# London Terror Attacks **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 7, 2005, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439 "2005-07-07T10:21:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/81 "2005-07-07T14:50:39Z")
There’s nothing I can say beyond I’m so sorry anyone has to endure this. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/82 "2005-07-07T14:55:49Z")
BBC news says “at least 33 dead”, 21 at King’s Cross station which is just next door to my office. ---
**Author:** ![Selenus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Selenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Selenus)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/83 "2005-07-07T14:58:12Z")
**Butterscotch** Thanks mate, appreciate your concern. Got in touch with all my friends but one. She works right next to the site of one of the blasts, Russell Square. Which is where I go to uni every day. Fucking bastards. I used to live in the university dorms, right next to King’s Cross station. Which is where 21 people died, so far. I’m an Arab, studying in London. I wonder at the pieces of shit doing this in my name. Fuck you. You do not speak for me or anyone I know. What benefit will I get from you killing my friends, my professors, people I care about? Or from disrupting my life and that of everyone around me. Where, oh where does the Koran say you may kill innocent people? I’ve read it, I know it. Nowhere. I’d call you backwards, but the history of Islam, especially in its golden age, involved tolerance and compassion. You start your statements in the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. I wish you were backwards in that sense? I’d call you stupid, but you’re obviously not. Timing chosen perfectly; the UK police preoccupied with the G8; rush hour. Nah, you’re just misguided pieces of shit, unable to even interpret your own religion. You may have skills in murder, but you know nothing about life. Fuck you. Oh for a middle finger smiley… ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/84 "2005-07-07T15:00:33Z")
My thoughts and prayers are with those in London. To whoever is responsible, you are nothing but sick, sick bastards. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/85 "2005-07-07T15:15:19Z")
Selenus, keep your wits about you for the next couple of days, I fear there will be some reprisal attacks on random muslims. ---
**Author:** ![Kyle\_Rayner1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58f4c7/32.png) [@Kyle\_Rayner1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyle_Rayner1)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/86 "2005-07-07T15:18:39Z")
My condolences to London. Hopefully these fucker terroists are caught and justice prevails for the affected families. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/87 "2005-07-07T15:23:17Z")
> [@Selenus](#): > > **Butterscotch** > > Thanks mate, appreciate your concern. Got in touch with all my friends but one. She works right next to the site of one of the blasts, Russell Square. Which is where I go to uni every day. Fucking bastards. I used to live in the university dorms, right next to King’s Cross station. Which is where 21 people died, so far. > > I’m an Arab, studying in London. I wonder at the pieces of shit doing this in my name. Fuck you. You do not speak for me or anyone I know. What benefit will I get from you killing my friends, my professors, people I care about? Or from disrupting my life and that of everyone around me. Where, oh where does the Koran say you may kill innocent people? I’ve read it, I know it. Nowhere. I’d call you backwards, but the history of Islam, especially in its golden age, involved tolerance and compassion. You start your statements in the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. I wish you were backwards in that sense? I’d call you stupid, but you’re obviously not. Timing chosen perfectly; the UK police preoccupied with the G8; rush hour. > > Nah, you’re just misguided pieces of shit, unable to even interpret your own religion. You may have skills in murder, but you know nothing about life. Fuck you. > > Oh for a middle finger smiley… What nuts have done for supposed religious reasons have almost always been the craziest crimes against humanity. Seems like every major religion has the idea that to Kill is the worst of sins and yet most major religions have crazy misguided angry extremist that ignore this most basic tenet. Why??? I am agnostic and I am still praying in my own way the toll remains low. I am hopeful that some of the reports have exaggerated. I know some early 9/11 reports had the toll much higher. My heart truly goes out to all the victims & their family and friends. ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/88 "2005-07-07T15:29:36Z")
> [@TwistofFate](#): > > Selenus, keep your wits about you for the next couple of days, I fear there will be some reprisal attacks on random muslims. I would like to second this. I just don’t get people. I just don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/89 "2005-07-07T15:32:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **World Eater** > \*Boy I bet they’re glad that Saddam is out of power, the world is safe from terror now… > > What? > > /had to be said\* > [@Trunk](#): > > Yup it did. And right now is exactly the right time to say it. > > I mean that. I’m not being sarcastic. > > I mean. . .I wouldn’t say it to the family of a victim, but I suspect the victim’s families aren’t surfing the Dope right now. You just got jumped on by the “I want to out-empathy you” brigade. I agree. This is the Pit. The OP said “To those responsible: Fuck You.” If a person can’t offer their angry, gut opinions to those they feel hold some sort of responsibility to this horrible event (whether directly or indirectly) in the fucking Pit, where can they? The fact that people are speculating on al Qaida connections, politics have already been brought into the discussion. You want _strictly_ information, condolences, and tame discussion? Here’s the [MPSIMS thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=324427) One of my gut reactions to hearing this story was the same as **World Eater** and **Trunk**. And I’m sure we’re not the only ones thinking it. Offer up a “Fuck you” if you don’t agree with us, but don’t try and guilt us out of our opinions. Happy ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/90 "2005-07-07T15:45:06Z")
If Bush/Blair had actually succeeded in eliminating bin Laden as originally planned, instead of creating a terrorist training ground in the bloody sideshow that is Iraq, we might all be safer. As things stand now the opposite is obviously true. Here’s hoping the Brits keep a coold head under these very trying circumstances and take their lead from the Spanish response and not from the Bush Administration. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/91 "2005-07-07T15:47:35Z")
Now IS the time to say that Bush is full of shit talking about the “stark contrast” between the G8 group trying to give aid and help the environment while the terrorists kill people. Bush’s agenda is to scale back on aid. He’s done nothing for the environment. And he’s hardly got stainless hands himself when it comes to killing people. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/92 "2005-07-07T15:52:02Z")
I hereby volunteer to kick the effing ass of whoever did this. Anybody with me? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/93 "2005-07-07T15:58:49Z")
WFT?!?! I’m glad I was in this thread just in time to hear one of my cow-orkers say to another, “Hey, if you’re going to London, don’t take the bus! . . . [shocked silence] . . . Yeah, it’s awful, isn’t it?” Yeah, and ya know what else is awful? **FUCKING JOKING ABOUT IT BEFORE THE FINAL DEATH TOLL IS EVEN IN, YOU GOAT-FELCHING ASSHAT!!** :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/94 "2005-07-07T16:02:04Z")
A friend has forwarded me a Live Journal link, for those who are members and wish to check on Londoner members. It is: > **[London Incidents 7 July 2005](https://london-070705.livejournal.com/)** > > Emergency Telephone Number - 0870 1566 344 I am heartsick over this and worried that it is only the beginning. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/95 "2005-07-07T16:03:42Z")
Also, phone number for Americans to check on loved ones in the area: A US emergency telephone line has been set up for missing Americans on 1-888-407-4747. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/96 "2005-07-07T16:04:17Z")
My fury is finally giving way to sorrow. Folks, this morning, I wanted to wish things on these creatures that are against everything I stand for. Wishing death on them doesn’t begin to cover it. I checked with Mum; fortunately, my uncle walks to work in London and neither he nor his lady should be near the danger zones. What I want to write is too vile even for the Pit. CJ ---
**Author:** ![Canadiangirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Canadiangirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadiangirl)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/97 "2005-07-07T16:05:56Z")
Kythereia: Right beside you! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/98 "2005-07-07T16:08:49Z")
Not me; violence only begets violence, as we are seeing so excrutiatingly clearly these days. **phouka** , that was my thought, too; “Is this how a world war starts?” ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/99 "2005-07-07T16:22:17Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > Because of 9/11 they got a holy war against the Americans on their home turf that we can’t win. And they basically got America to dethrone a secular dictator. Verdict’s still out on whether this is how they get their way. Yeah, I guess you’re right. This is one of those Things I Can’t Get My Head Around. Terrorists don’t want their claims to be taken seriously; they don’t want land; they don’t want political recognition. They want terror, they want havoc, they want death and war and hate and anger. I keep having to relearn that. Well, my dear terrorists, congratulations, you fucking fucks. You’re fucking fantastic at manipulating the very worst, most primitive, most unworthy part of human nature. Take a fucking bow. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/100 "2005-07-07T16:34:00Z")
> [@RedFury](#): > > If Bush/Blair had actually succeeded in eliminating bin Laden as originally planned, instead of creating a terrorist training ground in the bloody sideshow that is Iraq, we might all be safer. As things stand now the opposite is obviously true. > > Here’s hoping the Brits keep a coold head under these very trying circumstances and take their lead from the Spanish response and not from the Bush Administration. No. Here’s hoping the Brits do NOT take a lead from the Spanish response, because the Spanish response tells A-Q, “Bombing us produces positive results.” You have your head in the sand. Thank God your ilk did not persuade the American people on any course of action at all. Thank God your view is marginalized and ignored in this country. You’re dangerous in your naiveté. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439.md?page=6)