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7/7 London bomb terrorist attack on bus
Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 10:11 PM
For more videos about the London Bombings,visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuhBdHc8Nqs
In this video, there are some views from people on the London Bombing.
One significant view is from Dr Andrew Dearden from the British Medical Association. He commented that the number of victims accumulated over the 3 hours of the London Bombing was equivalent to the number of casualties accumumlated in 6 months in a hospital.
The reporter stated that the people that had became the victims of the London bombing had no warnings delivered to them ; it was just too sudden.
It is an interesting video, go ahead and watch it!
London Bombings- Witnesses tell of bomb blast hell
10:07 PM
Some excerpts from : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4659243.stmFor more views on the London Bombings visit the website listed above.
Belinda Seabrook, Russell Square
I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang, I turned round and half the double-decker bus was in the air.
It was a massive explosion and there were papers and half a bus flying through the air.
There must be a lot of people dead as all the buses were packed, they had been turning people away from the tube stops.
We were about 20 metres away, that was all.
Geraldine Fourmon, Tavistock Square
There was a big bang. After the smoke went away I realised there was a double decker bus exploded. People were running towards me screaming and crying.
I saw at least five people jump from the top deck of the bus. Half of it was blown away. They were jumping onto the street to escape.
It was such a big explosion and the bus was packed because the tube was closed. People were covered with dust and debris. I didn't see any blood.
77 London Bombing CCTV
10:04 PM
This is a video on the 7th July London Bombings, caught on the CCTV.
7th July 2005; London Bombings - Impacts
10:01 PM
Impacts:Political impact:
Although there were security alerts at many locations, no other terrorist incidents occurred outside central London. However, the security across the UK was raised to the highest alert level. Many other countries such as Canada, United States, France and Germany raised their own terror alert status. For a period of time, US commanders ordered troops based in the UK to avoid London. Police sniper units were reported to be tailing as many as 12 Al Qaeda suspects in Britain. The covert armed teams were also ordered to shoot and kill a terror suspect, which might be carrying a bomb, if he refused to surrender.
Economic impact
There were limited reactions to the attack in the world economy as measured by financial market and exchange rate activity. The pound fell 0.89 cents to a 19-month low against the U.S. dollar. The markets picked up again on 8 July as it became clear that the damage caused by the bombings was not as great as initially thought. By close of trading the market had fully recovered to above its level at start of trading on 7 July.
Psychological Impacts
The terrorist attacks on the three tube trains and double decker bus in London, England, may leave an emotional residue that can arise at any time among the survivors. These people suffer from shocking flashbacks, nightmares, and personality changes which leave the sufferer struggling to lead a 'normal' life. For those involved, either directly or as witnesses, one of the main problems they will face in the future will be their memories, This can induce a serious and common health condition known as PTSD, or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings
http://www.distanthealer.co.uk/london_bombings_7_7_2005.htm
Background information of London Bombings.
9:57 PM
On the 7th July 2005, London bombings occurred on the London’s public transport system. In which, it is mostly during the morning rush hour period. The bombers of these bombings are from the terrorist group, Al Qaeda. They were basically, Mohammad Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer, Germaine Lindsay and Hasib Hussain. This suicide bombings were triggered by the Britain’s involvement in the Iraq War and other conflicts.At about 08.50pm, three bombs has already exploded within less than 1 minute, on three different London Underground trains. The first bomb is located on an eastbound Circle Line sub-surface Underground train, number 204, and the second bomb exploded on the second carriage of a westbound Circle Line sub-surface Underground, number 216. In which the third bomb is situated on the southbound Piccadilly Line deep-level Underground train, number 311. It was originally thought that there had been six, rather than three, explosions on the Underground. However, at 09.10, a Code Amber Alert was declared and London Underground began to shut down the network, bringing trains into stations and suspending all services.
At 09.47, the fourth bomb has exploded on a rear of the bus’s top deck in the Tavistock Square. It has killd about 52 commuters and the four suicide bombers. Fortunately, it has injured 700 of them and not led to their death. However, all these bombings has caused a huge discruption on the city’s transport system and the country’s mobile telecommunications infrastrucutre. This series of suicide-bomb explosions constituted the largest and deadliest terrorist attack on London's transit system in history.
London bombings (7thJuly2005)
9:51 PM
31st March 2009: IRA dissidents burn cars, block Belfast roads
2:26 AM
In Dublin, suspected IRA and their supporters hijacked cars on Monday in the Catholic areas of Northern Ireland in an attempt to block roads and threaten police stations.The Police Service of Northern Ireland said that it was receiving a wave of reports of vehicles being hijacked by masked gunmen in several parts of Belfast.
Some vehicles were being set on fire in roads to disrupt traffic at the rush hour, while others were abandoned near 4 Belfast police stations and on Northern Ireland's major motorway near Lurgan.
Police stated that they were treating all the abandoned vehicles as potential car bombs, even though this was most unlikely. They urged motorists to avoid Kilwilkie and parts of Catholic west Belfast entirely. One of the hijacked cars was abandoned on the M1 motorway, which connects Belfast to Dublin. Authorities shut part ir the motorway as a precaution.
One abandoned vehicle- which police said did not contain a bomb- was left near the Stormont Parliamentary Building, the center of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government between the British Protestant majority and Irish Catholic minority.
"The criminal terrorists responsible for the series of bomb scares and hijackings are beneath contempt and have no support whatsoever in the community," Robinson said.
The hijackings and security alerts also coincided with a widespread breakdown of Belfast's traffic lights system. Police in a statement called that an "unfortunate coincidence".
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28th March 2009: Ex- IRA man held over soldiers' murder
Sunday, March 29, 2009, 4:15 AM
A former member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) has appeared in court. He has been charged with the murder of two British soldiers in the province three weeks ago.Colin Duffy, 41, has also been charged with five counts of attempted murder and illegal possession of firearms.
He is the first person held in connection with the attack, the first on British soldiers in the province since 1997.
Snappers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey died outside the British army's Massareene barracks, near Belfast, as they were collecting a pizza delivery on the night they were due to fly out for deployment in Afghanistan.
Two more soldiers, and two pizza delivery men, including a Polish citizen, were injured in the attack.
It was followed two days later by the murder of 48-year-old police officer Stephen Correll in the southern town of Craigavon. Two men, aged 17 and 37, have been charged with his murder.
The Real IRA and the Continuity IRA, both splinter groups of the former IRA, claimed responsibility for the two attacks, which have been widely condemned in Northern Ireland.
credit: http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/exira-man-held-over-soldiers-murder-20090328-9egk.html
Group's Perspective
Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 10:30 PM
Our group feels that the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is a paramilitary organization that carries out bombings, assassinations and other terrorist attacks against British and Irish Unionist targets. The notable and significant attacks are Bloody Friday, assassination of Queen Elizabeth’s uncle, Lord Mountbatten, and car bombing in Northern Ireland which took away many innocent lives. The IRA also disrupts the peace processes that is brought about by the two different countries, and hence, causes the process to slow down. This is a negative impact brought about by the IRA. However, the IRA also has its reasons and motivations that influence their actions. It is due to the fact that they are actually standing up for the rights of their people and they are fighting for democracy, justice and freedom of their people that has been denied from it for many years. They fight not for reward except for the glory and hope of freedom against brutality and equivocations. We believe that this is a good drive for the IRA and that if they fight for the reasons that we have stated above, found out from our research, we believe that it brings about a positive impact.News on the IRA
10:28 PM
In March 2009, IRA took responsibility for a series of killings that deeply shook Northern Ireland. IRA said it was behind an attack that killed two British soldiers as they were accepting a pizza delivery outside their base on March 7 and also its gunmen had killed a police officer as he sat in his car two days later.Petrol bomb attacks after 9 arrested in Northern Ireland
Irish nationalist gangs hurled petrol bombs at police after nine alleged republican dissidents were arrested on suspicion of killing two British soldiers and an Irish policeman in an attack designed to trigger wider violence in Northern Ireland.
Police in armored cars and flame-retardant suits said no officers were injured during the mob violence in the Irish Catholic end of Lurgan, southwest of Belfast.
IRA – Murder of policeman
Northern Ireland detectives have charged an Irish Catholic teenager with murdering a policeman - the first charge stemming from two deadly gun attacks by Irish Republican Army dissidents this month that rocked the country's peace process.
The 17-year-old boy was arrested the day after the March 9 killing of Constable Stephen Carroll, 48. In keeping with police practice, the suspect was not publicly identified pending his arrangement today in court in Lisburn, a Belfast suburb.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland said the teenager would face criminal counts of murder, possession of a firearm, collecting information likely to be of use to terrorists, and membership in the outlawed IRA.
Police in the province said they were charging a second person with participating in the murder.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland said in a recorded statement that they were charging a 37-year-old man with murder and possessing a firearm, making him the second person charged since two deadly gun attacks by Irish Republican Army dissidents rocked the country's peace process.
The Real IRA: "no apology" for attacking the soldiers
10:28 PM
IRA's Goals and Motivations
10:24 PM
IRA’s Main Goal:1.To disrupt the enemy’s way of life and the economy of the North.
2.Be in a war that kills the innocent and drive out the English Protestants living in Northern Ireland and also to get rid and protect themselves from the enemy’s army.
3.Force the British Army to second guess the IRA so that they will not know what the IRA’s next move is.
4.Removing the despairs, sorrows and hardship that the minority British Protestants are causing them
5.Main goals of IRA: Democracy, self-determination, justice, unity and freedom
IRA’s Motivations:
1.The IRA has been forced into the lifestyle of fighting to bring back decency and a normal life in which they have been denied from.
2.They are driven by a group of principle and honor, fighting a long war.
3.The IRA is idealists that are willing to fight for freedom, to die for and to affirm the truth in which James Connolly died proclaiming in 1916.
4.The IRA is driven by the fact that the British has disturbed the democracy, self-determination, justice, unity and freedom of the Irish people.
5.The IRA fights, not for reward, except for the glory and hope of freedom against brutality and equivocation.
6.The IRA stands up for the rights of its people and demands that the unwanted enemy (British) leave. If they manage to drive them out, the people of Ireland would be able to decide their own fate will returned and the nation that was torn by strife will be whole once again.
7.The IRA must and will continue to fight a constant battle for freedom and public truth until Ireland is restored as a whole and democratic and personal freedom is returned to all the people of Ireland.
8.The IRA stands up for the rights of self-determination and challenge the unlawful English rule in Northern Ireland that has caused many years of brutal treatment.
9.The IRA is determined to find a lasting peace in Ireland.
10.The IRA stands up for the rights of the individual in the North.
11.The IRA protects the common citizens from criminals who threaten the fabric of Irish life.
12.The IRA protects the individual Catholic and the rights of all the Irish in the North, in which they carry these actions out not because of hating one another, but because they want to bring about democracy, justice and freedom that their people has been denied from for centuries.
Credit:http://www.noraid.com/IRA.htm
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