Originally posted by: ShinGouki
I'm currently staying in Arizona on holiday from my job in London, the explosions happened on a route i travel 5 times a week. Thankfully it seems I chose a good time to go on holiday, my sister and my brother who normally are nowhere near London however ironically are both now stuck there due to my sister having just left the underground station near Kings Cross moments before the explosion. I just got through to my parents who say my brother was also working right where the explosion the bus went off. From what i can tell there are more casualties coming in than the news seems to be reporting for now, i have a friend working in one of the main hospitals nearby and it seems that large numbers of people were rushed to the hospital. From what i can tell things are fairly calm in London in general based on other friends talking to me from work via msn at the moment, but there are still people trapped underground. Anyone who uses the London Underground will allready know how horrendous during rush hour without this happening. I feel very sorry for those people that are stuck down there I can't even begin to imagine what it's like. I hope that this doesn't all get used as political capital for installing these stupid ID cards and the other laws that are rolling back liberties that took us centuries to gain in my country.
GTaudiophile I have to ask, since when did orders of magnitude become relevant to the loss of life in a situation like this. Even one life lost due to something like this should be taken seriously. I'm sure it's little comfort to the family that their dead relative was not part of another 9/11.
For those of you saying pull out of Iraq however... You go in and cause the mess you better clean it up is my opinion on that one. I didn't support our reasons for going in but i do support the work our troops are attempting to do over there in a very difficult situation. I would love for them to be able to come home but now surely is not the time.
thanks for the info
