Re: BBC E-mail: Statement claiming London attacks

2005-07-07 Thread Kevin Graeme
Terrorism is violence that creates fear for a political purpose. It's concievable that the motivations were criminal or sociopathic. My guess is that it is indeed terrorism. But all I know is that trains and a bus were blown up. I don't know why. -Kevin On 7/7/05, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: BBC E-mail: Statement claiming London attacks

2005-07-07 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Given that the IRA's bombing campaign of the 80's and 90's picked times where there were not many possible casualties then warned the police about the bombs before they went off, the change that its the IRA is very low. The high level of coordination, the attempt at many civilian casualties, and th

Re: BBC E-mail: Statement claiming London attacks

2005-07-07 Thread Jerry Johnson
what could it be other than terrorism? A couple of really bad coincidental gas-grill accidents on the subway? I think you mean it may not be radical Islamic terrorism? Jerry Johnson On 7/7/05, Kevin Graeme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > He was also very carefully not calling the attacks terrorism

Re: BBC E-mail: Statement claiming London attacks

2005-07-07 Thread Gruss Gott
> Larry wrote: > Larry C. Lyons saw this story on BBC News Online and thought you > should see it. > Well if they did do it at least they are call the Secret Organization of Al Qeada - that is, they have to be secret. ~| Find ou

Re: BBC E-mail: Statement claiming London attacks

2005-07-07 Thread Kevin Graeme
On NPR they were talking with a terrorism specialist and referred to this claim of credit. He was very cautious about it. He didn't say it wasn't true, but did say that they didn't know if the group was even real. He was also very carefully not calling the attacks terrorism yet. He said they certa

BBC E-mail: Statement claiming London attacks

2005-07-07 Thread Larry C . Lyons
Larry C. Lyons saw this story on BBC News Online and thought you should see it. ** Message ** Text of the Al Queda statement found by the BBC. larry ** Statement claiming London attacks ** A website publishes a statement issued by an organisation saying it carried out the London bombings. < htt