U.K. Parliament Terrorist Attack

[BoSoxGal]

TERROR IN LONDON Parliament terror attack – Two dead and others ‘catastrophically’ injured after 4×4 mows down a dozen people on Westminster Bridge – as terror cops hunt ‘second suspect’
Suspect was shot by cops after police officer was stabbed outside Parliament

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3151786/w ... test-news/

[BoSoxGal]

4 dead including a suspect, 20 injured.

[Long Run]

BSG,could you please resize your sig line, it takes up 18 inches of screen space. Thanks

[Econoline]

BSG,could you please resize your sig line, it takes up 18 inches of screen space. Thanks

YES! PLEASE!!!!!


I must have a slightly larger monitor than you, LR; it takes up 20½ inches (vertically) on my screen.

[Gob]

Police officer Keith Palmer has died after being stabbed outside the Houses of Parliament

Four other people died, including attacker, and at least 40 others were injured

The attacker drove into people on Westminster Bridge before reaching the Houses of Parliament

The attacker was shot and killed by police

Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley says it is believed the attacker was inspired by international terrorism

Theresa May condemns the attack as "sick and depraved"

The PM insists attempts to undermine British values are 'doomed to failure'

Met Police urge anyone worried about friends and family to call its casualty bureau on 0800 056 0944 or 020 7158 0010

[BoSoxGal]

BSG,could you please resize your sig line, it takes up 18 inches of screen space. Thanks

YES! PLEASE!!!!!


I must have a slightly larger monitor than you, LR; it takes up 20½ inches (vertically) on my screen.

Sorry guys, it looked not very big on either my laptop or phone. Please let me know if it's better now.

[Econoline]

Much better; thanks!

[Gob]

[Gob]

An American man has been named as one of the victims of Wednesday's deadly attack in London,

Kurt Cochran, 54 and from Utah, died in the attack and his wife Melissa was seriously hurt, their family has said.

They were celebrating a 25th wedding anniversary and also visiting Melissa's parents, who work on a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints mission.

They were struck when the attacker drove a car over Westminster Bridge, near the Houses of Parliament.

So-called Islamic State has said it was behind the attack, which left four people dead, including the attacker. Eight people have so far been arrested.

[dales]

Hell, they made it through the gawdam blitz.

I don't honestly believe that one islamist nutcase can counter that bravery.

[BoSoxGal]

They won't build a stupid wall or ban refugees, either.

[Econoline]

• “We are not afraid,” declared Prime Minister Theresa May after the latest Islamist horror on Westminster Bridge. She went on about the importance of being “normal.” It’s a very British response to terrorism. It’s called stoicism — a quality unknown, it appears, in the home of the “brave.” Perhaps its highest moment of sangfroid was when the IRA bombed the very hotel in Brighton where the prime minister and much of her cabinet were staying while attending their annual party conference in 1981. Thatcher herself would have been killed if she had been in a different room in her hotel suite. A leading cabinet member had to be hauled out of rubble. Nonetheless, the next day, Thatcher, utterly undaunted, got up and gave her speech — almost as if nothing had happened. A few days later, she insisted: “We suffered a tragedy not one of us could have thought would happen in our country. And we picked ourselves up and sorted ourselves out as all good British people do.” Keep calm and carry on, and all that.
  
  Compare this with, say, the reaction to the Boston marathon bombing. An entire city was brought to a standstill and locked down, while the pursuit of a deranged, unarmed teenager continued. You can understand that, I suppose, given that the suspect was still at large. But to subsequently celebrate the event with the slogan “Boston Strong” was perverse. The truth was: “Boston Shit-Scared.”
  
  The response of Americans to terror is to be terrified — 9/11’s trauma has never been fully exorcised. Until we get over that, until we manage to stiffen our upper lips like the Brits, jihadist terrorists will exercise control over the American psyche like no one else. We can do better, can’t we? If we want the Constitution to survive both Islamism’s threat and the potential response of a beleaguered Trump, we’ll have to.

(from Andrew Sullivan in New York Magazine)

[Guinevere]

Uh, what utter bullshit/revisionist history. Boston was not locked down immediately after the bombing - which occurred during the marathon with hundreds of thousands of spectators and athletes in and around the city. It was also Patriots Day, a Massachusetts state holiday when everything is closed anyway. The city and surrounds *were* locked down when the armed teenager and his armed brother fled their hideout, after killing a police officer, hijacked a car, and then eventually fled on foot after the older brother was killed --- at the request of the FBI and the state and city police (the Governor ultimately made the request to "shelter in place") -- to keep citizens from being targets or interfering with the manhunt. It was not because we were sitting at home cowering in fear.

[Gob]

[Lord Jim]