Essay On London Bombing

July 7, 2005 was supposed to be a normal day in London, but little did London know this day would walk off down in history. On this Thursday morning, four Islamic suicide bombers were spread across London and separately detonated three bombs in succession. These bombs were detonated within the underground subways throughout the city. Later that day, a fourth bomb was detonated on a double-decker bus within the Tavistock Square. This attack would exit down as the first ever suicide attack within the United Kingdom. Pauline Neville-Jones was quoted stating, “The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history.” (Neville-Jones, 2005) However, July 7th did not stop Londoners from being who they are. The people of London continued to live life the only way they knew how and did not allow terrorist to create fear in their lives. London’s security response team the Cabinet Office Briefing Room A (COBRA) were alerted and responded to the explosions quickly. COBRA is London’s the top-level emergency group. COBRA was in the area …show more content…
The four “bombers” are referred to as the “Stepford four”. (Brothers, 2014) The fact MI5 gave this attack a Codename, did not sit well with the public. The main question which was asked was if MI5 actually did not know what was going on and did not in fact know who was behind this entire attack, why would they give these bombers a Codename like Stepford? This is the just the operation name MI5 decide to give to this event as several questions were still unanswered. However, attempts were being made to find out exactly what had happened and how they missed the signs leading up to the