While mourners and survivors prepared
to mark today’s ninth anniversary of the London bus and tube bombings of 2005, vandals
sprayed the 52 steel columns which commemorate the victims of the attack with
slogans such as ‘4 innocent Muslims.’
Royal Parks staff cleaned off the
graffiti before the event began. There is one column for each of the 52 who
were killed by four Islamist suicide bombers a day after London won the contest to host
the Olympic Games of 2012.
The then mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, described it as
an attack on ordinary Londoners – ‘black and white, Muslim and Christian, Hindu
and Jew, young and old’. And the names of the victims reinforced his message –
Adams, Ciaccia, Gunoral, Ikeagwu, Islam, Rosenberg etc.
The radical imam, Anwar al-Awlaki, who was said to have inspired
the bombers was killed by a US drone in Yemen in 2011.
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