More on the blasts

Tony Blair:
"It is particularly barbaric that this has happened on a day when people are meeting to try to help the problems of poverty in Africa, the long term problems of climate change. It is also reasonably clear it is designed and aimed to coincide with the opening of the G8. There will be time later to talk about this.

"Our determination to defend our values and ways of life is greater than their desire to create death and destruction and impose extremism on the world. What ever they do it is our determination that they shall not succeed."
Apparently Leicester Square just got hit. And here's the double-decker that got split into two.

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Incredibly, incredibly sad.

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Anonymous said…
and i was hoping against hope, naively, that it was a nasty power surge that caused the explosions, not terrorism.
7 July 2005 at 11:35
tscd said…
Am still on standby at my hospital. It's chaos out here.
7 July 2005 at 11:54
Daryl said…
TSCD: keep up the good work, and stay safe.
7 July 2005 at 13:15
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