Social Democracy Now

Aug 6, 2005 at 07:10 o\clock

LONDON BOMBINGS UPDATE: AN EYEWITNESS AT LAST

This Truthseeker interview with a Luton-Kings Cross commuter strikes me as incredibly important. According to this woman, who arrived at Luton station at about 7.25am on the morning of July 7, the official story of the bombings cannot be true. The public has been told that the four would-be bombers arrived at Luton station at 7.20am and departed for London on the 7.40am train. However, when this commuter arrived she found that both the 7.30am and the 7.40am trains had been cancelled. So the 'bombers' could not have been aboard the 7.40am train because there wasn't one. In fact, she says that a train for London did not depart Luton until about 7.58am.

Let's get this straight. The 'bombers' were supposedly inside Luton station waiting for a train from 7.20am onwards. So if there was no Kings Cross train until about 7.58am, they were inside the station for nearly 40 minutes before they could have gone anywhere. Yet there are no reports of anyone seeing them inside Luton station. Nor have we been shown any CCTV footage of the would-be bombers on the platform(s). What's more, this witness says that there was such uncertainty that commuters were obliged to run between platforms 1, 2 and 3. She gives no indication that during this to and fro-ing she observed any of the four alleged bombers, who would have been extremely conspicuous running in a group from platform to platform with their large rucksacks. The obvious conclusion to draw is that they weren't at Luton station at all that morning.

A final fact to consider, The 7.58am train did not arrive at Kings Cross station until 8.43am. By this time, of course, the 'bombers' are supposed to have been captured on CCTV more than ten minutes before. So here we have another gaping hole in the official story of the London bombings. No wonder the drama centres now on the non-bombings two weeks later.

LIGHT RELIEF: Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, the high priest of globaloney, is one of the daftest writers of our time. At last he gets the review he deserves.