After Action Review - London Bombings 2005

Introduction

Inside eleven years of each bombing there were incidents that distraught many people worldwide, these three incidents were similar in some aspect to each other, these incidents struck the world in such a way no one would have expected that. These were major things that took place first being the London Bombing, this of course happen in the year of 2005, in 1995 there was the Oklahoma City bombing, this affect my family because of my relatives that lived in the areas close by; followed by the 1996 Olympics bombing.

Timothy McVeigh was the person responsible for the Oklahoma City Bombing, this man change history for he was the first American terrorist to commit an attack on U S soil. (Brenda Lerner. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 2005. 4 pp. 2 vols. Gale Virtual)

In 2005 London Bombing there were four men that was set out from Lupton, their names were Mohammad Sidique Khan, Germaine Lindsay, Hasib Hussain, and Shehzad Tanweer, In 1995 there was one more bombing, the Olympics bombing, the person responsible for this bombing was a carpenter named Eric Robert Rudolph.

London Bombings

The unthinkable was done on July 5, 2005, the London Underground rail systems had been severely hit by London terrorist's bombings according to Australian Federal Police. On that horrific day in the United Kingdom, fifty-six people were murder and over seven hundred others were injured, it was also stated that an Australian was included in the killing also. This was done by home grown suicide bombers, on that day in July, in that location were explosions of three bombs happening going off along the (LURS) London Underground rail system and one on a London passenger double-decker.

It was early peak hour of the morning, rush hour that these attacks happen to the London underground rail; it took place with the rushing travelers flow. The main disruption to the rail system was caused by the leading lines that lead in all routes from the Kings Cross, which allowed access to the majors lines the bombs on the trains was heading in for the exception of the northern line, it was from this point that the testing of everyone involved starting with the sites of the incidents result and (CIM) critical incident management capableness of the law enforcement and the crisis services in London. Knowing the challenges were great, the services were still able to act quickly to get to those people and rescue and minimize the disruption to the city.

Unlike what took place on July 7, 2005 with the public transport systems, which had been designed to cause conflict because of the directions the rail lines were going in. There were

more bombing attempts made in the following days to come more specific it was the day of July 21, 2005 but there were no injuries. (Australian Federal Police, 2006)

There was a team that had been put together that would consist of AFP's departments. 1. Australian Investigation and Management 2. Australian Disaster Victim Identification Experts 3. Australian Bomb Data Experts 4. NSW Police 5. Victoria Police, and Department of Transport and Regional Services, this of course is known as (DOTARS) transport security experts. (USDJ, 2000)

The Operation was known as Kinship. The Australian Federal Police's involvement was to be on hand and help with the investigation with the United Kingdom who had begun their investigation on July 7, 2005. The Australian Federal Police help with the investigation in the London bombing as well on July 7, 2005.

The supported was there, the (AHCL) Australian High Commission in London, the (AFP) Australian Federal Police London, and (HLO) the Hague Liaison Offices, gave the greatest support they could have asked for.

The squad was backed up by the (AFP) Australia Federal Police London and The Hague Liaison Offices, and the (AHCL) Australian High Commission in London.

Operation Result

With the investigation on its way it was the (TCCC) Transnational Crime Coordination Centre's of the Australian Federal Police, which coordinated the activities both in Australia and London, which got the investigation on its way with Operation Kinship. Included in those activities were the local enquirers in support of the United Kingdom investigation, along with general enquirers and the witness that were being interview.

Briefing Committee the (NCT) National Counter Terrorism

It was from the Australian Federal Police (AFP), state at that and the Commonwealth Department which is the Transport and Regional Services that had been deployed to London, this Australian Observer Team provide any and all assistance that was requested of them, they were in Observation of the result by United Kingdom, the other services were from the Police and Emergency Services.

Through the briefings from the Australian Government there team were able to provide updates along with summaries of their key findings and gave those updates and summary to the (NCTC) National Counter Terrorism Committee for consideration.

Legislative and Policy Change

Upon the results of the National Counter Terrorism Committee the discussion that was provided on the United Kingdom referencing the emergency response, provided the National Counter Terrorism Committee with much to take into consideration, the information was in fact very priceless and gave value on the issues at hand to move forward with on-going provision and activity for any potential or related violent attack in Australia. The terms of those responses were law enforcement investigation, intelligence, forensics, policy, and planning.

Bomb Data

It was through the efforts of the (ABDC) Australian Bomb Data Centre that the substances used to create the bomb was known, this information was very informative to the Australia forensic Response Team, it was this knowledge that was contributed by the Australian Bomb Data that they were able-bodied to increase insightful and precious data concerning the fashioning of the bomb. This was headed by a officer from the (ABDC) Australian Bomb Observer Team.

Oklahoma City Bombing

Within this Incident I can tell that the response efforts were a little bit quicker, at this was my observations. It certainly was minutes of the eruption or explosion that rescue efforts began accordant to the (USTDJ) United States Department of Justice. Many people helped out in the blast from the Firefighting Power,