What a way to wake up this morning. News of blasts in the Tube and on a double-decker in London. Then I started wondering about a friend of mine over there. I called his sister-in-law who live here and woke her up. I asked for her husband and her answer was the sentence I didn’t want to hear. “He’s in London.” Shite. (To borrow from her majesty’s subjects.)
I told her about the blasts and she hadn’t heard anything about them. She assured me that the guys were all right and that she’d let me know if she heard from them. I try my friend’s cell again but I got the “all circuits are busy” service message. Shite again.
Not too long after I left for work, I get a call and it’s my friend’s wife. They’re alright over there; he was still in his hotel room when the blasts occurred.
Too close for my comfort. Whoever did this deserves to meet Brick Top Polford:
You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies’ digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don’t want to go sievin’ through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, “as greedy as a pig”.
Is the resolve strong in Britain?
Glenn Reynolds has a great roundup of links. A chilling blog entry at Samizdata right before people knew what was going on is titles, “Something curious is happening in London”:
The entire London Underground network is closed following explosions at Liverpool Street, Aldgate, Edgware Road, Old Street and Russell Square. This is presently being blamed on a “power surge”. Curious.
More: from Nosemonkey at Europhobia:
14:05 - I tell you what, if this is an “Islamic” terrorist attack, they’re doing a piss-poor job. The pubs are all packed out, people sipping their pints happily, all a tad pissed off, but basically fine with it. Nice one, Al Quaeda - you profess to be from a teetotal religion, and you’ve given the pub trade a massive mid-week boost. Result.
Cheers, mate!
More: Stephen Green reports that unconfirmed reports are coming in regarding two unexploded bombs found.
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1 tony martin // Jul 12, 2005 at
Let’s not forget that many American’s supported the I.R.A. over a 30 year period with moral support, financial aid and even with guns. The American legal system kept escaped bombers on the run in this country for years as they fought extradition. This is similar to how some in Iraq supported (in particular, Saddam) the suicide bombers in Israel. Talk about living in glass houses.
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