Explosion on a tube train

It doesn't look as if he was born here. Hours after being arrested at Dover police raided a house in Surrey.
This house is owned by a couple who foster refugee children.

gilly I agree with your posts. However bad we might be, whatever wrongs we have been responsible for, how does it make it right for anyone else to commit a crime?

Apparently some of these 'Muslims' believe that if they kill for their cause and are killed as a result, they will have a wonderful afterlife. I am not aware of any religious teachings which ask their followers to kill innocent people.

There is speculation in the media that the bomb was packed with screws, nails and ball bearings. The horror of that if it had exploded to full effect in such a small space is too hideous to contemplate. I keep wondering about the pregnant lady who went down in the rush to escape, with people apparently falling on top of her.

It is very sad gillybob, but it's impossible to get inside their heads to understand their reasons. You're right, there are multiple issues here.
Innocent people travelling to work or school are easy targets. My family takes the tube everyday and for a few days afterwards I feel anxious. BUT come Monday morning we won't give it much thought and will just get on with life. Unsettling times.

I just don't get it Lillie do you? It's so sad that someone ( probably) born here would hate this country so much they are hell bent in killing innocent people. Why? To prove a point? To make themselves ( in the eyes of their twisted friends) heros ? Are they so easily brainwashed ? Are they even brainwashed at all ? Or just plain evil?

18 year old ?????

Yes, gillybob, they do seem to be mainly very young terrorists. I'm guessing most of them are home grown, second generation immigrants. The first generation were only too pleased and grateful to get away from their own country, so they didn't put a foot wrong. For these younger ones, the grass is always greener on the other side.

News alert on my phone just said that the police have arrested an 18 year old man in connection with this incident!

18 year old ?????

Spain, Germany, France , Belgium

Does anyone seriously think that ISIS will give us a pat on the head and stop these terrorist attacks if we refuse to sell arms to Saudi Arabia?

I totally agree with you gillybob. Why indeed.

It's nothing to do with arms sales for goodness sake.

Strange why so many risk their lives crossing seas to get to this country

I'm not sure what the selling of arms has got to do with a murdering nutter placing a bomb on a tube train in the hope of murdering as many people as possible. Surely that's an entirely different argument. It was only sheer luck that the bomb did not detonate as it was meant to and the "white liquid" remained intact.

What I can't understand is if these people hate this country and what we stand for, so much why the bloody hell do they live here? Why don't they just piss off to whichever "ideal" state they would prefer. The sooner the better.

Good post, paddyann. It's high time we stopped selling arms (and having the biggest nuclear arms dump in Europe 30 miles from a big city) if we want to tell other countries how to behave. How many deaths are we responsible for in Yemen after selling arms to that beacon of human rights, Saudi Arabia?

lemongrove it would appear to be, because I would not choose if I were that way inclined as Parsons Green station is not underground. The train was travelling to the centre of London so obviously the bomb was detonated too soon and it did not have the expected effect, thank goodness, as it appeared to have been badly made.

Well said paddy ann

It is entirely possible that this poorly put together device is the work of some nutter.

and it came just after the government saying they would increase arms sales after Brexit ...and we wonder why people want to harm us! The damage done to other countries and millions of people by us and our "friends " in the USA is horrific ,yet we continue on our own path and destroy lives and think nobody should be angry about it ".GREAT" Britain is a joke ....as for Trump and his cohorts ...we do know the USA has tested nuclear weapons 1800 times yet he's threatening NK for just 6 ...and surrounding them with threatening forces so of course they will argue back ..lets hope it all gets sorted soon.That SOMEONE with some sense takes control before we're all blown to kingdom come

Hi mini ... it does feel as if the world's gone mad.

Doesn't it just seem as though the whole world is a seething mass of anger at the moment? Where's it all coming from?

This was my biggest fear when I did a daily commute of which an hour was on the underground.

I'm glad it wasn't worse to be honest.

The number has increased to more than 22. Apparently some were injured during the ensuing panic. I do not know if bones were broken but that is the most likely.

That's awful ... burns

18 people are injured, mainly flash burns but to my knowledge no deaths.

Like this one. (I hope no one was injured).