p2pnet.net News:- Three Islamist groups have apparently now claimed responsibility for the terrorist bombs which devastated central London in England, killing more than 50 people and leaving 700 others wounded, some of them critically.

UK government ministers said the bombings, “bore all the hallmarks of the Islamic militant al Qaeda network which was behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States,” according to Reuters.

People looking for information are still going online for updates, and perhaps news of relatives who may have been victims of the four attacks.

“People turned to the net in their millions to check friends and family were fine following the London attacks,” says the BBC.

“Some news sites got a month’s traffic on Thursday and the huge surge in visitors caused problems for others” and, “E-mail traffic reportedly doubled in response to congestion on mobile networks which made it hard to get through to people in central London.”

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See:-
Reuters - British police suspect timers used in bomb attacks, July 9, 2005
going online - London terror blasts kill 50, July 8, 2005
BBC - News sites toil as visits rocket, July 8, 2005

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