Monday 11 July 2005
We are not afraid
Quite a nice website to while away the hours.
Here's my contribution:
While it's been linked to variously around the web, I wanted to note Ken's somewhat trembly and emotional speech from Singapore on Thursday, as it reminded me that he's the right man to be mayor of this great city.
Ah, we Londoners are made of stern stuff indeed! No bloody terrorist can make our stiff upper lips droop!
PS: VERY cool graphic. Oh, and I love you. xx
Oi - have you giving up blogging or sumfink? Give me a new post to read! x
Hallloooooooooo?
Anybody hoooooooome?
...{{{ wind }}}...
and
...{{{ crickets chirping }}...
maybe even a few
...{{{ tumbleweeds }}}...
Come back soon? xx
Thursday 7 July 2005
The Lone Nutter Theory
I think this idea holds water. All the three trains that had bombs on had passed through Kings Cross station, each about 10 minutes after the other. The bus also passed through Kings Cross 10-15 minutes later, and the reason it took so long to complete forensic examinations of the scene of the bus explosion was that they believed the perpetrator was on that bus. How incredible that the bus was re-routed because of the Piccadilly line explosion, and the bomb was set off outside the British Medical Association headquarters where there were 25 senior and experienced doctors inside, ready to help, and which reduced the death-toll to just two.
If it was a large group of terrorists, why not Heathrow? Why not somewhere in the south of central London, like Victoria? Or Westminster? That would have completed the disruption.
Just a theory, but I think a relatively convincing one.
I'm buying this, I'm seriously buying it.
A suicide bomber would not have deliberately set i off outside the BMA. I had begun formulating a theory that that chance must have saved countless lives - one doctor traumatised by what he saw, another saying it was six months of casualty in three hours.
I work in Westminster, literally and conceptually, and really, there was no sense of heightened security other than emergency vehicles whizzing round with sirens. Security did a cursory check of the ashtrays at 3pm; the usual two police horses did their mid afternoon trot-by, the security levels didn't rise, which surprised me, because we went to Amber on 11th September.
A few years ago a not-very-effective IRA terrorist set off a bomb accidentally on a bus on The Strand. All the news organisations seem to have forgotten that.
Hope things are getting back to normality for you today, mate.
I'm not so convinced. I have left my own "theory" at Annie Mole's website - in the comments of her posting of today (Friday 8th July.)
I agree. Four bombers would have spread out across London and hit Waterloo and Victoria. They would have been able to carry larger bombs. This would have been an Al Quaeda 'Co-ordinated' attack.
I have developed my own theory that two bombers did it on my site, http:\\www.hughfraser.co.uk
errr... not that credible then?
Thursday 7 July 2005
Boom! Shake the room!
Or not. I'm about a mile away from all the action, watching it on teevee.
London's used to all this stuff - as old farts like me regularly remind anyone who'll listen, we had 20 years of US-sponsored terrorism by the IRA until recently - I've been caught up in a number of Central London incidents.
The BBC reckon it's 'almost certainly the work of Al-Qaeda' - well, duh! I'm amazed that anyone is surprised that terrorists used the opportunity of all eyes on London to cause a bit of chaos in the centre of the city.
Anyway. It's all unfolding. London's resilient, though. That's why I like it.
Are you going to find a way to say this is the fault of the US?
Well, sir, we haven't spoken for many moons, but I will admit that upon watching the Bad News this morning, my thoughts went to you.
Very glad to hear your safe & about.
And I do miss your mix CDs, apropos of nothing.
xoxo
Dani/asphxiate (yeah...THAT one ;)
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