quinta-feira, julho 07, 2005
Atentado em Londres
Boletim das Terras da RainhaTudo é uma questão de óxido-redução exotérmica. Uma reação química altamente energética é iniciada e repentinamente um maciço deslocamento de ar em cadeia se segue a combustão sagrada, aquela que irá purificar o mundo dos ditos "infiéis".
Com a mesma violência destrutiva com que uma bomba pulveriza tudo ao seu redor, hoje as bases da sociedade britânica foram abaladas com uma série de atentados terroristas. Apesar de todo o sistema de segurança preventivo, os responsáveis por tais atos conseguiram causar o caos nas primeiras horas desta quinta-feira negra.
Não é por acaso que as explosões coordenadas tenham acontecido justamente por ocasião do G8, em que as nações mais ricas do mundo se reúnem na Escócia para discutir questões referentes ao desenvolvimento econômico-social e às mudanças climáticas. O recado foi dado aos líderes mundiais sob uma forma estupidamente brutal!
Neste jogo de interesses que já custou a vida de 37 pessoas e deixou centenas de outras tantas feridas na capital inglesa, fica evidente que o suposto "terrorismo" não pode ser combatido com intolerância e xenofobismo mútuos.
Quanto a mim, estive na noite anterior nos locais em que explodiram a segunda e a quarta bombas. Foi questão de horas!
A exemplo do que acontecera recentemente nos Estados Unidos e na Espanha, por exemplo, não creio que voltem a se repetir novos atentados terroristas em solo inglês. Os ataques seguem um mesmo padrão e os próximos alvos devem mesmo ser a Dinamarca e a Itália.
Ainda é cedo para se analisar os estragos, mas ainda assim não aparentam ser demasiado grande frente ao potencial destrutivo deste tipo de ações.
Grã-Bretanha assiste ao ataque a capital
inglesa em atentado terrorista.
Explosão devasta ônibus em Tavistock Square.
A series of explosions has ripped across central London, killing at least 37 people and injuring many hundreds more. In what appears to have been a co-ordinated terrorist attack, there were blasts on three Underground trains and a bus, as the morning rush hour drew to a close.
The first explosion happened on an Underground train just outside the busy Liverpool Street station. Further blasts hit a train heading from Russell Square station to King's Cross and another at Edgware Road station. The final explosion was on a double-decker bus.
Regiões afetadas com as explosões.
Liverpool Street08:51 Emergency services were first called after an explosion on a Tube train 100 metres (yards) from Liverpool Street station. London Underground later confirmed the blast was on a Circle line train travelling from Aldgate station to Liverpool Street.
Passenger Simon Tonkyn told of an "enormous bang and a lot of smoke". He added: "A group of us got fire extinguishers and were able to smash through the carriage door." Another man, Terry O'Shea, said passengers were led down the track past the carriage where the explosion was. "We could see the roof was torn off it, and there were bodies on the track."
Passengers were rushed out of Liverpool Street station by police and Underground staff. Mobile phones stopped working, leaving people unable to contact relatives and friends.
Russell Square - King's Cross
08:56 The second explosion was on the Piccadilly line on a Tube train travelling between Russell Square and King's Cross.
BBC News reporter Jacqui Head, who was on the train, told of a "massive bang" and added: "There was immediately smoke everywhere and it was very hot and everybody panicked. People started screaming and crying." Another passenger, Chris Fry, said that people smashed windows to get out of their carriage and started walking down the side of the train.
Anna Pacey, a nurse treating people at Russell Square, said the first people who emerged were "walking wounded" but she later saw people with more serious injuries - burns, broken bones and some who had lost limbs.
Edgware Road
09:17 The third blast was on a Circle line Underground train, just leaving Edgware Road station for Paddington.
After the blast passengers began emerging from the underground station, many covered in blood and clearly distraught. Paramedics went inside, prompting fears there may still be injured people trapped underground.
A woman passenger told the BBC there was a huge bang as two trains passed in a tunnel just outside Edgware Road. "All the lights went out and there was a lot of smoke." It later emerged that the explosion on the train blew through a wall and hit another train - or possibly two - on an adjoining platform.
Tavistock Square/ Upper Woburn Place
One eyewitness described the bus as ripped to shreds - the result "carnage". "It was a massive explosion and there were papers and half a bus flying through the air", said another.
Police do not rule out the possibility it was the work of a suicide bomber.
Chaotic scenes dominated the area all morning as injured people emerged from the Russell Square Underground station after a blast between there and King's Cross station.
Fonte BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
: 3:28 AM
