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« Reply #135 on: July 07, 2005, 05:59:32 PM »
I just hope all the Brits from here and their families are alright.
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« Reply #136 on: July 07, 2005, 06:02:32 PM »
My Mum called to say no one from our extended family was injured or killed this AM. I think today was one of the first times in history that the Webb clan is glad that for the most part, we are all blue collar factory workers.

My sincere condolences to anyone directly affected by this. Take heart that the suicide bombers are now receiving a reward very different from the one they expected.

While there are a few posts here I'd love to respond to, I agree that hijacking this thread is not the way. Start a new one and I'll set spleen to vent mode.

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« Reply #137 on: July 07, 2005, 06:03:23 PM »
Psalm 102:4...

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass...

Proverbs 3:31-33:

Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways...
The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked;  but he blesseth the habitation of the just.

My condolences to our British friends.

Regards, Shuckins

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« Reply #138 on: July 07, 2005, 06:22:35 PM »
Hey Bat, I know you got bigger fish to fry right now but I wanted to make sure you and yours were all ok.  Check in and let us know whats up.

<> And sincerest condolences to all your countrymen.

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« Reply #139 on: July 07, 2005, 06:27:26 PM »
End of a sad day.

Tilt is quite right, to put things in a little perspective. It has nothing to do with politics or liberals or whatever. It has everything to do with humanity and doing something for your fellow man.

The terrorists will have scored a bigger victory if the focus is taken off helping the plight of Africa and once again placed on the ME and this shadowy Al quaeda. Don't give em the airtime. Lets get back to business as soon as possible and lets continue leading the world in trying to solve its pressing problems that will show them. Moral victorys are the best ones.

Say a little prayer for those who won't be coming home tonight but save some of those prayers for the thousands of equaly innocent people dying in Africa and other poverty blighted places all over this world. Then those bastards won't win the victory and we'll show them who owns the moral high ground!( just a thought )

Glad that all you who were closer than I to todays events are OK and well.

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« Reply #140 on: July 07, 2005, 06:36:16 PM »
Thinking of Ya'll, Londoners.

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« Reply #141 on: July 07, 2005, 06:56:13 PM »
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. Take heart that the suicide bombers are now receiving a reward very different from the one they expected.

- SEAGOON


That's actually the best thing I've heard all day.  But, I did hear not all or maybe any were suicide bombs.  They found several "timeing" devices as well as other unexploded bombs on other buses and trains.

Glad to hear the Webb's are OK though  :aok

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« Reply #142 on: July 07, 2005, 07:33:58 PM »
There were the Kaisers Zeppelins!

Then Old Goering tried to Bomb us into submission

then this lot

"February 1974: A coach carrying soldiers and families in northern England is bombed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Twelve killed and 14 hurt.

October-November 1974: Wave of IRA bombs in British pubs kills 28 people and wounds more than 200. (Birmingham will never forget that night!)

July 1982: Two IRA bomb attacks on soldiers in London's royal parks kill 11 people and wound 50.

December 1983: IRA bomb at London's Harrods department store kills six.

October 1984: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's cabinet narrowly escapes IRA bomb which kills five people at hotel in English resort of Brighton during the Conservative Party's annual conference.

December 1988: A Pan Am Boeing 747 crashes on the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 aboard after a bomb on board explodes. Eleven people in Lockerbie are also killed.

September 1989: Bomb at Royal Marines Music School in Deal, in the South East kills 11 and wounds 22.

February 1991: The IRA fires mortar bomb at Prime Minister John Major's London office. No-one is injured.

April 1992: Huge car bomb outside Baltic Exchange in London's financial district kills three people and wounds 91.

March 1993: Bombs in two litter bins in Warrington, northern England, kill two boys aged three and 12.

April 1993: IRA truck bomb devastates Bishopsgate area of London's financial district, killing one and wounding 44.

February 1996: Two people die when the IRA detonate a large bomb in London's Docklands area.

March 2001: A powerful car bomb explodes outside the BBC's London headquarters. Police say the Real IRA, a republican splinter group opposed to the IRA's ceasefire, was behind the blast. One man was wounded. Devices also went off in Hendon and Ealing during the same campaign. "

(source BBC website)

Still going strong  after all that so I don't think todays attacks will change things, the terrorists  lost before they started!

Goodnight.
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« Reply #143 on: July 07, 2005, 07:36:27 PM »
london..such a horrible thing to happen..im sure alot of people are walking around with blank looks on there faces or worse...i know when we got hit on 9-11..you could see it in everyones faces.even know i live 3,000 miles from new york...you could tell everyone was in shock and it was so quite in the local mall..you could hear a pin drop ....takes time to get over it..then anger takes over..the word terrorist sickens me anymore...my prayers go out to the family and freinds who died today

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« Reply #144 on: July 07, 2005, 08:19:24 PM »
A prayer for Londoners.
There's not much more to say.

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« Reply #145 on: July 07, 2005, 09:21:04 PM »
I wish to extend my sympathies to all who perished or were wounded in this terrible attack, including the family and loved ones of those killed and injured.  Sadly such random cowardly acts effect so many, including the children who have their innocence and childhoods stolen.

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« Reply #146 on: July 07, 2005, 09:33:33 PM »
Heard a sayin somewhere,went something like

'All it takes for evil to succeed,is for good men to do nothing'

Never stop fiting this rabble,stand together
praying for the injured and bereaved
Joc

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« Reply #147 on: July 08, 2005, 01:58:45 AM »
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Originally posted by Joc
Heard a sayin somewhere,went something like

'All it takes for evil to succeed,is for good men to do nothing'

Never stop fiting this rabble,stand together
praying for the injured and bereaved


  I totaly agree with that.
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« Reply #148 on: July 08, 2005, 04:35:44 PM »
Really sad news....

But I believe, that now, Ahmed Zakaev, the chechen terrorists lider, will be returned to Russia form GB. Now you know who are these "peaceful chechen rebels".

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« Reply #149 on: July 08, 2005, 05:26:01 PM »
Interesting day at work today. I work about 1,000 yards away from Aldgate tube.

The train into work was about 50% full.

About a 70% attendance at the office (the rest called in to say that they were not coming in - whether out of fear or the police advisory request, or just wanting an extended weekend, I'm not sure). It was a pretty normal day, all in all, after the inevitable question of, 'where were you when it happened?' the conversation moved onto more mundane subjects.

I was quite sneakily proud of the fact that nobody was emotionally overwrought about the events at all.

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