Bomb Drill Exercise Simultaneously occurred/London Attacks(BBC Radio)

[katty]

http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/conspiracy_theory/fullstory.asp?id=247


Bomb drill exercise simultaneously occurred as London attacks
7/10/2005 8:30:00 AM GMT


A consultancy agency with government and police connections was running a drill exercise for an unnamed company which revolved around the London Underground being bombed at the exact same times and locations as was happening in real life on July 7th.

In a BBC Radio 5 interview which was aired on that very evening, July 7th, the host interviewed Peter Power, Managing Director of Visor Consultants, a firm which labels itself as a 'crisis management' advice company, also known as a PR firm.

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[justinsb]

1. This may be a little LIHOP

but, do you think someone in the White House/Pentagon/CIA etc is coordinating with terrorist groups - leaking information about these drills so that any alarm raised before the fact will be muted?

[Burried News]

5. Seems more likely that al Qaeda sympathizers have infiltrated

security companies in order to learn their recommendations, countermeasures etc. Their MO has been to attack and then have an additional attack after the first responders appear. Logically that can be made to work better if you know more about the responders thought processes, SOP's etc.

Israel has always said the key to this kind of Warfare is intelligence - maybe al Qaeda put its efforts into intelligence and counter intelligence as well?

[niallmac]

13. Yesterday I questioned this story because I could not find a source other

than rense.com..(not that theres anything wrong with rense!! :-I but now that I have seen the BBC and CBC source stories, well, holy crap! I mean I know BBC doesn't' spell FOX. The BBC is a real news service.
So after taking a breath I ask myself;
Where is the freaking front page headline!? ...and
By refusing to investigate is Blair just intent on making sure this does become a conspiracy nightmare?
I'm still in the beginning stages with this where you reach out to see if the images are real or if your hand just passes through. If I had to figure it all out this second I would vote with the idea that 'They' have infiltrated intelligence agencies...' or should I say 'It' standing for the rage against the West that strikes such a chord with once neutral parties who happen to work in places like intelligence agencies. Maybe you don't have to plant a mole, just piss off a planet.

[halobeam]

14. What a great line... I need a t-shirt that says this:

"Maybe you don't have to plant a mole, just piss off a planet."


May I?

[niallmac]

16. Be my guest.

Hey, I'm new here. If I can get my thoughts at the END of the discussion instead of in the middle....technicalities technicalities...cheers

[Matariki]

17. Where is the front page headline

In one interview with Peter Power the interviewer asked the same question to which he replied - 'it's being kept quiet' or something to that effect.

I would imagine that the British government is looking into the mole theory - which would be quite serious - and that might be why they'd want to keep it quiet.

As far as Blair not investigating - I'm not sure, but I think the actual quote from Blair was that he didn't want to investigate the 'why did it happen' aspect - i.e. the retrospective blaming aspect. I don't think he was suggesting letting the bombers go free - or not figuring out who they are. Sorry, no links right at the moment.

[Burried News]

2. Maybe al Qaeda has infiltrated western intelligence?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4640247.stm
"The investigation that uncovered the alleged parallel structure is an offspring of a previous inquiry into the death of Fabrizio Quattrocchi, one of four Italians kidnapped in Iraq in April 2004.

Mr Quattrocchi was shot dead by the abductors, while his colleagues were eventually released. "

Found this on Wikopedia, while following another posters mention of "Operation Gladio"

[Eloriel]

9. Maybe al Qaeda IS Western Intelligence?

Please spend some time in the 9-11 Forum, which you'll have to go looking for because it's buried so it doesn't embarrass anybody.

[nolabels]

12. Like who exactly will it embarrass, Skinner maybe?

Or maybe even democrats for not playing along with the game at being stupid. Then they wonder why people register independent and third party :shrug:

Careful this entire thread may self delete at any moment :hide:

[Missy M]

3. I wonder who the unnamed company is and if they were there at the....

exact same times you would think they saw something that could identify the perps.

[Frederik]

4. Peter Powers: "They were trying to keep it quiet"

Peter Powers is the managing director of Visor Consultants, the company that conducted the excercise.

"Afterwards, while escorting Power out of the building, Colman asked why there had not been more media coverage of this rather curious co-incidence - to which Power responded (with a knowing smile) that "they were trying to keep it quiet"."

http://ca.geocities.com/[e-mail]/weblog/2005/07/update-london-underground-bombing.html

[Village Idiot]

6. I wonder what the name of the "unnamed company" was?

Halliburton? KBR?

[rkc3]

7. IIRC, NORAD was running double duty on 9/11 in preparations for some

attack and there was confusion over whether the calls to NORAD re: hijacking were part of the drill or actual events.

It could be the 20 hours I spent in the sun this weekend that is affecting my brain, but this sounds familiar.

[FtWayneBlue]

8. Yep, I heard that, too. Also that VP Cheney ordered the drills.

It made it so confusing that people didn't know if it was a drill or the real thing.

[yurbud]

10. nominate before it gets kicked to 9/11 cellar

Hillbilly Hitler art:



Blog:

[soulcore]

11. yes, please compare this with 9/11...

The similarities are almost completely improbable.

Who is this "unnamed" company indeed?

[stickdog]

15. More food for thought.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15717499%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=exclusive%2d%2d58%2d%2dthe%2dhunt-name_page.html

EXCLUSIVE: THE HUNT
Exclusive By Jeff Edwards And Chris Hughes

SCOTLAND Yard launched Britain's biggest ever manhunt yesterday to catch the London bombers - vowing: "We will go to the ends of the earth to nail these coldblooded killers."

...

But the investigation received a serious setback when it was discovered the CCTV cameras on the bus that blew up were not working so detectives will not get vital images of the bomber. One senior Yard source said: "It's a big blow and a disappointment. If the cameras had been running we would have had pin-sharp close-up pictures of the person who carried out this atrocity.

"We don't know if the driver forgot to switch them on or if there was a technical problem but there are no images."

The bus had four cameras - one covering people getting on, the second at the exit doors and one on each deck scanning the length of the vehicle.


http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1061793&tw=wn_wire_story

London bombs suggest local but well-equipped cell

Monday, July 11, 2005 8:27 a.m. ET

By Mark Trevelyan and Mike Holden

LONDON (Reuters) - Suspected al Qaeda militants behind the London bombings may well have come from a previously unknown local cell and yet had access to military explosives, European security officials familiar with the probe said.

"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.

"We're more used to cells making home-made explosives with chemicals. How did they get them?" he said in an interview with Le Monde newspaper.


http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article298105.ece

Police hunt 'mercenary' terror gang recruited by al-Qa'ida

By Sophie Goodchild, Severin Carrell and Raymond Whitaker

Police and intelligence agents are investigating the theory that a gang of white "mercenary terrorists" was hired by al-Qa'ida to carry out last week's devastating attacks on London. The Independent on Sunday can reveal today that investigations into the bombings of three Tube trains and a bus, which left at least 49 people dead, are focusing on the possibility that criminal gangs were paid to mount the worst atrocities in British history.

...

The theory was given credence by the fact that the security services had no advance warnings, suggesting that the bombers were not known extremists. Police and intelligence agencies admitted yesterday they were caught off guard.

The Metropolitan Police's investigation team is analysing hours of CCTV footage from around the targeted train stations and from the bus wreck, as well as checking lock-ups and garages for any clues that may lead them to the bombers. There is growing fear that the cells involved could be about to carry out further attacks. There was also alarm at the sophisticated nature of the explosives.

Alarm about the terrorists' expertise sharply increased after it emerged yesterday that all three of the Underground bombings took place within seconds of each other. The Met said they now had new evidence which clearly indicated that the blasts on the Tube trains had happened "almost simultaneously".