It had been cut.

We can see the cut-line along the base of the upper roof support:

This was discovered by the American Simon Shack, in October 2010 –
it seems that no-one noticed it earlier. Two of his images are here used, with kind permission.

Compare this image (which you may want to view here, in high-resolution) with a newly-released image of the whole, exploded bus that was shown at the Inquest (see below). Why was this image not released earlier? Maybe because it shows too well the dead-level top surface after the blast, which would have given the game away. Surely, that line was pre-cut, to make sure that the roof easily lifted off.

A scientific approach to the problem should involve taking a bus and blowing it up with a bomb at the back of the top deck, and seeing if the top lifts off. Would it? I doubt it very much, certainly not in the neatly-cut fashion we see here.

The pressure was enough to cause bleeding noses on the top deck, but not enough to make anyone deaf by their eardrums being destroyed (or, please post a comment if I’m wrong here). At such a pressure, I suggest that beforehand the whole top of the bus had to be nearly cut off, and ready to lift.

We notice how at the top of the corner-strut in the picture, the top of the bus came off leaving an irregular shaped tear, in contrast with the level saw-mark at the bottom,

Moving down a bit from that saw-mark, one sees the serial number of the bus, 17758 (on the date, 7/7/05). Well, fancy that.

The bus displays the well-known advert for the horror-movie ‘The Descent,’ which opened on July 8th (!). The film’s promoters (Wikipedia tells us) had to quickly alter the adverts, because: ‘ ”people were still trapped underground in reality, so no one really wanted to go see a film about people trapped underground…” Yes, indeed, it was ‘Outright terror, bold and brilliant,‘ just as the advert stated.

Hasib Hussein wasn’t on that bus.

No Muslim terrorist blew it up.

Whoever blew it up, first sawed the edge of the top deck. We recall the (anonymous) testimony from someone claiming to work for the bus company ‘Stagecoach’ of people tinkering with the bus during the previous weekend:

Last saturday a contractor came to inspect the CCTV on the buses at the depot, according to my supervisor the person spent more than 20 hours over that weekend, 20 hours to see if the CCTV is working? Also that person who came was not a regular contractor, for security reasons the same few people always come to the depot to carry out work, this time it was different … Was the mammoth 20 hour inspection session of the CCTV a means of disabling the CCTV, or something even darker? Were the contractors, who were not familiar to the bus company employees, actually placing the bomb?

The saw-mark would also have been visible on the lifted-off bit of roof, which crashed onto the road in front of the bus. For comparison here is also a picture of the same bus type, so you can see where it was sawn-off prior to the 7/7 explosion. It’s tragic that that roof-top was just destroyed, and not kept for the Inquest, so that everyone could have seen the saw-marks.

An Engineer’s Opinion

I have an old friend who used to work for British Aerospace as an engineer. I showed him the above photos, and he commented as follows.

Of the side-on image showing the dead level tear-line along the top of the bus:  several uprights from between the windows should have remained there, bent outwards from the explosion but still attached. The struts he reckoned were made of aluminium rather than steel. It would be hard to ask the bus-manufacturing company  for comments because it was probably in Italy or somewhere (‘Margaret Thatcher scrapped UK vehicle manufacturing’, trains & buses are all made abroad).

Of the horizontal cut in the strut shown, he said its top and bottom surfaces followed a parallel fracture-line indicating it had been made by a cut not an explosion. Also it was not twisted or stretched, which further indicated a cut by a saw. It would have bulged outwards had it been torn by the explosion, and would not have the matching edges top & bottom.

It had been made by a heavy power-saw not a hand saw, of the kind which the police use quite a lot eg to rescue people trapped in crashed vehichles.  

An independent body of engineers should have been called to assess it, especially the blown-off top section. Sections should have been examined, especially for an accident with a ‘public service vehicle.’ After a crash, industries spend thousands on recovering the parts (eg dredging a plane out of the ocean) and reassembling them in a massive hangar, to check where the fractures occurred. He found it highly suspicious that the police should throw away such crucial evidence without having engineers examine it. Accident engineers are normally the first people allowed on such a crash scene. He estimated a pressure of 25 psi for the roof to lift off, compared with 14 psi normal atmospheric pressure.

The bar curled around the strut looked like a chromium-plated passenger-safety bar. Then, while the two of us were walking along the Euston Road, he pointed out that buses, only some buses, had just such a bar down the left-hand front corner! Oddly enough I had never noticed this before. It was probably for safety so that staff could get up on the roof for cleaning, he surmised. We agreed that the bottom of those chrome ‘handles’ were above where the saw-mark had been made.

Admittedly, that did not quite explain the snake-like shape of the bar in Tavistock Square, but it was a good start…

Taken  to Fort Halstead

The remains of that 30 bus were taken to the British Army’s research establishment at Fort Halstead, Sevenoaks. The Forensic Explosives Laboratory at fort Halstead aims, ‘to identify enemies’ explosives, and to find the means to counter them.’

 It’s a large military site, over a square mile, and maybe the bus is still there.

My source came up to me after I’d given a talk to the Kent Freedom Movement, at Gravesend on 14^th April, 2011. A pal with him who worked for the same delivery company vouched for him. He seemed quite genuine.

Fort Halstead at Sevenoaks (Crow Lane, Badger’s Mount) has long been headquarters of the Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment, it’s where bombs are made. It does forensic analysis into explosives and supposedly analysed the bomb material for both the 7/7 and 21/7 explosions. It employs over 1000 personell. Especially Clifford Todd, who is principal forensic investigator at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Fort Halstead, advised the Inquest about explosives: he earlier seeded the absurd ‘black pepper and peroxide’ bomb story at the 2008 ‘July 7^th’ trial at Kingston.

My source he had visited the site a dozen or so times. He had to show two IDs to gain entrance, his passport and driving licence. An escort about 60 years old ushered him in, for his delivery, and there assured him that the 30 bus from Tavistock Square had been brought here, sometime after July 7^th. He added, ‘they make bombs here.’ My source could see bombs being driven past him, on crates and palettes. All the people there seemed to be either army types, in uniform, or police. He talked to a roofer, who was doing some work on underground bunkers there, where one could only see the roofs of the buildings.

But, allow me to act as devil’s advocate, expressing surprise. Firstly, in his book and in the Alex Jones interview he firmly stated that there were only four other passengers with him on the lower deck of the Number 30 bus which exploded in Tavistock Square. To quote from his self-published book:

‘It was just me, the driver and four females on the lower deck as it edged down towards Tavistock Square.’

But, the Inquest has heard from the driver that there were around a hundred passengers on board that bus as it slowly inched out of Euston Station that morning. Then as the bus stopped on the corner of Upper Woburn Place he allowed around forty of them to disembark. Thus, there were hardly any spare seats when the bus blew up, with 23 passengers plus the driver on the lower deck.

No-one who was really on the bus could possibly think there were only four others around.

Directly opposite Daniel’s seat was seat number 8 (in the Met’s diagram), so they faced each other across the bus. Angela Griffiths was sitting there, and she clearly described to the Inquest the various people around her; for example, after the blast ‘I saw an Asian man near the front of the bus. He said to me, ‘Don’t panic, it’s all over now. Get off the bus’.  (Jan 17 am, 35:4-5). It is surely evident from her testimony, that she didn’t see Daniel. This bus inched along very slowly, so there was plenty of time for its passengers to notice each other, and chat about the strange events of that morning.

Daniel claims to have been slammed onto the floor by the blast, amidst the broken glass, then to have leapt up and sprinted out of the bus – are we to believe that Angela Griffiths would not have remembered and described this startling sight? Daniel is over six feet tall, and black with no hair – you are hardly likely to not forget him.

Then, Ms Griffiths rushed outside, being one of the first to do so, and here again we ought to presume she might notice Daniel, who claimed to be the first person out. She does indeed see a black man: ‘I remember a black man crossing the road towards me and putting his arm around me to comfort me. He had blood on one of his hands. I think he must have been hit by flying debris as he definitely hadn’t been on the bus.’  Now, that could well have been Daniel – his book tells of him comforting a woman with some blood on her, just outside the bus (that’s meant to be how he got some blood on his shirt, shown on his website). 

I’ve elsewhere commented on how most informed people I know incline not to believe Daniel’s testimony.

One part of Daniel’s story did resemble what happened. The bus driver George Psaradakis described how the Euston Road was cordoned off so the the bus had to turn around into Upper Woburn Place:

Bus Driver:  at that moment, they cordoned the Grafton Place, so my bus was in a position where I was blocking the traffic, you know, across Eversholt Street.

Q. So you had then to drive across Euston Road into Upper Woburn Place?
A. Yes, because, you know, a police officer on a motorbike came very angrily asking me to move away because I was blocking his way. So I thought to myself, “I’ll do a right turn and then a left turn into Euston Road, and I will be back line of route”.       (Jan 14th am, 44.23-45:3)

Obachike’s story does feature a police motor bike at that point stopping the bus from proceeding along the Euston Road.

For more about Tavistock Square, see here.

Early Statement

Here is Daniel’s first statement, before his book came out:

Agents and Angels
That morning many good human values immediately came to the fore, amidst evil in one of its purest forms.
I’d hurriedly left the death strewn by the blast in my wake but was befuddled by what I saw ahead of me. I stopped, turned round and was even more dumbfounded by what I saw.
Strangely I found myself drawn back to the scene of the crime and meandering between the angels and agents in Tavistock Square headed back towards the bus.

The angels I refer to were the healthcare professionals and staff that were quickly on hand in such shocking circumstances, trying to do whatever they could despite initially being aghast at the dead pieces of human flesh and bodies littering the square. The agents on the other hand were conspicuous by the way they diligently adhered to their assigned tasks, proceeding busily, workman like almost as if they’d already displayed their grief and horror prior to the explosion.

Apart from the obvious foot soldiers, (the blokes in blue) there were one or two more covert ones that stuck in my mind for differing reasons. Their cover was blown, not because of what they did, but because of what they didn’t do. Faced with such an unprecedented and horrendous event most reactions would come down to fight or flight.
After my own flight and initial rage at all things and persons Transport For London (Bus drivers in particular), I turned to comfort a shocked victim showered with blood who had been walking alongside the bus at the time of the explosion. Those few who did neither were notable.

They stood back, observing the events and activities in its entirety, positioned in the same spot.

The man with the hat was one such individual but his case is particularly intriguing when compared to the plain intelligence officers and foot soldiers I referred to. I was going to make a point of highlighting him in my forthcoming novel: The 4th Bomb, but editorial considerations meant his 15 minutes is surplus to requirement. My editor felt that whilst interesting the section on him ‘acted as a diversion’ to the storyline. The irony is, a part of me thinks that is what he was doing there that morning.

I present compelling evidence that the smartly dressed man in grey was fully aware of what was about to take place and was prepared to be part of the aftermath but got caught out because the bus blew up just a couple of meters into Tavistock Square while he was positioned 60 meters away further down from the blast.

Images show the main force of the blast went backwards and one victim, a woman died because she crossed the road from the square behind the bus at the time of the explosion.

So how can anyone 60 meters ahead of the bus be hurled aside or sustain any kind of physical injuries?

I knew his injuries were improvised, immediately putting 2 and 2 together when I saw his hat lying on the ground next to him. He wore a large bandage around his head and had a tear along one trouser leg that went neatly along the seam. The bandage 60 seconds after the blast. This was way too fast, long before any medical assistance had arrived.

The blood on my own shirt is derived from a woman who was showered with the victim’s blood. She had been walking beside the bus at the time. The grey suited man had no blood on him at whatsoever indicating he was far from the bus.
Even the African traffic warden on the opposite side of the road who the driver called out to said he had a piece of human flesh on his arm. We may never know his true purpose that day.
But what it does do is single him out as someone who had prior knowledge.