Robert Parry: Lessons of the London Bombing

July 9, 2005

At about 9:30 a.m. on July 7, an overcast Thursday, I left a hotel in the Kensington section of London and walked – with my wife and 16-year-old son – toward the Earl’s Court subway station, planning to take the Piccadilly line to Heathrow Airport to catch a noontime flight back to Washington.

When we reached the Underground, we found a surge of people moving away from the entrance. We were told that the station was being evacuated because of some emergency elsewhere in the system, possibly an electrical explosion.