London bombed
I woke up this morning to the sight of bloodied and bewildered Londoners covered in dust emerging from the wreckage of the Underground. News reports currently make it 5 bombs on the tube and one double-decker bus. Luckily only two deaths are reported so far. (Luckily? What's lucky about that? Someone's brother, someone's sister, someone's best mate won't be coming around any more. That's not lucky, that's not as fucking tragic as could have been.)
A previously unknown group called "Secret Organization group of al-Qaeda of Jihad in Europe" have taken credit for the bombings, so that's at least a few douchebags who will be independently verifying the 88 Virgins claim pretty soon here. Although it doesn't pay to leap to conclusions, it's a fair bet that the Islamists are behind all this. Between the G8 conference up in Scotland and an Israeli economic conference being held close to the site of one of the bombings, there's plenty of circumstantial reasons to believe the Usual Suspects are here. Of course it could always be some rogue mongoloids calling themselves something like "The Original Famous Real Real IRA" or whatnot, Irish thugs saddened by the recent burst of civilization that has gripped their mother organization. Who knows? Lots of people have beefs with the British. But only a few are murderously deranged.
Looks like someone needs their ass kicked in a precise, surgical and relentless fashion. Funny, that's just what the Brits are best at. Hope we can lend a hand.
My blogcritics compatriot Andrew Ian Dodge is liveblogging as best he can from his home in central London. Check with him for updates.
[wik] As is my blogcritics compatriot sungoddess.
[alsø wik] Here is a London-based blog who has aggreggated a number of other liveblogs and news and video feeds.
[alsø alsø wik] [buckethead adds] There may have been as many as seven bombs. There are reports of hundreds of injured, and of wounded being operated on in the concourse at Liverpool Street station. Other reports mention bodies lying under sheets. Here's a couple more links with news: Tim Worstall and the Guardian. And the Washington Post is reporting:
Three blasts rocked the London subway and one tore open a packed double-decker bus during the morning rush hour Thursday, sending bloodied victims fleeing after what a shaken Prime Minister Tony Blair called "barbaric" terrorist attacks. A U.S. law enforcement official said at least 40 people were killed and London hospitals reported more than 300 wounded.
[wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?] The butcher's bill is now 37 and undoubtedly rising, and more than 300 are confirmed injured. This is the same city that bore up through the blitz and went on with their lives. London will be fine. The people who did this, they will not.
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Lucky? No. London officials
Lucky? No. London officials are only dealing with the injured, and not counting the dead.
I heard this on the radio in
I heard this on the radio in the car on the way to the DC metro. Metro officials are reportedly sending the bomb-sniffing dogs into the system, though I saw no evidence of that, or indeed of any increased security on the metro aside from a "please report any suspicious items" notice on the electronic billboards at the stations.
Mrs. Buckethead wanted to drive me straight to work. In a no-doubt lame attempt at grim humor; I told her that if she drove me to work, the terrorists would win.
That's odd, B. In my head I
That's odd, B. In my head I was going to say the same thing to Ms. Johno this morning, except I knew that if I did, she'd slug me.
I don't know about you, but my commute was oddly quiet and alert.
Mrs. B is, thankfully, not a
Mrs. B is, thankfully, not a terribly violent person.
It was frustrating trying to find decent news. I don't usually listen to news radio, so I don't know where the news stations are. In the ten minutes I was in the car on the way to the metro, I kept getting retarded music DJs, retarded callers, and retarded morning drive-time hosts spewing nonsense rather than a simple news report.
So we were frustrated rather than pensive. The ride on the metro was oddly normal. No one seemed worried or even especially alert.
Well, Ms. Johno isn't
Well, Ms. Johno isn't normally violent as well, but my months-long illness earlier this year made her let's call it vigilant and steely regarding my continued well being. NPR was where I got my first reports, and I do get about 15 minutes of TV news as well in the morning where most stations were piping live BBC feeds.
And NDR, that's exactly right. The British are more accustomed to terrorism than Americans are, and know what to do. Also, give a Brit a chance to bear up under adversity and he'll jump at it every time. It seems to be their national talent.
I am a terribly violent
I am a terribly violent person and happen to be proficient with a wide range of weapon systems.
I’m not as pissed as 9-11-01, but more pissed than any time since calming down from that one (months later).
I'm sitting here at work hoping my phone will ring and it will be my First Sergeant from my National Guard unit. He will tell me they’ve located these fuckers and we are the unit that will get to kill them.
I know it won’t happen, but I can dream.