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The document summarizes a terrorist bombing that occurred on July 7, 2005 in London. Four bombs exploded in three underground stations and a bus, killing 52 people and injuring over 700. The bombers were identified as Mohammad Sidique, Shehzad Tanweer, Germaine Lindsay, and Hasib Hussain. While initially investigated as a domestic attack, later evidence indicated links to al-Qaeda. A video showed the bombers claiming the attacks were in retaliation for UK military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. The reasons and insights discussed include the conflicts caused by countries engaging in hegemonic wars abroad as well as tensions between cultural identity and assimilation among some second generation British Muslims.
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- 1. Bombing of Russell Square Station ZHANG Rong Cindy 1155029127 TAM Suet Wa 1155030980 WANG Yuqi Brandy 1155031779
- 2. Background 8:50 am July 7, 2005 4 terrorist bombing in London tube station and bus o Russell Square Station o Liverpool Street Station o Edgware Road Station o Bus at Tavistock Place Killed 52 innocent people and injured over 700 people
- 3. Who are responsible for this tragedy!? • Bombers o Mohammad Sidique o Shehzad Tanweer o Germaine Lindsay o Hasib Hussain • 2006: without the assistance of foreign terrorists • 2012: Rashid Rauf played a key role British al Qaeda operative with linkages in Afghanistan
- 4. Video clip made by bombers • What have you witnessed now is only the beginning of a string of attacks that will continue and become stronger until you pull your forces out of Afghanistan and Iraq. And until you stop your financial and military support to America and Israel.
- 5. Reasons behind 1.revenge for UK got into the war against Iraq and Afghanistan • 2/3 of British believed that the bombing attacks had a great deal to do with the War in Iraq(Aug,2005) • an al - Qaeda organization claimed responsibility for the bombing attack • Sidique Khan--British people voted for the war
- 6. Insight ***Conflicts • Powerful countries believed that they had the obligation to build a better society in turbulence(Prime Minister Brown claimed in 2008) • The alliance of countries go to the war against other countries is also a form of hegemonism and power politics.
- 7. Reasons behind 2.Islamic militants(Born in UK?) • better off ; more peaceful environment;less linkage • However,in 2006,among two million Muslims in Britain ,13% think Bin Ladens was struggling for justice • Muslims in different places were in great despair towards their culture and future
- 8. Insight ***Cultural identity and conflict • common belief • strong
- 9. Resons behind • 3.Terrorism prevention • negligence of police • Monitored but failed to stop
Editor's Notes
- Terrorist bombing in Russell Square Station happened on 7th of July in 2005 together with 3 other terrorist bombing happened on trains travelling to Liverpool Street station and Edgware Road station. The fourth suicide bomb exploded on a double-decker bus at Tavistock Place one hour after the tube bombing. The suicide bombing in Russell Square Tube Station killed the greatest number of innocent people and the whole terrorist bombings killed 52 innocent people and injured over 700 people.
- These are the names of the bombers and Germaine Lindsay was the bomber on the train going to the Russell Square station. Three of the four bombers were British-born sons of Pakistani immigrants and one of them is a convert born in Jamaica. The British government initially concluded that the bombers acted without the assistance of foreign terrorists in 2006. In 2012, in 2012, seven years after the tragedy, internal al Qaeda documents surface provided details that Rashid Rauf, a British al Qaeda operative with linkages in Afghanistan, played a key role in planning the attack.
- The bombers considered them as soldiers in doing the suicide bombing. In the video clip they made, one of them said “What have you witnessed now is only the beginning of a string of attacks that will continue and become stronger until you pull your forces out of Afghanistan and Iraq. And until you stop your financial and military support to America and Israel.” These sentences explained the intention of their action.
- nothing to do with Olympic and ; Islamic Jihad ;becoming what they called “soldiers”. One of the bombers said “What have you witnessed now is only the beginning of a string of attacks that will continue and become stronger until you pull your forces out of Afghanistan and Iraq. And until you stop your
- On the one hand
- different from 9/11;3 born in UK;Compared with people in Arab countries, Muslims in Britain have better living standard and more peaceful environment. We usually assume that they have less incentives for terrorist attacks;things have been changed a lot since the second great war.Western countries were partial on the Israeli-Palestinian issue. Particularly with the end of cold war,western countries started carrying out liberty imperialism policy
- Britian government admited that they had monitored the terrorist for a while before he conducted the terrorism,because he was suspected, but they just left it unsettled,and failed to stop him.