BBC Conspiracy Files documentary 'incoherent to the point of being implausible'
Added: (Tue Oct 13 2009)
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On 30th June 2009, the BBC Conspiracy Files series produced by Mike Rudin challenged claims made in the internet documentary 7/7 Ripple Effect. A new academic paper, uploaded to the Scridb document repository (http://www.scribd.com/doc/20833633/) has concluded that "the theory advanced in 7/7 Ripple Effect is better able to explain anomalies in the official account as well as the evidence of a crisis at Canary Wharf on the same day".
The study retrieved press reports for the period 7th - 30th July 2005 leading to a conclusion that BBC documentary is "incoherent to the point of being implausible".
The paper, written by Dr Rory Ridley-Duff, was prepared for students on a philosophy course to illustrate how difficult it can be to establish the truth about complex social events. He was motivated to write the paper after learning that 7/7 Ripple Effect documentary maker, John Anthony Hill, had been imprisoned in Ireland pending extradition to the UK.
"My first instinct," states Dr Ridley-Duff, "was that the documentary must have invented evidence in order to make a claim that three of the four men responsible for the London bombings on 7th July 2005 were shot at Canary Wharf. After searching news databases and message boards, however, I found no fewer that 15 other credible reports that substantiate the claim that a security crisis occurred at Canary Wharf."
A central issue in both documentaries is the train that the alleged bombers caught from Luton to London King's Cross. The UK government acknowledges that its official report made an error in claiming that the four Muslim men caught the 7.40 train. The BBC documentary claims the men caught an earlier train (at 7.25) while 7/7 Ripple Effect claims they caught a later train (at 7.56), and therefore arrived in London too late to catch the tube trains that exploded.
Another contentious issue is the role of Peter Power, a crisis management expert who organised a simulated terrorist attack at exactly the same tube stations and bus location at the same time as the real attack. The academic study asks the question:
"What is the likelihood that four men living in Leeds would travel to London on the same day, at roughly the same time, to the exact locations selected for a simulated terrorism exercise organised by Peter Power, if they had not been invited to participate?"
Both the author of 7/7 Ripple Effect and US Radio Show host, Alex Jones, calculated the likelihood as less than a person winning the UK National Lottery at their first attempt. This led the study to conclude that “the BBC / Government theory becomes incoherent and implausible."
John Anthony Hill is still awaiting an extradition hearing in Ireland.