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Britain Marks One Year Since 7/7 Islamic Terror Attacks

While concerns are rampant that Islamic terrorists could strike the United Kingdom at home again in the future, Britons this week marked the one-year anniversary of the terror attacks in the capital of London, which took place on July 7, 2005. On that day, fifty-two people were killed and over 700 injured as Jermaine Lindsay, 19, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, Hasib Hussain, 18 and Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, all British citizens, detonated bombs they were carrying in backpacks at three London Tube (Underground) stations and on one double-decker bus.

Britons are no strangers to terrorists attacks, as the Troubles in Northern Ireland sparked retaliatory terrorist attacks upon the home island against British police and civilians by the Irish Republican Army, which has since officially disarmed as Northern Ireland has slowly moved toward reconciliation. U.K. Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, the controversial Mayor of London ?Red? Ken Livingstone, and U.K. Transport Commissioner Peter Hendy are all expected to lay flowers at King?s Cross Tube station, the first station hit on 7/7/05, at 8:50 a.m. ? the hour of the first attack.

Recent polls of business leaders in the nation?s capital have revealed that three out of four do not believe that London?s transportation sector is any safer today than it was last year. Two-thirds of these business leaders also believe that another Islamic terrorist attack upon London is inevitable.