July 7 Report Exposes Major Flaws

So the Metropolitan police decided NOT to turn off the mobile communications network but the City of London police decided to override that decision and turn it off anyway.

Which begs at least two questions:

What benefit was there in doing this at all?
Why would they do something that caused the ambulance service to lose its ability to communicate with its central command structure?

Not to be too presumptuous, I would like to offer my personal and subjective opinion on these:

The only benefit that I can see is that it would stop the story from getting out before the media and the government had time to control it. Some might say that it was a precautionary move in case the bombs were being set off via mobile communications devices but that simply doesn't wash. One fact alone makes this idea ridiculous...THERE IS NO SIGNAL IN THE UNDERGROUND SYSTEM!
See above!

Life is full of strange people making strange decisions but the biggest problem here is that it MUST be more than a strange decision. It simply beggars belief that the two police forces responsible in this situation managed to BOTH consider the idea and yet both came to the OPPOSITE conclusion.

If any of this old pony were true then one must assume that the chief of the City of London police would be out on his backside but it seems that we are not going to see any such thing.

Not only this but the "very old radio technology" that London Underground uses "broke down" too.

Also of note is the final statement in the article...

"But survivors said they would continue to press for a full public inquiry into the bombings."

They are the public, they pay and vote for their government and if they want a PUBLIC inquiry then they should damn well get one.

Is this 700-page document just another 9-11 style Omission Report?

It seems like it so far.

I will let you know more when I have found the time to read it all myself. In the meantime anybody that has read more of it than I have is welcome to comment on what you have learnt on our forum by clicking HERE.

Monday 5th June 2006 | Sky News

A report into the July 7 terror attacks has highlighted a series of failings which hampered the response of emergency services. The London Assembly document says communication problems caused havoc for medics, while some ran out of supplies and had to raid M&S for first aid kits. While praising the heroism of rescuers, the report reveals a series of errors.

While Met Police commanders decided not to disrupt mobile phone services following the bombings, networks were disabled on the order of City of London police.

This affected millions of calls and left the majority of ambulance crews and hospital staff unable to communicate for hours.

London Underground's "very old radio technology" also broke down following the blasts, halting vital communications.

And ambulance crews had to rely on word-of-mouth messages to know where to deliver patients. This led to some hospitals receiving too many patients, while others had too few.

Meanwhile, the inquiry heard some hospitals had relied on staff running to and from bomb sites to gather information.

Paul Dadge, who was seen helping a woman wearing a facial burns mask at Edgware Road, also told how medics quickly ran out of supplies and used first aid kits from the nearby Marks & Spencer store.

And fire brigade officials acknowledged they were unable to cope with their workload on the day and needed at least six extra fire trucks.

Four suicide bombers killed themselves and 52 commuters during co-ordinated attacks on the capital's Tube and bus network.

The report includes harrowing testimony by survivors who gave evidence to the assembly at a series of private and public sessions.

Among its 700-pages, the report makes about 50 recommendations for improvements to emergency response procedures.

But survivors said they would continue to press for a full public inquiry into the bombings.