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7 7 Homegrown Terror - Season 1 - Episode 03
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00:00:00The following programme contains distressing scenes.
00:00:21It was at this Berlin police station
00:00:25that German police stumbled on al-Qaeda's crown jewels.
00:00:32Hidden inside a pornographic video,
00:00:35buried on tiny data chips like this,
00:00:38hidden in the underwear of an al-Qaeda suspect,
00:00:41141 heavily encrypted documents.
00:00:46Written by the man responsible for the London subway attacks
00:00:51July 7th, 2005.
00:00:53A British Pakistani.
00:00:57Rashid Ralph.
00:01:27The encuentre had a profound effect on the brothers' family.
00:01:32In just a few days, Haji persuaded them to conduct a suicide bombing in the UK.
00:01:46We discussed the targets they should concentrate on.
00:01:52The Bank of England, the G8 Summit in Scotland, or the London Underground.
00:02:03The choice was theirs.
00:02:15There have been a series of terrorist attacks in London.
00:02:20But this is the biggest crime scene in English history.
00:02:26So far all the evidence, the coordinated explosions, points to Al-Qaeda.
00:02:34How did four young British men end up becoming suicide bombers in their own country?
00:02:40What makes a person do such a thing?
00:02:56In the past few minutes, a crane has begun lifting one of the wrecked underground trains involved in the London
00:03:01bombings.
00:03:01The carriage has been winched out of a tunnel leading to Edgware Road Station.
00:03:05It will be moved by lorry to a police compound for further forensic examination.
00:03:10Within terrorist organisations, the bomb maker is a skilled, technical and prized individual.
00:03:20They are protected.
00:03:25The people that go out and put the devices down are disposable.
00:03:35In the days after 7-7, materials and evidence was constantly being relayed down to the laboratory.
00:03:46We keep a database of components used in improvised explosive devices.
00:03:54The information has been collected over decades, not only from mainland UK, but from Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq.
00:04:06Essentially, each device carried almost a fingerprint.
00:04:13That helps us to identify different terrorist groups.
00:04:21But with 7-7, it was very obvious we were dealing with hydrogen peroxide explosives that we'd never seen before.
00:04:32You do start to wonder who's been teaching these people to make devices like this.
00:04:39Where have they learned this?
00:04:47While taking the explosives course, the 7-7 brothers' bomb teacher was impressed and considered them good students.
00:05:09After testing the hydrogen peroxide mixture, both Sadiq and Shahzad were very happy.
00:05:20Before heading back to Britain, we agreed code words for communication.
00:05:27We would use Yahoo Messenger, changing emails every few weeks.
00:05:33Once back in the UK, I instructed them to do nothing, in case MI5 was suspicious about their trip to
00:05:39Pakistan.
00:05:41But after three weeks, they could start buying the bomb components, as they were ready for martyrdom operations.
00:06:04I see myself as a survivor of 7-7, not as a victim.
00:06:13I'd been in a coma for two weeks, and then I woke up.
00:06:21My husband, Steven, when he saw me, he said, thank God you were alive.
00:06:26That was his first reaction, thank God you were alive.
00:06:35I was in ICU, and I was very disorientated.
00:06:43The consultant sat prickly in my right foot.
00:06:47I had feelings on my right, but they were not asking me about my left.
00:06:54And they said to me they did their best to save my left foot, but unfortunately they had to amputate.
00:07:03And I said, will I be able to walk again?
00:07:06They said, it's highly unlikely.
00:07:10It was quite frightening, because I still don't fully understand what happened, why I was here in the hospital.
00:07:18There was an assumption that I knew.
00:07:21Oh, you didn't?
00:07:22No, I didn't.
00:07:24Until I switched the television on.
00:07:28The suicide bombers of 7 July were not Pakistanis.
00:07:32It is true that three were of Pakistani origin, and at least two had travelled to Pakistan on a number
00:07:38of occasions.
00:07:40But all four were British.
00:07:44That's when I realised it was a bomb.
00:07:49Muslims here describe their agony that un-Islamic acts were being done in the name of Islam.
00:07:54British Muslims have got a choice.
00:07:56Either you confront the evil, or you condone it.
00:07:59There are no other options, there's no in-between, and it's as simple as that.
00:08:02And the overwhelming majority are going for the former.
00:08:05I've heard one Imam after another, one leader after another condemn it.
00:08:09No ifs, no buts.
00:08:10This is murder.
00:08:14As I was lying there with life-changing injuries, I was thinking, what makes a person do such an awful,
00:08:25awful thing?
00:08:30I was looking into their eyes to see if there's something I could see.
00:08:35But, you know, they just look like normal, ordinary people like you and me.
00:08:42Which is probably one of the reasons why I didn't notice the bomber next to me.
00:09:02Still no sign of enough rain to make a difference about the water shortage in south-east England.
00:09:07If anything, this week is going to get sunnier and warmer.
00:09:10Tomorrow...
00:09:11You are making your way onto the Metropolitan Line.
00:09:13Of course, from the attacks a couple of weeks ago, there's no service, Moorgate to Orlgate.
00:09:17No service on the Picardilly Line between arms or over.
00:09:20Hi, Greg. Are the terrorists winning?
00:09:21Definitely not.
00:09:23This afternoon, I'm getting the tube to meet friends.
00:09:27We're going to have a few drinks, so I'm looking forward to it immensely.
00:09:30I think that there is something to be said for the fact that Londoners are indeed stoic.
00:09:33They have to go to work, they do what they do, they've been through these things before.
00:09:39When you see fellow Londoners going about their business, you can't help but feed off that sense of confidence and
00:09:47defiance.
00:09:49It heartens me and it warms me and it makes me step up to that.
00:09:56The tube's essential, isn't it?
00:10:00I chose to use it in the immediate aftermath of the 7-7.
00:10:05Because if you change your behaviour, then, of course, the people who are trying to terrorise you actually win.
00:10:13And the chances of it happening again are very slim, and the chances of it happening to me are very
00:10:19slim.
00:10:27At the time, I was a firefighter, and I was going to work.
00:10:38The train wasn't full, but there were people in the carriage,
00:10:42and the woman opposite me had a baby, and at the time I had a small family,
00:10:48and she was struggling with the child.
00:10:56And then the train pulled into Stockwell.
00:10:59And so lots of people got on, lots of people got off.
00:11:04Doors close and the train pulls off.
00:11:11And the moment we entered the tunnel...
00:11:21The first thing that happened was there was lots of screaming.
00:11:25And the woman opposite me was out of her seat, and she was struggling with the buggy.
00:11:31And there are people behind us as well.
00:11:37And I'm saying to them, get out, get out, get out.
00:11:42I can see there's a man halfway down, and I think he needs help.
00:11:48The overriding smell is one of burning hair, so I think he's burnt the back of his head.
00:11:56But then I can see the remains of a rucksack.
00:12:01And inside is this spewing foam, plastic.
00:12:06And it's fizzing, and it's popping.
00:12:10I said, what's that?
00:12:12And I swore a number of times at him.
00:12:13I said, what's that? What's that?
00:12:15You tell me what that is.
00:12:17And he said, this is bread.
00:12:19I said, bread? It's not bread.
00:12:21It's a bomb, and you're trying to kill all of us.
00:12:28He said, no, no, no, you are wrong.
00:12:33And it's at this point that I become really quite frightened.
00:12:38Did you want help, mate? Were you wishing for help?
00:12:43There was...
00:12:44There was no help that was gonna come.
00:12:46It was just me.
00:12:52And then we pulled in to the Oval Station.
00:12:55And I think, well, he's not going anywhere, and, of course, the door's open.
00:13:03A scream after him, stop him, stop him.
00:13:05And there are people on the platform who try to intercept him.
00:13:10But there's a blur.
00:13:13The adrenaline and the tension that must have been within that man.
00:13:19He was gone.
00:13:22And then you realise they'd done it again.
00:13:27London's under attack.
00:13:35Breaking news.
00:13:37We're getting reports of a reported series of incidents on what may be the tube system, we are told.
00:13:44Warren Street in the north of London.
00:13:46The Oval, of course, down to the south of London.
00:13:49And Shepherd's Bush out to the west.
00:13:52And we are being told that smoke has been seen out of some of those areas.
00:13:59And certainly those underground stations evacuated.
00:14:05It is a very familiar scene, I have to report here, with dozens upon dozens of police vehicles and fire
00:14:12engines.
00:14:12And their emergency services now arriving.
00:14:15Come in there, please. Keep moving.
00:14:18The Metropolitan Police are turning up with officers in the people carriers.
00:14:22At this moment in time, they're as confused as we are.
00:14:30On the morning of the 21st, I remember being over at the mortuary site,
00:14:37still trying to positively identify some of those who'd lost their life on the 7th of July.
00:14:46One of my colleagues put his head round the door and just said,
00:14:50Doug, we need to go.
00:14:53We're just getting reports, gunshots may have been heard.
00:14:57A nail bomb may have exploded on one of the carriages.
00:15:00There's talk of seeing a man carrying a rucksack that suddenly explodes.
00:15:06Suddenly people were starting screaming and shouting and running.
00:15:09I just had this smell, this terrible smell.
00:15:12Can you start moving back now, please?
00:15:14Thank you very much. Back to the truck.
00:15:15And we've been stopped in Oval and asked to leave the train.
00:15:20People getting up, leaving things behind and just trying to get to the doors
00:15:23before the train even stopped.
00:15:25And everyone's just waiting for the bomb to go off.
00:15:30Obviously, there is a great deal of concern.
00:15:32It is exactly two weeks today since the first bombings on London.
00:15:37And there is a concern at the moment that this could be, could be,
00:15:40a second wave of attacks.
00:15:58Just getting news that emergency services say they're responding to reports
00:16:02of an incident on a bus in Hackney Road.
00:16:05No injuries, but the windows have been blown up.
00:16:10We've got mails, backpacks, public transport system.
00:16:17Same scenario as 7-7, but slightly different.
00:16:23The difference is that the devices failed to properly detonate.
00:16:31And you have a number of suspects at large who could do it again.
00:16:40Photographs recovered from the CCTV systems gave images of what the potential suspects looked like.
00:16:50And as the senior investigating officer, my job was to find them.
00:16:57But what is the playbook for a failed suicide bomber?
00:17:03Who had no plan B, because they were intending to kill themselves,
00:17:09is then going to go and do next.
00:17:16Clearly, the intention must have been to kill.
00:17:22And I think the important point is that the intention of the terrorists
00:17:27has not been fulfilled.
00:17:32Police within the last hour going underground to search for clues.
00:17:37They already have forensic material and they have four crime scenes to pore over.
00:17:48London was very lucky, very lucky.
00:17:52It could so easily have been a repeat of 7-7.
00:18:00I went to Warren Street.
00:18:05It was very eerie.
00:18:09The tube was parked there with the doors open.
00:18:14And this yellow, glutinous mass sitting on the floor
00:18:20with a rucksack and plastic Tupperware container sitting on top of it.
00:18:32All we knew was these devices were made of a material that looked very similar
00:18:39to what we'd seen at the bomb-making factory in Leeds
00:18:43and what had been used on 7-7.
00:18:50But whether they were linked any more closely
00:18:54and would lead back to a common source of manufacture,
00:18:59it was difficult to say.
00:19:02But the biggest clue to identify the bombers was the rucksacks.
00:19:09We needed to get them back to the laboratory straight away.
00:19:16Detectives are now investigating links with the last bombing
00:19:20and asking questions.
00:19:22Who were the men who got away?
00:19:24And were their bombs sophisticated devices designed for mass murder
00:19:28or something cruder?
00:19:33And did the same people plan this or another group of terrorists?
00:20:02I arranged a trip to the tribal areas to meet Haji.
00:20:05As-salamu alaykum.
00:20:08As-salamu alaykum.
00:20:10As-salamu alaykum.
00:20:11As-salamu alaykum.
00:20:12The new brothers started the explosive training course.
00:20:16But they had a different instructor
00:20:19who was less methodical and it was a problem.
00:20:34An accidental explosion killed two of the men.
00:20:37The surviving brother saw their martyrdom and was deeply affected.
00:20:47Haji persuaded him to return to Britain for operational work and to recruit more brothers.
00:21:06Across London this morning there was heightened security at all major tube stations.
00:21:11Those who did travel said they were feeling more anxious and more aware of their surroundings.
00:21:18One Asian man said he felt particularly nervous travelling on the northern line.
00:21:22Passengers had moved down the carriage after spotting him and a rucksack between his legs.
00:21:28Carol has texted,
00:21:30yes the terrorists have one because I'm terrified to travel in central London
00:21:33and I won't be doing so in the near future.
00:21:37I personally won't use public transport anymore.
00:21:40Londoners are getting scared.
00:21:58The rucksack that had partially detonated at Shepherd's Bush was searched overnight.
00:22:06In that rucksack was found a gym membership card.
00:22:13The name Hussein Osmond was unknown to us at Scotland Yard.
00:22:20But the sports membership card identified an address.
00:22:27So a surveillance operation was mounted at Scotiahouse in South London.
00:22:35Elevated concern is probably an understatement because you have a pretty grainy,
00:22:42poor CCTV image of your suspect, Hussein Osmond.
00:22:48And you have a pretty poor photograph from a sports membership card.
00:22:54And the surveillance team briefing is that this is who we're interested in.
00:23:00And he might be in that block of flats.
00:23:02As well as dozens of other residents.
00:23:07There was a lot of pressure because, you know,
00:23:10what's to stop somebody who is suspected of being involved in the events of the day before?
00:23:18Deciding that, you know, having failed yesterday, I'm going to go and try another attack today.
00:23:36The 22nd of July was David's funeral.
00:23:46When we heard that the bombs hadn't gone off the day before, we were absolutely delighted.
00:23:54We wouldn't want anybody else to experience what we were experiencing at that time.
00:24:02We were just distraught thinking about David losing him in such a horrible way.
00:24:14I think David's was one of the very first funerals.
00:24:17So the whole area was just full of media.
00:24:21When we came out of church carrying the coffin, I stood at the back.
00:24:27Because I didn't want the cameras on me.
00:24:30Because I was just so not in a good place.
00:24:37The pain of the grief.
00:24:40It was just overwhelming.
00:24:54Within the past few minutes, Scotland Yard have confirmed that armed officers have shot a man on the underground just
00:25:00after 10 o'clock this morning.
00:25:01Let's get the latest.
00:25:04I was sitting on the tube train. It hadn't pulled out of the station. The doors were still open.
00:25:08I heard a lot of shouting, get down, get out. I looked to my right. I saw a chap run
00:25:13onto the train. Asian guy.
00:25:14He was running so fast he half tripped. He was being pursued by three guys. One had a black handgun
00:25:20in his hand, left hand.
00:25:21And as he sort of went down, two of them sort of dropped onto him to hold him down and
00:25:26the other one fired. I heard five shots.
00:25:31The three men pushed him to the ground and shot him in the head. Three shots, he shot a bomb,
00:25:36bomb, bomb.
00:25:40We were on scene almost immediately. The shooting was 10 o'clock and we arrived about four minutes past.
00:25:51It was very, very tense.
00:25:56The firearms team basically told me that they'd killed a terrorist.
00:26:02And I had to go down and search the body.
00:26:06Has he got a bomb on him? Or an explosive device?
00:26:14He was on his knees leaning onto one of the seats and his head had been sort of caught between
00:26:21one of the vertical poles that you hang onto.
00:26:27I could see that he didn't have a rucksack or a bag.
00:26:33So I lifted him up and placed him on the floor.
00:26:37He bled all over me and it was horrid.
00:26:42But you need to get evidence.
00:26:44My concern was maybe he had a component of a device which was going to go and be used to
00:26:50make other bombs elsewhere.
00:26:53I could see that there was clearly a lump in one of his pockets.
00:26:58Undid a button and I removed what turned out to be his wallet.
00:27:03I had a quick check to make sure there was no detonators or anything in there, which there wasn't.
00:27:08You'd found nothing?
00:27:09Found nothing.
00:27:13As I walked away from it, I still believed he was a suicide bomber.
00:27:18But I couldn't stop thinking about his wallet.
00:27:21It was incredibly neat and tidy.
00:27:24And having seen pictures of the bomb factory in Leeds and having been involved with cases where I've been to
00:27:31other bomb factories, they often seem to be shitholes.
00:27:36And I was just struck how neat and tidy as wallet was.
00:27:48We are looking for four extremely dangerous men.
00:27:53And it may be that the police have found one of them.
00:28:01Nobody wants to see anybody shot.
00:28:05But if he's actually a terrorist that was trying to carry out a murderous attack the previous day, and they're
00:28:11about to do it again, then, frankly, there's not going to be a huge degree of soul searching for me
00:28:19personally.
00:28:22If it turned out to be a different set of circumstances, then the emotions change very quickly.
00:28:31The Metropolitan Police say the man shot dead on the London Underground yesterday was not connected to the hunt for
00:28:37Thursday's bombers.
00:28:40Tonight, Scotland Yard identified him as Jean-Charles de Menezes, a 27-year-old Brazilian.
00:28:46Police said the man's death was a tragedy, but in a statement said he had emerged from a house under
00:28:51surveillance and his behaviour was suspicious.
00:28:56I knew that somebody had exited Scotia House and got on the bus.
00:29:01And two surveillance officers got on the bus with him.
00:29:07They grew increasingly suspicious as he exited the bus at Brixton tube station only to get back on board.
00:29:16As he approached Stockwell, this time on foot, some officers were convinced he was a suicide bomber.
00:29:24Cressida Dick issued an order to stop him. By then it was too late.
00:29:31Armed police confronted him in the tube carriage and shot him seven times in the head.
00:29:42No police officer gets up in the morning, goes into work saying,
00:29:46I want to shoot an innocent person today. Nobody.
00:29:53It was a tragic set of events that any right minded person couldn't describe as anything else other than a
00:30:01catastrophe.
00:30:04He is the young Brazilian whose death has rocked Britain's biggest police force.
00:30:11For the man who had to identify his cousin's body, there could be no justification.
00:30:16He has nothing to hide. He had nothing to hide from anyone.
00:30:21And, once again, I want to let it clear that there are still some questions.
00:30:30With words, I can't even express the amount of mistakes that the police committed.
00:30:41After John Charles was identified, part of what's going through your mind is you still have four bombers at large.
00:30:51Where are they?
00:30:58The first major decision was to release the images and ask for the public's help.
00:31:10These are the men who police say planned the attacks on Thursday that failed to...
00:31:14All of the men seen on closed circuit video, three in train stations, one on a double-decker...
00:31:20...they're today Britain's foremost wanted, and they're on the run.
00:31:26This is the greatest operational challenge ever faced by the Metropolitan Police Service.
00:31:33The officers are facing previously unknown threats and great danger.
00:31:40The assumption has to be that they are still wanting to die, that they may still have explosives.
00:31:48So, these are very dangerous men who are still at large.
00:32:02I'd appeal to anyone who has information about where these men currently are to immediately call 999 for an emergency,
00:32:10urgent police response.
00:32:12The public should not approach them.
00:32:17During the course of the week, we got a pretty strong and positive response from the public.
00:32:24So, our understanding of who we were looking for was improving.
00:32:31The would-be suicide bomber who targeted the number 26 bus in Hackney Road was named as Mukhtar Saeed Ibrahim,
00:32:38aged 27.
00:32:41Ibrahim was given his British passport in 2004.
00:32:45He came to Britain from Eritrea in 1992.
00:32:50And the Warren Street bomber is thought to be 24-year-old Yasin Hassan Omar.
00:32:56He was an orphan refugee who came to Britain from Somalia at the age of 12.
00:33:03We had some information from the public that said that the man running out of the Oval was probably a
00:33:10guy called Ramsey Mohamed.
00:33:13Ramsey Mohamed, a 25-year-old father of two.
00:33:17Ramsey hung about with a bloke called Handy, who we knew was a nickname of Hussein Osman.
00:33:23And Ethiopian-born Hussein Osman tries to trigger his bomb near Shepherd's Bush tube station, but there's no explosion.
00:33:31We were looking for a significant breakthrough in the case.
00:33:35The most wanted posters of the four are now all over the capital and remain Scotland Yard's best chance of
00:33:42rolling up the cell.
00:33:44One of my colleagues from the anti-terrorist hotline had received information from a member of the public that one
00:33:50of the potential suspects travelled on a bus, in disguise, dressed in a full burqa.
00:33:57The intelligence suggested that it was the Warren Street bomber, Yasin Omar, and he's maybe hiding out in a house
00:34:06in West Midlands.
00:34:12They were dealing with failed suicide bombers.
00:34:15It was new territory for the police.
00:34:18We just knew that when we went in, we had to secure them as quick as possible.
00:34:27The subject was an address in Haybarns Road.
00:34:31Once the commander said go, then you start to feel your adrenaline gone.
00:34:50We forced the door with a shotgun.
00:34:53And then to the premises.
00:35:07Me and my partner went straight to the bedroom.
00:35:11But there was nobody in there.
00:35:17Then I saw the light was on, a bathroom off the side of it.
00:35:21The stone grenade was thrown in.
00:35:30The subject was in the bath.
00:35:33He had the mobile phone in his hand.
00:35:36He had a bag on his back.
00:35:38And I did think for a second, this is it.
00:35:44I had my hand on my handgun.
00:35:48For a second, I considered using it.
00:35:54It came like very, very close.
00:35:57But I could see it an opportunity to use the taser.
00:36:01And I took it.
00:36:09There was one officer who believed in that backpack was a bomb.
00:36:14He took that off the subject's back.
00:36:17Stay back!
00:36:18Stay!
00:36:21Ran out with it under his arms.
00:36:27He didn't know what he had and if it was going to go off.
00:36:41In the end, there was no device.
00:36:44Even to this day, it's one of the bravest things I've ever seen.
00:37:01I can confirm that Yasin Hassan Omar has been arrested in Birmingham at about 4.30am this morning.
00:37:14It was the breakthrough in the case that the police had been looking for and came on the streets of
00:37:18a quiet Birmingham suburb.
00:37:22I'm just absolutely stunned.
00:37:24I mean, to find out that it might actually be a suicide bomber living two minutes away, it's just unbelievable.
00:37:32There was a sense of satisfaction, but there was a long way to go.
00:37:38The hunt for one of Britain's most wanted men is over.
00:37:42The search for the other three continues.
00:37:47We are still adrift, Hussein Osman.
00:37:53We are still searching for the ringleader, Muktasad, Ibrahim.
00:37:59As well as Ramsay Mohammed, the man who fled the Oval.
00:38:07When I saw the news, I thought, that's him, Ramsay Mohammed.
00:38:16There are regrets, yeah.
00:38:20I always think if I'd have actually got hold of him and managed to restrain him, history might have been
00:38:25changed.
00:38:37The End
00:38:37The End
00:38:55Almost every hour, a new development.
00:38:59Police searching the block of flats where one of the suspected bombers lived have found a large amount of bomb
00:39:05-making materials in a lock-up garage in the city.
00:39:08In this underground car park.
00:39:10Yasin Hussein Omar was the official tenant holder.
00:39:14He'd been on benefits and income support until recently.
00:39:17And it's thought Muktasad Ibrahim was his flatmate.
00:39:22This is where Ibrahim went to school.
00:39:25Some classmates describe him as a rowdy troublemaker who was easily led.
00:39:31In 1996, Ibrahim was sentenced to five years at Wood Green Crown Court for a violent mugging.
00:39:38It was while he was serving his sentence at Hunter Coom Young Offenders Institute that Ibrahim began taking an interest
00:39:45in Islam.
00:39:49As the investigation moved at breakneck speed, we were discovering more and more about them.
00:39:58Muktasad Saeed Ibrahim, the acknowledged leader of the group, filmed here picking up one installment of the 440 litres of
00:40:06liquid hydrogen peroxide they bought from hair product shops in London.
00:40:11Means of communication between the group were being identified and tracked.
00:40:17It was clear that they had all attended Finsbury Park mosque.
00:40:28It's thought the bombers were influenced by the preacher of hate, Abu Hamza.
00:40:32Osman, the Shepherd's bush bomber, was filmed in the crowd outside Finsbury Park mosque in 2003.
00:40:41Their profiles will have been of interest, but the priority at the time is locate them and safely detain them.
00:40:51Our top story, the anti-terror police are involved in a major security operation in West London.
00:41:00It's not exactly clear what it is, but we've now heard four shots coming from the direction of the flats
00:41:07over there.
00:41:07The police are moving everybody out in a hurry. They don't want people here.
00:41:11They're worried about people being in line of sight of whatever is happening just round the corner.
00:41:22What went on was madness. It literally was madness.
00:41:28There's helicopters up and there's people running around, people screaming, dogs barking.
00:41:33Residents were fleeing for their lives.
00:41:39The intelligence picture was there was just one terrorist in that building.
00:41:44People said, right, we want to go into the building. They said, no, we'll just wait a bit.
00:41:47I wasn't sure whether they were going to blow themselves up and, you know, potentially take in a couple of
00:41:51us with them.
00:41:55That's when the shouting starts.
00:42:01We didn't know how long it was going to go on for, whether it was going to be a siege
00:42:03or whether it's going to be over fairly quickly.
00:42:10We didn't want them to come out wearing a bomb vest or something, because then they probably were going to
00:42:14get shot.
00:42:20If they come out wearing nothing but underwear, then they haven't got anything that's concealed on them.
00:42:25That lowers the threat level considerably.
00:42:30That's when we use gas to try and get them out.
00:42:41Hands aloft, the man on the left has been named as Ibrahim Mukhtar Saeed.
00:42:46The other man is Ramzi Mohammed.
00:42:53I remember seeing two on the landing, hands up.
00:42:57We only thought there was one in there and there were two in there.
00:42:59We got a little bit lucky.
00:43:04The failure of the second operation was down to poor training and poor communication.
00:43:12After returning to the UK, brother Mukhtar called just once to let us know he was safe.
00:43:18But then we lost contact.
00:43:28Before 7-7, the brothers had a problem getting the peroxide explosive,
00:43:32to the correct concentration.
00:43:35Sadiq called me and I passed on technical guidance, so they got the bomb mixture right.
00:43:42This action was crucial and I regret I could not contact brother Mukhtar.
00:43:48If only I'd been able to give him the same technical fix, the 21-7 attacks would have been a
00:43:53success.
00:44:06An image of Britain's most wanted.
00:44:09Dressed in a protective white forensic suit and escorted by police, one of the suspected suicide bombers of July the
00:44:1621st is taken away.
00:44:22And it's emerged that Italian police have arrested Hussein Osman in Rome.
00:44:27He's wanted in connection with the tube attack at Shepherd's Bush.
00:44:33In the space of eight days, to identify a group of unknown potential suicide bombers and have them all safely
00:44:44detained is a testament to the work of many, many people.
00:45:00There's nothing I personally could have done different, but I certainly wish the events of the morning of the 22nd
00:45:08of July didn't happen.
00:45:13Consequences of it were tragic for Jean-Charles to manage, and everybody else they knew him, and they weren't that
00:45:20good for the police.
00:45:23Not one of the witnesses said they heard the words armed police.
00:45:42The jury have clearly said that the police lied, that Jean was completely innocent, and that from the moment Jean
00:45:51enters Stockwell tube station, he was doomed to be shot dead without warning.
00:46:12RALPH CAME CLOSE TO MASTERMINDING MORE DEADLY ATTACKS
00:46:20RALPH CAME CLOSE TO MASTERMINE
00:46:24RALPH CAME CLOSE TO MASTERMINE
00:46:38RALPH KILLED IN A DRONE STRIKE
00:46:40And Al-Qaeda lost, perhaps one of its best handlers.
00:47:01when you look back on 77 you think you're going to be viewing it from the outside
00:47:09but as soon as you start thinking about what happened you're suddenly there again
00:47:24and it feels very real you feel the tension you can hear the noise
00:47:34it's almost like you can touch the image you see in your head
00:47:43and sometimes you can see it and you can be calm and dispassionate but other times
00:47:54you're caught in the raw emotion
00:48:02I first went back to work a couple of weeks after 77
00:48:08and it gave me some sort of structure but people could see I wasn't right
00:48:16colleagues said I had a haunted look about me and that's when the hallucinations became very intrusive
00:48:28I couldn't look in the sky and see a plane without seeing it explode
00:48:33I couldn't sit next to a window without seeing that explode
00:48:39or I'd walk into a bar and I'd see explosions sometimes I was injured sometimes I was the
00:48:46only one who was standing there amongst injured and their people it was just so graphic
00:48:53things built up and culminated in one very difficult night at which point I knew I needed more professional
00:49:08help
00:49:09and I ended up in the priory
00:49:14I was a day patient twice a week and on the second day I walked into a room where I
00:49:19was the only
00:49:20civi and the rest were military Afghan and Iraqi vets
00:49:27I remember immediately I walked in the room they demanded to know which regiment I was from
00:49:32and I had to explain I wasn't and I explained what happened and they were saying well that's
00:49:40understandable you got ill we shouldn't be ill we shouldn't be here because we were expecting war
00:49:50and I tried to explain in my limited knowledge that the primitive part of the mind doesn't work like that
00:49:58no one is supposed to see that kind of destruction
00:50:17I still can't believe I was involved in a terrorist attack
00:50:24and now I cannot believe it's twenty years twenty years is a very long time
00:50:33but I fear also that people have moved on sometimes it's like they've all forgotten about it
00:50:47but for me it's real every day because I have challenges
00:50:52I was given a prosthetic limb
00:50:56and it's been very hard
00:51:00we were never offered family counselling
00:51:04there was no psychological support we had to complain for that
00:51:08you know you have to fight for everything
00:51:15Thelma Stobar suffered life-changing injuries on the 7th of July 2005
00:51:20since then she's dedicated her life to working with survivors of terrorism
00:51:24and campaigning for support and victim's law
00:51:26my mother said to me God had a purpose for your life
00:51:34use that second life to do whatever you can
00:51:39by looking after us in the immediate medium and long term
00:51:42we hope that a message is sent to terrorists
00:51:44that the societal and community values that they fight against
00:51:49like human rights and democracy grow stronger under attack
00:51:55now I advocate for victims of terrorism
00:52:00the reality is in time we come to terms with what happened to us
00:52:07we continuously navigate our challenges encountered along the way
00:52:14try as we may we cannot move on from the life-changing injury suffered
00:52:18or forget the changes to our lives that we never imagined
00:52:32one of our regrets is that we're not a family that have taken photographs
00:52:36it's not just something we've ever done
00:52:39so we have very very few photographs of David growing up
00:52:45and this video clip is the only recording we have of him
00:52:48nice to meet you David folks
00:52:51okay so you're coming to the position for internal sales coordinator
00:52:54David was studying for his management qualifications
00:52:58and as part of the course they had to do some role playing
00:53:01can you give me an example last time something went wrong
00:53:04can you try to work and how you overcame that problem
00:53:06this was taken just a few months before July the 7th
00:53:30once we had the funeral I remember thinking we do need to try and get back to some kind of
00:53:36semblance of normality
00:53:39but we weren't normal
00:53:42our world is not ordinary anymore
00:53:44when would you see yourself in two years within my organisation
00:53:50well as I said not being based on your organisation
00:53:53we just accept that we live in a parallel world now
00:53:57because the world we live in is different to the world everybody else lives in
00:54:01I've covered everything you need to miss
00:54:03okay well thank you for coming I'll speak to you soon okay
00:54:23what are we looking for so we're looking for my seven seven papers which I stored carefully in the
00:54:39real way
00:54:40that was one from a card from one of my therapists
00:54:44after I'd finished treatment with her
00:54:48that was the next day's headline
00:54:52in the express
00:54:58the supposedly independent intelligence security committee published a report
00:55:17as survivors we were allowed I think it was an hour with the report before it was released to the
00:55:25public
00:55:26which was not very much time to go through all the details
00:55:32today's report contains significant new details about the information held on
00:55:36Mohammed Siddiq Khan before the London bombings
00:55:40he was on the radar for four years
00:55:44the missed opportunities begin in 2001 this surveillance picture of Siddiq Khan at an adventure
00:55:50weekend in the UK with 39 others was released today
00:55:53West Yorkshire special branch had them under surveillance as part of Operation Warlock
00:55:58officers later identified nine men by name but they say they did not get Siddiq Khan's name
00:56:06this footage was taken three years later as he met with a group plotting to blow up a Kent shopping
00:56:12centre
00:56:13but Siddiq Khan and fellow 77 bomber Sheshad Tanweir were dismissed by MI5 as low priority
00:56:22now an official report says the security services shouldn't be blamed for that decision
00:56:30are you happy with this report
00:56:32not at all they've not actually addressed the basic question could more have been done
00:56:37almost four years on the government continues to resist calls for a full-scale inquiry
00:56:43the complete refusal to have a public inquiry begs the question of what on earth is going on
00:56:51I'm still cross today because if all the pieces of the jigsaw have been put together
00:56:56it would have been blindingly obvious that this was a major player
00:57:01and I say there was an opportunity that would have prevented 77 and it was missed
00:57:11those choices that we made then I think we would make them again today
00:57:17that's not because we wouldn't have liked to have done something different
00:57:20but because higher priorities finite resources and other big plots to destroy life were preoccupying us
00:57:31some of the families I think do feel that not everything is a much
00:57:36are you worried that something might come out
00:57:40I would imagine if I hadn't been an intelligence officer I might have felt the same as them
00:57:46the horror that they have lived through the loss of their loved ones
00:57:51they're wishing to feel they knew everything that was available
00:57:58however if everything is made public exactly how you did everything
00:58:03you're not just telling those bereaved and distressed families
00:58:07you're telling next week's terrorist
00:58:35you're telling next week's terrorist
00:58:37my mom was a bit older Tanwar was just a young man
00:58:43they feel powerless in our society and suddenly they're given this ideology
00:58:48that makes them feel powerful men
00:58:52but nothing could be further from the truth
00:58:56they were just cowards
00:58:59but they were puppets they were manipulated
00:59:06sold on this idea of
00:59:08well you will be dead but you will be a martyr
00:59:12because you've done this amazing warrior-like action
00:59:17but they're not warriors
00:59:20they killed innocent people
00:59:23they weren't fighting
00:59:24they weren't brave
00:59:26they just
00:59:28enacted a surprise attack on civilians
00:59:33that's not a warrior
00:59:39did any feelings of revenge come to you?
00:59:43no
00:59:44no
00:59:45no
00:59:45no
00:59:46I can't in any way imagine possibly
00:59:50being vengeful and wanting revenge
00:59:52no
00:59:54no I think the yellow ones don't you?
00:59:56yeah
00:59:59David would want
01:00:00come on dad see what you can do to stop this happening to anybody else
01:00:04not
01:00:04come on dad go and get revenge for me being killed
01:00:07not at all
01:00:07not in his nature it's not in my nature
01:00:17but
01:00:18the bombers
01:00:18they wanted to divide us
01:00:20but
01:00:21London
01:00:22we're very strong
01:00:25the terrorists will never never win
01:00:31hatred
01:00:33and anger
01:00:34have no place
01:00:36in our society
01:00:37whatever
01:00:39people's
01:00:41ethos
01:00:43religion
01:00:43or view
01:00:45or view
01:00:55we should always be tolerant
01:00:57and accommodating
01:00:59and accepting
01:01:03we owe that much to those who aren't here
01:01:08in our lives
01:01:09and those that are still suffering
01:01:10and those who are still suffering
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