Fury as BBC documentary airs the views of conspiracy theorists who believe the Government plotted 7/7 attacks
Families of victims of the 7/7 London
bombings have slammed the BBC for a 'disgusting' documentary that
investigates conspiracy theories surrounding the atrocity.
The programme, to be aired on BBC3 and hosted by Irish comedian Andrew Maxwell, probes claims that the co-ordinated blasts were in fact part of a Government plot to boost support for the Iraq war.
The attacks killed 52 people when four suicide bombers detonated their home made devices on Tubes and a bus during the morning rush-hour commute.
In tonight's documentary show producers blow up a double-decker London bus in a bid to recreate the explosion in Tavistock Square that killed 13 people.
It also features conspiracy theorists - including model Layla Randle-Conde - playing the parts of the bombers in a reconstruction of events.
June Taylor, whose daughter Carrie, 24, died in the underground blast near Aldgate Station told The Sun: 'The BBC can’t get any lower than this. They should have spoken to the families.'
Branding the programme 'disgusting', she added: 'They are trivialising the tragedy. People don’t want to be back in that dark place. It puts us through the pain all over again.'
Kim Beer, 54, of Borehamwood, Herts, who lost her son Philip, 22, in the Tube
blast near King’s Cross said it was in 'really bad taste', adding: 'How do they
think we live with this?'
A BBC spokeswoman said of 7/7 Bombings: Conspiracy Road Trip: 'The series takes conspiracy theorists on a journey to fully explore the facts and challenge their beliefs.'
Between 8.50am and 9.47am on July 7 2005, four British Muslims - Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, Jermaine Lindsay, 19, and Hasib Hussain, 18 - blew themselves up using home-made explosives, killing 56 (including themselves) and injuring 700 on three Tube trains and a double-decker bus.
They had travelled on a mainline train from Luton into King's Cross
Thameslink Station in London, each carrying a heavy rucksack of
explosives.
It is a timeline that has been endorsed by a high-level Parliamentary inquiry and a government report, both published in May 2006 ten months after the event, based on 12,500 statements, a police examination of 142 computers and 6,000 hours of CCTV footage.
The report insisted that the bombers carried out the attacks on their own, constructing explosives from chapatti flour and hair bleach mixed in the bath at a flat in Leeds, Yorkshire, where all four had family and friends.
However there have since been a wave of conspiracy theories around the attacks.
One of the more popular accuses then Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Government, the police, and the British and Israeli Secret Services of murdering the innocent people to stir up anti-Islamic fervour and create public support for the 'war on terror' and looming war in Iraq.
It also alleges that the four British
Muslims were tricked by the authorities into taking part in what they
were told would be a mock anti-terror training exercise.
What they weren't told, it is claimed, was that the Government was going to blow them up, along with other passengers, then pretend the four were suicide bombers.
Theorists have also accused government agents of setting off pre-planted explosives under the three Tube trains and on the bus.
They
suggest that the four Muslims were not, in fact, on any of the Tube
trains, claiming that they missed them altogether because of the train
delays on the Luton to London line.
Some even believe that because the four did not get onto the Tube on time, three of them were murdered by police at Canary Wharf later that morning and the fourth - the bus bomber - ran off.
An earlier version of this article carried a headline which said that the documentary suggested that the Government had plotted the 7/7 attacks. We accept that this was seriously wrong: the true position was, as explained in the article, that the programme actually challenged the beliefs of the conspiracy theorists and did not suggest that the Government was in any way responsible for the attacks. We apologise for the error.
The programme, to be aired on BBC3 and hosted by Irish comedian Andrew Maxwell, probes claims that the co-ordinated blasts were in fact part of a Government plot to boost support for the Iraq war.
The attacks killed 52 people when four suicide bombers detonated their home made devices on Tubes and a bus during the morning rush-hour commute.
'Disgusting': Programme makers even blow up a
London bus in the documentary that explores the theory that the 7/7
bombings were in fact a government plot to garner support for the 'war
on terror'
It also features conspiracy theorists - including model Layla Randle-Conde - playing the parts of the bombers in a reconstruction of events.
June Taylor, whose daughter Carrie, 24, died in the underground blast near Aldgate Station told The Sun: 'The BBC can’t get any lower than this. They should have spoken to the families.'
Branding the programme 'disgusting', she added: 'They are trivialising the tragedy. People don’t want to be back in that dark place. It puts us through the pain all over again.'
Carnage: Thirteen people were killed when a bomb detonated on board the Number 30 bus in Tavistock Square
A BBC spokeswoman said of 7/7 Bombings: Conspiracy Road Trip: 'The series takes conspiracy theorists on a journey to fully explore the facts and challenge their beliefs.'
Between 8.50am and 9.47am on July 7 2005, four British Muslims - Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, Jermaine Lindsay, 19, and Hasib Hussain, 18 - blew themselves up using home-made explosives, killing 56 (including themselves) and injuring 700 on three Tube trains and a double-decker bus.
Angry: June Taylor (left, with husband john), whose daughter Carrie,
24, died in the blast near Aldgate Station branded the show 'disgusting'. It is hosted by Irish comedian Andrew Maxwell (right)
It is a timeline that has been endorsed by a high-level Parliamentary inquiry and a government report, both published in May 2006 ten months after the event, based on 12,500 statements, a police examination of 142 computers and 6,000 hours of CCTV footage.
The report insisted that the bombers carried out the attacks on their own, constructing explosives from chapatti flour and hair bleach mixed in the bath at a flat in Leeds, Yorkshire, where all four had family and friends.
However there have since been a wave of conspiracy theories around the attacks.
One of the more popular accuses then Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Government, the police, and the British and Israeli Secret Services of murdering the innocent people to stir up anti-Islamic fervour and create public support for the 'war on terror' and looming war in Iraq.
Suicide bombers: Four British Muslims - Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, Shehzad Tanweer, 22,
Jermaine Lindsay, 19, and Hasib Hussain, 18 - used home-made explosives to carry out the attacks
What they weren't told, it is claimed, was that the Government was going to blow them up, along with other passengers, then pretend the four were suicide bombers.
Theorists have also accused government agents of setting off pre-planted explosives under the three Tube trains and on the bus.
The aftermath: Theorists have also accused
government agents of setting off pre-planted explosives under the three
Tube trains and on the bus
Some even believe that because the four did not get onto the Tube on time, three of them were murdered by police at Canary Wharf later that morning and the fourth - the bus bomber - ran off.
An earlier version of this article carried a headline which said that the documentary suggested that the Government had plotted the 7/7 attacks. We accept that this was seriously wrong: the true position was, as explained in the article, that the programme actually challenged the beliefs of the conspiracy theorists and did not suggest that the Government was in any way responsible for the attacks. We apologise for the error.