12 july 2005
Related: Department of Homeland Security reader for emergency responders on explosive devices:
http://cdp.dhs.gov/pdfs/agert/Explosive_Devices.pdf
And other readers on chemical, biological and radiological WMD:
http://cdp.dhs.gov/readahead.html
B. adds:
As well as the radio interview, Peter Power of Visor has also done one on TV, which is at the following places:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2005/110705bombingexercises.htm
http://www.terrorize.dk/misc/london/resources.php#terror.games
Here is a transcript of the relevant part of the interview:
***BEGIN***
POWER: Today we were running an exercise for a company - bear in mind now that I'm in the private sector - and we sat everybody down in the city - 1000 people involved in the whole organization - with the crisis team. And the most peculiar thing was it was we based on a scenario of simultaneous attacks on a underground and mainline station. So we had to suddenly switch an exercise from fictional to real. And one of the first things is, get that bureau number, when you have a list of people missing, tell them. And it took a long time -
INTERVIEWER: Just to get this right, you were actually working today on an exercise that envisioned virtually this scenario?
POWER: Almost precisely. I was up to 2 oclock this morning, because it's our job, my own company. Visor Consultants, we specialize in helping people to get their crisis management response, how you jump from slow time thinking to quick time doing. And we chose a scenario with no assistance, which is based on a terrorist attack because they've been close to a property occupied by Jewish businessmen there in the city, and there are more American banks in this city than there are in the whole of New York - a logical thing to do.
INTERVIEWER: How extraordinary today must feel for you as it unfolds. You mentioned a few moments ago there our experience with Irish Republican terrorism. And of course it was very different wasn't it because however perverted their behavior, the IRA believed itself to have some sort of code of honour, and tended to issue some kind of warnings, of course they often came too late to do any good.
***END***
What does he mean by 'get that bureau number'?
Which company is he talking about?
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And B. writes again:
For all his clipped posh 'confident' tones, the guy uses a lot of sentence fragments.
I think there are some mistakes in the transcript:
ONE
transcript:
"we chose a scenario with no assistance"
what he actually says is:
"we chose a scenario with their assistance"
I.E. WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE COMPANY WITH THE >1000 EMPLOYEES IN LONDON
TWO
transcript:
"they've been close to a property occupied by Jewish businessmen there in the City"
what he actually says is:
"they're very close to a property occupied by Jewish businessmen. They're in the City"
Also, what is he talking about when he says "get that bureau number"?
What bureau??
The non sequitur regarding American banks in the City suggests that the company may be an American bank (Merrill Lynch? UBS Warburg?)
Other possibilities:
the Conran organisation (part-owns the Great Eastern hotel)
Benfield/Benfield Grieg/Benfield Hazard
Deutsche Bank (co-organised the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Conference at the Great Eastern Hotel with the Israeli embassy)
11 July 2005
B. writes:
There is smoking-gun evidence to prove UK State involvement in the recent terror attacks in London. An 'exercise' was planned by an organisation called 'Visor', run by former senior police, security, and military personnel. This exercise was planned to take place in London on THE SAME DAY, and involved the 'simulation' of SIMULTANEOUS BOMB EXPLOSIONS at the SAME TUBE STATIONS close to which bombs did actually explode. The head of this organisation admitted this in an interview broadcast by BBC Radio 5 on Thursday evening. The transcript of the relevant part is below, and I have also uploaded the audio file.
PLEASE CIRCULATE
The broadcast is also at:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/audio/090705exercise_clip.mp3
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2005/07/318017.mp3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/fivelive/aod.shtml?fivelive/drive_thu
***BEGIN TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW FROM 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.
***END TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW FROM BBC RADIO 5***
Information about senior people at 'Visor' - former police, security, and military personnel, is at:
http://www.visorconsultants.com/teamvisor.html