7/7: The Day London Came Under Attack

[@clairebaldwin8733]

My sister worked in London at the time and she was running late that morning otherwise she would have been on the bus that was attacked. She was on the bus behind it and witnessed the explosion. We didn't know if she was one of the victims for several horrifying hours. Thank you Simon for making this story. It deserves to be remembered.

[@multiyapples]

I’m glad she survived. How is she doing?

[@fleshboundtobone]

My Dad was in Soho during the nail bomb attacks and back then all the mobile calls jammed up the networks so my Mum couldn't get hold of him. I remember sitting at the top of the stairs watching it on the news through the banisters as she was trying to get through on the phone.

[@blaxk_lew9112]

My brother worked on the London buses at the time but woke up late on this day….. thank the lord as well because he was meant to working on one of the buses that was bombed

[@honeymonster7031]

My cousins best friends unlce drives a coach he was very sad 😢

[@madonnasfangirl9631]

British and AmeriKKKlans murdered 1 million iraqis

[@ellaeadig263]

I had a friend living in London at the time and she described this as the scariest day of her life. She was nowhere near the explosions but her whole office was immediately sent home and she basically had to walk for hours to get to her flat, the whole time worrying as she passed busy places that more devices would go off. Also, the mental image of a thousand people rushing towards the explosion sites trying to help is just so moving.

[@honeybadger9425]

Yeah it was bad I was working on the edge of London fitting carpet that day next to one the hospitals was just a endless steam of sirens. Worst part was you don’t know who’s attacking how many or where it may happen next. obviously we wasn’t in central London but we were feeling very uneasy being where we were.

[@elliecorson9458]

I was in high school at the time in South London, and we were escorted out under armed police guard. However my mum didn’t drive and we didn’t have any family in the area, so I had to walk home for an hour, all the whole trying to process what was happening. I also couldn’t get hold my my mum as the phone lines weren’t working so I was worried sick.

[@rhijulbec1]

We're Canadian. Our daughter was supposed to leave for the UK to visit relatives on that day. We didn't hear about it until we got to the airport. We contacted our relative and she said "Keep her safe~at home. There's no way of knowing if this will get bigger." It did. Our relative's son was one of the victims. His mum didn't know yet. She took her life three years later. Proving that there were hundreds more victims of that most cowardly of acts~the victim's families and friends. My heart still aches for my family. Our daughter never did get to meet the family. They were too broken to welcome a visitor. 😢

[@Jessepigman69]

This breaks my heart. Hope you’re doing well

[@RobertStewart-i3m]

I lost family on 9/11. I get it.

[@Gencturk92]

what was the relatives son's name that was killed ?

[@Jessepigman69]

@@Gencturk92 damn who you Interrogating

[@rhijulbec1]

​ I just saw this. Thank you for your kindness.

[@BogWitch8440]

You Brits are absolute legends, with that spirit of coming together and defiantly moving forward in the face of tragedy.

[@EnclaveOfficer1776]

I wouldn’t say “Legends” but it reflects a positive light in this situation at least.

[@TheRedPeril]

We are cowards. A few years after this they bombed a concert full of young girls. Solidarity of the wrong kind.

[@jordankelly9206]

​@stevengoddard7685 that day made me proud to be a manc. How everyone came together to support one another, from providing free taxi rides to families, free hotel rooms to parent, free food to health care worker, to people queuing round the block to donate blood, the blood bank was that busy they ran out of needles

[@CuriousCyclist]

The way the London Mayor refused to shut down the whole transport system of London for more than half a day was legendary. Why grant the terrorists extra victories? USA shut down the whole county's airspace for too long after 9/11. I know the scale of the attack was different but still.

[@lordwellingtonthethird8486]

@@TheRedPerilyou dare use the Manchester bombings to spout your hatred. Say that in front of one of the families and I’ll help them beat the shit out of you.

[@PandoraFoxxBurlesque]

A dear friend of mine was on the bus to Travistock that day. She was lucky enough to get out with her life but still lives with the aftermath to this day. She's one of the strongest and kindest people I have the privilege of knowing, working with fellow terror survivors and those at risk of radicalisation.

[@marktg98]

I remember all the teachers at my school being in London that day, and actually in the tube at that moment, they were on a teambuilding trip. A lot of them just weren't the same when they came back, just a lot less joyful, cheerful, and just overall unhappy. It's horrifying what things like this can do to the people that witness, let alone to people that lose loved ones in them.

[@MarioGoatse]

Something like that can have a massive impact on how you view life itself. It can shape your outlook on life so much that you become a different person.

[@KathyJensen-vh2yk]

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[@worldsgreatestdude1784]

Where on the tube?

[@leahbray1862]

I was 18, and in London that day. I’m Canadian, and my friend and I were in the UK on a trip we’d saved our part time job money for 3 years to go on after we graduated. I have very vivid memories from that day, it was very surreal. We didn’t know what was happening, as we were evacuated from Victoria station. We had no cell phone, but were able to call my Great Aunt, who we were staying with, and leave a voicemail that “we have no idea what’s happening, but whatever it is, we’re fine”. We actually went to the aquarium of all places. We later learned my reading a newspaper on the ground, covered in sticky blue gunk that London had been bombed. Really, surreal is one of the few ways I can describe that day.

[@TheRocketbabydoll]

Thank you for not forgetting this horror. London has suffered before and since at the hands of terrorists but this was by far one of the worst. My heart goes out to all affected by these tragedies.

[@OrdinaryDude]

Here in the United States we like to tease our brethren in the Brittish Isles, but nothing shows the character of the British like how they come together in moments and times of tragedy. I'm glad Simon brought up the "Blitz Spirit" as that was the first thing I thought of when he started this story. The United States might have been born out of war with Britain, but I can think of no finer ally to have here and now in the present. I hope we can always say that.

[@eadweard.]

Kindly remarks.

[@marktg98]

As a Dutchman, I agree. Even though we've fought countless of wars with Britain, they saved our asses in WW2, and it still feels nice knowing that if Russia ever decides to drop a nuke on us, big bro next door will launch a shitload back right over our heads at them.

[@OrdinaryDude]

@@marktg98 We got your back too. 🙂

[@marktg98]

@@OrdinaryDude Of course, but the UK is a lot closer, and we share a whole lot of culture and history with each other, so those ties are of course a lot closer, but America is of course also a great partner to have on the international stage 😉

[@smallandsweet7]

aw shucks.. thanks American fellow! We appreciate you too!

[@GardinerAlan]

Londoner here - my sister was on the Underground (and then the replacement buses) that day but luckily not caught up directly. She was on the phone to me (at home) as I was trying to update her about what was going on/where was safe. We were awarded the 2012 Olympics the day before the attacks and I went on the bus to Oxford Street the day after. Londoners are not rude, we help others and then we get on with living our lives. I later volunteered at the London 2012 Olympics alongside 200k others and some of them were victims/helpers from 7/7.

[@product-monster]

I was lucky enough to have been in an interview at the time the bombs went off. Colleagues of mine were on two of the trains though, and the receptionist at the company I was working for at the time was killed. We, however, were still only hearing about power surges. I remember the day like it was all a giant haze... walking home for over an hour, talking to strangers to get information, trying to get hold of friends and family, gathering in an extremely quiet pub, and getting on an almost completely empty tube train the next morning. May these attackers rot in hell if there is one.

[@Gencturk92]

what was the receptionists name ?

[@product-monster]

@@Gencturk92 I don't think that's relevant, is it? You can find it if you google the names of the victims, most often listed with age and occupation, if you really need to know.

[@Gencturk92]

@@product-monster i was just wondering, there's 52 victims am I going to check every single one of them ? btw this was a government false flag to keep the british troops fighting in the middle east, the bombs on the trains came from underneath the tube carriage floors. you should watch 7/7 ripple effect

[@fandommennis1348]

My heart goes out to the families effected by this horrible tragedy. What happened to Jean Charles, is just heart breaking. Just a law abiding, hard working young man snuffed out in the prime of his life by being profiled or misidentified. Simply heartbreaking. To all of those affected, my thoughts go out to you all

[@wasp3959]

Silly man shouldn't have ran from the police. If police shout "get on the floor, police". You should really do as they say not try to run off. Especially, considering the heightened tensions.

[@Exodiant]

They gave no warnings, it said so in the video

[@Violetlais]

​@wasp3959 did you not watch the video at all? It literally said the police gave no warnings or identified themselves at all. They didn't attempt to de-escalate the situation but killed him on sight without any attempt to confirm his identity. He didn't "run from the police".

[@wasp3959]

@@Violetlais I do apologise. I was going on what I originally heard when this happened. And the news stated he jumped the barrier and ran from police refusing to stop. It just shows that the media were covering for the police at the time. My mistake though.

[@mongoliandude]

The police were also in plain clothes. He essentially saw two men off the street, one brandishing a gun. There’s always this same dumb comment on police shooting videos about how running away from police somehow justifies summary execution within a liberal democracy 🙄

[@hoppytoad79]

I will never forget this day. A group from my university was on a study abroad trip in London. The time of the bombing in the Tube, people I knew could've been on the train because that section of the line was one I knew they'd use often--I'd done the trip the year before. The professor leading the trip and I were friends. I emailed the prof and was stressed to the max until I heard back from the prof that everyone had been in class at the time of the attacks and they all, thank God, were fine.

[@rachelbarrie5359]

I remember hearing this news and being inconsolable until I heard from my sister that she was OK. She was catching trains to go to her job at the time this happened and when she finally got through, she knew nothing about it and was quite shocked. Little did we know she was on paid annual leave and had been visiting a close family friend. Since then we have kept in regular contact but each time a disaster natural or otherwise, it's always been ' really?, huh ... nope no idea'. I live in New Zealand referring to earthquakes and such.

[@dd776]

As a young Asian, I remember for at least a month, no one would sit next to me on packed trains and I stopped carrying my back pack to work due to suspicion.

[@Finnbobjimbob]

Are you sure you didn’t just have BO?

[@michellepatino8733]

@@FinnbobjimbobYour a clown

[@keewii6993]

I'm sorry for that man...I'm sure people don't mean it in a racist way. It's fear because of the monsters that did commit these crimes.

[@dd776]

​@@keewii6993 I completely understood the paranoia and didn't take offence. My journey that summer took me to a place called Welling in SE London. I experienced the worst racism just walking from the station to my workplace. Its only later I found out that the BNP headquarters were based in that area.

[@badbatch78]

I was on duty that day policing Paddington station. This day changed me drastically after my colleague's husband was killed on the bus in Tavistock Square. Something we only found out after a few days. That's how bad the devastation was.

[@MissMentats]

My mum was one of those people. Oh gosh this made me cry

[@ardenalexa94]

I’m sorry for your loss

[@fale3963]

May she rest in peace 😔

[@loganpurchase7721]

R.i.p 🙏🏼

[@chadgaming8071]

rip

[@Ard-mhacha-abu]

So sorry for your loss 🙏

[@bettychatfield2544]

I was on a flight from Canada heading to London for a vacation. We landed into a mix of chaos and confusion. The van sent from the hotel to meet us had a driver who being of middle eastern descent was sacred and unsure how he was to proceed. The streets were a mass of buses, cars and people all looking numb and scared, every time a siren sounded you could see the horror as everyone looked to see where they were going and wondering if this day would ever end. It did end but it was the one vacation that I would recall for all the wrong reasons.

[@Angus-McFife-2nd]

I was on the Isle of Wight that day on a family holiday. I was 15 and was glued to the television all day. My younger siblings didnt understand the seriousness of this event. I just couldn't believe it had happened. A few years later i moved to London and had a friend that was 2 or 3 buses back from the explosion. She still talks about what she saw that day.

[@MrJjones543]

The sheer joy in Simon's voice when he describes that the second set of bombers were utterly incompetent is just *chefs kiss*

[@bevrek]

That Jean Charles De Menezes was an almost perfect match of one of the attacker's, is not true. The police told a lot of lies over this shooting.

[@anthonyryan9706]

He was a left winger....think about it

[@anthonyryan9706]

Religious extremism will never harm the capitalist establishment...all the establishment fears are the educated proletariat

[@chrishughes3405]

It had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with incompetence followed by corruption. So just "the met" doing its day to day.

[@YetAnotherGeorgeth]

I remember when this happened and the Jean Charles murder, too. I had a friend who actually blamed Jean because “he didn’t follow orders,” but if what Simon said is true there were no orders to follow, they just assumed he was one of the bad guys and shot him anyway. I think there’s a memorial at Stockwell that was put up some time after.

[@The_Greedy_Orphan]

I remember people at the time saying he jumped a turnstyle to get to the train as he was late and literally running for the train, not sure if true or not.

[@Nadia1989]

He was Brazilian. If I was being followed like he was, I would immediately see them as kidnappers, not police.

[@spicyturbocans5848]

@@The_Greedy_Orphanthis was proven to be untrue - he used his travel card at the barrier, which was confirmed by CCTV at the inquest.

[@tempestwales]

He didn't run, he didn't jump the gates, he wasn't held down, he wasn't given any orders, the police didn't identify themselves, he wasn't wearing a puffer jacket, he was just shot staight in the head 9 times in a carriage full of people. All those things/rumours were police lies to justify the numerous police failings that day, and the outcome, was a dead innocent man, severly traumtised bystanders and the continuation of the failing upwards of Cressida Dick - Gold Commander that day who gave the order, who later received a Damehood and Met Commisioner. No officer was reprimanded for the failure that day. Truly shocking.

[@The_Greedy_Orphan]

@@spicyturbocans5848 Fair enough, though it's just what people were saying, I think at the time, there was a lot of sympathy for him, but also understanding on how the police reacted. When thinking back to the Manchester area bomber, I feel sorry for the guards, because even if they had stopped and questioned the bomber, what could they have done? They're not soldiers and yet we're asking them to put their lives on the line. The only possible way to have successfully dealt with the Arena bomber would've been to have used the exact same tactics used against menedez on that day, put a bullet in his brain before you even have proof that he's a bomber.

[@miley120000]

This was horrific. My dad was working around that area on that day and we couldn’t get in contact with him for a few hours thankfully he was around the corner working and he said he heard it and he went to have a look and saw the bus. RIP to all those innocent people.

[@chrisbutcher3280]

Same here

[@MacScotteh]

I remember this day very clearly. My primary school teacher randomly asked my class if any of our parents worked in London, to which I raised my hand because my dad and stepmum did. But she didn’t elaborate beyond that and we were left curious and confused. It wasn’t until we got home that we heard about the attacks and I realised my dad and stepmum could have been in danger. Thankfully I think we spoke later that afternoon/evening over the phone and it turned out they were far from the danger at the time because they always got to work super early. I still wonder why our teacher did that 😅

[@HaggisMuncher-69-420]

Your teacher wanted to gossip/have a connection to that attack so she could claim some kind of victim status

[@Inucroft]

@@HaggisMuncher-69-420 No. When I worked in a school we did something similar during the Manchester Arena attack. It was to let us know if we needed to start any foundation work for support. Luckily none of the students had any direct link to the attack, but a few were traumatised as they had meant to be at the concert but due to last minute changes didn't attend.

[@HaggisMuncher-69-420]

@@Inucroft No again. Do not tell me for a second that teachers don't go home to gossip about the big thing that just happened and how one of their students is connected to it Teachers are communist losers.

[@regulusmasamuneryuku8657]

I didn't know this happened Thank you for sharing. May we remember the fallen, innocent lives. May we celebrate the great acts of human kindness, and disown the hate that took far too many people, far too soon.

[@Blondie42.0]

Your cousins here in the states don't get enough of these stories, do the bridge attack and Rotherham too pls.

[@tongmasi]

Small point of correction. The G8 summit was at Gleneagles in Scotland, so Blair didn’t need to return to the UK. A complication of that summit/location was that a lot of the Metropolitan police were working on detachment in Scotland protecting the summit when the 7/7 attacks occurred.

[@Eric_Hunt194]

Another correction- the bus wasn't a rail replacement service, it wouldn't have a route number if it was. It was however busier than usual due to the disruption.

[@ct5625]

Politicians: "We will not let terrorists destroy our way of life and our freedoms!" Same Politicians: "We have to change our way of life and strip people of freedoms in order to stop terrorists". Every time, without fail.

[@MrEiniweini]

I hate reactive laws that ignore centuries of precedent. Australia has "bikie laws" that are meant to target motorcycle clubs involved in criminal activity but if you read them, they could easily be turned upon unions or demonstrators. It hasn't happened yet but they way they are written, they could be used by a dictatorial leaning government.

[@doithimaceabhard7457]

Those laws aren't written that way by accident

[@doithimaceabhard7457]

Just an observation for anyone this affects, you don't get to "retire" from a listed organisation, even a foreign club/organisation. I know an "ex" 1% from Ireland who didn't make it through customs in Oz, "here are your bags and your return (24 hour long) flight is in 14 hours", I think that worked out 70 hours on the go only to arrive back at his own front door, ruined the family holiday.

[@georgehh2574]

​​@@doithimaceabhard7457 Well it makes sense on paper. Consider that people who become radicalised within a terrorist cell (for example) may still hold those views and beliefs. Even if they say otherwise, you cannot be absolutely sure.

[@KennyNGA]

​@@doithimaceabhard7457is that the same Oz the wizard is from????

[@donnagant6575]

@@georgehh2574 the only way to be "absolutely sure" is to live in a police state with curfews and unlimited state power and no freedoms..

[@Martina_Vintage_Motorcycles]

Another great video Simon, this story didnt reach quite as many of us across the pond. (Horrible American media to blame) I’m glad to hear the survivors families protested against the government trying to reduced personal freedoms over this! Reminds us of how similar we are (British/Americans) ❤

[@Bubbaist]

I’m an American and I heard about it for weeks in the American media.

[@brandyjean7015]

​​@@Bubbaistas did I. On KOMO News out of Seattle.

[@Martina_Vintage_Motorcycles]

@@Bubbaist great news! We are all happier now that we know that

[@Martina_Vintage_Motorcycles]

@@brandyjean7015 Seattle media is the best!!!!

[@onemorechris]

we still lost a lot of rights because of the war in Iraq

[@Luukus]

My brother lee and sister in law Samantha lost their lives on this day. I thank you for your video ❤

[@colddogs]

very sorry to hear 💐

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Thanks for making these videos simon!

[@theawesomeman9821]

My heart goes to the British families who lost someone from this attack.

[@leeriches8841]

Sadly there have been many attacks over the years since then 😢

[@scottymcdoogle8210]

My mum was supposed to be on the train that was bombed. She only missed it because she missed her initial alarm to wake her up for work, and she worked at the RBS offices. She got to the platform in Colchester and got on the train to Liverpool Street Station. However the Piccadilly line Underground train she was supposed to get on to be there for her normal time had only just left the platform by the time she got there. She therefore had to get the next train behind. Low and behold the train she was supposed to board those few seconds earlier if she hadn’t have been running later was taken out by the bombs. If she hadn’t have woken up those few minutes later than normal and had of gotten her usual train, she wouldn’t be here anymore.

[@terrioestreich4007]

My kids wonder why im so cautious about the world but its because I remember days like this. Just horrible how someone targets perfect strangers who had no idea how bad things were going to get

[@paulmacdonald6275]

it’s a day I would ever forget. I was in London for training and a conference. I was heading towards Aldgate that morning when people starting rushing out of the station and that’s when I realised that the slight shaking under my feet must have possibly been when the bomb went off. I stayed their at Edgware comforting disoriented people and putting plasters and andages on people with cuts and scrapes.

[@collisw8302]

Never knew about those sweeping law changes after the attacks, but I remember the attacks themselves very well down here in New Zealand. Thanks for another great video, Simon. I leared a lot!

[@sharonrouleau-bryan1456]

This is the first episode I've seen... even though I've subscribed to it for months, lol... it's because I'm also watching the casual criminalist... which I've been subscribed to forever, lol... that's how I found this one and the others.... buuut anyways... This Simon is serious, to the point, and all without a script.. The Simon on casual criminalist is definitely a 180 degree different.. I love the fact that with the channels you have, you are a different Simon... it's great, and the background change is great! Anyways, I just wanted to say Hi 😀🙃😎👍

[@AlexBailey11]

Yet another masterfully presented video on a tough subject by a fantastic presenter and an excellent team.

[@dinsdalemontypiranha4349]

I believe that it is important to remember those who were injured, not just those who were killed. Also, keep in mind the ripple effect of these deaths and injuries. Someone lost a spouse and their children lost a parent, just as one example.

[@CatnipBanana]

I remember the fear we felt this day waiting to hear from my sister who worked in London. By some freak miracle chance she had decided to walk to work that day as she was a bit early and didnt want to take the tube. She'd have been on the train that got hit if she had. I remember the reaction of the public ; the lines of people waiting to give blood, the footage of streets from the bus explosion... and the indomitable British spirit ❤

[@alireact1827]

You can imagine the fear of iraqi people then

[@MillieBee11]

I was on a school trip in Paris when 7/7 happened. The kids in my class had been given a choice: London or Paris. Most of the kids went to London because Paris was too expensive. I remember sitting in my hotel room watching the footage on our hotel room TV screen, my friends crying around me as we desperately tried to call our classmates to make sure they were OK. We were 13. Thankfully no one we knew was hurt. My heart goes out to the families of the victims whose desperate phone calls didn't end so happily.

[@Arksimon2k]

I remember following this on the news pretty quickly, and although I was nowhere near London it made my heart race.

[@thek9queen77]

7/7 2005 was my second birthday. Obviously I don’t remember this happening but sharing a birthday with the event is definitely something as a British person.

[@kryw10]

I remember. I made myself available for many friends in the UK to vent, rage, and cry. And drink tea. Couldn’t do much from Kansas, but I could listen and be there virtually. #teadamnit

[@jackoh991]

Tea is good in these scenarios. As long as no microwaves are involved.

[@escherpainting8622]

A truly bizarre day. I remember being in my Year 4 class and our usual curriculum was cancelled. Our teacher, Mr. Ferguson, explained to us what had happened in London. Naturally, we were confused. He took it upon himself to go back through the history of domestic terrorism in the West, and showed us footage from 9/11. One of the few school days I actually remember with any strong recall. Not sure if it was necessary or appropriate for our teacher to show us footage of terrorist attacks, given that we were about 8 years old. Still, perhaps one of the first glimpses my childish mind was given into the evil and violence that I now, as an adult approaching 30, realise engulfs so much of our world.

[@jameswright4420]

You should do a video on the attacks in Madrid in 2004. Those were even more deadly.

[@doclewis8927]

I agree. I think the "shot to kill" policies in all of the countries that have them seem "overused" in my opinion. The thing is...a dead person can't sue for their rights being violated and it's hard to prove the police acted unlawfully when the person is deceased even when family bring suits. I have a friend who was on the police force and he got hit with a lawsuit for shooting someone when the guy actually shot himself by reaching for his gun he grabbed it by the trigger and shot himself. Thankfully, the medical examiner was able to help prove my officer friend didn't shoot anyone.

[@rubiconnn]

The authorities who proposed these policies should be the first people these policies are used on. The world would be a better place without them.

[@ReKonstructor]

I agree@@rubiconnn

[@underarmbowlingincidentof1981]

it will probably end like the car accidents in china where they run over the person one more time so they don't have to pay for the other persons hospital stay.

[@becky2235]

I thought the policy was if all options have been used they could shoot to stop the threat but not to kill. That's frightening if that's the policy

[@invisibleman4827]

​@becky2235 Technically the term 'shoot to kill' is meaningless because why else would you shoot at someone? If you shoot at someone and your intention isn't to kill, why shoot at them? I think better to have non-lethal options available to incapacitate assailants. If Jean Charles De Menzes was hit by a taser it'd be embarrassing but he'd still be alive today.

[@StephenFiorentini]

I'll never forget it. I will always remember my parents both saying "It was only a matter of time before the underground was hit" They thought it would happen in the 80s.

[@leeriches8841]

Same. Growing up when IRA threats and attacks were very real, I was surprised it hadn’t happened sooner- especially since the Madrid Bombing took place on trains a couple of years earlier. I’m actually still surprised there hasn’t been attacks in other parts of the UK in all honesty. Here in Edinburgh there are MASSIVE events at New Year, streets filled with thousands of people. I always avoid them and busy places in general, having been caught up in a war zone abroad in 2014 which left me with PTSD and general weariness of large crowds.

[@SongsOfDragons]

I was on study leave after my A-Levels. My dad worked in Hammersmith at the time. I had slept in, and I got woken by a call - it was my aunt in Australia, calling to see if we were all right. I hadn't turned on the TV so I thought she was referring to us having won the bid for the 2012 Olympics just beforehand. Then I got breakfast and turned on the TV... I'd never called my dad at work before, but I did that day. He was fine, he was just going to be home very late obvs. He actually made it home at ~10pm. Of course it was only in the last year he told me that had he been any later in London that day, he may have been on one of the blown-up trains.

[@Charlie-pu9bx]

I was 10 when this happened and I remember seeing it on the news. I live in Luton, just a 30mins train from London. My younger brother still refuses to go to London or underground trains because it really scared him when it happened. I feel like this attack tends to be forgotten by other countries, but it was an horrific attack and we shouldn't forget about it.

[@harryminto6048]

I wasnt born yet at the time, but me, my brother (who was a baby at the time), my parents and my grandparents have all lived in london for all our lives. They still remember it vividly. They werent there at the scene, but were horrifiedby what happened. RIP to all of the victims ❤.

[@matthewmckever2312]

You should do the London bridge attack. I was a bus driver at kings cross getting everyone out of the area on that day. I had 3 bomb scares in the weeks to come. Only 1 was scary. Respect to London that day.

[@kevinmcqueenie7420]

I remember that day vividly. A good friend of mine who was the drummer in my first band had moved back to London after uni, and was on his way to work that day. His train was cancelled so he was heading towards the bus at Tavistock Square when he stopped to call his work and let them know he would be late. He watched the bomb detonate. We couldn’t contact him until after 1am the next day due to the chaos. Later he told me he had thought about getting on the bus before calling but decided he was going to be late anyway so what the hell. A true sliding doors moment. He married an Israeli and lives in Haifa now. ETA: Oof! Forgot about de Menezes. That was so awful and (surprisingly now I suppose) truly shocking at the time.

[@FART-REPELLENT]

Common-sense would dictate that as a result of your friend witnessing a terrorist attack, Israel is the last country he'd migrate to?

[@kevinmcqueenie7420]

@@FART-REPELLENT you might think so, but life takes strange paths, and that’s what he did. Hope he came back to the UK before recent events

[@kaitlynlicona1086]

This was a great episode I learned so much

[@shannonbreen3732]

This is horrific. I’m sitting here watching and crying. 😭

[@Sh4dowgale]

I never knew about this. I'm gonna share this with my coworkers so people don't forget.

[@gluedtothemouse]

I literally NEVER knew this happened, this is the first I've ever heard of the 7/7 attacks

[@Andromeda907]

I'll never forget the image of the bus that had its roof ripped off 😢

[@FART-REPELLENT]

Which galaxy do you hail from?

[@ignitionfrn2223]

0:55 - Chapter 1 - Prelude to devastation 3:30 - Chapter 2 - Horror on the london underground 6:30 - Chapter 3 - The search for answers 10:05 - Chapter 4 - The paranoia spreads 12:05 - Conclusion

[@classicalteacher]

Conclusion: Mohammed is a false prophet. Muslims are evil.

[@knightofsteeldoug]

This was hard to watch as I was in London on 7/7, I was nine we were on a school trip in the wax museum when our headmaster inform us, I still go no the underground without panicking.

[@megajohntopunishenslave427]

Simon I know you love facts so need to correct you about your statement. It wasn’t under Russel Sq it was 100m outside King’s Cross. Tfl did not want 2 tragedy’s associated with the station so focused on it being at R Sq this is why the memorial is at KX. It was also less devastating than it could have been because it went off at a point where the east and west tracks share the same tunnel. Thus the explosion had more place to expand than in a single track tunnel. I know this because I was a tube worker who worked at King’s Cross at the time. I thank the gods I was on the late shift that day because the shit my colleagues saw that day was harrowing. Unsung hero’s who were the first on seen while lfb, las and met police divverd about outside the station worrying about secondary devices. It was also lucky they did there research during the Thames link blockade because at that time way more ppl were using the circle lines. However the blockade came to an end when they did there attack reducing the numbers on circle lines. Otherwise it’s likely they would have targeted the Vic and Northern lines instead. Not to put the emergency services down but it annoys me that the tube workers never get the mention they should. A great meany ppl ow there life’s to the ppl who tied severed limbs off with ties and what ever fabric they could get to hand in that first 20mins. If your reading this my friends you are hero’s.

[@sophietodd97]

I was there that day, on holiday from Australia as a little 7 year old, i was waiting to get on the tube with my family when we were told that there had been an "unexplained explosion" on our tube line just minutes prior and that we would have to wait for a bus. We were running late and if we had got to the station on time, we would have been on that train. To this day, i can remember the fear in my grandparents voices when they were talking about what to do next and seeing the same fear and concern on everyone around me. It was without a doubt, one of the worst days of my life

[@man_haver9160]

Bro nah the “they had a train to catch” got me rolling bro turned this into a comedy for 1/2 a second.

[@wisteela]

Absolutely disgusting that they got away with the shooting and killing of an innocent man.

[@markclark787]

Thank you for posting

[@Lpinsker0246]

Survivor story! Was studying abroad at an Edgware Road flat, avoided being a victim by minutes… then rushed out of Marble Arch the day of the second attacks. Some transit reopened that day but the Tube was shut for 3 days before undamaged lines reopened. The main reason the police gave at the time for shooting the suspect was that he was wearing a large coat on an otherwise warm summer day, which they found too suspicious, but it turned out he was from a much warmer country so a London summer might well have been jacket weather for him. There was extensive police action near my flat for weeks afterwards, freaking out already nervous residents, but from the network’s extensiveness that now makes sense. None of it made me love London any less!

[@bevrek]

I remember that report about the jacket, it turned out to be untrue. There's a documentary about it on KZbin.

[@freddie-xc3py]

It's shocking, my mum had a job offer to go to London, and stay in a hotel, about 2 streets from Edgware road, so she would have been on the bus that exploded, thank you for telling this story, as it deserves to be remembered

[@dockerdave]

I remember it well. I was already at work at Shell Centre in Waterloo when the first reports came filtering through. We started huddling around the tvs in the basement watching the latest updates until we were told to make our way home. I lived in West Finchley in north London and eventually made my way out of central London and found a bus to take me home. It was a horrible time and I remember how I looked at people carrying backpacks onto the tube once it reopened. The people that perpetrated such acts can barely be described as human. They took advantage of the importance we place on human rights and equality in the West.

[@robertp457]

I was stationed in the UK at the time and the US was, rightly, shamed for telling its people stationed in the UK to stay at home or on base after the British government told people to carry on and not let terrorism change how people conduct their daily lives.

[@clarissagafoor5222]

Brits are far more used to this - London has been subject to terrorist attacks since at least since the days of suffragettes. Makes people a lot more resilient.

[@luckytanuki5449]

How is that rightly shamed? Imo it's foolish to put more peoples safety at risk right after a massive terrorist attack, just to send the message, "Your terror attacks aren't gonna inconvenience us". That is insanely stupid. God forbid there were more attacks, you want to MINIMIZE the amount of people hurt or killed... Fuck pride, peoples lives are on the line. And they would be blasted hard if another attack did come and the government gave people permission to continue on in the same fashion as before?

[@RH11THM]

​@@luckytanuki5449it's the defensive side of psychological warfare: If their bombing doesn't scare us enough to affect our daily lives, then it's failed as a "terror" attack.

[@npkiv]

I can't believe this was 19 years ago, I remember it like it was yesterday.

[@TheGameware]

Amazed that as a UK citizen, I've never heard about this. As someone born in 2005 I'd have thought our schools would at least make some effort to educate us about this.

[@yorkshire_tea6875]

I was taught it in citizenship

[@TheGameware]

@@yorkshire_tea6875 citizenship? that some kinda weird class you had?

[@yorkshire_tea6875]

@@TheGameware been on the curriculum like 8 years I think in secondary schools

[@TheGameware]

@@yorkshire_tea6875 weird, must've been either called something different or not in my school, we didnt have that and i went to secondary between 2016-2021

[@JESS1CA1996]

I remember getting home from school that day and seeing it all over the TV, what I wanna know is why did they buy return tickets

[@giantmanice]

I'm absolutely appalled that I've never even heard of this. Given I was about 7 at the time and American. But still

[@sophie-anncullen5502]

I still think that there should still be a 2 minute silence on the anniversary. That is disgraceful and people have died

[@multiyapples]

Rest in peace to those that passed away.

[@scdl-m2z]

i was late to school that morning. i rarely took the tube but this was one of the times that i did. literal seconds after i left the tube station there was this deafening sound. everyone was sent home that morning. i can’t imagine what those people went through

[@ronniescerri4111]

My grandad could’ve died in this which still scares me when I think about it, he was homeless at the time and living in a doorway literally behind where the bus exploded (you can see it in some photos) but the night before it happened, him and the person he was sleeping on the street with at the time decided to go and get some food as they were hungry (I think at a local homeless bank or something I’m not too sure) so if they never decided to get food that night, I would never have met my grandad (I’m a 2008 baby) which is very sad when I think about it, but I’m very lucky to still have him, he’s a great grandad and I love him a lot. Rest in peace to those lost though, very sad day

[@Bat_fan-1]

I was born on the day the bombs went off. My mum was rushing to the hospital and when she heard the news she told my father to get off the bus and he thought she was crazy. My mum got off and walked to the hospital because she wanted to give birth to me I was born on the day the london bombs went off and I have been so interested in this incident. The day I was born was the day people lost their lives. I do hope those who died are now at rest.

[@jamespurs]

This day will never be forgotten. Our city was still celebrating the previous day having been awarded the 2012 Olympics.

[@R56TurboCharged]

The people in the Tube that risked electrocution and death to help save countless lives as well as the Doctors from the Conference are all heroes that kept it from being far greater tragedy.

[@greendodgy]

A few years before, in 2004, I was waiting for a bus near Russell Square. The bus was late (though I didn't mind as they came every 7 minutes or so), so a woman at the busstop started complaining a bit. When I said that if she was in a hurry, the tube would be quicker, she told me that she never took the tube because she was scared of a terrorist attack. It surprized me then.

[@greendragonreprised6885]

I remember it well. I was at a conference on, of all things, the semantic web in the Queen Elizabeth Centre near Parliament Square, when news came through that 'something' had happened. The mobile phone networks went offline which caused most concern as we were all techies. The conference was international and there were Americans there who, because of 9/11, needed to contact their families to let them know not to worry, they were alright. I spent a lot of that morning giving directions of how to get back to various hotels without using public transport, especially the underground, which as you said, wouldn't come back online until 3pm. The conference was abandoned and I returned to my office a short walk away to find out what the hell was going on.

[@Jake_5693]

Remember this day well, on holiday with my family in Turkey. A very sharp come down from the previous day when we were awarded the Olympic Games in London for 2012!

[@BriarOs]

I was only 6 when this happened but I still remember seeing it on the news all too clearly

[@AstroEssexGirl]

I was a manager of a pub just off of Oxford Street at that time. I was at the Angel and found out the Underground had stopped (we didn’t know what had happened by that time). Everyone was trying to get on buses so I decided to walk down to King’s Cross to see if I could catch a different bus from there. It was pure pandemonium when I got there with all the emergency services there so I knew something bad had happened. We didn’t have great access to internet on our phones like we had now and our phones were not working anyway. As I got near Warren Street, I heard this awful loud explosion behind me in the distance. It was only when I got into work, we turned on the news and saw what was happening. People were literally stranded in Central London for days due to a lot of underground and transport system shutting down (only certain lines reopened) and there were no hotel rooms but everyone came together.

[@smallandsweet7]

I was 8 years old when this happened. I remember being on the way to school in my mother’s car, driving into Cardiff. We heard about it on the radio and my mother pulled over, then turned around and I didn’t go to school that day. There were police everywhere, I remember there was such fear that they were going to attack the Welsh and Scottish capitals too.

[@FART-REPELLENT]

Why would they attack Welsh and Scottish capital cities?, they'd only end up killing sheep; besides they wouldn't have got the amount of publicity as they did for attacking London

[@doclewis8927]

RIP, all, but especially Jean who didn't need to die just because he looked like someone.

[@imarobotking]

i personally was on the tube network at the times of the explosions, made an impromptu change to a different station to exit. if i didn't do this, i worked out i could of possibly been on one of the tube trains that blew up. it was a weird experience. left the station everyone heading for buses. it was then through the crowd there was murmurings that there was explosions.... then the buses were cancelled, this turned out was because of the Tavistock square bus attack. i knew something major was happening when i seen so so many fire engines, police cars and ambulances responding while standing at the north end of tower bridge. such a surreal day and experience. was right crazy.

[@PM-bv2nx]

As an American it seriously upsets me that practically no one in US knows or remebers July 7th the day UK was attacked. Every July 7th i put my US Flag at half mast in front of my home to remember. Neighbors have no clue. The UK stood beside us after 9/11. Fought next ro us during 20 years of the terror wars. But self centered milineal and GenZ dont acknowledge the sacrifices of the UK. SHAME!!

[@jackoh991]

That's very respectful of you.

[@stephanieclark8327]

I remember hearing this while I was in school. I spent the rest of the day worried for my grandparents, I thought the bus bomb on Russell Square was near their home because they live on a similarly named street. When I got home Mum pointed out that not only was the bomb no where near their home but they weren't even in London at the time because they were on holiday.

[@ImmersiveSportsScience]

By pure coincidence The former Mayor of New York was in London. The same mayor who was Mayor during 9/11

[@GardinerAlan]

The one with the drippy hair colouring, who has disbarment proceedings, sexual harassment claims and criminal indictments looming over him? Yeah, I prefer not to mention him by name either.

[@ImmersiveSportsScience]

@@GardinerAlan Rudi Guliani?

[@hughstark4882]

My mum was supposed to be on one of those buses in 2005 with my brother. If she had gone on that bus, i would never have been born.

[@ironskilllions]

A very weird day, I was working in the staff canteen of a well-known radio station in west London at the time and was watching coverage on the wall of TVs - at first they were saying power transformers had exploded, but it soon became apparent it was more than that. Took me 2 hours to walk home from Latimer Road to Tufnell Park, with the back of my neck tingling every time I walked past a bus. A couple of days later I was in Kings Cross tube station when it got evacuated because a bus outside had started billowing out smoke. Very unsettling times.

[@bensharp4164]

Its very sobering to look back at this, I was 13 at the time and lived in Essex, a big commuter town outside of London, around mid morning word spread like wild fire around school that there had been a terrorist attack, kids were being pulled out of class, lucky for me my dad was OK but when i got taken out of class I didn't know either way until I sat down with the school receptionist , it was pure shock, terror you cant even begin to imagine, something no kid should ever have to deal with. The strange thing was we just brushed it off and carried on, but there was an air of darkness, very, very odd. My dad left early that day and would have normally been on the train that got hit at Aldgate. Bizarrely my dad walked past an IRA bomb in the 1990s that went off hours later. My grandmother was almost killed on multiple occasions during the blitz, I'm not a religious person but its a miracle I'm here...

[@Hollows1997]

I remember walking home from school and finding out from my dad that an attack had taken place. I was too young to remember 9/11, but remember this vividly.

[@BassaiDai123]

7/7 often goes unmentioned when it comes to the War On Terror, and this video explains it in a tasteful and informative way. Thank you

[@pianorevival9690]

I was on a vacation tour of Germany that day. The fear reached there as well. We all sat glued to the news, saddened for those hurt or killed. We were also scared. We were to go to a museum via the subway that day but our tour guide wouldn't allow it. Another sad day to go down in history because of monsters in human form.

[@VaeVictisXIII]

Remember this on the news when I was 12, will never forget the footage of the bus with the back end blown away. Harrowing stuff, RIP to those murdered.

[@acey850]

6:54 I don’t know why but this part made me feel a mix of fear, anger, love, and being proud of the resilience of the British people.

[@captainiceberg8637]

The British people will soon be extinct

[@mattd6085]

@@captainiceberg8637 Let's hope it's you first

[@DM-fs9gw]

Liking the new set up!