Friday, June 29, 2007

Oh God, Please let Lisa be OK

Oh hell, just look what I've just seen as I went to send an e-mail ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Police found two car bombs packed with petrol, gas and nails in London’s teeming theatre district on Friday, averting attacks that echoed an earlier al Qaeda plot and could have killed or maimed scores of people. Officers defused the first bomb, found in a green Mercedes parked outside one of London’s biggest nightclubs, the cavernous Tiger Tiger, at around 1 a.m., when hundreds were packed inside for "Sugar ’n Spice Ladies Night". The police, alerted by ambulance workers who thought they saw smoke inside the car, defused the first bomb at the scene, saying it contained gas tanks, fuel canisters and nails.Similar materials were later found in a blue Mercedes that had been parked illegally nearby and towed away. The two cars were "clearly linked" said Peter Clarke, London’s anti-terrorism police chief. "The discovery of what appears to be a second bomb is obviously troubling and reinforces the need for the public to be alert," he said.Authorities said they did not know who left the bombs but they had begun a counter-terrorism investigation. The alerts came less than two years after Islamist suicide bombers killed 52 commuters on London transport."It is obvious that if the device had detonated there could have been significant injury or loss of life," Clarke said. He said there were similarities between Friday’s incident and an earlier plot, uncovered in 2004, in which an al Qaeda militant planned to detonate gas-fuelled bombs in limousines. The ringleader of that plot, Dhiren Barot, was convicted last year. Another group of Islamic radicals were convicted this year for a plot in which a big nightclub was among the targets. Please God, let Lisa be OK. Jeepers, should I have let her go? She would have been so disappointed if I had stopped her. She's 18, she would have gone anyway wouldn't she even if I said she couldn't? London's a huge place isn't it, but they said they found the car bombs in the Theatre end of London and that's where she is. Oh Sh*t! Please let there be no more! Please let the police have found all the bombs! Please let her come home safely! How do the people of London live with this threat every day?

3 comments:

Lima said...

Oh Vanda, how awful for you. As soon as I heard the new about the second one my thoughts went to you. Keep it together sweetie, London is a big place and the police will be extra alert so will everybody else. Call her and tell her you're concerned and you love her and that may put your mind at rest a little. Praying there are no more...

Lin xxx

Unknown said...

Good that things turned out ok Vanda, big hugs for the worry though. And get you, new look bloggy :o)

Tammy said...

Vanda Vanda Vanda... Isn't this just crazy? All this terror in the world? Why must we all try to kill one another? I just don't get it, and I did pray for your lovely daughter... I guess there comes a point that we just have to leave our children in God's hands, but isn't it so hard??? Tell you what, lets build a huge under ground vault and hide our kids in there!!!!! lol... or lets go live with the highlanders in Scotland, I hear that's pretty much terrorist free!!!