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Edited on Fri Jul-08-05 01:58 PM by sweetheart
Kings cross is a major commuter train station to the home counties north of london, which includes even cambridge and as well, to all other destionations throughout britain. In that sense, by hitting the tube station at that junction, they hit the artery of london's connection to the north.
Edgeware road is extremely close to paddington, and the site could easily be called "paddington". That location is where all the rail commuters come in to london from the west, including from heathrow airport on the "airport express".
Liverpool street towards aldgate is in the center of the city of london, and was directly beneath "bishopsgate street" which got its name by being one of the "gates" to the original city of london. This place is also called "the square mile" and is equivalent to detonating a bomb on a subway station underneath wall street itself. Liverpool street is also a major rail station, connecting mostly to the northeast and "essex" and statnstead airport... "east"
The terrorist messages says that they've instilled fear in the british to the north, east, south and west if i recall correctly. This would then fit with the description of north- kings cross, east - liverpool st. West - edgeware/paddington ...
But south is not present. Russel square was a bus attack.
In russel square to my memory is the HQ of carleton (ITV) that was the only british tv station granted an interview with GWB for the G8 summit.
So the cardinal direction they missed was "south" and this would have been any of 4 train stations, victoria, waterloo, canon street, or london bridge... so likely they did not have the connections in their network to cover this assault location.
This could indicate that the terrorist cells are located in the north of london.
The areas they hit were all where local commuters come in to the city to work in the finance and media sectors amongst so many others.
They did not hit a major tourist location, or a royalty location, or a government location. It seemed the attack was to put fear in to the regular london commuter and not a special class of elite (who doesn't ride the tube anyways).
On edit, the bus attack was an hour later from what i read. The planners surely considred that teh tube would be shut down by this point, so they needed another sort of target that would still be operative... (bus).
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