Possible suicide bomber attack in London thwarted on 7/7

[Krk3561]

http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050711-020304-3480r

Military was also called into Covent Garden. These weren't normal troops either, but SAS. The store employees there were told to stay in the back, away from windows once the army arrived and they even had all their CCTV tapes removed as they have one camera that points out towards the plaza.

It was about 1pm when they allowed them to go home and around that time the police said that they were the SAS.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=...6&sid=a5CQgIgCpzPA&refer=latin_america

Explosions occurred in ``multiple locations'' and a bus exploded, causing ``numerous casualties,'' the police said. Train and subway stations were evacuated. The army was deployed to Covent Garden in central London, Sky News reported.

The authorities tried to remove all reports of these so people in the UK didn't find out but there's always papers in other countries that don't know of these news blackouts.

 

[EagleKeeper]

The first link talks about suicide bombers.

However they also state

Unconfirmed and "speaking on condition of anonymity"

Lends a lot of credability to the article. 🙁

Your second link seems to have no relation to your initial story.


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Clarification on original comment quoted below by Krk3561

 

[Krk3561]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Unconfirmed and "speaking on condition of anonymity"

Lends a lot of credability to the article. 🙁

You seconds link seems to have no relation to you initial story.

You missed the middle of the article:

Explosions occurred in ``multiple locations'' and a bus exploded, causing ``numerous casualties,'' the police said. Train and subway stations were evacuated. The army was deployed to Covent Garden in central London, Sky News reported.

Theyre just unreported news stories that the British have tried to keep hush

 

[conjur]

There was a drill going on with a security consulting firm practicing for bombs in the London Underground on 7/7. Interesting. So were war games going on in the US on 9/11.


<cue Twilight Zone theme>


An email response from the security firm:

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

Visor Consultants Limited

 

[EagleKeeper]

The British knew about the mulitple bombings and the bus.
Nothing was being suppressed.

The reference to the sucide bombers and is what my comment was about.

Unconfirmed and "speaking on condition of anonymity"

Will edit my original post to reflect as such.