Front Page News
An hour later at 9.47am the 4th bomb explodes on a London (Babylondon) bus.
7:7 bus explosion survivor and eye witness Daniel Obachike is pictured here on the front cover of a national newspaper.
Headlines
Shock and awe as panic stricken Londoners realise electrical power surges cannot be responsible for such horror.
July 7th 2005
8.51am - At the height of the morning rush hour London's tube network is rocked by 3 bomb blasts.
The survivors wait in darkness for 30 minutes before being escorted to safety by transport staff.
Front Page News
An hour later at 9.47am the 4th bomb explodes on a London bus.
7/7 bus bomb survivor and eye witness Daniel Obachike on the front cover of a national newspaper.
MI5 Head Resigns
Shock throughout MI5 in December 2006 as its Head Eliza Manngham-Buller resigns after details of the bus bombing is released on the worldwide web by The 4th Bomb website.
Headlines
Shock as panic stricken Londoners realise electrical power surges cannot be responsible for such horror.
July 7th 2005
8.51am - At the height of the morning rush hour London's tube network is rocked by 3 bomb blasts.
The survivors wait in darkness for 30 minutes before being escorted to safety by transport staff.
Daniel
The story of Christian Small, or Njoya Diawara as he called himself, is truly shocking.
Are you aware of what his family have done about this?
This fact alone is enough to demand a fully independent public investigation into these events.
Shocking… yes.
A public enquiry?… I doubt it somehow.
His people are well aware of what went on, but see the Njoya Foundation set up in his memory as a fitting legacy to his enduring spirit.
Daniel
I was wondering:
1. Why has it taken you so long to come forward with your story?
2. The police surveillance sounds very frightening. Has this been explained to you?
3. I notice your website has a link to the 21st July ‘no bombs bombers’ – do you believe these events are linked to the 7th July? If so, in what way?
4. You say that you were interviewed by two national newspapers, yet I can’t find these articles when I search your name in google. Could you say which newspapers and when they were published?
Thanks.
Hi Bridget,
1. At the time there was so much mis-information in the media, newspapers and much public anxiety.
One person I told looked at me like I was nuts when I told them I was on the bus so it would be pointless to allow 1 truth to be drowned among the 400 different theories circulating at the time.
2. Whoever these guys were. They were not police. An explaination would be nice.
3. Answered here
4. You wouldn’t have. I was first interviewed by The New Nation – A publication aimed at the African and Caribbean Community. It came out on July 4th 2006, the time of the 1st anniversary. I featured on the front cover and centre pages.
On the strength of that I got calls asking when the book was due, who the publisher is, etc and landed an interview with the London Evening Standard. I went along with my then media contact, knowing full well that the Evening Standard was an M.O.D mouthpiece. (Where did Andrew Gilligan pop-up after nearly destroying Blair? Yes, The Evening Standard.) And when it came to publishing the article, they didn’t. The M.O.D just wanted to know what I knew but I didn’t tell them anything I hadn’t already told The New Nation.
Daniel,
Good luck with your book, I look forward to reading it when it is published. I read your article in the Nation when it came out
Best wishes
Rachel