Just got word something happened in Boston...

[lala_rawraw]

Some sort of collision... keep you posted shortly.

[im10ashus]

1. Thanks, lala!

Nice to see you here. Been awhile.

[lala_rawraw]

25. i know, sorry, news raining

like cats and dogs... like a damn broke or something, very odd crap going on, read about the Iraq/Iran deal, wtf?????

[sniffa]

2. pLease do

and i wasn't invoLved.

[ronnykmarshall]

5. Well you've been known to stop traffic!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

21. Me neither-I just turned on NECN and there's nothing

:shrug:

[sabra]

3. what a crazy day...

keep us posted. and hoping all is well.

[lonestarnot]

4. Please do.

[TayTay]

6. LaLa, I haven't heard anything

The usual precautions about extra security and such. I havne't heard that anything happened here.

BTW, LaLa, congrats on the mention in the Independent on the DSM.

[lala_rawraw]

20. Where was I mentioned?

You will hear it soon, am on phone with transit head and so far no fatalities and confirmation that this was accident, not terror related. so no worries... everyone on board seems to have been very frightened, but everything under control... will post as I hear more.

Where was I mentioned?

[TayTay]

28. Sorry LaLa, wrong publication, it was the Times

If this was a covert air war, both Bush and Blair may face searching questions. In America only Congress can declare war, and it did not give the US president permission to take military action against Iraq until October 11, 2002. Blair's legal justification is said to come from UN Resolution 1441, which was not passed until November 8, 2002.

Last week one US blogger, Larisa Alexandrovna of RawStory.com, unearthed more unsettling evidence. It was an overlooked interview with Lieutenant-General T Michael Moseley, the allied air commander in Iraq, in which he appears to admit that the "spikes of activity" were part of a covert air war.

From June 2002 until March 20, when the ground war began, the allies flew 21,736 sorties over southern Iraq, attacking 349 carefully selected targets. The attacks, Moseley said, "laid the foundations" for the invasion, allowing allied commanders to begin the ground war.

The bloggers may have found their own smoking gun.

BTW, the Boston thing was a simple train derailment. No biggie, has happened before. No injuries, nothing that isn't routine machine failure.

[lala_rawraw]

32. oh oh, thanks and yes, I know about that...

And yes, it was no big thing... at the time I got notice, it was all very confusing, but not enough to write an article... so figured would give a heads up and then update as needed.

[jojo54]

7. Hey lala, how ya doing?

Haven't seen you post since your nose episode.

[lala_rawraw]

23. What nose episode?

[jojo54]

24. Awhile ago during the marathon Andy threads

you had a nose bleed and it wouldn't stop. That was you, wasn't it?

[lala_rawraw]

26. No, it was during the hearing in the basement on WMD

For some reason I had a nose bleed that would not stop. All well with nose, thank you:)

[seshers]

8. So far, what have you heard?

What is your source? Accident or what?

[lse7581011]

9. Any more?

[lala_rawraw]

16. two trains collided... not terror... green line, posting some

snips now because i don't have enough yet from transit... looks like no one was hurt, but people on board were flipping out (london).

[amazona]

10. why don't we wait and see before starting too many rumors?

I'm going to guess that there are accidents and collisions every darned day in Boston, there certainly are in New Orleans, a much smaller city.

Nothing positive is achieved by spreading fear.

Stay strong.

[ollie79]

12. here's hoping

That it is nothing and at the very worse just a routine accident.

[lala_rawraw]

22. nothing, just accident... so there you are:)

[lala_rawraw]

13. thanks, i am not spreading fear... simply updating

because I don't have enough for an article yet... so far:

1). not terror related, confirmed
2). green line (no word as of where or how)
3). no injuries thus far, but no word yet

[wicket]

14. Thanks for the update

More problems with the trains?? Ugh- the orange line was shut down last night just before rush hour, what a nightmare.

[ollie79]

11. Hmmm

Wonder what else Bush blew up for his prescious war???

[Zenlitened]

15. Minor, not terror-related. Two streetcars bumped at...

... Arlington street station. One had its wheels knocked off track.

Per Ch. 4 WBZ/CBS.

[cal04]

17. Worker taken away in ambulance after Green Line cars collide

A transit worker was taken away in an ambulance after two street cars on the MBTA's Green Line collided at the Arlington Street station this morning.

The transit worker who was taken away did NOT appear to have life-threatening injuries.

One car was derailed in the 9:30 a-m accident, and officials closed the line. Transit officials say the accident is NOT believed to be linked to today's attacks on London's transit system.

MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo says a number of passengers complained of neck and back injuries, but none had been taken to a hospital. Passengers were evacuated from trains along the line. The accident's cause is under investigation


http://www.wrgb.com/news/regional/regional.asp?selection=article_36576

[sniffa]

27. yeah, the green Line is shut down now

at Least the B, C, D are (E might stiLL be open). the shuttLe buses are operating instead (and causing quite a mess since buses are kinda too big for their routes).

[htuttle]

18. I passed a traffic accident on the way to work this morning

Seriously. Three cars involved! One of them looked totaled!

[DS1]

19. Collisions never happen in Boston

Ever.

[foo_bar]

29. especially on the Green Line

It's like the safest train imaginable in the 1890s.

[wicket]

30. Bomb sniffing dogs in the greenline

Per my coworker several minutes ago.

[paineinthearse]

31. Are we distracted?

OK, this is bigger than runaway brides or kidnapped blondes or Martha Stewart or Michael Jackson, but let's not lose focus on the significant political issues that are ongoing.

Go to the Conyers group for links to what he is up to.