Metropolitan Police Chief Sir Ian Blair said the explosions were "smaller than on the last occasion but we do not know the implications of all this yet."

Thursday's bombs came two weeks to the day since bombs on three Tube trains on a bus killed 52 people and four of the bombers.

Transport Police told ITN there was an injury when a device exploded on an Underground train near the Warren Street station, in the center of the capital. There are no other reports of casualties.

The area around the station has been sealed off and a bomb squad is on the scene to check for any other explosive devices.

All three stations were evacuated and the three affected Tube lines -- Hammersmith & City, Victoria and Northern -- have been closed, according to a spokesperson for Transport for London.

Scotland Yard also responded to a report of a blast on a bus in Hackney, east London. The bus appeared to be intact and a witness said a bomb-sniffing dog was on the scene.

A bus company spokesman told ITN the driver of the 26 bus heard a "bang" from the top of his bus. The driver said windows were blown out of the bus. No injuries were reported.

Police said they were not treating the evacuations as a "major incident."

Ambulances were called to Oval station at 12:38 p.m. (7:38 a.m. ET), and sent three vehicles. At 12:45 p.m., a call came in from Warren Street. Five vehicles were sent there.

The ambulance service had no details on the incident at Shepherd's Bush station, five kilometers (three miles) west of the center of the capital.

Bryce Elder, a witness near that station, said there was a heavy police presence but "no real sense of panic."

Police helicopters flew overhead and areas near Shepherd's Bush station were evacuated. Elder said the station was not very busy.

CNN London producer Katie Turner reported a heavy police presence near the Oval station, including about 30 police vehicles. Roads about 500 meters from the station have been blocked off to vehicular traffic, she said.

A woman who was on the train at the Oval station when the incident happened said she did not hear a bang, but saw people pushing themselves into her carriage.

She said there was a general mood of panic, but the train was not packed. The train was moving when the incident happened.

Other people said they smelled sour smoke.

An explosives expert contacted by CNN says the "sour smell" reported by people coming out of the underground would likely have come from two sources: the rucksack catching fire; and the explosives themselves catching fire after the detonator failed to explode them. The explosives could actually burn and give a toxic smell.

Prime Minister Tony Blair postponed a planned photocall with Australian Prime Minister John Howard, on an official visit to Britain and planned to address the nation later Thursday.

The White House said President George W. Bush has been informed of the incidents.

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:18 am 
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This is so sad and scary and pointless.



True dat...


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:57 am 
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I'm glad they seem to have really fucked it up this time around...


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I'm glad they seem to have really fucked it up this time around...


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