July 07, 2005
Round two: London
Terrorists have detonated several bombs in London, crippling the mass-transit system. The tube was hit at least six times, and at least one bus was blown up. Someone has prepared a map of the explosions. There are unconfirmed reports of explosions in Brighton, Luton, and Swindon.
Casualties, thankfully, appear to be at a minimum. At the present time, which is only about half an hour after the explosions, only two people are being reported dead, and less than two hundred people appear to have been wounded.
The attacks were fairly clearly aimed to coincide with the G8 summit, as 7/7/05 doesn't appear to hold any special significance to anyone.
What will be really interesting to watch is how the British people and Europe in general responds to the attacks. Britain has been our biggest supporter thus far, so the rest of Europe may say that it's just gotten what was coming to it. This would be a cowardly response, but it's all we can expect from the Frogs, isn't it?
FWIW, your blog entry here got to me before CNN did. Thanks for the heads up.
I have a feeling that Britain will respond in similar manner as Australia did a while back. I tend to think that the political alignments in Britain inflate the appearance of opposition to the war.
Posted by: nick at July 7, 2005 10:55 AM