by Byrne » Thu May 18, 2006 7:54 pm
When I said "deflect attention away from the events of 7/7 & 21/7", I meant deflect attention away from the <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>investigation</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> of events on 7/7 & 21/7".<br><br>The Visor terror drills probably accounted for the large number of reported delays on a lot of the London Underground network well BEFORE the bomb detonation times of 8.50am. If they didn't WAHT DID??!!<br><br>I <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>KNOW</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> of people who experienced a catologue of strange delays on the morning of 7/7. I'm talking of witnesses to large numbers of Police/Special Ops on duty at a number of stations on the lines affected, well before 8.50am. So , whatever anyone says, the teror drill was <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE START--><span style="text-decoration:underline">NOT</span><!--EZCODE UNDERLINE END--></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> just a <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>DESKTOP</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> exercise. The Narrative makes no mention of earlier delays on the underground network caused by numerous cancelled trains & delays at stations well before any of the ‘explosions’ occurred, nor any mention of any terror drills which, if it were to be a genuine enquiry, would surely reference such facts - even if ony to dismiss them by some reason or another.<br><br>Below are some of the comments posted on forums on days following the events of 7/7:<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>****************<br>My friend got the Piccadilly line Tube to Leicester Square yesterday and as he got off he was told they're shutting down the line because of a fire near King's Cross. Yeah, I know what happened yesterday, but this was at 8.17 (he checked because he sent his girlfriend a text at this<br>time saying don't get the Tube) and the first attack wasn't till 10 to 9. Can you shed some light on this?<br>Row, United Kingdom<br><br>****************<br>"Luckily I got the train this morning at 07:00. A train journey which normally takes 35mins took 1 hour and 30 mins. First there was a security alert at Bank station, then all tubes were being stopped at Stockwell station due to a some kind of disruption at Balham tube station (apparently a fire on a train?) I went from North London to South on the tube directly through the affected area and got off 15 minutes before the explosion."        <br>****************<br><br>I catch the Piccadilly line at 7.15am each morning from Southgate to reach my work in Kensington by 8.00. Normally, all seats are taken by Finsbury Park and carriages are packed by Kings Cross. However, yesterday my tube journey was eerily quiet. For the first time ever there were spare seats in my carriage all the way through zone 1. It was noticeable enough for me to wonder what on earth was going on. This was at 7.45 - over an hour before attacks began.<br>I've also heard people saying that the Northern Line was being shut down at the same time.<br><br>**********<br><br>I was due to pick a work collegue up from balham at 7:15am, but when i got there i was greeted with Tube emergency vans, police and and hoards of people being turned away from a closed station.<br>All very strange they must have known something was going to happan, the surely had a tip off. As i drove along the road, (which also follows the tubes) they were all shut and hundreds of people were queing for buses.<br><br>when i reached Oval, which was open there were two armed policemen in a road next to the station, which for a quiet area like that is extremly rare.<br><br>the northen line was shut from morden to stockwell. They blatently knew something was going down, they just got it wrong and are hopeing no one mentions anything.<br>******<br><br>No dog units but there were two unmarked police cars with blue lights stuck to the top, speeding that way, just seems very strange to have 9 stations shut at peak times, then announce that there was an electrical surge, then over an hour later we hear off the first bomb.<br>**********<br><br>Got to Arnos Grove, 8.30 AM Thursday. Unable to enter station, sign reads "due to fire, Piccadilly Line suspended between Arnos Grove and Kings Cross". NB this is well before first bomb at Liverpool St/Aldgate at 8.51AM. FOAF saw<br>fire engine outside Caledonian Road station at 8.25AM. Was this a suspected fire, totally separate from the bombings later on? Or was there some vague intelligence re. an attack on the Tube that morning? Note that other lines (Eg. Northern Line) were also experiencing problems, but is that par for the<br>course on any given day on London's Tube network? Or am I just being overly suspicious about how events were reported, given the 'power surge' headlines? Discuss.<br>*****<br><br>What i can't understand is why nothing has been reported about the events at 7am yesterday morning on the Northen line from Stockwell to Morden<br><br>I was due to pick up a work collegue from there, but turned up to see the staion closed and an entourage of tube emergency vans, police and the like. As i followed the line down, all the other stations were shut.<br>------------------------<br><br>On Thursday i set off to work as usual and arrived at Elstree station where i was faced with crowds as lots of trains had been cancelled due to overhead power cables being damaged (apparently). Finally a train pulled up and i managed to get on and even find a seat! We were told half way through our<br>journey that we would be terminated at Kentish Town because of a fire alert at Moorgate station. We all sighed as everybody was late already........then the driver announced that we would infact be terminating at Kings Cross instead! A relief - or so we thought!<br>---------------<br><br>A woman I know was informed by her sister, who is a police officer, not to use public transport last thursday, at 7 AM.<br>-----------------<br><br>The person who says that "any police or ambulances would have been sent as standard" appears to be pooh-poohing what other people saw, IMO, because he or she finds it hard to believe. It appears that something big was going on at various parts of the tube network before the bombs went off. It also appears that very large numbers of people experienced this, and I hope that most of them don't get conned into thinking that their experiences didn't happen or were 'normal', because – especially when you add it all together - it stinks to high heaven.<br><br>Also there is a tube depot at Morden. Is someone really going to tell me that a broken down train at Balham at 6.30 am would normally lead to the PROLONGED CLOSURE of all stations between Morden and Stockwell? Rubbish!<br><br>I just wonder whether this person really does work on the Northern Line, because he seems to forget that Stockwell is on the Victoria Line as well the Northern Line. Closing the whole station because of a broken down train FOUR STATIONS AWAY on the NORTHERN Line would be doubly ridiculous - it would NEVER happen in the normal course of things. There must have been something other than a broken-down train.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>