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Bomb Scare Suggests Blair Knew and Did Nothing

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet | July 9 2005 | 09.07.2005 13:50


Israeli intelligence warnings indicate government 'looked the other way' as bombers struck



Evidence of specific plans to target transport links in major UK cities was known to the Blair government two days before the attack but was purposefully ignored while the terrorists moved in for the kill.

The northern city of Sheffield was buzzing with talk of bomb scares on buses two days before London was hit with four deadly explosions, one of which decimated a number 30 bus near Russell Square.

A number of sources in different areas of the city have confirmed to this writer that all Sheffield buses were delayed for an hour or more as they were sent back to the depot to be checked for bombs. This occured early Tuesday evening, less than 48 hours before the London attack.

Sheffield's supertram system was also affected by the bomb scare. The supertram is basically an identical system to the London Underground, but it operates on standard ground level roads.

The bomb scare was the topic of every bus and tram terminal conversation in the city center. A high police presence was also visible at many terminals in the area.

Strangely enough the local print and television media didn't cover the bomb scare at all, this in a town where a traffic accident is top story for three days running. This suggests the police passed on a directive not to report on the incident.

The BBC did carry an article suggesting the bomb scare was due to a package being placed outside a government building. If this is the case then why were buses and trams that didn't even pass Bridge Street also diverted for an hour or more? And why, as many others subsequently reported, were police stopping red Subaru cars all over the city?

Although a major city, Sheffield hasn't been bombed since world war two and even bomb scares are very rare occurances. A bomb scare in Sheffield that impacts public transport less than two days before the London bombing and the blackout of the media in covering it is highly suspicious.

More so in light of the fact that intelligence sources are indicating that Israel warned the British government of attacks two days before the London bombing and also that other similar attacks had been aborted (the empty package outside the Sheffield government building?) The intelligence sources say Blair turned a blind eye to the warnings because he didn't want his visit to G8 being disrupted or call off visits by foreign dignitaries to London.

Did government officials in Sheffield and possibly other cities heed the warning that Blair chose to ignore?

The terror threat to London was downgraded a month before the bombings. Why did they lower the guard?

As we reported on Thursday, original Associated Press and Israeli radio reports stated that Binyamin Netanyahu, the former Israeli Prime Minister received a warning before the first explosion that an attack was about to take place. He was told to stay in his hotel room and not attend an economic forum that was taking place in another hotel building adjacent to the site of the first bombing. Scotlnd Yard passed on this warning to the Israeli embassy in the knowledge that an attack was underway and yet for over an hour the British people were told that the blasts were due to an electrical fault.

The Israeli government is desperately scrambling to prevent more leaks. Early on Friday they ordered all government officials to stop talking to Western media about any aspect of the London bombings.

Highly suspicious cirsumstances and contradictions continue to emerge in the aftermath of the bombing.

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet | July 9 2005

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Sheffield Bomb Scare .. TRUE

09.07.2005 14:30

No buses in Sheffield Tuesday Evening 5:30 pn onwards. Driver told me on Wednesday this was due to a bomb scare

rained on


Prison Planet, Prison Popualtion

09.07.2005 15:17

I don't want to comment on this Sheffield report because I am nowhere near there.

However, I will pass comment on the report source. Quite why Prison Planets infinite drive to earn more money for Alex Jones and Terrify the population into submission has extended into the city of stainless steel I don't know. Perhaps that's where Prison Planet UK is based.

One glaring and obvious flaw in the report is drawing similarity between Londons Tube network and the Sheffield tram network. Other than both being mass transit systems there is no similarity.

If you are from Sheffield and can confirm these reports, write to the local press, council and MP demanding an full explaination be put on the public record.

A Lexicon (TAFKAAlex)


Okay, but...

09.07.2005 15:33

"Evidence of specific plans to target transport links in major UK cities was known to the Blair government two days before the attack but was purposefully ignored while the terrorists moved in for the kill"

Give me one incontrovertible source for this. And I don't mean that dodgy Israeli news link that appeared about 30 seconds after the blast.

Boab


Evidence

09.07.2005 17:30

Interesting piece, but what's missing from this is links to news articles. Anything? It's rather unusual in my experience to find bloggers who want to be taken seriously who *don't* provide links to sources.

AJ


We already have one witness confirmation of the Sheffield bomb scare here

09.07.2005 18:31

The post goes up, and right away someone who happens to have a connection to some relevant information chimes in-- I would say this little investigation is going quite nicely.
It may find some truth where the corporate or government media does not dare to go -- and there's a lot of important things that the corporate and government media doesn't dare to cover these days!

Isn't covering such things just what Indymedia is for?

Dancing Dave
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Might I humbly suggest

09.07.2005 20:12

Before drawing conclusions from "did nothing" you must present your suggestions of USEFUL actions. In other words, you need to demonstrate that there was something which might have been done. In doing that you need to keep separate "tactics" and "strategy". In other words, you should not propose as a useful response to vague threats to "disrupt the transportation system" the shutting down of the entire transportation system >

If you can't come up with any useful ideas, maybe there weren't any.

Mike
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LINK

09.07.2005 22:18

Linker


Trust?

10.07.2005 00:47

And we can all trust the Israelis eh?

Me


Just linking

10.07.2005 01:33

Response to ME

I wasn't implying anything by providing a link. I do think it's important to provide links where possible (things do disappear). I am aware that Mossad's motto is 'by way of deception we shall wage war'.

Linker


Ah But

10.07.2005 08:18

See the trouble is we still don't have a credible source for this information apart from the Israeli piece (and others based solely upon it). And Israel has something of a reputation....

Paranoid Pete


links to PJW article

11.07.2005 19:12

 http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/stratfor-london.html

 http://www.rense.com/general66/abalie.htm

 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050707/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_britain_explosions_1

links to support pjw article from john pilger AP and stratfor you can read them or keep your head burried in the sand with your ID card

tim osman


Good For You, Tim, But....

11.07.2005 20:03

Tim,

Good for you, posting the links. If only everyone did the same.

However these aren't really the smoking gun. The Yahoo piece is based on the initial Israeli information, and I think all of us are a wee bit wary about the Israeli agenda when push comes to shove. Rense is problematic too - it would, I think, be fair to put him in what could be most kindly called the "fringe".

That leaves the Stratfor piece, which is a bit more interesting. My problem here is that it merely notes that the Israelis provided reports of a possible attacks, but that it had been one of a number and the others had been rush. In order to assess whether our illustrious leaders or intellegence services had been at risk, we would need to know more - how specific was the threat (sites, times, etc), how reliable a source were the Israelis given a history of bum reports, and just how many reports from all other agencies are typically received anyway.

Without an inquiry, it seems doubtful that we will ever get to the bottom of this. A Government conspiracy to plant the bombs seems unlikely; a cock-up where a report was missed altogether more plausable. But without real evidence.....

Pete