Today marks the tenth anniversary of the July 7 terrorist bombings in London in 2005, known as 7/7. On the morning of Thursday, 7 July 2005, four Islamist men detonated four bombs - three in quick succession aboard London Underground trains across the city and, later, a fourth on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. As well as the four bombers, 52 civilians were killed and over 700 more were injured in the attacks, the United Kingdom's worst terrorist incident since the 1988 Lockerbie … [Read more...] about 7/7 perspective 10 years on
7/7
Remembering 7/7
Eight years ago on this date - on July 7, 2005 - suicide bombers killed over 50 people in London in a series of terror attacks on buses and tube trains during the morning rush hour. More than 700 people were injured, many severely. While 7/7 wasn't of the magnitude nor horror of 9/11 four years earlier, it was very much our 9/11 moment. I was in London on that day - the day after the celebrations of the news that London had won the bid to host the 2012 Olympics - and was in a meeting … [Read more...] about Remembering 7/7