11: Part 2: New Scotland Yard and the 7/7 London Terrorist Attack

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🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

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	Hi everybody, welcome back to Episode 11, Part 2, New Scotland Yard and the 777 London
0:16.6	Train Bombings.
0:17.6	And obviously this included a bus, 53 people killed, over 700 injured, so in this next
0:23.0	part we're going to get into it with Alan and Graham about a lot of the details behind
0:27.0	at what New Scotland Yard was doing, and their counterterrorism command across all of
0:31.0	the UK, how they were tracking down leads, and then the follow on attacks that happened
0:35.0	two weeks later.
0:36.0	Fortunately, those weren't successful, we'll find out why and why the construction of
0:41.1	the detonators made these bombs fail.
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1:13.3	So now let's get back into the next part, Episode 11, Part 2, New Scotland Yard and the
1:18.7	777 London Train Bombings.
1:23.3	Describe, describe also, real quick, Steve, I'm sorry, what was the concern about a follow
1:38.0	on attack?
1:39.0	I mean, did you have any indication of who was responsible at that time, and then also
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