On this day in 2005, London was the target of an Al Qaeda-directed coordinated suicide attack. During the morning rush hour, four suicide bombers targeted commuters travelling on the capital's public transport network, three bombs detonating almost simultaneously on the London Underground tube system and a fourth on a number 30 double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. Aside from the perpertrators, the attack killed 52 people and injured over 700.
The bombings occurred while the G8 summit was convening at the Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Scotland. There, British Prime Minister Tony Blair was meeting with other G8 leaders including US President George W Bush, French President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. This clip shows in full the two speeches given by Tony Blair at Gleneagles in his capacity as Prime Minister and on behalf of the G8 and it ends with the brief press conference held by George Bush that afternoon, in which the American president offered his solidarity to the people of Britain.
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