why did it turn out this way?
there was once peace and love,
now is the time for change
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March 2009
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Background information of London Bombings.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 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. |