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00:00:00The following program contains strong images of real-life injury, and scenes which some viewers may find distressing.
00:00:25I've always thought, you know, I could do more with my life.
00:00:29Life can't just mean staying here in Beeston, you know, get married, have a couple of kiddies, have a little
00:00:35shop and that's it.
00:00:36Life has to mean more than this.
00:00:47Before we went to Pakistan, we were all close.
00:00:51Me, Shahzad Sadiq, and Naseeb.
00:01:11We were going to go to Pakistan, learn, and ultimately you fight if you've got the chance.
00:01:18Britain, America, they're the aggressors.
00:01:23We always wanted to go liberate Afghanistan from foreign occupiers.
00:01:27That was the ultimate aim.
00:01:32But the plan's changed.
00:01:37I love the brothers, but if I believed that what they did was right, do you actually think that I'd
00:01:42be sat here?
00:01:46On 7th of July, I would have been with the brothers and I would have had a rucksack and I
00:01:49would have killed hundreds of people.
00:01:54You couldn't stop them. You could have definitely not have stopped me.
00:02:10There have been a series of terrorist attacks in London.
00:02:16But this is the biggest crime scene in English history.
00:02:21So far, all the evidence, the coordinated explosions, points to Al-Qaeda.
00:02:29How did four young British men end up becoming suicide bombers in their own country?
00:02:34What makes a person do such a thing?
00:03:11It's difficult to really believe what has happened has happened and happened to you.
00:03:20But it happened to you and you've got to cope with it.
00:03:31Take me back to early 2000s. Who were you? What were you doing? What brought you to London?
00:03:39Well, I'd always worked in London. I've mainly worked in the city most of my life.
00:03:45I was working as an insurance broker of Lloyds of London.
00:03:50My hopes was to enjoy my life, quite simply.
00:03:59That morning was just a normal start to the day.
00:04:03The only complication was that my girlfriend and I had fallen out a little bit.
00:04:08Whilst I was leaving for work, it was still playing on her mind and she was a strong character.
00:04:15And just before I closed the front door, she shouted out,
00:04:19Don't die on the way to work.
00:04:22I like to think I followed her instructions to the letter.
00:04:27Good morning and you're watching Sunrise Live on Sky News on Thursday, July the 7th.
00:04:31We're live in Stratford where London is coming to terms with its status as the host city of the 2012
00:04:36Olympic Games.
00:04:37The other big story today, the G8 summit gets underway here at Glen Eagles.
00:04:50I think we have to go on fighting terrorism as long as it takes.
00:04:55But what happened on the 11th of September was of course a brutal and horrific attack on America.
00:05:04But it was a demonstration of what these people are capable of in any part of the world.
00:05:34Before 9-11, Muslims were just a mystery.
00:05:39The only thing people knew about Muslims in the UK was that they don't like Salman Rushdie and something about
00:05:44not eating pork.
00:05:44I mean, that was pretty much it.
00:05:48The feeling is you're tolerated, not accepted.
00:05:51And so I wanted to make things easier, especially for like kids from my background.
00:05:57I was working a lot of social enterprise, not-for-profit charity sector.
00:06:02And I was asked as a volunteer to be like a government advisor.
00:06:05You know, like, what do the youth of today want to do?
00:06:09And so I was on the way from Hackney to Westminster.
00:06:13Missed the train, thought, oh God, I'm going to be late.
00:06:16And five minutes later, train pulls up and that's never happened before.
00:06:19It's always 15 minutes. Oh, my God, I'm so lucky.
00:06:28Part of the joy I always found of travelling the tube was the variety of people.
00:06:34I just love watching them and thinking, what is their life?
00:06:38What are they going to do today?
00:06:40What's involved for them?
00:06:46I had booked the day off and been working extremely hard,
00:06:51being part of the Olympics team, trying to get the Games to London.
00:06:58Lots of people thought London wouldn't win.
00:07:03So I had promised my son, who was three years old at the time,
00:07:06I'll spend a day with him.
00:07:08But we won.
00:07:12The Games in 2012 are awarded to the city of London.
00:07:18The day of the announcement, on the 6th of July,
00:07:21it was pandemonium.
00:07:24Somebody said to me, Thelma, you were jumping so high.
00:07:28It was the biggest achievement in my life to date.
00:07:34On the 7th of July, I decided I had to go into the office and start,
00:07:40start working.
00:07:42Workaholic.
00:07:43I think so, yes.
00:07:48Very good morning.
00:07:49Well, Tony Blair has been meeting George Bush this morning,
00:07:51the first of the bilaterals ahead of a day which we'll see them concentrating
00:07:56mainly on this divisive issue of climate change.
00:08:00Obviously, we've discussed the issue of Iraq and Iran, the broader Middle East and so on,
00:08:06the normal range of issues you'd expect.
00:08:08point of view.
00:08:24I was just a few왕 of the government.
00:08:26The problem for the state is in the state.
00:08:26The central part of the north is directlyож of the frontier in the state.
00:08:26The central part is getting a bit of an unknown,
00:08:27who's between the 11th of years.
00:08:33The comms of the industry was to do well.
00:08:53Usually, like a commuter, you get on your same carriage.
00:08:56And I always used to travel the second carriage.
00:08:59They were all creatures of habit, I guess.
00:09:02So the Circle Line train comes in, and there was a lot of people coming off.
00:09:06And I just changed my mind and walked to the next set of doors at the front of the third
00:09:11carriage.
00:09:26We start out of Liverpool Street Station towards Allgate.
00:09:32I was only going two stops, so I was standing with my hand, grabbing the central rail.
00:09:40Fortunately, the carriage, there wasn't many people on this one.
00:09:45And I just stood holding on with one hand.
00:09:48Everything looked normal.
00:10:12The next thing I know is just a rushing sound across me.
00:10:19I was enveloped in this orange and yellow cloud.
00:10:23And I remember these silver zigzags across my vision.
00:10:29And your mind starts asking the question, what is this?
00:10:35And I asked that question three times with increasing demand and firmness.
00:10:43And then I said to myself, it's a bomb.
00:10:53Just give me a second.
00:10:56It seems so real.
00:10:58But it's which is fine, which is fine.
00:11:00You're reliving it now?
00:11:02Yeah.
00:11:03Which is fine, which is absolutely fine.
00:11:05I've relived it so many times, so it's absolutely fine.
00:11:09But I may have to catch my breath occasionally.
00:11:14So I said to myself, oh, that's not good.
00:11:19The next thing I knew, everything was dark.
00:11:24I thought I'd died.
00:11:30There was no light.
00:11:31There was nothing.
00:11:32I put my hand to my face and I felt the blood.
00:11:36And I remember staring into the darkness like it was physically painful,
00:11:41staring so hard to just see a sign of life.
00:11:45But there was nothing.
00:12:03I felt as if I was lifted off the floor and I was going round and round and round in
00:12:11circles.
00:12:14I could hear people screaming, but it all seemed like a distance.
00:12:22All of a sudden, I opened my eyes and I was on the train tracks.
00:12:31Part of the door was on my right thigh.
00:12:38I could see people screaming on the train.
00:12:45And I could see bodies on the train track.
00:12:51I was in and out of consciousness.
00:12:55And there was a man with his hand on my head.
00:12:58And I took his hand off.
00:12:59I held him for a while, but I then put it back down next to him.
00:13:08I thought of my son and I thought of my mother.
00:13:13And I said, I don't want to die.
00:13:21I had no intentions to do no bombings.
00:13:24And I said, I don't want to die.
00:13:25That's all I can say to you.
00:13:42we used to do arabic classes together in the islamic bookshop
00:13:45forever goes to me i've got a couple of videos videos about brothers who are fighting in
00:13:50chechnya and brothers who are fighting in bosnia as soon as i got the cassettes i went back to
00:13:55my best friend shazad's house here and gone to his bedroom we put on the movies in it
00:14:04we're showing people massacring the muslims mercilessly and the whole world watched
00:14:16but the muslims were fighting back the mujahideen moved from the front line of the alabucha
00:14:21near traveling to the mountains it really brought a sense of brotherhood to a different level you're
00:14:28getting muslims from all around the world arabs pakistanis africans going to a foreign land to
00:14:32help the muslim brothers i couldn't believe it i thought this is beautiful
00:14:39it gave me a focus in life to help my muslim brothers
00:14:43on my bedroom wall i used to have a lot of hip-hop stars like tupac and biggie
00:14:48and then it all rapidly changed i took them all down put kalashnikovs on my bedroom wall loads of them
00:14:56i can remember once i was watching a movie with shazad i go to him you know one of these
00:15:01days
00:15:01brother i'm just going to go you know and then the next day we were coming back from the evening
00:15:06prayer and shazad goes to me you know that thing that we were talking about yesterday yeah
00:15:11i spoke with brother sadiq and sadiq's going to pakistan and he wants to go to a training camp
00:15:16somebody's dropped out so there's a place that you can take
00:15:19sadiq said everything will be sorted there's no problem
00:15:45that's what's caused the bang
00:15:46right as is usual when you have an exploit when you have a train hit the tunnel people have an
00:15:50explosion it is not an explosion
00:16:18so
00:16:19Should we go to the morning?
00:16:21Describe to me what your main responsibilities were that day.
00:16:28On the day, yeah.
00:16:307th of July, we were all at Kings Cross.
00:16:34That was our allocated station for the day.
00:16:39And we were just monitoring people going through.
00:16:46I'd worked my way around the main railway station.
00:16:49I went down one level.
00:16:53Whilst I was there, there was this almighty...
00:16:58I can only sort of say it was like a rump,
00:17:01and the floor shook.
00:17:05I went down onto one platform,
00:17:09looked up the tunnel towards Russell Square.
00:17:13The top third of the tunnel was full of smoke.
00:17:21Two people came down the track out of the tunnel,
00:17:25and they were covered in sort of like greasy residue.
00:17:30As I asked them, where have you come from?
00:17:34Their reply was the train.
00:17:38The train blew up.
00:17:47The tunnel lights had come on.
00:17:49So that's an indication that there's no power to the tracks.
00:17:55I went up the tunnel.
00:17:59And I go into the train.
00:18:04There's a sense of fear from people.
00:18:07They don't know what to do.
00:18:10Mild sense of panic.
00:18:21We've started to get people off the train.
00:18:43I just worked my way through the train,
00:18:46and I come to a point, and I can see that the lights are out.
00:18:53The carriage door, it's a bit bent,
00:18:56and I start to push it as hard as I can.
00:19:01The first thing that I notice as I go into that carriage
00:19:05is the floor is sticky.
00:19:10There's body parts.
00:19:16There's body parts.
00:19:17There's body parts that I can see.
00:19:21I can hear someone asking for help,
00:19:25and it sounds like they're under that train.
00:19:36That's the point where I have to turn around and walk away.
00:19:44My responsibilities as the first officer on scene
00:19:48is to gather as much evidence and information that I can
00:19:54to help the bigger rescue effort.
00:19:59At six minutes past nine, I declared major incident,
00:20:03and it's at that point a senior officer tells me
00:20:07I'm not the only incident.
00:20:10London has been attacked.
00:20:15Something's gone badly wrong down there.
00:20:17Three separate incidents.
00:20:19Free gear.
00:20:21Code round.
00:20:22Code number.
00:20:23Code number the whole network.
00:20:26Code number the whole network.
00:20:27We're going to stop the whole network.
00:20:29All right, do it now.
00:20:30Code number, get them into stage.
00:20:31Yeah.
00:20:31And then stand by.
00:20:32Yeah, that's all we're going to do.
00:20:50We're getting from the PA Newswire that there's been reports of an explosion outside Liverpool Street Station.
00:20:58That, of course, in the east end of London.
00:21:01Another incident, London Underground is telling us at Edgeware Road, and that, of course, is in northwest London.
00:21:07Now, in response to that breaking news, St Pancras has been evacuated, probably just as a precaution.
00:21:12There's speculation only at the moment of what caused that, but police stressing that it probably was a power failure
00:21:19or a collision between two trains.
00:21:24Right.
00:21:25We have six smokes coming from these tunnels.
00:21:27We have customers on the track.
00:21:29Will you please get as many ambulances as you can here?
00:21:32Right.
00:21:32We have serious injuries.
00:21:34I'll come back to everybody.
00:21:34We need ambulances and water to King's Cross.
00:21:37And Russell Square.
00:21:39We're going to have it as a major incident, so we'll get ambulances to you wherever I can.
00:21:43We've had desperate scouts from both ends at Aldgate and Geroen.
00:21:48Yeah.
00:21:48And they're still desperately waiting for emergency service.
00:21:51They're mostly documented and declared they're on their way down there.
00:21:59We were sitting there for ages, waiting to be rescued.
00:22:08People were catatonic.
00:22:10They were just staring into the distance, silent.
00:22:18I was bleeding out.
00:22:20I thought I was going to die any minute.
00:22:23But I just determined that I was going to die above ground.
00:22:27I just wanted to see the light of day again.
00:22:37The lights in our carriage went out.
00:22:40The carriage in front of us started filling with smoke.
00:22:43Someone opened the carriage door and said,
00:22:44Please, can you move down?
00:22:45Because we can't breathe in here.
00:22:47And then you start hearing the screams.
00:22:49At the time, we assumed that it was claustrophobic, folks.
00:22:53This is a very serious incident happening here.
00:22:57We need your cooperation.
00:22:59We're doing our best.
00:23:00We now need your help.
00:23:01We were stuck there for about 45 minutes.
00:23:03And then the first responders came.
00:23:05And so they beckoned us all to walk to the back of the train.
00:23:09Every now and again, someone would be screaming,
00:23:12Move out of the way so everyone would jump on the seats.
00:23:14And you'd see someone covered in blood.
00:23:16And that's when it was like,
00:23:18OK, what's happened?
00:23:19It doesn't make, you know...
00:23:21There must have been a fire or something must have, you know, happened.
00:23:24You just don't know.
00:23:25There must have been a fire.
00:23:28There must have been a fire.
00:23:30There must have been a fire.
00:23:31There must have been a fire.
00:23:31We stepped down onto the track.
00:23:34I stopped and looked into the second carriage from the distance.
00:23:41There was a very clear crater just a few feet away of where the bomb must have been.
00:23:50I realised if I hadn't changed my mind and got onto the third carriage,
00:23:56Yeah, I wouldn't be here.
00:23:59Getting a report from Reuters.
00:24:01What they're describing is a major incident on London Underground.
00:24:05People are streaming out of Oldgate tube station, covered in blood.
00:24:10Thank you, gentlemen!
00:24:11Move back!
00:24:13I was fired from Michael!
00:24:15Angel! Angel! Move back!
00:24:17People have been coming out great-facing.
00:24:23There's a jet to the net of Sarbunensburg.
00:24:25The background, please.
00:24:39I was lying there and I thought,
00:24:42if there's a disaster, they try to save people who are alive first.
00:24:47And I thought, if I continue lying there, they might think I was dead.
00:24:51I tried to wriggle my way to sort of get up.
00:24:57And I could see that my left foot was twisted backwards.
00:25:05And I kept saying, help me, help me, I'm alive.
00:25:09And then they came towards me and I was placed on a stretcher.
00:25:16I felt lucky.
00:25:19But then I was thinking of the other people who were lying on the train tracks.
00:25:25In particular, the man whose hand was on my head.
00:25:30I was so focused on helping myself that I didn't help him.
00:25:36And as a Christian, I thought that was selfishness.
00:25:45I was taken to the Royal London Hospital.
00:25:49And they took me upstairs to a ward.
00:25:52I just blacked out.
00:26:03And they were trying to take everyone's details down.
00:26:06Like, it was a panic.
00:26:09And so they said, so what's your name?
00:26:11And I said, Mustafa.
00:26:12He was like, right.
00:26:13Can we search your bag?
00:26:15And then after that, the police said, you can leave.
00:26:19And I just sat down and I just couldn't, I couldn't move.
00:26:24I started shivering again.
00:26:25I was like, are you kind of shocked?
00:26:29And then the police called us back from the coordinates
00:26:32because they could see that we weren't going anywhere.
00:26:35And they said, all right, we're taking you to the hospital
00:26:36because you clearly, there's something wrong.
00:26:39And then they asked me again, so what's your name?
00:26:42I said, Mustafa.
00:26:43Okay, mate.
00:26:43So then they searched my bag again.
00:26:45And I was just like, yeah, just take it.
00:26:47Go, enjoy yourselves.
00:26:50Because you know how it is.
00:26:53It is what it is.
00:27:08We were evacuated across the road to Allgate bus station
00:27:13as the walking wounded.
00:27:17People are trying to take it all in.
00:27:19And has this really happened?
00:27:23The only way I could really see my injuries
00:27:25was to use my phone to take pictures of myself.
00:27:31I remember speaking to my girlfriend on the phone.
00:27:35And she was telling me it wasn't a bomb,
00:27:39it was power surges.
00:27:41Because that's what the news was saying.
00:27:44I think I very angrily said, no, it's a bomb.
00:27:54We flew from Manchester airport into Van Islamabad.
00:27:59The same day, we went to Mancera.
00:28:02That's where the camp is.
00:28:17We were going to Kashmir.
00:28:18We were going to Kashmir.
00:28:18So eventually if we wanted to fight, we would have gone and fought against the Indian occupation.
00:28:24In Kashmir, the Muslims are getting massacred by the Hindu soldiers.
00:28:31Pakistan's claim that this predominantly Muslim territory should have been ceded to Pakistan, not India, at the time of partition
00:28:40in 1947.
00:28:42Pakistan denies there are training camps, but even the militant supporters agree they exist.
00:28:54I know when we go into the training camps and everything, in the eyes of this country, it might be
00:28:59classed as something that's wrong.
00:29:00But jihad and terrorism is worlds apart.
00:29:03People have to understand, you know, like it's different.
00:29:10I believe jihad is an obligation upon every male Muslim to help our Muslim brothers.
00:29:16In Islam, to protect your Muslim brothers is regarded as something good.
00:29:29Rather than a power outage, as we're being told from London Transport,
00:29:33if there are people covered in blood at limbs in the carriage as a consequence of this,
00:29:38that would seem to imply a major explosion.
00:29:48I was driving down the M1 to my way into work,
00:29:52and I heard the first radio reports of incidents in the underground.
00:29:58I knew that one of them was in Edgeway Road,
00:30:01so I made the decision to stop there and just see for myself what was going on.
00:30:06And it was apparent that this was something quite different to anything that we'd had to deal with in London
00:30:15before.
00:30:19The events of the 11th of September 2001 changed everyone's perception about what a terrorist attack could look like.
00:30:31Is your mind thinking, where's the fourth, where's the fifth?
00:30:34Yes. Where's the fifth? Where's the sixth?
00:30:37Are there going to be some in Birmingham, Manchester?
00:30:41I'm just standing on the street corner now.
00:30:43I look to my right and my left.
00:30:45I can see a couple of hundred people all working out where they're going to go
00:30:49and how they're going to get to where they need to be.
00:30:52From my perspective, there is still this sense of what else might be about to happen.
00:31:10One minute minding your own business, bang, and we thought we were on fire.
00:31:14The smell, the smoke, you couldn't breathe, you couldn't see anything. It was horrible.
00:31:18I just wanted to get out.
00:31:19There was people screaming and there was people lying everywhere, covered in blood and bodies lying everywhere.
00:31:26Saw some limbs. Everyone was choking, thinking they were going to die.
00:31:31All hell's broken, Lewis.
00:31:33We've had three explosions.
00:31:36The inspector sitting behind me just turned around to me.
00:31:38She says, Neville, make your way down to Wood Street Police Station as fast as you can.
00:31:52We were approaching the traffic ledge at the junction of Tavistock Place and Upper Woburn Place.
00:31:58The number 30 bus going to Hackney Wick and diverted down Tavistock Place was coming towards us.
00:32:06I think it drew level with the building I know very well, which is the British Medical Association building.
00:32:12We were about 120 yards from the bus.
00:32:36There was a very crisp, loud explosion, human parts, a torso, a lot of debris coming out.
00:32:45There's only one thing I can do that, and that's a bomb.
00:32:50We can see people standing on the top deck.
00:32:55The priority is getting those that we can off the bus.
00:33:06There were injured people in there who were trapped.
00:33:10And looking up, yeah, you could see up there as well, it was an absolute tangle mess of metal and
00:33:17individuals who were injured.
00:33:29Ladies and gents, please listen to me very carefully.
00:33:32I need you to move this way please. As quick as you can. Okay?As quick as you can.
00:33:37It's the police, not everyone.
00:33:54Any conjecture about what was going on beneath Brown
00:33:57couldn't have been answered in a more devastating way.
00:34:03It certainly bore the hallmarks of being an Alki-type-inspired attack.
00:34:11But we had to establish exactly what had taken place,
00:34:15who was responsible in bringing them to justice.
00:34:19The Metropolitan Police Service has all of its anti-terrorist units here
00:34:23and we are beginning a meticulous investigation.
00:34:28That's all I'm going to say at the moment.
00:34:29There's some suggestion it could have been a suicide bomber.
00:34:32There's no reason to suggest that, there's no reason to deny that.
00:34:35It's just, you know, there is not enough information at this stage
00:34:38to make that a fact.
00:34:41We knew nothing and so you're operating in a vacuum of accurate information.
00:34:47The feeling was that the key lay within the forensic examination of the scenes.
00:34:58It's surprising what survives an explosion.
00:35:04There's always something that leads back to identify who the actual bomber was.
00:35:14I was dealing with the Tavistock Square bus.
00:35:19My focus is on the device itself, on the physics and the chemistry.
00:35:26What caused this to happen?
00:35:29I'm looking for plastic fragments from a lunchbox or fragments from a rucksack.
00:35:46It was not straightforward.
00:35:53We found fragments which appeared to originate from the rucksack that the device had been carried in.
00:36:01There were fragments of a battery, there were some wires, but there was no switch or the initiator to an
00:36:11explosive device.
00:36:12There was nothing like that.
00:36:14That was strange.
00:36:26When we were doing the examinations on the roof of the bus, there was a very apparent hole where a
00:36:32body had gone through.
00:36:35And there was one body that had been thrown out of the bus.
00:36:40It hit the side of the British Medical Association building and was lying on the pavement.
00:36:47Whoever it was had been very, very close to the bomb.
00:36:54The simplicity of the device and the lack of more complex components pointed to the individuals being the switches.
00:37:05Simply attaching the battery to the device, they initiated the explosion.
00:37:12We realised it was a suicide bomb.
00:37:27I wanted to help my Muslim brothers and I wanted to help liberate Muslim land.
00:37:33That's what I saw with my goal in life.
00:37:36There's about a hundred, two hundred brothers.
00:37:39The brothers used to give us lessons in how to use a Kalashnikov.
00:37:42A dismantle of Kalashnikov.
00:37:44RPG, just basic weaponry.
00:37:47We go to shoot loads.
00:37:58It's a proper beautiful scenery because you're proper high up and the mountain that we stayed on was very, very
00:38:03high.
00:38:04And you can see all of Kashmir.
00:38:05It's absolutely breathtaking.
00:38:08Me and Sadiq used to love it.
00:38:12But as soon as we come back from Pakistan, boom, boom, watching our planes going down, 9-11.
00:38:239-11 was a big shock.
00:38:25The use of suicide operation is strictly forbidden in Islam.
00:38:29If you kill innocent people, it's like killing all of mankind.
00:38:33But Sadiq would explain to me why he thinks it's a good idea.
00:38:38He'd say it's good because of this and that.
00:38:41He'd give some, like, evidences from history and everything.
00:38:44And I couldn't really understand him, yeah?
00:38:47Sadiq's very...
00:38:48He's one of them people, you know...
00:38:50It's his way or the highway.
00:38:52Like, if he said something, he meant it.
00:38:57If you're just tuning our way, it is coming up to a quarter to midday.
00:39:01On the day, it appears, the capital has come under attack.
00:39:04A group calling itself the secret organisation Al-Qaeda in Europe
00:39:09has posted, apparently, a claim of responsibility for the blast in London.
00:39:13The group claimed the explosions were in retaliation for Britain's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
00:39:19Of course, that is not confirmed.
00:39:20We condemn utterly these barbaric attacks.
00:39:25We are united in our resolve to confront and defeat this terrorism
00:39:33that is not an attack on one nation, but on all nations and on civilised people everywhere.
00:39:41We send our profound condolences to the victims and their families.
00:39:56I've been in an off-site meeting in a hotel.
00:40:00There were some tellies and news feeds and we saw what was happening in London.
00:40:03Passengers on trains and stations...
00:40:06I said to somebody,
00:40:07''Oh, my son's gone down to London today.''
00:40:09And she said to me, ''Are you worried?''
00:40:12And I said, ''No.''
00:40:14David had just started a contract of working for somebody.
00:40:18He had to go to London for some meetings.
00:40:22The chances of winning the lottery are one in 13 million, I think it is.
00:40:27The chances of a lad from Oldham going to London on his own,
00:40:30the first time he gets on the tube, being caught up in this,
00:40:33are infinitesimally, incalculably small.
00:40:36So, no, I'm not worried.
00:40:37It was mayhem and then the driver came out of the carriage,
00:40:41which was quite scary because he shone a red light and a wheel force.
00:40:44I just thought, well, I thought I was dead.
00:40:47A woman clearly in deep shock after what she has experienced.
00:40:5212.40, I switched my phone on.
00:40:55And the very first message said,
00:40:58''Oh, just to tell you, Graham, that David didn't arrive for his meeting.''
00:41:01I phoned the police.
00:41:03And I remember he was on the circle line.
00:41:06I think he's probably just forgotten to get off at the right stop
00:41:09and he's going round and round on the tube,
00:41:10hoping to find somewhere to get off.
00:41:13So I ignored that message, frankly.
00:41:17I phoned my wife, Janet,
00:41:19and she said, ''Yes, I've just seen it as well.''
00:41:22We'd been trying to phone him, of course,
00:41:24but we couldn't get through to him
00:41:26or even leave a message so that he could call us back.
00:41:29We were just trying to keep calm,
00:41:31thinking, ''No, this is something that happens to other people.
00:41:34It's not something that happens to us.
00:41:36No, no, we're sound. We're OK. We're OK.''
00:41:39Put the telly on.
00:41:41And, of course, we're northern, so we had a cup of tea.
00:41:43And we watched the news feed.
00:41:45But I think it's worth emphasising that whoever has done this,
00:41:49a group or individuals, are clearly not known
00:41:52because the assumption must be that all of those
00:41:54who've been watched by the security service
00:41:57were under surveillance yesterday and this morning.
00:42:01So they must be looking at individuals or a group
00:42:04that they weren't aware of.
00:42:10Negative thoughts were going round and round in my head.
00:42:15My son, Hassib, was missing in the city.
00:42:20I do not remember how many times I called him,
00:42:24but there was no answer.
00:42:36My wife watched the news with me.
00:42:39I cannot describe what was going on through our minds.
00:42:43The only thing we knew was that
00:42:45Hassib went to London with his friends sightseeing.
00:42:57The police had no idea about Hassib's whereabouts
00:43:00but wrote down his details,
00:43:03his height, weight, and so on.
00:43:07I felt powerless.
00:43:11But I was praying for him.
00:43:13I feared the worst.
00:43:35Tens of thousands tramping home tonight
00:43:38on foot across the capital.
00:43:39The underground system shut down.
00:43:42Liverpool Street, King's Cross and Edgeware,
00:43:44tube stations are crime scenes
00:43:46and will be shut for the foreseeable future.
00:43:49There are no buses, there are no taxis.
00:43:56I was still trying to process what happened on that train
00:43:59in the dark underground
00:44:01and who could do such a horrible thing.
00:44:06They had gave me an eye patch
00:44:08and I was discharged from the hospital.
00:44:12As we walk outside,
00:44:14I'm conscious that people are taking pictures of me.
00:44:18And then I'm stopped by some reporters.
00:44:21I thought I wasn't going to get out of this.
00:44:23Whatever it was, I didn't know.
00:44:25I just thought that was it when it went all so dark.
00:44:28You could hear the screaming coming from the carriage
00:44:30just in front of us who took the full blast.
00:44:32Quite frankly, I'd lost track of how many interviews I'd given.
00:44:35But I was aware that this transport system was down
00:44:38and I was thinking of how I'm going to get home to West London.
00:44:43And two producers said to me,
00:44:45we can give you a lift home.
00:44:48And they said they'd been filming at the East London Mosque,
00:44:51which is right next to the hospital.
00:44:53And their car was there.
00:44:57At which point we were joined by two young boys.
00:45:00I love the news.
00:45:02Yeah.
00:45:02All channels.
00:45:03One to five, don't you?
00:45:05You're lucky.
00:45:06I'm a very lucky man.
00:45:07Yeah, you're lucky.
00:45:08It's right, Josh.
00:45:09How long were you there for?
00:45:11About 25 minutes.
00:45:13Did you have to walk through the tunnel?
00:45:14Yeah, we walked through the tunnel and came up to Allgate.
00:45:19I'm working somewhere around here.
00:45:21When we got to the Mosque, they said they've invited you in for tea.
00:45:25And I thought that's a good idea.
00:45:27Let's go in.
00:45:29Can I offer you a cup of tea?
00:45:31I have one brewing, actually.
00:45:33Thank you very much.
00:45:35And then when I turned around,
00:45:36there was a line of young men, late teens, early 20s.
00:45:39And they all shook my hand and said how sorry they were.
00:45:44How are you feeling the train when you were bummed?
00:45:47I didn't feel the pain, the physical pain,
00:45:50to start with.
00:45:51I just remember being turned, twisted,
00:45:54not knowing what was happening and pushed down onto the ground.
00:45:56There was just so much glass.
00:45:59I was surprised there's loads still in the pocket.
00:46:06I can't believe I got a handful of glass
00:46:09out in front of those children at the mosque.
00:46:12But I was pulling out my skull for years after
00:46:15to work more out.
00:46:23You hope that it's not Muslims responsible for it.
00:46:26You hope.
00:46:27Because you know what's coming next.
00:46:30You know you're going to be blamed for it.
00:46:359-11 changed everything.
00:46:38A target was on us after that.
00:46:39Like I know so many instances of friends
00:46:42will be like working in the supermarket
00:46:43and people go up to them and you should be ashamed
00:46:45of yourself or what happened.
00:46:47Like how do we have any connection to like
00:46:48what happens on 9-11?
00:46:51Society looks at communities as these homogenous groups,
00:46:54right, the Muslim community.
00:46:56But what a Macedonian goes through
00:46:58is different from what someone from Afghanistan goes through.
00:47:00Just by nature of politics
00:47:02or like folks in Chechnya,
00:47:05do you know what I mean?
00:47:05It's so, so different.
00:47:07But you know,
00:47:09it's easier to just say they're Muslims.
00:47:14Around about lunchtime,
00:47:15we got home from the hospital
00:47:16and because I'd spoken to some journalists,
00:47:18my number was being passed around
00:47:20by a lot of newspapers.
00:47:21And so I was getting constantly called.
00:47:23A voice mail received at 13.
00:47:26So I'd be on the phone with one journalist
00:47:28and in that time I'd get 15 missed voice calls.
00:47:32Hi there, my name's Mike from Time magazine.
00:47:44This goes on for 12 minutes.
00:47:50It's like a young Muslim
00:47:52who's willing to talk about it.
00:47:53The demographic is more likely to be radicalised.
00:47:57Why didn't it happen to you?
00:47:58Why is it happening?
00:47:59Are you like that as well?
00:48:01Are you the Trojan horse?
00:48:03You know, it's just the same crap
00:48:04over and over again.
00:48:06Why are you talking today?
00:48:09There is kind of a religious obligation
00:48:11that I have to be here.
00:48:13Like there is,
00:48:14in Islam,
00:48:15you have to speak out against the tyrant.
00:48:18The tyrant is the terrorist
00:48:19who claims to represent Islam.
00:48:21The tyrant is the politician
00:48:23who wants to label all Muslims as one.
00:48:25The tyrant is the journalist
00:48:26who wants me to apologise
00:48:28for someone else's crime.
00:48:30The tyrant is the one who tells the lies.
00:48:32The one who's actually killing the people.
00:48:35That's the tyrant.
00:48:36And I have to speak truth.
00:48:39Otherwise I'm held accountable for nothing.
00:49:02At the end of the day,
00:49:04I had to be forensically stripped.
00:49:07So all my clothing was taken off me.
00:49:12I had to go home in a paper suit.
00:49:22It's difficult to see such injury and carnage
00:49:32knowing you've got to walk away from it.
00:49:41It's hard to tell people
00:49:43unless you've been there.
00:49:50I've never walked away from anybody
00:49:52who needed help.
00:49:54But on that day,
00:49:55I had to.
00:50:01I had to.
00:50:02I had to walk away.
00:50:04Otherwise more would have died.
00:50:06And that would have been more people
00:50:10perhaps that I would have had on my conscience.
00:50:18So...
00:50:30I had to.
00:50:47How I was treated in the mosque was really uplifting to just know that people, it's not
00:50:55their fault. There's always been extremists, there's always been people who don't represent
00:51:00a particular thing, they don't represent the main body of people who are decent people.
00:51:09We live in a world where people take a minimum of information and suddenly they've formed
00:51:15a very strong opinion without understanding the psychology, why people do things, why
00:51:23they're caught up. And most people aren't evil. That's just the
00:51:30construct we make. And those people I like to think are good.
00:51:39Compared to what I've seen, it's not bad, I can assure you. Okay, yeah, we'll see you
00:51:43there then. Okay. Bye.
00:51:48But it wasn't lost on me that people wouldn't be making that journey home to their loved
00:51:53ones.
00:52:17President George Bush said that America would back Britain every inch of the way and would
00:52:23be right behind Britain hunting down and trying to capture the people responsible for today's
00:52:30attacks.
00:52:30I appreciate Prime Minister Blair's determination. The war on terror goes on.
00:52:39The war on terror goes on. As we watched the news, the fear was starting to win the battle
00:52:43against staying calm and staying insensible. There was a phone number, an emergency phone
00:52:51line that kept coming up on the screen. So we phoned them. They simply said name, age, and
00:53:01here's a reference number. I think the very first reference number they gave us was N353.
00:53:09We didn't go to bed that night. We just watched telly constantly. And we were phoning this emergency
00:53:13number and phoning and phoning. And you just went through to a different person who just
00:53:18gave you a different reference number. So we ended up with dozens of different reference
00:53:22numbers.
00:53:24Today's outrage unfolded on another ordinary morning as millions traveled to work or school.
00:53:30It happened over the course of 56 minutes.
00:53:33There was no warning given, though there's growing speculation that Al Qaeda was responsible.
00:53:38The Queen has offered her sympathy to all those affected.
00:53:41At this point, we know that there are more than 50 fatalities.
00:53:46There were 700 casualties. And as far as we know, 22 are in serious and critical conditions
00:53:54in hospital.
00:53:57We saw on the news that a significant number of people who were in intensive care are unconscious
00:54:02and who had yet to be identified. So that gave us some hope. We were hanging on to the theory
00:54:11that, well, there's a saying, isn't there, that no news is good news. And that was our
00:54:17glimmer of hope, that one of these unconscious, unidentified people was David.
00:54:35Good morning. Thanks for joining us. It is nearly 24 hours since a series of bombs
00:54:40were set off on London's public transport system.
00:54:44The motivation for the attacks isn't yet clear, but Tony Blair blamed terrorists acting in
00:54:49the name of Islam.
00:54:59Many years ago, family liaison officers were known as the Fluffy Bunny Brigade. Tea and sympathy,
00:55:08you know, pat on the back kind of thing.
00:55:12We were assigned to deal with people who were involved in tragedies, usually deaths. Families
00:55:20are multifaceted. You don't know what you're going into. And yes, you're dealing with grief
00:55:25and people react very differently to grief. You have to expect the unexpected.
00:55:43I was informed that a youth from Beeston was reported missing. Haseeb Hussain. He was 18 years old.
00:55:55He'd gone down to London with some friends and they couldn't get in touch with him.
00:56:05It's a white area. Nothing's changed here, really, has it?
00:56:11It looks exactly the same as it did 20 years ago.
00:56:25I have sort of butterflies in my tummy and I feel a bit nauseous, but I guess it's just
00:56:30a feeling of revisiting a bad time in your past, isn't it?
00:56:41I was met by Mr Hussain at the door. His other son was in. His wife was out.
00:56:49It was a very nice, neat house. The news was on television.
00:56:55So it was probably within 10 feet of where the blast was.
00:56:58Mr Hussain was concerned, anxious. He told me that his son, Haseeb, had gone to London on Wednesday
00:57:07with some friends. He didn't know anything about where, when, why, or what he was doing down there.
00:57:15I asked if I could have a photograph of him, which he gave me.
00:57:21Mr Hussain said to me he had gone round the mosques looking for Haseeb.
00:57:27And what he did discover was that one of the friends he'd gone with was also missing.
00:57:34Somebody called Shazad Tanvir. And Mr Hussain didn't know this was a friend of his son's.
00:57:45The liaison officer came to see us. She asked about Haseeb's religion.
00:57:51I told the liaison officer, Haseeb was an ordinary Muslim boy, a son whom we were all proud.
00:58:00Before she left, it felt like she had made certain assumptions.
00:58:06I thought they'd found Haseeb guilty of something. I did not like it at all.
00:58:16It was apparent to me that Haseeb's father didn't know much about his outside activities,
00:58:20where he went, who he saw, what circles he mixed in. But his other son never said much.
00:58:29I felt he had something to say but couldn't say it in front of his father.
00:58:34I just felt something in my bones.
00:58:39And said goodbyes and left.
00:58:48The morning rush hour in London saw large numbers of people heading into work.
00:58:55Many found their usual routes were barred.
00:58:58Even as they tried to carry on as normal, it was of course obvious this was no ordinary day.
00:59:09Although we know that the four bombers are dead,
00:59:13we had to be absolutely certain that they weren't part of a larger network that were going to carry out
00:59:20another attack.
00:59:24And the 8th of July, the first major breakthrough.
00:59:31Identity documents of an individual is found at two different bomb scenes.
00:59:38So you start putting together a picture that here's one of the individuals who may have been involved.
00:59:46Mohammed Sadiq Khan.
00:59:58After his daughter was born, Sid invited all the brothers to come to his house.
01:00:05We've got your uncles in the room.
01:00:07So I'll go and introduce you to them shortly.
01:00:17He would regard us as uncles to his daughter.
01:00:19I'm sorry. He's my boyfriend.
01:00:23That's me.
01:00:28Is he a brother?
01:00:30Sadiq seems to have made friends with him.
01:00:32There's Mr Palwan.
01:00:34Two years old.
01:00:39There's Mr Pius that ate everything.
01:00:42We were calling Shazad Pius.
01:00:44He never used to like it.
01:00:50He was really religious from even a young age.
01:00:52From about 14, 15, he started growing his beard and everything.
01:00:56You're finally chilling out with your chats.
01:00:59We don't want that in.
01:01:05We used to chat about 9-11.
01:01:08What the Americans did is equally as wrong.
01:01:10They went and indiscriminately bombed everything that moved.
01:01:13Every nation now has a decision to make.
01:01:17Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.
01:01:29American and the coalition forces, they went and invaded.
01:01:32It was like a snowball effect from Kashmir to Afghanistan.
01:01:38Me and the brothers, our ultimate aim was the same.
01:01:41Fighting against occupation.
01:01:47BELL RINGS
01:01:542004 was a completely different ball game.
01:01:58The plan seemed to have changed.
01:02:02Sadiq goes, me and Shazad, we're gonna go back to England
01:02:06and we're gonna go do something.
01:02:08A couple of things for the brothers.
01:02:10He said, keep away, bro.
01:02:20I did feel really left out and sad.
01:02:24But I thought, whatever they wanna do, let them do, innit?
01:02:35I have to do this thing for our future.
01:02:40I got a phone call and then the world sort of exploded.
01:02:46Armed officers surround a house preparing for a raid.
01:02:49I just couldn't believe what I'd walked into.
01:02:52I was like, right, we really need to get out of here right now.
01:02:56I just feel that something's gone totally wrong for that guy to have been involved.
01:03:00Because he was a really nice guy.
01:03:02We are at war and I am a soldier.
01:03:05Now you too will test the reality of this situation.
01:03:07You really take us all the time.
01:03:09I am.
01:03:20You too.
01:03:26I am.
01:03:33I am.
01:03:37I am.
01:03:37I am.
01:03:37I am.
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