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Thursday, July 07, 2005
London CallingDer Spiegel has quick & thorough coverage of the bombs in London, in German and English. And my sources in Britain have been sending a little color perspective:
Lots of controlled explosions going on. Most of my friends have reported in ok. On the whole, seems that emergency services are doing very very well and the locals are well drilled. There was an interview with a US tourist saying that when the bus blew up, all the Brits just hustled everyone into side streets in case there was a secondary explosion. Can't fault their timing, can you? day after the Olympic win, first day of G8. Of COURSE they wouldn't bother with Gleneagles or Edinburgh. Of COURSE London was a "better" idea. If it is Al Qaeda, blowing up Edgware Road tube was a bit of an own goal - that's the Arab part of town!
... Aldgate East is Brick Lane - the bangladeshi community. Another own goal...
Interestingly, my new Labour chum's boss (now an agriculture minister) was minister for the Middle East and International Terrorism on Sept 11th. My chum never travelled on the tube after that. And advised us not to, either.
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