July 7th Articles, Letters, Interviews and Media Archive

 

Articles, Letters, Interviews and Media Archive

An archive of articles, letters, interviews and other media featuring the J7 team in the ongoing quest to get to the truth behind what really happened in London on 7th July 2005, and who or what was responsible for making it happen.

• J7 Interviews
• J7 Articles and letters
• J7 in the media

J7 Interviews

• Exclusive interview with political prisoner Hussain al-Samamra, a Palestinian who sought political asylum in the UK, only to be imprisoned for two years without charge by the British State.

• Interview with Thomas Ikimi, cousin of Anthony Fatayi-Williams & director of 7/7 film The Homefront - "Anyone who thinks the [Home Office] report is a full account is not being serious or realistic. The holes are so glaring, that even as a story, it isn't a very good one." Announcing the launch of his new film The Homefront, the Cousin of 7/7 victim Anthony Fatayi Williams, filmmaker Thomas Ikimi, tells J7 more about the film, and the Fatayi Williams' family experiences at the hands of the government since 7/7. Read more....

• J7 meets the Ludicrous Diversion team - J7 obtain an exclusive interview with the makers of the 7/7 video documentary, Ludicrous Diversion.

J7 Articles & Letters

• J7 publish our Submissions to the 7 July Inquests, a series of documents compiled following Lady Justice Hallett's decision to accept submissions suggesting questions and lines of inquiry for the Inquests.

• Book review: Out of the Tunnel, by Rachel 'North'.

• J7 respond to two 7/7 articles published in Notes from the Borderland issues 7 and 8. Read our response here.

• Debunking 7/7 Debunking: An article in two parts that debunks some of the disingenuous attacks against those not convinced by the official story of 7/7. Read Part 1 here and read Part 2 here.

• J7 challenge assertions made by Paul Stott in his paper and presentation to the Anarchist Studies Network conference at Loughborough University.

• Latest J7 article in the Capitalising on Terror series published: Human Rights Abuses & The Demonisation of 'The Enemy' in Secret Britain

• J7 Exclusive Report: Peter Power's CV Fakery - 7/7 terror rehearsal man and regular BBC 'terror' consultant was suspended from Dorset Police pending an internal inquiry that resulted in a file being sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions. Full story here.

• The J7 response to the BBC Conspiracy Files - In July 2007 the BBC approached J7 asking for participants in a 'documentary' about 7/7. Six months after initial contact, the BBC revealed the 'documentary' was part of BBC2's risible Conspiracy Files series. On learning this, J7 declined to participate and this article explains why.

• 7/7 Ripple Effect - A rebuttal and rejection of 7/7 Ripple Effect, a film behind which there appears to be a sinister agenda and which uses the few known facts about 7/7 to construct an alternative narrative which is as speculative, evidence free and unsubstantiated as the official Home Office version of events. A copy of J7's rebuttal and rejection of 7/7 Ripple Effect can be found here.

• 'July 7th as Machiavellian State Terror?' an article by Professor David MacGregor in which the events of 7/7 are given historical context and examined as potential acts of, 'Machiavellian state terror, spectacular violence perpetrated against the state by elements of the state itself'. Professor MacGregor is the author of a number of books and articles on Hegel and Marx. He is cited in the Wikipedia entry for Deep Politics alongside the originator of the term 'Deep Politics', Peter Dale Scott, and is the author of two articles concerning the September 11 terrorist attacks, including "September 11 as Machiavellian State Terror" which highlights the importance of 'oppositional theorizing: questioning government and looking for connections between events' activities which Professor MacGregor suggests, 'are critical features of what it means to be vitally active in the political universe'.

• Writer and journalist William Bowles on The economics of 7/7 and other mysteries of capitalism explained in an article written specially for the July 7th Truth Campaign. "If a country like the former Soviet Union, armed to the teeth and with the massive resources of the state could not achieve the alleged objective of overthrowing capitalism after seventy-five years, it is reasonable to ask the question, why has the British state embarked on a policy of creating a de facto police state replete with laws which have more than a passing similarity to those passed by both Hitler and Mussolini?" Read the article here.

• Capitalising on Terror - Who is really destroying our freedoms? A J7 article that looks at how 7/7 has been used as the justification for the imposition of radical, reactionary and Draconian legislation that criminalises everyone as 'terrorists'. Yet the actual story of what happened on 7/7 -- the event that provides the unquestionable basis and rubber stamp for new anti-terror legislation, police powers and lucrative 'security' contracts -- and how it happened is not yet known. Read the article here.

• “On the hypothesis of the article on London bombings” - a second article by Professor Fazal Rahman, following up on his August 8, 2005 article, London bombings: the unasked and unanswered questions, which examines hypotheses other than the official, evidence-free, conspiracy theory touted by the British government and a largely compliant and complicit British media.

• “London bombings: the unasked and unanswered questions” - an article written by Professor Fazal Rahman on August 8, 2005, a month after the July 7th bombings.  At the time, the article was submitted to only one group in the UK, Red Pepper.  They decided not to publish it.  On October 28,  2006, the article was submitted, without any changes, to Indymedia in Oxford. By October 30, the article had been removed from the front page of the 'Independent Media' site.

• 'The 'real' story of 7/7 - a refutation' - A rebuttal of the Sunday Observer article, 'The 'real' story of 7/7' by J7 researcher, Kier. Originally posted on the July Seventh Truth Campaign blog.

• A letter of support from leading community activist academic and writer, AbdulWahid Hamid, author of the best-seller 'Islam: The Natural Way' and former editor of The Muslim.

• The narrative musings of a 12 year old - the son of a J7 forum member emailed us with a copy of his superbly crafted thoughts on the official government narrative, as sent to the Home Secretary, John Reid. [Update 28/06/06: Read the response to this letter here.]

• The Muslim Council of Britain press release issued in response to the release of the government narrative.

• An article by Shahid Qureshi. Director of Journalist Rights International, Don't Blame British Muslims for Terrorism. The article references the 'bombing exercises' that were running on July 7th, French intelligence about military explosives and the Madrid and Omagh bombings, the latter of which is notable because one of the terrorists was a British double-agent whose cover would have been blown as an informer if the operation was uncovered.

• Some questions that need to be answered - Article by Dr M. Naseem of Birmingham Central Mosque.

• A Muslim petition to Tony Blair (1100+ signatories).

• Letter to DAC Brian Paddick from Keith Mothersson.

J7 in the Media

The July 7th Truth Campaign elsewhere:

• Michael White, assistant Editor at the Guardian, refers to J7 and the "stern, unforgiving way, [J7] concentrates on the known facts and known oddities" in his article, 'We need to know truth behind claims of UK complicity in terror suspect torture'.

• The work of J7 gets a mention in a Sue Reid article for the Daily Mail, 'Conspiracy fever: As rumours swell that the government staged 7/7, victims' relatives call for a proper inquiry'.

• July 7th Truth Campaign interviewed on Channel 4 News as a new survey shows 59% of Muslims don't believe the government has told the whole truth about 7/7. Watch Darshna Soni's original report, Survey: 'government hasn't told truth about 7/7', read viewer comments on the piece that show it's not just Muslims who don't believe we have been told the truth. See also Darshna Soni's follow-up blog and 7/7 The Conspiracy Theories which explains some of the many errors and anomalies in the official story.

• Above Top Secret interviews the July 7th Truth Campaign. Read the interview here.

• The Guardian interview with J7 activist Bridget Dunne, Seeing Isn't Believing, an interview and article by Mark Honigsbaum. Published 27th June 2006.

• J7 were offered the opportunity to write a follow-up article to the Mark Honigsbaum interview. The result was published by the London Guardian's Comment is Free site on 4th July 2006: An independent public inquiry into the London bombings is long overdue.

• London 7/7 Bomb Questions Remain Unanswered 9 Months Later - Mathaba News article featuring July Seventh Truth Researcher and Campaigner, Bridget Dunne.

• 'False Flag' Fundamentalism: Tilting at Tube Trains' - report on the launch of Milan Rai's book, '7/7 The London Bombings, Islam and the Iraq War'.

• The BreakForNews interview with J7 researcher Bridget Dunne that prompted the Mathaba Independent News article.

• J7 on BreakForNews one year on, a second BreakForNews interview with J7 activist and researcher Bridget Dunne.