On July 7, 2005, professional dancer Bruce Lait was among the survivors of the London Tube bombings. His story, published on July 11 (and since scrubbed) by the Cambridge News, includes this paragraph:

“The policeman said ‘mind that hole, that’s where the bomb was’. The metal was pushed upwards as if the bomb was underneath the train. They seem to think the bomb was left in a bag, but I don’t remember anybody being where the bomb was, or any bag,” he said.

http://operation-mockingbird.blogspot.com/2008/05/journalists-and-7-july-london-bombs.html

Although the Cambridge News was persuaded to disappear its interview with Mr. Lait, this one for the Telegraph has been sanitized enough to allow its survival but not enough to obscure the fact that it corroborates the Cambridge News version.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1493773/How-we-escaped-death,-by-dancers-who-saw-bomb-go-off-six-feet-away.html

Rather than quoting Mr. Lait at the crucial moment in the narrative, the editor chooses this curiously vague paraphrase, stripped of incriminating detail:

Mr Lait said that he could see the spot where the bomb had exploded because it had blown apart the floor of the carriage.

The BBC compilation of survivor accounts includes this:

John was injured in the explosion in his carriage and describes how he and another passenger called Jason tried to help a man called Stan who was trapped in a hole in the floor. The metal all around it [the hole] was all jagged and bent from the explosion. Parts of the metal were covered in blood.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5050372.stm

Eyewitnesses to the Edgware Road bombing told Guardian reporter Mark Honigsbaum that “tiles, the covers on the floor of the train, suddenly flew up, raised up.”

http://www.prisonplanet.com/audio/guardian_journalist.mp3

Would backpack bombs detonated above the carriage floors result in such descriptions?

Of course, there is that brilliantly prescient operation by Visor Consultants to consider.

Understandably, the “company” Power mentions remains unnamed.

It has been suggested that the four young men identified as the “suicide bombers” of 7/7 were dupes, recruited to play the role of attackers in a terror simulation such as the exercise run that morning by Visor. But if, as Bruce Lait claims, there was not “anybody…where the bomb was, or any bag”, what became of these men? Were they sighted anywhere after the bombings?

Well, there is this report:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10334992

A New Zealander working for Reuters in London says two colleagues witnessed the unconfirmed shooting by police of two apparent suicide bombers outside the HSBC tower at Canary Wharf in London.

The New Zealander, who did not want to be named, said the killing of the two men wearing bombs happened at 10.30am on Thursday (London time).

Following the shooting, the 8000 workers in the 44-storey tower were told to stay away from windows and remain in the building for at least six hours, the New Zealand man said.

He was not prepared to give the names of his two English colleagues, who he said witnessed the shooting from a building across the road from the tower.

So “two men wearing bombs” were shot and killed by “police” outside the HSBC tower at Canary Wharf at 10:30am–an hour after the bombings–after which the 8000 workers in the 44-storey tower were told to stay away from windows and remain in the building for at least six hours.

And Katie Rook of the Globe and Mail reported:

From the 18th floor of Canary Wharf in London, Canadian Brendan Spinks could see a “massive rush of policemen” outside the building Thursday after the city was rocked by terrorist attacks. The Internet in his office had just gone done down when Mr. Spinks, an investment banker at HSBC, saw a flurry of police cars and yellow-vested men outside. Reports of attacks carried out by suicide bombers were rife, and in one unconfirmed incident police shot a suicide bomber outside the 42-floor banking tower.

http://householdwatch.com/wp/2005/07/07/suicide-bomber-reported-outside-hsbc-canary-wharf

Just a few loose ends.

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The July 11, 2005  Cambridge News article about Bruce Lait is here:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_royston/displayarticle.asp?id=211633