Conspiracy theory: London 7/7 bombings

The presumption of innocence grants an accused in a criminal trial the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. Presumably, if someone is deceased, then it would be up to one's estate to enforce this presumption against would be accusers. At the same time, it appears futile for legal resources to be wasted prosecuting someone who has already deceased. Conveniently, and perhaps coincidentally, this is the position regarding the four persons who supposedly carried out the suicide bombings of London's train networks. Proponents of the July 7th Truth Campaign have disputed many facts pertaining to these alleged suicide bombings.

 

According to the BBC, four suicide bombers struck in central London on Thursday 7 July, killing 52 people and injuring more than 770. The events can be summaried as follows:

• At 0850 BST a bomb exploded on Piccadilly line train number 331 travelling south from King's Cross station to Russell Square;
• At 0850 a bomb exploded on Circle line train number 204 travelling east from Liverpool Street station to Aldgate; 
• At 0850 a bomb exploded on Circle line train number 216, which had just left Edgware Road station heading west for Paddington; and
  
• At 0947 a blast tore through a number 30 double-decker bus at the junction of Tavistock Square and Upper Woburn place.

All four bombers are pictured below. The bombers have been identified as:

• Mohammad Sidique Khan;
• Shehzad Tanweer;
• Germaine Lindsay; and
  
• Hasib Hussain.

This picture has also been a source of controversy. There have been claims that the circled person was 'photoshopped' into the picture. In particular, 7/7 Ripple Effect has disputed many facts of the official accounts of the 7/7 London Bombings. The narrator, one Muad'Dib has been identified as a John Hill who was extradited to the UK on charges of perverting the course of justice (for sending 7/7 Ripple Effect DVDs to the judge and jury in trials linked to the 7/7 attacks. Muad'Dib claims, amongst other things, that the British Metropolitan Police were the masterminds of these bombings, supposedly based on a number of missing pieces of evidence. This includes a lack of CCTV footage in areas where the bombers were supposed to be. He uses this, amongst other things, to support the claim that the four bombers were 'tricked' into travelling to London where they were actually murdered.and accordingly, they did not die as suicide bombers. 

Eyewitness accounts state that the nature of the train explosions were consistent with bombs placed below the train as opposed to bombs detonated by suicide bombers. The image above shows evidence contradicting the government's story that backpack bombs were responsible for the bombings. According to witnesses, "tiles, the covers on the floor of the train, suddenly flew up, raised up".

Lait, a victim of the Aldgate Station bombing, described to the Cambridge Evening News how he and his partner were sitting nearest to the bomb when it detonated. According to Lait,

"We'd been on there for a minute at most and then something happened. It was like a huge electricity surge which knocked us out and burst our eardrums. I can still hear that sound now ... He and Crystal were helped out of the carriage. As they made their way out, a policeman pointed out where the bomb had been ... 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." 

Further inconsistent evidence pertaining to the UK Government's account of the bombings are found in the mysterious case of the non-existent train time. At a Metropolitan Police press conference in the days after July 7th, it was announced that the alleged bombers caught the 7.40am Thameslink train from Luton to King's Cross. This 'fact' was also confirmed in the official Government narrative of events. However, official Thameslink reports indicate that the 7.40am train was cancelled, forcing the Home Secretary John Reid to concede that this portion of the Official Report was inaccurate.

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