There are similar problems with the explosion on the Piccadilly Line ... A more recent release shows greater damage to the floor. ibid.
These are not the features of home-made organic peroxide based explosives. ibid.
The smoke and fire described by witnesses is much more in keeping with plastic explosives like C-4 or RDS as used in the Madrid Plane bombings. ibid.
Number 30 bus: At 9.47, around an hour after the first tube train blast, an explosion tore through an iconic London bus in Tavistock Square. It wasn’t until about an hour after the bus explosion that the story of power surges was replaced by the conclusion that London had suffered a terrorist attack. ibid.
As a terrorist strategy attacking trains and a bus has much more in keeping with Operation Gladio than it does with Al Qaeda. ibid
The CCTV on the bus was reportedly not working. ibid.
The ID bearing [Germaine] Lindsay’s photograph has a different name on it. And when Shehzad Tanweer’s body was returned to his family for burial they commented it was relatively intact suggesting it wasn’t at the centre of the explosion. ibid.
Was 7/7 an intelligence failure, or Intelligence fixed to the policy? ibid.
Were they allowed to carry out the attacks? Were they helped to carry them out? Were they set up as patsies? Were they false-flag operatives? ibid.
If we use a standard actuary employed by major insurance companies to calculate the probability of these events coinciding in a ten year mean, we learn that the probability of this happening is greater than one in 300 tetra-gillion ... a number with 41 zeros behind it ... Greater than all the grains of sand in all the world. Alex Jones, Terror Storm
Fifty minutes into the attack the London police department orders the #30 Hackney to Marble Arch bus to leave its normal route and to park at the corner of Woburn Square and Tavistock Place. At 9:47 a fourth bomb detonates killing thirteen civilians and injuring many others. Note: out of several hundred buses in service that morning it’s the only bus that the police take special control of and direct to Tavistock Square. Alex Jones, 7/7 London Bombings – Government Involvement
All four of the supposed bombers’ identification cards survived unscathed at all four events. But there was just one problem: in one case one the bomber’s ID was found at two separate locations. ibid.
The reason the Netanyahu story is important is it clearly shows that other intelligent agencies were aware of what was going on that morning. ibid.
Senior Israeli officials says Scotland Yard told Israel minutes before the explosions that it had received warnings of possible terrorist attacks. Associated Press news-wire cited BBC News
Netanyahu Changed Plans Due To Warnings. Associated Press news-wire
Home-made explosives would not have caused the effects shown. The damage is more attributed to that of at least military-grade explosives. Report of first chemical and bomb-experts who were replaced and report pulled
Some passengers described how the tiles, the covers on the floor of the train, suddenly flew up, raised up. Mark Hongisbaum, Guardian reporter at Edgware Station
Explosive used in bomb was of military origin. The Independent online report 12th July 2005 by Jason Bennetto
Were the four bombers being controlled or acting alone? Why did they buy return tickets when they were intending to die? Could MI5 have found out what was happening and stopped it? The Independent online article 17th July 2005
Report: Israel Was Warning Ahead of the Attacks. Israel National News online report 8th July 2005
MI5 knew of bomber’s plan for Holy War. The Sunday Times online report David Leppard 22nd January 2006
It’s thought that it was in Sheikh Faisal’s study groups that Lindsay first met Mohammad Sidique Khan, the leader of the cell that went on to bomb London. Gradually Lindsay began to withdraw from the mainstream Muslim community in West Yorkshire. In 2005 Linsay reappeared but his old friends barely recognised him ... To avoid detention all the 7/7 bombers changed their appearance in the months leading up to the attack. Peter Taylor, Generation Jihad
Following the London bombings the security services began to target suspected supporters of Islamist terrorism. Britain has some of the toughest anti-terrorism laws in the world. The police began to use them. ibid.
The suicide bombers were home-grown, young British men attacking their own country. Horizon: The 7/7 Bombers – A Psychological Investigation, BBC 2005
The investigation uses research from around the world to explore the psychology of a fanatical mind. Uncovering research that confronts our expectations of who the suicide bombers are. ibid.
The challenge is to understand what motivated these four men and to stop it happening again. ibid.
It seems that being away from home is significant. ibid.
The group was turning inwards ... The four men had gone from being friends to being co-conspirators in Britain’s first suicide attack. ibid.
The cells were spontaneously forming without any connections to an established group. It was a pattern that Sageman discovered was repeated across the world. Instead of one centrally organised network [Marc] Sageman had uncovered a very different phenomenon. A phenomenon thriving because independent groups of friends were radicalising together. ibid.
How Much Did MI5 Know Before 7/7? Spooks to be quizzed about plot ringleaders. Daily Mirror article 21st February 2011
Exclusive: Was It Suicide? Why did they buy return tickets to Luton? Why did they buy ‘pay and display’ tickets for cars? Why were there no unusual shouts of ‘Allahu Akbar’? Why were bombs in bags and not on their bodies? The London bombers may have been duped into killing themselves so their secrets stayed hidden. Mirror online news
The deadliest bomb was on the Piccadilly Line Tube between Kings Cross and Russell Square. Verdict on 7/7: A Newsnight Special, BBC 2011
At Luton they meet up with a fourth man to join them on what they see as their mission. Their clothes are Western. They’ve been brought up in Britain. But they are at war with the West. June Kelly, 7/7: The Real Story, Newsnight, BBC 2011
Under the streets of London the bombers had created a man-made Hell with passengers screaming, choking debris and black heat. ibid.
Numerous witnesses told the Inquests about radios not working underground, a shortage of medical supplies and equipment, and long delays waiting for emergency services to arrive. ibid.
Some fire and ambulance crews were sent to the wrong locations. And it took nearly an hour for ambulances to be dispatched to the bus that had been blown up. ibid.
I am satisfied on the balance of probabilities that each of them would have died whatever time the emergency services had reached and rescued them. Lady Justice Hallett, 7/7 Inquest
Yet on 7th July 2005 when a bomb was detonated on Edgware Road there were passengers who risked their own lives to save strangers. Most have never spoken about it publicly. 7/7: The Angels of Edgware Road, ITV 2008
On 7th July 2005 suicide bombers attacked three tube trains and a bus killing 52 passengers and injuring hundreds more. Out of the morning rush hour came stories of heroism and survival. ibid.
This group of men appeared to be a sports team and they were in tracksuits; they were carrying very large rucksacks – I assumed them to be a cricket team. Joseph Martoccia, Kings Cross passenger
We warned MI6 of tube attacks, claim Saudis ... The Saudis claim that during his interrogation the militant told them he was on a mission to fund a plot to target the Underground or a London night club within six months. Guardian online & The Observer Sunday 4th September 2005
It is, in the opinion of Mr Todd [expert] noteworthy that at each scene some personal materials and documents, such as ID cards, were found relating to the bombers. Although they were damaged to some extent, they did not show the damage that would be expected if they were on the body of the bomber or in the rucksack, suggesting that in each case they had been deliberately separated at some distance from the actual explosion. Neil Flewitt QC, prosecutor
I was in the tube bomb carriage – and survived ... Mr Lait, who teaches dance in Cambridge, believes he and his dance partner Crystal Main were the only passengers in the carriage who survived the blast without serious injury – even though they were sitting nearest to where the bomb detonated ... 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. Cambridge News online
The chap next to her had lost his leg and there was a woman to their left who was on her back trapped in the metal, which had twisted up through the middle of the carriage. The roof was still on, but the lining of the carriage had been blown off. The sides had also come off and there was a big hole in the floor. Lizzy Kenworthy, off-duty police officer