Re: Sharon : Terrorist attack

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Only that they seem to have identified the bomber now (with 98% certainty, or as certain as you can be before any formal identification has been made, as they say). He's Iraqi born, lived in Sweden for most of the 1990's, but relocated to the UK in 2001. It seems his fellow Muslims in Luton, Britain had reacted on what they felt was violent and extremist views that he held, and he had left the Mosque there due to being confronted over it. But he has not before been known by either British or Swedish authorities as a potential troublemaker/terrorist. That and that he apparently had an almost unreal case of bad luck (or the Stockholm shoppers had an almost unreal case of good luck, if you will). Not only did only one of the bombs he was carrying go off, it is also believed that it did go off prematurely. That he was on his way to a more crowded place than the one where the bomb did go off (he was very close to many crowded places and shops, but was in a small street, kind of an alleyway, off the main shopping street, when the bomb exploded). The BBC security correspondent calls it Sweden's "lucky escape" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11986037 ). Remains to be found out whether he was acting alone or part of a bigger network. I think that's where the assistance from the FBI will be the most helpful. It's where they have a lot of expertise, and Swedish police very little. I've been looking at the photos of the blasts on the BBC site (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11978772 ), and otherwhere. And it's kind of eerie, and incredibly unreal, to look at so very familiar streets and places being in the midst of flames and shrapnel etc. It's like... something is seriously wrong with this picture. Feels like it has been manipulated somehow. I know it hasn't. But I know those streets and houses, and I know flames and explosions too, and it's like, in my mind, they could only be in the same photo if they have been photoshopped together. Those two things don't belong together. That's one of the parts of Stockholm I know better than my own living room, almost, and one of those places where I learned to find the way before I knew the street names, as a small kid. You know, the kind of places where it's your feet and your inner child, somehow, that finds the way when you are there, not maps, not signs etc. Well...That's the world we live in nowadays, I suppose. love/Reb > > > > > > > > > > > > Several explosions taking place in a crowded shopping district of > > > > Stockholm, capital of Sweden, yesterday afternoon, when holiday > > > > shopping was at it's height, was the result of a terrorist attack. > > > > Severe but unspecified threats had been made to the police and to news > > > > agencies minutes before the explosions. > > > > > > > > Multiple explosions came from one parked car, it was believed to have > > > > been filled with some kind of gas tubes, which would have caused a > > > > serial explosion, or multiple explosions, like that. Only a block > > > > away, and at around the same time, another explosion took plac e, > > > > believed to have been the result of an attack of a suicide bomber. > > > > > > > > At that time and at that place the result could very well have been a > > > > massive disaster. But luckily enough, as of yet at least, only one > > > > death (that of the presumed suicide bomber) and a only a few injured > > > > have been reported. > > > > > > > > Having all of my family in Stockholm this weekend (most of my siblings > > > > live there, but this weekend the rest of them, and both my parents, > > > > were there too) I was of course very worried when I heard of terrorist > > > > bombings in central Stockholm, but as far as I know so far, none of > > > > them were affected. > > > > > > > > Now I am kind of relieved (about the low extremely low death count), > > > > and a bit worried (about the future, will this be a recurring thing?). > > > > > > > > love > > > > /Reb > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Help Feed The Critters! Your daily click counts at > > > http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/ > > >> >>

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being asked to leave the mosque is all they would do - ratting him out to the police would be against what they feel

what you are feeling is shock - we felt it here in 1995 when the Murrah Building was blown up - friends had 2 grandsons in day care there - others had family working there - our fire, police, and ems left shift after splashing water on their faces - picked up breakfast at Mcs here or in Chickasha and went to help

one worker drove up to Murrah - handed construction boots to the security forces and said y'all need them more than I do now

they were working at Murrah in civilian shoes

what I am saying is Murrah Building, bombing Harrad's, the Towers, Fort Hood last year and now this - it is shock and it does hit hard

hang in there y'all are in my prayers God, grant me the strength of eagles wings, the faith and courage to fly to new heights, and the wisdom to rely on his spirit to carry me there.

To: MSersLife Sent: Tue, December 14, 2010 3:58:41 AMSubject: Re: Sharon : Terrorist attack

Only that they seem to have identified the bomber now (with 98% certainty, or as certain as you can be before any formal identification has been made, as they say). He's Iraqi born, lived in Sweden for most of the 1990's, but relocated to the UK in 2001. It seems his fellow Muslims in Luton, Britain had reacted on what they felt was violent and extremist views that he held, and he had left the Mosque there due to being confronted over it. But he has not before been known by either British or Swedish authorities as a potential troublemaker/terrorist.

That and that he apparently had an almost unreal case of bad luck (or the Stockholm shoppers had an almost unreal case of good luck, if you will). Not only did only one of the bombs he was carrying go off, it is also believed that it did go off prematurely. That he was on his way to a more crowded place than the one where the bomb did go off (he was very close to many crowded places and shops, but was in a small street, kind of an alleyway, off the main shopping street, when the bomb exploded). The BBC security correspondent calls it Sweden's "lucky escape" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11986037 ).

Remains to be found out whether he was acting alone or part of a bigger network. I think that's where the assistance from the FBI will be the most helpful. It's where they have a lot of expertise, and Swedish police very little.

I've been looking at the photos of the blasts on the BBC site (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11978772 ), and otherwhere. And it's kind of eerie, and incredibly unreal, to look at so very familiar streets and places being in the midst of flames and shrapnel etc. It's like... something is seriously wrong with this picture. Feels like it has been manipulated somehow. I know it hasn't. But I know those streets and houses, and I know flames and explosions too, and it's like, in my mind, they could only be in the same photo if they have been photoshopped together. Those two things don't belong together. That's one of the parts of Stockholm I know better than my own living room, almost, and one of those places where I learned to find the way before I knew the street names, as a small kid. You know, the kind of places where it's your feet and your inner child, somehow, that finds the way

when you are there, not maps, not signs etc.

Well...That's the world we live in nowadays, I suppose.

love

/Reb

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> > > Several explosions taking place in a crowded shopping district of > > > > Stockholm, capital of Sweden, yesterday afternoon, when holiday > > > > shopping was at it's height, was the result of a terrorist attack. > > > > Severe but unspecified threats had been made to the police and to news > > > > agencies minutes before the explosions. > > > > > > > > Multiple explosions came from one parked car, it was believed to have > > > > been filled with some kind of gas tubes, which would have caused a > > > > serial explosion, or multiple explosions, like that. Only a block > > > > away, and at around the same time, another explosion took plac e, > > > > believed to have been the result of an attack of a suicide bomber. > > > > > > > > At that time and at

that place the result could very well have been a > > > > massive disaster. But luckily enough, as of yet at least, only one > > > > death (that of the presumed suicide bomber) and a only a few injured > > > > have been reported. > > > > > > > > Having all of my family in Stockholm this weekend (most of my siblings > > > > live there, but this weekend the rest of them, and both my parents, > > > > were there too) I was of course very worried when I heard of terrorist > > > > bombings in central Stockholm, but as far as I know so far, none of > > > > them were affected. > > > > > > > > Now I am kind of relieved (about the low extremely low death count), > > > > and a bit worried (about the future, will this be a recurring thing?). > > > > >

> > > love > > > > /Reb > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Help Feed The Critters! Your daily click counts at > > > http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/ > > >> >>