Over 33 killed in London blasts & Egypt's top envoy to Iraq kiled - Al Qaeda again !?

Over 33 killed, nearly 300 hurt in London blasts

In the bloodiest terror attack in London in three decades, suspected Islamic militants on Thursday carried out coordinated blasts in underground stations and a bus killing more than 33 people and injuring nearly 300 of which 45 were serious.

Sky television, however, said at least 45 people were killed in the explosions.

Thirty three people died in the explosions at three stations and there were unspecified number of fatalities in the blast in the double-decker bus that ripped through its roof, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of Metropolitan police, Brian Paddick, told a crowded press conference.

A visibly shaken Prime Minister Tony Blair, hosting the G-8 summit of the world's richest nations at Gleneagles in Scotland, said it was "reasonably clear" that there has been a series of terrorist attacks.

HERE you can view a part from his emotional speech.

A previously unknown al-Qaeda-linked group claimed the responsibility for the attacks. Italian news agency ANSA said that Secret Group of Al-Qaeda's Jihad in Europe in a website posting also warned Italy and Denmark to withdraw their troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

However, Paddick said police have not received any claim of responsibility. "We don't know whether it is a genuine claim. We are looking at all leads."
Paddick said seven people were killed in the first explosion in an underground railway tunnel near Moorgate on the edge of London's financial district, 21 in a second near King's Cross and another five at Edgware Road station in West London. There were fatalities in the explosion in the bus at Tavistock Square.

He said nearly 300 people were injured in the explosions of which 45 were serious. The injured were being treated at various hospitals.

The explosions in the three stations occurred within a span of 26 minutes while the fourth blast in the bus took place half-an-hour later during the morning rush hour.

Describing the situation as "fluid", Paddick said the underground transport system of London will remain closed on Thursday and is likely to restart operations on Friday.

Immediately after the terror strikes, authorities shut down the entire underground network and bus services and asked people to stay wherever they were till the situation was brought under control. However, airports operated normally.

Meanwhile… Egypt's top envoy to Iraq, Ihab al-Sherif, has been killed, according to a Web posting Thursday attributed to al Qaeda in Iraq.

"...We, the al Qaeda in the land of the two rivers, announce that the verdict of God against the ambassador of the infidels, the ambassador of Egypt, has been executed, praise be to God," the statement said.

Islamic militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi heads al Qaeda in Iraq. The statement was posted on a Web site commonly used by the group to make statements.

Al Qaeda in Iraq has claimed responsibility for kidnapping the diplomat near his Baghdad home on Saturday.

This is the Web statement refers to al-Zarqawi, called "our sheikh." :

"May God protect him and make his aiming precise and his feet steadfast. The consultative council for the al Qaeda in Iraq is determined to confront the Jews and the crusaders and all those who side with them. “ […] "We threaten all the countries of the tyrants and tell them that the land of the two rivers is no longer a safe place for the infidels because in it God has granted power to a group of mujahedeen men who are fighting for the sake of God."

On Wednesday the group, citing Islamic law, said that Shariah courts of al Qaeda met and decided that al-Sherif should be killed. The group condemned Egyptian policies and posted ID cards belonging to al-Sherif. He arrived in Iraq last month, the first diplomat to represent an Arab country in Iraq after the ouster of Saddam Hussein.

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The world is boiling... with the G8, the Live 8, the London Terrorist atack, the Iraq crisis... and Romania is boiling to... as you can read in my post below!

Romania's Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu said today that his Cabinet would resign and early elections would be called after the Constitutional Court's ruling blocked essential justice reforms required by the European Union.

IT IS the TIME for JUSTICE and the Time for TRUTH…
God Bless Romania!

And it's also time for Peace and Tolerance in the world...Let's Live and let Live!

Let's stand United and support Freedom and our way of living, let's stop both poverty and terror, let's stop unnecesary and barbaric death, either caused by extreme poverty or barbaric terrorism acts...

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