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alwaysshariff | 13.07.2005 08:15 | Analysis | World

"At half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise for a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing up right now."
-- Former Scotland Yard Official Peter Power on BBC, 7/7/05
Why this was not published in the main stream media?

July 13, 2005
Dear friends,

Many strange facts from highly credible sources are coming in regarding the recent London bombings. The most astonishing is the following conversation which took place the afternoon of the London bombing on BBC radio. The BBC host interviewed Peter Power, Managing Director of Visor Consultants, which bills itself as a 'crisis management' advice company. Peter Power was a former Scotland Yard official.


A Coincidence?

POWER: At half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise for a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing up right now.

HOST: To get this quite straight, you were running an exercise to see how you would cope with this, and it happened while you were running the exercise?

POWER: Precisely, and it was about half past nine this morning. We planned this for a company, and for obvious reasons I don't want to reveal their name but they're listening and they'll know it. And we had a room full of crisis managers for the first time they'd met. And so within five minutes we made a pretty rapid decision that this is the real one, and so we went through the correct drills of activating crisis management procedures to jump from slow time to quick time thinking.

This audio clip is still available on the BBC website at:
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/fivelive_aod.shtml?fivelive/drive_thu
To go directly to the above section, in the BBC Radio Player column on the left, click the >>15 min button at the top four times to fast forward to 17:04, where the statement is made. This clip will unfortunately be removed Thursday, July 14th, one week after the original broadcast.

Mr. Power repeats these statements on ITN television. The two-minute video clip is available at:
 http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2005/110705bombingexercises.htm

Below is another excerpt on this matter from the website of CBC, Canada's public broadcasting TV network:
 http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/#night

"CRISIS PLANNING: When there is an emergency like the London bombings, the public instinctively turns to professionals for help. We speak to two experts who are in Toronto today for the World Conference on Disaster Management. Adrian Gordon is the Executive Director of the Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness, and Peter Power is Managing Director of a London-based consulting firm that specializes in crisis management, Visor Consultants - which on the morning of July 7 was co-incidentally running a security exercise for a private firm, simulating multiple bomb explosions in the London Underground, at the same stations that were subsequently attacked in real life."

And here is a two-minute video clip on CBC of Power telling his story:
 http://www.cbc.ca/MRL/clips/rm-lo/charles_disasters050711.rm

Why didn't these astounding statements draw front-page coverage both in the UK and US? And why is Peter Power now backtracking on some of his earlier comments? This situation is strikingly similar to a situation on 9/11 which should have made front-page headlines that was reported in the Boston Globe:
 http://www.boston.com/news/packages/sept11/anniversary/wire_stories/0903_plane_exercise.htm

"In what the government describes as a bizarre coincidence, one U.S. intelligence agency was planning an exercise last Sept. 11 in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings. But the cause wasn't terrorism -- it was to be a simulated accident. Officials at the Chantilly, Va.-based National Reconnaissance Office [NRO] had scheduled an exercise that morning in which a small corporate jet would crash into one of the four towers at the agency's headquarters building after experiencing a mechanical failure. The agency is about four miles from the runways of Washington Dulles International Airport." [So it was just a short hop for the NRO team to run over and secure the Pentagon. And by the way, the NRO has a budget estimated to be three times that of the US State Department]


London Bombs of Military Origin

Reuters news service reports below on the explosives used in the London bombing:
 http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-07-11T122706Z_01_N11466902_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SECURITY-BRITAIN-INTELLIGENCE-DC.XML

"'The explosives appear to be of military origin, which is very worrying,' said Christophe Chaboud, head of the French Anti-Terrorism Coordination Unit and one of five top officials sent by Paris to London immediately after Thursday's attacks."

The London Times has an article confirming this:
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-20749-1690391-20749,00.html

"A SINGLE bombmaker using high-grade military explosives is believed to be responsible for building the four devices that killed more than 50 people last week, The Times can reveal. Similar components from the explosive devices have been found at all four murder sites, leading detectives to believe that each of the 10lb rucksack bombs was the work of one man. They also believe that the materials used were not home made but sophisticated military explosives, possibly smuggled into Britain from the Balkans."

Phony Al Qaeda Claims?

Then MSNBC informs us that the note posted on an alleged Al Qaeda-related website claiming responsibility for the bombings may be phony:
 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8496293/

"MSNBC TV translator Jacob Keryakes, who said that a copy of the message was later posted on a secular Web site, noted that the claim of responsibility contained an error in one of the Quranic verses it cited. That suggests that the claim may be phony, he said. 'This is not something al-Qaida would do,' he said."

Blair Opposes Probe Into Bombings?

And the highly respected Financial Times has an article titled: "Blair rejects calls for probe into bombings"
 http://news.ft.com/cms/s/8186face-f17a-11d9-9c3e-00000e2511c8.html

"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."

Does this make any sense? Why wouldn't an investigation help to prevent something like this from happening again? Blair's stance is strikingly similar to the early opposition by both President Bush and Vice President Cheney to the establishment of an independent commission to probe 9/11"
 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/15/attack/main509096.shtml
 http://www.wanttoknow.info/020204newsweek

"President Bush took a few minutes during his trip to Europe Thursday to voice his opposition to establishing a special commission to probe how the government dealt with terror warnings before Sept. 11."

"Cheney was calling to pre-emptively protest public hearings by other committees. If the Democrats insisted, Bush administration officials might say they're too busy running the war on terrorism to show up. Press the issue, Cheney implied, and you risk being accused of interfering with the mission."

This appeared in the website:
 http://www.wanttoknow.info/050713londonbombingcoverup

alwaysshariff
- e-mail: alwaysshariff@yahoo.co.uk

Comments

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Something skinks!

13.07.2005 09:37

Something skinks!

Anon


vaccuous speculation

13.07.2005 10:42

VISOR

1a. How secret were these excercises?
1b. How easy would it be for an LT employee to gain knowledge of them?
1c. How sure are you that these "corroborations" aren't single-sourced?
1d. Where is the proof of backpedalling?

Explsoives

2a. The explosives were of military origin- (possibly Czech)
2b. The placement of the bombs was amateur.

Phony Al Qaeda Claims?

3a. Al Qaeda do not have a dialogue with security forces for claiming repsonsibility. That ambiguity is open to abuse by ANYONE. Are you trying to deny that there is always a flurry of false claims after terrorist attacks?

Blair probe refusal

4a. The probe in question was to be a review of the EMERGENCY SERVICES reaction to events RE: lessons to be learned for the future. There is already a full scale probe into the actual bombings underway- in case you hadn't notied.

Bush probe refusal

5a. Different type of probe. What relevence to 7/7 might this pose?





Pink Rabbit


High Strangeness

13.07.2005 11:06

That's it folks!

The crime has been solved and the London bombers positively
identified. As suspected, four young British-born Pakistanis
travelled to King's X Station to erase innocent lives; which is
strictly against Islamic ideology.

One boarded a tube heading west, one went south and another east,
but for some unknown reason the fourth bomber left the station and
got on the no.30 bus, which exploded an hour later.

It is uncertain if the CCTV survived the explosion, but after
blowing himself to bits, with thirteen others, the bus-bomber
obligingly left his documents behind, intact, on the back seat.

His co-conspirators also left their papers in each of the three
tubes, for investigators to find, ensuring identification. Finding
and identifying bodies is proving more difficult.

So, as predicted, nobody will be tried and prosecuted for this
terror outrage, because they are already dead, but according to the
authorities, there are thousands more Muslims prepared to go to this
extreme.

Snitch on your neighbours is the message, it saves police time, to
enforce their new, unprecedented powers, which no-one can argue
with. Searches, evacuations and detentions, with army assistance.

An alternative scenario is, that there were no bombs on tubes at
all, but they were located in the tunnels during the night. That
might explain why there are so many irretrievable corpses beneath
the train in the Picadilly Line.

The operation could have been orchestrated with the expertise of
the "unnamed company" who were conducting a 'terror drill' on that
very day. This "company" with it's Directors, Executives and Members
should be named!

There are hundred of stations in the London Underground, but by some
incredible coincidence, the 'simulated' attacks were at King's X,
Liverpool St, and Edgware Road, the same stations where the ACTUAL
attacks occured.

You couldn't make this up!

Sherlock


Visor liars?

13.07.2005 13:00

Have any of you people who have jumped on the visor claim with such excitement considered for a second that the guy might have been lying or exagerating?

Have any of you considered that if this was so top secret, then he would not have gone on the radio and blurted it out?

Have you considered that the guy might have been a dick blowing his own trumpet and trying to sound important?

Have any of you phoned the company and asked for clarification? Or are you just content to keep repeat the same unsubstantiated guess work?

h


h

13.07.2005 14:25

"Have any of you phoned the company and asked for clarification?"

What do you reckon the chances are that the receptionist will say "ignore my Managing Director - he's a 'lying dick'"?

 http://www.visorconsultants.com/teamvisor_peter-power.html

ftp


reply from peter power to my email

14.07.2005 23:24

yes i did and here is the reply; which apparently is a standard reply text cos they've been getting so many queries:


Thank you for your message. Given the volume of emails about events on 7
July and a commonly expressed misguided belief that our exercise revealed
prescient behaviour, or was somehow a conspiracy (noting that several
websites interpreted our work that day in an inaccurate / naive / ignorant /
hostile manner) it has been decided to issue a single email response as
follows: It is confirmed that a short number of 'walk through' scenarios
planed well in advance had commenced that morning for a private company in
London (as part of a wider project that remains confidential) and that two
scenarios related directly to terrorist bombs at the same time as the ones
that actually detonated with such tragic results. One scenario in
particular, was very similar to real time events.

However, anyone with knowledge about such ongoing threats to our capital
city will be aware that (a) the emergency services have already practiced
several of their own exercises based on bombs in the underground system
(also reported by the main news channels) and (b) a few months ago the BBC
broadcast a similar documentary on the same theme, although with much worse
consequences. It is hardly surprising therefore, that we chose a feasible
scenario - but the timing and script was nonetheless, a little
disconcerting.

In short, our exercise (which involved just a few people as crisis managers
actually responding to a simulated series of activities involving, on paper,
1000 staff) quickly became the real thing and the players that morning
responded very well indeed to the sudden reality of events.

Beyond this no further comment will be made and based on the extraordinary
number of messages from ill informed people, no replies will henceforth be
given to anyone unable to demonstrate a bona fide reason for asking (e.g.
accredited journalist / academic).

Peter Power BA FIRM FCMI FEPS FBCI
Visor Consultants Limited
212 Piccadilly, London, W1J9HG. UK

Visor Consultants Limited



----- Original Message -----
From:
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 2:39 AM
Subject: can you confirm?


Hi

There is this story going around some websites about an exercise you
were involved with on the morning of last weeks atrocities. I would
be interested if you could confirm or deny this as I don't access to
the audio or visual media of the alleged interview.

Could you give any further particulars?

Many thanks.

Kind regards.



 http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/071305Leonard/071305leonard.html

tigerbee


more

17.07.2005 19:38

apparently power has done work for blair before, pr stuff.

ken


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