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7 7 Homegrown Terror - Season 1 - Episode 01
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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.
00:08:08being killed, I think so.
00:08:37It's not a bad idea.
00:08:53Usually, like a commuter, you get on your same carriage.
00:08:56And I always used to travel the second carriage.
00:08:59It was 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,
00:10:33What is this?
00:10:35And I asked that question three times with increasing demand and firmness.
00:10:43And then I said to myself,
00:10:45It's a bomb.
00:10:53Just give me a second.
00:10:56It seems so real.
00:10:58But it's...
00:10:59Which is fine.
00:10:59Which is fine.
00:11:00You're reliving it now.
00:11:02Yeah.
00:11:03Which is fine.
00:11:04Which 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,
00:11:16Oh, that's not good.
00:11:19The next thing I knew,
00:11:22Everything was dark.
00:11:24I thought I'd died.
00:11:30There was no light.
00:11:31There was nothing.
00:11:33I 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.
00:11:41I was staring so hard to just see a sign of life.
00:11:46But 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.
00:13:24That's all I can say to you.
00:13:42We used to do Arabic classes together in the Islamic bookshop.
00:13:45From what goes to me, I've got a couple of videos.
00:13:48Videos about brothers who are fighting in Chechnya and brothers who are fighting in Bosnia.
00:13:53As soon as I got the cassettes, I went back to my best friend Shezad's house here.
00:13:57And gone to his bedroom when we put on the movies in it.
00:14:04We were showing people massacring the Muslims mercilessly and the whole world watched.
00:14:16But the Muslims were fighting it back.
00:14:18The Mujahideen moved from the front line of the Al-Abucha, near Trakmi, to the mountains.
00:14:24It really brought a sense of brotherhood to a different level.
00:14:27You're getting Muslims from all around the world.
00:14:29Arabs, Pakistanis, Africans going to a foreign land to help the Muslim brothers.
00:14:33I couldn't believe it.
00:14:34I 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.
00:14:50I took them all down, put Kalashnikovs on my bedroom wall.
00:14:53Loads of them.
00:14:56I can remember once, I was watching a movie with Shezad.
00:14:59I go to him.
00:15:00You know, one of these days, brother, I'm just going to go, you know?
00:15:04And then the next day, we were coming back from the evening prayer.
00:15:07And Shezad goes to me, you know that thing that we were talking about yesterday, yeah?
00:15:11I spoke with brother Sadiq.
00:15:13And Sadiq's going to Pakistan, and he wants to go to a training camp.
00:15:17Somebody's dropped out, so there's a place that you can take.
00:15:19Sadiq said everything would be sorted.
00:15:21There's no problem.
00:15:35Yes, Andy.
00:15:36Hello, Andy.
00:15:36It's Nigel.
00:15:37Is it a technical explosion, or is it...
00:15:39No, no, no, a cable, a high-voltage cable went in the Liverpool Street area.
00:15:45Right.
00:15:45That's where it's caused a bang.
00:15:46Right.
00:15:47As is usual, when you have an explosion, when you have a train hit the tunnel, people hit an explosion.
00:15:51It is not an explosion.
00:15:54It's not an explosion.
00:15:57It's not an explosion.
00:16:09It's not an explosion.
00:16:14It's not an explosion.
00:16:16It's not an explosion.
00:16:16It's not an explosion.
00:16:19Should we go to the Liverpool?
00:16:21Describe to me what your main responsibilities were that day.
00:16:27Of course, on the day.
00:16:29Yeah.
00:16:307th of July.
00:16:32We were all at King's Cross.
00:16:34That was our allocated station for the day.
00:16:39And we were just monitoring people going through.
00:16:45I'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 corrupt,
00:17:01and the floor shook.
00:17:05I went down onto one platform.
00:17:09Looked up the tunnel towards Russell Square.
00:17:13Their 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.
00:18:35We'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, and I start to push it as hard as I can.
00:19:00And the first thing that I notice as I go into that carriage is the floor is sticky.
00:19:17I can hear someone asking for help, and it sounds like they're under that train.
00:19:36That's the point where I have to turn around and walk away.
00:19:43My responsibilities as the first officer on scene is to gather as much evidence and information that I can
00:19:53to 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 I'm not the only incident.
00:20:11London has been attacked.
00:20:13London's been attacked.
00:20:15Something's gone badly long down there.
00:20:17Three separate incidents.
00:20:19Free gear.
00:20:22Codamber.
00:20:24Codamber, the whole network.
00:20:26Codamber, the whole network.
00:20:28We're going to stop the whole network.
00:20:29No, no, no.
00:20:30Codamber, get them into staging and then stand by.
00:20:32Yeah, that's all we're going to do.
00:20:50Breaking news we'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 detailing us at Edgware 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.
00:21:14Speculation only at the moment of what caused that, but police stressing that it probably was a power failure or
00:21:20a collision between two trains.
00:21:24We have six smokes coming from these tunnels. We have customers on the track.
00:21:29Will you please get as many ambulances as we can here?
00:21:32Right.
00:21:32We have serious injuries.
00:21:33I'll come back to everybody.
00:21:34We need ambulances and water to King's Cross and 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 have desperate scouts from both ends at Aldgate and Geroen.
00:21:48They're still desperately waiting for emergency service.
00:21:51They mostly don't even declare 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, but I just determined that I was going to die above
00:22:26ground.
00:22:27I just wanted to see the light a 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, please, 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.
00:22:54This 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.
00:23:02We were stuck there for about 45 minutes.
00:23:04And then the first responders came, and so they beckoned us all to walk to the back of the train.
00:23:09Every now and again, someone would be screaming, move 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, okay, what's happened?
00:23:19It doesn't make, you know...
00:23:21There must have been a fire or something must have been, you know...
00:23:23...happened, you just don't know.
00:23:25What was it?
00:23:26You know this thing was a boss.
00:23:27There was a big opportunity for somebody to be in there.
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, yeah, I wouldn't be here.
00:23:59Getting a report from Reuters, what 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, Jamie, move back!
00:24:12That was fire for the people.
00:24:16A2, A2, move back!
00:24:17People have been coming out great facing.
00:24:23There's the gents, they need to start doing it further back now, please.
00:24:39I was lying there and I thought, if there's a disaster, they try to save people who are alive first.
00:24:46And 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.
00:25:12And 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 and they took me upstairs to a ward.
00:25:52I just blacked out.
00:25:59As we got off the platform up the stairs wall gate to the entrance, all the police were there.
00:26:04And they were trying to take everyone's details down, like it was a panic.
00:26:09And so they said, so what's your name?
00:26:11And I said, Mustafa.
00:26:11He was like, right, can 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 because they could see that we weren't going anywhere.
00:26:35And they said, all right, we're taking you to the hospital because 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 as 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 was 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, it was power surges, because 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, so eventually if we wanted to fight, we would have gone and fought against the
00:28:21Indian occupation.
00:28:25In 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're going to 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 brother 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 Edgway Road,
00:30:01so I made the decision to stop there and just see for myself what was going on.
00:30:07And it was apparent that this was something quite different.
00:30:11to anything that we'd had to deal with in London before.
00:30:18The events of the 11th of September 2001
00:30:22changed everyone's perception about what a terrorist attack could look like.
00:30:30Is your mind thinking, where's the 4th, where's the 5th?
00:30:34Yes, where's the 5th, where's the 6th?
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, to 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.
00:31:14There's smell, there's smoke, you couldn't breathe, you couldn't see anything, it was just horrible.
00:31:18I just want to get out.
00:31:20There was people screaming, and there's people lying everywhere, covered in blood and bodies lying everywhere.
00:31:26I saw some limbs, everyone was choking, thinking they were going to die.
00:31:31All hell's broken loose.
00:31:33We've had three explosions.
00:31:36The inspector sitting behind me just turned around to me, she says,
00:31:38Neville, make your way down to Wood Street Police Station as fast as you can.
00:31:52We were approaching the traffic light to 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.
00:32:41Human parts, a torso, a lot of debris coming out.
00:32:45There's only one thing that 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.
00:33:09And looking up, yeah, you could see up there as well, was there an absolute tangle mess of metal and
00:33:17individuals who were injured.
00:33:29Ladies and gentlemen, please listen to me very carefully.
00:33:32I need you to move this way, please, as quick as you can, okay?
00:33:36As quick as you can.
00:33:37Please stop.
00:33:39Please stop.
00:33:39Please stop.
00:33:40Please stop.
00:33:41Please stop.
00:33:53Any conjecture about what was going on beneath Brown couldn't have been answered in a more devastating way.
00:34:02It certainly bore the hallmarks of being an Alki-type-inspired attack, but we had to establish
00:34:13exactly what had taken place, who was responsible in bringing them to justice.
00:34:18The Metropolitan Police Service has all of its anti-terrorist units here, and we are
00:34:25beginning a meticulous investigation.
00:34:27That's all I'm going to say at the moment, because we do need to investigate it.
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 to 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 to find power supplies, switches, wires.
00:35:36I'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.
00:36:04There were some wires.
00:36:06But there was no switch or the initiator to an explosive device.
00:36:12There was nothing like that.
00:36:14That was strange.
00:36:26When we were doing examinations on the roof of the bus, there was a very apparent hole where a body
00:36:33had 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.
00:36:53The simplicity of the device and the lack of more complex components pointed to the individuals being the switches.
00:37:06Simply attaching the battery to the device, they initiated the explosion.
00:37:13We 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 why I solved my goal in life.
00:37:37There's about a hundred, two hundred brothers.
00:37:39The brothers used to give us lessons in how to use a Kalashnikov.
00:37:43A 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.
00:38:01And the mountain that we stayed on was very, very high and 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, it'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.
00:39:05A group calling itself the secret organisation Al-Qaeda in Europe has posted, apparently,
00:39:10a 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,
00:39:39and on civilised people everywhere.
00:39:42We send our profound condolences to the victims and their families.
00:39:50Jeremy, thank you. Four explosions brutally timed for maximum impact.
00:39:55Here's what we know so far...
00:39:57I'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.
00:40:04Passengers on trains and stations...
00:40:05I said to somebody, 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 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.
00:40:35So, 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 on 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, oh, just to tell you, Graham,
00:40:59that David didn't arrive for his meeting, I 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.
00:41:13Um, so 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 Hassib went to London
00:42:46with his friends' sightseeing.
00:42:57The police had no idea about Hassib's whereabouts,
00:43:01but wrote down his details, his 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 on 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 and 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 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 just in front of us.
00:44:31He 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.
00:44:54And 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.
00:45:031 to 5.50.
00:45:05You're lucky, mate.
00:45:06I'm a very lucky man.
00:45:07Yeah, you're lucky.
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.
00:45:17Yeah.
00:45:19I'm walking somewhere around here.
00:45:21When we got to the mosque, they said,
00:45:23they'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?
00:45:30I have one brewing, actually.
00:45:33Thank you very much.
00:45:35And then when I turned round,
00:45:36there was a line of young men, late teens, early twenties,
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 bombed?
00:45:47I didn't feel the pain, the physical pain, to 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 out in front of those children at the mosque.
00:46:12But I was pulling out my skull for years afterwards to 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.
00:46:38I don't think a target was on us after that.
00:46:40Like I know so many instances of friends will be like working in the supermarket
00:46:43and people go up to them and you should be ashamed of yourself for what happened.
00:46:47Like how do we have any connection to like what happens on 9-11?
00:46:51Society looks at communities as these homogenous groups, right?
00:46:54The Muslim community.
00:46:56But what a Macedonian goes through is different from what someone from Afghanistan goes through.
00:47:00Just by nature of politics or like folks in Chechnya.
00:47:05Do you know what I mean? It's so, so different.
00:47:07But you know.
00:47:09It's easier to just say they're Muslims.
00:47:14Round about lunchtime we got home from the hospital.
00:47:17And because I'd spoken to some journalists, my number was being passed around by 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 and in that time I'd get 15 missed voice calls.
00:47:32Hi there, my name's Mike from Time magazine.
00:47:35Hi, Mike.
00:47:36Hello, my name is Clem, I'm a photographer at the Daily Telegraph.
00:47:40Master, hi, my name's the founder of the Times, can you give me a ring please?
00:47:43Next mail.
00:47:44This goes on for 12 minutes.
00:47:50It's like a young Muslim who'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? Why 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 over and over again.
00:48:06Why are you talking today?
00:48:09There is kind of a religious obligation that I have to be here.
00:48:13Like there is, in Islam, you have to speak out against the tyrant.
00:48:18The tyrant is the terrorist who claims to represent Islam.
00:48:21The tyrant is the politician who wants to label all Muslims as one.
00:48:25The tyrant is the journalist who wants me to apologise for 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,
00:48:39because otherwise I'm held accountable for naught.
00:49:02In the end of the day, I had to be forensically stripped.
00:49:06so all my clothing was taken off me I had to go home in a paper suit
00:49:22it's difficult to see such injury and carnage knowing
00:49:37you've got to walk away from it it's hard to tell people unless you've been there
00:49:50I've never walked away from anybody who needed help but on that day I had to
00:50:01I had to I had to walk away otherwise more would have died that would have been more people
00:50:10perhaps that I would have had on my conscience
00:50:16so
00:50:18yeah
00:50:48MUSIC CONTINUES
00:50:50It was really uplifting to just know that people, it's not their fault.
00:50:57There's always been extremists, there's always been people who don't represent a particular thing.
00:51:02They 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 a very strong opinion
00:51:16without understanding the psychology, why people do things, why they're caught up.
00:51:27And most people aren't evil. That's just the construct we make.
00:51:33Most people, I like to think, are good.
00:51:36MUSIC CONTINUES
00:51:39Compared to what I've seen, it's not bad, I can assure you.
00:51:42OK, yeah, we'll see you there then.
00:51:44OK, bye.
00:51:48But it wasn't lost on me that people wouldn't be making that journey home to their loved ones.
00:52:03MUSIC CONTINUES
00:52:17President George Bush said that America would back Britain every inch of the way
00:52:22and would be right behind Britain in hunting down and trying to capture the people responsible for today's attacks.
00:52:30MUSIC CONTINUES
00:52:31I appreciate Prime Minister Blair's determination.
00:52:35The war on terror goes on.
00:52:39As we watched the news, the fear was starting to win the battle against staying calm and staying insensible.
00:52:47There was a phone number, an emergency phone line that kept coming up on the screen.
00:52:55So we phoned them.
00:52:58They simply said, name, age, and here's the reference number.
00:53:03I 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.
00:53:12And we were phoning this emergency number and phoning and phoning.
00:53:16And you just went through to a different person who just gave you a different reference number.
00:53:19So we ended up with dozens of different reference numbers.
00:53:23Today's outrage unfolded on another ordinary morning as millions travelled 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.
00:53:40At this point, we know that there are more than 50 fatalities.
00:53:46There were 700 casualties.
00:53:49And as far as we know, 22 are in serious and critical conditions in hospital.
00:53:57We saw in the news that a significant number of people who were in intensive care or unconscious
00:54:02and who had yet to be identified.
00:54:06So that gave us some hope.
00:54:09We were hanging on to the theory that, well, there's a saying, isn't there, that no news is good news.
00:54:16And that was our glimmer of hope, that one of these unconscious, unidentified people was David.
00:54:35Good morning. Thanks for joining us.
00:54:37It is nearly 24 hours since a series of bombs were 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 the name of Islam.
00:54:59Many years ago, family liaison officers were known as the Fluffy Bunny Brigade.
00:55:06Tea and sympathy, you know, pat on the back kind of thing.
00:55:12We were assigned to deal with people who were involved in tragedies, usually deaths.
00:55:20Families are multifaceted, you don't know what you're going into.
00:55:24And yes, you're dealing with grief, and people react very differently to grief.
00:55:28You have to expect the unexpected.
00:55:43I was informed that a youth from Beeston was reported missing, Haseeb Hussain.
00:55:53He was 18 years old.
00:55:55He'd gone down to London with some friends, and they couldn't get in touch with him.
00:56:05White area.
00:56:07Nothing'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 a
00:56:31feeling of revisiting a bad time in your past, isn't it?
00:56:41I was met by Mr. Hussain at the door.
00:56:44His other son was in.
00:56:46His wife was out.
00:56:49It was a very nice, neat house.
00:56:52The news was on television.
00:56:54So it's probably within 10 feet of where the blast was.
00:56:58Mr. Hussain was concerned, anxious.
00:57:02He told me that his son, Haseeb, had gone to London on Wednesday with some friends.
00:57:08He didn't know anything about where, when, why, or what he was doing down there.
00:57:14I 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, somebody called Shazad
00:57:36Tanvir.
00:57:37And Mr. Hussain didn't know this was a friend of his son's.
00:57:45The liaison officer came to see us.
00:57:48She 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.
00:58:11I 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, where he went, who he
00:58:22saw, what circles he mixed in.
00:58:25But 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.
00:58:39I said goodbyes and left.
00:58:47The 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, we had to be absolutely certain that they weren't part of
00:59:17a larger network that were going to carry out another attack.
00:59:24On the 8th of July, the first major breakthrough, identity documents of an individual is found at two different bomb
00:59:36scenes.
00:59:38So you start putting together a picture that he was one of the individuals who may have been involved.
00:59:46Mohamed 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, so I'll go and introduce you to them shortly.
01:00:17He would regard us as uncles to his daughter.
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 year old.
01:00:35Hello Palwan.
01:00:37Hello Palwan.
01:00:37Hello Palwan.
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 chaps.
01:00:59We don't want nothing.
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.
01:01:12Every 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.
01:01:40fighting against occupation.
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 going to go back to England.
01:02:06And we're going to go do something.
01:02:08A couple of things for the brothers.
01:02:10He said, keep away, bruv.
01:02:20I did feel really left out and sad.
01:02:24But I thought, whatever they want to do, let them do, innit?
01:02:35I have to do this thing for the whole 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.
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