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Hexx wrote:Horrific - but in some ways I'm more worried about what people will use as justification for

Brex...oh, too late.

So I take it that Nick's ban from the last terrorist thread isn't rolling over to this one?

He's not exactly wrong though is he Nick? I know you may think this is new and scary, "because brown people", but there have been a lot of terrorist incidents in London over the past 50 years. It's a major target.

NickSCFC wrote:At least Sadiq Khan warned people

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 22846.html

As good as saying "Don't come to London, we can't guarantee your safety"

Keep calm and carry on indeed

I don't see anything wrong with this. For the past 100 years at least London has been a dangerous place to live, be it bombing, terrorism (of many different kinds) and gang violence it's not exactly been a safe place to live.

The same can be said about any major city.

He's grossly misunderstood the idea of the message behind "keep calm and carry on", too.

What's so scary about this sort of attack is it's impossible to stop. Bombs will take training or leave a trace if somebody is searching for such things. How do you stop somebody driving a car into other people?

Channel 4 News are saying the attacker was Abu Izzadeen. If that's true this looks like a major failure of the intelligence services. Surely he of all people was under monitoring?

MPs are still locked in the commons, poor loves.

Irene Demova wrote:So I take it that Nick's ban from the last terrorist thread isn't rolling over to this one?

Thank you for the reminder.

If that's true about the identity of the attacker......someone really strawberry floated up.

Memento Mori wrote:Channel 4 News are saying the attacker was Abu Izzadeen. If that's true this looks like a major failure of the intelligence services. Surely he of all people was under monitoring?

This is now being disputed, Channel 4 saying Abu Izzadeen may actually still be in prison.

Talk about jumping the gun.

Knoyleo wrote:

Memento Mori wrote:Channel 4 News are saying the attacker was Abu Izzadeen. If that's true this looks like a major failure of the intelligence services. Surely he of all people was under monitoring?

This is now being disputed, Channel 4 saying Abu Izzadeen may actually still be in prison.

Talk about jumping the gun.

There must have been some very worried prison guards thinking they done strawberry floated up.

D_C wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:

Memento Mori wrote:Channel 4 News are saying the attacker was Abu Izzadeen. If that's true this looks like a major failure of the intelligence services. Surely he of all people was under monitoring?

This is now being disputed, Channel 4 saying Abu Izzadeen may actually still be in prison.

Talk about jumping the gun.

There must have been some very worried prison guards thinking they done strawberry floated up.

"Abu Izzadeen's brother has called in and said he's still in jail".

My god Channel 4 News. The legal department just had a collective stroke.

Anyone else confused that trump has simply offered his condolences and not passed judgement or gone on a twitter rant.

Nick is banned from discussing terrorism on this site because he seemingly cannot resist expressing his glee - usually in the form of Islamophobic image macros - whenever an act of terrorism occurs. This ban has now been extended to this thread. I'll delete his posts now. (EDIT: Done.)

Memento Mori wrote:

D_C wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:

Memento Mori wrote:Channel 4 News are saying the attacker was Abu Izzadeen. If that's true this looks like a major failure of the intelligence services. Surely he of all people was under monitoring?

This is now being disputed, Channel 4 saying Abu Izzadeen may actually still be in prison.

Talk about jumping the gun.

There must have been some very worried prison guards thinking they done strawberry floated up.

"Abu Izzadeen's brother has called in and said he's still in jail".

My god Channel 4 News. The legal department just had a collective stroke.

The Warden of his prison after seeing the news must've been like.

"Wait... has anyone actually checked his cell today? strawberry float!"

Just horrific. As has been mentioned, there is no real way attacks like this can be avoided. Which makes it even sadder.

If this happened six months ago there's a very real chance I would have been locked in St Thomas', as I used to run clinics out of there on a Wednesday (it seems my old boss's boss was covering it this afternoon so I probably would have gone if I was still there today). It was very surreal to watch it all unfolding on streets I know so well - like reading BBC live text updates of that bit in Skyfall.

Feel a mixture of anger that this has happened, but also pride that people pulled together in the aftermath, and, like we always do, will just get on with it tomorrow, which is the ultimate victory over terrorism. Hope the death toll stays low.

The death toll now sits at 5 with 40 injured.

What on earth can counter terrorist units do? Preventing something that requires almost no planning must be impossible.

Hime wrote:The death toll now sits at 5 with 40 injured.

What on earth can counter terrorist units do? Preventing something that requires almost no planning must be impossible.

The only thing they can do is put up more barriers to stop cars.

It's all well and good that you've got barriers protecting parliament itself, but we need things long the pavements all over major cities to prevent this. By barriers I mean more like the poles/blocks rather than walls.