8. The 7 July 2005 London Bombings

This article examines the rapid rise to fame of teenage British Asian boxer Amir Khan following his silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games, and provides a critical discourse analysis of the way that he was subsequently constructed and represented by politicians and the media as a role model for multiethnic Britain. The analysis demonstrates that in the periods directly after both the 2004 Olympic Games and the 7 July 2005 London bombings, the majority of discourses about, and representations of, Khan were inextricably related to contemporary debates around multiculturalism, national identity, and religious extremism and/or deviance amongst young British Muslim men. This article argues that despite the ostensibly positive portrayals of Khan as an individual, a broader, more critical reading of these texts uncovers how they actually reproduce the contradictions and problems inherent to New Labour's policies on citizenship, community cohesion, the ‘war on terror’ and ‘diversity management’. The article concludes that the almost ubiquitous configuration of Khan as a positive role model is in danger of obscuring the continued existence of discourses and practices of racism and social exclusion in contemporary Britain.

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Religious motifs within reporting of the 7/7 London bombings in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Poland: A transnational agenda-setting network study

Journalism ◽

10.1177/1464884919830181 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (10) ◽

pp. 1323-1342

Author(s):

Damian Guzek

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

United Kingdom ◽

Network Analysis ◽

Agenda Setting ◽

Media Coverage ◽

The United States ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Religion And Ethnicity ◽

Media Globalization ◽

London Bombings

Existing studies have examined the significance of UK media coverage of the 7/7 London bombings. This article seeks to widen this analysis by exploring the coverage of 7/7 in the leading newspapers of the United Kingdom, the United States, and Poland comparatively using a new agenda-setting perspective that is grounded within network analysis. The study is devised to respond specifically to the contrasting arguments about the influence of media globalization versus religion and ethnicity on this reporting. It finds that the diverse approaches to religion within the countries of the analyzed newspapers appear to mitigate the reproduction of shared religious narratives in this reporting. Nevertheless, the analyzed coverage does carry common attributes and these, it argues, can be explained broadly by the influence of a US-dominated ‘lens on terror’.

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Manchester Arena bombing: lessons learnt from a mass casualty incident

BMJ Military Health ◽

10.1136/jramc-2018-000930 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 166 (2) ◽

pp. 72-75 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Ross J Craigie ◽

P J Farrelly ◽

R Santos ◽

S R Smith ◽

J S Pollard ◽

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Keyword(s):

Terrorist Attack ◽

Mass Casualty Incident ◽

Mass Casualty ◽

Improvised Explosive Device ◽

Lessons Learnt ◽

Simulation And Training ◽

The Uk ◽

Improvised Explosive ◽

London Bombings ◽

And Training

On 22 May 2017 Salman Abedi detonated an improvised explosive device in the Manchester Arena resulting in 23 deaths (including the attacker). This was the deadliest terrorist attack on UK soil since the 2005 London bombings, but was only one of five mass casualty terrorist attacks in the UK in 2017. Preparation for mass casualty incidents (MCI) is obligatory, involving such methods as multiagency tabletop exercises, mock hospital exercises, as well as simulation and training for clinicians in managing the injuries that would be anticipated in such an event. Even in the best prepared units, such an incident will pose significant challenges due to the unpredictable nature of these events with respect to timing and number of casualties. Following an MCI, local and national reviews are undertaken to assess the effectiveness of the response, but also to identify areas where lessons can be learnt and to disseminate these to allow inclusion in future planning. We present the experience following a mass casualty terrorist incident along with a number of lessons learnt from this event.

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Al-Qaeda’s Role in the Madrid and London Bombings

Al-Qaeda’s Post-9/11 Devolution : The Failed Jihadist Struggle Against the Near and Far Enemy ◽

10.5040/9781501302039.ch-004 ◽

2014 ◽

Keyword(s):

London Bombings

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Securing Mass Transit after the Madrid and London Bombings

Handbook of Transportation Policy and Administration ◽

10.1201/9781420017021-41 ◽

2007 ◽

pp. 629-638

Keyword(s):

Mass Transit ◽

London Bombings

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Cyber-Terrorism in Australia

Encyclopedia of Information Ethics and Security ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-987-8.ch017 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 108-113 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Christopher Beggs

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Cyber Terrorism ◽

New Information ◽

Global Issue ◽

Information And Communication ◽

New Form ◽

London Bombings ◽

The Impact ◽

The U.S

Cyber-terrorism has evolved as a new form of terrorism since the development of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet. It has become an issue of concern to the Australian government as well as a global issue since the impact of the September 11, 2001, tragedies, the Bali bombings in 2002, and the London bombings of 2005. Australia, together with other leading nations such as the U.S., currently faces the threat of conventional terrorism; however, we also now face the possibility of a new digital form of terrorism: cyber-terrorism. This article explores this new form of terrorism and provides examples of possible cyber-terrorism and closely related cases. It also highlights vulnerabilities within Australian computer systems and provides an overview of the future trends of this new emerging threat within the Australian context.

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