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irisblue

(35,409 posts)
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 06:19 AM Jul 7

7/7 London bombing attacks.

The wiki page
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings

snip-The 7 July 2005 London bombings, also referred to as 7/7, were a series of four co-ordinated suicide attacks carried out by Islamist terrorists that targeted commuters travelling on London's public transport during the morning rush hour. The perpetrators said they were responding to atrocities against Muslims committed by the west.


Three terrorists separately detonated three homemade bombs in quick succession aboard London Underground trains in Inner London. Later, a fourth terrorist detonated another bomb on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. The train bombings occurred on the Circle Line near Aldgate and at Edgware Road, and on the Piccadilly Line near Russell Square.

Apart from the bombers, 52 people of 18 different nationalities were killed and nearly 800 were injured in the attacks. It was the UK's deadliest terrorist incident since the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 near Lockerbie, and the UK's first Islamist suicide attack."

more there


Articles on life afterwards

1-https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c14e77je72mo

Title- the UK really any safer 20 years on from 7/7?


2-https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39z132mdp0o

-'My sister was killed on 7/7 and I'm still angry'


3-https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/06/iraq-war-made-extremists-of-people-ex-police-terrorism-chief-looks-back-at-77


Title-Iraq war ‘made extremists of people’: ex-police terrorism chief looks back at 7/7
Exclusive: Former Met officer Neil Basu says there is link between UK foreign policy and radicalisation, and atrocity did lasting damage to race relations'


There are many more articles, mostly from UK sources. So much hate breeds more hate.

I have not heard anything on this from the US media so far today








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7/7 London bombing attacks. (Original Post) irisblue Jul 7 OP
One innocent man was executed by police who were looking for the perpetrators. John1956PA Jul 7 #1

John1956PA

(4,272 posts)
1. One innocent man was executed by police who were looking for the perpetrators.
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 09:15 AM
Jul 7

A gasbag on Faux hailed the summary execution and used disgusting verbiage to describe it. Later, it was revealed that the unarmed man who was executed on the spot by police was not involved in the bombings or in any other criminal activity.

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