London Bombing Research Paper

Ten years ago, four suicide bombers with rucksacks full of explosives attacked central London, killing 52 people and injuring hundreds more. Three of the bombs exploded simultaneously, in three different London Underground trains. One hour later, another bomb was detonated, but this time on top of a double-decker bus. The bombings left three different London underground trains in ruins. This was the worst single terrorist atrocity on British soil.
The seventh of July 2005 London bombings (often referred to as 7/7), were a series of coordinated suicide bomb attacks in central London, which targeted civilians using the public transport system during the morning rush hour at 8.50am. It was an early Thursday morning when four terrorists separately detonated three bombs in quick succession aboard London Underground trains across the city. Around an hour later at 9.50am a fourth on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square near Kings Cross.
The bombs were homemade and organic peroxide-based devices packed into backpacks that caused the explosions. One was detonated just outside Liverpool Street station, the other outside Edgware Road, the third between Kings Cross and Russell Square and the last caused by a similar device to the ones used on the underground on top of a double-decker bus.

The bombers were later through investigation confirmed to be Muslim extremists.

30 year old Mohammad Siddique Khan, 24 year old Shehzad Tanweer, Hasib Hussain and Germaine Lindsay. The bus bomber Hasib Hussain was only 18 years, while the last member was 19-year-old Germaine Lindsay. Following the events of 7/7 all four bombers were found to be British citizens said to be leading normal everyday lives, including Khan who was a respected teaching assistant in his native Beeston, Leeds. Khan, Tanweer and Hussain were all of Pakistani descent and Jamaican-born Briton Germaine Lindsay of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, was a convert to

Islam.
Motivation?
The investigation into the bombings found that both Mohammad Siddique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer had previously spent several months in Pakistan where it is very likely that they were in contact with Al-Qaeda and went through extensive extremist training and preparations for the attack.

Why did it happen?
In September 2005 the television station Al-Jazeera broadcasted Mohammad Siddique Khan speaking in a pre-recorded video message, revealing his motives for becoming a "soldier" - "Until you stop the bombing, gassing, imprisonment and torture of my people we will not stop this fight" he said in the video”.
Effect
The bombings had a big effect on UK, especially on British Muslims. After the attacks, they became the victims. Less than a month after the attacks the Prime Minister Tony Blair announced, “Rules of the game are changing”. British Muslims were spied on, stopped, searched, and stripped of citizenship. When Muslims were blamed, they stood up and said, “This is not us, Islam is against terror”. Although some criticized all Muslims, many stood on their side and helped them. Until this day the relations between Muslims and none Muslims has not been the same since 7/7.
The attacks also affected the British economy dramatically. The number of visitors from abroad to London fell sharply in upcoming months. London attracted 5% fewer tourists from Europe and 6% fewer from the rest of the World compared to tourists from 2004. Overall the number to the UK and in particular London, that year only cost UK 66 million Pounds.
Since the attacks, the British government expanded the power of security services. The government started looking more closely at people in the UK who the police suspected might be involved in terrorism plots, they started working more with other countries to learn about the people they suspected. Right wing activists became more vocal and mistrust of Muslims grew amongst some Britons.