11: Part 1: New Scotland Yard and the 7/7 London Terrorist Attack

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🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 103 minutes

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On July 7, 2005 at 8:49 AM, three bombs exploded on London underground trains within 50 seconds of each other. An hour later a fourth bomb exploded on the upper deck of a bus. Over 700 people were injured and 53 killed in the worst attack on the United Kingdom since World War II. The race was on to identify who was behind the bombings and make sure follow-on attacks weren’t being executed.

DS Alan Thomas and DC Graeme Burridge of New Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) were part of a massive investigation to identify the bombers, collect evidence, and trace leads. Alan and Graeme were also involved in the response to the second attempted series of bombings two weeks later. In this two part episode, we go deep inside the investigation and the real story behind the attacks on London.

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0:00.0	This week, suicide bombers attack London on July 7, 2005, killing 53 people and wounding
0:06.4	another 700, as members of New Scotland Yards' anti-terrorism branch rates to investigate
0:12.4	this attack and prevent a future one. Welcome to Game of Crimes.
0:17.6	Hey everybody, Morgan Wright here. Welcome back to the next episode of Game of Crimes that I am
0:34.3	here literally. Well, we say literally here with my partnering crime. The best looking member of
0:40.9	this duo, Steve Murphy, but you can call me Murphy. And since we're on a podcast, you have no way
0:45.9	of proving he's the better looking one. So look it up. Look it up. Yeah. Well, no, don't look
0:51.1	at Boyd Holdbrook's photo that played him in Narcos. Look at the real Steve Murphy. His name was
0:55.3	Steve Murphy for a while. You can look at him if you want to. No, hey, don't let the good looks
0:59.8	for you there, pal. Hey, guys, welcome back. Hey, by the way, Steve, I got to tell you, got a lot of
1:04.6	comments about Michelle Linhart. And just especially from the women, they were like, you know, it's great
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1:21.3	ticket was thought fart was a cuss word until she came and then comes up to lead the DEA.
1:28.2	A lady who had to poof up her hair to meet the minimum hydroquart. Poof, poof the hairy, you know,
1:35.8	you know what? And the cool thing about Michelle is she's just the sweetest, nicest person in the
1:39.9	world. You just don't ever want to make her mad because you, you know, it's not that she blows up
1:44.4	because she tells us she only dropped the F mom once. But when you upset her, you just feel guilty.
1:48.9	Like, man, she's the nicest person in the world. Mama Michelle, don't upset Mama Michelle. Don't
1:53.2	make she'll use the guilt trip on you. Mighty Mike. Mighty Mike. Well, hey, guys, we hope you enjoyed
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