Here was Timmy visiting McD's for a hot apple pie on 17 April 1995:
Posted on 07/07/2005 2:19:21 PM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
Almost everywhere Londoners go in public, chances are they're being tracked by cameras.
Now officials say the British capital's ubiquitous closed-circuit TV cameras may help police determine who was behind the attacks. Thousands of them watch the Underground system alone, and investigators have used the footage in the past to solve crimes.
London's train stations are monitored by 1,800 cameras, and there are more than 6,000 watching the capital's Tube network. Cameras also have been installed on some London buses.
On top of that, more and more people carry pocket-size digital cameras and camera phones, and some footage from such sources, inside Underground carriages, had already found its way to British TV by afternoon.
"Clearly we've had considerable success in the past using closed-circuit television footage in order to trace the movements of the people involved" in various crimes, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Paddick said after the bloody Underground and bus attacks.
"That will be one of our first priorities, as well as securing whatever forensic evidence we can secure from the various scenes," Paddick said.
Police will have full access to all footage taken of the London rail and the bus network, as well as images from cameras mounted around the entrances to stations and at bus stops, authorities said.
An estimated 4.2 million cameras - largely concentrated in London and other major cities - observe Britons as they go about their daily business, whether they're waiting for a bus, riding a train, lining up at a bank or parking a car in a public garage.
The phalanx of security cameras has earned Britain a reputation as a world leader of surveillance, and has led to criticism that the constant monitoring takes the Orwellian concept of Big Brother to an extreme.
Critics contend the system is of limited use because the monitoring screens at the CCTV command post aren't closely watched in real time, meaning the images rarely are used to stop a crime in progress - only help authorities investigate one after the fact.
It's widely estimated that the average Briton is caught on various cameras up to 300 times on a normal day.
But police have had success in the past in solving crimes by poring over frames of video footage. Such work has become a routine part of police operations, the Metropolitan Police said.
Last year, closed-circuit video helped British authorities in several high-profile cases, including a 12-year-old boy who robbed a store at gunpoint; the disappearance of a doctor; attacks by a serial rapist; a father and son hit by a train; a rash of school laptop computer thefts; and a soccer riot.
© 2005 AAP
I'd forgotten about those.
I believe that they have a camera system to check every license plate entering London. They are charged a fee every time they enter certain parts of the city. A fairly high amount if I remember correctly.
I hope they catch those white Christian men responsible for this....
Good info, thanks for the tip.
Sorry, I put the title in the "title search" in quotes and it still didn't come up. Hope you got a lot of readers, it's great news.
"white Christian men "
White Christian men cleaned up America when the KKK was up to the same stuff in our country. We now need True Muslim Men to clean up their own yards.
I'm still waiting for the pictures of the Pentagon on 9/11. Of all the cams surrounding, and inside, why haven't we seen an actual picture of a plane going into the building. I doubt we'll see the London pictures, due to the power problem.
Not gonna happen. Once they allowed the sacrificial killing of their own children and the cowardly killing of innocents...there is no turning back for them. They are forever dirty.
we need to??
It would shut up the tin foiler's. Why not show them? I've always wondered about the Oklahoma City bombing too. A major downtown area, even in the mid-90's, should have at least a few pictures of detonation, or something.
My suggestion was the only thing that would prevent a "holy war'" Their God versus my God. If they want it, lets get it on. I am betting on mine.
Here was Timmy visiting McD's for a hot apple pie on 17 April 1995:
Of course there is a picture. A camera from an adjacent parking lot captured at least three frames of the jet before it impacted the Pentagon.
Can those camera mounts support a high powered rifle?
It might be a help now but the crucial point is these cameras didn't prevent the bombings. If these perps were martyr oriented the fact that their final act was on camera for posterity would be a plus not a minus. If they get captured because of the cameras the victims are still dead and injured.
Right, "A camera". I've seen those frames, still no plane. What I'm saying is that there's probably hundreds of cameras both inside and out of the building. Why only "a camera" with "three frames". I know, I know, I'm going for the foil right now.
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