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For the calendar date, see July 7. The 7 July 2005 London bombings, sometimes referred to as 7/7, were a series of coordinated terrorist suicide bomb attacks in central London which targeted civilians using the public transport system during the rush hour. On the morning of Thursday, 7 July 2005, four Islamist extremists separately detonated three bombs in quick succession aboard London Underground trains across the city and, later, a fourth on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. Fifty-two people were killed and over 700 more were injured in the attacks, making it Britain's worst terrorist incident since the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, as well as the country's first ever Islamist suicide attack. The explosions were caused by homemade organic peroxide-based devices packed into backpacks. Attacks[edit] London Underground[edit] At 8:49 am, three bombs were detonated on board London Underground trains within fifty seconds of each other:
7/7 bombings: Who were the 52 victims of the London terror attacks? Life for British Muslims since 7/7 – abuse, suspicion and constant apologies. It could have been me.
King’s Cross was my station. But 10 years ago, on the morning of 7 July, 2005, I happened to be on a day off, sitting at home in front of the television, glued to the news channels. Fifty-two of my fellow Londoners lay dead. Within days, the four young men behind the worst terror attack in British history had been identified, and a knot tightened at the pit of my stomach. The London bombings had already been dubbed “7/7”, a deliberate attempt to depict the attacks as our “9/11”. “We’re screwed,” I told a Muslim friend.
We can’t say we weren’t warned. Well, Martin, we’re hurting. How about the Muslim residents of the three areas in Birmingham that in 2010 were to be surrounded by a “ring of steel” of 218 “spy cameras” as part of a counter-terrorism operation? Blair may have changed the rules but he didn’t win the game. So what is David Cameron’s solution to the problem of violent extremism? Meanwhile, Muslim grievances are mocked or ignored. ANNABEL PITCHER AUTHOR. 7/7 London Bombings: 10 Years On. Annabel Pitcher. Annabel Pitcher (born 1982) is a British children's writer.
Background[edit] Pitcher's second novel, Ketchup Clouds, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize.[6] It also collected the Edgar Allan Poe award in 2014 for 'Best Young Adult Novel', awarded by the Mystery Writers of America. Before her first book was published, Annabel trained as a teacher and taught English at Wakefield Girls' High School. Published books[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher - review. The subject matter of this book is so completely different to any other book I have read.
It is rather complex, as it is about love, death, murder, racism, friendship, bullying and growing up. This is narrated by a boy called Jamie, whose older sister, Rose, lives on the mantelpiece – literally. She was killed by a terrorist attack and her ashes are on the mantelpiece. Jamie's whole family life is completely messed up. His mum ran away with another man and abandoned him and his family. Jamie's sister, Jasmine, also struggles with the death of her twin sister and she deals with her grief in a different way to Jamie. This book is a whirlwind of adventure and emotions. . • Buy this book at the Guardian Bookshop. My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Trailer. 7 July London bombings: What happened that day? Image copyright PA Ten years ago, four suicide bombers with rucksacks full of explosives attacked central London, killing 52 people and injuring hundreds more.
It was the worst single terrorist atrocity on British soil. A decade on, we look back at how events unfolded on 7 July 2005. My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece. My Sister Lives On The Mantelpiece is a 2011 novel written by Annabel Pitcher.
It won the 2012 Branford Boase Award,[1] and received at least 25 other award nominations.[2] Ten-year-old Jamie Mathews and his family, consisting of his sister, Jas, who is 15, and his father, an alcoholic, moves to the country from London after Jamie's mother has an affair and leaves. Sitting on the Mantelpiece in their new home is the ashes of Rose, Jas's twin sister, who was killed in an unspecified terror attack (though is most likely the 7/7 terror attack), five years earlier. Jas has been deeply troubled by the death of her sister, yet it doesn't bother Jamie since he was too young to really know Rose. At his new school, a catholic school, Jamie befriends Sunya, who is a Muslim. This amazing novel is narrated by Jamie and expresses his deep feelings.