Does anyone have any questions for Peter Power?

[paulthompson]

Hi,
I know a radio host who seems very interested about this Peter Power story (see below). In fact, this person emailed me about it. I think it's highly likely this person would want to interview him on the radio, if he can be reached. So, does anyone have any questions to ask him? I can forward them on to this radio host.

Note to moderators: this thread has absolutely NOTHING to do with 9/11, so please don't move it to there, or lock or delete! I got an email from Skinner saying that threads about this CBC story ARE allowed in the General forum, so please keep this here where it belongs.

Here's the bits from the CBC:

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.

http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/#night

And here is some more transcribed from the interview:

Solomon: "We've heard something quite extraordinary - could be a coincidence or not - that your firm, on the very day that the bombs went off in London, were running an exercise simulating three bombs going off, in the very same tube stations that they went off. How did this happen? Coincidence, or were you acting on information that you knew?

Power: I don't think you could say that we had some special insight into the terrorist network, otherwise I would be under arrest myself. The truth of it is..

Solomon: But it is a coincidence..

Power: It's a coincidence, and it's a spooky coincidence. Our scenario was very similar - it wasn't totally identical, but it was based on bombs going off, to the time, the locations, all this sort of stuff. But it wasn't an accident, in the sense that London has a history of bombs, and the reason why our emergency services did so well, and prepared probably better than any other city in the world, sadly they have to be. So it wasn't exactly rocket science or totally out of the pale to come up with that scenario unusual though it be to stop the exercise and go into real time, and it worked very well, although there was a few seconds when the audience didn't realize whether it was real or not."

[RandomKoolzip]

1. The more I read about this, the more I think it WAS a coincidence.

And I'm not the most anti-tinfoil kinda guy.

[pauldp]

3. The key to finding out whether or not it was a coincidence

lies in investigating the private firm they were doing the simulation for. If that info never gets divulged the investigation will go nowhere.

[paulthompson]

4. It may well be...

Unfortunately, we don't know enough about it yet to really know what happened there. Which is why I'd love to see a more in depth interview with him to find out more.

[RandomKoolzip]

5. Me too.

He seems pretty forthcoming, which is a rare trait in someone with something big to hide. However....who IS that unnamed company?

[pauldp]

2. What info is he willing to divulge about the "unnamed company"?

[Just Me]

7. Well, why is he resistent to naming it?

I am very curious about that. Does he feel obliged to protect them? If so, why?

[paulthompson]

8. I would assume...

That they would be guaranteed confidentiality from the get-go. But it seems like they must have had something to do with the actual subway system because Power said they sprang into action around 9:30 when they found out what was really happening. It's not like we're talking Wal-Mart or some company completely unrelated. If I recall, the London Underground has been privatized since the Thatcher days, so it would make sense for the company to be that company, but who knows.

[Old and In the Way]

6. The unamed company is certainly of interest and why are

governments outsourcing crisis planning to private companies??? This is a very troubling trend in accountability.

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. I'd love to know the name of the company he was working for

and the name of the owner and names of all board members. :)

[paulthompson]

10. So pretty much the only question people have...

... is what the name of the company is?