There are 3 items posted on this post. Steve Watson's article, mine and at the bottom is Peter Power's first e-mail to the Uncensored website, dated 16/2/08 in which he claimed a post about him was libellous. The post has since been removed.
Peter Power Reveals More Details of 7/7 Terrorist Bombing Drills Names the company he was working with on the morning of London Bombings
http://www.prisonplanet.com/peter-power-reveals-more-details-of-77-terrorist-bombing-drills.htmlSteve Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, April 6, 2009
Peter Power, the former Scotland Yard official Anti-Terrorist Branch official, who oversaw drills of the very events of the London bombings on the morning of 7/7 as they were happening, has revealed more details behind the events for the first time in three and a half years.
A statement, apparently from Mr Power, has appeared in the comments section of a recent blog posting regarding comments Power made on the BBC last week.
As we highlighted, the “crisis management expert” revealed that some companies used the shut down of the city of London on Wednesday, during the G20 protests, as a dress rehearsal for an influenza pandemic.
In response to an explanation of who Peter Power is, which was added by the Uncensored Magazine blog, Mr Power himself posted a lengthy statement in which he reveals that the company he was working with on 7/7 was London based information giant Reed Elsevier.
The company is most notable for its ownership of the Lexis/Nexis legal database, as well as many other information sources. As Elsevier, it runs a vast number of science journals, including some of the biggest and most reputable ones. Reed is also known as a host of large exhibitions. The company part owns the ExCel Centre in London’s Docklands area, where the G20 summit was held this past weekend.
Here is Peter Power’s statement in full:
There has been much nonsense written about why my company ran an exercise on 7 July 2005 that had very close parallels to the real thing that day. Since then I have made several attempts to add my own comments to numerous sites that seem to get increasingly excited about their own conspiracy theories and in the process exclude any rational debate. It seems those who occupy the world of finding conspiracy theories to replace just about any coincidence, do not want to have any dialogue with those offering a different view, but I have not yet given up hope. I am therefore hoping, perhaps naively, that someone might like to read an honest and factual account about a particular exercise my company ran in London three years ago.
Unfortunately, the BBC had postponed in 2008 a programme in their ‘conspiracy files’ series that would have done this. Our client three years ago agreed to be named in the BBC programme since the attitude of the producer and his team was very balanced (several conspiracy theorists were also invited to take part). We even allowed our complete exercise material to be made available to the BBC. Regrettably broadcasting in 2008 might have jeopardised an ongoing court case, so they had little choice about postponing it to 2009.
Early in 2005 Reed Elsevier, an organisation specialising in information and publishing that employs 1,000 people in and around London, asked us to help them prepare an effective crisis management plan and rehearse it before sign-off. Several draft scenarios were drawn up and the crisis team themselves set the exercise date and time: 9.00am on 7 July.
The test was planned as a table-top walk through for about six people (the CM team) in a lecture room with all injects simulated. Everything was on MS PowerPoint. The location of their Central London office near to Chancery Lane was chosen as one test site. With many staff travelling to work via the London underground system, the chosen exercise simulated incendiary devices on three trains, very similar to a real IRA attack in 1992, as well as other events.
As there had been eighteen terrorist bomb attacks on tube trains prior to 2005, choosing the London Underground was logical rather than just prescient. With this in mind it was hardly surprising that Deutsche Bank had run a similar exercise a few days before and, prior to that, a multi-agency (and much publicised) exercise code-named Osiris II had simulated a terrorist attack at Bank tube station. Moreover, I had also taken part in a BBC Panorama programme in 2004 as a panellist alongside Michael Portillo MP et al, in an unscripted debate (we had no idea at all what the scenario was to be?) on how London might once again, deal with terrorist attacks, only this time it was fictional (created entirely by the BBC).
In short, some of the research for our exercise had already been done. The scenario developed for our client even started by using fictitious news items from the Panorama programme then, as with any walk through exercise, events unfolded solely on a screen as dictated by the facilitator without any external injects or actions beyond the exercise room. Also factored into the scenario was to be an above ground fictitious bomb exploding not far from the head office of the protected Jewish Chronicle magazine where for exercise purposes, our imagined terrorists would have been aware that commuters would now be walking to work (past a building already considered a target) as some tube stations would have been closed.
Of just eight nearby tube stations that fell within possible exercise scope, three were chosen that, by coincidence, were involved in the awful drama that actually took place on 7 July 2005. A level of scenario validation that on this occasion, we could have done without.
An exercise that turns into the real thing is not that unusual. For example, in January 2003, thirty people were injured when a tube train derailed and hit a wall at speed. At the same time, the City of London Police were running an exercise for their central casualty bureau where the team quickly abandoned their plans and swung into action to cope with the real thing.
For a surprising number of people such coincidents cannot be accepted as such. There just has to be a conspiracy behind them, despite the obvious point that painstaking research will always identify probable above possible scenarios. By the way, the only reason I was asked to speak on TV news that day, when there was still much confusion about the real tragedies, was to encourage more organisations to thoroughly plan their own exercises knowing the threat of terrorism is and remains, very real. One tragic consequence being Islam, a great Abrahamic, monotheistic faith (along with Judaism and Christianity), has undeservedly become vilified by some people.
Peter Power
Visor Consultants
To re-cap the situation, on the afternoon of July 7th, 2005, Power told a BBC radio interviewer that his company was running an exercise for an unnamed group that revolved around three bombs going off at precisely the same tube stations and precisely the same time as those that were hit that morning.
The transcript is as follows.
PETER 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.
The odds of such a coincidence are absolutely staggering, which led some to charge that Power’s drill was set up ahead of time, or used by people with insider foreknowledge of 7/7.
Just as happened on 9/11, when exercises involving hijacked aircraft overlapped with the real attacks, some charge that the drill was a cover for the real attack in case any of its perpetrators were caught.
Power alluded to the nature of the simulations in the days after 7/7, in an effort to downplay the significance of the mock-versus-real events.
Less than one week after the bombings, as Power and his company Visor consultants received correspondence and questions, mostly stemming from our articles on the drills, a short statement was issued, concluding with the following comments:
“Beyond this no further comment will be made and based on the extraordinary number of messages from ill informed people, no replies will henceforth be given to anyone unable to demonstrate a bona fide reason for asking (e.g. accredited journalist / academic).”
Power’s culpability is seemingly minimal - after all why would he announce the drill on national radio hours after the attack? - but his reaction to questions regarding the drills highlighted that he was not comfortable discussing the subject further.
Indeed, in December 2007, when Power was approached politely by members of the We Are Change group, who explained who they were and what they were doing, he refused to answer any of their questions on camera, saying he would not tolerate the approach.
Watch the video:
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This is the crappy one I wrote, which addresses the issue of what Reed Elsevier does and its links to the arms industry.
Peter Power Divulges It Was Reed Elsevier He Was Working For On 7/7, A Company Criticized For Its Links To The Arms IndustryPosted by: Clare Swinney ⋅ April 7, 2009
Peter Power of Visor Consultants, who openly admitted during a BBC interview shortly after the London bombings of July the 7th 2005, that he was 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 the 7/7 bombings occurred, has disclosed that the company he was working for was Reed Elsevier.
On April the 6th, in response to a news item and a short blog related to the 7/7 bombings that were posted on the Uncensored website, he stated in the comment section that in 2005 Reed Elsevier asked Visor Consultants to prepare an effective crisis management plan and rehearse, and he wrote that: ” Several draft scenarios were drawn up and the crisis team themselves set the exercise date and time: 9.00am on 7 July…”. You can read his full statement here, which he provided to the j7: July 7th Truth Campaign Blog website back in October 2008, although it evidently did not attract any media attention then. It has now however, as the major alternative news sites, Prisonplanet.com and Infowars.com have published the story.
So what does Reed Elsevier do? Its website shows that the company invests heavily in disseminating information across the globe, describing itself as a world leading provider of professional information and online workflow solutions in the science, medical, legal, risk information and analytics, and business sectors, as well as being one of the world’s largest media companies. It owns a wide variety of companies and publications, from LexisNexis to Gray’s Anatomy and New Scientist magazine.
It promotes the unfounded notion that climate change is a threat and hails support for the United Nations Global Compact, and its activities are as diverse as funding medical facilities in the developing world, to hosting meetings to discuss designing a transatlantic agenda.
In recent years it has been criticized for promoting the arms industry, as it has organized arms exhibitions in the Middle East, the UK and the US where inhumane weapons and torture devices have been exhibited. Reed Exhibitions, a a subsidiary of Reed Elsevier, runs The Shot Show in the US where electroshock batons and stun belts have been up for sale, in conjunction with torture devices that bear that inhumane caption: “Making Grown Men Cry Since 1975″ according to the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT).
In addition, Reed Exhibitions purchased the IDEX fair which has been a subject of some controversy too. According to the Independent, (
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20070417/ai_n19013376/ ) IDEX, named “the world’s largest and fastest growing defence exhibition,” organized an exhibition in 2007 in the United Arab Emirates and invited the defence minister of Sudan, a regime condemned for sponsoring the “genocide” in Darfur, as well as put land mines and cluster bombs up for sale.
Reed Exhibitions owned the Defence Systems and Equipmentreedagm07small International, (DSEI) a defence and security equipment exhibition, which is held every two years in London Docklands. It staged a show from the 13th to the 16th of September in 2005, a few weeks after the 7/7 London bombings, described as
Europe’s biggest arms fair. Likely owing to criticism say campaigners, who believed the company was making the international arms dealers’ work that much easier, the company sold the DSEI to Clarion Events in April 2008.
Related:Peter Power Reveals More Details of 7/7 Terrorist Bombing Drills
http://www.infowars.com/peter-power-reveals-more-details-of-77-terrorist-bombing-drills/See Peter Power’s response when asked by WeAreChange who he had worked for on 7/7 here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29tzNXKUL-QLondon Underground Bombing ‘Exercises’ Took Place at Same Time as Real Attack
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2005/090705bombingexercises.htmReed Elsevier’s reputation collapses as investors ditch shares
http://www.caat.org.uk/press/archive.php?url=130207prsRowntree dumps its Reed shares
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14371Europe’s Biggest Arms Show Opens in London Amid Tight Security
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0909-04.htm7/7 Mock Terror Drill: What Relationship to the Real Time Terror Attacks?
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PETER POWER'S FIRST E-MAIL TO THE Uncensored Website.This news about Reed posted a few days ago was the second time Peter Power has posted on the Uncensored site. He first posted on 2008/02/16 regarding a post someone had put up, which has since been deleted, entitled: UNCENSORED COINCIDENCE THEORY: Peter Power and the London Bombings.
Peter Power wrote 16/2/08:
I have already sent you the following email that has not, so far, been responded to: I have just read your libellous and absurd feature supposedly about me now available on the internet. I had not responded before to your earlier email as it automatically went into my spam folder along with all the other messages from bizarre minded people. For your information I decided to leave the Dorset police. I was not dismissed. You might want to withdraw your statement now, or I will indeed take action against you for libel. I was never charged, ‘forced to retire’, summonsed or prosecuted for anything at all. Beyond that I do not feel compelled to answer your malicious allegations that anyone in their right mind would have nothing to do with. However, we do have on our answerphone in London a rambling message supposedly from you saying inter alia, you were the subject of a police raid and became upset as a result…
Peter Power
Visor Consultants
