I'd just like to take a moment to remind everyone to take a moment to think about the 52 innocent lives that were lost on July 7th 2005.

R.I.P

Huh? If I recall correctly, over 150000 people die each day. What are you talking about?

The London bombings.

Quote from Batterypark :

Huh? If I recall correctly, over 150000 people die each day. What are you talking about?

If that's a weak attempt at making the point about human suffering it's serverely misplaced on this thread, if it's an attempt to diminish the deaths of the people this thread is about it's sickening.

1 innocent death is 1 death too many, for any reason.

I don't expect everyone here to understand or care about the significance of the deaths of these people, but I'd respectfully request that unless you have something sympathetic to say just don't bother posting. Thanks.

R.I.P to all killed in the 7/7 bombings.

On the front of innocent deaths, Knife crime is one thats taking a lot of lifes lately, I agree with David Cameron - Carry a knife and you go to prison!

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If that's a weak attempt at making the point about human suffering it's serverely misplaced on this thread, if it's an attempt to diminish the deaths of the people this thread is about it's sickening.

Sickening? I'll take that as a compliment, thank you very much. To be honest, I just asked because I didn't know.

I would have had to look it up, too, if it wasn't explained in the thread.

RIP to all victims of the 7/7 bombings

BTW I can't believe a yank would have to look it up on the internet.....4 bombs explode in London and it doesn't even make news in the USA?

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BTW I can't believe a yank would have to look it up on the internet.....4 bombs explode in London and it doesn't even make news in the USA?

I didn't immediately realise that you meant the bombings when the OP said the 7th of July...

I find it a little disheartning that 52 lives are lost and we have all give our condolences yet every day thousands of people are killed by diseases we can cure, but price it out of the third worlds reach, and no-one cares...

Quote from mookie427 :

BTW I can't believe a yank would have to look it up on the internet.....4 bombs explode in London and it doesn't even make news in the USA?

It's not like I didn't hear of the London bombings, or don't remember them. It's just that I don't actively associate them with the 7th of July.

I couldn't tell you when the bombings in Spain were, either. Or the US Embassy bombing that happened in Africa not too long ago (couldn't even tell you which country that was).

Quote from gezmoor :

I'd just like to take a moment to remind everyone to take a moment to think about the 52 innocent lives that were lost on July 7th 2005.

R.I.P

Not to be disrespectful, but you're not doing "them" much of a tribute if you don't explain who they are or how they died.

The only moment we'll be taking is to find out what you're talking about.

Maybe even list their names—there are only 52...

fairy nuff

The media kind of started to refer to events by the date they happened after 9/11, because they can fit more into a headline that way. Perhaps the title should be "London Terror Attack Anniversary", so that people actually know what its about.

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Maybe even list their names—there are only 52...

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King's Cross bomb

* James Adams, 32, a mortgage broker who was travelling from his home in Peterborough to London through King's Cross from where he called his mother.
* Samantha Badham, 36, had taken the Tube with her partner, Lee Harris. The couple usually cycled to work but caught the Tube because they were planning a romantic dinner to celebrate their 14th anniversary.
* Lee Harris, 30, an architect who died after receiving treatment at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London. His partner, Samantha Badham, also died in the attacks.
* Phil Beer, 22, a hair stylist, was on his way to work at the Sanrizz salon in Knightsbridge with his best friend, Patrick Barnes, who was injured.
* Anna Brandt, 42, a Polish cleaner living in Wood Green.
* Ciaran Cassidy, 22, of Upper Holloway, north London, on his way to his job as a shop assistant for a printing company in Chancery Lane.
* Elizabeth Daplyn, 26, an administrator at University College Hospital in London, left home in Highgate with her partner, Rob Brennan, before taking a Piccadilly Line train.
* Arthur Edlin Frederick, 60, from Grenada, living in Seven Sisters, north London, on his way to work at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
* Karolina Gluck, 29, from Poland, said goodbye to boyfriend, Richard Deer, 28, at 8.30am. The IT consultant was travelling from Finsbury Park to Russell Square.
* Gamze Günoral, 24, a Turkish student, left her aunt’s house in north London to catch the tube to go to her language college in Hammersmith.
* Ojara Ikeagwu, 55, a married mother-of-three from Luton, was on her way to Hounslow where she was a social worker.
* Emily Jenkins, 24, from Richmond.
* Adrian Johnson, 37, a keen golfer and hockey-player with two young children. He was on his way to work at the Burberry fashion house in Haymarket where he was a product technical manager.
* Helen Jones, 28, a Scottish (London-based) accountant who had previously escaped death in 1988 when wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed upon Lockerbie. Her family, from Chapelknowe Dumfries and Galloway, said: "Helen will live on in the hearts of her family and her many, many friends".
* Susan Levy, 53, from Cuffley in Hertfordshire, the mother of Daniel, 25, and James, 23. She had just said goodbye to her younger son.
* Shelley Mather, 26, from New Zealand
* Michael Matsushita, 37, left his fiancee, Rosie Cowen, 28, at the couple's flat in Islington for his second day at work as a tour guide.
* James Mayes, 28, worked as an analyst for the Healthcare Commission and had just returned from a holiday in Prague. He was heading from his home in Barnsbury to an ‘away day’ at Lincoln’s Inn and was thought to be travelling by Tube via King's Cross.
* Behnaz Mozakka, 47, an Iranian biomedical records officer from Finchley who worked at Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital.
* Mihaela Otto, 46, from Romania, known as Michelle. A dental technician of Mill Hill, north London, who was killed at King's Cross.
* Atique Sharifi, 24, an Afghan national who was living in Hounslow, Middlesex.
* Ihab Slimane, a 24-year-old waiter from Paris who was working at a restaurant near Piccadilly Circus, was said by friends to have caught a Tube from Finsbury Park.
* Christian 'Njoya' Small, 28, an advertising salesman from Walthamstow, east London.
* Monika Suchocka, 23, from northern Poland, arrived in London two months earlier to start work as a trainee accountant in West Kensington.
* Mala Trivedi, 51, from Wembley was manager of the X-ray department at Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital.
* Rachelle Chung For Yuen, 27, an accountant from Mill Hill, north London, who was originally from Mauritius.

Edgware Road bomb

* Michael Stanley Brewster, 52, a father of two who was travelling to work from Derby.
* Jonathan Downey, 34, an HR systems development officer with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea from Milton Keynes, had just said goodbye to his wife at Euston .
* David Foulkes, 22, a media sales worker from Oldham, Lancashire, was on his way to meet a colleague.
* Colin Morley, 52, of Finchley, marketing consultant.
* Jenny Nicholson, 24, daughter of a Bristol vicar, who had just started work at a music company in London
* Laura Webb, 29, from Islington, a PA.

Aldgate bomb

* Lee Baisden, 34, an accountant from Romford who was going to work at the London Fire Brigade.
* Benedetta Ciaccia, 30, an Italian-born business analyst from Norwich.
* Richard Ellery, 21, was travelling from his home in Ipswich to his job in the Jessops store in Kensington, via Liverpool Street Station. He texted his parents, Beverley and Trevor, at 8.30am to say he was on his way to work.
* Richard Gray, 41, a tax manager from Ipswich.
* Anne Moffat, 48, from Harlow in Essex, who was head of marketing and communications for Girlguiding UK.
* Fiona Stevenson, 29, a solicitor who lived at the Barbican, London. Her parents, Ivan and Eimar, of Little Baddow, Essex, described her as "irreplaceable".
* Carrie Taylor, a 24-year-old graduate from Billericay, Essex. June Taylor, her mother, said: "We have a little farewell ritual. Carrie gives me a kiss goodbye".

Tavistock Square bus bomb

* Anthony Fatayi-Williams, 26, an Nigerian-born executive with an oil and gas company based in Old Street, had been living in the UK for eight years.
* Jamie Gordon, 30, from Enfield, worked for City Asset Management and was engaged to be married to his girlfriend Yvonne Nash.
* Giles Hart, 55, a BT engineer from Hornchurch and father-of-two, was travelling to Angel via Aldgate.
* Marie Hartley, 34, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was in London on a course.
* Miriam Hyman, 32, from Barnet, North London, a picture researcher. She had spoken to her father by phone after being evacuated from King's Cross station and reassured him that she was all right.
* Shahara Akther Islam, 20, from Plaistow, East London, a bank cashier who lived with her parents, and was both fully Westernised and a devout Muslim.
* Neetu Jain, 37, was evacuated from Euston and caught the bus to take her to work as a computer analyst. Ms Jain was planning to move in with her boyfriend, Gous Ali.
* Sam Ly, 28, from Melbourne, died at the National Hospital of Neurology - the only fatality of ten Australians caught in the bombing.
* Shyanuja Parathasangary, 30, a Post Office worker travelling from Kensal Rise to Alder Street.
* Anat Rosenberg, 39, an Israeli-born charity worker who called her boyfriend to tell him she was on the Number 30 bus moments before the blast. John Falding, 62, her boyfriend, said: "She was afraid of going back to Israel because she was scared of suicide bombings on buses".
* Philip Russell, a 28-year-old finance worker at JP Morgan who lived at Kennington in South-East London.
* William Wise, 54 , an IT specialist at Equitas Holdings in St Mary Axe.
* Gladys Wundowa, 50, from Ilford in Essex, a cleaner at University College London. She had finished her shift and was heading to a college course in Shoreditch. Her body was taken to her homeland of Ghana for burial.

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Thanks. Now they're a little more than a statistic...

Indeed, not so funny when the stories are written out

Not that it was ever funny, but you get my point.

Quote from wark :

Thanks. Now they're a little more than a statistic...

My sympathies to the families and the survivors.
I was driving a bus in London on that day, and I will never forget..it could just have easily been me.

And now for a really BAD dig at the "Cousins"..
How would YOU feel if we (the Brits) said: "9/11?...what's that??"

Amused, I guess. Perhaps a little astounded.

Man I wish some idiots weren't that selfish . Some of my family were nearly killed in it .

then you can see how I felt, deadwolf

Also I must say that I was actually in London when the bombings were happening! I was near Kings Cross but going around in circles since my father hadn't a clue where to go! We could actually hear a bombing in Kings Cross. I fainted at the shock!

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How would YOU feel if we (the Brits) said: "9/11?...what's that??"

You actually want to compare the two? I'm not getting uppity, but you probably know even more about it than I do, as for its news being far-reaching. There are suicide bombings in the news every day. It's not AS big/noteworthy/historically significant as jets and skyscrapers. It's 52 dead vs. 3000 dead & 6000 injured.

Google "7/7" and then google "9/11" and see if there's a difference.

I might be surprised, but I sure wouldn't be offended if you hadn't been subjected to the incessant media onslaught of 9/11-this, 9/11-that for the past 7 years. But when an event in my country makes people in your country go to war, then I might afford the right to be surprised if you hadn't heard all the buzz-words or a significant date associated with it.

I was doing a graphic design course right outside Kings Cross station when the bombings happened. If I had chosen to go in that morning instead of the afternoon, I'd have been in the station or on a train at the time of the explosions. Which is kinda scary.

@Batterypark
There's a big difference between people just dying and people being killed by terrorists.

The freakiest thing was on the Tube a couple of days after. Obviously I still needed to go in. But the trains were totally silent. And anyone who's been into Kings Cross or St Pancras stations knows how busy they are. The first few days I went from the Northern Line (about 5 floors down) to street level and passed about 3 people. One day I passed nobody. That scared me more than anything.

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But when an event in my country makes people in your country go to war....

er...read ANY news in the last 4 years??? WTF do YOU think we are doing in IRAQ??????
Forgive me if I sound cynical, but it seems to me that anything that happens OUTSIDE The Land of the Fee doesn't count!
OK, maybe the scale was different, but the impact to the local population was just as significant.

Quote from Batterypark :

Sickening? I'll take that as a compliment, thank you very much. To be honest, I just asked because I didn't know.

In which case I appologise for misconstueing your post.