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Disco_Destroyer Trustworthy Freedom Fighter
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:47 am Post subject: July 7 victims launch legal action |
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July 7 victims launch legal action
http://news.uk.msn.com/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=6003600
Legal action has been launched against the Government by victims of the July 7 bombings.
A lawyer for bereaved relatives and survivors of the 2005 atrocities said they were "disappointed and saddened" they had felt compelled to go to court in their campaign for an independent public inquiry.
The group has applied for a judicial review of the Government's continued refusal to launch a full review.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair ruled out such a move in May but did ask Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee to review MI5's handling of intelligence about two of the July 7 bombers.
The decision came after it emerged MI5 had observed ringleader Mohammed Sidique Khan and sidekick Shehzad Tanweer while investigating another group of plotters.
James Oury of Oury Clark Solicitors, which represents the victims involved with the action, said: "The Government's position has resulted in a group of still-suffering victims of this public tragedy being manoeuvred into a litigation arena so not to be further disadvantaged.
"Our clients are disappointed and saddened by this. Their obviously preferred position was not to enter into litigation.
"However, they recognise the wider public interest involved and the international importance of finding out the truth of events leading up to these bombings."
He added: "They also feel an inquiry is a matter of essential public interest in order to improve the protection of all individuals whose lives remain at risk as a result of the ongoing threat of terrorism.
"The Home Secretary and the Government could stop the litigation process now by ordering the independent and public inquiry that my clients consider that the victims and the public deserve."
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:43 am Post subject: |
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Unfortunately if we get an inquiry, it will be another Hutton or Butler type whitewash.
However, the mere fact of litigation will focus attention on the fact that four presumed dead people have, by word of prime minister, been found guilty of mass murder though there has been neither trial, nor inquiry, nor any opportunity for their friends and family to defend their reputation. A travesty of justice!
I wonder how bus bomb victim, Daniel Obachike, will react to this. |
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | Whose Security? What Intelligence? The Need for an Independent Public Inquiry into the 7/7 London Bombings.
Public launch of new report:
"Inside the Crevice: Islamist terror networks and the 7/7 intelligence failure", by Nafeez Ahmed
6.30-9pm Weds 3 October 2007
at Garden Court Chambers, Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2 (Holborn tube station)
Chair: Frances Webber Garden Court Chambers
Speakers include:
Nafeez Ahmed Institute for Policy Research & Development (IPRD)
Detective Superintendent (ret.) Des Thomas former Deputy Head, CID Constabulary, Hampshire
Les Levidow CAMPACC
Rachel North 7/7 survivor, author, Out of the Tunnel
James Oury, Oury Clark Solicitors, representing the 7/7 Inquiry Group
Why was London attacked on 7th July 2005? Why were the attacks not prevented? Initial government responses claimed the Islamist terrorists were 'clean skins', previously unknown to the security services; therefore more staff and more severe anti-terror measures are needed to prevent future attacks. But there are great discrepancies in the government's account of events leading up to 7/7, in particular Operation Crevice. Moreover, British 'security' policies at home and abroad have systematically undermined public safety for over the last decade. Meanwhile, 'anti-terror' powers are serving to divert attention and resources from real threats of terrorist attacks in this country.
This critique has been developed in a parliamentary briefing paper, Inside the Crevice. In August 2007 it was circulated to members of several UK parliamentary committees, including the Intelligence & Security Committee, Home Affairs Committee, Defence Committee, Foreign Affairs Committee, Joint Human Rights Committee, and Communities & Local Government Committee, as well as ministers and government officials.
The report is cited in the pre-action protocol letter drafted by Oury Clark Solicitors on behalf of the 7/7 Inquiry Group, sent to the Home Secretary. It is also cited in their application for judicial review of the government's decision not to hold an inquiry into the London bombings. Key themes and questions raised in the report, which calls for radical reform of British security policies, will be discussed at this event.
Co-Sponsored by
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC;
Institute for Policy Research & Development [IPRD] www.globalcrisis.org.uk;
Campaign Against Criminalising Communities [CAMPACC] www.campacc.org.uk;
Garden Court Chambers, www.gardencourtchambers.co.uk;
Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, www.haldane.org
For full text of report go to www.globalcrisis.org.uk
Information:
Nafeez Ahmed e-mail nafeez@globalcrisis.org.uk Tel 07860 825 735 or
CAMPACC e-mail estella24@tiscali.co.uk Tel 020 7586 5892
Institute for Policy Research and Development
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Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | Whose Security? What Intelligence? The Need for an Independent Public Inquiry into the 7/7 London Bombings.
Public launch of new report:
"Inside the Crevice: Islamist terror networks and the 7/7 intelligence failure", by Nafeez Ahmed
6.30-9pm Weds 3 October 2007
at Garden Court Chambers, Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2 (Holborn tube station)
Chair: Frances Webber Garden Court Chambers
Speakers include:
Nafeez Ahmed Institute for Policy Research & Development (IPRD)
Detective Superintendent (ret.) Des Thomas former Deputy Head, CID Constabulary, Hampshire
Les Levidow CAMPACC
Rachel North 7/7 survivor, author, Out of the Tunnel
James Oury, Oury Clark Solicitors, representing the 7/7 Inquiry Group
Why was London attacked on 7th July 2005? Why were the attacks not prevented? Initial government responses claimed the Islamist terrorists were 'clean skins', previously unknown to the security services; therefore more staff and more severe anti-terror measures are needed to prevent future attacks. But there are great discrepancies in the government's account of events leading up to 7/7, in particular Operation Crevice. Moreover, British 'security' policies at home and abroad have systematically undermined public safety for over the last decade. Meanwhile, 'anti-terror' powers are serving to divert attention and resources from real threats of terrorist attacks in this country.
This critique has been developed in a parliamentary briefing paper, Inside the Crevice. In August 2007 it was circulated to members of several UK parliamentary committees, including the Intelligence & Security Committee, Home Affairs Committee, Defence Committee, Foreign Affairs Committee, Joint Human Rights Committee, and Communities & Local Government Committee, as well as ministers and government officials.
The report is cited in the pre-action protocol letter drafted by Oury Clark Solicitors on behalf of the 7/7 Inquiry Group, sent to the Home Secretary. It is also cited in their application for judicial review of the government's decision not to hold an inquiry into the London bombings. Key themes and questions raised in the report, which calls for radical reform of British security policies, will be discussed at this event.
Co-Sponsored by
Baroness Helena Kennedy QC;
Institute for Policy Research & Development [IPRD] www.globalcrisis.org.uk;
Campaign Against Criminalising Communities [CAMPACC] www.campacc.org.uk;
Garden Court Chambers, www.gardencourtchambers.co.uk;
Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, www.haldane.org
For full text of report go to www.globalcrisis.org.uk
Information:
Nafeez Ahmed e-mail nafeez@globalcrisis.org.uk Tel 07860 825 735 or
CAMPACC e-mail estella24@tiscali.co.uk Tel 020 7586 5892
Institute for Policy Research and Development
www.globalcrisis.org.uk |
Quote: | CONTENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1. OPERATION CREVICE: THE OFFICIAL LINE
2. THE FIVE THAT GOT AWAY
2.1 French Security Sources on the Bluewater Plotters
2.2 British Security Sources on the Khan, Tanweer Connection
2.3 MI5 Opens Files on All Four 7/7 Bombers, Khan Protected
3. THE WIDER NETWORK
3.1 The Fifth Man
3.2 Al-Muhajiroun: al-Qaeda Front in the UK
3.3 Al-Qaeda, 7/7, and Warning Signs
CONCLUSIONS
APPENDIX: THE BALKANS CONNECTION
1992-1995: The Sponsorship of al-Qaeda in Bosnia-Herzegovina
1996-1999: The Sponsorship of al-Qaeda in Kosovo
2000-2003: The Sponsorship of al-Qaeda in Macedonia
7/7, British Geostrategy in the Balkans, and Islamist Terror Networks: “Out of Bounds”
POSTSCRIPT: AL-QAEDA SPONSORSHIP IN THE MIDDLE EAST 2005-2007
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Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:38 am Post subject: |
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Thank you for this Paul
In reference to Rcahel North's comment, I do wonder how Rachel would choose to define 'conspiracy theories'. I wonder for example if reports of MI5 involvement
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/270606londonbomber.htm
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1769381,00.html
http://community.channel4.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/503603557/m/104003708 6
or the unanswered questions over the explosions count as 'conspiracy theories'.
I agree with what she reportedly says
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the questions that matter must be put in the public domain until the government is forced to act
The difficulty, based on past statements, is that she is unlikely to ask all the most important questions and IMO her previous actions and views mean I don't take her views very seriously and are given far more weight than is deserved by the press. I wonder why that would be. She certainly appears to be playing a gate-keeper role, limiting the extent and nature of any inquiry and people such as yourself should be a little less trusting that she is a legitimate voice of July 7 truth |
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Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:13 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | APPENDIX: THE BALKANS CONNECTION
1992-1995: The Sponsorship of al-Qaeda in Bosnia-Herzegovina
1996-1999: The Sponsorship of al-Qaeda in Kosovo
2000-2003: The Sponsorship of al-Qaeda in Macedonia
7/7, British Geostrategy in the Balkans, and Islamist Terror Networks: “Out of Bounds”
POSTSCRIPT: AL-QAEDA SPONSORSHIP IN THE MIDDLE EAST 2005-2007 |
Stagemanaged event of the 'great and the good' with a few embedded islamic speakers to run the US line.
Al CIAeda arrived in Iraq with the US forces, so by implication they are related.
This event has been created to stagemanage an inquiry as was stated by a poster before... |
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Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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Concerning last night's launch of Ahmed's new 'parliamentary briefing paper' at the CAMPACC meeting ,well reviewed by Paul: it is entitled 'Islamist terror networks and the 7/7 intelligence failure.' Ahmed no longer has any shadow of doubt that the four young Muslims did it, and moreover he is convinved that Khan and Tanweer were shadowed for several years by MI5 because of their involvement in Al-qaeda terror type movements.
Reading his text, one notes the compete absence of any documents, articles, or TV programs, dating from before july 7th 2005, alleging this. Only after his death do all the stories start to proliferate, blackening the name of Mohammed 'Sid' Khan, and Nafeez has decided to believe them all. What a pity.
There is a big deal about the 'Crevice' trial, where persons were arrested in 2004 alleged to be plotting something with some fertiliser they had got hold of - o no, not fertiliser! But, is there anything, any document that can be shown, linking Khan and Tanweer to this group?
It seems to me that the police and MI5 and MI6 have told so many untruths and changed their story so many times, that it is not appropriate to accept their word for these documents which they claim to have in their possesion but cannot show us. It seems to me that Ahmed's entire case is built upon such claims. Or, please correct me if I'm wrong.
The 'locus of terror in Britain' is said to be Luton (p.40). Somehow I need a bit more convincing. 'The Luton cell' ... uh huh.
A big deal is made of Omar Bakri Muhammed who was alleged to be proclaiming the inevitability of an attack upon london in 2004 (p40), but I checked out the article (The Times 17 Jan 2005) and it had Bakri denying that he was calling for violent action but rather saying that Muslims should consider emigrating to their homelands because of the oppression they experienced in tbe UK, as if they were under siege. Well that doesn't sound very much like Islamic terror to me.
I would greatly appreciate any comments upon whether anyone supports Mr Ahmed here. |
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