In early September 2008 transmission of the BBC's first investigative documentary into the deadliest attack on Londoners since the Blitz, the 7/7 London Bombings, was cancelled. Contributors to the hour long Conspiracy Files film were told by producer Tristan Quinn that programme makers had failed to get police and security services to answer allegations ranging from serious incompetence to actual collusion in the attacks.

Contributors were informed in the same week as a much more widely reported announcement. That parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee report into Intelligence Services' foreknowledge in the run-up to 7/7 was also to be shelved, again 'for legal reasons'.

Inconsistencies with the official account of four lone suicide bombers centre around first hand proof of an anti-terror exercise taking place at the same locations the first three bombs exploded, also a warning issued to the Israeli Embassy by Scotland Yard and widely reported by AP and mainstream press outside the NATO zone.

Critical holes in the official 7/7 account have been emerging ever since July 2005. Only last week it was announced on Mike Rudin's BBC Blog that ex arms fair firm Reed Elsevier was in charge of an 'exercise' on the day, already scheduled to take place at the same three tube stations where the bombs exploded.

At least six films are circulating on the internet which investigate some of the most serious holes in the official account of that day's events. Some of the filmmakers also attempt to fill those holes with their own speculation.

Ludicrous Diversion takes its title from Tony Blair's words dismissing survivors' calls for an enquiry. Produced anonymously, it appears to be made by TV professionals in their spare time and presents some of the central allegations.

Montreal, The Next Terror Target? was released earlier this year by Michael Pengue, one of the founder members of the Canadian Action Party. It looks into the 7/7 'drills' in depth and the background of the intelligence/software services company, Verint Systems, chosen for the PPP, 10 months before 7/7, to take over security on the London Underground.

Investigative journalists, filmmakers, survivors and victims' families have come together with community groups such as the Campaign Against Criminalisation of Communities (CAMPACC) and British Muslim leaders in a united call for an enquiry which has been consistently stonewalled by Blair, Brown and Cameron. In the absence of any enquiry it should be obvious to any Prime Minister that such an attack may well be repeated.

The Homefront is a film by a relative of one of the 7/7 victims. Director Thomas Ikimi makes the point that British courts look into even minor crimes 'so what is the problem on an inquiry into the worst terror attack in UK history?’ Other films: Mind The Gap, BT London Bombings and 7/7 Ripple Effect all raise further questions and inconsistencies in just about every aspect of that day's events.

Possibly the most disturbing aspect of the shelving of this documentary is that, in the absence of any enquiry, the conviction of Mohammad Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer, Hasib Hussain and Germaine Lindsay for the 7/7 attack has been a 'trial by television'. With the key prosecution witness, Sir Ian Blair, having been forced to resign in disgrace. In the interests of British journalism's professional reputation is about time the dead men's families, survivors and families of the victims now had their right to reply.

The refusal of the British establishment to bite the 7/7 bullet may suit US, British and Israeli military objectives. But it may also fuel a domestic anti-Muslim hate campaign the likes of which we have not seen since that of the Jews in 1930s Germany.


Tony Gosling
 http://www.public-interest.co.uk
 http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewforum.php?f=9

notes:-
1. Montreal - The Next Terror Target - 60mins (2008)
Producers: Montreal 9/11 Truth -  http://www.mtl911truth.org
 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1188892712056990070

2. Ludicrous Diversion - 28mins (2006)
Producers: anonymous -  ludicrousdiversion@hotmail.com
 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4943675105275097719

3. 7/7 The Ripple Effect - 57mins (2007)
Producer: Muad-Dib -  http://jforjustice.co.uk/77/
 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2655098606138392501

4. Mind The Gap - 41mins (2006)
Producer: Adrian Connock -  http://www.officialconfusion.com
 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2001897549763616199

5. BT London Bombings, version 4.1 - 31mins (2005)
Producer: anonymous
 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1898995800774523510

6. The Homefront (2007)
producer Thomas Ikimi
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6928787.stm