Death toll likely to hit 70

[emad]

Death toll likely to hit 70
By Bruce Wilson and Peter Trute
July 11, 2005

The official toll last night stood at 49, but police sources said it was likely to top 70, with bodies still yet to be retrieved from King's Cross Tube station.

Police also revealed the three train blasts occurred within 50seconds of one another, at about 8.50am rather than at intervals across 26 minutes, as initially believed.

A fourth blast, which ripped apart a double-decker bus, is now expected to have claimed at least 13 lives.

Britain's terror alert spread to the major provincial city of Birmingham yesterday when police evacuated 20,000 people from its centre and supervised a series of controlled explosions.

http://finance.news.com.au/story/0,10166,15888006-462,00.html

[mcgee85]

1. Thanks for the update

I'm trying to find some like minded people that are ready to take on FOX.
The comments by (Lets war profiteer)Brit Hume, and (It's OK if our allies
suffer terrorist attacks) Josh Gibson. Fox's attitude is un american and should be challenged. I would like the group that organized the Sinclair advertiser blitz to target Fox.

[James T. Kirk]

2. Terrible

Those terrorists are sick. Nothing justifies this slaughter.
:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

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3. Deleted message

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[StrafingMoose]

4. Shhh...

It's prisonplanet. Even when prisonplanet reports simply that 1+1=2, they are flat wrong and slanderous, thus a bad source.

<end of sarcasm>

[Moderator]

7. FYI

Prisonplanet is a conspiracy site and not suitable for a THREAD starter in LBN. Ironically, the deleted post above was done because it was a copy and paste of the whole article ( exceeded the four paragraph rule)

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. I'll repeat what I said about the Prison Planet page

Visor Consultants (not a PR firm, as Prison Planet inexplicably describes them, but a crisis management company - these do exist - they tell you how to manage crises, unsurprisingly, eg what to have as backup systems, emergency premises, who is in charge of what in emergencies, who can take over from whom, and so on - any large company has to have these plans. I took part in such exercises for one of my previous employers), was running an exercise for a company, which has over 1,000 employees in London (NB: Prison Planet describes this as a 1,000 person strong exercise, but that's not what Power said; he said he had a room full of crisis managers - maybe 10, maybe 50?).

Now, lots of companies run various disaster exercises. They involve a lot of pushing bits of paper around, and getting people to pretend to make the decisions in a scenario; or you have to set up your computer systems from backups at a separate site; or things like that. It is slightly spooky that Power says the same stations were involved (if he means all 3, and that they hadn't picked any others: picking King's Cross and Liverpool St. wouldn't be that unusual - they're 2 of the biggest commuter stations in London, and so would be likely targets).

But there's no evidence there that this had anything to do with the real world. It was not an exercise involving the real public transport network, or the emergency services. It was a company working out how it would respond to bombs in London. So there isn't any reason to don tin foil hats. I'd imagine there's at least one company in London doing this each week.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

6. The choice of stations was obvious.

Especially King's Cross. That place is a nightmare, and they've got lots of data from when things have gone wrong there in the past (fire, for instance.) I hate using that station for the very reason that getting *out* of it is an ordeal under the best of circumstances.

[StrafingMoose]

8. You assume that...

"I'd imagine there's at least one company in London doing this each week."

We don't have to assume anything. Let Power speak and see what was the dept of this drill was. If anyone got anything about the Visor drill, please post it. (OK, not from PrisonPlanet though) :P