RELEVANT QUOTE FROM GEORGE ORWELL'S NOVEL 'NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR'; Part2 Chapter5: "In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, 'just to keep people frightened'."

INTRODUCTION: -

London is pretty much the police state model for the rest of the UK.  It has been a matter of 'when', rather than 'if' a terrorist event (or series of events) would occur.

Naturally, this event will further 'justify' the ushering in of a police state integrating the Nat. Database Register and ID Card bill in the UK... to keep us safe from the dangerous terrorists.

Set up within hours of the London attacks, this section is dedicated to analyse and dissect the various accounts of events.

J.R.Skelton - UK based Webmaster for cremationofcare.com - 07th July 2005

MAINSTREAM MEDIA NEWS LINKS: -

WAS IT ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS? - WHERE'S THE EVIDENCE?

• Experts analyse bomber videotape - Intelligence experts are continuing to scrutinise a video message by London bomber Mohammed Sidique Kahn to find out when and where it was made. Security officials are also looking for clues as to whether a wider terror network was behind the 7 July attacks.

• Early statement claiming responsibility: The BBC has located an Islamist website that has published a 200-word statement issued by an organisation saying it carried out the London bombings.  It must be true then I guess!

• Website that carried al-Qaida claim has connections to Bush family: UK-based dissident denies link to website that carried al-Qaida claim - The claim of responsibility for the London attacks was first posted on one of the dozens of Islamic websites that are routinely monitored by western intelligence services.

• London bombers staged 'dummy run' - Newly released CCTV footage shows the 7 July London bombers staged a practice run nine days before the attack.

• Bomb 'mastermind' was victim of name confusion - A man widely reported to have slipped into Britain to "mastermind" the London bombings was an innocent Pakistani who happened to have a similar name to a suspected al-Qa'ida leader.     (Alt. Backup Link)

WERE THE ALLEGED SUICIDE BOMBERS FULLY IN ON IT?: -

(Do they fit the profile that fits their alleged crimes?)

• July 7 Tube bomber argued with cashier shortly before blast - One of the suicide bombers who attacked London on 7 July was filmed arguing with a cashier about being short-changed hours before he blew himself up. Another of the terrorists - the teenager who destroyed a double-decker bus - was also captured on surveillance cameras wandering around the streets of London, "bumping into people", before detonating his rucksack bomb.

• Did London Bombers Intend To Die? - They bought roundtrip train tickets and paid for long-term parking — two of the details that are prompting the intelligence community to question if the four London bombers intended to die.

• Suicide bombers' 'ordinary' lives - Four young men were killed in last Thursday's bomb blasts in London. Initially they would have been treated as victims, but police have now confirmed they are the perpetrators of Britain's first suicide bombing.

• London bomber who worked in chip shop left £121,000 fortune - DETECTIVES investigating the 7 July bombings in London are trying to establish how one of the four-man gang involved in the attack managed to amass a personal fortune of £121,000 while working part-time in a chip shop. The revelation fuels speculation that the bomb gang received outside financial assistance to mount their attacks.

• Friends claim Khan's statement was faked - Old and young refuse to accept youth worker's role in attack.

• Terror Expert: London Bomber Was Working For MI5: Khan used as informant for security services - A noted terror expert has told the BBC that Mohammed Siddique Khan, the alleged ringleader of the 7/7 London bombings, was working for British intelligence agency MI5 as an informant at the time of the attacks. Charles Shoebridge is a 12-year veteran detective of the London Metropolitan Police, a former graduate of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, and now a broadcaster and writer on terrorism in the UK. Shoebridge told the BBC Newshour program that from the evidence little else can be assumed other than that Khan was working for British intelligence.

• London bombers may have been tricked into setting off bombs: Police - BRITISH police are considering the possibility that the four key suspects in the recent London attacks may have been tricked into setting off their bombs – according to the police, as of now, there is no evidence that those who set off the bombs were suicide bombers.    (Alt. Backup Link)     (Alt. Backup Link2)

• London bombers may have been tricked - British police are considering the possibility that the four key suspects in last week's London attacks may have been tricked into setting off their bombs, a British newspaper has reported.

• 'Slow, gentle giant' who blew up the No 30 bus and killed 13 others - Hasib Hussain was an unremarkable high school student. His tutors describe him as a "slow, gentle giant" who was "perfectly normal". In fact, he was so ordinary that – until two weeks ago – many of his teachers may have had difficulty remembering him at all. Now, however, he will be remembered as the suicide bomber who claimed 14 lives when he blew up the No 30 bus in London's Tavistock Square.

• Egyptian Chemist Knew Two London Attackers - CAIRO, Egypt -- An Egyptian chemist freed Tuesday after three weeks in custody for questioning about deadly bombings in London said he casually knew two of the attackers. He called one of them "very kind and very nice."

EVIDENCE OF PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

(And MI5 fingerprints all over the 'bombers')

• Spies warned of Tube attack - SPYMASTERS warned Tony Blair before the July 7 suicide bombings that Al-Qaeda was planning a “high priority” attack specifically aimed at the London Tube. A leaked four-page report by the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), which oversees all spying, is the first definitive evidence that the intelligence services expected terrorists to strike at the Underground. The disclosure will fuel critics’ suspicions that Blair decided to rule out a public inquiry into the bombings last week because it could expose intelligence failings at the highest level.    (Alternative Backup Link)

• MI5 missed six chances to stop 7/7 bombings - MI5 OFFICERS had to pass up several chances to thwart the 7 July suicide bombers because they lacked the necessary staff and resources, an official inquiry found yesterday. With greater resources, the Security Service would have had an "increased" chance of stopping the attacks that killed 56 people, the parliamentary intelligence and security committee (ISC) found.

• Revealed MI5 ruled London bombers were not a threat - Two of the four suicide bombers who killed 52 people in the July 7 attacks were scrutinised by MI5 last year but were not considered to be a threat, The Independent has learnt. Shahzad Tanweer, 22, who detonated a rucksack bomb on the Tube train at Aldgate, is believed to have been indirectly linked to an alleged plot to build a bomb in 2004. It has already been established that the suspected mastermind, Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, had been known to security services.    (Alternative Backup Link)

• FBI 'gave prior warning to Britain about 7/7 bomber' - FURTHER evidence suggesting that British security forces were alerted in advance to the danger posed by the leader of the London suicide bombers emerged yesterday. Reports in the United States indicated American law enforcement officers had raised concerns with their British counterparts over Mohammad Sidique Khan, believed to have led the 7 July attacks. According to the New York Daily News, the FBI told British officials well before the bombings that Khan "was trouble" and should be "checked out".

• 'Bug' in car of 7/7 killer - COPS probing the 7/7 bombings found a hi-tech tracking device in the ringleader’s car just days after the attacks, a senior security official claims. The bug, like those used by police, was allegedly discovered in a car belonging to Mohammed Siddique Khan, the Edgware Road bomber. It is suggested that Special Branch officers put it there during a surveillance operation aimed at Islamic extremists. The claim will fuel criticisms that police missed chances to foil the suicide attacks. An official report showed Khan, 30, came to the attention of MI5 several times. But he was seen only as a “peripheral” figure. The Met refused to comment on the surveillance claims.

• Bombers 'tracked before July 7' - All four July 7 London suicide bombers were tracked by intelligence services a year before the attacks, it was claimed today. Quoting unnamed police sources, the Mirror reported that field agents had Shehzad Tanweer, Jermaine Lindsay, Hasib Hussain and Mohammed Sidique Khan on a list of 100 feared religious fanatics before the watch was called off because they failed to "fit the preconceived terrorist profile".

• CIA 'warned leader was threat two years before 7/7 attacks' - DEMANDS for an independent inquiry into the 7 July suicide attacks were stepped up last night, after claims that the CIA identified the leader of the bombers as a terrorist threat two years before the strikes on London. Mohammad Sidique Khan was banned from flying to America after the CIA discovered in 2003 that he was planning attacks on US cities, according to a new book. The claims are significant because MI5 has denied any previous knowledge of the threat the suicide bombers presented before the attacks.

• Could MI5 have stopped the London bombings? - ...Should the intelligence agencies and police have known about the plot? MI5 argue that while it was disappointing that they did not prevent the 7 July attacks, they could not have done any more to prevent them. The agency insists that when they came across two of the bombers, Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shahzad Tanweer, they were peripheral to the case of a separate bomb plot. MI5 says it had limited resources and had to prioritise its targeted suspects. While both official reports are expected to say that the intelligence and security services were not to blame for failing to prevent the bombings, they remain vulnerable to criticism.   (Alt. Backup Link)

• IT expert: I worked with 7/7 bombers and warned police: Intelligence on bombers sent to detectives in 2003 - A computer expert who worked alongside two of the July 7 bombers claims today that he tried to warn the police about their activities almost two years before the suicide attacks.

• Bombers slipped through net of watching MI5 - A lack of resources allowed the July 7 bombers to slip through the security net, according to two reports published yesterday, and police and the intelligence services are highly unlikely to be able to prevent all similar attacks in the future. Two of the four suicide bombers had come to the attention of the security service, MI5, time and again, yet the reports' authors concluded that there was no reason for the authorities to have known that they posed a threat.

• 7/7 bombers were under MI5 surveillance a year prior to attack - British Intelligence, it seems had an inkling of the terrorist threat to Britain as much a year before the July 7 London bombings and the July 21 shadow bombings attack. A leaked “top secret” document in the Sunday Times said that Mohammad Siddique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, two of the London 7/7 bombers who visited Pakistan, were under surveillance a year before the attacks in London. One of the 21/7 bombers was even reported to be subjected to a short-term intelligence operation, it said.

• 7 July bomber 'filmed last year' - London bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan featured in a surveillance operation by intelligence services last year, a BBC investigation suggests. Khan was secretly filmed and recorded speaking to a UK-based terror suspect, according to a well-placed source.

• MI5 'let bomber slip through net' - The leader of the four London suicide bombers who killed 52 people on July 7 had been under surveillance by MI5 last year, the BBC has claimed.

• Saudis warned UK of London attacks - Saudi Arabia officially warned Britain of an imminent terrorist attack on London just weeks ahead of the 7 July bombings after calls from one of al-Qaeda's most wanted operatives were traced to an active cell in the United Kingdom.

• TO THE CONTRARY:  Al-Qaida claimed responsibility for London blasts - (Part of the article): Israel was not warned about possible terror attacks in London before at least six blasts ripped through the city, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Thursday. A Foreign Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, had said earlier that British police warned the Israeli Embassy in London of possible terror attacks minutes before the first explosion. "There was no early information about terrorist attacks," Shalom told Israel Army Radio. "After the first explosion an order was given that no one move until things become clear. "

• Israel says Scotland Yard was warned of possible attack

• Scotland Yard had warned Israel of possible terror attacks Jerusalem, July 7 (AP): British police told the Israeli Embassy in London minutes before today's explosions that they had received warnings of possible terror attacks in the city, a senior Israeli official said.

• Was Israel Warned Ahead of First Blast?

• Britain failed to protect London even after Israel warned Britain of coming Al-Queda terror – inefficiency or conspiracy? - Israel knew and warned United Kingdom of possible terror plots to disrupt life in London. But British authorities failed to respond accordingly to deter the attacks, according to an unconfirmed rumor circulating in intelligence circles. Israel is keeping quiet for the time being with a lot of pressure on them.

• Police chief "London was in very high state of alert"

• Terrorism expert says at least one person tipped off to London attacks - Terrorism expert Tommy Preston of Preston Global in Frankfort, Kentucky, said sources in the intelligence community reported that at least one person in London, England was warned of Thursday morning's terrorist attacks moments before the initial blast.     (Alt. Backup Link)

• Report: Israel Was Warned Ahead of First Blast - (IsraelNN.com) Army Radio quoting unconfirmed reliable sources reported a short time ago that Scotland Yard had intelligence warnings of the attacks a short time before they occurred.    (Alt. Backup Link)

• Who shorted British pound? - SEE THE 'WHO STOOD TO GAIN - ECONOMICALLY' AREA BELOW

RATCHETING UP THE POLICE STATE AS A RESPONSE

(Problem > Reaction > Solution)

• Brown plays the 7/7 card ahead of ID vote - GORDON Brown was last night accused of exaggerating the case for identity cards, after suggesting that the government's planned scheme was justified by the London suicide bombings. Ahead of the Identity Card Bill's latest Commons test tonight, the Chancellor appeared to contradict colleagues, including Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, by directly linking the controversial scheme to past attacks.

• 'Anti-terror' body scanners go on trial at Paddington - THE first trial of body scanners that detect explosives is to start in a move to boost security for rail passengers in the wake of the July 7 bombings. Passengers travelling to Heathrow Airport from Paddington station in west London are to be randomly tested, but participation will be voluntary.

• MPs back ban on glorifying terror - Tony Blair's controversial plan for a new law to stop people "glorifying" terrorism has been backed by MPs. The House of Lords voted last month to remove the measure from the Terrorism Bill, but the Commons has now voted by 315 to 277 to reinstate the plan. Mr Blair said the vote was a "signal of strength" which could outlaw placards glorifying the bombers who attacked London last July.

• US-style terror alerts for UK: MPs to recommend clearer public warnings in wake of London bombings - A cross-party committee investigating the background to the July 7 bombings is expected to recommend a transparent official public warning system for the threat posed by terrorist attacks. It would be similar to the kind that has proved controversial in America.

• Gordon Brown's speech on terrorism - Full text of the speech given by the chancellor to the Royal United Services Institute in London - "...While we stood as one on and after July 7 there is a danger that in the aftermath of a terrorist incident as time passes, people's sense of the scale of the threat dims, that people's guard starts to drop, their vigilance lessens and their commitment to the tough and necessary security measures - all too clear on the morning after - weakens. And there is also a danger that we fail to stand back and reflect and to make the long-term cool headed assessment we need to have about the likely repetition of such events and to decide what, for the long term, needs to be done to strengthen our security..."

• Terrorism Act comes into force - The government's controversial Terrorism Act comes into force today, outlawing the glorification of terrorism and paving the way for the detention of terror suspects for 28 days without charge. The bill, introduced in response to the July 7 bombings, was opposed by both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, and saw Tony Blair's first Commons defeat since coming to power, when Labour rebels overturned a government clause allowing 90 days detention.

• Email spying 'could have stopped killers' - Millions of personal email and mobile phone records could be stored and shared with police and intelligence officials across Europe to help thwart terrorist attacks.  The Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, will propose new measures at an emergency meeting of European Union interior ministers which will discuss the implications of Thursday's London bombings.

• Clarke set to rush through emergency arrest powers - Ministers are expected to rush through measures to arrest and detain suspects accused of acts associated with terrorism as an immediate reaction to yesterday's bombings.    (Alt. Backup Link)

• Lessons from London attacks - U.S. transit authorities say the nation's ground-transportation network requires an immediate $6 billion security upgrade, yet it is budgeted to receive just $100 million from the federal government next year.

• Commuters note security increase - Life went on without a hitch for most residents of southern Pennsylvania and western Maryland after the terror attack in London that left 37 dead and wounded more than 700. However, those who work in the Washington, D.C., area noticed an upgraded police presence.

• Cities' security measures - (CNN) - Authorities in major U.S. cities are increasing security, specifically around subway systems, after the deadly attack on London's transit system. The following are steps taken by officials around the country on Thursday.

• Hosoda Says Japan to Increase Security After U.K. Bomb Blasts - July 8 (Bloomberg) -- The Japanese government will enhance security at home after four terrorist bombs in London killed 37 people and injured about 700, chief spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda told reporters today in Tokyo.

• Transit officials boost security in the county - Transit officials in San Diego County raised security for the region's trolleys, trains and buses but kept to normal schedules yesterday following terror attacks in London that underscored the vulnerability of public transportation.

• London bombing stresses need for Homeland Security

• Australia to consider ID card to fight terrorism - SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia should consider introducing a national identity card in the wake of the London bombings and the rise in global terrorism, Prime Minister John Howard said on Friday.  Australia last debated a national ID card, called the Australia Card, in 1987. Howard, then in opposition, opposed the card, but now says times have changed.

• Blasts felt beyond London - Missouri boosts transit security after UK blasts though officials did not receive information of specific threats to the state of Missouri.  (COMMENTARY:  They just figured... "What the hell, everyone else is doing it!... why not?".)

• Singapore steps up security in public transport network - The Central London bomb blasts have prompted the Singapore government to do even more to tighten security on the public transport network. Acting Prime Minister Dr Tony Tan says increased measures have been put in place, even though there are no specific threat against targets in Singapore.   (COMMENTARY:  Again, they just figured... "What the hell, everyone else is doing it!".)

• Blair may speed up tightening of terror laws - As Tony Blair said Britain could speed up the introduction of new laws to apprehend and prosecute people preparing to commit terrorist acts, a poll published in The Times newspaper on Tuesday showed a majority of the public would back tough new anti-terrorist measures.

• Terror laws talks reach consensus - The three main political parties have reached agreement on speeding up new counter-terrorism measures in the wake of the London bombings.

• A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF ORWELLIAN DOUBLE-SPEAK: ID cards wouldn't have stopped bombings, says Clarke - But argues they will help the wider fight against terrorism...

• Bush sees London attacks as reason for Patriot Act - President Bush yesterday invoked the terrorist attacks in London as a compelling reason for Congress to renew the USA Patriot Act and for local governments to beef up security on mass-transit systems.

• EU phone record plan in trouble - EU plans to make telecommunications companies store details of calls and e-mail traffic for a year or more were criticised by the industry on Thursday... The rules would apply to a large range of equipment including land lines and mobile telephones, text messages, e-mails and internet protocols. EU interior ministers agreed to this in principle at an emergency meeting just after the London bombings.

• (USA) NY commuters face random searches - Passengers using the New York subway are to be subject to random searches in a new security measure designed to reduce the threat of terrorist attacks. The city's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, announced the move hours after the latest bombings in London.

• (Australia) Carr calls for tougher terror laws - THE Federal Government must pass anti-terrorist laws similar to those being considered in Britain in the face of a renewed and growing threat, the NSW premier said.

• Hundreds more armed police to join London's terror fight - As many as 400 more armed police could be patrolling London after last month's massive anti-terror operations in the capital raised fears the police were being over-stretched.

• Extremism task force to be set up - A task force to tackle Muslim extremism "head on" is being set up in the wake of the London bombings.

• Far right and football gangs plot 'revenge' - Plans by an alliance of rightwing extremists and football hooligans to exact "revenge" on Muslims after last week's bomb attacks are being monitored by police.  The Guardian has learned that extremists are keen to cause widespread fear and injury with attacks on mosques and high-profile "anti-Muslim" events in the capital.

• BLEARS ID CARD ROW - A FURIOUS row erupted yesterday after Home Office Minister Hazel Blears said ID cards could have helped to stop the London bombings.

'WE WILL HOLD FIRM' (Like rods 'held firm' together in the Fasci symbol) This phrase appeared on the front of the UK's Daily Mirror. Perhaps a 'Freudian Slip' (I digress), but you can bet that the London bombings will continue to be used to push us further into a Fascistic society (more so than we are already), not just in the UK, but globally. It is important to point out that I aren't merely using the word 'Fascistic' at random. This is the exact meaning, to get the many all tied together (with whatever pretext) and within that enslaved structure you can rule over them with an 'Axe head' symbolic of authoritarian law. Hence the term Axis Power used during WW2. (Click here to see our Symbolism: Fasci section)

KEEPING UP THE CLIMATE OF FEAR IN THE AFTERMATH

(i.e. Drawing out the 'Fear Mongering' Campaign)

• Birmingham back to normal, bomb scare a hoax - London, July 10: The police on Sunday lifted the security alert on Britain's second city Birmingham, hours after conducting controlled explosions and evacuating upto 30,000 people to inspect a suspicious package that was found to be harmless.

• Canada may become a target: Americans, British, Australians, Spaniards hit - Yesterday's bombings in London, coupled with the attacks on the United States, Spain and Australia (through the Bali nightclub bombings), may increase the likelihood of Canada becoming a target for terror.

• 8,000 Flee Bomb Scare - EIGHT thousand people were evacuated from a packed community festival in Sheffield after reports of a suspect package sparked a bomb scare.

• SEE OUR '21/07/2005 REPEAT ATTACKS' SECTION BELOW ALSO

AIDING THE TERRORISTS

• OUR ENVOYS LOSE SAT PHONE, IRAQI REBELS FIND IT & RUN UP £500,000 BILL CALLING AL-QAEDA IN YEMEN AND SAUDI ARABIA & NO-ONE NOTICED FOR TWO YEARS? - BRITISH diplomats had a satellite phone stolen in Baghdad...and only noticed it was missing after a bill for FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS was run up. The invoice shows thousands of phone calls made to Yemen and Saudi Arabia, bases for al-Qaeda terror networks. MI6 spy chiefs fear the "Thuraya" phone was used by insurgents to plot a wave of suicide bombings across Iraq.

• MI5 said bomber was not a threat - One of the London bombers was investigated by MI5 last year but was deemed not to be a threat, it has been revealed.

• Terror Expert: 7/7 Mastermind was working for British Intelligence, Group was used by Brits in Kosovo in the late 90s - The July 29 edition of FOX News Channel's Day Side programme revealed that the so called mastermind of the 7/7 London Bombings, Haroon Rashid Aswat, is a British Intelligence Asset. Former Justice Dept. prosecutor and Terror expert John Loftus revealed that the so called Al-Muhajiroun group, based in London had formed during the Kosovo crisis, during which Fundamentalist Muslim Leaders (Or what is now referred to as Al Qaeda) were recruited by MI6 to fight in Kosovo.

• Former Blair Minister Points Out Al-Qaeda Cia Ties:  The struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military means

• London Bomber Mastermind Was Working For MI6 - Haroon Aswat – the man British Police believe was behind the London bombings – was working for MI6, it has been confirmed by leading U.S. and French intelligence asset/agents.     (Alternative Backup Link)

• London Bombing ringleader, Haroon Rashid Aswat – double agent for MI6?: In a lengthy statement that will send shockwaves around the world, John Loftus, a terrorism expert and a former prosecutor for the US Justice Department, has publically revealed that the so called mastermind of the 7/7 London Bombings, Haroon Rashid Aswat, is a British ‘Intelligence Asset’.

• Blair rejects calls for probe into bombings - Tony Blair will on Monday reject Conservative demands for a government inquiry into last week's London bomb attacks, insisting such a move would distract from the task of catching the perpetrators.

• The Convenient Malfunction Of The London Bus Camera - ...but the investigation received a serious setback when it was discovered the CCTV cameras on the bus that blew up were not working so detectives will not get vital images of the bomber.

• UK 'blocked bomb plotter' arrest - About a month before the July 7 bombings in London, British authorities balked at giving U.S. officials permission to apprehend a man now believed to have ties to the bombers, according to sources familiar with the investigation.     (Alt Backup Link)

• London Bombings Mastermind is MI6 Asset - On FOX News Channel's Day Side, Terrorism Expert John Loftus revealed that Haroon Rashid Aswat, the suspect wanted by British Police for "masterminding" the July 7th London bombings and July 21st attempted bombings is in fact an asset of MI6, the British Secret Service. According to Loftus, Aswat has been under the protection of MI6 for many years.

OFFICIAL INCONSISTENCIES AND CONTRADICTIONS

• The reconstruction: 7/7 - What really happened?   Were the four bombers being controlled or acting alone?  Why did they buy return tickets if they were intending to die?  Could MI5 have found out what was happening and stopped it?  Was an al-Qa'ida suspect allowed to travel to the UK unwatched?.  The Independent (UK Newspaper) asks many key questions based on information that officials have told us is fact.     (Alt. Backup Link)

• NYPD Says 7/7 Bombs Detonated By Mobile Phones - New York police insist they were right to release details of the bombs that killed 52 people in London, even though they had not been vetted by UK police.

• BOMB UNDER THE TRAIN? - "I was in tube bomb carriage - and survived" - Except from the article: ..."The policeman said 'mind that hole, that's where the bomb was'. The metal was pushed upwards as if the bomb was underneath the train. They seem to think the bomb was left in a bag, but I don't remember anybody being where the bomb was, or any bag," he said.     (Our Archived Version)

• How does a bomb inside the carriage make the floor shoot inwards? - I walked through to the end and saw the buckled door of the next carriage, which is where the bomb had gone off. A man said: "You mustn't go in." I could hear people screaming, so I knew I had to see what I could do. I crawled through the interconnecting door, which had blood on the glass. One woman sitting on the seat was twisted round. She was trapped and there wasn't much left of her leg. The chap next to her had lost his leg and there was a woman to their left who was on her back trapped in the metal, which had twisted up through the middle of the carriage. The roof was still on, but the lining of the carriage had been blown off. The sides had also come off and there was a big hole in the floor. A guy was writhing around on a big sheet of metal a bit further up.

COVER-UPS & OBSTRUCTED INVESTIGATIONS IN THE AFTERMATH: -

• 7/7 - has the Blair something to hide? - TWO north west MP have demanded an inquiry into the 7/7 London underground terror attacks. Liberal Democrat Euro-MP Sajjad Karim said that the Government's reluctance to respond to widespread demand for a public enquiry into London's July bombings was likely to raise more serious questions about its approach to the 'War on Terror'. "This Government has been all too keen to underline the importance of 'leaving no stone unturned' in the so-called 'War on Terror' when justifying the intolerable suspension of civil liberties it has sanctioned in the name of national security," said Mr Karim.

• MI5 kept Parliament in dark over 7/7 bombings: Calls intensify for an independent public inquiry after key information is withheld from Intelligence and Security Committee - THE full extent of what was known about the July 7 bombers was not disclosed to the parliamentary committee that investigated intelligence failings in the run-up to the suicide attacks. MI5 is alleged to have kept back material from bugging operations and data gleaned from computer analysis of the bomb cell from the Intelligence and Security Committee before its critical report last week. Doubts have also emerged about when the identity of Mohammad Sidique Khan, the ringleader of the gang, became known to intelligence services.

• MI5 rebels expose Tube bomb cover-up - MI5 is facing an internal revolt by officers alarmed about intelligence failures and the lack of resources to fight Islamic terrorism. To illustrate their concern, agents have leaked more topsecret documents to The Sunday Times because they want a public inquiry into the “missed intelligence” leading up to the July attacks in London. They believe ministers have withheld information from the public about what the security services knew about the suspects before the bombing of July 7 and the abortive attacks of July 21.

• FATAL FAILURES ..BUT WHY NO PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO 7/7? - FAMILIES of the July 7 bomb victims last night demanded a public inquiry after an official report revealed fatal security blunders. Angry relatives and survivors said there were still many unanswered questions about the outrage that killed 52 people and injured hundreds more.

WHO STOOD TO GAIN?

ECONOMICALLY: -

• Financial markets react to London blasts

• Hume's "first thought" on hearing of London attacks: It's "time to buy" futures - During Fox News' coverage of the July 7 London bombings, Washington managing editor Brit Hume told host Shepard Smith that his "first thought," when he "heard there had been this attack" and saw the low futures market, was "Hmmm, time to buy." Smith had asked Hume to comment on the lack of a negative U.S. stock market reaction to the London attacks.

• Stock Futures Plummet on London Blast News

• London blast halts Johannesburg stock

• London Attacks May Weaken U.K. Growth, Global Economy July 7 (Bloomberg) -- Terrorist attacks in London may deepen an economic slowdown in the U.K., the world's fourth-biggest economy, crimping global growth prospects already threatened by record oil costs.

• Pound Plunges After Terrorist Attacks: World's Biggest Mover

• Fortunes made on bombing - THOUSANDS of investors joined sharp institutions in making millions of pounds from the short-lived collapse in share prices that followed the terrorist strikes in London last week.

• Who shorted British pound? - In the 1988 Hollywood hit "Die Hard," starring Bruce Willis, a group of "terrorists" take over a Japanese banking institution in Los Angeles, hold hostages and make demands for release of "political prisoners".  But it turns out the terrorists aren't really terrorists. They are bank robbers trying to make off with the fortune in the bank's vaults.  Could it be Osama bin Laden has seen "Die Hard"?

POLITICALLY: -

• The political impact of London bombs - 'The arguments over identity cards and detention without trial will take on a new urgency as ministers consider any new measures to take in the wake of the attacks.  There will also, needless to say, be questions over whether the war on Iraq made attacks on the UK more or less likely'.

• Cui bono? Stupidity Versus Logic in the Latest “Terror” Attack - Wow, al Qaeda must be the stupidest terrorists, no wait, stupidest people period, on this entire planet. Their purported goal is to shake the will of the western powers that have invaded Iraq, and to drive them out, no? Then can someone please explain to me the logic of the London bombings? No seriously, it is time to apply logic to these events. Please do not hand me the nonsense about these people being “killers” who do not apply logic. You do not become the number one terrorist organization without having some logic, no? We are expected to swallow that these people were smart enough to circumvent our billion dollar intelligence and air defense systems with box cutters, but they cannot play coherent cause-effect scenarios out in their mind prior to carrying out terrorist activities? I doubt that very much.    (Alternative Backup Link)

• See also the 'Ratcheting up of the Police State' area above for more examples of the political benefits of the London bombings.

REPEAT ATTACKS AND AFTER-SHOCKS

THE 21/07/2005 INCIDENT

• MI6 knew of 21/7 bomb suspect - THE intelligence services are preparing to make a robust defence of the decisions they took in the months before the July 7 suicide bombings and the July 21 failed terrorist attack. A leaked “top secret” document published in The Sunday Times yesterday indicated that there was intelligence on one of the July 21 suspected bombers. One of them was reported to have been subjected to a short-term intelligence operation. It has already been admitted that MI5 had two of the July 7 bombers under surveillance a year before the suicide attacks in London that killed 52 people last year. Neither of the two, Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, was judged to be a serious threat at that stage, and MI5 felt that it was unjustified to commit extensive resources to a lengthy surveillance operation.

KEEPING UP A STATE OF FEAR (OF REPEATED ATTACKS): Tube cleared after minor blasts - Minor explosions using detonators only have sparked the evacuation of three Tube stations and the closure of three lines, a BBC correspondent has said.

• 21 July 2005 London bombings: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• London incidents: at least one injured - London is facing a series of incidents and three tube stations have been evacuated. But Scotland Yard have said they are not treating this as a major incident.

• Police issue bomb suspect images - I wonder how many of the four are actually involved or are just more 'mistaken identities' to add to the list, keeping the British public 'chasing our tails' (Hell one of them looks like BBC's David Brent... Oh you have to laugh at a time like this!)

DRILLS: THE MORNING OF 7/7 - VISOR CONSULTANTS: -

(From both the 'Mainstream' and 'Alternative' medias)

PUBLIC OPINION OF THE ATTACKS: -

(From both the 'Mainstream' and 'Alternative' medias)

• Are you stressed after London attacks? - Have you been affected by stress since the London attacks?

OFFICIAL CRITICISM & WHISTLEBLOWERS: -

(From both the 'Mainstream' and 'Alternative' medias)

• In-directly related to 7/7: Britain recruited terrorists, Meacher claims - AN astonishing claim that M16 recruited Muslim extremists in Britain for terror training abroad has been made by Oldham MP and former cabinet minister Michael Meacher. Mr Meacher also suggest that a British Muslim held under sentenced of death in Pakistan for beheading a US journalist is being kept alive because he was a British double agent.

• SEE ALSO: Britain now faces its own blowback - Intelligence interests may thwart the July bombings investigation.

PERSPECTIVE AND RELATED NEWS ITEMS: -

(From both the 'Mainstream' and 'Alternative' medias)

• How the Government Staged the London Bombings in Ten Easy Steps - Ten Step Method To Staging a Terrorist Attack

• Bomb Scare Suggests Blair Knew and Did Nothing - High alert level, Israeli intelligence warnings indicate government 'looked the other way' as bombers struck

• Blair Finally Admits: Al-Qaeda Doesn't Exist - The final paragraph of the article reads: Commenting on the possible role of Al Qaeda, Blair said, "Al Qaeda is not an organization. Al Qaeda is a way of working ... but this has the hallmark of that approach."

• Publisher removes ads for novel after London bombs - LONDON (Reuters) - After a grim convergence of fiction and fact, a publisher has removed adverts for a novel about a fictional suicide bombing in London that hit the shelves the same day 52 people died in bomb attacks on the capital.

• How did Greenspan Know about the London Bombings Two Days before?

• PM defends bomb inquiry decision - The prime minister has defended the government's decision not to hold a public inquiry into the 7 July London bombings, amid heavy criticism. Victims' representatives, opposition MPs and Muslim leaders said an inquiry was needed for lessons to be learned.

• "7/7 Bombers" movements Physically Impossible - On 7/7 it was physically impossible for the 'supposed' London bombers to be filmed at 7.22 am at Luton Station and also catch a train which arrived at Kings Cross prior to being filmed at 8 .26 am

• London Patsies: A Replay Of The Pristine 9/11 Passport - The cover stories are flying thick and fast as British investigators try to put some kind of cap on the London attacks.

• Latest Evidence Closes Case on London Bombings - BRITISH police are considering the possibility that the four key suspects in the recent London attacks may have been tricked into setting off their bombs

• Scotland Yard 'Not Interested' In Talking To 7/7 Bomb Mastermind

• Latest footage of London Bomber: More evidence of a frame up - One of the suicide bombers who attacked London on 7 July was filmed arguing with a cashier about being shortchanged hours before he blew himself up, The London Independent reported yesterday.

FURTHER IMPORTANT RESEARCH: -

• INFOWARS.COM - Attack On London Archive

• www.77research.org - A British based website researching the circumstances surrounding the London Bombings of July 2005.

• TIMELINE: London blasts: At a glance (Courtesy of the BBC)

• Wikipedia Entry - 7 July 2005 London bombings

• http://www.julyseventh.co.uk

• RINF.COM: 7/7 Conspiracy London Bombings

At first, the police were sure that the 7/7 bombers used weapons-grade plastic explosives and sophisticated timers. Two weeks later, they changed their minds - the bombs were home-made and were detonated manually. Since then the official account has changed repeatedly and remains riddled with anomalies and confusion.

The government is resisting calls for a full inquiry and has instead presented a 'narrative' written by a civil servant. This supposedly defiinitive account has already collapsed in the face of public scrutiny and leaks from the security services.

As Ahmed demonstrates the attacks can only be fully understood in the ight of extensive co-operation between the Islamist extremists and Western Intelligence in Central Asia. The London bombings, much like the attacks on New York in 2001, were a widely predicted consequence of the West's global strategy. If we do face a future of terrorism we should at least understand the extent to which our governments have accepted this as the price of business as usual. Looking beyond the platitudes and deceptions of the war on terror, Nafeez asks what exactly we mean by the national interest and whether we are really well served by policies that promote terror abroad and tolerate extremism at home.

"Nafeez Ahmed's understanding of the post 9/11 power game, its lies, illusions and dangers, is no less than brilliant " - John Pilger

http://www.independentinquiry.co.uk

• Ludicrous Diversion: 7/7 London Bombings Documentary - On the 7th of July 2005 London was hit by a series of explosions. You probably think you know what happened that day. But you don’t. The police have, from the onset of their investigation, chosen to withhold from the public almost every bit of evidence they claim to have and have provably lied about several aspects of the London Bombings. The mainstream news has willfully spread false, unsubstantiated and unverifiable information, while choosing to completely ignore the numerous inconsistencies and discrepancies in the official story. The government has finally, after a year, presented us with their official ‘narrative’ concerning the event. Within hours it was shown to contain numerous errors, a fact since admitted by the Home Secretary John Reid. They have continuously rejected calls for a full, independent public inquiry. Tony Blair himself described such an inquiry as a ‘ludicrous diversion’. What don’t they want us to find out?  View the film here: -

Contact: ludicrousdiversion@hotmail.com

'SPIES, LIES AND WHISTLEBLOWERS - MI5, MI6 and The Shayler Affair' - banned by the government for 15 months-is a damning indictment of the operations, the methodology, the targets and the personalities within MI5 today. Annie Machon and David Shayler have witnessed first-hand how: - MI6 illegally paid tens of thousands of pounds to Al Qaeda to stage a coup in Libya, without realising the irresponsibility of its actions. MI5 failed to stop four major terrorist attacks in Britain, even though it was in possession of reliable intelligence. MI5 illegally investigated thousands of UK citizens for their political views. MI5 and MI6 let a known Libyan terrorist into Britain. They failed to recruit him and allowed him to set up a terrorist network in this country. MI5 withheld evidence about the innocence of two Palestinians at their trial for the bombing of the Israeli Embassy in London in 1994. One document indicated it might be an ‘inside job’. AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON.CO.UK

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