[ jul 2005 ]
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"A two-minute silence will be staged at noon on Thursday to remember the victims of the London terror attacks."
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53 people die in tube and bus suicide bomb blasts, London, 7 July 2005
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UK General Election, 5 May 2005 - some statistics
* 71% of Londoners who voted, voted for the pro-war Labour and Conservative parties.
* with a city turnout of 58.2%, 41.3% of all Londoners explicitly endorsed the war and endorsed continued government / backbench policy towards occupation of iraq and support for american foreign policy in the middle east -the cause of al-Qaeda's defensive jihad.
* 41.8% of Londoners didn't vote. not voting in these circumstances is implicitly pro-war because it isn't explicitly anti-war.
* 83.1% of Londoners therefore authorised other people to attack them and their neighbours.
* 16.9% of Londoners did not make this decision.
* 16.9% of 2 minutes = 20 seconds.
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* al-Qaeda's terms for truce here
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elementary maths
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