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July 2005 London bomb blasts: UPDATES AND NEWS ONLY - NO DISCUSSION

IHB said:
This is a long thread and not sure how much this factor has been discussed if at all but certainly suprised me today.

I saw on the BBC that a suicide bomber had been shot by police in Docklands yesterday morning but reasonably quickly this was denied and I have not seen any more mention of this since.

Came into the office and spoke to a business associate who is based in Canary Wharf and she (+ 5 collegues) saw the police snipers shoot a man in the street. Now she is not somebody that is full of shit, I have know her for some time now and trust her 100%.

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Yeah, that was an odd one, heard about it first on another board when somebody working at Merill Lynch mentioned it. :confused:

Also amongst all the confusion there was talk of an explosion in Houndsditch and when I spoke to my wife who was in Bishopsgate a few minutes later she mentioned the Houndsitch explosion.

:confused:
 
IHB, I heard the same thing yesterday (got a phone call from a mate), but assumed it was just the start of an urban myth when I didn't see anything about it on the news. Then today I saw the South London Press have said that reports that a man had been "neutralised" by police marksmen were being investigated. I think at the moment we can't say either way if it happened or not, but perhaps its a bit like the death toll - it can't be reported by the press until its definately confirmed (and quite rightly so).
 
Paddick was asked about the shooting at his press conference yesterday and could barely stop himself bursting out laughing.
 
IHB said:
This is a long thread and not sure how much this factor has been discussed if at all but certainly suprised me today.

I saw on the BBC that a suicide bomber had been shot by police in Docklands yesterday morning but reasonably quickly this was denied and I have not seen any more mention of this since.

Came into the office and spoke to a business associate who is based in Canary Wharf and she (+ 5 collegues) saw the police snipers shoot a man in the street. Now she is not somebody that is full of shit, I have know her for some time now and trust her 100%.

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fucthest8's posted about this earlier on the thread - he's got a friend who works for Reuters. fuct's take on it is that Reuters know about this story but aren't releasing it (yet?).
 
well red said:
Paddick was asked about the shooting at his press conference yesterday and could barely stop himself bursting out laughing.
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Don’t know about that but his answer was clearly well chosen words. Everything else was this has happened, that has happened but when asked about that alleged incident he said something like “we have no reports about that.” Which means he’s been told but nothing officially has been reported.
 
Agent Sparrow said:
assumed it was just the start of an urban myth when I didn't see anything about it on the news
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Exactly my thoughts too. So much speculation was bounded about by the media during the first couple of hours it was hard to consider anything to be 'confirmed' but this one seems to have too many collaborating reports.

I agree that things should be made public at the right time but it does bother me not having all the facts (within reason) when I have to live and work here.
 
Kid_Eternity said:
Don’t know about that but his answer was clearly well chosen words. Everything else was this has happened, that has happened but when asked about that alleged incident he said something like “we have no reports about that.” Which means he’s been told but nothing officially has been reported.
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No, the reporter asked had he heard about reports that a police sniper had shot a suicide bomber, and he sniggerred a bit and then said "I've not heard any report that a police sniper had shot anyone". He acted like it was the most ridiculous thing he'd ever heard.

I find the repitition of the phrase "police sniper" very interesting and points to this being a myth. Police would not use this phrase (more likely marksman) and would probably deny that they even employ "snipers".
 
MysteryGuest said:
fucthest8's posted about this earlier on the thread - he's got a friend who works for Reuters. fuct's take on it is that Reuters know about this story but aren't releasing it (yet?).
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Why would an independent news agency - whose entire raison d'etre is to churn out news in double quick time - hold back a story?
 
there may be very good reasons for not publicising any such event yet; for example, if the person shot was still alive, they would be a VITAL part of working out who did this and whether any of them were still at large.

remember that in spain it was 3 weeks before they moved against the gang.


edit: however, to clarify, i don't think there's any point in speculating at the moment.
 
editor said:
Why would an independent news agency - whose entire raison d'etre is to churn out news in double quick time - hold back a story?
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Cos it's crap possibly - I dunno, I'm only going on what fuct posted up there ^ somewhere...
 
editor said:
Why would an independent news agency - whose entire raison d'etre is to churn out news in double quick time - hold back a story?
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It is possible they were ordered not to. The logic could be that reporting that could provoke panic.
 
well red said:
I find the repitition of the phrase "police sniper" very interesting and points to this being a myth. Police would not use this phrase (more likely marksman) and would probably deny that they even employ "snipers".
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The term sniper has not been said by any official source to my knowledge but this was the terminology that was used by the person who claims to have witnessed this.

I agree that it does not seem to make sense to holdback news but I beleive the person that told me.
 
ihb - i repeat - can you ask your friend where exactly in canary wharf it was, at what time, and where they were watching from?
 
im hearing on Virgin radio that Waterloo stations is, or has been evacuated...has anyone else heard this? i cant find any links you see..
 
dunno if someones said this already , but yesterday there were so many reports flying in ie the bomber in canary wharf , 3 busses , 7 explosions etc.... that all seemed to evaporate before the evening news when it was down to 4 explosions , but reminds me of 9/11 when the first reports said 7 planes were hi-jacked , now im not a conspiracy loon...... but are the first reports errors or has there been a media white wash to stop the panic..... any views? :confused:
 
kea said:
ihb - i repeat - can you ask your friend where exactly in canary wharf it was, at what time, and where they were watching from?
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Sorry kea,

She is in a meeting but will be back around 4ish, I will get the full details and stick them up for you.
 
There seems to be a lot more confusion about whats been going on then I can remember when the RA were bombing even down to the death toll which leads me to suspect that theres probably more going on then we know.
 
cheers ihb!! am leaving the office at 4.30 and won't be back online til monday but if i don't see your post before i go, i will make sure i look it up on monday :)
 
ruffneck23 said:
dunno if someones said this already , but yesterday there were so many reports flying in ie the bomber in canary wharf , 3 busses , 7 explosions etc.... that all seemed to evaporate before the evening news when it was down to 4 explosions , but reminds me of 9/11 when the first reports said 7 planes were hi-jacked , now im not a conspiracy loon...... but are the first reports errors or has there been a media white wash to stop the panic..... any views? :confused:
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They said on the news that people were coming out of more than one tube station for some of he tube bombs depending what station they could walk to more esaily...thus confusion over one or two explosions.
 
Kid_Eternity said:
It is possible they were ordered not to. The logic could be that reporting that could provoke panic.
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Wooarggh there! Exactly how easy do you think it would be for an international news agency to be "ordered" not to release a big story?
 
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