Foxtrot 571...
now entering third level.
We've got one on the ground.
Okay.
You get her out.
We'll take this guy.
One, two, three, lift!
Got it!
Steve, have you got it?
Yes.
Steve, you're dropping it!
I can't breathe!
Hang on, I'm coming.
Keep your mask on, Steve.
Keep your mask on.
Come on!
You're dead!
Your team's compromised.
Leave your casualties and get your officers to the surface.
We need to speed things up. Move it!
Why is it taking so long?
The mass decontamination unit was set up in the wrong place.
Also, these suits are difficult to work in...
so it's taking longer than anticipated to recover the casualties.
- How many casualties are you using? - Sixty.
Sixty?
How many people work in these offices?
Two or three thousand.
So it's not exactly realistic, then?
It's manageable, Minister.
The press are waiting downstairs, Minister.
Thank you.
I need some help here!
That's it. We've got you, mate.
You'll be okay, mate.
Relax.
He'll be okay.
Let's get showered and out of these suits.
Turn around.
Okay, good man.
Jenny, let's have a look at you.
Oh, shit.
- You're dead, too. - What?
You've got a tear. Your suit's ripped.
Get out, Jenny.
It's important that these drills send out a positive message.
1,600 gastight suits...
7,000 Modesty Packs...
10 mobile mass decontamination units...
Home Secretary's concerned that we do all we can to reassure the public.
Understood.
It's always worth reminding Londoners how resilient they are.
- Well, I'll put that in the report, will I? - Okay?
This was supposed to be easy. I got Steve on the way to A&E.
- Why? - Hyperventilation.
We're only meant to wear the suits for 20 minutes.
It was 16 minutes before we got into the car park, and Jen got a tear.
That's what this drill is for, Murray, to iron out these little problems.
Biscuits?
Minister, how do you respond to accusations of scaremongering?
Unfortunately, we live in difficult times, and must be prepared for every eventuality.
We believe these drills will reassure the British people...
that we are doing all we can to protect them against terrorism.
And that London is as prepared as it possibly can be.
This is part of the government's commitment...
to be honest about the threats we face...
and to put as much information in the public domain as we can.
An emergency services drill was held in the capital today...
to test new antiterrorism measures.
The new Minister for London, Nicola Painswick...
reassured Londoners that the drill was not linked to any specific threat.
West Yorkshire police confirmed that three men were arrested yesterday...
outside the US Air Force monitoring station at Menwith Hill.
The three men are all being held under the Antiterrorism Act.
Scotland Yard declined to comment on whether the arrests are part of...
It's been a busy morning.
Two Irish nationals held at Dover, a gun found in their car...
officers are on their way.
US Intelligence has passed on six names of suspects they want under surveillance.
And the three men arrested at Menwith Hill have been confirmed as North African.
- Sir. - Thank you.
The local police found notebooks and video footage of the perimeter security.
And we flagged up two addresses for them in London.
- What do we know? - They could be GSPC.
Waiting for French and Algerian Intelligence to get back to us.
And MOD want it kept low-key.
Fine, you're dealing with that one.
- Incident room is being set up. - Good.
Excuse me.
- Excuse me. I'm looking for DS Drummer. - Just over there.
Thanks.
- DS Drummer? DC Habibullah. - Oh, great!
I can give you five minutes.
You need to get up to speed on the briefing notes.
We're assuming the suspects are using false IDs.
We believe they're North African, possibly Algerian.
They weren't acting alone, so our job is to uncover any other cell members.
This is your desk here.
This is propaganda material...
videos, letters, documents recovered from a B&B in Leeds...
and the suspects' registered addresses in London.
You need to go through all that lot.
Most of it's in Arabic.
- What languages have you got? - Urdu, Punjabi, Arabic.
Great.
Normally, I get stuck with a civilian translator.
I'll need you with me in interviews.
You can help me understand what makes them tick.
How would I know? I'm from Luton, Sarge.
You're better qualified than I am, Detective.
- Mike, can I have a word? - Yes.
DC Habibullah. This is DI Brook.
- Sir. - Glad you're on board.
Get yourself settled.
I'm in A&E.
No, I'm fine.
It's Steve.
Can you pop down?
- Hi. - Hi.
Hello.
Thank you.
How is he?
He'll live.
The drill went well, then?
I'm finished in half an hour. We could go home together.
Yeah.
I'd better make sure Steve gets back all right.
You know, if that had been for real...
two of my crew would be dead.
Dep. Asst. Commissioner Ives, you have previously stated...
that we must now expect terrorists to use crude CBRN weapons...
that could cause mass devastation to this city.
Could you explain exactly what that means?
We're talking about such things as a dirty bomb...
which is low-grade radioactive material, blown up by a conventional bomb.
Low-tech methods for contaminating large numbers of people with deadly agents.
Thank you very much.
Minister, in a public statement...
you said that "the government is committed to being honest about the threats we face...
"and putting as much information in the public domain as possible."
Yes, that is correct.
I have in front of me a recent report...
from the Common Science and Technology Committee.
It accuses the government of being embedded in a culture of secrecy.
Forgive me, but this seems to be a direct contradiction to your statement.
The government rejects the criticism that it is being less open than it need be.
We have an active public information campaign.
- We've sent a booklet to every household... - But are you confident...
that the information that you're giving the public...
is adequate to prepare them for a terrorist attack?
Yes, of course.
Obviously, there are times when disclosure would not be in the public interest.
I'm sorry, but now I'm confused.
You're open and transparent...
except when it suits the government not to be.
Obviously, there has to be a balance between truth and reassurance.
Are you saying that it's acceptable to lie to the public in order to reassure them?
I mean, what the public can be told, and the need for secrecy...
That's very interesting, Minister, but this report clearly states...
that "this lack of openness has resulted in the public being ill-informed...
"and insufficiently prepared...
"for a chemical, biological, or radiological terrorist attack."
Dep. Asst. Commissioner...
as head of the antiterrorist branch...
do you feel that adequate measures are in place to protect the public?
Obviously, improvements have been made across all emergency services...
but I'd warn against complacency. A great deal of work still needs to be done.
Thank you very much.
John.
That was public record.
And I'm not going on public record to say we're fully prepared when we're not.
We've allocated £330 million on Homeland Security.
That's a huge commitment when the public is demanding hospital beds.
What else do you expect us to do?
In the States, they're spending 15 times more per head than we are.
Even they don't think it's enough.
Are you saying the work we're doing counts for nothing?
I'm saying we shouldn't confuse activity with achievement.
Out of a force of 30,000, the Met have only 1,500 officers...
with protective suits and two days' training.
We'd struggle to deal with a large-scale conventional attack.
- If a CBRN weapon went off... - If it went off, John, if.
I've seen Al Qaeda's plans for these weapons.
With the I.R.A., we knew 90% of what they were up to and they still got through.
With this lot, we're lucky if we know 20%.
It's naive to hope it won't happen.
- How are you? - Fine.
Okay, this is Istanbul.
- From Istanbul. - All right.
You all right?
- Something I ate. - You ought to leave that goulash alone.
Cheers. Got the other one?
Blue one. That's it.
Cheers.
Come on, Mr. Rashid.
You know, this is a very popular area.
There's a post office close by.
Also, the tubes are five minutes away.
Buses, and there's a market on Saturday.
Show me the cellar.
- We'll need all this cleared. - It'll cost you.
How much?
£70.
We have accommodation for the bride's family.
This isn't the I.R.A.
With this lot, we don't know who they are, or where they are.
We have no inside informants, and they don't give warnings.
First thing to understand about Islamist terrorist groups...
there's no single cell.
Don't write it down, remember it.
The logistics cell.
These boys will be embedded in the target country.
They're likely to be British nationals...
so they'll stay low-key.
They won't associate with other known extremists.
They may not even attend mosque.
Found the house.
They raise cash for their group through petty crime like credit card fraud.
They provide passports, safe houses, equipment, et cetera.
They gather all the elements that make an operation in this country possible.
The three North Africans at Menwith Hill recently entered the country under false IDs.
So they won't be part of logistic cells.
Correct, they're obviously checking out the base.
The sole purpose of a reconnaissance cell is to gather intelligence on intended targets.
They're closer to the planning of an attack...
and far more likely to be foreign nationals.
But neither the logistics nor the reconnaissance cell...
would be your suicide bombers.
The attack cell.
These boys will be battle-hardened veterans.
Jihad nutters who fought in Chechnya, Bosnia, Kashmir...
Nutters, Sarge?
Fanatics, however you want to describe them.
They're almost certain to be foreign nationals.
They're only brought in at the last stages.
And as we know, in any attack...
there's likely to be more than one attack cell.
Our problem is, none of this lot will know who the other cells are...
or have any detailed knowledge about the overall operation.
But...
they all have links...
to one man.
The agent isn't the mastermind.
That person will be thousands of miles away in Pakistan or Afghanistan.
The agent is the manager.
He puts the cells together and executes the plan.
He'll be white-collar, well-traveled, highly educated...
and have lived in the West for several years.
He'll have multiple identities and impeccable cover.
He could be a doctor, a lawyer, a university professor.
The point is, he'll be invisible...
and skilled at hiding his tracks.
So far, all we have are three suspects...
a possible reconnaissance cell.
If we're to get the rest of them...
we've to chase every person they've ever been in contact with, here or abroad.
Follow every paper trail...
anything that strikes you, however small, let me know.
You don't listen to me.
Thank you.
We need fags.
Could I get a 20 JPS, please?
And a SIM card for my mobile and a pay-as-you-go top-up card, please.
What?
Oh, piss off!
Let's go.
Home Secretary wondered how you're settling in.
I'm still trying to find my way around, but fine.
You had a grilling at the Defense Select Committee.
The Chair got hung up on the issue of public information.
- May I? - Of course.
It's an easy issue to present in black and white...
if you're not making the decisions.
Maybe the Chair's right, maybe we're not doing enough to prepare the public.
If a CBRN attack happens, I'm worried that we could end up with mass panic.
I've been in Whitehall 25 years.
There've been at least 80 terrorist attacks on the mainland.
Why assume the public will start running around like headless chickens?
We're talking about suicide bombers now.
No warnings, biological weapons, dirty bombs.
If you start issuing gas masks to everyone using the tubes...
you really do risk causing panic.
Al Qaeda want a scare. If you fuel public anxiety, you'll play into their hands.
I understand that.
Think of the economic implications.
Business withdrawing from the capital, the tourist industry hit.
We've already had local authorities using Madrid to demand extra funds.
We don't want knee-jerk reactions from the public.
Don't you take the threat of a CBRN attack seriously?
I'm saying it's a difficult balance.
Overreaction can be as dangerous as underreaction.
As Minister of London, it's your responsibility...
to reassure the public and business.
Everything is being done to make London as prepared as it possibly can be.
It's an issue that's easy to get worked up about from the back benches.
Never that simple when you're minister.
Mogul Prince Takeaway.
Speaking.
Yes.
Will you be there after midnight?
Bye.
Train now arriving at platform 4 at 17:50.
- Why am I getting calls from Customs? - What?
They want to know why one of my officers is inquiring about D&L Shipping.
It's one of the names I came across in the suspects' notebooks.
- I ran them through NCS database. - I told you to let me know.
Sorry, you're right.
Did Customs tell you what their interest is?
They believe Turkish mafia are using D&L as a smuggling drop.
Shit, it would be Customs.
Any chance they'll let us look at their phone records and shipping manifests?
They're not gonna rush to share information.
- They're months into a major investigation. - It's only paperwork.
You must know someone that owes you a favor.
I'll talk to Brook. I've run out of favors.
Have you everything you need?
For now.
We need a large lead sheet to make a hatch.
Just a precaution.
Come upstairs, I'll introduce you properly to your brothers.
You got any plans tonight?
Why, have we heard from Customs?
You must be joking.
Come on, you can leave that.
That's yours.
Check he hasn't spiked it.
So, Sameena...
if they're not nutters, what's it all about?
You're being serious?
We can talk about football, if you like.
Do you mean, blowing themselves up, fundamentalism, what?
All of that. If your family's killed in front of you in Chechnya, it might cross your mind.
Why would a third-generation kid brought up in Bradford join Al Qaeda?
It doesn't matter if you're brought up in Bradford or in Saudi.
If you're a Muslim, you're a part of a wider family.
What happens in Chechnya, Kashmir, or Palestine is happening to you.
It's a long way from that to strapping explosives to yourself.
Yes, but what these boys see makes them angry.
And extremists groups exploit that anger.
They recruit men from all over the world...
get them into training camps and focus that anger. It's brainwashing.
They hand them a Kalashnikov...
convince them it's their holy duty to die in the defense of Islam.
So when they ask for five martyrs, hundreds step forward.
How do you feel about that?
Pissed off.
These fanatics are just a tiny minority...
and people think we're all like that.
I take my faith seriously.
I care about what's happening in the world...
but you don't see me strapping explosives to myself, do you?
- So that's why you joined the police? - No, I wasn't clever enough to be a doctor.
Sameena?
Phone records and shipping manifests from D&L Shipping...
courtesy of our friends at Customs. Good hunting.
Sameena.
- See you in the morning. - Yes.
Even before the terrible events in Madrid...
London's emergency services were being prepared for a major terrorist attack.
Under our New Dimensions initiative...
London fire brigade have now been equipped...
with extended-life breathing apparatus.
They have over 1,600 gas-tight suits...
and new radiation dosimeters in all engines.
Senior officers are receiving state-of-the-art training in Texas.
And there are 10 mobile mass decontamination units...
established right across the capital.
The success of the recent drill...
is a clear demonstration of how capable London's emergency services are...
in dealing with incidents of major contamination.
Who's been telling her this?
Of course...
we can't afford to be complacent.
But London is now better prepared than it has ever been.
Thank you very much.
Minister, this is Comdr. Paul Hardwick.
He is one of our gold commanders in charge of the GT control room.
- Commander. - Pleased to meet you, Minister.
Very interesting speech.
Minister, where you at the same drill I was?
- Sorry, you are... - I'm sorry, I'm Murray Corrigan...
Watch Commander, London Fire Service.
That drill was a farce, wasn't it?
Have you ever worn a GT suit? You can't work in them.
They're unwieldy. You boil.
What you're asking us to do with this equipment is totally unreal.
We've had a lot of problems with our kit.
Clyde Phillips, London Ambulance Service.
Half our suits were defective. We had to send them back.
When we put the decon showers on, the heads blew off.
I appreciate your concerns. That's why we're doing drills.
That wasn't a drill, it was a PR stunt.
Controlled conditions, police cadets as your casualties.
- We're constantly reviewing our plans. - They're your plans.
I have never been consulted.
I've never been invited to any strategy meetings.
I haven't even seen your new major incident procedures.
I'm sure you'll appreciate we have to limit access to these plans...
in the interest of national security.
What a fucking great excuse for incompetence.
- I'm very sorry, Minister. - I understand. Change can be unsettling.
With respect, my officers trained as firemen.
Now they're expected to be the front line in your war on terror.
They're putting their lives at risk and none of us know if your plans work.
Excuse me.
- We have the barrels. - Around the back.
- What did he say? - Take it around the back.
I used to really look forward to going to work.
They're perfectly happy to spend billions on Iraq...
MI5, a sexy new British FBI.
You'd think they could spend a bit more on us.
Still, the rumor is that the first officers in are expendable...
so maybe that's why they don't want to waste their money.
If you really believe that, perhaps you should get out.
Whatever you decide to do, I'll support you.
- What happened? - Well? What have you heard?
Murray Corrigan, please report to the Station Commander's office now!
I'm expecting a call any minute demanding I put you on charges.
I'll be a Watch Commander down, right?
We've already lost two senior officers this year.
Bollocks. I'm resigning anyway.
Mobilize, mobilize.
Foxtrot 571, Foxtrot 572.
Three calls to an address in Leeds, nothing logged, local are looking into it.
Seven calls to an address in Kentish Town...
flagged, NCS already investigating, we're talking to them.
One call to an address in East End, the Mogul Prince Takeaway, logged.
A Muslim neighbor called the antiterrorist hotline...
complaining about the two men that live above the takeaway.
It might be something.
In her statement, she describes them as fanatics.
- Do we know who they are? - We're running checks.
I could send an officer over to talk to her, get more details.
You go.
She'll find it easy talking to you.
Thanks.
- Did you get the number? - No.
In your statement, you said they were moving barrels.
Anything else makes you suspicious?
You described them as fanatics to the antiterrorist hotline.
I don't trust them.
Something in the way they behave?
What did they say?
- You understand? - Ji.
We're rare.
But they're proud.
Rashid Dhar and Imran Nazir...
both registered at 66A Craven Lane...
both claiming social security benefits, both British nationals.
Neither has a record, neither has been associated with any extremist groups...
as far as we know.
Check with Provincial Forces, see if there is anything else.
Any travel detail?
They both have multiple entry visas for Pakistan and Saudi.
That doesn't necessarily mean anything.
It could be family trips, pilgrimage to Mecca.
Half my relatives would be suspects based on that.
You're the one asking for intrusive surveillance.
There's other leads we could be chasing.
Yes or no?
My instinct is that the woman is right about them.
Fine.
He's got the steering wheel in his ribs...
and I say, "There's no other way for me to get you out of here."
- Was he all right? - He'll be fine.
Anyway, there he is, trapped in his car.
His phone's ringing. He starts looking for it.
He answers it and it's his girlfriend.
She's in a restaurant waiting for him. They're supposed to be having lunch.
And he says, "Love, I'm trapped in the car and I can't get out.
"I've got firemen chopping me out of it." She doesn't believe him.
Goes off on him, so he hands it to me.
She's absolutely furious. I've never heard anything like it in my life.
- What, with him for being late? - No, for crashing the car.
It's her car.
- Did she calm down? - Eventually.
Anyway, I saved him. I saved his relationship.
I killed the car.
My hero!
So you're not resigning then?
Well, what else would I do?
Decorate the kitchen, fix the guttering...
Look, I'm sorry I was so down.
It's okay, I understand. I work for National Health.
- Hi, thanks. - Welcome, my pleasure.
As-Salaam-Alaikum, brother.
I hope you're well and I hope your family is well.
I'm sorry, I don't understand.
I want you gone by Monday.
Why Monday?
You've done your job well.
Unknown leaving. Repeat, unknown leaving.
Stay with original target.
This is where he wipes his cup.
I'd say this stranger is his superior.
You saw the way he behaved when Dhar stood.
- We got any DNA? - Forensics has the cup.
What are the chances of getting an ID from the photo?
It's with five and six, and it could take up to 48 hours before you hear back.
What do we know?
We found a reference for D&L Shipping in one of the North African's notebooks.
A phone call was logged from D&L to Mogul Prince Takeaway.
Dhar and Nazir both work there.
An eyewitness saw them unloading metal barrels at night.
Customs believe D&L is used by a lot of foreign outfits.
Are we just looking at a couple of petty crooks smuggling IDs?
They're clearly devout and disciplined.
We've identified extremist literature on their shelves.
They're careful to cover their tracks.
This suggests that they've been trained.
Have we found the logistics cell for the North Africans?
No, I don't think so.
Why not?
These boys are Pakistani. They operate through different networks.
You're saying we could've stumbled upon a logistics cell...
for a completely separate operation?
- Yes, sir. - Shit.
We'll have a better idea when we know who he is.
If the lion was to come suddenly and go...
Do you think the camel or the lion would be more stronger?
There is deepening concern around the world...
about the rising violence in Iraq.
Faced with continued unrest and a hostage crisis...
...some of the militant Shiite forces.
These canisters all contain radioactive material in powder form.
These smaller ones contain alpha sources.
This you can handle safely.
It's only dangerous if you get it on your skin or you inhale it.
Breathe it in.
So you must wear these masks when you work with it.
These larger ones contain gamma radiation.
This is much more dangerous.
In this concentration, as soon as that lid is open, you've got 60 seconds.
After that, it's going to make you very, very sick.
- Do you understand? - Yes.
The whole operation shouldn't take more than four minutes.
Sorry to drag you in.
How long will this take? I've got the boys downstairs.
There's a chance that radioactive material has been smuggled into the country.
A body was found in Bulgaria last Tuesday.
He's been identified as Usman Selcuk...
a Turkish shipping agent and a suspected smuggler.
He'd been exposed to a fatal dose of gamma radiation.
We know at least 50 different shipments left this man's depot in Sofia...
one week prior to his death.
Shipments were destined for 17 countries. The UK is among them.
Why are we worried?
We may have found a logistics cell with links to the Turkish smuggling cartel.
His body was discovered five days ago.
Why are we getting the information now?
The intel went to five. They didn't consider it a priority.
- Oh, God. - All right, thank you.
Get me DI Lane and DS Drummer.
Did you put the lids back on?
- The lids. Are they on? - No.
Close the hatch!
Five have identified the man...
who met with Rashid Dhar as Ahmed Ibraham Abassi.
He's a Jordanian management consultant registered as a mature student...
at London University, living here in the UK with his wife and child.
He's also lived in Cairo, Hamburg and Paris.
Now, his credentials seem legitimate...
but we do know that he accepted passports from Dhar...
and that he took the trouble to wipe his fingerprints.
Do we know where he is?
Only a previous address. We're trying to get a current one from the college.
We do have another problem.
Surveillance team on Dhar and Nazir say...
they're packing up, possibly destroying evidence.
Shall we pick them up?
I'd prefer to keep watching.
I'm confident they're not an attack cell. Let's just see where they take us.
How serious is the radiation threat?
We've no direct evidence that radioactive material's been smuggled into this country.
Has anything come up on the radiation detectors in the ports?
No, but there's been no intel. They check 10%, 20% of the cargo.
Even if the dead Turk was smuggling a gamma source...
there's no proven link to him and Nazir and Dhar.
The material could've gone to any number of clients.
643 incidences of radiation trafficking in the last six years.
And they're the ones we know about, and with no specific intel...
suggesting a dirty bomb threat to the UK.
You've gone back to five and six?
Are they certain about that?
Well, we're trolling all intelligence noise just in case they missed something.
I'm not happy that Dhar and Nazir are packing up.
I want their flat turned over.
And D&L Shipping. I'll square it with customs later.
Take CBRN teams and pick up Abassi, before tomorrow if possible.
If we spook him and lose him, that's the risk I'll have to take.
Police!
He's got a gun! Police! Get down!
Put him down! Take your hands, put them behind your back!
- Look at the light! - Stay there now.
Give us your name now!
Imran Nazir, I'm arresting you under the Terrorism Act.
Rashid Dhar, I'm arresting you on suspicion of terrorist activities...
Hold on. I want to chat first.
Bag these separately, okay?
No sign of those barrels anywhere.
That's funny, 'cause we know you picked them up.
What was in the barrels, Rashid?
Where are they now?
We know you only started packing yesterday.
Why the hurry?
What did Abassi tell you to do?
What the fuck was that?
Mobilize, mobilize. Foxtrot 571, Foxtrot 572.
Large explosion, vicinity of Liverpool Street station.
That's one engine and one ladder to investigate.
Foxtrot 571 responding.
We've lost a lot of people.
What just happened, Paul?
A large explosion, Liverpool Street.
It could be gas, plane down, or a bomb.
Still trying to contact city police at Bishopsgate.
Got a visual, north end of Bishopsgate, on two.
...probable incendiary device.
Can confirm ground zero is Liverpool Street.
Repeat, ground zero is Liverpool...
Shit!
Has anyone checked for contamination?
Foxtrot 571 to Control.
Mobile to Incident. ETA approximately two minutes.
Repeat, ETA two minutes.
Over.
Stop the engine, Ralph.
Get your BA sets on now.
Foxtrot 571 to Control.
Dosimeters alarming. Repeat, dosimeters alarming.
Radiation suspected...
reading 26 millisieverts.
Holding position, over.
Foxtrot 571 from Control, recalled.
Foxtrot 571 to Control, we have suspected mass casualties.
We have serious fire hazards.
We need all services at site ASAP. We have a major incident.
Repeat, major incident.
Control to Foxtrot 571, pull out of site. Radioactive.
Repeat, all units recalled immediately.
Repeat: Recall. Are we following?
Foxtrot 571, status to receive.
Back up!
Keep moving, everyone. Follow the engine.
We're being recalled. We've got to get out of here.
Sir, fire control reports several units approaching the site...
are reporting high levels of radiation.
Reports are from multiple entry routes surrounding incident:
North Bishopsgate, London Wall, Houndsditch...
- corner of Threadneedle and Bishopsgate. - Get that helicopter back.
Tom, talk to the bomb squad, find out what we're dealing with.
If it's radiation in these bombs, how bad is it?
I need dirty bomb plans on all terminals.
I need safe sites for a marshalling area.
No more emergency vehicles are to enter the site.
Any personnel already committed are contaminated.
They must withdraw to a safe distance...
and stay put till we know where to set up decon.
...contaminated.
We've got high levels of radiation on site.
Any fire officers reach ground zero?
Tom, get me fire, ambulance, military liaison in here now.
Make sure Number 10 is informed...
and see how long it will take government liaison to get here.
- They want to know where to withdraw to. - Tell them, 400...
No, 500 meters and to stay put until further notice.
You're supposed to withdraw to 500 meters.
We need all potential target locations cordoned and cleared.
If it's suicide bombers, we have to expect secondary devices.
Sergeant...
any way I can look at CCTV footage of Liverpool Street before the incident?
Hang on. No, we can't play that back from here.
But I can patch you through to the surveillance suite at Woods Street.
Joel.
It's line one, Bomb Incident Room.
Sir, ambulance want to know what they should do with casualties.
Taking casualties to hospital, they take contamination with them.
If it's life or death, it's the ambulance corps but they must liaise with hospital A&Es.
Sir, what about the casualties trapped at ground zero?
- We'll deal with that later. - Yeah, go ahead.
Move away from the area!
- What's going on? - Please, just get back.
Just get back now. Please, move away.
That way, sir, that way.
Keep moving, please.
All fire ground personnel returning from incident...
must go through decontamination before entering marshalling area.
- All done. - Yeah? All right. Thanks, Dave.
Name.
Murray Corrigan.
- Corrigan. Rank? - Watch Commander.
- Dosimeter reading? - Forty-three.
- Forty-three, you're clean. - Okay?
- Yeah. - Yeah?
- Any of you guys got a mobile that works? - No.
No?
God, are you all right? Let me help.
- No way. - You have to leave your car.
No, the other way. Keep moving.
No one here has been able to confirm that the bomb is radioactive.
But it's obvious here that there is fear of some form of contamination.
As you can see behind me, police are moving people back from the area...
as quickly as they can.
But we don't know if this is merely a precaution...
or whether the blast was, in fact, some kind of dirty bomb, as you say.
Is this you, you bastard?
We've not been able to get closer than 400 yards to the site of the blast.
What's even more alarming is that emergency vehicles are being held back.
- Hold the line. Sir? - Yes?
Liverpool Street are holding all trains outside the station.
They want to know where to disembark the passengers.
Tell them to hold.
None should leave the area without decontamination.
Tom, what's the weekday population of the square mile?
Over 300,000.
But if you include the surrounding residential areas, closer to one million.
Get back to me on that as soon as you can.
You're sure?
This lady needs a hospital.
- Back to the front. - Can you help this lady?
You can't stay here. You've got to move back.
I've got seriously injured people, mate.
The instructions are, leave the casualties you can't move.
You want to tell them that? We're not going anywhere...
till we get some proper medical assistance.
Come on, people, keep moving.
I've got an image outside Liverpool Street station.
Sir?
Tell me what you're seeing.
It's a white Transit van.
Two people in the cab.
Can't see the registration.
Shit.
What?
They were in the van when it went up, sir.
Checking another camera to see if...
White van. Suicide bomber.
Check for any other suspect vehicles.
Under no circumstances must an officer approach.
Sir.
Okay, officers on the streets...
I need a direct patch to surveillance units covering Canary Wharf...
Isle of Dogs, Tower Bridge.
Canary Wharf.
Confirm two people in the van.
Number plate X-ray 334, X-ray Bravo Romeo.
Parliament Square, Oxford Street, central London, Westminster Bridge.
- X-ray 334, X-ray Bravo Romeo, confirm. - Correct.
Put this number plate through the ring of steel camera.
- It'll give us the face of the driver. - Hang on. I've got something else.
They swapped drivers.
There were three people in the van.
They've switched drivers inside the ring of steel.
- Original driver got out in Bishopsgate. - Sir.
We know this man.
I'm sending you a photo. A man known as Ahmed Ibraham Abassi.
I'll need an all ports, he's probably using false ID.
Get on to DS Drummer.
You can go if you want.
Where is Abassi?
What's he planning?
What's the next target?
Sarge, fire and ambulance need to know where to send their mass decon units.
We've got to establish hot and cold zones first. Just give me a moment.
Sir, how the hell are we gonna do this? We're getting wildly different readings...
from all over the place.
Alan, what does it say in the procedure?
Fragmentation.
It says it's vital to make fragmentation distance assessment...
to allow for eddies and microclimate differentiation.
The fuck does that mean?
- Mark, where's the Science Officer? - Still struggling to get in.
- Get him on the radio. - Alan, get on to the met office.
- Find out which way the wind's blowing. - Sir, Fire are getting reports...
- of casualties still trapped at ground zero. - India 99 to control.
We now have secondary fires in surrounding buildings.
Maintaining safe distance. Over.
All units must await further instructions.
So what's the plan? Why the hell are we just standing here?
We're on hold. We're working on it.
We've got suits and breathing apparatus, we should be back in there.
All units are recalled. We don't know what we're dealing with.
Well, listen.
There are people alive in there, and we've abandoned them.
We don't do that.
North is on the ground.
How many crews from southeast and east?
I can't reach Liz.
All the networks are down, mate.
I'm sure she'll be fine.
Let me stress right now...
that if there's someone who has not caught the blast...
who was away from the site of the blast itself...
such a person is at very little risk to health, certainly in the immediate...
Sir.
Science Officer says they're getting both alpha and gamma radiation readings.
No one should be deployed in the hot zone without full CBRN protection.
Understood.
People should cover their faces with whatever they can.
They should cover any cuts and abrasions.
Sir.
St. Luke's and Mile End hospitals are being overwhelmed by self-presenters...
coming out of the hot zone. The crowd is contaminated.
Hospitals requesting police assistance to hold them back.
Tell them they'll have to wait.
Tom, can we spare the manpower?
- The inner cordon's a kilometer diameter. - In the outer cordon, we'll need 1,000 men.
- How many have you got with suits? - Five hundred. Mostly TSG.
Military liaison say they can mobilize a couple of hundred troops in an hour.
That's a last resort. I don't want a soldier on a civilian cordon.
The most important thing for anyone caught inside the hot zone is to...
be decontaminated before trying to go home to their families.
Otherwise they risk taking a radioactive contamination back to...
Contaminated people are getting out. Suits or not, we have to contain this.
Listen up.
I want manned barriers at 2,000 meters.
Filter everyone in that area into decon cordons.
Try to hold those lines.
No one to cross until mass decon is set up, understood?
Sir.
They're afraid they might have been contaminated, exposed to radiation.
They simply want help.
I'll be far more useful down there.
They need to see a government face on the frontline.
The staff here are insisting they can only treat the serious casualties.
They're actually refusing entry to the many minor injuries caused by flying glass.
No, someone has to reassure them.
Basically, there's a lack of clear information.
The press are already at the cordons.
...is fueling an awful lot of anger. - Thank you, Jonathan.
We're just receiving reports confirming that all emergency vehicles...
have been withdrawn from what they're calling ground zero.
Confirm van at Telecom Tower has two people in cab.
Numberplate: The Canary Wharf van not registered.
Numberplate is a dead end, sir.
Getting reports of a third suspect van parked with driver.
Parked right between Abbey Orchard Street and St. Peter's Street.
Back of the DTI, Westminster.
Coming onscreen now.
Okay, can you tilt down?
Further.
Can you zoom in further?
- Is that the best we can get? - Can you get another camera on it?
Sorry, Mr. Ives, we really need you to make a statement.
Another angle?
That's the best they've got, sir.
I want S.O. 19 in place, with riflemen where possible.
Keep watching them, but no one is to approach those vans.
If they are suicide bombers, the slightest thing spooks them, and they'll detonate.
Sir.
What else have they got planned?
Ma'am.
How many devices are there?
Sarge, tenancy agreement.
46 Churchill Avenue, Wilston Green, three months paid in advance.
What's there, Rashid?
Take Phillips and whoever's still here from S.O. 19.
Come with me.
We go live now to Scotland Yard, where we're expecting a statement...
from the Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Ives of the Antiterrorist...
Phillips, come with me, and you.
A large bomb hidden in a van was detonated at 8:00 a.m.
Outside Liverpool Street station.
We believe that the bomb might have been used...
to disperse small amounts of radioactive contamination...
which is why every necessary precaution is being taken.
In the meantime, we need the public to stay calm and stay put.
If you're already in your home, stay in your home.
If you're in your office, please remain there.
All Londoners not in the vicinity of the incident...
should go in, stay in, and tune in.
There is no significant risk to your health, but it is vital that you are decontaminated...
before you go home.
Mass decontamination units are being set up.
No, they said we ought to stay inside.
Sir, mass decon units have been dispatched to the cordons...
at London Wall, Commercial Road, London Bridge, Old Street.
Priority routes are filtering everyone still inside the zone to these four points.
Tom, how long do we have to hold people there?
We've got 10 mass decon units in London, more en route from the regions.
But assuming fire and water can get them up and running in half-an-hour...
they're supposed to do about 200 people an hour.
They're supposed to do about 200 people an hour.
So how many people are we talking about?
100,000, 200,000. I don't know how many people are still in there.
10, 12 hours minimum.
Right, we'd better organize food and drink.
You can't do that.
They mustn't put their hands near their mouths.
No smoking, no eating, no drinking. They could ingest radiation.
Has anyone told them that?
- Well, haven't you? - Sir.
We've got a major problem. Fires are burning out of control at ground zero.
We've no idea how bad the situation is at ground zero...
so officers must wear GT suits.
Suits don't give protection against gamma. That's what the dosimeters are for.
We should expect concentrated pockets of gamma radiation close to the blast site.
Officers have to check their meters every minute.
And what's the maximum dose?
Female officers can't risk exposure to radiation at all.
We can only ask male officers to volunteer to take up 100 millisieverts.
Anything above that is at their own risk.
How do we get men in from this distance on that time scale?
We could use engines that are already contaminated to drive relays.
But it's gonna be hard getting the engines close. There's rubble everywhere.
They'll be lucky to last longer than 20 minutes in those suits.
The first officers in will need to know the ground.
You men have already received half the maximum dose.
- So they're released out again faster. - How many men do we have right now?
A couple of hundred that we can ask to get suited up. Traffic is gridlocked.
The majority of the force is struggling to get here.
If you want it, you're first in.
You'd better talk to your crew.
Everybody get down!
Police!
Man down!
Everyone should stay calm.
There is no significant risk to your health.
But it is vital that you get decontaminated before you go home.
Pregnant women, children, any casualties, should be brought to the front.
It is in your best interest to refrain from eating, drinking...
smoking, or placing your hands in your mouths...
prior to decontamination.
Good morning, Minister, I'm your liaison officer this morning.
Put me up to speed. What's going on?
We estimate a crowd of several thousand people behind the cordon...
- in need of immediate decontamination. - Right.
We are in the process of setting up a decontamination unit.
It'll be a couple of minutes before we're ready to get the decon unit open...
and on its way to bring people through there ASAP.
We've got the house secured. We have one casualty, one suspect dead.
Roger, understood. Ambulance en route, medical team en route.
This man is hot. The whole house is hot!
We've got to get out, clear the house!
We've got to get out now. Clear the house!
Clear the house!
Murray.
When your dosimeter gets to 100, you come out. Do you understand?
Suiting up, preparing to go in. Twelve.
Corrigan.
Portley.
- Ashwood. - Ashwood.
- McGee. - McGee.
First unit en route to ground zero.
We need a decontamination team down here before anyone can go and check forensics.
Give me the radio.
Sir, this is DC Habibullah.
I'm looking at a rental agreement for a white Transit van.
Registration Oscar Uniform 5-3 Sierra Foxtrot Foxtrot.
Yeah?
No, that's not the van that detonated.
Sir, they've recovered documents for a rented van.
White Ford Transit, registration Oscar Uniform...
5-3 Sierra Foxtrot Foxtrot.
It's not the Canary Wharf van.
Does anyone have a visual on the number plates of suspect vehicles...
at Westminster and Telecom Tower?
Van one on the move.
That's our van.
Go, go!
No clean shot, target obscured.
Take it.
Do not approach vehicle.
Our target's down.
Confirm target down, no movement. Repeat, no movement.
Please wait patiently.
Mass decontamination has begun.
Everybody will go through as soon as possible.
That's it. Wait your turn. Don't cross the line.
Please wait patiently. Mass decontamination has begun.
Everybody will go through as soon as is possible.
Your patience is appreciated.
Put a mask on, go outside.
Right, you're done. Step out. Next.
Step forward, please.
Close your eyes.
Turn around.
Foxtrot 571, this is entry controller. What's your status? Over.
We have severe casualties, civilians trapped.
We need heavy lifting gear.
Understood.
More units are en route. What's your dosimeter reading?
Hang on.
250.
Repeat, 250.
You're over your limit. You need to get your crew out now.
Negative, we can't pull out now.
We need more men.
Surely we need another mass decon unit?
- All decon units are committed, Minister. - Can't we get hold of any more?
We have more en route, but we're not sure when they'll get here.
- Hello. Where do you want me? - Where's the Prime Minister?
I'll take every question that you have for me.
We're getting some really high radiation readings.
- How high? - Very high.
Radiation has spread to east by north-east with prevailing winds.
Alert Mile End hospitals and all medical units in the area.
Be advised, radiation is spreading.
Do not let people leave the hospital buildings.
Sarge, London Wall cordon reports radiation readings of 50 millisieverts.
They want to relocate mass decon to a safe distance.
No, negative, hold position. On my coms, please.
Transfer.
Yeah, extra manpower is on its way to assist.
Do not dismantle your decon until you have their backup.
Whatever happens, you must hold that cordon line.
If the perpetrators of this dreadful evil think that they can demoralize...
and intimidate us, they are wrong.
Londoners have coped with terrorist attacks many times before.
We are doing everything we can to protect and inform people.
Sorry. I need to ask you to move. Decon is being relocated. We need to move.
Let us go!
There will be a short delay while the mass decontamination facility is re-sited.
Please stay calm. We will resume decontamination as soon as possible.
Your cooperation is essential.
Please stay calm.
Minister, the radiation levels are rising, you must leave.
Please, Minister.
Please remain calm.
Please stay calm. It's in your best interest to cooperate.
Decontamination will resume as soon as possible.
Please remain calm.
Attention, all fire ground personnel.
High levels of radiation are suspected.
Immediate withdrawal. I repeat, immediate withdrawal.
Murray, this is Harper.
- Steve, check inside. - Okay.
Check your gauge.
Foxtrot 571 to entry controller.
We're running out of air.
We've got to contain this.
We need more men.
Where are my reliefs?
Murray, this is Harper.
There's a delay.
Most of the area is having to relocate. We're pulling back.
Will advise on new location.
You have to get out of there now.
Murray, are you receiving?
Murray, do you copy?
Situation understood.
Get out, Steve! Go!
I've got it!
Are you ready for this?
Ahmed Ibraham Abassi...
also known as Nabil Kassem, also known as Abdul Hazan.
Born Hanif Abbash, Amman, Jordan...
June 17, 1971.
Pakistani ISI are holding your wife.
Your son Abdullah, as far as we know, is in an orphanage.
Your son has no family to claim him.
Do you care what happens to him?
He's 4 years old.
You decided his fate.
You killed those people, not Allah.
Slaughtering innocent men, women and children is not defending the brotherhood.
It is a crime against Islam.
What happens now? The West retaliates.
Thousands more Muslims will die.
We expect your retaliation.
It is what unites us and divides you.
Hi, can you tell me where the ICU unit is, please?
Yeah, down there. Follow the corridor, on the left.
Your husband has made good progress.
You need to understand there will be long-term effects.
The good news is that Murray should be able to come home...
in the next couple of weeks. We'll make regular outpatients' appointments...
but you should be alert for any signs of melanoma...
tumors, skin lesions, any unusual changes to the skin.
I'm afraid there may be problems if you want to have children.
We have consultants here that you and Murray can talk to.
They'll explain what's involved.
Do you understand?
The death toll as a direct result of the city bombing...
has been confirmed at 375.
Though medical experts warn that there could be...
thousands of long-term cancer deaths as a result of exposure to radiation.
Scientists from the Atomic Energy Agency have announced...
that three-and-a-half square miles of central and eastern London...
may have to remain sealed off for as long as 30 years.
Thousands of businesses caught in the contamination zone...
have been forced to close.
Millions of pensions, savings and trust funds may never recover.
As London house prices continue to plummet...
analysts warn that the full cost of the bombing is impossible to calculate.
In the hunt for the ringleaders of the dirty bomb attack...
British police say they've received unprecedented cooperation...
from all international intelligence services.
Later in the program, we'll be talking to the head...
The Prime Minister vowed that the government will not rest...
until all the terrorists who threaten the civilized world are brought to justice.