SEPTEMBER 2005

A brilliant investigation of the London Bombing on the 7thSeptember by Andrew S Macgregor

Moving towards Checkmate.

“I doubt whether the planners knew that one of the target areas, that in Russell Square, was within a stone’s throw of a building that served as the first headquarters of the World Zionist Organization that preceded the State of Israel.”  Efraim Halevi, who heads the ‘Center for Strategic and Policy Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is a former head of the Mossad.

I have already commented on the article written by Efraim Halevi, that was carried by the Jerusalem Post on the 7^th July 2005, the same day as the bombings took place in London, and have queried the time factor in receiving such information, disseminating that information, and then writing this article for inclusion in the Israeli newspaper.  Not being a Londoner made it a bit difficult in comprehending at first just when and where the bombs went off.  It was in fact the London Bus that was targeted in Russell Square.  So let us look a bit more closely at what has been observed by others since this attack was featured in the media.

Let us concentrate on the bus bomb for a start, especially considering what Efraim Halevi has told us, that is that the bus was either in or near Russell Square.  To quote a passage from “7/7 Bombings Final Word: Her Majesty’s Terrorist Network”:

“Why did the cameras on the targeted bus malfunction that day? Why was the bus diverted from its usual route?  We personally visited the site of the bus bombing at Tavistock Place and verified that no number 30 bus travels down that road.”

So just how close is Russell Square from Tavistock Place?  Just how did Halevi get the name ‘Russell Square’ as the site of the bus bomb blast, when it actually took place in Tavistock Place?  You could state that one should never let the facts spoil a good story, as Halevi brings in his history of Dr Chaim Weizmann and the Balfour Declaration which in actual fact digresses away from the actual incident Halevi was writing about.  So what was the error?  Was Halevi in error when he wrote ‘Russell Square’?

This question is answered by ‘Skywalker’ from LibertyForum.org who wrote:

“Some background is in order here.  The explosion did not occur at a bus-stop.  According to the majority of eye-witness accounts available – the driver had stopped to ask for directions from a parking attendant who was talking to someone else on the curb, in Tavistock Square, near “77” Russell Street, after the bus was diverted and please note well – could not possibly have arrived at any passenger’s legitimate destination.”

But it is the name Tavistock that conjures up other images.  Tavistock and General John Rawlings Rees and his theories on ‘Low Intensity Warfare’ aka ‘Terrorism’.  Tavistock which in WW2 produced the SOE and the OSS which became the CIA and it was Tavistock that helped set up the ‘Rand Corporation’ the CIA think-tank. 

But I have digressed, so it is back to the bus.  In my original articles I have referred to a witness who claimed that he saw one of the bombers going through his rucksack just prior to the explosion.  On further study I find that the witness I had referred to was ‘Richard Jones’.  Again I can thank ‘Skywalker’ who has done all the hard work in collecting the various statements made by ‘Richard Jones’ some of which are as follows:

“I’m just feeling unbelievably lucky.  I had just stepped off the bus when I felt a huge explosion and heard a huge noise….I kept saying to people, I just got off that bus’.

“Richard, originally of Ardrossan, Ayrshire, ended up on the bus after the tube was evacuated because of earlier bombs.”

“He spoke of his astonishing escape yesterday and said he only got off because he was so annoyed by the man next to him fiddling with a rucksack.”

“Richard said, ‘I thought he was maybe playing with an iPOD”

“The young man got on at the same stop and immediately began to annoy Richard with his constant fidgeting.  Finally, Richard got up from his seat and asked the driver to let him off.”

“The fact this guy was annoying me so much was another reason why I was happy to get off.”

“Richard said, ‘I had to bang on the front door and shouted something like, ‘Come on, Jimmy, we want off.”

“About half a dozen people got out the back door just before us and the same number, including me, left by the front.”

“Richard, 61, said: “I noticed him as he looked nervous.  He was continuously diving into his bag, rummaging round and looking in it.”

‘I did not see his face because he was constantly looking down.”

“Richard stepped off the bus at his destination.  Seconds later it exploded behind him – with the “bomber” still on board.”

Skywalker then makes this statement in regard to Richard Jones:

“please be aware of a very important factor in this “77” equation – Richard Jones’ account is the ONLY “solid” (?) evidence the Main Stream Media have in this investigation so far,”

Skywalker then gives us a most interesting piece of information.

“Terence Mutasa, 27, a staff nurse at University College hospital, said, “I treated two girls in their 20s who were involved in the bus bomb.  They were saying some guy came in and sat down and that he exploded.  The girls received minor injuries and were in shock and distressed.  “They said the guy just sat down and the explosion happened.  They thought it was a suicide bomber.”

Skywalker states that there is no credence in what this nurse has stated as it is second hand.  In a normal Court of Law, that is correct, the evidence is ‘hearsay’ and thus not competent in a normal Court of Law.  However it is competent in a ‘Coronial Inquiry’.  Now you may understand why Tony Blair has ruled out any Coronial Inquiry into the London Bombings.

So now let us consider just what Richard Jones has told us.  Richard tells us that he boarded the bus after the tube was evacuated because of earlier bombs.  However, the Australian girl interviewed by John Howard was on the train that was damaged by one of the bombs and she and thus most of the commuters were unaware that their train had suffered a bomb blast.  Also again, please remember that the original reports were of damage caused by ‘power surges’.  No bombs mentioned as yet.

Richard Jones has in fact inferred that he was one of those commuters.  He hasn’t stated that he was, but simply that he was on the bus because of the tube evacuation.

Richard Jones has stated that the ‘young man’ got on at the same stop.  Again the inference is that the ‘bomber’ would have also been on the same train.  Question:  Why would two ‘Suicide bombers’ travel on the same train, when one of them would be attacking that very train?

So, both Richard Jones and the ‘Suicide bomber’ board the bus at the same bus-stop, and then they sit together.  Richard states that he was annoyed by the man sitting next to him, his fidgeting and so-forth.  But then Richard Jones states that he never saw this man’s face.  Please!  They’ve caught the bus at the same bus-stop.  They’ve waited in the same queue, they’ve sat down together, and the young man has irked the heck out of this 61 year-old Scot from Ardrossan, Ayrshire, so much so that Jones has had to get up and actually get off the bus.  Not simply change seats thank-you, or move somewhere else, but actually get off the bus.  Richard Jones states that this man was annoying him so much so that he was happy to get off the bus, and yet was unable to identify the man, because the ‘young man’ was constantly looking down??

Now the bus is diverted.  It cannot be due to any bomb alarms, as the bombs have not yet been identified as such, but rather as power surges, but the bus is diverted.  The only possible reason that comes to mind would be the ‘mock drills’ carried out by Peter Power’s Visor Consultants, the so-called ‘anti-terrorist drills’ that were being carried out simultaneously as the real thing.

Now I have no idea of how far the bus was diverted prior to Richard Jones getting off in Tavistock Place, or Tavistock Square as it is also called in some articles, but Richard Jones tells us that 6 passengers alighted from the rear door and he and five others alighted from the front door.  Jones states that within seconds of his alighting from the bus, the bomb went off.

Richard Jones tells us that he banged on the front door of the bus and shouted something like, “Come on, Jimmy, we want off.” And only then did the driver open the doors to let his passengers alight.  But here’s the thing that Skywalker noticed.  The eleven people who supposedly alighted from the bus with Richard Jones did not react when the bus exploded.  Nor did they hang around for the police and of course the media, but Richard Jones did. 

None of these eleven people stayed to help the victims, none of these people went to corroborate Richard Jones story, and even Richard Jones tells us with, “I kept saying to people, I just got off that bus!”  Not we, not them and I, just me.  How did Richard Jones feel about his good fortune?  “I’m just feeling unbelievably lucky.”  A more prudent man would have been thinking of the victims.  Oh, by the way, if you were a ‘Suicide bomber’ on a bus ready to blow it up and kill as many of the passengers as you could, would you blow the bus up before or after twelve of those passengers, including that cantankerous old Scot who had been seated next to you had a chance to escape?

There are though a couple of signs about Richard Jones.  We are not told his occupation, or supposed occupation, nor are we told of the area where he resides, not even the city.  All we are told is that he originates from Ayrshire and that could be 60 years out of date.

Again, it was only Richard Jones that got up in front of the media and told everybody his story.  It is strange that there was no corroboration from any other source, and there must have been a number of onlookers.  What is even stranger was the fact that Richard Jones was able to give his story to the media.

You see, with this particular ‘crime scene’ the police in charge would be from one of the ‘specialist squads’ most probably the ‘anti-terrorist’ squad, and they would not want any damaging information to be leaked out to the supposed ‘terrorists’.  Also again in these types of situations, and it is parallel to Australia’s Port Arthur Massacre of April 1996, the media is ‘drip fed’, and you would have noticed that Richard Jones’ story followed the ‘official’ line of young men with rucksacks.

So the ‘Anti-Terrorist Squad’ has their first major lead in regard to the London bombing, and they then go and let this vital witness spread to story loud and clear.  Apparently what the ‘Anti-Terrorist Squad’ didn’t do was to take Richard Jones to a quiet location and try to as much information from him as possible, a task by the way that would have taken several hours.  No, they just let him blab to the media, the last thing they would want from such a vital witness.

So where is the corroborating evidence in regard to Richard Jones evidence?  There will be a lot of people who after hearing Richard Jones proclaim, “I just got off that bus!” would believe that was fact, but in truth there is no supporting evidence.  In fact there is no evidence to support any of Richard Jones’ statements, but consider what the nurse has stated.

“I treated two girls in their 20s who were involved in the bus bomb.  They were saying some guy came in and sat down and that he exploded.  The girls received minor injuries and were in shock and distressed.  “They said the guy just sat down and the explosion happened.  They thought it was a suicide bomber.”

The guy came in and sat down and that he exploded.  No mention of the rucksack, no mention of the fidgeting, no mention of the passenger beside him becoming so annoyed that he up and left, and no mention of the eleven other passengers alighting just prior to the explosion.

Now if you had been on that bus and witnessed a dozen people alighting just prior to the explosion, would that have made an impact on you?  20%, 25%, or even 30% of the passengers alighting just prior to the explosion and yet these two girls missed that?  And of course the cameras on the bus were not operating at that particular time and the head of MI6, Richard Dearlove knows all about switching off cameras, as he was Head of Paris Station in 1997 when Princess Diana died.

But back to what the two girls said they saw, “some guy came in and sat down and that he exploded”.  So how did witnesses describe the other explosions on the trains?  Again from the work of Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones:

“The first eyewitness to report this was Bruce Lait, a victim of the Aldgate Station bombing.

He told the Cambridge Evening News, “The policeman said ‘mind that hole, that’s where the bomb was’.  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.”

Now another credible source, Guardian journalist Mark Honigsbaum, talked to eyewitnesses at the Edgware Road bombing, who essentially described the same thing.

Eyewitnesses told Honigsbaum that “tiles, the covers on the floor of the train, suddenly flew up, were raised up.”

There is a complete difference in what was described as the guy exploding on the bus, and the explosions on the two trains.  But what we have is one witness telling the world exactly what Efraim Halevi the former head of Mossad wanted the world to hear, ‘suicide bombers’.

I believe there is sufficient evidence to show that Richard Jones was at the very least a ‘Professional Witness’, and he is the only person recorded to have been in the area just prior to the bomb on the bus being detonated.  That inference can be quite staggering, since it can be argued that the bombs were not carried in rucksacks, and were not detonated by ‘Suicide bombers’, then the next question must be, just how was this particular bomb set off at the desired location of outside 77 Great Russell Street, and by whom?

I have previously mentioned Peter Power of Visor Consultants so perhaps it is now time to look at what we are told about Peter Power by Fintan Dunne, Editor BreakForNews.com on 11^th July, 2005:

“Peter Power, a crisis management consultant and former member of Britain’s anti-terror police to a “terrorism drill” which (Alex) Jones alleges was used to provide cover for State perpetrators of the multiple blasts.”

“Peter Power, MD of Visor Consultants is a gent who is well worth a much closer look.  He is the ultimate insider in the coyly-named Business Continuity (BC) marketplace.

He was selected by the UK Government to write the Best management Practice Guide on Crisis and BC Planning & Risk Management, a hotly-trafficed download from the DTI web site [pdf].  He also wrote the book on BC for the British Bankers Association.  He is all over the media and was a previous award winner for BC ‘personality of the year’.

His firm’s clients in London have included JP Morgan Chase, ING, Mellon, Lloyds TSB, Morley Fund management, Bank of New York, Arcadia Group, FCO and Universal Music.

All of which is not surprising, as he has a senior Scotland yard background which included a stint at the Anti Terrorist Branch, and a deputy forward control role at the Libyan People Bureau siege.  He frequently speaks on TV & radio, and is the darling of BBC news and talk shows.

Power surely still has close links with Anti Terror branch, and seems to operate as a “good cop” for the establishment –in PR terms.  Whenever there is a terror incident, there is Peter on the BBC with a relaxed attitude; with a habitual, understanding line about how “stretched” are the security services; and with a reassuring tone which implies that all is jolly good, top-notch and well in hand.

But some of those many appearances by Power stand out in the context of the latest London Underground bombings.

One was the occasion of the rocket attack on the MI6 spy headquarters itself –in central London at Vauxhall Cross, just before 2200 on 21 September, 2000.  The missile smashed an eighth floor window on the southern side of the building, home of the Foreign Intelligence Service.

Although dissident Irish republicans were the prime suspects, no group ever claimed responsibility.

Another was the curious bombing of the BBC just six months later on 5 march, 2001.  About 15 pounds of high explosive left in a taxi abandoned outside BBC Television Centre caused only minor damage.  Attacks against the media are pretty rare.  The same dissident republicans were suspected.

After the MI6 rocket attack, as usual Power was quoted by the BBC.  He described the MI6 building as one of the most high profile in central London

“If you wanted to make a name for yourself, get yourself back onto the front pages, why not go for something that’s high profile and minimal risk,” he said.

Why not, indeed.  

What we have just been told here is that Peter Power was the deputy forward controller of the siege at the Libyan People Bureau, the scene of the shooting murder of Policewoman Yvonne Fletcher, which was later to be exposed by an American Intelligence Officer, Lester Coleman, as a psyops.  Then Joe Vialls in several articles stated that he was the gunman that shot PWC Fletcher.  Joe Vialls aka Ari Ben Menashe also claimed links to Mossad and other intelligence groups.

What this means is that we can now link Peter Power to a psyops incident that occurred on the 19^th April 1984, as well as the possibility of an involvement by Mossad.  If we look at the last two ‘terrorist attacks’ mentioned by Fintan Dunne, that is against the MI6 building and outside the BBC and Power’s reactions to them, and then consider the latest London bombings, then we should become very concerned.  Finally consider that a former head of Mossad, Efraim Halevi appears to have inside knowledge of these London bombings, of which Peter Power is running a parallel ‘mock’ scenario then the links appear to have been strengthened.

Andrew S. MacGregor

UPDATE From: Andrew S. MacGregor [mailto:ama18870@bigpond.net.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:03 AM
To: JAH
Cc: Adelaide Institute
Subject: Re: Richard Jones 

Thank you very much for this.  I do appreciate it, and it does raise certain questions.  Also please thank Skywalker for the work that he/she put in, it was excellent.   Being an old retired walloper (policeman) one of the first thoughts I had when I read Richard Jones comments about how he continually told people that he had just got off the bus reminded me of the ploy used to backup a lie.  Since Richard kept telling everybody he had just got off that bus, I think for the moment we can presume that he was never on the bus. Would you knowingly travel on a bus with a bomb on board?  Neither would Richard, thus he was standing around waiting for the bus so that he could then perform his lines.  
Rightio, somebody mentioned that there was only one entrance to that particular bus.  Does that mean there was only one exit?  Richard stated that there were two the rear and the front doors and that 6 persons alighted from the bus at each door.  How did he see that, and why bother counting?  Was this another ploy to reinforce his first statement of just getting off the bus?   By the way, in regards to the bus driver, be kind to him for the moment.  My experiences in relation to major crashes is that the driver naturally experiences a mental block of just what happened the moments immediately prior to the accident.  Furthermore, unless a passenger entering the bus was totally different from the other passengers, the driver wouldn't notice.  Too many passengers, too many other needs to consider. 

The bus diversion is interesting.  Are the bus drivers in communication with their base?  Could such orders be sent via communications with the bus driver, or would it have to have been someone on the street, say a uniformed policeman directing traffic?   What is the distance from the tube station where the majority of passengers were picked up to Tavistock Place?  Somebody please answer as this is important   Again, thanks to the person who wrote: "Note that in one account attributed to the driver~he was asleep prior to that"  I totally disagree with your argument, due to experiences I've had whilst in the Police Farce.  The driver would also have been suffering from the shock of the explosion and would have been trying to work out what had happened before coming to the conclusion that his bus had a bomb go off in it.  What the driver has said here is perfectly logical in this situation, but you have given us more information that I was seeking.  The bus was not near the kerb when the bomb went off.  I believe that is important.  
I believe that in one of the articles I read that the bus had stopped and the driver was conversing with a parking attendent just prior to the explosion.    Now, do London bus drivers stop their buses in the middle of the street?   Are bus drivers permitted to let passengers off whilst moving or stopped in the middle of the street?  
Now the people who are trying to identify Richard Jones will love this one.  Dear Richard, in his initial statements stated that he got off the bus because he was being totally annoyed by the young man beside him fidgetting with his rucksack.  In other words, Richard broke off his journey to his destination because of the behaviour of the supposed bomber.  But in a later interview Richard changed his story stating that he had arrived at his destination.  In other words at Tavistock!  Somebody outside the loop (somebody not connected with the plan) must have recognised Richard and spoken to him, and so Richard has had to change his story.  Furthermore, if the route 30 bus didn't normally drive down this street, then why would Richard Jones have travelled on the bus in the first place?  How does Richard normally travel to Tavistock, by car or public transport?  Does he have a parking bay at Tavistock?  Could somebody check that one out?   It would be lovely if someone did travel to Leeds and see Richard, as I believe he is our man, but I would like to know if Richard is the type of person who would bang on the bus front door and say to the driver, "Come on Jimmy, we want out". That sounds like a rough lower class person to me, and I wonder if that is within Richard's character?   Lastly Richard Jones wrote the manual on the Mental Health Act, and Peter Powers wrote the manual on BC.  Coincidence?  
Oh, by the way, what my friends and I discovered when we started looking into the Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania in 1996 was the number of spooks that were involved.  ASIO lost two of their staff inside the Broad Arrow Cafe, and there were at least another 10 ASIO members involved including one who last year received a 6 figure payout for mental injuries received at the massacre.  We were even able to identify Martin Bryant's controller, Sgt Michael Charles Dyson, Tasmania Police SOG, and the actual gunman.  If you can collect and collate all the information on the London bombings, you will certainly find much more than what the planners ever realised.   Andrew S. MacGregor  

Re. LONDON Fox News Channel

The Dud Bombers of 21/7, the patsies, have all been rounded up along with 18 others currently under questioning, yet the so called "mastermind" is allowed to go free and is protected time and time again by MI5, MI6, FBI and CIA. The same thing happened in 93 with the WTC bombing, 95 with the OKC bombing, 01 with 911 and its happening again, its the same type of operation EVERYTIME.

The July 29 edition of FOX News Channel's Day Side programme revealed that the so called mastermind of the 7/7 London Bombings, Haroon Rashid Aswat, is a British Intelligence Asset. Former Justice Dept. prosecutor and Terror expert John Loftus revealed that the so called Al-Muhajiroun group, based in London had formed during the Kosovo crisis, during which Fundamentalist Muslim Leaders (Or what is now referred to as Al Qaeda) were recruited by MI6 to fight in Kosovo.

Loftus stated that "...back in the late 1990s, the leaders all worked for British intelligence in Kosovo. Believe it or not, British intelligence actually hired some Al-Qaeda guys to help defend the Muslim rights in Albania and in Kosovo. That's when Al-Muhajiroun got started."

Former Justice Dept. prosecutor John Loftus on Fox's Day Side

We have previously revealed how former MI5 officer David Shayler has alleged, and French intel sources have corroborated, that the MI6 paid a Libyan al-Qa'ida cell £100,000 in 1995 to assassinate colonel Qaddafi. The use of the group that has come to be known as "Al Qaeda" as assets by Intelligence services the world over is well documented.

The London Independent also reported 2 days before the London Bombings how MI5 has previously used so called Al Qaeda operatives as informants, allowing them to be left alone as a trade off. This only came to light when Bisher al-Rawi was captured by the CIA and taken to the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay. The original Independent link has now mysteriously been removed.

TRANSCRIPT: The July 29 edition of FOX News Channel's Day Side programme:

MIKE JERRICK [FOX NEWS]: John Loftus is a terrorism expert and a former prosecutor for the Justice Department. John, good to see you again. So real quickly here, have you heard anything about this Osman Hussain who was just picked up in Rome? You know that name at all?

JOHN LOFTUS: Yeah, all these guys should be going back to an organization called Al-Muhajiroun, which means The Emigrants. It was the recruiting arm of Al-Qaeda in London; they specialized in recruiting kids whose families had emigrated to Britain but who had British passports. And they would use them for terrorist work.

JERRICK: So a couple of them now have Somali connections?

LOFTUS: Yeah, it was not unusual. Somalia, Eritrea, the first group of course were primarily Pakistani. But what they had in common was they were all emigrant groups in Britain, recruited by this Al-Muhajiroun group. They were headed by the, Captain Hook, the imam in London the Finsbury Mosque, without the arm. He was the head of that organization. Now his assistant was a guy named Aswat, Haroon Rashid Aswat.

JERRICK: Aswat, who they picked up.

LOFTUS: Right, Aswat is believed to be the mastermind of all the bombings in London.

JERRICK: On 7/7 and 7/21, this is the guy we think.

LOFTUS: This is the guy, and what's really embarrassing is that the entire British police are out chasing him, and one wing of the British government, MI6 or the British Secret Service, has been hiding him. And this has been a real source of contention between the CIA, the Justice Department, and Britain.

JERRICK: MI6 has been hiding him. Are you saying that he has been working for them?

LOFTUS: Oh I'm not saying it. This is what the Muslim sheik said in an interview in a British newspaper back in 2001.

JERRICK: So he's a double agent, or was?

LOFTUS: He's a double agent.

JERRICK: So he's working for the Brits to try to give them information about Al-Qaeda, but in reality he's still an Al-Qaeda operative.

LOFTUS: Yeah. The CIA and the Israelis all accused MI6 of letting all these terrorists live in London not because they're getting Al-Qaeda information, but for appeasement. It was one of those you leave us alone, we leave you alone kind of things.

JERRICK: Well we left him alone too long then.

LOFTUS: Absolutely. Now we knew about this guy Aswat. Back in 1999 he came to America. The Justice Department wanted to indict him in Seattle because him and his buddy were trying to set up a terrorist training school in Oregon.

JERRICK: So they indicted his buddy, right? But why didn't they indict him?

LOFTUS: Well it comes out, we've just learned that the headquarters of the US Justice Department ordered the Seattle prosecutors not to touch Aswat.

JERRICK: Hello? Now hold on, why?

LOFTUS: Well, apparently Aswat was working for British intelligence. Now Aswat's boss, the one-armed Captain Hook, he gets indicted two years later. So the guy above him and below him get indicted, but not Aswat. Now there's a split of opinion within US intelligence. Some people say that the British intelligence fibbed to us. They told us that Aswat was dead, and that's why the New York group dropped the case. That's not what most of the Justice Department thinks. They think that it was just again covering up for this very publicly affiliated guy with Al-Muhajiroun. He was a British intelligence plant. So all of a sudden he disappears. He's in South Africa. We think he's dead; we don't know he's down there. Last month the South African Secret Service come across the guy. He's alive.

JERRICK: Yeah, now the CIA says, oh he's alive. Our CIA says OK let's arrest him. But the Brits say no again?

LOTFUS: The Brits say no. Now at this point, two weeks ago, the Brits know that the CIA wants to get a hold of Haroon. So what happens? He takes off again, goes right to London. He isn't arrested when he lands, he isn't arrested when he leaves.

JERRICK: Even though he's on a watch list.

LOFTUS: He's on the watch list.The only reason he could get away with that was if he was working for British intelligence. He was a wanted man.

JERRICK: And then takes off the day before the bombings, I understand it--

LOFTUS: And goes to Pakistan.

JERRICK: And Pakistan, they jail him.

LOFTUS: The Pakistanis arrest him. They jail him. He's released within 24 hours. Back to Southern Africa, goes to Zimbabwe and is arrested in Zambia. Now the US--

JERRICK: Trying to get across the--

LOFTUS: --we're trying to get our hands on this guy.

JERRICK: John, hang around. I have so many questions now.

LOFTUS: Oh, this is a bad one....

[commercial break]

JERRICK: On the phone with us, Mansoor Ijaz; Mansoor you know very well here at Fox News Channel and Dayside. Mansoor, real quickly here, you spent so much time in London, you're probably not that as impressed as I am about how fast Scotland Yard has worked on this case. So impressive, so successful. Why?

MANSOOR IJAZ: Well there are two things that a lot of domestic intelligence agencies don't around the world. One is an extraordinarily detailed database of information, and that database is buttressed by the fact that they have these photos, the graphic images of the faces of the people that they were looking for. So it saved them a lot of time when they got the forensic evidence, like fingerprints or other things that indicated where they could actually go find these people. Because remember, there was a lot of data left on the stuff these guys left behind from the failed bombing attack, and that's what helped to really unravel the cell. Now--

JERRICK: I guess--go ahead, Mansoor.

IJAZ: Now I think there's one very important thing that I think everybody needs to know. And that is that the cellular structure that this new breed of Al-Qaeda people have is such that there is not a clear indication that they all knew each other as much as it is that they had some sort of central control still sitting outside of the framework. Whether that's in a foreign country or a place that is removed from Britain and other place in Europe, that's what we're still looking for. But it's very clear now that these cellular structures were operating independent of each other, but with knowledge that something else was in fact planned in the pipeline.

JERRICK: Real quick, Mansoor. In that regard, maybe a ringleader could be this Haroon Aswat. What do you know about him?

IJAZ: Well, he's a pretty bad guy, and I think your previous guest gave the best assessment of who he is. He's the right hand man of the Al-Muhajiroun leader in London, and has been organizing and planning for some time. And I don't want to minimize the effect of the arrest in Rome, because what that indicates is that the cellular structure is elsewhere and we all know that Italy is a big target on their list.

JERRICK: OK, speaking of him, back to the comments by our John Loftus a little while ago. A question from the audience for you, John. Go ahead.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Hi Mr Loftus. I recently read a book by Morris Dees called The Gathering Storm , and it talks about extremist militia groups in the United States and how they might be manipulated by some people's rhetoric, very similar to Aswat in London. What do you think the US is doing to prevent terrorist attacks on our own soil that happen--

JERRICK: You're worried about it here?

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Yes, sir.

LOFTUS: The US government's doing a great job. We arrested the New York branch of Al-Muhajiroun two years ago. We found the subway bombers with the plans to blow up two different subway stations in New York City. The rest of the group is under surveillance. But the US was used by Al-Muhajiroun for training of people to send to Kosovo. What ties all these cells together was, back in the late 1990s, the leaders all worked for British intelligence in Kosovo. Believe it or not, British intelligence actually hired some Al-Qaeda guys to help defend the Muslim rights in Albania and in Kosovo. That's when Al-Muhajiroun got started.

IJAZ: Which is by the way why we know so much about them right now.

LOFTUS: Yes, I'm afraid so. The CIA was funding the operation to defend the Muslims, British intelligence was doing the hiring and recruiting. Now we have a lot of detail on this because Captain Hook, the head of Al-Muhajiroun, he sidekick was Bakri Mohammed, another cleric. And back on October 16, 2001, he gave a detailed interview with al-Sharq al-Aswat, an Arabic newspaper in London, describing the relationship between British intelligence and the operations in Kosovo and Al-Muhajiroun. So that's how we get all these guys connected. It started in Kosovo, Haroon was 31 years old, he came on about 1995.

JERRICK: OK. Here's another question for you.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Hello, John. With the quid-pro-quo relationship that London obviously had with these terrorists early on, what changed that caused them to all of a sudden get away from the you leave us alone, we'll leave you alone situation?

LOFTUS: The Israelis say that the truce went on for years. Guys from Al-Muhajiroun for example would bring suicide bombers to Israel to blow up Mike's Place. There was a definite link there. And yet the trainer, Sadiki Al Kahn, was able to go back to Britain and not be touched. What the Israelis believe happened is that Usama Bin Laden got desperate, and he said burn all our bridges--let's turn on the British. Break the truce, start the bombs.

JERRICK: Speaking of Usama Bin Laden, Mansoor, real quickly, maybe Scotland Yard and those folks over there, the Brits, should be looking for Usama Bin Laden. They seem to be so successful.

LOFTUS: The British police do a remarkable job.

IJAZ: Well, that's an interesting comment. The fact of the matter is, when you're dealing with it in your own backyard, and you have the computer infrastructure set up in such a way that you can immediately track these kinds of things that are in your backyard, it's a very different game from tracking them on places where we don't even have mountain maps any more of how the whole thing looks. So that's really what the fundamental problem is. If you'll permit me, I just want to, Mike, make one other very quick point.

JERRICK: Mansoor, can you hang over, do you have time hang over for a 30-second break here? John Loftus, got to cut you loose but thanks for the info. Boy, interesting stuff John...

[commercial break]

JERRICK: We have some more information from our Mansoor Ijaz, Fox News Foreign Affairs Analyst. Mansoor, still on the phone with me?

IJAZ: Yeah, I'm here with you Mike.

JERRICK: Talk about your information from British intel.

IJAZ: Well, let's not characterize the sources quite that way, but I've talked to some people who are analyzing what came out of the raids today, and there's a great deal of concern about the fact that there may be in fact a desire of these cells to move beyond transit systems as the target. And what specifically they found was evidence that indicates they're looking at now places where there are large collections of people, where they can actually take shopping bags and other large carrying bags of sorts without raising a lot of suspicion. Obviously shopping malls come immediately to mind, but it's important for everybody to know that London was planning on having a large I think it's a City Fair or something like that, I don't know what exactly it's called. They've now decided to go ahead with that, but it's obviously going to be much more scrutinized than it would have been before. Now London doesn't in general have a lot of large shopping malls, but they do have large concentrations of people in places at certain times during the week, and that's what apparently now has become the target, one of the new targets of these terrorist cells.

JERRICK: So Mansoor, when you hear that we have four for four, or four for five of these 7/21 bombers, nobody should fool themselves. This thing isn't over.

IJAZ: That is precisely the point I wanted to make sure everybody understood--that the authorities, the people that are worried about this and that are analyzing the data out of what they're getting in these raids, are basically saying we may have just hit the tip of the iceberg. This is not over by a long shot.

JERRICK: Mansoor, thank you for making that perfectly clear. Talk to you soon.

John Loftus went on to spell out that British Intelligence and the US dept of Justice had protected Haroon Rashid Aswat: "Back in 1999 he came to America. The Justice Department wanted to indict him in Seattle because him and his buddy were trying to set up a terrorist training school in Oregon... we've just learned that the headquarters of the US Justice Department ordered the Seattle prosecutors not to touch Aswat... , apparently Aswat was working for British intelligence"

Haroon Aswat, the so called mastermind of the London bombings with Radical cleric Abu Hamza al Masri in a London cab on Jan. 20, 1999.

This information is startling and again highlights how Al Qaeda exists as an organized body only where the intelligence services have created, funded and employed it. Loftus points out that several weeks before the London Bombings, Aswat was again located by the South African Intel agency but again allowed to slip away, this time to London:

"He was a British intelligence plant. So all of a sudden he disappears. He's in South Africa. We think he's dead; we don't know he's down there. Last month the South African Secret Service come across the guy. He's alive...the Brits know that the CIA wants to get a hold of Haroon. So what happens? He takes off again, goes right to London. He isn't arrested when he lands, he isn't arrested when he leaves... He's on the watch list. The only reason he could get away with that was if he was working for British intelligence. He was a wanted man."

Loftus' information is backed up by the New York Times and CNN who reported on this incident also.

We have seen this many times before and have continued to expose this kind of activity. Mr Aswat is not the only "Al Qaeda operative" who has been protected While in the US - the 19 9/11 hijackers and their associate Zaccharias Moussaoui seem to have been as well. FBI Agent Robert Wright blew the whistle on obstruction of counterterrorism investigations targeting Hamas and al-Qaeda before 911. The sabotage by the highest levels in the FBI of Coleen Rowley's desperate attempt to investigate Moussaoui, for instance, is a striking parallel to the "hands-off" order regarding Aswat, and it's far from being the only one. The CIA met with Bin Laden in July 2001 in a Dubai hospital where he was being treated for Kidney problems. They gleaned detailed information regarding possible massive terror attacks on the US, yet Bin Laden was allowed to slip away (either that or he passed away). Bin Laden is or was a known CIA Asset.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mysteriously arrested as the alleged mastermind behind the September 11 plot, was granted a visa to enter the US just six weeks before the terrorist attacks in Washington and New York. The American Al Qaeda operative, Iyman Faris, who planned to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge was also revealed to be an FBI operative. We also have several other reports staing how the men used as hijackers on the planes on 911 were monitored before the event and allowed to enter the US. They were even trained at US flight schools.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

After 911 these so called terrorists have been allowed to go on with business as usual, despite the "war on terror" and in many instances have been protected. It seems that the authorities find it more useful to restrict the liberties of law abiding citizens by introducing draconian restrictive laws such as the Patriot act and Free speech zoning, whilst allowing those they label as terrorists to go undetected.

Haroon Rashid Aswat allegedly left London for Pakistan on July 6, one day before the London bombing. He was then arrested in Pakistan, but released AGAIN within 24 hours. He reportedly traveled to Zimbabwe and then Zambia, where he may have been arrested again (conflicting reports). Why does the so called mastermind of 7/7 keep being released and allowed to slip away? It the same type of operation over and over again.

7/7 Mock Terror Drill: What Relationship to the Real Time Terror Attacks One should not at this stage of the investigation draw hasty conclusions regarding the mock terror drill of a terror attack on the London underground, held on the same day and at the same time as the real time attacks. The issue cannot, however, be dismissed. One would expect that it be addressed in a serious and professional fashion by the police investigation and that the matter be the object of a formal clarification by the British authorities.
by Michel Chossudovsky
9th Aug, 05  

A fictional "scenario" of multiple bomb attacks on London's underground took place at exactly the same time as the bomb attack on July 7, 2005.

Peter Power, Managing Director of Visor Consultants, a private firm on contract to the London Metropolitan Police, described in a BBC interview how he had organized and conducted the anti-terror drill, on behalf of an unnamed business client.

The fictional scenario was based on simultaneous bombs going off at exactly the same time at the underground stations where the real attacks were occurring:

In response to the flood of incoming email messages, Peter Power --who is a former senior Scotland Yard official specializing in counterterrorism-- responded in the form of the following "automatic reply":

Mock Terror Drills

There was nothing "routine" in the so-called "walk through" scenarios. Visor's mock terror drills (held on the very same day as the real attack) was by no means an isolated "coincidence". Power's email response suggests that mock drills are undertaken very frequently, as a matter of routine, and that there was nothing particularly out of the ordinary in the exercise conducted on July 7^th, which just so happened to coincide with the real terror attacks.

There have indeed been several documented high profile cases of mock terror drills in the US and the UK, held prior or on exactly the same day and at the same time as the actual terror event. In the three previous cases reviewed below, the mock drills bear a canny resemblance to the real time terror attacks.

1. CIA Sponsored Exercise on the Morning of 9/11

On the morning of September 11 2001, within minutes of the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the CIA had been running "a pre-planned simulation to explore the emergency response issues that would be created if a plane were to strike a building". The simulation was held at the CIA Chantilly Virginia Reconnaissance Office.

The Bush administration described the event as "a bizarre coincidence". The matter was not mentioned by the media.(AP, 22 August 2002)

The CIA sponsored simulation consisted in a "scheduled exercise" held on the morning of September 11, 2001, where "a small corporate jet crashed into one of the four towers at the agency's headquarters building after experiencing a mechanical failure. (Quoted in Associated Press, 22 August 2002.)

The news concerning the 9/11 Chantilly aircraft crashing simulation was hushed up. It was not made public at the time. It was revealed almost a year later, in the form of an innocuous announcement of a Homeland Security Conference. The latter entitled "Homeland Security: America's Leadership Challenge" was held in Chicago on September 6, 2002, barely a few days before the commemoration of the tragic events of 9/11.

The promotional literature for the conference under the auspices of the National Law Enforcement and Security Institute (NLESI) stated what nobody in America knew about. On the morning of 9/11, the CIA was conducting a pre-planned simulation of a plane striking a building. One of the key speakers at the National Law Enforcement and Security Institute conference was CIA's John Fulton, Chief of the Strategic War Gaming Division of the National Reconnaissance Office a specialist in risk and threat response analysis, scenario gaming, and strategic planning.

(See . The National Law Enforcement and Security Institute website is:
http://www.nlsi.net/ See also The Memory Hole at http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/cia-simulation.htm):

2. October 2000 Mock Terror Attack on the Pentagon

In late October 2000 (more than ten months prior to 9/11), a military exercise was conducted which consisted in establishing the scenario of a simulated passenger plane crashing into the Pentagon. The Defense Protective Services Police and the Pentagon's Command Emergency Response Team coordinated the exercise. According to a detailed report by Dennis Ryan of Fort Myer Military Community's Pentagram, "the Pentagon Mass Casualty Exercise, as the crash was called, was just one of several scenarios that emergency response teams were exposed to on Oct. 24-26 [2000]":

The fire and smoke from the downed passenger aircraft billows from the Pentagon courtyard. Defense Protective Services Police seal the crash sight. Army medics, nurses and doctors scramble to organize aid. (…) Don Abbott, of Command Emergency Response Training, walks over to the Pentagon and extinguishes the flames. The Pentagon was a model and the "plane crash" was a simulated one.

On Oct. 24, there was a mock terrorist incident at the Pentagon Metro stop and a construction accident to name just some of the scenarios that were practiced to better prepare local agencies for real incidents.

(Dennis Ryan, "Contingency planning, Pentagon MASCAL exercise simulates scenarios in preparing for emergencies", MDW NEWS 3 Nov 2000. http://www.mdw.army.mil/ )

3. Britain's Atlantic Blue, April 2005

In Britain, there were several documented exercises of terror attacks on London's underground system.

In addition to the 7/7 exercise conducted by Visor Consultants, a similar mock terror drill on London's transportation system entitled "Atlantic Blue" was held in April 2005, barely three months prior to the real attacks. In 2003, a mock terror drill labelled OSIRIS 2 was conducted. It consisted, according to Peter Power in testing the "equipment and people deep in the Underground of London". It involved the participation of several hundred people. (Interview with Peter Power, CTV, 11 July 2005).

"Atlantic Blue" was part of a much larger US sponsored emergency preparedness exercise labelled TOPOFF 3, which included the participation of Britain and Canada. It had been ordered by the UK Secretary of State for the Home Department, Mr. Charles Clarke, in close coordination with his US counterpart Michael Chertoff.

The assumptions of the Visor Consultants mock drill conducted on the morning of July 7^th were similar to those conducted under "Atlantic Blue". This should come as no surprise since Visor Consultants was involved, on contract to the British government, in the organisation and conduct of Atlantic Blue and in coordination with the US Department of Homeland Security.

As in the case of the 9/11 simulation organized by the CIA, the July 7, 2005 Visor mock terror drill, was casually dismissed by the media, without further investigation, as a mere "coincidence", with no relationship to the real event.

Foreknowledge of the 7/7 Attack?

According to a report of the Associated Press correspondent in Jerusalem, the Israeli embassy in London had been advised in advance by Scotland Yard of an impending bomb attack:

Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned by his embassy not to attend an attend an economic conference organized by the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) in collaboration with the Israeli embassy and Deutsche Bank.

Netanyahu was staying at the Aldridge Hotel in Mayfair. The conference venue was a few miles away at the Great Eastern Hotel close to the Liverpool subway station, where one of the bomb blasts occurred.

Rudolph Giuliani's London Visit

Rudolph Giuliani, who was mayor of New York City at the time of the 9/11 attacks, was staying at the Great Eastern hotel on the 7^th of July, where TASE was hosting its economic conference, with Israel's Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as keynote speaker.

Giuliani was having a business breakfast meeting in his room at the Great Eastern Hotel, close to Liverpool Street station when the bombs went off:

Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Rudolph Giuliani knew each other. Giuliani had officially welcomed Netanyahu when he visited New York City as Prime Minister of Israel in 1996. There was no indication, however, from news reports that the two men met in London at the Great Eastern. On the day prior to the London attacks, July 6^th, Giuliani was in North Yorkshire at a meeting.

After completing his term as mayor of New York City, Rudi Giuliani established a security outfit: Giuliani Security and Safety. The latter is a subsidary of Giuliani Partners LLC. headed by former New York head of the FBI, Pasquale D'Amuro.

After 9/11, D'Amuro was appointed Inspector in Charge of the FBI's investigation of 9/11. He later served as Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division at FBI Headquarters and, Executive Assistant Director for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence. D'Amuro had close links to the Neocons in the Bush adminstration.

It is worth noting that Visor Consultants and Giuliani Security and Safety LLC specialize in similar "mock terror drills" and "emergency preparedness" procedures. Both Giuliani and Power were in London at the same time within a short distance of one of the bombing sites. While there is no evidence that Giuliani and Power met in London, the two companies have had prior business contacts in the area of emergency preparedness.
Peter Power served on the Advisory Board to the Canadian Centre for
Emergency Preparedness (CCEP), together with Richard Sheirer, Senior Vice President of Giuliani and Partners. who was previously Commissioner at the NYC Office of Emergency Management, and Director of New York City Homeland Security.

(See CCEP at http://www.ccep.ca/ccep_shei.html)

Concluding Remarks

One should not at this stage of the investigation draw hasty conclusions regarding the mock terror drill of a terror attack on the London underground, held on the same day and at the same time as the real time attacks.

The issue cannot, however, be dismissed. One would expect that it be addressed in a serious and professional fashion by the police investigation and that the matter be the object of a formal clarification by the British authorities.

The issue of foreknowledge raised in the Associated Press report also requires investigation.

  More generally, an independent public inquiry into the London bomb attacks is required.      

Michel Chossudovsky is Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and is the author of America's "War on Terrorism" , Second Edition, 2005, forthcoming.

An Israeli security firm has been chosen to provide security for London's
Underground train network

VERINT Systems, a subsidiary of Israel's Comverse Technology announced that Metronet Rail has selected Verint's networked video solution to enhance security of the London Underground, according to an Israel21c report.

After extensive testing of Verint's networked video system, including pilot installation on selected rail lines, Metronet Rail selected it to be installed on the entire Underground. The system will enable security personnel to monitor passenger platforms and certain remote portions of the track.

Verint president and CEO Dan Bodner told Israel21c: "We have significant experience working with transportation authorities and are committed to delivering innovative networked video security solutions for the transportation
industry."

Metronet Rail, under a 30 year contract with the UK government, is responsible
for maintaining parts of the London Underground's infrastructure. This includes
ensuring security in trains, stations, tunnels and bridges.

The London Underground handles more than 3 million passengers each day, making it one of the busiest transportation systems worldwide.

..... this security contract for the London Underground -- held by the same folks who "lost" the CCTV footage of a plain clothes Metropolitan Police officer executing what turned out to be an innocent young man. And if Rodney King got a big handout from the Los Angeles taxpayers for what their cops did to him, we can only guess what this little episode is going to cost us Londoners. "We have Israel to thank for this"-- meaning the Israel that has inflicted mindless bestiality on the citizens of the territories they have seized and heartlessly plundered since the middle of the last century. So,I blame those who first started this terriblecycle of violence.....and now this. It must makes us all feel really safe to know that a Mossad-front organisation which is at the root of all the world's terrorism problems, and which until recently handled all the major government wire-tappingcontracts in the United States, will also now have the right to acquire and archive high-definition video images of every ordinary citizen lawfully traveling around London. Soon Israel and The Mossad can lawfully record where he is going, which doors he is entering, what credit card numbers he punches intoATM machines, and whom he is with. The sooner some non-terrorist means is found of hurling out into Downing Street the present Loony-Tunes occupants of Number Ten, the better: because if they don't recognize the devils they have clambered into bed with by now, we certainly do.DIrving