Category: Terrorism

MSNBC/Newsweek have quotes from the latest authour of ‘ex-CIA staffer tell-all’ story.. …in a forthcoming book, the CIA field commander for the agency’s Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, says he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Qaeda and Taliban members. Berntsen says he had…

This has been the big story of the day. According to my own sources he was wearing a bomb belt, and according to one witness he was: Another passenger on the train, Anthony Larkin, told BBC News the man appeared to be wearing a “bomb belt with wires coming out”. We shall have to wait…

It looks like some of the devices failed to explode, the detonators may have.

Looks like this one was at the end of carriage, must be the Edgware Road train. Via Sir Humphrey’s

Services are gradually returning to normal, though on many lines the passenger numbers have been reduced by a factor of 10. I have heard stories of passenger numbers in places like White City and Bond Street. Where on a normal Friday 50 people might get on at White City, 2 got on today. At Bond…

The driver of the Picadilly train that was going between Russell Square and King’s Cross survived the attack. The bomb exploded in either the 2nd or 3rd carriage of the train. The train was packed, but casualty figures may be lighter than expected, perhaps down to just how packed the train was. We will have…

This is a terrorist attack. The BBC are reporting the explosions as the fault of power surges, but according to my own sources in London Underground, this is highly unlikely. And power surges don’t happen on buses either. I am trying to contact other friends and sources in London, but every phone is not acccessible.…

Sounds omninous. The fact that one of the guys was already on a no-fly list seems strange, especially since he is living in the US.