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ATTACK TIMELINE MINI BREAKDOWN:
(all times in G.M.T.)

0851:
Seven people die in a blast on a train 100 yards from Liverpool Street station. The first explosion hits a Circle line train that was 100 yards into a tunnel from Liverpool Street station. Trains here serve the financial district in east London.

Office worker Kibir Chibber, 24, who was at the nearby Aldgate subway station, said, "I saw lots of people coming out covered in blood and soot. Black smoke was coming from the station. I saw several people laid out on sheets."

Policeman Rhys Webb, 27, was in the first 25-strong police unit to arrive at Aldgate and helped commandeer double-decker buses to ferry the injured to hospital.

Rhys said: "It was horrific. There were people with terrible injuries. Some were so shocked they were like zombies. One guy just started sobbing because he was alive."

London Underground worker Helen Long, 38, held the hand of a man who had lost his lower leg and crucially kept him awake as medics treated him.

Station assistant Helen said: "He asked me to say the Lord’s Prayer, then he made a joke about taking part in the 2012 Olympics. He asked me lots of times to promise he would not die."

The first ambulance worker to reach Aldgate, Jon Edmondson, was met by hundreds of ragged, shell-shocked commuters pouring out covered in blood and soot.

Jon said: "There were seven or eight people with very serious injuries. There were leg injuries, exposed bones and flash burns — the skin on faces had dropped off."

A firefighter, who asked not to be named, said: "I picked up a dead woman to move her out of the way and her head came off and dropped to the floor with a thud. When I finally got home after a long and traumatic day I hugged my kids as tightly as I could, then I sat down and wept."

0856:
21 people die in a blast on a train between Russell Square and King's Cross stations. The second blast hits a Piccadilly line train between King's Cross and Russell Square stations.

Gary Lewis, 32, was evacuated from a tube train at the King's Cross station. He said, "People were running everywhere and screaming. It was chaos. I came out into the ticket hall and saw casualties everywhere as medics tended to them. The one haunting image was someone whose face was totally black and pouring with blood."

0917:
Five people die in blast on a train at Edgware Road station. A third explosion involves two (possibly three) trains near the Edgware Road station.

Simon Corvett, 26, who was riding an eastbound train from Edgware, described "this massive huge bang...it was absolutely deafening and all the windows shattered."

Emergency workers set up a medical command post in a nearby Hilton hotel. "You could see the carriage opposite was completely gutted," Corvett said. "There were some people in real trouble."

0947:
An unknown number die in a blast on a bus at Tavistock Square (13 currently confirmed dead) This fourth blast rips apart a double-decker bus travelling near Russell Square.

Jay Kumar, a business owner near the site, said he ran out of his shop and saw the top deck of the bus had collapsed, sending people tumbling to the floor. Many appeared badly injured, and bloodied people ran from the scene.

"A big blast, a big bomb," he said. "People were running this way panicked. They knew it was a bomb. Debris flying all over, mostly glass."




JULY 7th 2005 IN-DEPTH TIMELINE:
(all times in G.M.T.)

0851:
An incident on the Metropolitan Line between Liverpool Street and Aldgate is reported to British Transport Police.

0915:
Press Association reports emergency services called to London's Liverpool Street Station after reports of an explosion.

0924:
British Transport Police say the incident was possibly caused by a collision between two trains, a power cut or a power cable exploding. Police report "walking wounded".

0933:
London Underground reports "another incident at Edgware Road" station, PA reports.

0933:
Passengers are told that all London Underground services are being suspended because of a power fault across the network, PA reports.

0940:
British Transport Police say power surge incidents have occurred on the Underground at Aldgate, Edgware Road, King's Cross, Old Street and Russell Square stations.

1002:
Scotland Yard says it is dealing with a "major incident".

1009:
Witness Christina Lawrence, who was on a train leaving Kings Cross, tells BBC News 24: "There was a loud bang in the tunnel and the train just stopped and all of a sudden it was filled with black, gassy smoke and we couldn't breathe."

1014:
An eyewitness tells the Press Association that a bus has been ripped apart in an explosion in central London.

1021:
Scotland Yard reports "multiple explosions" in London, the Press Association reports.

1023:
British Transport Police confirm an explosion on a bus in Tavistock Square.

1025:
BBC reporter Andrew Marr, with the Prime Minister in Gleneagles, says Number 10 is "still unsure" whether the explosions are a terrorist attack.

1025:
The Press Association reports two buses damaged in explosions - one in Russell Square and another in Tavistock Square. Witness, Belinda Seabrook said of the Russell Square blast:
"I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang, I turned round and half the double decker bus was in the air."

Other eye witness accounts stated that:
"the whole top of the bus went straight up - straight up in the air. I saw the whole top of the bus go completely off of it"

"I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang, I turned round and half the double-decker bus was in the air, It was a massive explosion and there were papers and half a bus flying through the air."

Others tell how the bus had been travelling from Euston to Russell Square and was 'packed' with people who were being turned away from Tube stops.

Another caller to Radio station BBC Five Live said his friend had seen the bus "ripped open like a can of sardines".

The British Medical Association building is reported by eye witnesses as being 'splattered with blood'.

1030:
Transport union officials say they have reports of explosions on three buses, PA says.

1039:
All London hospitals have been put on major incident alert, a hospital spokesman tells the Press Association.

1049:
Police say there are serious casualties, but no deaths are confirmed, Associated Press reports.

1051:
A passenger on a train at Edgware Road says he saw several bodies in the wreckage, one tells of three bodies strewn across the tracks, another of how a passenger was blwon out of the side of the carriage and into the path of another tube train. A police spokesman says two trains remain stuck in tunnels at Edgware Road.

1053:
Home Secretary Charles Clarke makes a statement outside Downing Street about "dreadful incidents" causing "terrible injuries". He says Prime Minister Tony Blair has been informed and advises the public in London not to make unnecessary journeys.

1055:
A doctor tells Reuters there are at least 90 casualties at Aldgate station.

1118:
London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair tells the BBC he knows of "about six explosions", one on a bus and the others related to Underground stations. He says he believes the six affected areas are Edgware Road, King's Cross, Liverpool Street, Russell Square, Aldgate East and Moorgate, but says it is "still a confusing situation". He advises Londoners to "stay where you are - all of London's transport is currently disabled" - he refuses to confirm any fatalities.

1125:
"We have at least two fatalities, but still unconfirmed," a police spokesman tells the AFP news agency.

1126:
The president of the European Parliament, Josep Borrell, blames terrorism for a "co-ordinated series of attacks" and "confirmed deaths".

1130:
Signs on major roads into London warn: "Avoid London. Area closed. Turn on radio."

1205:
The Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, said: "This is a grave day for London. Our thoughts and prayers are with the injured and bereaved."

1205:
Prime Minister Tony Blair, at the G8 summit in Gleneagles, says there has been "a series of terrorist attacks in London... people have died and are seriously injured... It is reasonably clear this is designed and timed to coincide with the opening of the G8". He says he will return to London within hours, but that the summit will continue without him.

1210:
The BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner says BBC monitoring services have located a website linked to al-Qaeda with a 200-word statement saying it carried out the bombings.

1215:
The ambulance service says there are people still trapped at King's Cross station, and efforts are being made to rescue them.

1246:
Pope Benedict XVI condemns the "inhuman" attacks.

1255:
Home Secretary Charles Clarke tells the House of Commons that four explosions had been confirmed, three on trains and four on a bus. "We do not know who or what organisations are responsible for these terrible criminal acts," he says. He says the Underground will remain closed all day.

Shadow home secretary David Davis says the attacks are "of almost unspeakable depravity and wickedness".

Liberal Democrat spokesman Sir Menzies Campbell expresses sympathy to those affected and appreciation to the emergency services.

1307:
G8 leaders issue a statement, read by Tony Blair, saying: "We condemn utterly these barbaric attacks."

1313:
The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, condemns a "cowardly terrorist attack" and says Londoners responded "calmly and courageously".

1325:
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair leaves Gleneagles summit in Chinook helicopter.

1333:
US President George W Bush, speaking at the Gleneagles summit in Scotland, condemns the attacks, saying that the blasts show the war on terror must continue.

1344:
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, describes the attacks as appalling and calls on all religious leaders to stand and work together for the well being of the nation.

1353:
Russian President Vladimir Putin expresses his condolences over the attacks and calls on all countries to unite in the fight against international terrorism.

1418:
A Transport for London spokeswoman says the bus hit by the explosion was a number 30, travelling from Hackney to Marble Arch.

1458:
Sir Iqbal Sacranie, the Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, joins other religious leaders in condemning the attacks, saying "as with all other people in the community, we totally condemn the perpetrators of what appears to be this series of co-ordinated attacks in London which tragically has led to several fatalities and a large number of casualties".

1505:
The former mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani, describes the explosions as "dastardly, cowardly acts". "My heart goes out to the people who were affected by this, it reminds me so much of 11 September," Mr Giuliani, who is visiting London at the moment and was near Liverpool Street station as the first blast hit, said.

1510:
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair arrives back in Downing Street.

1525:
Police confirm that at 33 people have been killed in the London blasts. At least seven were killed in an explosion on a tube train near Aldgate East station. At least another 21 were killed in an explosion on a tube train in the Kings Cross/Russell Square area. Five have been confirmed killed in the Edgware Road station blast and there were fatalities on the bus attacked near Woburn Square, although how many is not yet known.

1533:
London ambulance service reports that 45 people were seriously injured in the blasts, sustaining injuries such as severe burns, amputations, chest and blast injuries. A further 300 sustained minor injuries, such as lacerations and smoke inhalation. All injured have been removed from the bombed vehicles they say.

1546:
London police say there have been no arrests in connection with the blasts so far and that they are "keeping an open mind as to who the perpetrators might be".

1555:
US raises its terror alert level for rail and subway systems, but not for airlines, officials say.

1603:
Scotland Yard issues a casualty hotline number for people worried about their relatives. The number is 0870 1566 344

1609:
London transport officials report that all tube lines in the city remain closed, although it is hoped some of the lines unaffected by the blasts will reopen on Friday.

All main overland train stations apart from Kings Cross and Victoria are now open. It is hoped that bus services will resume in central London later this afternoon.

1635:
The Union Jack flag flying over Buckingham Palace is lowered to half mast at Queen Elizabeth II's request.

1653:
The Union Jack flag will be flown at half mast on all UK government buildings tomorrow, a Department for Culture spokesman says.

1657:
All major West End theatre productions are cancelled for tonight - something which has not happened since World War II, apart from on the days of state funerals.

1732:
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair promises the "most intense" police and security forces action to bring those who carried out the London attacks to justice. He says the terrorists "act in the name of Islam" but he knows most Muslims worldwide "deplore this act of terrorism". He insists that in the face of these attacks the British people remain resolute: "It is a very sad day for the British people but we will hold true to the British way of life."

1753:
The UN Security Council unanimously passes a resolution condemning the London attacks, saying it regards any act of terrorism as "a threat to peace and security".

1813:
The number of people confirmed dead in the London bomb attacks has risen to 37, Deputy Assistant Police Commissioner Brian Paddick says. Twenty-one were killed at Kings Cross/Russell Square, seven died at Edgware Road, seven died at Liverpool Street and two died on the bus at Upper Woburn Place. A further 700 were injured, 300 of whom were taken to various London hospitals by ambulance.

1816:
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice orders US embassies across the globe to review their security posture in the wake of the London attacks, the US State Department says.

1940:
The UK foreign secretary, Jack Straw, says the London attacks bear all the hallmarks of al-Qaeda. Mr Straw, who has temporarily taken over as chairman of the G8 summit in Scotland, said neither the British police nor the intelligence services had any warning of the attacks.

1947:
Buckingham Palace says that Queen Elizabeth II will visit some of those caught up in the London attacks on Friday.

2105:
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair arrives back in Gleneagles, Scotland to rejoin the G8 summit.

2130:
The number of people confirmed dead in the attacks is now 38, Deputy Assistant Police Commissioner Brian Paddick says. Thirty-five people died on the tube, two on the bus and one later in hospital.


Friday, July 8th
(all times in G.M.T.)

0500:
Kings Cross mainline services resume.

0600:
London underground and bus services return to some sense of normality - plan your journey here: ONLINE JOURNEY PLANNER

0800:
The Home Secretary Charles Clarke reveals that the government is taking seriously a group's website claim of responsibility for attacks on London that killed at least 49 people and wounded over 700. A previously unknown group calling itself the "Secret Group of al Qaeda's Jihad in Europe" made the claim shortly after the attacks on Thursday.

"The website claim is a serious one, so we will look at that very closely but we haven't eliminated any alternative explanations. We're looking at everything very widely," Clarke told Sky News television.

Clarke said investigators also were looking into whether a suicide bomber had caused the fourth blast which destroyed a packed bus.

"The possibility of suicide bombings is being considered as is every other possible detonation," he said.

"The key thing is getting forensics from the scenes of crime to try and understand how these bombs were detonated, who put them there and ... whether mobile phones were operated as happened in the Madrid case," he said, referring to the 2004 attacks in Madrid which killed almost 200.

Euston station is evacuated as a precaution, but later re-opened.

0845:
In an early morning interview on BBC TV a Police Officer outside Kings Cross station reveals there are a "number of bodies" which still remain underground. When asked to confirm this the officer states: "There are still people downstairs, yes"

An estimated 20 bodies are still trapped in the wreckage of the tube train hit in a tunnel between King's Cross and Russell Square. The depth (120 feet beneath the surface) coupled with fumes, vermin, asbestos risks, heat and the threat of the tunnel collapsing have all slowed the effort.

One senior security source described the wreckage as "very bad".

0900:
Charing Cross station evacuated - later reopened.

0905:
BBC TV reports a 'security incident' at St James Park tube station - no further details available.

0915:
Liverpool Street station evacuated - 2 suspect packages found, both later dealt with, and the station reopened.

1500:
Her Majesty The Queen arrives at Royal London Hospital landing on the roof of the building via helicopter. She meets with staff and a handful of patients being treated there.

1515:
Religious leaders from across the East End of London come together in a public show of unity by holding a silent vigil outside Aldgate tube station. Jew, Muslim, Christian, Sikh and Buddhist stand together and remember in silence those who had died and prayed for those still suffering.

1600:
Statement released regarding the Tavistock Square bus bombing - figures now stand at 13 confirmed fatalities.

1700:
The head of the Metropolitan Police force confirms that 49 people have died in the London bomb attacks. Although these 49 people are confirmed dead, Sir Ian Blair said an unknown number of bodies remain in the blast-hit Tube train at Russell Square.

Scotland Yard confirm seven people died in the Liverpool Street explosion, another seven at Edgware Road, a further 13 in the Tavistock Square bus blast and at least 21 at the King's Cross blast. A 49th person died in hospital later.

Some people 700 were hurt, 22 of whom were serious or critical.

1710:
People begin laying flowers outside Kings Cross tube station and across the other sites. One note simply reads: "London, we love you"

1843:
An eye witness tells reporters that he saw a man on the number 30 bus in Tavistock Square minutes before the explosion fiddling with a bag in an agitated state.

Richard Jones, from Binfield, near Bracknell, Berks, had got off a bus just before it was blown up in Tavistock Square on Thursday. "He was standing next to me with a bag at his feet and he kept dipping into this bag and fiddling about with something. I was getting quite annoyed with this because it was a crowded bus. Everybody is standing face-to-face and this guy kept dipping into this bag."

Police will neither confirm or deny a suicide bombing.

2000:
Scotland Yard's casualty hotline (0870 156 6344) has already received over 100,000 calls and police are still trying to work out how many people are missing as worried friends and relatives of people missing since the London bomb attacks hunt for their loved ones.


Saturday, July 9th
Police today revealed that the three bombs on London underground trains exploded almost simultaneously. Scotland Yard said the attacks took place within approximately 50 seconds of each other despite previously saying they had taken place over a longer time period.

The British Transport Police (BTP) also warned the recovery of victims could take "days more", and that there was still no certainty about the number of people whose bodies remain trapped in wrecked train carriages below King's Cross.

Technical data from London Underground disproved the earlier wider range of timings between explosions, Scotland Yard Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Paddick said.

There was still no certainty about the number of people whose bodies remain trapped in wrecked train carriages below King's Cross, it was announced. This would be a "slow, methodical, meticulous process in very difficult circumstances", said Deputy Chief Constable Andy Trotter. It would take "as long it takes" he said later.

There are still bodies at the two other Tube bomb sites - at Aldgate station and Edgware Road - but it is thought the King's Cross site is the only one where bodies remain on the train.

Forensic experts continue to gather evidence from all the sites as well as at Tavistock Square, the scene of a bus bombing an hour after the Tube attacks.

Mr Trotter said there would not be "airline security" on the Tube, train or buses. "If life in London is to continue then people are going to get on and off public transport without going through search regimes," he said.

There have been 49 confirmed fatalities in the bomb attacks and concerns remain for a further 25 missing people. A 24-hour reception centre has been opened at the Queen Mother Sports Centre in Victoria, central London, to help the families of people not seen since the explosions.

So far no victims have been formally identified - and police warn that the process, due to begin on Saturday, could take weeks to complete although there may be a possible announcement of some names sunday or tuesday.

The police say that timings show that the Tube explosions took place at 8.50am - and that the synchronisation could suggest that bombs used in the attack were triggered using timing devices. They also revealed that they believed the high-explosives were used in the attacks and were not home-made, although they would not be drawn on reports of a timer device being found in the wreckage of the number 30 bus at Tavistock Square, or that a possible suspect was being treated in hospital at this time. Mr Paddick denied reports that investigators were looking "for any specific individual".

Prime Minister Tony Blair warned that security and surveillance will not be enough to stop such attacks - and that there has to be an ideological struggle in which terrorism is "pulled up by the roots".

The government today announced a two minute silence in memory of those killed scheduled for 1200 GMT on Thursday.

2000:
Police in Birmingham in the Midlands are evacuating the city centre.
Earlier they issued a warning they had received intelligence suggesting a threat to the area.

"Our response needs to be proportionate in the action we're taking and in informing the public," a spokeswoman for West Midlands Police said.

Police are now closing down the Birmingham Broad street entertainment zone and asking people to go home. A statement will be released shortly.


Sunday, July 10th
The thousands of people who were evacuated from Birmingham city centre saturday evening faced "a real and very credible threat", West Midlands Chief Constable Paul Scott Lee has said. Mr Scott Lee declined to describe the nature of the threat but said intelligence indicated it was genuine.

He said the decision to evacuate up to 20,000 people from the city centre had not been taken lightly and came after a "very specific threat". The city centre has now fully reopened to the public.

Four suspect packages were blown up but Mr Scott Lee said they had nothing to do with the intelligence warnings. "The threat that we responded to was very specific," he said at a news conference. "It was specific about the time and also the locations."

West Midlands Police put up an exclusion cordon around the A38 inner city ring road after the warnings were received.

Mr Scott Lee said: "Bearing in mind the current world climate, the public's safety is our absolute priority," he said. "We haven't had this level of threat before in Birmingham. The people of Birmingham were in danger last night."

At 0500 BST on Sunday bomb disposal experts declared that a suspect package at the Travelodge hotel on Broad Street was not a "credible device".

Police carried out four controlled explosions on a bus in Corporation Street, in the city centre.

The areas cordoned off included the Broad Street entertainment district and the city's Chinese quarter which are crowded with bars, theatres, restaurants, flats and hotels.

Speaking on the BBC's News 24 Sunday programme, Home Secretary Charles Clarke praised the response of the police and public in Birmingham. "There was a serious threat, that is why the police acted as they did. I think both the police and the people living in Birmingham acted entirely professionally. The police would have been quite wrong if they had ignored the threat which came to them."

West Midlands Police announced they had received intelligence of a possible threat to the area at about 2015 BST.

Initially people were told to be on their guard, and that bars and restaurants were being searched. Motorists were also told not to come into the city centre.

However, about half an hour later, police said the city was to be evacuated.



Average figures for people visiting the centre on a Sunday are between 80,000 and 90,000.

Over 500,000 people turn out in Pall Mall London for VE celebrations in both an act of unified pride and defiance. Veteran Norman Martin, 79, said: "I'm glad they didn't call off the ceremonies, we have a message to deliver. It comes from my mates who died, and for those of us lucky still to be alive - and it is that we will never surrender to those who attack us." The ex-paratrooper from Leeds had fought through France to the Rhine. Last year he stood in memory at the Normandy celebration.

Wartime aircraft gave honourary flypasts: the Dakota, the Spitfire, the Hurricane, and the Lancaster Bomber - showering the sky above Buckingham Palace with a red haze of a over one million paper poppies.

English newspaper 'The Mirror' publishes a personal account by teenager Joe Orr, 19 of the events he witnessed whilst travelling on the Piccadilly Line on a weekly college visit when the second bomb ripped his train apart.


Monday, July 11th
Death toll now stands at 52 people.

First two names are officially released of confirmed victims:

SUSAN LEVY
GLADYS WUNDOWA


Susan Levy, a 53-year-old mother of two sons, was killed when she was caught up in the bomb blast at King's Cross and became the first deceased person to be formally identified.

Cleaner Gladys Wundowa, who worked for University College London, was also confirmed as having been killed in the bus bombing in Tavistock Square.

Another 56 people remain in hospital, some severely injured.

Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed Britain will capture the madmen who inflicted the "murderous carnage" on London.

Meanwhile London Mayor Ken Livingstone today opened the Book of Condolences at his City Hall headquarters for the victims of the atrocity. Mr Livingstone was the first to sign before a group of dignitaries including Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair.

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams today appealed for peace by calling for calm and saying people should not scapegoat Muslims for the London bombings after a handful of reprisal attacks on Mosques across the country over the weekend.


Tuesday, July 12th
Police believe at least one of the suspected London bombers died in Thursday's blasts. They said there was forensic evidence that the bomber responsible for the train explosion at Aldgate died there. Personal documents of three suspects were also found close to the explosions suggesting all four died in the blasts.

One man has been arrested in Leeds and taken to London for questioning after police raids in Leeds, Yorkshire and Luton.

In a press conference police said they had identified four suspects who travelled to London on the morning of the attacks - three of them from West Yorkshire. One of the men from West Yorkshire had been reported missing by his family and his property was found at the bus blast scene.

The development came after a day of of dramatic developments in the hunt for those behind the bomb attacks in London. Earlier police carried out controlled explosions in Leeds and searched six houses. Explosives and have already been seized along with other materials. An unoccupied house in the Burley area of Leeds was one of six raided in Leeds after the attacks.

Police cleared the area of over 600 people from homes as well as a mosque, a health centre and an old people's home.

Luton station was closed and evacuated, and three controlled explosions were carried out by a bomb disposal team. Further materials were seized after being found in a car at Luton station.

The US military has rescinded an order to its personnel to avoid London in the aftermath of the bombings. Personnel, most of them from US Air Force units at RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath, in Suffolk, were told last week not to go within the M25 motorway. But there was criticism that it sent out the wrong signals at a time when the emphasis was on "business as usual" in London after the attacks. The US embassy said the order had been reviewed and had now been lifted.


Two further names are released of confirmed victims:

JAMIE GORDON
PHILLIP STUART RUSSELL



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[Edited 7/18/05 8:35am]

this thread is a continuation of http://www.prince.org/msg...=771976889 , which you may still access to reference any information shared earlier today.

Hi all, the bus that exploded was a few yards from the building where I work and I cant describe the chill that went through me when I heard that noise. I looked out of the window and saw people running and screaming and knew something terrible was happeneing.

We were evacuated and watied in the street for a while , talking and supporting eachother.

I was unhurt, and want to extend my deepest sympathies to those who lost loved ones, and suffered injury.

In stark contrast only 24 hours before I was in Trafalgar Square to hear the announcement that London was to host the 2012 Olympics, the thousands there were so proud.

I was born in London, lived here my whole life and tragedies like today make me realise what a fantastic and strong city we have here and how very very proud I am to live here .

clarityman said:

Wow. Glad you're okay, cm.

This is just so devastating. I'm so full of anger.

I'm glad that our London orgers appear to be well. One of the very first things i thought of was our friends in London. I feel very relieved to see so many already having checked in.

I know Senik hasnt checked in yet but people shouldn't panic. With such a disaster there may be more important things he needs to take care of.

A big to all you over there.

clarityman said:

glad your ok,

I'm so glad that many of you fellow London Orgers are alright. I want to send my prayers out to you guys and your friends and families affected in any way by the attacks. God Bless, stay safe and stay strong.

im @ a loss 4 words...i cannot believe this has happened...
i haven't seen much new coverage at all here in Canada and it's a shame...


i do hope everyone's alright, especially the orgers who haven't been online since the incidents...
i mean of course they'll have other things 2 place concern on, but i do hope we hear from them soon

senik and anji.. please phone home

Just to let you all know, Squirrelmeat got caught up in some of the problems today.

We both share the rent on a London pad (we are both country boys) and although I was in London this morning, Squirrel was coming in from Hertfordshire on the effected Kings Cross train.

He's fine, but with cuts and briuses. I spoke to him on the phone from the hospital earlier. His first comment was "Bollocks". So I know he was fine.

Nate said:

Oh shit. I'm glad he's okay.

bkw said:

Please wish him our best

Nate said:

I'm glad he's okay!!

Nate said:

Oh my god. I'm glad he is ok. I keep sitting around, watching the news and going on the net and checking my email every five seconds and just waiting waiting waiting for the phone to ring. Fellow orgers - giotto, senik, anji, I hope you are all ok too. I'm thinking of you every moment.

Nate said:

wow nate. i didn't know you were both in england.

today i'm learning which ORGers are there and feeling very thankful we didn't lose anyone from our community.

tell squirrelmeat i'm sorry about the bruising to his, you know. glad you're both still with us

My thoughts and prayers go out to the victims, their families, Londoners, and the Brits. Take care...

clarityman and squirrilmeat, thank god you are okay...

i am glad that all the london orgers are ok. i still can't believe that this happened. i didn't know about it till this afternoon when i turned on the news, but my thoughts and prayers go out to all of u who live in London.

wish squirrilmeat all the best. i'm glad to hear that he is ok.

to those affected by this directly, do not allow cowardness, ignorance, nor hate harden your hearts. in the end, those responsible, will face their judgement. may the lord be with each and everyone of you...and everyone of us around the world.

XxAxX said:

co-sign.

Nate said:

oh damn...
glad hes ok

Just to let you know that Senik is, thank God, okay.

All my thoughts & prayers & love to those affected.

I am so fucking angry.

TheFrog said:

thank goodness!! thanks...glad you're both ok

TheFrog said:

Thanks Frog, I have just logged in after being out of the office all day yesterday, and I was getting worried that Senik hadn't checked in yet. Thanks for the good news.


For once, I saw a speach from Tony Blair and I agreed with every word of it - truly heartfelt and inspiration.

All the best to every one out there, London orgers in particular.

the reprts from the bus is just horrific.
why do i crave so much information?....its making me more and more angry and sick.


the death list is def going to go up.

i just want to stay in bed and wallow. but thne thats letting em beat you. i have to drive to my meeting toay...my tube ain't running.

rocknrolldave said:

goot to hear from you too Dave ...Tony Blair was really emotional yesterday you could tell

I can't comment politically coz I don't know enough but I think he seems like he'd be a nice guy to talk to

YES AM OK

THANKS

im glad so many of you are ok.
i hope those responsible are caught

TheFrog said:

phewww.. finally! Thanks for the good news, I'm glad to hear that!


I'm leaving to Canada in a couple of hours.. I will have an uneasy feeling in the plane... at the airports... everywhere..

My thoughts are with all of you London and British orgers and everyone who is affected by those coward attacks. God bless you See all of you in a few weeks!

Glad to hear that Senik is ok

so the only ppl we're still missing is DanielBoon, Sexofit and mrTee