Excuse me. This morning has gone surreal. If I believe what I’m hearing, someone has bombed the London Underground during the end of rush hour and, as people came out of the Underground, blew up at least one double decker bus!
Is everyone all right over there?
Why are they doing this? Is it because London got the Olympics? Who could be so brutal as to inflict so much carnage?
I know. That last one is a foolish question. I was evacuated from downtown Pittsburgh on September 11, 2001 when two planes had hit the World Trade Center; one had hit the Pentagon and the location of the fourth was unknown but somewhere near Pittsburgh. I still don’t want to believe this, though.
Co-ordinated multiple explosions - only one organisation tends to do that. One TV reporter already mentioned “the group which we’re all thinking of”, which I thought was a wonderful way of saying “Al Qaeda” without breaking journalistic accuracy.
This wasn’t the IRA’s standard operating procedure anyway. I’ve not heard more than guesses as to who’s responsible or what it’s all about, but I think we can rule out the Olympics as possible grounds.
My thoughts are with all Londoners, and all people with friends and loved ones there
M.O. certainly appears to support the supposition that this is AQ work, but I guess we should wait a few more hours for the picture to clear.
At his point, all I can wish you Brits is that this is a one-off incident, and not the beginning of a wave of attacks. If it is AQ – and like I said it certainly appears that way – at least it is unlikely that there will be any follow up. Small comfort, I know