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| Islamic attack victim lost both legs, an eye and spleen; ... survived due to heroism of first aider | |
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| Deleted User | Nov 8 2010, 11:46 PM Post #1 |
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A survivor of the 7 July blast at Edgware Road Tube station has told how he was standing next to the plot ringleader when he detonated his bomb. Daniel Biddle, 31, was blown from the carriage and lost both legs, his left eye, his spleen and pints of blood. He told the inquest into the 2005 attacks he saw the bomber's arm move quickly and then a "big, white flash". Mohammad Sidique Khan killed himself and six other people when he detonated the device on the Circle Line train. Mr Biddle also said a 20p piece remained lodged in his thigh bone, and that other shrapnel, including his door keys, was removed by surgeons. Mr Biddle described how Khan, who got on the westbound train at King's Cross, sat between 6ft and 10ft away from him before detonating his bomb by pulling a white cord. Attending the Royal Courts of Justice for the inquest, Mr Biddle said: "The train entered the Tube tunnel, I looked around. "As I looked around, he looked up and I saw a quick movement. Then there was a big, white flash. "The kind of noise you get when you tune a radio in. It felt like the carriage I was in expanded at a fast rate and then contracted quickly. "And with that it blew me off my feet and through the carriage doors into the tunnel." He also said that Khan "looked up and along the carriage and just looked down" before he set the device off. "He didn't say anything or shout anything I remember hearing. He got his head down, moved his arm and the next thing I am outside the train." 'If only' Mr Biddle, a construction manager, was taken to St Mary's Hospital in Paddington and the inquest heard how his heart was massaged by hand as medical staff fought to save his life. He spent several weeks in a coma and needed dozens of pints of blood in transfusions. Earlier, the inquest heard how he had caught that particular Tube train because he was running late after waking with a migraine. He let the first train to arrive at Liverpool Street pass because it was so crowded and then missed his stop at Baker Street because he was sending a text message. "People were getting on and off. I didn't really pay particular attention to anybody," he said. "I saw a young Asian guy get on King's Cross and sort of walk along the carriage and sit down, but I didn't really think anything of it. "There was nothing about him that made me think he was a danger." Coroner Lady Justice Hallett said the words "if only" must resonate in the minds of many of the survivors and their families. She told Mr Biddle: "Given the large number of factors that combined to put you on that train, I pray they do not haunt you. "You have suffered so much and your survival is inspirational." 'Very basic' The inquest heard from a passenger on the train who helped save Mr Biddle's life. Adrian Heili, who served in Kosovo and is a trained first aider, said choosing who to help was the "hardest" decision of his life. He heard Mr Biddle's screams and clambered under the train to reach him on the tunnel floor. Mr Biddle was trapped under a carriage door and upon lifting the sheet of metal, Mr Heili realised he was missing a leg and set to work making tourniquets from his belt and shirt. Mr Heili, from South Africa, requested medical supplies but told the inquest he was given a "very basic" first aid kit. He waited with Mr Biddle until he was taken away in an ambulance and returned to the wrecked carriage to help other injured survivors. He was in the last group of people to leave the train. Coroner Lady Justice Hallett said his fellow passengers were "extremely fortunate" to have him there on that day. "I can't believe the brave Mr Biddle would have survived his horrific injuries but for your intervention," she said. The inquests into the deaths of the 52 victims got under way in October, and this session was the first to specifically focus on the Edgware Road Tube bombing. It began with relations of Khan's victims reading statements about their lives and the type of people they were. Katy Brewster talked about her father Michael, Veronica Downey spoke of her husband Jonathan, Graham Foulkes described his son David, and Ros Morley talked of her husband Colin. Statements were also read out on behalf of Julie Nicholson who lost her daughter Jennifer, and Hazel Webb, who lost her daughter Laura. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11710662 |
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| English Angel | Nov 9 2010, 12:35 AM Post #2 |
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I saw this today on the news. The poor poor man. It must play on his mind because of the circumstances that conspired to get him on that particular train. I'm just so so glad the judge saw sense and told the widow of Mohammad Sidique Khan where to go when she wanted in on it all claiming she was a victim too! Theres no end to the gaul of these people |
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| Deleted User | Nov 9 2010, 12:42 AM Post #3 |
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Relatives of 7/7 London jihad bomber hold party at his grave Ghouls. "Relatives of July 7 bomber hold PARTY at his grave to 'celebrate his life,'" from the Daily Mail, July 7 (thanks to Paul): A party is being held at the grave of a 7/7 bomber in what is being seen as an insult to the 52 London commuters murdered three years ago today. The family of Shehzad Tanweer and 400 guests will 'celebrate his life' and 'remember him as a martyr' at a village in Pakistan. Tanweer, 22, along with Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, Hasib Hussain, 18, and 19-year-old Jermaine Lindsay, died when they detonated rucksack bombs on three crowded Tube trains and a No.30 bus. Tanweer's uncle, 42-year-old property developer Tahir Pervez, is organising the celebration in which verses of the Koran will be read out then curry and rice distributed at his home in Samundari. 'The party is kept very secret from people outside the village but everyone knows it happens every year,' said one villager who asked not be named. 'People are invited to join in blessing Shehzad Tanweer's soul by reading verses from the Koran and they call on us to remember Shehzad as a shahid (martyr).' The gathering has twice been held in secret - yards from Aldgate bomber Tanweer's grave which is fiercely protected from outsiders. It is the largest in the cemetery of the village called Chak 477 and is opposite the mosque. His epitaph bears the phrase 'La ilaha il Mohammed dur rasool Allah' which means 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his messenger.' Andrew Dismore, MP for Hendon said: 'It is absolutely appalling that his family are choosing to mark the date in this way. What are the Pakistan government doing about this? 'Five people from five different ethnic and religious groups died from my constituency on 7 July 2005 and this is a damning insult to their memory and their family members. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/07/relatives-of-77-london-jihad-bomber-hold-party-at-his-grave.html |
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| Deleted User | Nov 9 2010, 12:42 AM Post #4 |
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Poor bloke.
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| The Walking Dude | Nov 9 2010, 12:43 AM Post #5 |
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Brave man, just going to work and then this happens. What the general public need to know, we here at the EDL have a good appreciation. Is that unless something is done about his menace amoungst us we are going to have a lot more people suffer like this man. Its crazy what this country has been reduced to, impotence, utter impotence . Why cant we just throw out the people, its as simple as that. WD |
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