I’ve just seen a segment on CBC Newsworld Sunday with Peter Power, a representative with a company called Visor Consultants. He has just acknowledged that his company was running a security exercise in London when the bombings happened. This exercise was apparently based on a scenario of 3 bombs going off in the same 3 stations at the same approximate time…
I don’t trust myself to comment on this…
Update [2005-7-11 6:17:19 by zander]: – I’ve got it! A short clip of the interview can be seen here. I’ve sent a longer, larger clip to crooks and liars, and it may be up with them later if they’re interested.
The only article I’ve found is at Al-jazeera
Also the somewhat sketchy CanadaFreePress
– however these quotes from him do echo what I heard Mr. Powers say quite bluntly on Canadian television just a moment ago.
“The host interviewed Peter Power, Managing Director of Visor Consultants, which bills itself as a `crisis management advice company’, better known to you and I as a PR firm.
“Power told the host that at the exact same time that the London bombings were taking place, his company was running a 1,000 person strong exercise which drilled the London Underground being bombed at the exact same locations, at the exact same times, as happened in real life.
“Peter Power was a former Scotland Yard official, working at one time with the Anti Terrorist Branch.”
Power told BBC that the drill focused around “simultaneous bombings”. Originally the London bombings were thought to have been spread over an hour, but BBC reports today say that the bombings were in fact simultaneous.
Watson and Jones say, “The fact that the exercise mirrored the exact locations and times of the bombings is light years ahead beyond a coincidence”.
Update [2005-7-11 1:51:36 by zander]: On the 7th, Peter Power did an interview with BBC Radio 5..
“POWER: At half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise for a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing up right now.
HOST: To get this quite straight, you were running an exercise to see how you would cope with this and it happened while you were running the exercise?
POWER: Precisely, and it was about half past nine this morning, we planned this for a company and for obvious reasons I don’t want to reveal their name but they’re listening and they’ll know it. And we had a room full of crisis managers for the first time they’d met and so within five minutes we made a pretty rapid decision that this is the real one and so we went through the correct drills of activating crisis management procedures to jump from slow time to quick time thinking and so on.”
That interview can be downloaded here in .mp3 format.
