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calsimsek
Joined: 15 Jul 2004
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Location: Ist Turkey
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 Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 12:45 pm Post subject: The summer of the Bombs |
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With bombs going off in London, Istanbul, on the red sea and other places  , one has to ask 'Where's a safe place to get some sun  '
Do we all have to get use to this type of life or is this just a one off thing, that wil fade away.
It's as if each day I watch or read about another bomb going off some where in the world.
Are we safe and do you still feel ok. I don't know, it feels like a bad summer.
Is it just me |
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dmb
Joined: 12 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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Unfortunately I think we will just have to get used to it.
Have you noticed that on the metro they are bit tighter since the London bombs. There are even security on the platform with dogs.( An alsation-quite cute) |
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Hector_Lector
Joined: 20 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Not as cute as Springer Spaniels, which are the best sniffer dogs, for explosives AND drugs. (When I lose mine, my Springer can always track them down.) |
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scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Makes me feel like İ am living through that prophetic play by Kraus - 'The Last Days of Mankind' |
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dmb
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:01 am Post subject: |
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| I read some interviews with people in London. People are now not wearing jackets to work, leaving bags in the office and one guy said he was too frightened to use his i-pod outside incase anyone thought it was a wire to a bomb!!! Are these actions about getting used to it? |
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ImanH
Joined: 16 Oct 2004
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Location: Istanbul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:23 am Post subject: |
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Jon Snow on Snowmail yesterday
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A day in the life of London, maybe even a commonplace day in the life of a Muslim. I am cycling back from Channel 4 at ten thirty seven his morning past the back of Horse guards parade in line of sight of the back of number 10 Downing Street - suddenly on the edge of the park I
notice armed police, four of them, their guns raised surrounding a tall Muslim man with a dark beard.
He is smartly dressed and has a brand new silver coloured camera bag on the ground at his feet. The voices are raised with the guns, in the time that I take to pass the guns lower, the bag is searched, the incident passes, no one seems to notice. Up on the mall a small knot of tourists
are looking from a distance. One now normal unreported, maybe unreportable incident and a searing experience for one innocent Muslim man.
Which isn't to say that the level of anxiety and tension which prompts such a scene isn't all too understandable.
I am white, crazy-looking on a bike, with a shoulder bag across my back, yet I am not stopped in line of sight of number 10: here lies tonight's central dilemma - do only bag carrying bearded Muslims need to worry about passing public buildings? Soon they will begin to keep away from them and what is shared, what is all of ours, will become places they
no longer come to. Not just the pubs where they never might have drank
anyway, but now the places that are central to our democracy and our
identity... |
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