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Train departures
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Does the Luton train story add
up?
Apart from the disputed CCTV
still photo of the 'Leeds Four' entering one entrance to Luton train station,
apparently taken at 7.21.54secs, a second allegation has now emerged to
the effect that on that fateful morning, and because of cancellations,
there were no trains running from Luton to London at 7.40, as the police
keep repeating the men caught! Nor at 7.30.
The original allegation,
recorded in an audio interview with the truthseeker
website, came from an anonymous woman commuter, but has now been checked
by two investigators, James Stewart and Nick Kollerstrom, who spoke with
four other commuters and with railway staff. James and Nick also collected
official data on train arrivals and departure times that day. Their reports
are here:
http://www.financialoutrage.org.uk/trains_luton_to_kings_cross.htm
http://www.financialoutrage.org.uk/thameslink_database.htm
My reading of the situation
is as follows:
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There was a train (the '7.30')
which did leave a different platform (platform 4) at 7.42 BUT this didn't
get into Kings Cross Thameslink station until 8.39 which is almost
certainly too late for the four suspected perpetrators to have walked through
to the Kings Cross tube station and found their different platforms before
explosions occured at 8.50. According to Brian Blessed it takes about 6
minutes on foot to get to the correct platforms and then about 7 minutes
once aboard the Circle Line to get to Edgeware Rd and Aldgate in the rush
hour (much less time needed for the Picadilly Line explosion, much closer
to Kings Cross). http://www.team8plus.org/forum_viewtopic.php?9.871.20
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Equally serious, if the men
did catch the 7.42 train, then this possibility runs counter to what we
have been told at a press conference on July 12th by Deputy Assistant Commissioner,
Peter Clarke, Head of the MPS Anti-Terrorist Branch and National Co-ordinator
of Terrorist Investigations.
"We have identified
CCTV footage showing the four men at King's Cross
station shortly before
8.30 am on that morning of July 7."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1691468,00.html
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The only other way to make DAC
Clarke's report stand up (apart from full disclosure of this CCTV footage
and all the rest of the Kings Cross video footage, of course!) is if the
four designated perpetrators arrived on an earlier train. The only other
train the men could therefore have caught is the 7.24 which actually left
one minute late at 7.25 according to Thameslink records. Despite
the
view of Kollerstrom and Stewart, that this would not give enough time
(they estimate 3.30 mins needed), Brian Blessed has timed the walk at from
1 minute 20 seconds to 2 mins (depending on which platform the '7.24' (7.25)
left that day, and assuming that Jamal Lindsay, the man from Aylesbury,
had already bought four tickets, including Zone 1 tube tickets.) http://www.team8plus.org/forum_viewtopic.php?9.871.20
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Note also: another picture of
Hasib Hussain has been shown to us at Luton climbing the stairs. He does
not seem to be in any hurry, and in this photo the time strap has been
removed. Why? Could it just possibly be because the time is after 7.25?
VERDICT:
The police mantra that the
men got the 7.40 is definitely wrong. However there does seem a significant
window of opportunity for the men to have caught the 7.24, which probably
left at 7.25. So the fact that the police are wrong about the 7.40 train
could just be an innocent mistake, which doesn't in itself discredit the
main alleged evidence concerning the four being captured on CCTV at Kings
cross (which station??) at 8.26 that morning. A
video which we have still not been shown!
All these anomalies and suspicions
could easily be cleared up if we were to be shown a full and connected
video narrative (not just an isolated still) of the 4 suspects passing
under the very numerous cameras along Luton's station's corridors, stairs
and walkways and on the platform from which they are understood to have
caught their train, followed by footage from the Thameslink station right
along and through to the platforms they must have used to have been able
to get the Circle Line and Picadilly trains they are said to have boarded.
Let
Justice be seen to be done!