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By: susan b

susan b — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 03:35:00 +0000

I read that the israelis stated if you find a decapitated head then that person is either a suicide bomber or leaning over the bomb at the time of exposion.
If the police say there are 4 bombers then I assume they found 4 heads and those heads belong to the 4 suicide bombers

By: jem

jem — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:43:00 +0000

there were major delays on picc line because of something to do with caledonian rd

By: Chris b

Chris b — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 05:47:00 +0000

Not wishing to morbidly point out my accuracy but my estimate of 10-20 has been proven correct. I have some expertise in the area of explosives you see….
It wasn’t me BTW…..

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 17:51:00 +0000

Very confusing comment by Mark Urban on Newsnight. He says BBC Six PM news police wrong in saying Edgware Road at 9:17, actually at 8:53. Yet BBC website still says 9:17.

This is also strange because yesterday lunchtime it was said to be 8:53, as I thought that's the time I usually pass through there. Then later it was 9:17, which I thought was the time I actually pass through there if I'm being honest.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:44:00 +0000

1. There’s also an interview with the driver. He doesn’t say which way he was travelling, though he says he was diverted because there were too many people leaving a tube station (Euston Road? King’s Cross?)

2. AP report an expert saying it was probably plastic explosive, but not Semtex.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5127995,00.html

By: Chris Lightfoot

Chris Lightfoot — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:32:00 +0000

The BBC are now reporting 13 killed in the bus on Tavistock Place.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 08:50:00 +0000

With the commitment to accuracy that you’ve come to expect from me I actually just got the no.30 bus, from Baker Street to Great Portland Street. More importantly the Evening Standard has a very good picture of bus, said to be taken a few seconds after it exploded (I imagine a few minutes) and it clearly says Hackney Wick, as Jarndyce says. The text says it was going the other way, but it also says it had just left Euston, which implies (again as Jarndyce said) it was a north-bound bus.

By: dsquared

dsquared — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 07:22:00 +0000

Matt; the bus was heading south down the road it was on, but it was on a northbound route.

By: Jarndyce

Jarndyce — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 07:21:00 +0000

You’re right, Matt. But as I know the area so well and use that bus, I’ll stick my neck out and say the press have it wrong. Yes, the bus was going south down Upper Woburn Place (that’s what fooled ’em). But only because it was a northbound bus diverted because of the closure of Euston Rd/King’s Cross. A southbound 30 would have no reason at all to be going south down that road. After KX, it goes Euston, Gt Portland St and into the West End. None of that was closed, even if it could have got past KX then, which it couldn’t.

By: N.I.B.

N.I.B. — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 07:21:00 +0000

Has anyone else noticed, setting off bombs on London's public transport is likely to kill a number of Moslem people?

Now, what sort of person hates the very idea of (a)public transport and (b)Moslems?

Hmmm...