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Friday, July 8
Ok, some more videos up.

The Wikipedia article on yesterday's events has an interesting paragraph. The paragraph begins with the full translation of the message posted to Qal3ah (an extremist Islamic forum widely believed to be a cover for jihadi discussion... Nice to know they hate us but are still willing to use our technology). Anyway, after the translation of the article, and some quick discussion on its finer points (phrasing, semantics etc), it reads...

One translator from US network MSNBC expressed scepticism at the legitimacy of this claim, claiming there is a "mistake" in the quoted verse from the Qur'an. [22] The verse, as quoted in the letter, is missing the beginning of the original Qur'anic verse, which begins with "Ya ayyuhal Lathee (O you who believe!) ..." That is to say, the verse is quoted only partially, which may or may not be a mistake.

The second paragraph of this statement provides a hint that something went wrong in al Qaeda's plot. The author claims that "Britain is burning with fear... in its northern, southern, eastern, and western quarters." However, when seen on a map, it becomes clear that two explosions occured in the north, while none occured in the south. Also, while eyewitnesses claim to have "seen a man explode" on the bus which was attacked, no evidence of suicide attacks has appeared on the tube explosions. All this suggests the possibility that the bomber on the bus was in the act of transporting his bomb to a southern tube station, where it could have inflicted more damage. However, it detonated before he could arrive at his target. This scenario explains the discrepancies between the online statement and the actual events, as well as showing that the attack was not as perfectly coordinated as previously believed.


So, it looks like we might've gotten off more lightly than we thought.

On now to the videos... There's a video with some of the raw camera phone footage following one of the tube blasts, the new encode of Tony Blair's G8 statement, and some footage from earlier today (around rush hour) when the M4 outbound (and inbound!) was 'chokka block' with traffic (footage from helicopter), and some brief accounts from a couple of people trying to make their way home, telling the reporter about the mood on the street, what the general atmosphere was like at that point in time: M4 footage and personal accounts.

More videos in due course - apologies for the unintended plug for Sky News, however they were delivering the news faster than BBC News 24 at that point in time (the BBC recently adopted a new policy of 'soft-censorship', where they release new/dramatic footage and information more slowly in an attempt to allay public anxiety... I've always found the BBC to be slightly more laid-back in its approach to breaking news stories, that said).


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