{"id":3476,"date":"2005-07-21T12:51:51","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T19:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/21\/this-time-it-was-a-dud\/"},"modified":"2005-07-21T12:51:51","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T19:51:51","slug":"this-time-it-was-a-dud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/21\/this-time-it-was-a-dud\/","title":{"rendered":"This time it was a dud"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tHere we go again:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Terrified passengers were evacuated from parts of London’s transport system today after incidents involving explosives at three underground stations and a bus.<\/p>\n

The explosions were attempts to kill that had failed, the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, said tonight.<\/p>\n

Two small blasts occurred on tube trains: one near Warren Street station in central London, and the other on a tube train near Oval station in south London.<\/p>\n

A third small explosion was reported on a No 26 bus in Shoreditch, east London.<\/p>\n

A suspect package was also found at Shepherd’s Bush station in west London.<\/p>\n

One woman was reportedly injured at Warren Street, but there were no reports of casualties during the other incidents, which happened shortly before 1pm.<\/p>\n

Sir Ian said tonight: “The intention must have been to kill.”<\/p>\n

But he added: “The intention of the terrorists has not been fulfilled.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or maybe not, since these terrorists couldn’t pull it off. But this is a really bad sign because it probably signals a copy-cat bombing attempt that will be followed by others.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here we go again: Terrified passengers were evacuated from parts of London’s transport system today after incidents involving explosives at three underground stations and a bus. The explosions were attempts to kill that had failed, the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, said tonight. Two small blasts occurred on tube trains: one near Warren Street … Continue reading “This time it was a dud”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-U4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}