The 7/7 Bus Bomb

[The Watcher]

Staraker exclaimed:

[karlos]

The driver casually walking away from the incident (as caught on camera).

[numeral]

[Nick Cooper]

[conspiracy analyst]

[Nick Cooper]

[conspiracy analyst]

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[guzman]

[numeral]

hi guzman, you quote the Times:

[Nick Cooper]

[Prole]

[guzman]

[guzman]

[conspiracy analyst]

[karlos]

George Psaradakis, 49, of Darville Road, Stoke Newington escaped with just cuts and bruises in the devastating bomb blast, which ripped through the bus he was driving at 9.47am on Thursday morning in Tavistock Square, central London, killing at least 13 of his passengers.
"My bus had been diverted because there were thousands of people coming out of the Tube," he said after the event. "There were many people who were trying to get on the bus at once. Suddenly there was a bang, then carnage. Everything seemed to happen behind me.
"There were many injured people and at first I thought, how am I alive when everyone is dying around me?"
Eyewitness accounts recall body parts and human debris scattered all over the square and the devastating scene became too much for the bus driver who rang his wife Adriani in tears sobbing: "My passengers are dead, all my passengers are dead."

this is the report in the Local Press - Hachney Gazette 13/07/2005

[karlos]

Greek bus driver taken into hiding by police as key witness

The Greek driver of the bus blown up in one of the London attacks last Thursday is under police protection at a secret location the Athens News Agency reported yesterday. Giorgos Psaradakis, 47, survived the blast with minor injuries. The bus’s CCTV system was not working on the morning of the attacks so the Metropolitan Police consider Psaradakis a key witness to events leading to the explosion, which killed 13 people. Meanwhile, a service for the victims of the London bombings is to be held at 10.30 a.m. tomorrow at Saint Paul’s Anglican Church at 27 Filellinon Street, off Syntagma Square.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100019_12/07/20 05_58512

Now the point is not that his wife's name is really ANDRIANI not Adriani. But if he was taken into protective custody why does the GLA report not state this?

"He told me that two passengers were killed, and that a girl died in his hands," said Yiannis Psaradakis, the uncle of London Transport driver George Psaradakis. Means that some of the other victims may have be allocated to the Bus when they really died on the tube?
There is a big difference between TWO and THIRTEEN

My personal view is indeed that he was whisked away for debriefing, he could not have walked to Central Middlesex hospital but could have been dropped off there by police - although in the photo he does not look injured at all.
Certainly he did not stay and help the passengers all of that hero stuff is definately a lie because then he would be in more than one photo and would be at the scene when the media arrived.
Phoning his wife and uncle may have happened while he was at Central Middlesex but certainly not at the scene because he did not even report the bomb to his depot or 999 which should have instinctively been his first two calls.
He speaks of hoardes of people clamouring to get on the bus even though the bus is on the wrong street. People do not just get onto any bus going anywhere so anyone seeing the number 30 on Upper Woburn Place would not have tried to get on because it does not usually go that way and so has no bus stop.

Bottom line is the bus driver's story is a pack of lies, but it may not be that he is the villian just another potential victim told to keep his head down and play ball or else he ends up like Richmal.

Certainly the few victims report seems realistic. Most genuine passengers would have got off the bus when they saw it stuck in traffic and diverted a few who were maybe distracted talking on the phone or reding a paper may ot have noticed the diversion. Richard Jone's report for what it's worth states that most of the people got off.

Taken from the Islington Advertiser:
Miss Rosenberg, who lives in Finsbury Park, has not been heard of since the bomb in Tavistock Square on Thursday.
She is one of the 50 people still missing, feared dead, and Mr Falding's memories of their last conversation echo in his head.
Mr Falding, 62, said: "Her last word was 'newsletter' because she was saying this would make a good story for the one I write. Then I heard the most ghastly sounds of screaming in the background.
"I don't think it was the people who were hurt but survivors who saw what had happened. I didn't hear a blast but Anat's phone went dead right away."

I am simply trying to piece the various reports to construct a plausible storyline. This is clearly the moment Anat Rosenberg died. Which again is an unusual story:
Israeli Jewish woman leaves her country because of bus bombings, only to die in a bus bombing herself.
Anat's reasons for leaving Israel were complex. She was very patriotic.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jonathan_spyer/2006/07/in_memory_o f_anat_rosenberg.html
Mike's Bar as you may recall is the bar allegedly blown up by two more British bombers but later proven to have been blown up by Mossad.
How would two British Asian's have got visas to visit Israel or not have stuck out like a sore thumb and been stopped and searched everywhere they went. Let alone make videos?
I am not saying Anat is not dead simply she makes yet another unusual link.

[guzman]

stelios/karlos,

do you know the Greek version of George Psaradakis' name?

[karlos]

Georgios is his christian name. But spellings can vary, ofcourse Giorgos or giorgios, but it means the same thing George.
Like Karl is short for Karlos.
However his surname Psaradakis is not a very common name at all.

All of the various accounts cannot be true so we have to consider what are more realistic. His call to his family in Crete - he would have probably told them the truth. His being debriefed by the police and then getting dropped off at an uncrowded hospital is also plausible. Ambulances do this all the time when a major incident occurs.

Forget this talk about any other hospital because all reports clearly stated the central middx.

His story is very unusual. A 16 year old emigrating to Britain in 1972 to escape the rag trade.
In 1972 Britain was not a member of EU nor was Greece so how he would have acquired his visa goodness knows.
In 1974 the Cyprus war happened which caused alot of Cypriots to come to Britain but dont forget Cyprus was British colony.Greece was never a part of any treaty with Britain nor was it part of the EU.
I am pretty sure this 1972 story is a cooked up one.
A Greek man emerged as one of the key witnesses in Thursday’s terrorist attacks in London after it was revealed that he had been driving the bus which was ripped apart by one of the bombs, killing at least 13 passengers.

[karlos]

http://www.astynomia.gr/main/Article.jsp?ArticleID=66140&LanguageID=2
Greek public order minister Voulgarakis met George Psaradakis, the Greek driver of the bus involved in the terrorist attacks, and gave him a small silver wreath as a symbolic gesture.

"You made us proud," Voulgarakis told the driver, who replied "I am pleased that you feel that way. I did my duty and I am glad that I also honored Greece."

Psaradakis then gave the minister a description of the dramatic moments he experienced immediately after the blast which reduced the bus to wreckage.

"The sight was terrible. I thought I was standing before a slaughterhouse, but I did not loose my calm and I tried to help my passengers. I feel lucky that I survived. It was a miracle and I attribute it to the Virgin Mary. I have her icon beside me in the bus when I am driving," he said.


Why on earth did he wear his bus driver uniform to meat the minister and recieve his medal?

[conspiracy analyst]

[karlos]

7/7 victims told: Therapy cash has run out

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23421959-details/77+vic tims+told:+Therapy+cash+has+run+out/article.do

The Government has been accused of betraying 7/7 victims after it emerged it has stopped funding psychological support for traumatised survivors of the terror attacks.

People left mentally scarred by their experiences during the 2005 bombings have been told they no longer qualify for priority help - and have been advised to visit their GPs instead.

Campaigners warned the move could even drive people still suffering from post traumatic shock to suicide. Many face year-long waits for mental health treatment on the NHS.

Opposition MPs have demanded that ministers reverse the decision to stop funding the Trauma Response Programme, set up two years ago.

Shadow health minister Mike Penning told the Evening Standard: "It was brave enough for these people to seek help in the first place.

"Continuity is vital in treating them but now they will be put back in the system without knowing what will happen to them.

"This is a betrayal of the victims of 7/7," he said.

Mind, the mental health charity, said it was another example of how mental health services were a low priority for the Government.

The attacks on London's transport network were Britain's largest mass casualty event since the Second World War, killing 56 people and injuring 775. Countless more were psychologically scarred by what they witnessed.

At least 900 survivors have been treated by the programme.

Clinical psychologists, including those from University College London and the Maudsley, have helped people suffering from symptoms of post traumatic stress, such as flashbacks, nightmares and anxiety.

The withdrawal of funding means that 7/7 patients will no longer get priority treatment and will have to join NHS waiting lists, which in some areas are more than a year long.

Jacqui Putnam, a survivor of the Edgware Road bombing, said: "I feel very let down. This should be a priority service and the fear is there will be suicides because people will not be getting the help they need."

A report on the programme's performance is due to be published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress next month.

It found that many survivors were left suffering from travel phobia and major depression after seeing people dead and maimed in the blasts.

But it concluded that at least four out of every five patients have benefited from the "psychological first aid" as well as more intensive therapy that the programme offers.

Professor Anke Ehlers, one of the report's authors, said: "This specialist treatment is so important because trauma can lead to relationship breakdown and destroy people's lives."

The report recommends that the NHS should fund a network of specially trained psychologists who would be on stand-by to help survivors of future national disasters.

But the Standard has learned the NHS has already rejected this proposal.

A spokesman for the Department of Health spokesman said the programme had been established by the health service to "offer support to adults and children who suffered trauma-related mental health problems in the aftermath of the 7 July bombings".

He added: "This was a unique response to an unprecedented event and although the programme has come to an end, all those who need help will still receive help from the NHS.

"The World Health Organisation regards our mental health services as among the best in Europe and the NHS will do all it can to support those who need it most."

[astro3]

Can Karlos kindly explain how he happened to be reading a Cretan newspaper? The testimony of the bus driver's uncle that Mr P. told him, that he had only seen two dead beside his bus before embarking on his 6-mile stroll is quite interesting. Can we have the name of the newspaper, in Greek or English, plus date and page?

There are of course 13 names of the dead in the memorial at Tavistock Square. The testimony of Stephanie Riakakuei has 'at east seven' dead there that morning: (Telegraph 8th July). She works on the corner of Tavistock Square in the UCL Psychology Dept, I tried to get an interview with her but she declined...

[TonyGosling]

Astro, can you be less patronising in your cross-examination please?

[Bushwacker]

[karlos]

[karlos]

[conspiracy analyst]

Some reports in the Greek and Cypriot media as found by a friend

CYPRIOT DEMOCRACY PRESS OFFICE

http://www.moi.gov.cy/moi/pio/pio.nsf/0/c4b6e527352df94dc225703b003122 5b?OpenDocument&print&Click=

According to this report the bus driver was being guarded by the police and was stopped from making any interviews with the media after having spent some time in hospital.


http://www.in.gr/news/article.asp?lngEntityID=636911&lngDtrID=244

According to the above report dated a day after it states the driver is 47 years old of Greek origin and is reported to be ok after the attack. Only two people are reported dead on the bus. He also spoke with his relatives in Crete as he is from Hania. It also states he was under house arrest by the police.

http://www.enet.gr/online/online_text/c=110,dt=15.07.2005,id=85365344

Here it is reported the bus driver was involved in heroic acts saving passengers and getting them out from the exploded bus.

[astro3]

It seems that there may be only one really authentic testimony for what hapened on that 30 bus, and that comes from the Australian Tania Calibrese. Her testimony hints at actually seeing the terrorist agents, so let's quote it in full. Sitting on the middle of the top deck with her boyfriend she has no idea that a bomb has gone off. It was printed on July 10th

[karlos]

more clear evidence of police foreknowledge