Suicide bombers do not buy return tickets. Theirs is a one-way trip. When
four young men met at Luton railway station a week ago last Thursday, however,
they gave every impression of going to London and coming back. They paid and
displayed, leaving valid tickets on the windows of a Nissan Micra and a Fiat
Bravo in the station car park. They boarded the 7.48am to London carrying return
tickets.
Why would they do that, if they knew they would be dying very soon? The car
park can be explained: perhaps they did not want to attract attention or get
stopped. But the question of the train tickets has no obvious answer, unless the
bombers were not aware that they would be among the casualties at Aldgate,
Edgware Road, King's Cross and on the No 30 bus. They may have thought that they
could leave their deadly bags on the train or the bus and walk away, merging
safely into the crowd by the time a detonator set off the plastic explosive they
called Mother of Satan to kill and maim in those enclosed spaces. Or were they
told the bombs would go off later than they did?
Prisonplanet | July 19 2005
BRITISH police are considering the possibility that the four key suspects
in the recent London attacks may have been tricked into setting off their
bombs.
"We do not have hard evidence that the men were suicide bombers. It is
possible that they did not intend to die,” a Scotland Yard spokesman said.
According to one police hypothesis, the bombers were tricked by a "master”
who told them they would have time to escape — when, in fact, the devices were
set to go off immediately.
"The bombers’ master might have thought that he couldn’t risk the four men
being caught and spilling everything to British interrogators,” an unnamed
security official has said.
Lending weight to the theory is the fact that all four men had paid up
their parking tickets before boarding a train at Luton for King’s Cross and that
they all bought return tickets to the Capital.
Moreover, the paper said, the men were carrying their explosives inside
rucksacks, as opposed to strapped to their bodies, as is common practice among
suicide bombers.
None were reported to have cried "Allah-o-Akbar” before setting off their
charge — something which most suicide bombers do.
So the official line is now leaning towards the theory that an "Al Qaeda"
Mastermind duped the "pawn" bombers into their actions, covering for all the
inconsistencies we have thrown up so far.
This comes as no surprise, after the mainstream media have been questioning
the official line all weekend. Both the London Mirror and the Independent
published articles directly challenging the suicide bomber theory. The bombers
were certainly duped, yet there is absolutely no evidence to suggest there was
an Al Qaeda guiding hand. The fact that these men had been to Pakistan in 2004
seems to be, for some outlets, stone cold proof that they were Al Qaeda
terrorists.
One of the suspected "masterminds" behind the attacks, Egyptian Magdy el
Nashar, challenged officials to find any credible evidence to implicate him. It
seems they have failed as he has been cleared of involvement by Egyptian
authorities.
Meanwhile bigger stories have gone unnoticed. Firstly, on Saturday we
published an article highlighting the various instances of elite connections to
the bombings and the drill that was taking place on the same morning.
Secondly the fact that the British Government had tracked and possibly
arrested and then released their so called suspects has not hit the front pages.
Could it be that the plot was discovered and then allowed to happen or aided in
some way. The media should be jumping all over the fact that the terror alert
level was DOWNGRADED for the first time in four years one month prior to the
attacks.
Thirdly, it has gone virtually unreported that the Pound fell 6% in 10 days
before London terror attacks, a clear indication of prior knowledge on the part
of London's financial establishment.
And we now also have an admission by Israeli authorities that they did
indeed receive prior warning of the attacks and warned Benjamin Netanyahu to
stay inside his London Hotel.
This clearly indicates first that the story of power surges on the
underground was prepared beforehand and used as a cover for over an hour to
confuse the media and keep away those who seek the real stories. If Israel knew
it was bombs before they went off then why wouldn't British police? It's a tried
and tested method and serves the purpose of keeping the public and the media in
line at the scene of such events.
Also the scramble to alter the initial AP reports of this story indicates
that someone was attempting to cover up this smoking gun.
We've been told that there will be 'No internal inquiry' into the blasts so
we might as well shut up and just believe whatever they tell us no matter how
many times they change the story.
More as the story develops (and the official line changes again)
16 July 2005
EXCLUSIVE: WAS IT SUICIDE?
Why
did they buy return train tickets to Luton? Why did they buy pay & display
tickets for cars? Why were there no usual shouts of 'Allah Akhbar'? Why were
bombs in bags and not on their bodies?
By Jeff Edwards
THE London bombers may have been duped into killing
themselves so their secrets stayed hidden.
Police and MI5 are probing if the four men were
told by their al-Qaeda controller they had time to escape after setting off
timers. Instead, the devices exploded immediately.
A security source said: "If the bombers lived and
were caught they'd probably have cracked. Would their masters have allowed that
to happen? We think not."
The evidence is compelling: The terrorists bought
return rail tickets, and pay and display car park tickets, before boarding _ a
train at Luton for London. None of the men was heard to cry "Allah Akhbar!" -
"God is great" - usually screamed by suicide bombers as they detonate their
bomb.
Their devices were in large rucksacks which could
be easily dumped instead of being strapped to their bodies. They carried wallets
containing their driving licences, bank cards and other personal items. Suicide
bombers normally strip themselves of identifying material.
Similar terror attacks against public transport in
Madrid last year were carried out by recruits who had time to escape and planned
to strike again.
Bomber Hasib Hussain detonated his device at the
rear of the top deck of a No 30 bus, not in the middle of the bottom deck where
most damage would be caused.
Additionally, two of the bombers had strong
personal reasons for staying alive.
Jermaine Lindsay's partner Samantha Lewthwaite, 22,
mother of his one-year-old son, is expecting her second baby within days.
Mohammed Sidique Khan's wife Hasina, mum of a 14-month-old daughter, is also
pregnant.
Our source disclosed: "The theory that they were
not a suicide squad is gathering pace. They were the weakest link.
"We think it's possible they were told that when
they pressed buttons to set off timers they'd have a short time to abandon the
bombs and get away before the blast. Instead, the bombs exploded
immediately."
Another intelligence source added: "Whoever is
behind this didn't want to waste their best operatives on a suicide mission.
Instead they used easily recruited low-grade men who may have believed they'd
walk away."
At least 54 people were killed in the 7/7 blasts.
Khan, 30, of Dewsbury, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, of Leeds, and Jamaican-born Lindsay,
19, of Aylesbury, Bucks, detonated devices on the Tube at Edgware Road, Aldgate
and King's Cross.
Hussain, 18, of Leeds, blasted the bus at Tavistock
Square. The Tube explosions went off almost simultaneously. But the bus went up
an hour later.
Yesterday, Hussain's family told of their horror at
the teenager's involvement in the massacre. They said in a statement: "We are
devastated over the events of the past few days. Hasib was a loving and normal
young man who gave us no concern and we are having difficulty taking this
in.
"Our thoughts are with all the bereaved families.
We have to live with the loss of our son in these difficult
circumstances.
"We had no knowledge of his activities and, had we
done, we would have done everything in our power to stop him. We urge anyone
with information to cooperate fully with the authorities."
Police are urgently investigating the missing 81
minutes between Hussain arriving from Luton in London and the time his bomb went
off.
His device may have malfunctioned. He may have lost
his nerve. Or he may have panicked when he discovered the Northern Line, on
which he is thought to have been due to travel, was suspended.
Officers want to discover if Hussain met anyone
else who either strengthened his faltering resolve or reset his flawed
bomb.