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London Bomb attack – how a decentralized Al-Queda sleeping cell carried out extremely well planned act of barbaric terror for maximum impact
Four explosions on the British capital’s transport system killed at least 33 people and left scores with “terrible injuries”. The blasts, which drew parallels with the attacks on New York and Madrid coincided with G-8 summit in Gleneagles, UK. The acts of terror were well planned by decentralized Al-Queda sleeping cells spread all over the world now. It was a coordinated effort between suicide bombers and remote controlled explosive devices. The timing coincided with London rush hour for maximum impact.
The G-8 summit will continue but will the world’s elite leaders that terrorism did not stop and barbaric Al-Queda well alive and as a matter of fact thriving. It will also remind the world leaders that war againste terror did not go far enough.
According to media report from London, Brian Paddick, deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said there were at least 33 deaths, 45 seriously injuries and more than 300 lighter casualties. The death toll was expected to climb.
Mr Paddick said the police had received no warning of the attacks and it was unclear whether the claim of responsibility was genuine.
The first of the explosions, reported at 8.49am at Aldgate East tube station, killed seven people. An explosion minutes later between King’s Cross and Russell Square tube stations killed a further 21 and a third explosion at Edgware Road tube station killed at least five.
The Metropolitan Police also said there had been fatalities in an explosion on a bus in Woburn Place about an hour after the initial tube blast, but was unable to confirm reports that 10 people were dead.
“I saw lots of people running up a road and then saw the top of a bus destroyed,” an eyewitness told Sky News.
Early suggestions that the explosions may have been caused by an accidental power surge quickly gave way to evidence pointing to deliberate sabotage. Passengers spoke of hearing a “huge thud’’at Edgware Road station and travellers emerged from tunnels covered in blood and soot and with torn clothing.
An eyewitness at Aldgate East, where the two confirmed fatalities occurred, saw smoke rising from the station and commuters with facial injuries and burns leaving as the area was evacuated. Police officers at the scene said there was evidence of an explosive device in the middle of a train that detonated 200 metres down the track from the station.
The explosions shattered the euphoria generated by London’s successful bid for the Olympics and the renewed sense of national self-confidence.
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