On July 7, 2005, a terrorist attack took place in London when four separate suicide bomber sparked explosives across the city. Three bombs exploded near the underground stations and one left on a bus, killing 52 people and injuring more than 770s.
[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]“It was like opening the doors of hell,” recalls Dan Biddle, a survivor in a new documentary series, Attack against London: hunt the bombers of 7/7. The Netflix series details the events of 7/7 by the witness of the witnesses, the families of the victims and those who helped the investigation, including the former director general of the MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller, and even the former Prime Minister Tony Blair. While the title refers to 7/7 bombings, the series of four episodes also investigates the bombing attempts that occurred two weeks later, on July 21, and manhunt at the country’s scale that followed to find the officials. It also covers a fatal police error which has taken an innocent life.
The consequences of attacks 7/7
The four bombers were killed in the attacks, which let the police rush to try to discover their identity. They painted through endless images of tens of thousands of people coming and crossing various metro stations throughout the city. A breakthrough in the excavation occurred when a worker found images of four men carrying massive backpacks walking together in the station. With four men committing four attacks across the city, it provided a plan for the investigation. Images retraced the men to Luton, about 32 miles north of King’s Cross station, near one of the explosions. Their car, a Nissan Micra, was still parked at this station. Inside the car were a number of small homemade explosive devices – they had found the attackers.
One of the suspects, Hasib Hussain, was only 18 years old and lived with his family in Leeds, in northern England. Despite life with his family, he rented his own property. The property was full of materials to build explosives. The house has given the survey of new criminalists – biometrics, including fingerprints and mobile phone data. This helped them identify the four bombers: Mohammad Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer, Hasib Hussain and Jermaine Lindsay. They were all of British and high origin – people in British society who wanted to harm. The small town of Beeston was subject to a police investigation when they were trying to understand how these men were radicalized in the murderers. They discovered various video bands, including one of Mohammad sidique Khan saying that “we are at war, and I am a soldier. Now you too will taste the reality of this situation. ”
The medical investigation revealed that there were no traces of the types of bombs that the police expected to find, which means that they were dealing with a whole new way of making explosive devices. They discovered that the attackers used a mixture of piperine, which comes from the grains of black pepper and hydrogen peroxide. Both are easily available documents.
Attack of London Questions the effectiveness of MI5, the national intelligence service of the United Kingdom. Two of the terrorists, as shown in the show, were known to MI5 – Mohammad and Shezhad. But they were not considered a priority high enough to be followed intensely. If they had done so, they might have known that in 2004, the couple went to Pakistan to train with the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization, where they became militarized and were convinced to attack Great Britain.
7/21 attacks
Two weeks after the 7/7 terrorist attacks, four other suicide attempts attacked various areas of the city: Oval, Warren Street, Hackney and Shepherd’s Bush. This time, the explosions failed and no one was killed or injured. This meant that the attackers all survived the explosions, and the manhunt to find the failed suicide bomber was on.
A critical breakthrough came in a gym subscription found at the scene of an explosion belonging to a Hussain Osman. The police were able to obtain a positive identity document by contacting the gymnasium and found their address. The police thought it was likely that the terrorists met at the address. The house went under intense surveillance, but there was a problem when there was a surveillance laps – he left his post briefly to urinate. A potential suspect appeared, and while they followed it, they could not obtain an appropriate identity document: all they had to do was a blurred and blown photo of membership in the gymnasium.
While dragging the potential suspect, he got on the bus. He went to Stockwell Station. They were ordered to prevent it from getting into the tube, but they were already in the station, so they couldn’t hear the radio. Another police team was ordered by the Cressida Dick police chief not to leave the man on the tube. This team was informed that they would only be invited to intervene once they have confirmed that the man they followed were Osman. As the man had already mounted on the Stockwell Station train in southern London, they took the order as a confirmation that the man was indeed the terrorist. The armed officers rose on the train and shot the man five times, killing him. However, the man did not have an alleged explosive device, and they discovered that they had the bad man: an identifier revealed that it was Jean Charles de Menezes, a completely innocent civilian. Dick, who has given the order not to leave the man on the train, refused to be interviewed for the series.
After this fatal error which cost the life of De Menezes, manhunt for the four suspects continued. The investigation lost track of the four bombers, which led to the public exit of the images of men. This risked alerting the attackers they were hunted, but they felt that they were out of options, and the use of public power could be what they needed to turn the wave of research. The investigation also monitored several communication systems, including mobile phones, which the police suspected belonged to Hussain Osman. This led to the discovery that OSman has traveled on the Eurostar in Paris using a false passport. This phone died when Osman left London.
On July 23, 2007, the 3rd day of manhunt, the police received a phone call from a man who thought that one of the published images was his own son and identified Muktar as one of the terrorists. The next day, they received a call from an apartments director of Curtis House in northern London, who could identify Yassin Oman, the Bombardier on rue Warren, as a building resident. They now had a positive identity document of three of the four bombers. When the police went to Oman’s apartment, they found a kitchen that had been used to create explosives. They also found links with the Mosque of Finsbury Park and its leader, Abu Hamza, a radical preacher who encouraged violence. Hamza is currently serving a life imprisonment in New York.
On July 26, on the sixth day of the human hunting, the police received a call from an owner that Oman lived in Birmingham, about 120 miles north of London. Videoor images revealed that Oman had disguised himself in a Burka to travel from London. When the police arrived at his home, he stood in a bathtub wearing a large backpack, suggesting that he was armed with an explosive. However, it was not and the police were able to hold it.
The public was vital in the London 7/21 bombers hunt. Another call identified the last striker like Ramzi Mohammed. This led the police to a raid on his address in Dalgarno Gardens in western London on July 29 where they made a surprising discovery: not only Mohammed in the apartment, but it was said. With three suspects in police custody, only Hussain Osman remained as a whole. The police finally caught up with him after Osman, who had parents in Italy, put an Italian SIM card on his mobile phone and was able to be followed. After an eight -day man hunt, the four 7/21 bombers were in police custody.
The murder of an innocent civilian
The murder of Jean Charles de Menezes has angry a lot through the United Kingdom, horrified that the police use strength to kill a completely innocent man. At the time, the police tried to paint from Menezes as someone who resisted and refused to comply, which implies that they had no choice but to shoot him. But Attack of London presents a testimony of the officer (who remains anonymous) who shot from Menezes, and he says that it is completely false. Although the reports first suggested that De Menezes jumped over the ticket barriers, which made him continue the police, the testimony clarifies this is not the case: he normally crossed the station, and it was the police who jumped the barriers. The officer claims the full responsibility of his actions and the death of De Menezes.
At the end of Attack of LondonTitle cards reveal that if an investigation into the 7/7 attacks has seriously criticized MI5, they finally found any evidence that the MI5 could have prevented the attacks. The investigation jury also rejected the police ‘assertion that Jean Charles de Menez’s shooting was legal. No officer was prosecuted or found individually responsible for the shooting. In a 2007 trial, the metropolitan police service was found guilty of breaking the laws on health and safety and endangering the public. He was sentenced to a fine of £ 175,000.
The 7/21 bombers were found guilty of conspiracy for murder and each was sentenced to a sentence of 40 years in prison at least 40 years.
