London bombings [UPDATE]

terrible... and mixed in with my feelings of horror and outrage and especially in light of the previous post, i can't help thinking, there go the rest of our civil liberties...

Two people have been killed and scores have been injured after three blasts on the Underground network and another on a double-decker bus in London.

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An Islamist website has posted a statement - purportedly from al-Qaeda - claiming it was behind the attacks.

London's police chief Sir Ian Blair said there had been "many casualties" but it was too early to put a figure to those killed or injured.

[UPDATE]

Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Paddick confirmed 35 people had died in the blasts on the Underground.

He said there were 21 confirmed fatalities following the blast at 0856 BST on a Piccadilly Line train in a tunnel between King's Cross and Russell Square.

There were seven confirmed deaths after a blast at 0851 BST 100 yards into a tunnel from Liverpool Street station. The train involved was a Circle Line train.

And at 0917 BST an explosion on another Circle Line train coming into Edgware Road underground station blew a hole through a wall onto another train at an adjoining platform.

Three trains were thought to be involved and there were seven confirmed deaths so far, Mr Paddick said.

He said two had died in the bus blast at 0947 at the junction of Upper Woburn Place and Tavistock Square.

London Ambulance Service said it had treated 45 patients with serious or critical injuries including burns, amputations, chest and blast injuries and fractured limbs.

a woman i worked with here in macedonia who is now living in london sent an sms a few hours ago saying that she was fine and that her brother who works in the financial district was fine as well... parents of another friend phoned to say the same thing... yet another friend is delayed at heathrow for an indefinite time trying to get a flight to the u.s. on her way back from armenia...

here's my concern... we have been subjected to emotional manipulation and fear-mongering ever since 9/11... fear has been used to push all types of misbegotten agendas down our throats... bush's speech last week was yet another attempt to justify the criminal war in iraq based on fear... i fully expect that the outcome of london will be that we see efforts to play on our fears re-doubled...

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