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An Olympian Inspiration

Hussein Al-alak | 25.04.2012 09:47 | Analysis | Education | Iraq | World

With the Olympic Games and Paralympics only months away, Hussein Al-Alak introduces some of the key competitors of the Paralympics.


I was recently inspired by an article in a national newspaper, which detailed how a 7/7 bomb blast survivor, who lost her legs in one of the London tube blasts has defied the odds, to represent Great Britain as a member of the volleyball team at the 2012 paralympics. Martine Wright, 39, was on a Circle Line Tube train when Al-Qaeda terrorist Shehzad Tanweer detonated his bomb, just outside Aldgate Station on July 7th, 2005.

On the day of the bombings, Martine was running late for work and didn't reach her usual tube carriage in time, so jumped onto a closer one just as the door closed. Moments later, the carriage exploded into chaos as a white light flashed and she felt herself being thrown. When Wright looked up, she saw a trainer that had been blown off her foot in the blast and skewered on a piece of metal. When she was taken to hospital her body had swollen to twice its normal size so her brother and sister didn't even recognise her.

Martine learned to walk again with the help of prosthetic legs but admitted it was the hardest thing she ever had to do, emotionally as well as physically. She then married her long-time boyfriend, Nick Wiltshire, and gave birth to Oscar, now two and half years old. But more than anything Martine, who played field hockey at university, wanted to play sports again. She had tried wheelchair tennis, but dropped it because she doesn't like wheelchairs, when she discovered the new sport of sitting volleyball.

Nearly seven years on, Martine is a full-time athlete and will now wear the number 7 on her Team GB vest this summer — in memory of the London bomb victims, which led to 52 deaths. She told the Sun on Sunday: 'If you had told me six years ago, when I was struggling to even sit up in bed, that one day I would be an elite sportswoman about to represent my country at the biggest sporting event on Earth — I would have thought you were off your rocker. 'I feel like I am meant to do this. Some people might only see the negative in what happened to me. But I’m turning it into a positive.'

Another story that also struck a chord, was that of a young Iraqi man who will also be participating in this years years Paralympics. Twenty year-old swimmer Ahmed Kelly was born in Iraq with significant deficiencies in all four limbs and spent the majority of his first seven years in a Baghdad orphanage.

However, in 1998 he met Moira Kelly, from the Children's First Foundation, who adopted Ahmed and his brother Emmanuel – also born with limb deficiencies – and took them to Australia for medical treatment. After undergoing surgery to remove the deformed sections of his lower legs, Ahmed learned to walk with the use of prostheses and, before long, began to run. He subsequently turned his attention to swimming in 2008 and aside from being one of Australia's biggest medal prospects at London 2012, is now among the favourites for gold in his events.

Greg Hartung, President of the Australian Paralympic Committee, believes Ahmed should serve as an inspiration to all who see him compete. "For swimmer Ahmed Kelly, the road to London has been a particularly long one," said Hartung. "After years of operations, rehabilitation and adapting to a new country, he is now the 100 metres breaststroke world record holder in his class and has London firmly in his sights. "Ahmed's ambition and perseverance against the odds resonates with all who hear his story. "Like all our athletes, his readiness to take on the world in Australian colours is inspiring and something I know all Australians will embrace."

According to Channel Four, the official broadcaster for the London 2012 Paralympic Games, the event came about In 1948, at a time of blitzed buildings and post-WWII financial and rationing problems, when London hosted the Olympic Games for the second time. On the opening day of the Games, Buckinghamshire's Stoke Mandeville Hospital - a centre for military casualties with spinal cord injuries - organised a sports competition for 16 British war veterans on the recommendation of forward-thinking medic Sir Ludwig Guttman.

The games were held annually for the next three years until, in 1952, a group of Dutch wartime veterans took part, making it an international event. Eight years later, 400 athletes from 21 countries travelled to Rome on a quest for medals in what was later recognised as the first ever Paralympic Games.

Hussein Al-alak
- Homepage: http://londonprogressivejournal.com/article/view/1096/an-olympian-inspiration

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Public have their eyes closed

25.04.2012 10:56

I wonder if Martine Wright would be quite so positive toward the Para-Olympics if she knew it was the British government that planned and executed the events of that day.

The true perpetrators of the attacks were MI5 and Mossad, who tricked the four men into travelling to London with rucksacks, in order to provide CCTV footage later to be used as evidence in the investigation of the attacks. The four bombers were actually murdered in Canary Wharf, and did not die as suicide bombers in the explosions on the three tube trains and one bus where the attacks took place.

Eyes Open


Peter Power, he ran London and New York attacks

25.04.2012 12:01

Peter Power has connections to former New York Mayor, Rudi Giuliani; he served on the Advisory Board to the Canadian Centre for Emergency preparedness (CCEP), alongside the senior Vice President of Giuliani and Partners, Richard Sheirer, who was also Director of the New York Mayor’s office of Emergency Management, overseeing the rescue and recovery operations following the September 11th attacks. Giuliani and Partners is itself both a security consultancy and Investment Bank and Mr. Giuliani himself, by another strange coincidence, also happened to be in London for a conference and just yards away from Liverpool Street station when the blast occurred there on the morning of July 7th.

Mr Giuliani was mayor of New York at the time of the 9/11 and his emergency bunker was destroyed at 5:30pm that day when World Trade Centre building 7 mysteriously collapsed, despite not having been hit by a plane.

How much more do we know now?
In short, very little was known for over three years. Neither Peter Power, nor any other representative of Visor Consultants, had been publicly quizzed about the exact nature and extent of their operation that morning, despite the extremely bizarre coincidence of them running a rehearsal "based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened." Three years, however, appears to have been the watershed.

Up until October 2008 there were only two instances of additional information appearing in the public domain via comments left by Peter Power. The first was left on the Newsnight Editors' blog in September 2006, and was only the second written statement attributed to Power since the events of 7 July 2005, the first being a generic statement issued to all interested parties who contacted him after he announced his terror rehearsal operation that he was running while London was actually bombed.

Peter Power clearly ran both operations

Observer


Facts

25.04.2012 12:32

Muktar Said Ibrahim and Yasin Hassan Omar two of those supposedly involved with the bombers in fact had no links to any terrorist activity and neither were even particularly religious. Omar was known to go drinking in the Birmingham area on a regular basis. He had just put down a deposit on a new flat.

Osman Hussein was a prominent anti-war activist with a history of pacifist acts, hardly the background of a terrorist.

Mohammad Sidique Khan was a school teacher whose wife had recently had a new baby. He booked a return ticket and had told friends he was visiting a cousin and would be back the same day. The cousin confirmed he with with him at the time of the bombings and was arrested in the street some two hours after the bomb exploded that it was claimed killed him.

Shehzad Tanweer has been seen by family in New Zealand on three occasions since the day he supposedly killed himself.

Hasib Mir Hussain was shown on CCTV at 10:07 on the 9th of July 2007 in Leeds also after he was supposed to have died.

LKTR


Your information is interesting.

25.04.2012 12:39

Was perhaps Elvis involved as well or is he with the passengers from Flight 93 at the place where Mossad faked the Moon Landings ? I understand they spend their days having riding lesson from Lord Lucan on Shergar.

Nutters of the world unite


Everything you need to know is here

25.04.2012 12:57

trust yourself


They knew all along

25.04.2012 14:47

I see that the campaign group J7 have recently quoted a witness who reported mysterious police activity at Luton Station on the evening of July 7th 2005. This seens to concur with the evidence that NK produced earlier about a “Mr Y” who had arrived at Luton Station from Gatwick Airport sometime before noon on the same day.
One has to ask;- why were the police so interested in swamping Luton rail station on July 7 when they claim that they only found out about the Luton connection some five days later.
I suggest the police had been told on July 7 by the real perpetrators what had really happened that day, and so they needed to cordon off and secure Luton Station car park mmediately.
To confirm earlier police knowledge of these events, there was a Second World War 60th Anniversary ceremony due to take place on Sunday July 10th at Hyde Park in Central London, with thousands of veterans along with their families and supporters attending. Now this – amazingly – went ahead despite the bomb attacks just a few days earlier.
It is inconceivable that the Metropolitan Police would have allowed such an event to take place, if, as they claim, they had no idea who had caused the explosions. At that stage they had to assume that this was the start of a major terrorist campaign, and that there might be several terrorist cells waiting ready to launch attacks. There might be a second, or even a third, wave of bombings to hit London.
The Met would have placed Central London under a security blanket and not permitted thousands of visitors to arrive in Hyde Park. They would have needed all their available manpower and resources to secure the city and find out who had carried out these attacks. In addition to this, the Met was already deficient in manpower that weekend because a large contingent of police officers, who were trained in security measures, had been seconded to Scotland for the Gleneagles international summit, which had only ended on Friday afternoon, and thus they – plus all their expertise – would not have been available for work in London just hours later.
It becomes abundantly clear, therefore, that the Metropolitan Police and Scotland Yard must have known that there was no danger of any more attacks – because the real perpetrators had told them so on July 7 itself.

Steve in Nottingham


How the Inquest struggled to keep the lid on their Edgware Road story

25.04.2012 14:53



The hole that moved

Over the years, the position of a huge hole in the floor of the 2nd carriage on an Edgware Road Circle line train, on the morning of July 7th, has seemed a mystery. It could apparently move about between the first and second set of double doors. Here is a letter from the Home Secretary John Reid to a group of Edgware Road survivors, putting it by the first set:

My officials have made enquiries of the Metropolitan Police. The police have confirmed that the wording of the Official Account accurately reflects their initial conclusions following statements they took from witnesses and their early examination of the scene. This shows that the bomb probably exploded near to the first set of doors. But where exactly the bomb exploded has yet to be established. The police are currently awaiting the final report from the Forensic Explosives Laboratory. This will be vital in determining the precise location of the bomb at the time of its detonation.

They were waiting for a ’final report’ from the Forensic Explosives Laboratory was required – to tell where the hole was! You couldn’t make it up. There is no hint here that anyone would be able to look at the remains of the coach – the primary scene of the crime – and ascertain where a huge crater was located. (1)

This was also the view of the Government’s Official Report of 2006, that the blast had been by the first set of double doors.

We are reminded of the Piccadilly line coach near Russell Square, where the Met first placed the blast centre by the first set of double doors (near the driver), then Rachel North started blogging away, averring that she had been standing right there and it wasn’t there. So, they moved the bomb location over to the second set of double doors. (2) One might naively suppose that the blast location in a ruined coach was a fairly straightforward thing to ascertain.

Maybe the Met’s ‘Operation Theseus’ (for investigating 7/7) is taking too far the words of the Lord, ‘Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.’

Inquest

At the 7/7 Inquest in November 2010 the curtain was at last drawn back to reveal (drum roll) the position of the big crater – it was at one side of the space between the second set of double doors, the side away from the driver. It cannot be moved any more because of the eminence of professor Tulloch, the Australian media studies professor, who was sitting right next to it. The Inquest did rather garble-up his account of where he was sitting – for a reason we will come to. The Met gave a diagram to the Inquest, that clearly showed where the hole was:

Number 10 is ‘Khan’, number 13 is Daniel Biddle, number 16 is John Tulloch.

Other holes were reported too, as one would expect from a blast that came from beneath, but not as big as the huge crater. Witnesses alluded to these other holes, but clearly the government’s story cannot have this! (3)

‘Seeing Khan’

Khan is absent from any witness statements or CCTV images – for London or Luton – on that day, with one sole exception, as is becoming glaringly obvious from the present Inquest. The authorities have only one testimony that puts him in London – or indeed anywhere else – on that morning, to which we now turn.

Mr Daniel Biddle has given enormously divergent accounts to different newspapers, as to how he ‘saw Khan’ in the carriage – hardly surprising, considering the way he lost both legs and an eye, due to standing right next to what became the big crater, then being smashed out through the door onto the outer tube wall, spending two months in a coma in a hospital, where he teetered in between life and death and viewed the posthumous ‘Khan’ jihad video from a hospital bed – before making any public statement. (4)

His first statement to The Mirror had Khan sitting down on one of the four seats between the two sets of double doors, ten feet away from Mr Biddle, with a rucksack on his lap. He made eye-contact with Biddle just before his rucksack blew up. Then the next two interviews, with The Times (December) and Guardian (January) had Khan standing packed right next to him in the crowd, with his rucksack on his back and making eye contact just before ‘pulling the cord.’ Clearly that ‘memory’ is an expression of his primary awareness of where the bomb went off – that blew his legs off. My guess is, he agreed to take part in the Inquest on condition that these accounts were not attended to. At the Inquest Biddle comes back to his initial Mirror story (except, that there is no longer any eye-contact). He answered ‘Yes’ when asked, would he confirm the distance of ten feet away? (Nov 8 am 42:23) So, inexorably, the police had to place Khan where Biddle said he was (Number ‘10’ in the figure).

We are surprised that the Inquest did not break out laughing, at the extreme absurdity of the position, whereby ‘Khan’ is sitting nowhere near the blast epicentre, in fact a good ten feet away from it.

The person Biddle testifies to seeing cannot possibly be Khan:

there was nothing about him that made me think he was dangerous in any way … he looked like a normal guy going to work within London, whatever he did, and there was nothing that he did that made him stand out different to anybody else at that particular moment in time. (Nov. 8, 30:18-25)

Khan was wearing a white baseball cap according to the (highly dubious) CCTV from Luton, and maybe from King’s Cross – no way could he resemble an ordinary commuter. But that hardly mattered, given the amnesiac and credulous attitude of the British media towards the 7/7 story that is drip-fed to them by the Met.

Biddle will ‘recall’ Khan moving his hands over his rucksack just before the blast – and that will do. Never mind the various police judgements that the rucksack had to be on the floor; or that no-one else in the carriage noticed him.

Two people who had sat directly opposite where Khan was placed did give Inquest testimony, but why were they not asked whether they saw Khan? It seems unlikely that no-one else was sitting on that row of four chairs where Khan is located, given that five or six persons are here shown standing up in the adjacent space between the double doors. We must wonder if the Met would be reluctant to produce witnesses who had been sitting there, who (a) would not recall Khan, and (b) have no injuries.

Obfuscation

The Court responded to this impossible dilemma by obfuscating the positions of persons in the coach, especially Tulloch. It did this be having two diagrams of the coach: one with seats numbered consecutively, and the other which numbered people in the coach. (5) They needed some way of distinguishing seat-numbers from person-numbers. Eg, Tulloch was person 16 in one diagram, sitting in seat number 7 in the other. That shouldn’t have been too hard. But, more than one barrister kept alluding to him as sitting in seat number 16, and so forth, and deep confusion resulted – I suspect that not many people browsing the Inquest-transcript (of November 8th, afternoon session) are going to follow what was going on. But, Tulloch did clearly identify his seat, as the one right next to the space by the double-doors, and he did locate the crater as being in front of him and immediately to his right. (6)

While perusing the two diagrams, notice that one fellow numbered as ‘9’ near the blast was killed by it and hurled right over to the other side of the first set of double doors. He crumpled up in the corner by the door. That body flew straight past the seat where Khan was allegedly sitting!

We note how the positions of the six or seven dead bodies at the moment of blast, as reconstructed by the Met, are clustered around a centre. That is the centre of the space between the second sets of double doors, very close to the blast location.

The Inquest should summon John Reid, to explain how he could have given the information as Home Secretary that the crater was by the first set of double doors. Was it because, it was near to where they believed that Biddle was placing Khan in his first testimony?

Conclusion

The Inquest should review evidence that the coach was lifted up from the rails by the mighty power of a blast below the coach, as described by the early testimony of Guardian journalist Mark Hogenbaum:

passengers had just left Edgware Road when they heard a massive explosion under the carriage of the train’ he explained, which had caused all this mayhem. Just as their train left for Paddington, passengers felt the blast as ‘tiles and covers on the floor of the train suddenly flew up, and then, the next thing they knew, there was an almighty crash which they now believe was from a train opposite hitting their train which had been derailed by the explosion. Then everything went black..

The Inquest heard the driver of the train, Ray Whitehurst, remembering what it felt like, as the bomb went off. He experienced a lift, as of the coach being ‘raised’ – and then as it came down again the train suddenly stopped and he was slammed against his front window:

Q. Do you recollect a movement or a physical sensation in the seat in which you were sitting or the train itself?
A. I felt the front of the carriage raise and it was as if I’d hit a brick wall. I went — the train just stopped dead in the air and came down with a thump, and I hit my head on the windscreen (Nov 16 pm, 45:20-25)

Maybe the Inquest needs a train engineer to ascertain if indeed the blast did tend to lift the train up?

We must surely feel glad that Mr Biddle has come through with a fairly optimistic outlook after the unspeakable horror he has been through. But, as regards how he lost his limbs, the following comment from blogger ‘Jim’ may be relevant:

Many of the survivors on the trains lost their lower limbs meaning the blast most likely came from underneath. This is probably the reason more people were not killed because the vector of the blast wave was partially dispersed by the floor of the train.

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References

1 The best account of the hole in the Edgware Road train comes from ‘John’ given to the London Assembly back in 2006, who actually fell into it.

2 One week after the event, the Met placed the bomb-crater of the Piccadilly Line train in the first carriage by the first set of double doors, and has stuck with that story; while the BBC (and the Official Report) moved it to the 2nd set of double doors.

3 For evidence of other holes, see here.

4 ‘It can be inferred that there is no definitive account from Danny Biddle. His position and Khan’s position in the train seem to alter each time he tells his story’ - ’Official Confusion‘ website.

5 The diagram which gives consecutive seat numbers, also gives the positions of bodies after the blast.

6 There is a sub-plot about whether Prof. Tulloch ever ‘saw Khan’ – which would be tricky as he was sitting on the other side of the blast-crater about fifteen feet away from ‘Khan.’ In an early interview he said: ‘I don’t know if I did see him…I’m still not sure.’ (The Sunday Telegraph Australia 10th July, no longer online). Then a BBC interview has him locating the bomb crater and presuming Khan was there, but not seeing him.

PS you might find this J7 post helpful, which has recently been drawn to my attention. I’m hesitant linking to them because of their rather venemous accusations of plagiarism – but it seems to me we cannot avoid the fact that we are singing from the same hymn-sheet.

Truth Bringer


They've done it before

25.04.2012 14:58

My initiation into this field was the Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania on the 28th of April, 1996, with the patsy Martin Bryant. The Port Arthur Massacre was run by an MI6 agent by the name of Joe Vialls, and the major gunman, that is the gunman who killed most of the victims was a young South Australian by the name of Benjamin Overbeeke. Incidently we have finally managed to get a photograph, from a news video about 6 months ago, and that may be of interest.
The Port Arthur massacre was a major stuff-up, which normally happens when people use poorly prepared personnel, and besides the fact that ASIO lost 7 operatives in this massacre, we were also able to identify over twenty other operatives from this event including 4 Americans.
Again after this stuff up, Joe Vialls then ran the opposition to the government view from 1997, and I started in 1998, but didn’t comprehend what Joe was up to until 1999/2000.
The initial scenario for the Port Arthur massacre was to have two busloads of American tourists, who were to board a ferry at Port Arthur, to travel to the ‘Isle of the Dead’, the Port Arthur cemetery. After shooting the American tourists on the Isle of the Dead, the gunman was to take the ferry to Seascape Cottage which had a small pier, and then hold up at Seascape Cottage, and the siege would end, as it did on the following morning, just in time for the news media in America to report the end of the massacre on their evening news.
So, just how did the gunman, Benjamin Overbeeke, leave Seascape Cottage in a siege situation? He walked out dressed as a policeman.
A few of us believe that Benjamin Overbeeke was also the gunman at the Erfurt massacre in Germany. In the aftermath of that massacre, one student who refused to recant the fact that he saw the gunman leaving the school, was found dead in a barn after apparently hanging himself.
So you can see that there are several similarities between the Port Arthur Massacre and the Norway massacre. Now if Benjamin Overbeeke was still alive he would be about 35 years of age, and well trained in the art of killing innocent victims, as well as playing the part of a ‘Lone-nut gunman’, or as an accomplice for the patsy.

Osso


7/7: Practice Makes Perfect

25.04.2012 15:03

Most of us who have been paying attention have known for some time that there were two ‘drill’- type events associated with the 7/7 London bombings.

The first was the Panorama programme of May 2004 during which one overground and 3 underground explosions take place over a short space of time during the morning rush hour.

The second was the famous ‘drill’ revealed by Peter Power on the day of 7/7 itself when he said that drills were taking place in the same 3 stations and at the same time as the bombs actually went off.

For many, these were coincidences beyond all reason.

However, astonishingly, it has been revealed to the 7/7 Inquest, in documents presented by J7 to the court that there were at least two other separate drills in London prior to 7/7 that used as their template the same 3 underground bombs scenario.

We now have a group of public services practicing FOUR TIMES for the exact circumstances that prevailed on the terrible morning itself.

Does it not eventually become reasonable to suppose that those that organised ALL THESE VERY SIMILAR DRILLS also organised THE IDENTICAL EVENT ITSELF?

The media, as usual, has failed to report these staggering facts but let us appeal to them right now.

All the anomalous evidence in this Inquest points in the direction of 7/7 being a classic ‘false-flag’ state-sponsored attack. The evidence that supports the official narrative is dubious and much of the evidence nailing the new (twice-altered) timeline has not been seen before this Inquest.

Here is a detailed run-down of the drills:

1. The Panorama Program

BBC’s Panorama ran what looked like a management training exercise on screen fourteen months before 7/7. Present round the studio table were various leaders of government, public and police services, including the Conservative ex-minister Michael Portillo and Peter Power, head of Visor Consultants.

The crisis scenario had three blasts on the central London underground, around 8.20 am, and one above ground an hour later.

This program made the then-fictional events seem like real news: ‘The headlines at 9 o’clock. In the past hour there have been three major explosions on the London underground’. It added, ‘The Home Secretary has said the attacks bear the hallmarks of Al-Qaeda,’ (A year later on the day of 7/7 we heard Jack Straw intoning the same phrase, ‘The attacks bear the hallmarks of al-Qaeda.’)

Panorama also used the memorable phrase, ‘The fictional day of terror unfolds through the immediacy of rolling news bringing the catastrophic attack into our living rooms;’ adding – a bit too knowledgeably – that the event was ‘Set in the future - but only just.’

Let’s here quote Webster Tarpley:

No terrorist attack would be complete without the advance airing of a scenario docudrama to provide the population with a conceptual scheme to help them understand the coming events in the sense intended by the oligarchy.’ (9/11 Synthetic Terror, 2008, p.408).

Tarpley here alludes to the seemingly unthinkable……large-scale state-sponsored terror. Such events are, he demonstrates, not at all uncommon over recent nor distant history.

2. The contemporaneous 7/7 drill

On 7/7 itself Peter Power conducted a terror drill that shadowed the cataclysm as it happened – over the same three tube stations at more or less the same time.

On the afternoon of 7/7 he was interviewed on Radio 5’s Drivetime programme:

POWER: …at half-past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise for, er, over, 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 upright!

3. Atlantic Blue

The massive-but-totally-secret Atlantic Blue exercise was held over 5-8 April, 2005. All echelons of government participated in this big, international terror-drill. Walking wounded were taken into hospitals etc, and its difficult to ascertain how far this was really happening on the pavement etc versus being on a video screen. Two thousand Met police were involved, plus 14 different government departments, the NHS etc. It involved terrorist attacks upon UK transport networks that coincided with a major international summit. Visor Consultants were involved, in co-ordination with the US department of Homeland Security. It was co-ordinated from Hendon, the same place that ‘Gold Command’ police acted from once 7/7 started to happen (It thus had a connection with the Northern line of the London Underground). Total secrecy was imposed upon the British media. The Observer was able to publish a brief outline of what had happened in the UK’s Atlantic Blue exercise, but only from Washington sources: it revealed that this had been the biggest transatlantic counter-terrorism exercise since 9/11 and that it included bombs being placed on buses and also explosives left on the London underground.

After July 7th, the Independent, carried out an hour-by-hour analysis of the catastrophe, and made the following comment upon what had happened at 9.10 am:

By an extraordinary coincidence, all the experts who formulate such plans are together in a meeting at the headquarters of the London Ambulance Service – and they are discussing an exercise they ran three months ago that involved simulating four terrorist bombs going off at once across London.

What a surprise, the top London Ambulance Service experts were all gathered together on the morning of 7/7, and they just happened to be reminiscing about a game-simulation they had been involved in three months earlier – i.e., Atlantic Blue. We would like to be told exactly when the four mock-bombs went off, during the Atlantic Blue terror-game.

London’s mayor Ken Livingstone was over in Singapore on the day of 7/7 – to celebrate Britain’s being awarded the Olympic Games for 2012, the day before – and in giving his evidence to the July 7th Review Committee he recalled the Atlantic Blue exercise a few months earlier:

I said from Singapore that we had actually done an exercise of multiple bomb attacks on the Underground as one of the exercises…

That is almost the only British statement about Atlantic Blue! America and Canada also participated in the event, which overall was called ‘Global Shield.’ The US exercise was called TOPOFF3. (alluding to Top Officers, and 3 as the 3rd such event) The latter had an intriguing ‘Red Team’ which generated the ‘enemy’ simulation…

4. Operation Hanover

London’s police hold a little-known yearly terror-drill practice, called Operation Hanover. On 2005 it just happened to be held on 1-2 July. Its game-plan was threefold: three ‘simultaneous’ bomb attacks on three underground stations. The police have been reticent about discussing this astounding precursor event, mere days before 7/7, only revealing it in 2009:

226. The Metropolitan Police Service told the Committee that they had, in the past, run exercises with scenarios similar to what actually happened on 7 July 2005. Since 2003, they have run an annual exercise known as Operation HANOVER which develops different scenarios for attacks on London and rehearses how the Metropolitan Police Service would respond. By coincidence, their 2005 exercise, run by the Security Co-ordinator’s office in the Anti-Terrorist Branch, took place just a few days before the attacks – on 1–2 July. The office-based scenario for this exercise was simultaneous bomb attacks on three London Underground trains at Embankment, Waterloo and St James’s Park stations. Once again, the scenario is quite similar to what actually took place, and the fact that it took place so close to the actual attacks is an interesting coincidence.

We do need to know the time for that Operation Hanover simultaneous-bomb mock-event.

NB I posted this article up on 27th October, since when the web-link to the Met’s account of the Operation Hanover, has gone down. So the only reference to the above para, is now to be found in the J7 submission to the 7/7 Inquest – scroll down to ‘Hanover Series.’ Its reference 26 has been deleted - to the Intelligence & Security Committee 2009 Report, ‘Could 7/7 have been Prevented,’ now offline.



Questions for the Inquest

If the Inquest wants to find out the cause of death of 52 Londoners, then the most important and crucial questions which Lady Justice Hallett could possibly ask the Met, concern these four terror-drills:

Concerning the Panorama program, to the producers of the program: From where did they get the idea?
Concerning the Atlantic Blue terror-drill: What were the times and locations of the four bombs in the ‘game’? Were they three on tubes and one on a bus? We would also like full disclosure concerning the whole event.
Likewise for Operation Hanover, let the Met state times and locations of the tube bombs in the exercise.
Likewise Peter Power should be asked for the exact times and locations of the four bombs imagined in the Visor terror-drill that morning.
The ‘coincidences’ we have here looked at go astronomically beyond what is feasible. These impossible coincidences point to the startling fact, that these terror-drill rehearsals are clearly the design of the 7/7 event itself. Most of the participants may have been quite unaware of this. The gestation of the 7/7 event has to be via this sequence of drills we have just reviewed.

It is not in any way reasonable to suppose that this sequence of central-London imaginary-drill events be a mere coincidence!

Peter Power and the “Gennifer Flowers” defense

There was much head-scratching as to why a participant at the very centre of the 7/7 drills would decide to ‘go public’ about these exercises, immediately, on that same day.

Gennifer Flowers came forward during Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential Campaign alleging that she had had a twelve-year relationship with him. There were rumours (at the very least) that some of Clinton’s ex-lovers were proving to be very ‘unlucky’ young women. It was widely speculated that Flowers decided to ‘get it out there’ so that any future accident that might befall her would act against, rather than in favour of, the Clinton interests. She was, it seems, very interested in staying alive.

Likewise, this is the most obvious explanation for Power’s seeming “faux-pas”. He knew he held very dangerous information and feared this made him a possible target of the dark forces of the state…….and this is a man who really understands just how dark those forces can be……so he got the facts out there, pronto!

London Lad


Of course it was staged

25.04.2012 15:04

Of course this was a staged incident. I think the Government must think we are all a bit thick to believe otherwise. Tony Blair had just lost his strongest seat in Wales and needed a “situation” to make us all sit up and think. did he not also use the phrase “there will be 4 big bangs” at the summit in Scotland around the same time. Happen he was right, conspired and knew about this all along. The only reason that the “terrorists” were shot in Canary wharf, not far from a major newspaper’s HQ, is that they realized what they had got themselves into, a wee bit too late and the “authorities” were frightened they would talk and to hide their track decided to “neutralize” them instead. It’ll happen again it has done throughout history, usually so that the Government of the day can make some kind of point.

Willie Banks


Lot of trolls on here

25.04.2012 20:01

Public have their eyes closed
25.04.2012 10:56

>> I wonder if Martine Wright would be quite so positive toward the Para-Olympics if she knew it was the British government that planned and executed the events of that day.

>> The true perpetrators of the attacks were MI5 and Mossad, who tricked the four men into travelling to London with rucksacks, in order to provide CCTV footage later to be used as evidence in the investigation of the attacks. The four bombers were actually murdered in Canary Wharf, and did not die as suicide bombers in the explosions on the three tube trains and one bus where the attacks took place.


Full of shit. This risks makes Indymedia look like a laughing stock..... ohhhhh too late

troll hunter


This is why I HATE conspiracy theories

26.04.2012 10:25

"Public have their eyes closed. I wonder if Martine Wright would be quite so positive toward the Para-Olympics if she knew it was the British government that planned and executed the events of that day."

I'm not sure she feels patronised her enough, perhaps you'd like to call her and her fellow athletes 'sheeple' and poke fun at her aspirations?

sheep


Aspirations

26.04.2012 12:33

"perhaps you'd like to call her and her fellow athletes 'sheeple' and poke fun at her aspirations?"

Aspirations ? What beat somebody else at some meaningless 'sporting event' and then wave a flag ? Give me a break.

Seeing more important things


Not a free country

26.04.2012 19:03

>> Aspirations ? What beat somebody else at some meaningless 'sporting event' and then wave a flag ? Give me a break.

Agreed. These sporting events should be stopped. We should mobilise against everyones sports and hobbies. If they arn't 'important', then they should not be allowed.

fascist


Greece, recall that

27.04.2012 11:58

These staged mass events as subsidised representation swindle are a breeding ground for false flag attacks after the Palestinians had taken the refugee issue to where it had began - Munich. Germany building up special forces again with Gehlen still alive would result in Gladio and the Munich election bombing which at the time killed the Afghanistan issue. The tactics was nearly a quarter of a century later repeated in Spain with an attack against public transport. The London public transport attack that followed soon mimicked that impact.

Olympia, Commonwealth etc. are commercial events sponsored by taxpayer money, often they leave behind ruined landscapes and corrupt administrations, or in this case violent domino effects. Why don´t they pay for themselves?

Agent Örange


Public are not stupid.

02.05.2012 20:24

Well the original article has to put two extremely difficult things together.

The first, a victim of the London bombings, and the second, a victim of the Iraq war.

The London bombings were carried out in revenge for Britain's involvement in the Iraq war. It was not, and never was, an Al Qa'ida operation! You have to be a paid warmonger to believe otherwise.

The rest is just people gobbing off about something they know nothing about, with knowledge they are not privvy too over a subject they cannot understand. It really is staggering what passess for logic these days.

I can't quite figure out who is worse, the warmongers or the conspiracy theorists!

I think you'll find that the British government, like the American government, did not have drills taking place on the day. They were both caught out and had to have some way of appearing to be in control. A drill taking place at the same time, involving the same scenario's, is as close as they could get in practise.

Having the public believe that their government saw it coming but just missed it by the skin of their teeth is better than shrugging your shoulders and saying "Don't ask me guv, I'm as gobsmacked as you"!!!

In reality, the government, the SIS, and the police were as ignorant as the rest of the world and stayed that way for at least half hour after the last bomb had exploded.

They knew nothing.

And that is why private security company owners were queing up to offer the government a bone to work with...for a price.

Blue balloons.


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