Talk:July 2005 London bombings

Header Section: "suicide bombings"
The article refers to both sets of attacks as "suicide bombings". This is not the case. The second set of attacks look like suicide bombing attempts but are emphatically not suicide bombings and have thus resulted in a manhunt for the bombers caught on CCTV.

Suspect packages
There have been two classes of suspect package incident: Do we need to distinguish between the two and briefly list locations?
 * 1) Suspect packages reported with resulting alerts and controlled explosions (various false alarms all over the place)
 * 2) Suspect packages (or explosives) discovered in the course of investigations and subjected to controlled explosions (Luton, (?)Leeds)

Not sure where to put this. (Report on Interview with British Envoy to Israel)
UK envoy: Nowhere is safe from global terror by David Horovitz, published in the Jerusalem Post, July 28, 2005 22:14, Updated Jul. 29, 2005


 * If it were up to him, says Britain's ambassador to Israel, Simon McDonald, the BBC would call terrorists terrorists, rather than use terms such as militants, extremists and bombers to describe those who deliberately kill innocents for political purposes.

Klonimus 00:13, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Synchronized?
Last I'd heard, the second bombing was actually unrelated to the first, and the first group didn't know anything about them...that doesn't seem "synchronized" is the word, more like copycat, no? I could be out of date on some news about the second round of bombings though, feel free to argue otherwise Sherurcij 20:53, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

the shooting by policemen
should the killing of an innocent man by mistake by police as part of the investigation be mentioned here? Plugwash 23:11, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Duplicate, needs dealing with
This article seems to part-duplicate the more comprehensive 7 July 2005 London bombings and 21 July 2005 London bombings. Perhaps any material here not in the other articles should be copied to the other articles, then this article deleted or redirected? comment by Pol098 at 21:46, 4 March 2006


 * This article is of significantly less quality as to the 7 July 2005 London bombings. Suggest moving any information in this article to 7 July 2005 London bombings if it isn't their already FK0071a 12:25, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Article gutted
As this article almost entirely duplicates the two articles dealing in detail with the two attacks, and this invites repetition and has no advantage (I spent a fair time writing stuff here which I later found in the individual articles), I have deleted all details on the individual attacks (i.e., most of the text), and left only a little stuff common to both.

It may be worth mining the revision prior to my gutting to see if there are any nuggets for the main articles.

Pol098 21:33, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

I've since checked the article for new material, finding only a reference to the fiery cross shape of the bombings, which I've copied to the appropriate article. As far as I am concerned the article should stay as it is as of this writing. While people may be tempted to add things common to both attacks here, it's likely that others will add them to the 7 Jul and the 21 Jul articles too.

Pol098 01:47, 13 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Agreed. This article is of significantly less quality as to the 7 July 2005 London bombings. Suggest moving any information in this article to 7 July 2005 London bombings if it isn't their already FK0071a 12:29, 12 May 2006 (UTC)