The 31st G8 summit was held on 6–8 July 2005 at the Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Scotland and hosted by Prime Minister Tony Blair. The locations of previous G8 summits to have been hosted by the
Protesters clashing with the Greater Manchester Police officers who were deployed to Edinburgh at the start of the summit
The area surrounding Holyrood Palace and the Scottish Parliament was cordoned off by double fences.
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks on the London bombings with the summit attendees behind him. Left to right (front row): Lula da Silva, Gerhard Schröder, Hu Jintao, George W. Bush, Jacques Chirac, Manmohan Singh, Vladimir Putin, Vicente Fox; (back row): Paul Martin, José Barroso, Thabo Mbeki, Silvio Berlusconi, Kofi Annan, Junichiro Koizumi, and Paul Wolfowitz
On 7 July 2005, Islamist terrorists carried out four coordinated suicide bombings targeting commuters travelling on London's public transport during the morning rush hour. The attacks are sometimes kn
31st G8 summit
…Other announced items on the agenda were counterterrorism, non-proliferation, and reform in the Middle East. The summit was overshadowed, however, by bomb attacks in London on the second day of the conference. The traditional meeting of G8 finance ministers before the summit took place in London on 10 and 11 June 2005…
Russell square ambulances
Passengers awaiting evacuation from a bombed train between King's Cross and Russell Square
The bombers captured on CCTV at Luton station at 7:21 a.m. on 7 July 2005 (l-r): Hasib Hussain, Germaine Lindsay, Mohammad Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer
Hasib Hussain, the bus bomber in Tavistock Square, captured on CCTV leaving a Boots store on the King's Cross station concourse at 9:00 a.m. on 7 July 2005