I offer my deepest condolences to the British people in the wake of this despicable crime against humanity. As someone living in a country also beset by terror, I can understand your pain. My prayers go out to you.
The BBC are reporting that a large numbers of casualties have been reported after at least six explosions on the Underground network and a double-decker bus in London. At this point in time, the UK government are “still unsure” whether the explosions were a terrorist attack.
Curiously, Israel’s Jerusalem Post and Ynetnews are calling it a terror attack. I guess we are used to it over here..
Updates
1:50PM: Miriam is blogging from London. One of her observations:
Jews who were scared to go to Israel during the Intifada…… Already received a load of phonecalls from relatives in Israel making sure we’re ok. Surreal.
2:45PM: Tony Blair is now saying that it is “reasonably clear” the series of attacks was orchestrated by terrorists.
3:00PM: Ynetnews reports:
British police warned the Israeli embassy several minutes before the terror attack that it had information terrorists would try to strike the city.
3:05PM: Sky News reports that a terror group calling itself “Secret Organisation al Qaeda in Europe” has claimed responsibility. Also:
Scotland Yard has denied reports they were warned of an attack by Israel minutes before the blasts.
Don’t they mean “warned by Israel of an attack?”
In any event, this conflicts with the previous Ynetnews report, which suggested that the British warned the Israeli embassy.
3:45PM: The Kos-sacks are predictable in laying the blame at the feet of Bush and co.
3:55PM: One of Glenn’s readers suggests that there is a likely connection to this. I say it is irrelevant. They will find any pretext to kill, but at the end of the day it is due to their desire to impose their idea of Islam on to the Western world.
4:05PM: More on the alleged warning to the Israeli embassy (hat tip: Harry)
British police told the Israeli Embassy in London minutes before Thursday’s explosions that they had received warnings of possible terror attacks in the city, a senior Israeli official said.Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had planned to attend an economic conference in a hotel over the subway stop where one of the blasts occurred, and the warning prompted him to stay in his hotel room instead, government officials said
4:15PM: Yet another contradiction. Compare the above with this:
Netanyahu was the scheduled keynote speaker at an Israeli corporate investment conference at the Great Eastern hotel near the Liverpool Street subway station.
“After the first explosion, our finance minister received a request not to go anywhere,” Shalom told Israel Army Radio.
So when was he warned – before any of the explosions or after the first one?
It seems to me that some people want the world to know that the British warned the Israeli embassy before the attacks..and others don’t.
4:30PM: Some Indymedia maniacs are predictably using reports that Israel may have been warned right before the attacks, to push their moonbat theory that Israel is behind the attacks.
There is however clear echoes of a Misgarot (mossad) false flag operation, Something at which they excel.
4:45PM: At least 45 people are reported to have been killed and 1,000 injured. From experience, these numbers only ever go up.
5:30PM: The Israeli response: actions, and not just words.
The Israel Psychotrauma Center of Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem immediately offered the British assistance in helping trauma victims of the terror attacks.A team headed by psychologist Dr. Danny Brom went to New York after the Twin Tower terror attacks, Turkey after earthquakes, Beslan in the former Soviet Union after the terror attack on a school and Southeast Asia in the wake of the deadly tsunami.The team are ready to go to London to train mental health personnel in treating psychological trauma, based on what Israeli psychologists and social workers have learned from years of experience in dealing with terror and preventing the appearance of chronic post-traumatic stress disorder.
6:00PM: The following thought just struck me. Yesterday the headlines were proclaiming “London Gets It” (as in the Olympics). But now the question is Does London Get It?”
Someone who does get it is my buddy Lair.
Want to know what we are? Want to know what we are when we go about our daily lives, looking out for one another, getting along without slitting the throats of our neighbors or blowing up buses full of innocent people for what we perceive as wrongs halfway around the world? Want to know what you are when a nutcase with a bomb or a C-4 vest loaded with ratpoison-soaked shrapnel wants to shred you for the reward of a 72-virgins orgy in Paradise?WE ARE ALL INFIDELS!
