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Colin Rosenstiel · July 12th 05, 12:46 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Ed Lake)
wrote:

Paul Weaver wrote:
OK, assuming that he got on/off the train without riding, laving a
parcel there, and not raising any suspiscion and nobody noticed it
that got off at a later stop and mentioned it to the police/media...

The bombs were timed, they exploded simultaneously. That means whoever
planted the piccadilly line one left the train seconds before the bomb
went off. That's cutting it *very* close. What if the train has been a
couple of minutes later - the bomb would have gone off in the guys
hand.

The bomb on the Picadilly Line went off after it left King's Cross.
Wasn't it somewhere near Russell Square when it went off?

250 metres from King's Cross according to the BBC. The timing was close, I
agree.

If there had been any danger, he could have just inactivated the bomb.
I don't see him running around King's Cross with bombs he has no way to
inactivate.

As David Wilcox points out in this thread, there are places on the cars
for leaving things. And as I've pointed out elsewhere, what you have
to do is push your way aboard the train while it is still unloading to
make certain you get a seat, put the bomb under the seat or wherever is
best, and then leave the car with the last of the exiting passengers.

Someone else has said that during rush hour you're lucky if you can see
your own feet, much less what is under some seat.

The guy had this well planned out. It probably practiced it (without
actually leaving anything behind).

My main point is: Everyone seems to be thinking in terms of a group of
terrorists. Sorting out and investigating suspicious individuals on
surveillance tapes from DOZENS of underground stations could take
MONTHS. But, IF it was a LONE terrorist, that means there is a very
UNIQUE way to find him on the surveillance tapes. It can be done in
hours!

In the anthrax investigation back in 2001, there were two instances
where the authorities first made one false assumption, and when that
didn't prove true they made another false assumption, and when that
didn't prove true they GAVE UP. In the London attacks they're all
assuming that it was a group of terrorists. That may be a FALSE
assumption and they could be missing a very quick way to get a good
description of the guy off of surveillance tapes.

We shall no doubt hear more in the coming days and weeks.

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Colin Rosenstiel