5 years today, 7/7 London Bombing's

lurkio said:
Didnt mention Iraq or Iraqi's in my post mate
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It was Iraq that was 'invaded' so if your silly comment held any credibility at all, it would have to be Iraqi's who carried it out.

Bombing somebody because they invaded a country you dont live in has zero real justification, does it?
 
Mad old tory said:
Pretty shocking when I heard the news but I came to London pretty soon after and it seemed pretty normal again.

The difference for me was that the IRA would always give coded warnings and although inexcusable they were intent on causing damage and political carnage rather than deliberately aiming to kill as many as possible.
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True, but then that was normally 5 minutes before hand so not really any time to do anything.
 
pimper said:
5 years today, 56 people died in London because of Suicide Bombers, just wondered if this has affected anyone on this Forum, in anyway?, i have a friend that was very close to one of the sites of the attack and she says it still runs vividly through her mind.
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No, it didn't affect me in any way. But then I am quite numb to this sort of thing after Iraq/Afghanistan etc.
 
lurkio said:
I kinda thought , hmmmm cause and effect

We illegally invade another country and someone blows stuff up over here in response

Was hardly much of a shock
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I also took this view immediately, or not long after.

Direct connection or not.

Can't say it effected me that much, certainly not defining like Twin Towers. It was the reaction after 7/7 by the political esablishment that I didn't like.

Obviously feel sorry for any innocent loss of life.
 
lemonkettaz said:
Horrible day, I have no connection to it but it was a tragic day for those involved.
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Seconded. I wasn't in London on that day but it shocked us all. I was watching Sky News when the breaking news came in about a power cut on the Underground. The way it was worded implied the whole system was down; I immediately knew this wasn't a power cut as each different line would have its own independent power systems so I knew then it was a terrorist attack.

It shocked my Mum so much she sent me a text from work telling me not to go to London. At that time I went to London less than once a year so for her to feel the need to send me a text shows the effect the bombings had on us that day. :(

RIP to all those who lost their lives.
 
Affected me as both my brother and cousin were involved in the attacks ie they were injured but thankfully not badly other than a few cuts and bruises.

Psychologically it affected my cousin to the extent that she had to leave her city job and get professional help...shes now moved away to Dubai where shes doing much better....my brother still has the odd nightmare about it, he also had professional help too to get over it but he says it will never leave him ie the images of people badly injured.
 
One thing about 7/7 I will never understand.

Shehzad Tanweer bought a 9v battery to activate his explosives as the one he originally had was defective.

He was shortchanged by about 20p and stopped to argue with the assistant over it for some time before he left and detonated at Aldgate.

Argument over 20p and knowing he would be dead shortly. :confused:
 
Honestly? Thoroughly unmoved by it. I feel I shouldn't be this way, but I can't find myself in a frenzy over it. I feel rather detached from it - although I live in London, I seldom commute or use public transport so I guess less of a relationship with it. Furthermore I was abroad at the time, undoubtedly stuck up a mast with a mass of wires or round a conference room trying to convince stubborn Dutch or angry Germans about something.

Still, my thoughts do go to those who have lost family and friends, sons and daughters, and to those that have been affected. It must have been beyond frightening.
 
my mum just missed it.. basically she got out of the train walked to job(5 mins from the station) and then she did not even have time to change it happened.
 
There have been plenty more individual attacks that left more dead in London, why bother to remember this one in particular over the countless others?
 
Spektor said:
There have been plenty more individual attacks that left more dead in London, why bother to remember this one in particular over the countless others?
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Well a 5 year anniversary but nothing more.

(I agree with you entirely)
 
[TW]Fox;16901083 said:
Bombing somebody because they invaded a country you dont live in has zero real justification, does it?
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Isn't that why we attacked Germany in the second world war :o
 
I was working in London at the time, it was a pretty shocking day tbh, we were locked in our building in Soho for hours. It was the day after we won the bid to host the 2012 Olympics and I can remember them just locking the gates to get down onto the Tube station and people moaning about how we couldn't run a Tube system how would we manage the Olympics!

Walked down past Tavistock Square before the bus was blown up, down towards Euston, then heard a bang!!!!! I can remember a fire engine pulling up and asking one of the firemen who was hanging out of the window what was going on, his answer was a "I don't really know what's going on mate"! People were really jumpy by this point, didn't really stop until I reached office in Soho. stopped briefly to look at some TV reports on the shop windows in Tottenham Court Road.

We were locked into our building and we just drank coffee and watched the news, late afternoon we were allowed to leave the building and people started to make their way home, nothing was running so lots of people walked miles. I made my way back down to Kings X even though it wasn't open and sat in a pub across from the Station and swapped stories with strangers.

When Kings Cross finally re-opening at around 19:00, it was full of armed police but was pretty deserted, it was like something out of 28 days Later! Normally commuter trains are pretty silent but everybody was chatting and recounting their experience of the day, us Brit's are are a bit weird like that!

Was back to work the next day but didn't get back on the tube for a few weeks, just used to walk from Kings X to Soho ;) It certainly had an emotional impact on me for some time afterwards, while statistically the chances are very slim you do think about "wrong place wrong time", especially as I was so close to some of the incidents, I guess that's exactly why terrorists do it.

A few days after on 22-Jul-05 poor Jean Charles de Menezes was shot and killed (RIP), certainly London was a pretty jumpy place for a while after.
 
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Sirrel Squirrel said:
The likely hood of getting injured in a bomb blast in London has to be incredibly slim, think how many people use public transport everyday, a tube train can hold around 800 people and forgive the bluntness of this as any loss of life is tragic, only 56 people died spread over 3 trains and 1 bus. I've worked in London for over 5 years and the only time I've been inconvenienced is by the bomb blasts as it took me longer to get home.
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Sadly it's not just a matter of how many people died, so many more received permanent injuries, burns, loss of limbs, trauma etc which will have forever changed their lives from that point.
Yes, thankfully the number killed was much lower than it potentially could have been, but let's not forget the others affected, even though I personally have no connection to the events.
 
RoboCod said:
15 years (!)

This has really shocked me to learn it has been that long today.
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I still remember being sat in our A level history class, they'd let us loose on laptops that day when they were still a special treat and seeing it pop up all over the news websites.
 
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