Am now taking bookings for the transfer of attendees from the main terminals to the AVP.

Fees are negotiable but those booking early will be elegible for a discount.

Regards,

kev35 (who sits back contentedly, rubs his hands together and prepares to count his money 😉

Andrewm.

The fact that he was Brazilian does not mean he couldn’t be Muslim. As far as I am aware from the news there has been no mention of Faith or Religion. It is now known that he was living in London for two years and working as an electrician. He understood English.

It was not a house he left, it was a block of flats. The block was under surveillance but apparently not his flat. The fact that he was wearing a thick jacket has been explained by saying that even in the height of the British summer it is still cold for Brazilians.

Why did he run? Did he not understand the commands from the Police? Was he afraid? Confused? Did he have something to hide? We’ll probably never know.

Steve.

The Police made a terrible mistake. However, could you have made the decision to shoot or not to shoot on the information and evidence they had to hand? More importantly, would you be prepared to make that decision? Remember the Australians killed in Bali? I’m sure you would have liked the Police and security forces to have done everything they could to prevent that tragedy.

“……try telling the dead mans family it was an innocent mistake.”

And had he been a bomber and successfully killed another carriage full of innocent victims try telling their families that the decision not to stop him was an “innocent mistake.”

LFC.

I live in an area where the majority of the population are Muslim, with most of the older people coming from one small (now smaller) community in Kashmir. The fact that the Muslim community are worried is a good thing. Perhaps now the elders will try to stamp down on extremist behaviour, unless of course they are receiving the encouragement of the elders?

I still support the Police. It is a tragedy among many tragedies.

Regards,

kev35

I had a phone call from an ex tutor tonight and during the conversation he mentioned something along the lines that the Police “had done it again” and that the shooting was unnecessary, and that this sort of thing was going to become commonplace.

I suspect the Officers concerned were left no alternative when a suspect refuses to stop when confronted and is heading directly for the very mode of transport which has provided the bombers with their latest targets. I would imagine there will be no-one more devastated at this than the Officers involved. Try and imagine how devastated the UK population would have been had he been carrying explosives and killed several people on the train?

It’s an instantaneous decision which could have meant the difference between one life or many lives. I am grateful that there are people willing to make those decisions. Sat at my PC in my ivory tower how could I ever criticise those prepared to make that decision?

Regards,

kev35

Snoopy.

My sincere apologies. I have been suffering a certain degree of brain fade recently. I know I’ve corresponded with you before so I shouldn’t have made that mistake.

I apologise again.

Regards,

kev35

Will this one do?

Cannock Chase Commonwealth War Cemetery.

Regards,

kev35

As yet we are yet to deliver and thus many people are perfectly entitled to their current opinions, the only difference between those people and myself is, I know the details and exactly when everything is happening. Until that time it is only fair that everyone expresses their own thoughts on the subject, even if at times it makes our job a little harder at alphaOne.

But you don’t know do you? You advertise for aircraft that, to be honest, are not in the most common usage in Europe. Therefore, you don’t even know what equipment you will be flying. Won’t that cause a problem in the recruitment of pilots? Or will you be having to go to the expense of having the pilots you have already recruited go on to conversion courses? And your advertisement does not have fax or phone numbers.

And how is the suspicion of the public, a number of whom have had previous contact with you, to be allayed?

I’m sorry Martin, from here it looks like it is all collapsing around your ears and you have no way to move either forward or out. I hope my understanding of the situation is wrong and that it is nowhere as bleak as I, and I suspect others, are imagining.

Is the Mumbai thread another attempt at raising your profile? If so, I don’t think it will work here, its relevance is questionable at best.

I sincerely hope you succeed, but my doubts become graver with each successive delay.

Regards,

kev35

This idea of a ‘blitz’ spirit is nonsense, it’s the human spirit. One bomb in London killing 55 people, tragic as that may be, is incomparable with thousands of civillians killed by Nazi bombers.

Is it? The Blitz occurred in time of war, when London was being hit daily and then nightly. Approximately 60-70,000 were killed during the Blitz. The death toll in germany was much, much higher. The 7th of July bombings occurred during a time of peace, and more importantly the Nation was targeted from within, not without. Many of those involved would not have experienced the Blitz and it is probable that not too many Londoners had been personally affected by the IRA outrages.

What’s to compare anyway? Those killed on the 7th are just as dead as those killed during the Blitz. Or does it only warrant Rememberance when the death toll is much higher?

Regards,

kev35

That’s the point though, your Uncle and the dozens of other people murdered in recent weeks didn’t get a silence in their memory.

It seems like the media and politicians are only interested in dramatic murders.

I think you miss the point Steve. My Uncle’s death affected a very small number of people in comparison to those affected by last Thursday’s murders. His death, significant as it was to his family, could never have had the impact on the Nation that the bombings have had. The death of my Uncle was at the hands of an individual, a common thief, not at the hands of a group of Religious extremists whose sole intention is to destroy Western Society.

Regards,

kev35