Tsunami Alert

CNN is now reporting that a tsunami alert has been issued throughout the Indian Ocean basin follwing a 7+ magnitude earthquake centered near the Nicobar Islands.

“In an hour or less, a tsunami could hit all coasts of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India and, in Indonesia, the Indian Ocean coast and Malacca coast of Sumatra.”

(CNN)

Blasts Rock Egypt Resort Town - Update - Three Explosions

Breaking

Reuters:

An explosion shook the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Saturday, starting a fire and sending a cloud of smoke up over the town, a resident said.

The explosion, audible more than one km (half a mile) away, appeared to take place in a market area which includes shops popular with tourists, said the resident, who asked not to be named.

Will update.

update:

The first explosion, shortly after one a.m., was audible more than one km (half a mile) away, he said. It started a fire and smoke billowed over the town.

About 15 minutes later, two explosions were audible from the direction of Naama Bay, about six km (four miles) away, he said. Naama Bay has dozens of luxury hotels popular with divers and holidaymakers from Europe.

This source says three killed in five blasts.

Update: Confirmed car bombs, moving this to GWoT page

Winds HateWatch Briefing: 2005-07-15

Welcome! This briefing will be looking hard at the dark places the mainstream media sometimes seem determined to look away from, to better understand our declared enemies on their own terms and without illusions. Our goal is to bring you some of the top jihadi rants, idiotarian seething, and old-school Jew-hatred from around the world, leaving you more informed, more aware, and pretty disgusted every month. This Winds of Change.NET HateWatch briefing is brought to you by zorkmidden of Discarded Lies. Lewy14 is on vacation. Past briefings and posts on related topics can be found here. Entil’zha veni!

HIGHLIGHTED TOPICS

• Religious Hate: Van Gogh’s muderer speaks chilling words at trial; Suicide bomber kills 4 in Netanya; Hate crimes in Britain after London bombings; US Muslim woman files suit over headscarf issue; Christians in Rajasthan attacked by Hindu extremists; Four mosques vandalised in New Zealand; Virginia church vandalized after gay marriage endorsement;

• Idiotarian Seethings: Head of London Center for Islamic History: In Islam, there are no such things as civilians; American Muslim leader: Jews control the media and don’t let us spread our ideas; Anti-Americanism in Australia; Toyota spends $100,000, sponsors Farrakhan; Polish MP: “We can&’t tolerate any persons who are open about their homosexuality”

• Race and Culture: Holocaust imagery used to advertise dance rave in Holland; Racism increasing in Portugal; Jewish community offices spray painted with swastikas in the Ukraine; anti-Europeanism and anti-Americanism; Bulgarian fascist party targets Jews; PA textbooks reject peace, present “Protocols” as historical fact; Racism in Japan ‘deep and profound’; Hate groups use racist video games to recruit teens;

• A Hopeful Note: Kuwaitis talk back to radical imams in the mosque; American Muslim groups urge mosque rights for women; The Shape of the Future; Support for bin Laden and suicide attacks declines in Muslim countries;

Retired Gen. William Westmoreland Dies

Retired Gen. William Westmoreland, who commanded American troops in Vietnam — the nation’s longest conflict and the only war America lost — died Monday night. He was 91.

Westmoreland died of natural causes at Bishop Gadsden retirement home, where he had lived with his wife for several years, said his son, James Ripley Westmoreland.

More about Westmoreland here
A CNN interview with him here
Wikipedia entry
More stories here

Chinese General Threatens Nuclear War

The Financial Times reports a Chinese general said on Thursday that China is prepared to use nuclear weapons against the U.S. if China is attacked by the U.S. during a confrontation over Taiwan:

“If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition on to the target zone on China’s territory, I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons,” said General Zhu Chenghu.

[. . .]

We . . . will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all of the cities east of Xian. Of course the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds . . . of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese.

From California Yankee.

22 School Children Slaughtered in Kenya

AT least 22 schoolchildren have reportedly been shot dead in a brutal raid on a remote village in northeastern Kenya.
A total of 66 were killed in what is believed to be the country’s worst-ever single episode of inter-clan violence, a local politician said.

Bonaya Godana, the member of parliament for North Horr district in which the attack took place, said that 56 villagers, most of them young children and their mothers, had been killed in yesterday’s raid on Turbi village.

Police said earlier that 10 of the attackers had also been killed.
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Mr Godana, a former Kenyan foreign minister who was touring the scene of the brutal attack, said many of the victims had been shot dead while preparing to go to school.

“As of this morning, 56 of our people have been confirmed dead and of them are 22 schoolchildren, and most of them died in their school uniforms,” he said, adding that 10 schoolchildren were among those seriously wounded in the attack.

Read more…

Srebrenica Ceremony Marks 10 Years Since Massacre

The families of Bosnian Muslim men and boys who were killed by Serb forces in the mining town of Srebrenica are gathering today to mark the 10th anniversary of the massacre, the worst slaughter in Europe since World War II.

More than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim males died when Srebrenica was overrun by soldiers commanded by General Ratko Mladic, who has been indicted by the United Nations war-crimes court in The Hague on charges that include genocide in connection with the massacre during Bosnia’s 1992-1995 civil war.

50,000 will mark Srebrenica, but the bitterness still endures

“May grief become hope, may revenge become justice, may mothers’ tears become prayers, that Srebrenica never happens again,” reads one of the stones.

Among the hundreds of flimsy wooden grave markers, the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, Serbia’s President Boris Tadic, Bosnia’s high representative, Paddy Ashdown, and many other dignitaries will bow their heads today, assenting to the view that Srebrenica’s atrocities belong to history, as irrevocably as VE Day.

The Srebenica massacre

Srebrenica: A Cry From the Grave

BBC: Timeline of Srebrenica

Dennis Flickr Photos

There are an increasing number of photos over at Flickr tagged “Dennis” with more being added all the time.

Good collection here.

Check out this photo (not on Flickr - Weather channel has some great reader photos)

Hurricane Dennis V/ Landfall [updated 5:14pmEST]

Live feed from WKRG can be found here.

Emergency phone numbers

9am position estimate

All reports say Dennis is still strengthening.

3 year old boy first Dennis related fatality:

Waves pound beach; Dennis about one hour away from landfall:

Hurricane Dennis closed in on the Gulf Coast on Sunday with battering waves and high wind after strengthening into a dangerous Category 4 storm, roaring toward a region still patching up damage from a hurricane 10 months ago.

As the eye of the storm got closer to shore Sunday, wind exceeding 45 mph blew rain sideways and rolling waves pounded piers and beaches. Landfall was expected Sunday afternoon somewhere along the coast of the Florida Panhandle or Alabama in virtually the same spot as last year’s Hurricane Ivan.

More here

4:00pm

The storm landed as a category 3 hurricane

RADAR OBSERVATIONS INDICATE THAT HURRICANE DENNIS MADE LANDFALL AT 1925Z…225 PM CDT…ON SANTA ROSA ISLAND BETWEEN NAVARRE BEACH AND PENSACOLA BEACH FLORIDA. DATA FROM THE STEPPED FREQUENCY MICROWAVE RADIOMETER ON BOARD THE NOAA HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT…AS WELL AS FLIGHT-LEVEL OBSERVATIONS FROM NOAA AND AIR FORCE RESERVE
AIRCRAFT…INDICATE THAT THE LANDFALL INTENSITY OF DENNIS WAS 100
TO 105 KT…115 TO 120 MPH…CATEGORY THREE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON
HURRICANE SCALE.

Satellite photo here

Dennis slams Pensacola

More here and here

5:14

Damage reports from Pensacola
More at Reuters
Local help for victims
Latest warnings
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HURRICANE COVERAGE ON BLOGS

We’ll keep/update the list of blogs covering the storm on this post, at the bottom of any further updates.

Alabama weather blog
Weather Undeground blog, also here.
Brendan Loy
Jordan Golson
Eye of the Storm
Foot’s Forecast
Eye on Dennis
Hurricane!
Razor Kiss is liveblogging and has a good links list
Pensacola Beach blog has signed off for the day.
Coalition of the Swilling
Jim Matheis
Stay safe, those in the way.

Collection of Dennis-related photos here.

Mobile Alabama Sources

Mobile, Alabama is in Dennis’ crosshairs this morning; here are some local Mobile, AL news sources:

• AL.com has a storm blog here. Not updated since last night, but plenty of local details. (And oddly, to me the AL.com coverage seems a bit cheery … personally, I’d be scared off my rocker.)

• WPMI TV has local coverage, as does their AM radio partner, NewsRadio 710.

• WKRG Mobile has local coverage, and a blog as well, which is much more bloggy than that of AL.com. Lots of local photos and first-person entries, including a note that many of the folks from WKRG have hunkered down with their pets at the station, and this post about life in news as Dennis approaches:

I think it was Mark Twain who once said “in the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time.” This is one of those times.

Covering a hurricane is a journalist’s double-edged sword. We all understand the obligation to provide information that can mean the difference between life and death. It’s also a time when a journalist has to leave his or her family. We do our jobs, but that awful feeling in the pit of our stomach stays with us. Working for a station like WKRG and a company like Media General makes it less painful. If you could take a quick tour around the studio in Mobile, you’d understand. We’re in our second day of 12 hour shifts. The folks who just got off are asleep on the floor. The community affairs and sales department cooked up a pot of spaghetti tonight that would make Emeril jealous. I only wish we could get the hot meal to our crews working in the field.

Media General asked what extra resources we needed in Mobile…and within a day 10 company employees arrived to assist the dedicated WKRG employees providing 24/7 live continuing coverage. We’re now in our 14th hour. Employees from Media General stations and newspapers in Birmingham, Lexington, Wichita, Spartanburg, Savannah, Charleston, Opelika left their jobs and families to come to Mobile to help. Their hotel closed, so they’ve joined our employees sleeping on the floor. We thank them.

No one knows where Dennis will make landfall or how strong he’ll be. News 5 reporter Steve Alexander may have put it best as he gazed out over the Gulf of Mexico in his afternoon live report from Pensacola Beach. “Dennis is knocking at our doorstep”.

Be safe.

Be safe indeed.

Hurricane Dennis IV: Updates/blog links [updated 9:45 am]

Morning updates:

Dennis is back to a category 4 storm and is now located 175 miles south/southeast of Pensacola, Florida.

A hurricane warning remains in effect for portions of the
Northeastern gulf coast from the Steinhatchee River westward to the
mouth of the Pearl River. Satellite image here.

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With nearly 1.4 million people under evacuation orders, some towns in the projected path were left almost deserted. Landfall was expected Sunday afternoon somewhere along the coast of the Florida Panhandle, Alabama or Mississippi.

After weakening to a Category 2 storm over Cuba, Dennis regrouped in the Gulf on Saturday and became a Category 4 storm again early Sunday, with sustained winds of 145 mph.

“Category 4 is not just a little bit worse _ it’s much worse,” said Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. “Damage increases exponentially as the wind speed increases. And no matter where it makes actual landfall, it’s going to have a tremendous impact well away from the center.”

Dennis’ expected landfall on Sunday would be the earliest a Category 4 hurricane has hit the United States since Hurricane Audrey struck the Louisiana and Texas coasts in June 1957, according to the National Hurricane Center.

For all news and updates on the aftermath in Cuba, please check here.

Blogs with coverage:

Razorkiss

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Alabama weather blog
Weather Undeground blog, also here.
Brendan Loy
Jordan Golson
Eye of the Storm
Foot’s Forecast

Collection of Dennis-related photos here.

Latest strike map (click for bigger):

9:45:

Curfews in some areas
Power could be out for three weeks
Updated strike probablities here

Latest satellite:

Hurricane Dennis III : Storm Regains Major Hurricane Status[updated 7:20pmEST]

Dennis has weakened a bit as it heads to the states.

Here is what the warning/watch situation looks like now (last updated 5am).

The death toll in Cuba is at 20. The storm also killed 15 people in Haiti before slamming into Cuba.

In southern Haiti, 15 people died when a swollen river tore away a bridge. The total number of deaths in Haiti reached 22, according to various officials.

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Cuban authorities had evacuated more than 600,000 people in different parts of the country as Dennis approached the southern city of Cienfuegos. But the measures, which usually allow the Communist island to escape hurricane strikes with minimal casualties, failed to prevent 10 deaths on Thursday night.

Cuban President Fidel Castro said most of the victims died in collapsed houses in two coastal towns in Granma province. An 18-day-old baby was among those who died, he said on state television, calling the hurricane a “diabolical force.”

Officials said 15,400 of the adjacent towns’ 20,000 homes were destroyed or damaged. Television images showed rows of clapboard houses flattened by the storm.

Dennis is now Category 2, with 110 mph winds, but experts expect it to pick up strength as it heads over the waters towards the US coast.

You can see here that the hurricane doesn’t look as tight and concentrated as it did yesterday.

..to be updated…

11:45:

Hurricane Dennis Swipes Florida Keys

Coastal residents packed up and evacuated or hunkered down Saturday as Hurricane Dennis lashed the Florida Keys with wind and sheets of rain and churned along a path toward areas still rebuilding from last year’s storms.

More than 1 million people from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana were under evacuation orders. Landfall was expected Sunday afternoon anywhere from the Florida Panhandle to southeast Louisiana.

“This is a very dangerous storm and we hope that you will evacuate,” Gov. Jeb Bush said to residents in the Panhandle.

Updated warnings and watches

Position estimate

Some blogs talking about Dennis:

Nicholas Roussos
Hurricane Land
Mike Bonnett

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3:36PM

Dennis cuts power to all of Key West

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Coastal residents packed up and evacuated or hunkered down Saturday as Hurricane Dennis lashed the Florida Keys with wind and sheets of rain and charged toward areas still rebuilding from last year’s storms.

More than 1 million people from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana were under evacuation orders. Landfall was expected Sunday afternoon anywhere from the Florida Panhandle to southeast Louisiana.

“This is a very dangerous storm and we hope that you will evacuate,” Gov. Jeb Bush said to residents in the Panhandle.

The latest warning from the Hurricane Center says Dennis is reorganizing.
Check out the satellite image here - looks much more like a hurricane than it did this morning.

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7:20

Million told to flee as Dennis closes in

The storm was on a north-west track that could take it to landfall today local time between Florida’s north-western panhandle and Mississippi - an area still recovering from a battering by Hurricane Ivan in September.

Dennis could be Cat. 4 at landfall

Hurricane Dennis is rapidly intensifying and could be a Category 4 storm at landfall near the Florida/Alabama state line, the National Hurricane Center reported in its 4 p.m. briefing.

Reports from aircraft reconnaissance and signs of the storm resuming its track toward Northwest Florida have National Hurricane Center and National Weather Service forecasters concerned that this storm will be more intense and have higher storm surge than Hurricane Ivan, which made landfall in Gulf Shores, Ala., on Sept. 16 as a Category 3.

Thousands lose power, tornadoes touch down in South Florida

Update from Hurricane Center:

REPORTS FROM AN AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT INDICATE
THAT THE CENTRAL PRESSURE OF DENNIS HAS FALLEN RAPIDLY TO 947 MB.
DENNIS HAS REGAINED DANGEROUS MAJOR HURRICANE STATUS…CATEGORY 3
ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON HURRICANE SCALE…WITH MAXIMUM SUSTAINED
WINDS OF 115 MPH. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE EVEN MORE THIS
EVENING.

Check this out:

Looks a lot different than this morning.

Hurricane Dennis II

News from Weather Undeground:

Dennis has come ashore on the south coast of Cuba, and it took one of the worst possible landfall trajectories—a 70-mile long track scraping the coast with its right eyewall. The right eyewall contains the hurricane’s strongest winds and highest storm surge, and normally only a 5 to 10 mile section of coast suffers it. Cuba just had 70 miles of coast with some of its prime tourist areas suffer a storm surge of at least 13 feet, and probably 20 feet or higher in many places. Add to this the hurricane’s sustained winds of 145 - 150 mph, and the result will be a multi-billion dollar destruction of a key part of the island’s economy. Dennis has also made a direct hit on Cienfuegos, a city of 200,000, and is now aiming at the Caribbean’s largest city, Havana. The destruction occurring in Cuba from this storm must be truly staggering.

Also:

Today will be the worst day in Cuba’s modern history. Dennis is a worst-case hurricane following a worst-case path for the island. The storm is already punishing Cuba as it moves parallel to the island, subjecting much of the island to hurricane force winds and rainfall totals of 10 - 15 inches, and destroying much of the rich sugar cane fields and other crops. The situation will get much worse tonight when the storm makes landfall, pushing a storm surge of 20 feet or higher onto a long section of the coast. Dennis will pass near Havana, the most heavily populated part of the island. Although loss of life will be low thanks to Cuba’s excellent civil defense system, the destruction of buildings will probably be the worst in Cuba’s history

Will update as we get more updates.

5:34pm:

18 dead in Haiti

Tourists evacuated as hurricane hits Guantanamo Bay

From National Weather Service:

REPORTS FROM THE CUBAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE AND CIVIL DEFENSE THROUGH HAM RADIO OPERATORS INDICATE A WIND GUST TO 149 MPH
OCCURRED AT CIENFUEGOS CUBA AROUND 130 PM EDT. MORE THAN 85 PERCENT
OF THE POWERLINES WERE DOWN AND EXTENSIVE DAMAGE HAS OCCURRED TO
THE COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE.

Blogger 26th parallel has links and updates

Satellite view of storm, 5:31 pm via Weather Channel.

You can see a loop of the storm in action here (java).

7:00pm

At least ten killed in Cuba

More from Cuba:

Powerful Hurricane Dennis struck Cuba Friday in Cuba, entering through the bay of the central province of Cienfuegos, 250 kilometres east of Havana, officials said.

The hurricane’s eye reached Cuba early Friday afternoon and maximum sustained winds slowed slightly as it moved over island.

The storm’s raging winds and intense rains had already caused power outages in most of Cuba as well as heavy flooding, but there were no immediate reports of injuries, the Cienfuegos office of Civil Defence said.

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8:30pm

Reuters:

Hurricane Dennis roared through the Caribbean on Friday, leaving 10 dead in Cuba and 22 in Haiti before aiming for Havana on a course toward the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, where oil rigs and vulnerable coastal areas were evacuated.

The storm weakened slightly as it crossed Cuba but the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Cuban meteorologists had reported a 149-mph (240 kph) gust that caused extensive damage in the city of Cienfuegos.

Updated public advisory

Hurricane Dennis

Hurricane Dennis has strengthened to a category 4 hurricane.

The storm is working its way through Haiti now and headed towards the Florida panhandle.

The Hurricane Center in Miami said the eye was swirling over water about 230 miles southeast of Havana, Cuba, and about 285 miles southeast of Key West, Fla. It was moving to the northwest at about 12 miles an hour.

It has already killed five people in Haiti and people from the Florida Keys to Louisiana are fleeing or making preparations in advance of Dennis’s arrival.

Forecasters warned residents from Florida to Louisiana to be ready this weekend for Hurricane Dennis, with top winds already at 135 mph. The Category 4 storm was projected to hit the Gulf Coast by Sunday and the National Hurricane Center warned Dennis had become “an extremely dangerous” storm.

Gov. Jeb Bush has already declared a state of emergency.

You can track Dennis here. We’ll be giving the storm full coverage, so stay tuned for news, updates, links and emergency/evactuation postings.

10:51:

Dennis closes in on Cuba:

Packing devastating 135 mph winds, Hurricane Dennis tore down a guard tower at the U.S. detention camp for terror suspects as it stalked Cuba’s south coast and prepared Friday to strike into the heart of the largest Caribbean island.

[…]

The eye was taking aim at central Cuba Friday morning from 60 miles at sea, a few miles short of the storm’s most dangerous winds, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

“It’s right off the coast, they’ll be getting hurricane-force winds before long if they haven’t already,” meteorologist Trisha Wallace told The Associated Press by telephone from the center in Miami.

Hurricane-force winds extended 50 miles with tropical storm force winds stretching another 140 miles. Dennis was moving northwest near 12 mph.

Three day track - click for bigger.

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3:40pm

• Southern Walton County in the Florida Panhandle will be evacuated beginning at 4 p.m. Friday.

• Eglin Air Force Base in Florida was ordered evacuated. The evacuees were told to get at least 100 miles away from the base by noon Saturday.

• The Lower Keys Medical Center closed, and even emergencies were not treated.

• Florida and Alabama remained under a state of emergency declared by their governors.

[Via AP]

Forecasting Dennis: Why it may get stronger

N. Korea Executes Christians for Their Beliefs

From the Joongang Ilbo, a major South Korea daily, comes a new report of a ruthless new wave of religious persecution:

Citing interviews with North Korean defectors, a Seoul-based research institute said yesterday that the regime in Pyongyang is continuing an aggressive campaign to suppress underground churches in the country.

The 2005 North Korea Human Rights White Paper published by the Korea Institute of National Unification reported a number of executions of religious figures operating underground Protestant churches in the North. In 2001, five people found guilty of conducting missionary work were executed by firing squad in Nampo.

North Korean defectors are quoted in the report as saying that Pyongyang is doing everything it can to stop the spread of Protestantism in the communist country. According to the report, 86 members of underground churches were rounded up in the early 1990s in Anak, South Hanghae province, some of whom were executed while the rest were sent to political prisons.

A North Korean defector said he had once participated in a three-year long operation to uproot an underground church in 1996. Since 1997, North Korea has been instructing its people to report any kind of proselytizing to the authorities.

Explosions in London Underground; Casualties Reported [Updated continuosly]

Very spotty coverage coming in right now - police say it was a power surge, but reports of a bus also exploding give question to that…

Original BBC story here

Explosions close London Underground

This blog has a rumor of thirty dead

BBC has confirmed the bus explosion as well as casualties and confirmed the presence of an explosive on the underground.

Updates below:

CNN is calling it a coordinated terrorist attack.

Scotland Yard has confirmed explosives….

More coming… It’s hard to get on the BBC and Sky news sites right now…I’m getting most of my news from friends in London, CNN tv, the BBC radio feed works sometimes..

All trains into London have been stopped. Roads are closed, etc.

CNN is now reporting six different explosions.

There are still people reporting power surges, but most reports are saying confirmed explosives, and that explosives have been found in trash bins.

CNN ticker says at least three bus bombings..

Kind of confusing…they are talking about power surges right now on CNN, but that doesn’t explain a bus being blown in half

Now CNN is saying nine explosions…

Keep scrolling at this blog…constant updates

BBC is reporting another blast

Some working links..

Reuters
AP

FOX is reporting at least 90 casualties

“I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang, I turned round and half the double decker bus was in the air,” Belinda Seabrook told Press Association (search), the British news agency.

Photo from Kings Cross here

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The health services are in support to deal with the terrible injuries that there have been,” Clarke told reporters outside Downing Street.

Number 10 said it was “still unsure” whether the explosions were a terrorist attack and although casualties were reported, no further details were yet available.

Ministers are meeting to clarify the situation and the government will make a statement later, Leader of the House Geoff Hoon told the Commons.

Confirmed explosions: A bus at Tavistock Square, and two at Aldgate East and Edgware Road Tube station

Via comments: Swindon Train station (100 miles west of london) and Brighton Station (South Coast) are reported to be experiencing “security Situations”, they are being evacuated.

Map from BBC

[Thanks to TFark members for lots of this breaking info]

Two deaths confirmed…

Police responding to reports at the Edgware Road, Kings Cross, Liverpool Street, Russell Square, Aldgate East and Moorgate subway stations….also rumors of controlled explosions forthcoming at Russell Square.

ALL public transport in London closed.

Forbes reports police investigating this as a terrorist incident.

“When they led us to safety, I went past the carriage where I think the explosion was. It was the second one from the front.

“The metal was all blown outwards and there were people inside being helped by paramedics.

“One guy was being tended outside on the track. His clothes were torn off and he seemed pretty badly burned.

Union: Explosive device on tube

The Guardian is live blogging:

1110 PA is reporting fears of “many” dead after a series of what are now, patently, terrorist bomb blasts around the city. Eyewitness reports talk of terrible injuries, and “many fatalities”.

Blair will be making a statement soon

BBC: that the mobile phone networks have been shut down in London to prevent remote detonations (thanks again for the updates, Rich)

More pictures here

First person accounts at BBC

There’s already talk of al Qaida, though it’s all speculation right now which, of course, they are asking people not to do - but several news sites are quoting “sources” as saying this is the work of AQ. We’re waiting for confirmation of terrorism before moving this story to the GWoT page.

image from Newsday

BBC reporting that the army is moving into the area

More photos at flickr - they are off the tv, but are better than what I’m getting here in the states

BBC text only coverage, if you are having trouble accessing that site.

CNN has a timeline of today’s events

I hear that BBC is reporting al Qaeda is responsible for the attacks but I can’t get on to the site right now…

Normblog has updates

Londonblogger has pictures (via Jeff Jarvis, who has lots of links)

AP: Police find indications of explosives at scene of one of a series of blasts in London, London’s police chief says.

London hospitals on full alert

Reports of many people still trapped underground.

Photos here

On Fox: JERUSALEM — Senior Israeli official says Scotland Yard (search) told Israel minutes before explosions it had received warnings of possible terror attacks.

Blair speaking - he will be leaving G8.

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR SAYS IT’S “REASONABLY CLEAR” THAT BLASTS WERE TERROR ATTACKS.

I am going to mirror this whole post at the GWoT page, but updates will only continue there.

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