This is from BBC Radio. Listen for yourself and here is the transcript. A "simultanous bombing" drill deploying 1,000 people was being conducted for the London subways at the same time, same stations that were actually bombed. It has been charged that on 9-11, a drill called "Vigilant Guardian" kept fighter planes away from the hijacked airliners. The 9-11 Commission and the Republican Congress refused to investigate the charge.
Hmmmmmmm.
Drills could provide a cover for a government operative planting a bomb--they could say they are part of the drill. And it delays response and warning as the actual act is confused for the drill and so no real action taken!
BBC Radio Interview With London Subway Crisis Consultant
On the flip note the similarity between the July 7 "Simultaneous Bombing Exercise" and the 9-11 Air Guard drill being amazing "coincidences".
Anyone who says this is Conspiracy Theory, I say they are falling prey to "Coincidence Theory"! This should be investigated, no?
Update [2005-7-12 13:39:41 by Sherlock Google]: The company employed 1,000 people, the drill did not involve 1,000 people.
POWER: At half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise for a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing up right now.
HOST: To get this quite straight, you were running an exercise to see how you would cope with this and it happened while you were running the exercise?
POWER: Precisely, and it was about half past nine this morning, we planned this for a company and for obvious reasons I don't want to reveal their name but they're listening and they'll know it. And we had a room full of crisis managers for the first time they'd met and so within five minutes we made a pretty rapid decision that this is the real one and so we went through the correct drills of activating crisis management procedures to jump from slow time to quick time thinking and so on.
Here is an AP story from Yahoo about the Sept. 11 "Drills".
Agency planned exercise on Sept. 11 built around a plane crashing into a building
Wed Aug 21, 7:45 PM ET
By JOHN J. LUMPKIN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - In what the government describes as a bizarre coincidence, one U.S. intelligence agency was planning an exercise last Sept. 11 in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings. But the cause wasn't terrorism -- it was to be a simulated accident.
Officials at the Chantilly, Virginia-based National Reconnaissance Office had scheduled an exercise that morning in which a small corporate jet would crash into one of the four towers at the agency's headquarters building after experiencing a mechanical failure.
The agency is about 4 miles (6 kilometers) from the runways of Washington Dulles International Airport.
Agency chiefs came up with the scenario to test employees' ability to respond to a disaster, said spokesman Art Haubold. No actual plane was to be involved -- to simulate the damage from the crash, some stairwells and exits were to be closed off, forcing employees to find other ways to evacuate the building.
"It was just an incredible coincidence that this happened to involve an aircraft crashing into our facility," Haubold said. "As soon as the real world ( news - Y! TV) events began, we canceled the exercise."
Terrorism was to play no role in the exercise, which had been planned for several months, he said.
Adding to the coincidence, American Airlines Flight 77 -- the Boeing 767 that was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon ( news - web sites) -- took off from Dulles at 8:10 a.m. on Sept. 11, 50 minutes before the exercise was to begin. It struck the Pentagon around 9:40 a.m., killing 64 aboard the plane and 125 on the ground.
The National Reconnaissance Office operates many of the nation's spy satellites. It draws its personnel from the military and the CIA ( news - web sites).
After the Sept. 11 attacks, most of the 3,000 people who work at agency headquarters were sent home, save for some essential personnel, Haubold said.
An announcement for an upcoming homeland security conference in Chicago first noted the exercise.
In a promotion for speaker John Fulton, a CIA officer assigned as chief of NRO's strategic gaming division, the announcement says, "On the morning of September 11th 2001, Mr. Fulton and his team ... were running a pre-planned simulation to explore the emergency response issues that would be created if a plane were to strike a building. Little did they know that the scenario would come true in a dramatic way that day."
The conference is being run by the National Law Enforcement and Security Institute.
AP article on Sept. 11 Coinciding Drills
We have to look at who benefited from the London bombings. Certainly Blair and the push for National ID cards, and in this country the Patriot Act Renewal, the upcoming Iranian War and to boost support for Bush and staying in Iraq.
What are the odds of all of this being coincidence instead of simply the U.S/U.K. Modus Operandi? As my namesake Sherlock once said:
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"