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The complete and utter failure of all of London’s vast CCTV surveillance is bad enough, considering that we do not have even one reliable surveillance recording of the ‘bombers’. But nor did a single eyewitness offer any reliable report of having witnessed any of the four ‘bombers’ on 7/7. No one in Luton, no one on the trains or at the stations in London, no one in or around the No.30 bus, positively identified any of the suspects. The media gave suspiciously quick and excessive screen-time to the demolition expert and sole Tavistock ‘witness’ Richard Jones, (who we will come back to in a moment), yet it is clear that Mr Jones was lying and hadn’t seen Hasib Hussain at all. For one thing, Jones – who claimed to have watched the ‘suspect’ reaching suspiciously into this bag – told the press that he was downstairs on the No.30 bus; but the explosion is claimed to have happened on *the top deck*.
‘Suicide Bombers’ or Patsies
The ‘official story’ of July 7th 2005 is that ‘almost simultaneous’ explosions ripped through three London Underground trains, and – just under an hour later – a fourth explosion occurred on a No.30 bus that had been diverted from its normal route. According to the official narrative, we are told that four young men, all British Muslims, had traveled into London to carry out the attack. These young men were;
Mohammad Sidique Khan, aged 30, said to have detonated his bomb just after leaving Edgware Road tube station on a train travelling toward Paddington, at 8:50 am. He was from Beeston, Leeds, and had a wife and young child, and had been a mentor in a primary school.
- Shehzad Tanweer, aged 22. Said to have detonated a bomb aboard a train travelling between Liverpool Street station and Aldgate tube station, at 8:50 am. He was also from Leeds.
- Germaine Lindsay, aged 19. Said to have detonated a device on a train travelling between King’s Cross and Russell Square tube stations, at 8:50 am. He lived in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, with his pregnant wife and young son.
- And Hasib Hussain, the youngest of the four, aged 18. Hussain is claimed to have detonated a bomb on the top deck of the double-decker, No.30 bus at Tavistock Square, 9:47 am. Square.
The terrorist who trained the London bombers was a US informant and was freed after serving only four and a half years of a possible 70-year sentence. Citing his “exceptional co-operation,” in working with US authorities, a New York Judge released Mohammed Junaid Babar despite him pleading guilty to five counts of terrorism, an outcome that has, “Raised questions over whether Babar was a US informer at the time he was helping to train the ringleader of the 7 July tube and bus bombings,” reports the London Guardian.
Babar admits to consorting with high level “Al-Qaeda” terrorists, as well as “providing senior members with money and equipment, running weapons.” He also set up a training camp in Pakistan in 2003 where alleged 7/7 ringleader Mohammad Sidique Khan learned bomb-making techniques
Graham Foulkes, a magistrate whose 22-year-old son David was killed by Khan at Edgware Road underground station in 2005, said: “People get four and a half years for burglary. They can get more for some road traffic offences. So for an international terrorist who’s directly linked to the death of my son and dozens and dozens of people to get that sentence is just outrageous.”
But Babar’s release makes perfect sense given the fact that he was likely working for US authorities as an informant while training one of the alleged London bombers.
“A remark from the sentencing judge that Babar “began co-operating even before his arrest”, has raised the possibility, supported by other circumstantial evidence obtained by the Guardian, that he may have been an informant for the US government before his detention by the FBI in April 2004,” writes the Guardian’s Shiv Malik, who in a separate article goes into greater depth on how, “Babar may have been working for the US security services while pretending to be a jihadi – allegations that could imply serious failures to prevent the 7 July bombings.”
The Guardian article describes how a top US terrorism lawyer has seen sealed evidence in the case which “suggests Babar could have been working for the US authorities before his arrest in April 2004.”
“Having reviewed the court transcript himself, bereaved father Graham Foulkes said: “There’s a hint from one or two of the sentences [in the transcript] that do strongly suggest [Babar’s] co-operation was going well beyond his official arrest. And it looks as if the Americans may well have known in detail what Babar was up to in Pakistan [at the time] and that is a very, very serious matter.”
The fact that Babar has served less than 5 years for playing a crucial role in attacks which killed 52 people and injured hundreds more clearly indicates that he is being rewarded by US authorities for his involvement in the 7/7 bombings.
Lest we forget that the the so-called mastermind behind the 7/7 London bombings, Haroon Rashid Aswat, was 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.
The revelations about Babar once again underscore the myopic and ludicrous assertions of people like Glenn Beck, who constantly invoke the threat of radical Islam, particularly in the context of recent events in Egypt, while failing to point out that radical Islam is being fostered and fomented by the US military-industrial complex. Almost every single major terror plot over the last decade plus blamed on “radical Islam” has had the combined or individual fingerprints of US, British, Canadian and Israeli intelligence agencies and federal law enforcement bodies all over it.
The mainstream media narrative doesn’t hold up under scrutiny. And it never did. Let’s highlight some of the main reasons why;
The train that the mock-terrorists were supposed to catch – the 07.40 am train to Kings Cross – had been cancelled that day (along with the train after that), meaning that *they couldn’t possibly board the tube-trains they were supposed to* for what was almost certainly a training exercise (more on that in a moment). Despite *official confirmation that these trains had been cancelled* that morning, the official Home Office report still insists that the non-existent 07.40 am train was the train the four young men travelled into London on. It is impossible. The first available train the four young men could catch would’ve had them arriving at Kings Cross *after* the tube-trains they were allegedly on had already departed. When the men learn that the tube-trains they were supposed to be on have by now blown up, they of course realise that this is no longer a training exercise but *a real attack* and that they have been set up by their handlers.- The initial train operating company reports on the day made no mention of ‘suicide bombers’, but announced that the devastation on the Underground was the result of a “power surge”, and this continued to be reported until shortly after the explosion of a No.30 bus in Tavistock Square at 9.47 am – a bus that had been mysteriously diverted from its normal route to take it to Tavistock Square. The ‘power surge’ reference becomes additionally significant when we look at the murder of the Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes (more on that later).
- The first train *after* 07.40 am left Luton at 07.56 am and arrived at Kings Cross at 08.42 am. The three tube-trains that exploded left Kings Cross at 08.35 am (Eastbound Circle Line), 08.42 am (Westbound Circle Line) and 08.48 am (Picadilly Line, south). It is therefore simply impossible for any of the four young men to have been on any of those trains that exploded.
- We are told that at 8:49 am, three bombs were supposedly detonated on board London Underground trains within fifty seconds of each other. But it was only on July 9th that the timing of the explosions on the Underground was revised considerably. The blasts’ timings were changed from the original reports and made to have occurred ‘almost simultaneously’ at 8.50 am. Scotland Yard now reported the Underground incidents had occurred within 50 seconds of each other, despite the original timings spaced over 26 minutes. Why did the original stories of power surges, train collisions and derailments with separate times now turn into a story of simultaneous suicide bombs?
- Witnesses from the underground explosions reported that they saw no suspicious ‘Muslim men’ with backpacks on their trains, nor any unattended bags or packages. Many also reported that the explosions *blew upwards from underneath the trains*, suggesting pre-planted explosives and not bombs set off in any of the carriages. Explosives planted under the train would rupture the carriage floors and would be powerful enough to lift the carriage up off the rails – which is precisely what was reported as having happened. Crude, home-made explosives could not have accomplished that effect; what had to have been used were military-grade explosives that wouldn’t have been available to the four young men. The explosives had to have been planted under the tube-train carriage floors – needless to say, only people with privileged access to the underground tunnels could’ve done that.
- At 11.00 am on July 8th, the Metropolitan Police stated that: ‘there is no evidence to suggest that the attacks were the result of suicide bombings although this cannot be ruled out.’
- Fifty seven minutes after the ‘almost simultaneous’ explosions on the underground, an explosion occurred outside the British Medical Association headquarters on a No.30 bus that had been diverted into Tavistock Square. Immediately after the bus explosion, Sky News was ordered to pull its helicopter out of the skies over the area and subsequently very little footage now exists in of the bus in the immediate aftermath of the incident.
- Guardian journalist Mark Honigsbaum, who talked to eyewitnesses at the Edgware Road bombing, described the same process of an *upward explosive force*: eyewitnesses told Honigsbaum that “tiles, the covers on the floor of the train, suddenly flew up, raised up.”
- This is confirmed again: American student Sean Baran was walking towards Edgware Road Station when the explosion occurred. “One gentleman told me that the floor of the train he was on was blown out, it was just gone,” he told Sky News.
- And again, this time by another survivor, Bruce Lait, who was in a tube carriage in which an explosion occurred. He reported that as they made their way out, a policeman pointed out where the bomb had been. “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.
- Contrary to popular misconceptions, the exact means used to kill the victims of 7/7 has never been established. The official cause of death in each case is classified as ‘injuries suffered in an explosion’, but the actual specific type of explosives used have never been determined. At the July 7th inquests into the deaths, explosives expert Clifford Todd admitted that they had found no trace of the main explosive at any of the bomb sites. If these were home-made or crude bombs in backpacks and on the carriages, this wouldn’t be the case – there would be traces.
- This view was also taken by other experts. “The nature of the explosives appears to be military, which is very worrying,” said Superintendent Christophe Chaboud, the chief of the French anti-terrorist police, who was in London at the time to assist Scotland Yard.
- Why did the police report say there had been [lightbox full=”http://historybud.com/wp-content/uploads/2005/07/77-blair-sixexplosions.jpg”]six explosions[/lightbox], when they were only four?
All four also carried driver’s licences and ID cards with them to their deaths, which is not logical behaviour for terrorists. One of the ‘bombers’, Germaine Lindsey, who’s car was discovered left in Luton displayed a seven-day parking ticket on its dashboard. It is absolutely clear that these four young men had no intention of dying and that they therefore could not have been ‘suicide bombers’. The four ‘suicide bombers’ were simply training-exercise participants doing a job for which they were expected to be paid and, on another level, doing a patriotic duty by cooperating with security and intelligence organisations in acting out a terror drill for the sake of future protection of British citizens in any possible real-world terrorist attacks.
If they were suicide-bombers, of course, then they would logically purchase only one-way train tickets in order carry out their mission. We are told, however, that all four young men actually purchased return-tickets. Which makes no sense for an actual terrorist attack; but does of course make sense if they were simply participating in a planned drill.
No one who knew any of the alleged bombers believed they could be murderers and no one suspected a thing. None of them were known as being particularly political or religious. None of them had a serious criminal record.
Mohammad Siddique Khan must be the least likely and least convincing ‘terrorist’ or ‘extremist’ to date. The view of Khan as a convert to extremist ideologies or an Al-Qaeda sympathiser was (and remains) entirely contradicted by friends of Khan, who told of how ‘Western’ Khan, known by his Anglicised name of ‘Sid’, considered himself British (and how, returning home from a trip to the USA, was besotted with all things American). Two of Khan’s friends from school were interviewed for a BBC Radio 4 documentary, ‘Biography of a Bomber’. The documentary revealed that Khan’s friends were mostly white English and that he considered himself a Westerner and a ‘proud British Muslim’. Needless to say, he had expressed no extremist views to anyone, and was not known to have been very religious. Mohammad Siddiq Khan was, from all appearances, a law-abiding British Muslim who was befriended by the police and was in fact a pillar of his community.
The general and inescapable view of the four ‘bombers’, their backgrounds, and most importantly their behavior on the morning of 7/7, suggests that they had no intention of dying. One of the ‘bombers’ was filmed arguing with a cashier about being shortchanged hours before he allegedly blew himself up, according to a piece in The Independent. Would a man on a ‘holy’, one-way suicide mission care about being shortchanged in a minor purchase?
A Metropolitan Police counter-terrorist expert also told a seminar that the four ‘terrorists’ simply did not fit the terrorist profile. The official told a seminar in Preston, Lancashire; “I’ve seen the CCTV footage of these people. They do not appear to be on their way to commit any crime at all.”
ID cards said to belong to Mohammad Siddique Khan were reported by different news outlets to have been discovered at three of the four explosion sites. How could he have been in all three sites? Plus, as with the 9/11 hijacker passports, how is it that paper documents remarkably survive bomb blasts that otherwise rip apart metal, trains, buildings and people?
Identity documents to identify Tanweer were also found both at Edgware Road station (where he is supposed to have died) but also at the Aldgate bomb scene. Again, aside from the question of why these ‘suicide bombers’, like the 9/11 hijackers, were carrying ID, how could he have been both at the Aldgate AND Edgware Road bomb sites?
The youngest of the 7/7 actors, 18 year-old Hasib Hussein, described by those who knew him as “a gentle giant”, was reported to have been seen casually wandering around London streets for well over an hour, even stopping into McDonalds for a burger. He wasn’t thought to be acting suspicious in the least bit, nor acting like someone involved in terrorism. The indications of chaos and panic he might’ve observed in the city would’ve seemed to him, logically, like part of the planned terror drill, since – as far as he would’ve been told beforehand – at least a thousand actors were supposed to be taking part in the London training exercise. As the assigned actor intended to board a pre-arranged bus (and not a tube-train like the others), he may not even have been aware of the underground explosions having happened; it is known that he attempted to use his phone to communicate with the others, but the phones were all being jammed and he therefore had no way of knowing what anyone else’s situation was.
Hasib Hussain of course ended up as the ‘bomber’ accused of blowing up the No.30 bus in Tavistock Square. There is nothing to suggest he did so, however; all we do know is that – according to the official story – he was killed in the explosion on that bus that he was told to make sure he was on. Note also that the Panorama programme a year earlier had specified Tavistock Square for the location of the single road-vehicle explosion that would accompany the three underground bombs. The Mirror reported that Hasib was ‘full of hate’ from the age of 14 when he ‘threatened terror against classmates’ in the wake of 9/11. However, these claims were utterly rubbished by the headmaster of the school, who painted an entirely different picture of the young Hasib. This again is simply a demonstration of mass media fakery designed to make someone seem ‘more the part’ of the terrorist or the monster.
A news broadcaster early in the day of 7/7 reported that three of the suspected terrorists had been shot and killed by police near Canary Wharf in the Docklands area of the East End. This announcement was only made once and then of course never repeated: because how could the ‘suicide bombers’ who’d supposedly blown up the London Underground tube-trains later also be shot dead near Canary Wharf? But the Canada Globe and Mail and New Zealand Herald newspapers both, however, reported that the suicide-bombers had been shot dead outside the HSBC building or near Canary Wharf. It can’t be confirmed, of course, that these shootings took place. But if three of the four alleged suicide bombers were shot dead by police near the Docklands – and none of them could’ve possibly been on the tube-trains that actualy blew up (as the London-bound trains that would’ve got them there had been cancelled) – then clearly someone else planted the explosives on the London Underground trains.
The Herald piece appears to report the shootings as matter-of-fact; ‘A New Zealander working for Reuters in London says two colleagues witnessed the unconfirmed shooting by police of two apparent suicide bombers outside the HSBC tower at Canary Wharf in London. The New Zealander, who did not want to be named, said the killing of the two men wearing bombs happened at 10.30 am on Thursday (London time). Following the shooting, the 8000 workers in the 44-storey tower were told to stay away from windows and remain in the building for at least six hours, the New Zealand man said.’ Where did the New Zealand Herald gets its story from? And why did they report it so matter-of-factly, as if they weren’t worried about the story being later contradicted? Curiously, on July 7th 2003 (exactly two years prior to 7/7), the fifth episode of the BBC Spooks series features an MI5 training exercise that coincides with a real major terrorist attack on London. And along similar lines (and reminiscent of the Lone Gunmen series’ prophetic ‘9/11 episode’), the 2004 made-for-TV movie Dirty War centers on a large-scale emergency exercise and concludes with a real terror attack that perfectly mirrors the scenario for that exercise. The same film also depicts four Muslim suicide bombers attacking London (two of them at Liverpool Street tube station); and it also has two of the suicide bombers being shot dead by police at Canary Wharf.
Mohammad Siddiq Khan’s famous video would’ve simply been part of the carefully scripted exercise, which, as the chief ‘terrorist’ actor, he would’ve been asked to make. His so-called ‘suicide note’, revealed a very long time after the fact, was almost certainly a fake concocted between intelligence and media agencies, and his young wife, who was clearly the victim of prolonged police harassment and intimidation, simply caved in to pressure eventually and decided to publicly accept the official narrative. In his oft-referenced ‘martyr video’, we should note that there is no mention of any specific intentions he has. He does not refer to the crime he is suspected of perpetrating (7/7), and he doesn’t mention any of the other three, so even if you regard the video as implicating him, it doesn’t implicate the other three. Numerous people, especially those who knew Mr Khan, dismiss the video as fake. Even many of those with no personal interest in Khan are highly suspicious of the video. Khan’s lips appear to be out of sync at times. The video glitches at the start, but yet the audio doesn’t – suggesting that the audio was added in separately. Faking videos, of course, just like faking supposed CCTV images, is fairly easy.
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