"The 4th Bomb" book controversy.

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Sunday July 06, 2008 16:42

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Four years ago on July 7th 2004 at 09:47 an explosion occurred on a No. 30 double-decker bus in Tavistock Square, London.

13 people died.

A shudder of terror went through all those who realised that a bus bomb could not be prevented, like perhaps a metro or subway bomb, with metal detectors or sniffer dogs that terror was compounded by the death and casualty figures in comparison to the total of 39 deaths for 3 rush hour underground trains. It was amazing anyone could survive. One did and has written a book which Amazon withdrew from distribution in March 2008.

The Statue of Ghandi on that square was sprinkled in glass & spatters of blood.

'The 4th Bomb' - is a book by Tavistock bus bomb survivor Daniel Obachike who insists he is a target of British Secret Service surveillance. He has since the July 7th London bombings joined a circuit of those who for want of better names are grouped together under the "conspiracy theory" umbrella which is mostly held by those who foment "inside job" explanations for the 911 attacks in New York but has also included in its shade at times those who rejected the authorship of the March 11th bombings in Madrid.

There are too many people under that umbrella and they shouldn't be rubbing shoulders with each other.

"His eye witness account asserts that a European male planted the bomb on the bus before exiting after the bus driver suddenly opened the doors with no bus stop in sight"
Despite Amazon.co.uk being forced to halt online sales in March 2008 the 227 page book is still available at www.the4thbomb.com, where exclusive footage and evidence backing the authors facts are available according to its author. - Homepage: http://www.the4thbomb.com http://www.amazon.ca/4th-Bomb-Daniel-Obachike/dp/0955536308

Without having read the book, nor having any great wish to, I'd just like users of this site to consider again that shudder of terror when for the second time in London's history a bomb had exploded "prematurely" on a double decker bus. & to consider that it is not enough to simply ignore the umbrella held over the "conspiracy theory" proponents. Their ideas and constantly self-referential links which so quickly spawn a canon of proofs and reports has the danger of becoming accepted popular belief given time.

As Martin Friedland wrote in his blog a short time afterwards on the nature of the "conspiracy theory" umbrella :-

The second, wearily familiar theme casts not the US but Israel as the culprit. This time, the hare was set running by an Associated Press story – retracted shortly afterwards - claiming that the Israeli Finance Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, mysteriously cancelled his appearance at a London conference that morning because he had had some kind of warning that attacks were coming. Later it emerged that Netanyahu had indeed chosen to stay in his London hotel room - but only because the explosions had already happened. His security advisers decided it was too risky for him to venture out while bombs were going off.

Once again, that has not stopped the wild-eyed conspiracy theorists. Iranian state radio’s first guess was that Mossad, the Israeli secret service, was behind it all. Perhaps such fantasies are oddly comforting – especially when the emerging truth of what happened on July 7 is so hard to bear.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/07/london_bush_an....html

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& this is what happened :-

The UK was hosting the first full day of the 31st G8 summit, a day after London had been chosen to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, two days after the beginning of the trial of fundamentalist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, five days after the Live 8 concert, and shortly after the UK had assumed the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union and remembering the fourth anniversary of the racially-motivated Bradford Riot..

62 people died.

Victim density, blast area and co-ordination of attacks meant great credit for such a low loss of life had to be given to the emergency services in London whose meticulous preparation and training had been seen as so essential in the aftermath of the March 11th 2004 bombings of Madrid.

There have been no more bombs on buses.

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2 little factoids which merit passing attention.

Sun Jul 06, 2008 18:54

(1) If you got this UK Crown evidence copyrighted photograph held on Wikipedia (*)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Londonbombing2.jpg you will see the 4 bombers as they appeared in a CCTV image timestamped 07h21 on the morning of July 7 2005.

You should notice something. In case you don't notice it, look at the background railings and see how they pass both behind and in front of the man who is not properly reflected in the wall. You just need to trace the railing in the centre of the photograph. Don't worry if you didn't notice it. Most people didn't. Those who did chose not to make such a big deal about it at the time.

(2) Netanyahu was in London for an investment conference and his hotel was within 200 metres of the bus and it would be surprising if his entourage had not employed frequency inhibitor devices such as are or have been used in Madrid, NYC, London and northern Ireland, these have been known to trigger explosive devices prematurely.

(*) The image This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the articles "Suicide attack", "7 July 2005 London bombings", "Shehzad Tanweer", "Germaine Lindsay", "Islamism in London" and "Closed-circuit television": * To illustrate the subject in question
* Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information is held on Wikipedia

It does adequately give information to those who can see or are prepared to be taught how to.
Very few people died in the July 7th bombings & we all have learned many lessons since then.

There has still been no public inquiry.

7/7 A formal remembrance service without a formal inquiry.

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Mon Jul 07, 2008 21:19

This day began in the UK with a near shoot-to-kill incident in Bournemouth Railway station as a man reported as being innocent was held to the ground by armed officers in an incident which reminded many of the Juan De Menezes chapter which closed the events of the UK's Summer of Terror 2005.
The mornings newspapers carried concern for knife crime with hardly hidden ethnic slurs which seemed to forget the origins of the men whose images appear in the wikipedia CCTV picture in the comment above.

Then a formal remembrance service saw the London Mayor and UK Olympics minister pause silently before this card :-

"We honour the memory of those who died on 7/7 2005, we salute the courage of those who were injured and our thoughts and prayers are with all victims and their families."

"Today's commemoration has raised questions about compensation paid to over 700 people injured in the blasts. More than 70 compensation claims are yet to be fully paid out. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority said it had "fully resolved" almost 90% of cases, paying out almost £7.5m.
Some victims of the bombings have indicated they do not want to mark the date, wanting instead to put the attacks behind them." http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/07/july7.london

This contrasts sharply with the Madrid bombings where the 25% of murdered who had been migrants were granted citizenship in addition to compensation which ranged from 1.5 million Euros for fatalities to 30,000 euros for injured. In addition the Madrid bombings not only saw a full public and accountable trial with convictions and an inquiry - it too generated in its time "conspiracy theories" which we must note could not outlive the public inquiries.

There has been no such public and accountable and transparent inquiries into the events of July 7th to July 22nd, 2005 in London. There are 57 years for statutory release of all relevant information maybe the CCTV pictures will be ready for viewing by then. Ian Blair will probably have retired as chief of London Police and converted to Roman Catholicism. The G8 will still talk about poverty and wasting food and air conditioning. The Olympics will probably have pushed up real estate around Croke Park...,

Youtube & last link is to a film launched today by Raj Babbra to remember the life of his former long term girlfriend and best friend Benedetta Ciaccia.

Lets not forget...

by paul o toole

Thu Jul 10, 2008 09:43

Dont forget the daily attacks on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. The so called 'terror' that struck London, Madrid and Bali is nothing compared to the moment by moment terror inflicted constantly, relentlessley, and ongoing for the next 40 years if you are to believe Blair and Bush.

After the 7/7 bombings in London Sky reported that Tony Blair was going to..... 'make it illegal to discuss the causes of terrorism'....
Why?. Same reason they banned the IRA from ever talking on tv, Section 31.
Behind every so called 'fundamentalist' theres a human rights issue.

There was a drill set up that day also, for coincodentally-exactly what happened.

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