Another attack in London?

[RinglingRingling]

I gotta ask:
does this sound like a "copy-cat" or wannabee group doing this round to anyone else? The last attack was (depending on how you want to assess it based on the goal and outcome) fairly successful. This one doesn't sound nearly so. Did they get the bomb-maker from the last attack, or is he/she still out there?

Successful in that bombs went off and people were killed, but killing "only" 56 people at rush hour in downtown London, as tragic as that is, isn't terribly successful in the grand scheme of things.
From initial reports, sounds to me like (THANKFULLY) today's bombmaker screwed up.....

While I do agree it was tragic, please don't get me wrong on that note, it was fairly successful in that it shook up the thinking of those using the Tube; and it got international coverage for several days.

But it did not get the response that they were probably looking for. They probably wanted the English to roll over like the Spanish did.

How scary.... I find myself in agreement with both RR and Beerman.....

That is impossible. As always I was contradicting the hippie.

Hippie?

[RinglingRingling]

I gotta ask:

does this sound like a "copy-cat" or wannabee group doing this round to anyone else? The last attack was (depending on how you want to assess it based on the goal and outcome) fairly successful. This one doesn't sound nearly so. Did they get the bomb-maker from the last attack, or is he/she still out there?

Successful in that bombs went off and people were killed, but killing "only" 56 people at rush hour in downtown London, as tragic as that is, isn't terribly successful in the grand scheme of things.

From initial reports, sounds to me like (THANKFULLY) today's bombmaker screwed up.....

While I do agree it was tragic, please don't get me wrong on that note, it was fairly successful in that it shook up the thinking of those using the Tube; and it got international coverage for several days.

But it did not get the response that they were probably looking for. They probably wanted the English to roll over like the Spanish did.

Then they probably should have timed the attack closer to an election. I think Blair just stood for one, so there is plenty of time to weather this storm. I think this one was less on the Spanish model, and more just to get the local Muslim fundamentalists energized. The moderate British head of the Muslim clerics was shown recently being attacked, physically and verbally, by more radical elements.

[Sam]

Sounds like there is a good chance to capture these bozos alive... apparently one was wounded when the device fizzled...not sure about the others.

[sy]

Sounds like there is a good chance to capture these bozos alive... apparently one was wounded when the device fizzled...not sure about the others.

Just talked to a couple people over in London, they said one of them was just captured not too long ago.