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...first--all I could see was smoke." Eventually, emergency workers moved passengers to the back of the train and up into the station, where Lowry remembers "trails of blood going up the stairways." Nicolas Thioulouse, 27, a French architect, was in a train under Edgware Road station when a bomb exploded on a train on the adjacent track. "I had the feeling I was in a fish tank," says Thioulouse, "seeing people in the opposite car with their faces completely covered by blood." People tried to cheer each another up. A teenage girl had collapsed in tears...
...bombs--at Aldgate and Edgware Road--were in trains just below the surface, on so-called "cut and cover" lines, so the force of the blast was dissipated into a relatively wide tunnel. Seven people died at Edgware Road and seven at Aldgate. But the bomb on the Piccadilly Line near King's Cross was in one of the Underground's deep tubes, some 100 ft. below the surface. There the blast had nowhere to go, and emergency workers said the scene was hellish. Twenty-one people are known to have died on the train, although as the rescuers searched...
...immediate focus of attention was the type of explosives used in the attack--and the nature of those who planted them. Scotland Yard insisted there was no firm evidence the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers and said that each of the bombs on the trains probably contained less than 10 lbs. of explosives. The confidential Aegis report guessed that each weighed just 5 lbs., small enough to place in a small rucksack. The bombs, police said, were placed on the floor of the train cars. In the case of the bus, shortly after the explosion a TIME reporter...
...Africa that he said offered a "hope that is the alternative to this hatred" represented by terrorism. The leaders also made pledges to raise $3 billion per year over the next three years for the Palestinian Authority. Some British Muslims expressed worries that they would be blamed for the bombs, but London police said they had heard no specific report of an incident considered to be a direct reprisal for the bomb attacks...
...city in the world got on with what, in summer, it does best--preparing for a weekend's gardening, setting up pints of beer, snapping on a spaghetti-strap dress for a night's clubbing. On the steps of St. Pancras church, close to both the King's Cross bomb and the destroyed bus, a card had been placed among the bunches of flowers laid in remembrance of the victims. "The people who did this," it read, "should know that they have failed. They picked the wrong city to pick on." --Reported by Theunis Bates, Maryann Bird, Jessica Carsen, Andrea...