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FOUR CAR BOMBS EXPLODE IN
SHARM EL-SHEIK – EGYPT
88 persons killed and nearly 200 wounded
Latest News – Egypt Blasts Kill 88
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ORIGINAL DIARY!
London Bombing :: Perfect Timing
July 7 – G8 Summit to advance USA/UK policy on terror/Iraq
July 11 – Israel and Sharon seizes the opportunity, annexation of East-Jerusalem
July 13 – UK presidency of EU from July 1 to advance security policy
July 16 – UK visit by Karzai, PR speak has been coordinated: It’s not Iraq
July 19 – UK Home Secretary Clarke forges anti-terror consensus
July 21 – Bush promotes Patriot Act, House approves
July 22 – Howard London visit in support of Blair Iraq policy
USA/UK Iraq policy and appeasement
UPDATES and LINKS on the London Bombings
It is entirely plausible that the master bomber would not have relied solely on the timer. If a timer failed to detonate one of the bombs, a dupe would be left alive and in possession of the evidence. A simple fail-safe detonator might also have used a mobile phone, perhaps the same one used as the timer in each of the bombs.
The London Tube system is not equipped for mobile phone reception, but if the master-bomber backed up the timer by sending a text message to the four bombs, the message would have been delivered to the bomb detonators as soon as the unwitting bomber left the underground and entered a mobile phone reception area on the surface.
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Related Diaries/Comments @BooMan by Oui
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Diary at European Tribune –
said the Northern and Victoria Tube lines, which pass through Stockwell, were suspended because of shooting.
Passengers reported a man — described as South Asian — ran onto a train. Witnesses said police chased him, he tripped, then they shot him.
“They pushed him onto the floor and unloaded five shots into him. He’s dead,” witness Mark Whitby told the British Broadcasting Corp.
Whitby said it didn’t look like the man was carrying anything but said he was wearing a thick coat that looked padded.
It was incidents like this one–shooting a man five times and killing him after he has already been immobilised on the ground–that caused many British police to lose their weapons authorisation in the 1980s.
Currently, only about 7% of the British police are trained and authorised in the use of firearms. One wonders what training these officers received. Some British police have received training from the elite SAS (Special Air Service) regiment.
Perhaps we haven’t all the facts in hand, but the current report we have of this is shocking. Police shot a man five times after he was on the ground, when he could have been taken into custody, alive and unharmed?
Well, it didn’t take long for the police to anoint themselves judge, jury, and executioner, did it? Two weeks and one day after the Tube bombings and the police are executing people. Bloody brilliant.
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From BBC radio – the unit was tracking the victim in an undercover surveillance operation. When this person entered the station, he got away by jumping the entrance barrier and was apprehended near the subway trains. The unit had to act, as it became an emergency and no time left to get the uniformed, armed squad involved. See the eyewitness accounts of what followed.
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From the evidence I have thus far from the BBC, the eyewitness report remains the same: Stockwell passenger Mark Whitby told BBC News he had seen a man of Asian appearance shot five times by “plain-clothes police officers”.
“One of them was carrying a black handgun – it looked like an automatic – they pushed him to the floor, bundled on top of him and unloaded five shots into him,” he said.
If they had the man pushed to the floor, why did they shoot him then? I could understand shooting a fleeing man if police suspected he had a bomb that he was going to detonate if he reached a train carriage, but once the man was on the ground, shooting him was…well, it was murder.
Perhaps the eyewitness in this case, Mr. Mark Whitby, does not give us a full and accurate picture in his account. Assuming that Mr. Whitby’s account is accurate and complete, however, we are left with British police officers who shot a man on the ground. Not once, not twice, not three times, not four times, but five times.
have been issued to British police when in these situations because even when held down, it’s conceivable that a suspected homicide bomber could self-detonate, killing the officers.
Gruesome but true. And yes, one can’t help but wonder if incidences of mistaken identity when any foreign looking male with beard, bulky jacket, and backpack who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time may become a victim of this policy and an increasingly common occurrance.
One reason is that the detonation of this group of bombs seems to be manual. If you look at the picture of the bus bomber you will see he appears to be holding something in his left hand.
In the picture of the partially exploded bomb (sorry could not find a copy) there is a small oblong object on the seat next to the rucksack. These two are consistent with a 9volt “block” type battery which has been used to set off detonators. The detonation is achieved by simply linking the battery to wires (you may recall these have a male and female connector on the top that fit into similar fittings on the appliance) A connector is held in the hand with wires leading up the sleeve and on to the detonator.
Making the connection is very quick and a simple action. If the analysis by the police is the same as that given to the BBC’s correspondent who pointed out the evidence, the police at Stockwell would have wanted to completely disable, i.e. kill, someone who might have a similar device on him. You should also remember that one of the tube bombers was seen by one eye witness firing a pistol into the semi-exploded bomb.
The failure of the bombs to explode this week has yielded a lot more forensic evidence. This should show whether the explosives were from the same home-made batch that was used on 7/7. The unexploded bus bomb picture shows the remains of bubble wrap or “jiffy bags” used to insulate the highly unstable explosive from heat and mechanical disturbance. The “second wave cell” could have planned the attack and had the devices constructed from the same batch (more chemicals were found in Leeds) but the material had deteriorated to the point of not being a viable explosive.
OK found a picture of the bus bomb. If you look at the extreme left hand side of the picture you will see black and copper battery on the seat. The smaller picture has it circled. Before people point out the time difference, the suggestion is that this is a “immediate detonation” device in case the person is caught, with a timer being used to enable them to leave it and exit the vehicle.
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Victim left building block of homes that was under surveillance. A civilian clothes “police unit” tracked the man to Stockwell station due to his clothes, appearance and behavior was suspicious.
It seems your diary is much more complete on the topic of Sharm El-Sheik…
“Something About Sharm El-Sheik?“
I’ll add this ^^^ important little piece here for you…
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a mosque in East London.
BBC Latest News –
It was’nt that long ago that the British Police did’nt even carry weapons, hmmmm, these great leaders we have changed the world, and NOT for the better.
Some British police have always had weapons. It is true that the majority of police officers, even in London, go unarmed. There are ARVs (Armed Response Vehicles) throughout London which allow the police to despatch weapons quickly if needed.
What’s more, British police who patrol airports, nuclear facilities, and protection duties (such as protecting 10 Downing Street or Buckingham Palace, for example) have always gone armed.
Summary update at 15:20 BST
A man was shot dead at Stockwell Underground station on a train after being chased down from the ticket office by armed police.
Reports of smoke coming from a backpack left on another train that went through Stockwell just before are still to be clarified.
A Met Police press conference has been put back to 16:00 in view of ongoing operations.
An internet cafe in Harrow Road W9 (just north of Westbourne Park tube to place it) Large area sealed off and two women apparently arrested. 6 gunshots were supposed to be heard but a remote control explosives unit was also seen. These use modified shotguns to open suspicious packages.
The operation at East London Mosque (title as well as location, it is near Aldgate tube station) was in response to a bomb threat against the mosque. Sniffer dogs were used in the search and the all clear has been given. Other false alarms have occured, including one at Canary Wharf.
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NEWSWEEK Dec. 2004 Exclusive —
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Listen to Amy Goodman’s interview with author David Zirin on her Democracy Now broadcast 7/21. He has written a book about sports and political activism. His tales about the results of a city being awarded an Olympics are very interesting. He tells about how the poor and working class people are disposed of to make the city fit into the ‘perfect’ appearance. Homeless and troublesome people are in the way of that inspiring vision that is keeping us all in line. Is London just getting started on its Olympic preparations?
We’re all patsies – Lee Oswald tried to tell us. Yes, I’m nuts – we all are, each in our own unique way.
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The terror spreads also to Muslim nations participating in rebuilding Iraq under US occupation.
CAIRO, Egypt – As many as seven explosions struck the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula early Saturday, targeting several hotels and killing at least 25 people, witnesses and police said.
Saturday’s explosions at 1:15 a.m., when many tourists would have been asleep, shook windows a mile away. Smoke and fire rose from Naama Bay, a main strip of beach hotels in the desert city popular with Israeli and European tourists, witnesses said.
A police official in Sharm el-Sheik said at least 25 were killed, and 110 wounded in multiple explosions targeting the Ghazala Gardens and Movenpick hotels in Naama Bay and the Old Market area nearby. Other officials in Sharm said there may have been as many as seven blasts: three in Naama Bay and four in the market.
Amal Mustafa, 28, an Egyptian who was visiting with her family, said she drove by the Ghazala Garden — a 176-room four-star resort on the main tourist strip in Naama — and it was “completely burned down, destroyed.”
Khaled Sakran, a resident, said he saw one explosion from the Old Market. “I saw the saw the fire in the sky,” he told The Associated Press. “Right after, I saw a light in the sky and heard another explosion, coming from Naama Bay.”
[30 persons died according to news reports – Ed]
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I hear about the bombings in Egypt and figure CNN will be all over this as they were with the London bombings, so I tune in this morning to find out what happened and all they have is blurbs here and there. Damn. 88 people are dead in Egypt and CNN is sticking to its regular programming schedule (unless I missed any really in depth coverage)? Make you wonder…
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Noticed months ago a slight separation with OBL.
Al Zawahiri with his Egyptian anger is still focused on damaging Egypt’s regime of Mubarak and the European assets throughout the Arab world. There is definite coordination in the attacks, at minimum a mastermind in design.
Makes use of the state of denial by George Bush, Tony Blair, their respective administrations and electorate who support their regimes and keep these men in power. Staying the course is easiest for the enemy to plan their tactical warfare. The Madrid and London bombing is part of the Iraq/Afghanistan war and the increased support for AQ and OBL throughout the Muslim world. Blair is behind the curve, attempting to open lines of communication to the UK Muslim community, years too late and with wrong attitude and knowledge of the Muslims fractional community.
My previous analysis of the Hofstad group in The Netherlands is proof of the difficulties ahead. The Dutch purple administration of PM Wim Kok spoke regularly during eight years to the 50+ Muslim leaders in the Netherlands. The administration of JP Balkenende came to power and checked the community support of these leaders and completely changed the organization of these talks to be effective. These so called leaders had little or no support at all within any community of Dutch Muslims. Effort should be bottom-up and not top-down, spend time and funds with social programs and job opportunity for the youth.
The Madrid attacks became a political success when Aznar tried to put blame on ETA for electoral gain, which backfired and put the opposition in power. Zapatero fulfilled his elections promises and has been open to the Muslim community in Spain.
The European affiliate of Al Zawahiri’s AQ is much more aggressive and will know no bounds. I suspect their aim will soon be a European leader of a nation or within the EU/NATO of Brussel. AQ will search for soft, easy targets and risk free attack with large impact. These words are not my own, but the analysis of former US Ambassador to Kenya, Prudence Bushnell. She suffered the August 7, 1998 attacks in Nairobi at 10:38 hours – 220 dead and 5,000 casualties combined with the Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania suicide bombing. The 9/11 for the people of East-Africa :: the American death toll was 12 persons and State Department made no funds available for embassy security in critical regions.
Tony Blair did not understand the impact of these bombings as precursor of what was to come. The origin was known – Osama Bin Laden – in Afghanistan, whose AQ group was attacked with missiles, but not hurt. The missile on Sudan was perhaps a stray, but OBL had been a resident of Sudan for years.
Tony Blair keeps fooling himself and the UK people through his eloquent speeches, and camouflage of his utter failures in foreign policy. The terror will creep towards the European continent and the support for AQ affiliates will deepen in Muslim communities within a matter of weeks, not months or years. Through Blair’s decisions in Iraq, he keeps feeding the beast called terror. Blair promised to make progress in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict as he pursued his goals in Iraq, he has failed miserably in both endeavors.
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LONDON July 23, 2005 – The man shot and killed on a subway car by London police officers before horrified commuters had nothing to do with the investigation into a series of bombings against the city’s transit system.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said on customary condition of anonymity that “the man was unconnected to the incidents of Thursday,” in which bombs placed on three subway cars and a double-decker bus failed to detonate properly.
The spokesman also said the man was “probably unconnected” to the July 7 subway and bus bombings that killed 56 people, including four attackers.
Onlookers observe the scene at Stockwell Underground train station after a man was shot dead in south London. Undercover police shot the man at Stockwell station on Friday. Commuters on the carriage were eyewitnesses, as the suspect was shot dead. (Reuters)
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The news is breaking and there are suggestions that other forces than the Police might be involved but the killing is to be investigated initially by the Scotland Yard Professional Standards Unit and referred to the Police Complaints Commission.
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Are they getting trigger happy over there? It’s bad enough that Londoners are terrorized by these bombings and attempted attacks. Now they have to watch themselves around the police as well.
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Man Killed in London Subway Not Linked to Blasts
Three plain clothes policemen chased the victim into Stockwell station and caught him inside a car when he slipped and fell. Five shots into the head were fatal.
London Met Police have received training in Israel – so at least that portion of security was adequately prepared for the suicide attacks!
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GONZAGA, Brazil July 24, 2005 — Jean Charles de Menezes couldn’t get ahead at home so he went to Britain to eke out a living as an electrician, hoping he could return to this rugged, farming community with enough savings to become a cattle rancher.
But this Sunday, his father, Matzinhos, cried in the family’s small concrete home with red roof tiles at the end of a rutted dirt road. He was holding a recent photo of his bare-chested son smiling while lifting weights.
During the trip home last year, Menezes told family members and friends he was doing well, making good money and friends, and driving a relatively new pickup truck. His father, a bricklayer and lifelong Gonzaga resident, was concerned London could be dangerous, but Menezes told him not to worry.
“They don’t have violence,” he recalled his son saying. “It’s good there, nobody walks around with a gun.”
Menezes, called “Jim” by his English friends, was believed to have been on his way to repair an alarm in the Wilsden Green neighborhood when he was shot, according to his cousin, Alex Pereira, who lives in London. Menezes carried his electrical tools in a knapsack, and often took the subway to work at different sites around the city.
Menezes’ mother, Maria, said her son’s fascination with electricity began when he was small, perhaps because it did not reach their home amid groves of banana and orange trees about 12 miles from the town center. When Menezes was 10, he built a radio from scratch and decided he wanted to become an electrician, she said.
Maria Otone de Menezes, the mother – center – is comforted by relatives at their ranch near Gonzaga, Brazil. Juan Charles de Menezes, 27, was killed in London at the Stockwell subway station.
(AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
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According to the same report, Menezes “had come out of a house in Tulse Hill” which is in South London and that the house had been “under police surveillance” because of a suspected link to the Thursday (7/20) bombings.
I heard in all early news broadcasts, the object under surveillance was a housing block. Plain clothes policemen apparently on a stake out. IMO most logical as the police did not know the name of the victim until he was killed in the subway carriage.
A single source in BBC radio interview and information needs to be verified, the London Met Police have had special training from the Israelis to operate in these circumstances. The police were trained, but not the average London residents, in how to act and behave in the aftermath of suicide attacks.
March 2005 – Counter-terrorism advertising campaign launched
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Found a second source as indication —
Professor Paul Rogers, of Bradford University, said the Met’s armed officers’ actions appeared to have parallels with methods used by Israeli security forces and US troops in Iraq.
He said ‘The tactics the Met appear to have used this morning are very similar to the very tough tactics that the Israelis use against suspected suicide bombers.’
In the Middle East, security forces tend not to shoot suspects in the chest or abdomen because of the risk of detonating explosives on bombers’ waistcoats.
Prof Rogers said: ‘To be blunt, they go for a head shot.
Cross-posted from diary at European Tribune –
London Met Police – Anti-Terrorist Branch SO-013 trained by Israel’s Shayetet 13?
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War on Terror and the US Invasion of Iraq was strongly advocated and supported by Likud and PM Sharon of Israel.
The US Forces use military tactics for urban warfare – entry in Baghdad March 2003 – and the repulsive demolition of the city of Fallujah, identical to Israeli military tactics used in occupied Gaza and West Bank territories.
This is general knowledge of the Iraq War watcher and the reason the insurgents have become successful in Iraq: president Bush is feeding the beast called terror. Take a moment to google for some info —
Shares Lessons Learned Fighting Terrorists
Fallujah Success Capitalized on IDF Know-How
Army and Marine Corps forces that battled terrorist insurgents in the Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Mosul employed urban warfare tactics gleaned from the combat experience of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
In the last two years, hundreds of U.S. military personnel have trained in the Negev desert at Israel’s Adam counter insurgency urban warfare training facility. Meanwhile, the U.S. military has completed the construction of a number of simulated Arab villages at the U.S. Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) at Fort Polk, Louisiana.
Reference to diary by londonbear — Adsf is the first person in my lifetime to accuse me of anti-semitism. I find the remark offensive and bs – lack of any critical judgement and knowledge as probable cause, nevertheless remark is IMHO inexcusable.
My diary recently —
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Al Jazeera July 20, 2005 — A man widely reported to have been the ‘mastermind’ behind the London attacks by slipping into Britain was an innocent Pakistani who happened to have a similar name to that of someone suspected to be an al-Qaida leader.
The man, in his 30s, was the subject of intense media speculation surrounding his visit to Britain culminating in his flying out of London one day before the attacks. His unmonitored presence in the country led to criticism of MI5.
But according to The Independent the suspect had no role in the attacks.
Inquiries made have led to the discovery that the man was an innocent Pakistani traveller who simply happened to have a name similar to that of an alleged al-Qaida member who is on the watch list of several foreign security agencies.
Innocent ’til Proven Quilty
A similar blunder is also said to have occurred following claims by U.S. intelligence that Germaine Lindsay the alleged bomber who carried out the King’s Cross attack, was on a British watch list. This was because the “fourth” bomber was wrongly identified in the United States as Lindsay Jermaine – someone with a similar name to the suspect.
So far, Scotland Yard is concentrating its efforts on determining the movements of the four bombers from Leeds and Aylesbury, and what explosives they used.
Sniffer dogs are being used on the underground to detect explosives and dozens of other dogs will be deployed throughout the London Underground system and the police may also introduce random checks using metal and bomb detectors on the Underground.
● Captured Al-Qaeda kingpin is case of ‘mistaken identity’
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explain his fatal error in running …
what the information does do is …
It confirms the opinion … before the police’s intent could be assessed.
Too much speculation put forth in opinions and too little evidence. MSM reports and many diaries are advantageous to the incompetent action and reaction of the three undercover plain clothed policemen in the London shooting of an innocent man.
I know of no Met policeman or policewoman who would enter the subway carriage and execute a fugitive who had tripped and was on the ground.
What mindset do you have to believe you are tracking a suicide bomber? How many Pakistani, or persons with Asian appearances, live and work in London. What are the chances you are following a bomber?
Alex Pereira, victim’s cousin at Tulse Hill?
Juan Charles de Menezes was not known to the investigation, the housing block was under surveillance. If there was any suspicion towards his involvement with explosives, the housing unit would have been raided.
My only question left: who were these undercover men and what special operations unit did they belong to. What was their training and day’s specific order for the stake out.
The stories told to the press by the London Met Police and Ian Blair is inconsistent and does not give any logical answers to what happened.
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did NOT jump turnstile, had LEGAL visa ◊ by Shumard
The Guardian July 28, 2005 — After a meeting with the Metropolitan police, Vivien Figueiredo, 22, said that the first reports of how her 27-year-old cousin had come to be killed in mistake for a suicide bomber on Friday at Stockwell tube station were wrong.
Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian shot dead in the head, was not wearing a heavy jacket that might have concealed a bomb, and did not jump the ticket barrier when challenged by armed plainclothes police, his cousin said yesterday.
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BBC News – Police name two bombing suspects
Officers are looking for Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, and Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27. Ibrahim is being linked to a property in north London, which is being raided by police located in Ladderswood Way, New Southgate.
In other developments:
● An inquest opened into the death of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, who police mistook for a suicide bomber at Stockwell Tube on Friday, heard he was shot eight times – seven times in the head and once in the shoulder.
LONDON (AP) – Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized Monday for the police killing of Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian electrician mistaken for a terrorist who was shot eight times in a subway car.
Also Monday, police released the names of two of the four men suspected of taking part in the failed July 21 bombings and said a fifth device similar to others used in the botched attacks was found in a west London park.
Peter Clarke, head of the Metropolitan Police anti-terrorist branch, released new images of some of the men who tried to bomb three subway cars and a bus. He identified two of the suspects as Muktar Said Ibraihim, also known as Muktar Mohammed Said, 27, and Yasin Hassan Omar, 24.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, the head of Britain’s Metropolitan Police Service Anti-Terrorist Branch (AP)
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A man walks through the debris in the
old town of Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt.
Egyptian Police Search for 6 Pakistani Men As Probe Into Deadly Attack on Red Sea Resort Widens
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt Jul 25, 2005 — Police said Monday they were searching for six Pakistani men in their widening investigation into Egypt’s deadliest terror attack that killed scores of people, including an American, at this Red Sea resort.
Police were circulating photographs of the six, who have been missing since several days before Saturday’s attacks, at checkpoints in and around this southern Sinai resort city. An Associated Press correspondent who saw the images said the men appeared to be between the ages of 20 and 30.
The involvement of Pakistanis in the attack in Sharm el-Sheik would be unprecedented, as non-Egyptians rarely have been linked to attacks here. It also would be extremely difficult for a group of young Pakistanis not to be noticed in Sharm, one of the heaviest policed cities in Egypt and a favorite place of residence for President Hosni Mubarak.
Pakistani involvement, if proven, also would increase suspicions that Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network may have been involved. The Saudi-born bin Laden is popular among militant Pakistani groups and is known to enjoy support in tribal areas close to the Afghan border.
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In releasing the two suspected bombers’ names, Clarke said an “initial forensic examination of the four partially detonated bombs has revealed clear similarities” with a fifth device found in west London’s Little Wormwood Scrubs park. The bomb, in a dark-coloured backpack, was found Saturday [July 23, 2005 – Ed] and blown up Sunday.
All five of the bombs were in the same type of plastic food storage container, Clarke said. The food containers, manufactured in India, were sold in about 100 stores around Britain, and he appealed to shopkeepers to call police if they remembered anyone buying them.
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CEN News July 11, 2005 — CAMBRIDGE dancer Bruce Lait has spoken of his miraculous escape when a bomb exploded just yards away from him in a Tube train carriage.
The 32-year-old was knocked out by the blast and awoke to a terrible scene of devastation in the underground tunnel near London’s Aldgate East station.
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“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.
So lucky: Bruce recovers in hospital
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The police released photos of five Pakistani men wanted for questioning, but officials said no evidence linked them to the attack. Mohamed Ekhto, left, Rashid Ali, Tasadaa Hassan, Mohamed Anwar and Mohamed Aref.
SHARM EL SHEIK, Egypt July 25, 2005 — Egyptian officials, gave their first detailed account of a deadly terrorist strike at this Red Sea resort. All three explosions were suicide bombings and suggested that police checkpoints may have forced two of the bombers to set off their explosives early, before reaching targets packed with Western tourists.
As many as 17 foreigners were killed, most of them Europeans. One American was among the dead, according to the United States Embassy in Egypt, and news reports identified her as Kristina Miller, 27, of Las Vegas, who was vacationing here with her British boyfriend. The nationalities of three of the dead have not been determined, though they are believed to be Egyptian, the governor said. “What’s obvious is that they wanted to attack tourism,” Mr. Afifi said at a news conference here.
A senior security official speaking on condition of anonymity because of policy restrictions, said the police believed the bombers drove to Sharm el Sheik on remote mountain roads in two Isuzu pickup trucks. The main coastal roads in and out of Sharm el Sheik have many police checkpoints.
“The preparation and execution were local,” the security official said. “But perhaps the planning had foreign elements.”
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This important diary. shows that Sharm el-Sheik is not just a pretty tourist trap, but also a military garrison, MFO Southcamp:
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Placing a finger on continued manufacture of deceit and lies for their terrorism policy.
I’ve stated after 7/7 attacks, either it will be an open investigation similar to Spain’s release of evidence after 11/3 Madrid bombings or …
The investigation will be covert with mostly met by silence, contradictory statements giving added time to manufacture the plot. This will feed conspiracy theory for coming months and years. London Met Police Commissioner Ian Blair, Anti-Terrorist Branch Peter Clarke, London Mayor Ken Livingstone and PM Tony Blair are conforming to the latter option. Not surprising the statements coming from PM Tony Blair are all political and in defense of his aggressive foreign policy in Iraq and failures in the ME peace process.
Looking at Tony’s track record of the past five years, all official independent investigations were white-washes and the intelligence reports on Iraq were false and manufactured.
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