The Manchester Arena Bombing Anomalies, Disaster Trolls & BBC Hypocrites
In the wake of the BBC attempts to expose so-called "Disaster Trolls", including infamous independent journalist/researcher Richard D Hall, Alternative Narrative examines the Manchester incident.
First, some background illustrating my interest in terrorist attacks.
In 1981, while I was a young teenager living in what is known as “The Avenues” in the capital city of newly independent Zimbabwe, then still known by its colonial period name of Salisbury, now Harare, an insurgent terrorist campaign was underway to undermine the new government of Robert Mugabe. At the time, Mugabe was the country’s new black Prime Minister. Ex-Rhodesians had been equipped by apartheid South Africa & re-entered the country to perform destabilisation activities that included bombings & shootings.
I witnessed two of the teams’ bombings. Not just one, two. The first was fortunately ineffectual, the bomb was mis-timed & exploded in a closed, empty cafe on a Sunday morning. Had the blast occurred when it was meant to, on a busy Saturday the day before, it would have produced carnage.
On most weekends, my father & I would drive from the Avenues across the city & about 20km to the west where my dad volunteered as a snake handler at the Snake Park not far from what was then known as Lake Mcilwaine, now Lake Chivero.
No-one was hurt by the blast, but myself & my dad missed injury or worse by moments. We were stopped by a red light about 300 metres from the cafe. My father had an Alpha-Romeo with a meaty engine that was idling at the lights, so I heard nothing. The city was deserted apart from us. Suddenly, a great, grey cloud of dust & smoke burst into the street in front of us. I watched aghast as the white plastic tables & chairs from inside the closed cafe appeared to tumble elegantly in slow motion amongst all the dust & debris, into the street outside the cafe. I implored my dad to continue down the road so we could drive right past but, perhaps being a little wiser than a teenager, he elected to turn off & go round.
The second explosion was much bigger & unfortunately much better timed, & occurred at lunchtime on Friday December the 18th 1981. I was sitting in the Avenues flat my mum rented when a huge, single thunder-like BOOOM rattled my balcony glass doors & caused me to lift my head from whatever I had been doing. I went immediately onto my balcony to scan the city but could see nothing. So I leant out over the railings & looked around my building to see a huge, boiling black/grey cloud flecked with orange flame rising from the city less than a kilometre away. “Fuck me”!, I said out loud to myself, grabbed my keys & shot out & down the stairs.
I was quick on my feet & on the scene in only a few minutes, long before any police or ambulances had arrived. It was chaos. The streets were filled with Africans thronging towards the scene. Glass had been blown out of the various tall buildings on the way to the site & had piled like drifts of snow in the streets below. Once I was halfway to the site, I was already seeing blood on the ground & people injured by falling glass.
The scene itself was horrific. Although the target building had been warned & evacuated, the blast in a top floor office was enormous & it blew the roof off the building that landed on a bakery next door. Most of those killed were innocent shoppers buying lunch in the bakery which my mother & I used all the time. If she had not been in Durban having a girl’s holiday, my mother might easily have been in there. I could easily have been in there that day.
Injured people were being dragged from the scene covered in blood. I saw a very heavy-set African lady with her foot hanging off & blood pouring from the wound. There was the most awful sound of screaming, crying, shouting. She was loaded into the back of a Peugeot station wagon as no ambulances had been able to get through the enormous crowds. A white woman was wandering around in circles, uninjured but clearly in severe shock, asking strangers to help her look for her handbag.
Within about twenty minutes, police set up a cordon around me, & after another few minutes, the father of my girlfriend (a policeman) spotted me wandering the scene, asked me what the fuck I was doing there & lifted me over the cordon. I went straight round to the alley behind the damaged building, which was open, from where I could see a piece of walling held up by its metal supports, hanging dangerously over the bakery below.
Some if not all of those killed were actually white people. In the immediate wake of the bombing, white policemen & ex-soldiers gathered at a bar where my father enjoyed a drink, probably on the Saturday right after the bombing, & managed to blame the new black government for the slew of deaths in the bakery next door to the target building. Apparently, they should have evacuated the whole area & not just the target building. This was an eye-opener for me re racism in my country. These guys suffered such severe dissonance that they were confidently able to blame the black African authorities for white fatalities caused by a terrorist attack by white terrorists on those same black African authorities.
Incidentally, in 1991 while camping at Coronation Park on the edge of Harare I met one of the conspirators who had been released in a political amnesty by the Zimbabwe government & was living in a mouldy old caravan at the park. One evening over a spliff & a beer he told me that he had been the driver for the terrorist insurgent team. He also told me that the team had been very surprised by the size of the blast at ZANU-pf Headquarters, & that they had been given Semtex & told it was C4. Semtex is a good deal more powerful than C4.
Salisbury bombing video also on AN Bitchute
The scene of the Salisbury bombing, December 18th, 1981 from British Pathe
from - Zimbabwe: Five Die In Explosion At Robert Mugabe's Zanu-pf Party Headquarters. - British Pathé (britishpathe.com)
The sights & sounds of the incident in 1981 have never left me & fostered a life-long interest in war, & especially terrorism. Since the 9/11 attacks & the absolutely endless anomalies associated with that event, I have been studying terrorist incidents & uncovering even more anomalies. I was watching Sky News late on the Monday night when news of the attack in Manchester broke. I continued to investigate the incident as more details emerged the next day, & when the only image of the scene was published, I immediately noticed a bunch of inexplicable anomalies. It is these anomalies & others that Richard D Hall has considered & his investigations of the “victims” of the Manchester incident has drawn upon him the ire of the BBC & the rest of those who support the official narrative. We’ll deal with Hall & the BBC at the end of this report.
First, the Manchester Arena Lobby Bombing Anomalies.
The cover image of this post (& the one above) illustrates the most obvious anomaly. There are nowhere near enough casualties in the image, only twelve or so people can be seen down. At the time, we were told that 22 people, many of them teenage Ariana Grande fans attending her concert, were killed in the explosion, & at least another 20+ were seriously injured. We now hear that as many as 59 people were ambulanced to hospital & 112 were hospitalised for their injuries. All of those shown in the image appear to be adults & in fact there are no brightly dressed party teenagers seen at all, not dead, not injured & not assisting. None of those in the image can be seen clearly &/or identified. There are no injuries actually visible. Wikipedia claims twelve of those hospitalised were under the age of 16 but we do not see them.
Wikipedia Manchester Arena Bombing
The image itself has mysterious origins. It was sent from the USA in the early hours of the next morning, a few hours after the blast. The photographer remains anonymous. Although there is nothing graphic at all about the image, it is often censored by the media, as seen in the Daily Star report on the image below.
The Daily Star Report on the Appearance of the Anomalous & Mysterious Image
The image does show a couple of police officers, possibly three, dressed in high visibility stab vests, & a couple of paramedics. These are all stationed at the Arena in case of emergencies just like this. The official narrative claims that 19 officers attended the scene within ten minutes but none of these are visible. Smoke still appears to hang in the air. This all suggests, along with the lack of paramedic detritus, that the image was taken before the police & paramedics arrived & before any of the victims could be triaged, assessed, treated & evacuated. In other words, the immediate aftermath of the bombing scene shows far, far too few casualties. There should be upwards of forty Ariana Grande fans dead & injured in this image, not twelve.
Edit: This image above added to show that in the suspicious & mysterious sole photo of the scene the WHOLE scene is shown, & that the anonymous photographer is not standing with dozens of dead & injured teens behind him/her unphotographed. The stairs are behind the photographer, not piles of dead & injured victims. Whomever took that image took it very, very soon after the blast, before respondents had arrived, before any evacuations & photographed the entire scene.
Interestingly, in the wake of the Manchester incident & the publication of the anomalous image, a reconsideration of the scene of the London bus bombing of July 7th 2005 shows the exact same anomaly. Cameraphone footage of extremely low quality appears to show very few victims laying in the street behind the bus & images of the bus show only two dead victims on board. The official narrative claims that over 100 people were injured in the bus blast including eight who suffered traumatic amputations. Thirteen killed. Far too few of them appear in the images & the footage of the immediate aftermath.
Note that the ambulance delays at the bus bombing on 7/7 discussed in the image above are also mirrored at the Manchester incident… just another coicidence.
Cameraphone Footage of the 7/7 Bus Bomb Terrorist Suicide Bombing of 2005
Youtube has age-restricted this video, so you’ll have to sign in to watch it.
Edit: The Camera Phone Bus Bomb video has now been added to Bitchute for anyone who does not want to sign into youtube. - https://www.bitchute.com/video/tbydIFcYmCSq/
And now, some months later, seeing Substack has kindly installed the option, we have embedded it into this Substack. But THIS footage is set to play at half speed in order to make the scene easier to assess…
AN should probably dedicate a report to the anomalies on 7/7 but the single biggest anomaly is the highly apparent pre-cut frontal roofing struts. As the “victims” of the bus blast still appear to be on the top-deck, strangely uninjured, it’s clear that this image was taken before any evacuation effort had begun. Therefore the handheld band-saw cut to the frontal struts cannot have been performed by any rescue effort. Clearly, someone pre-cut those struts, the one on our right is particularly obviously cut. This is the sort of thing done in Hollywood so as to increase the spectacular upon detonation. Unfortunately for the conspirators, the strutting on the 7/7 bus broke at the point where the bus roof joins the struts but not where they were meant to break. Gave the game away.
Back to Manchester. The Guardian reports that the suicide blast in the Arena Lobby blew out a skylight above but there is no glass littering the scene & footage from the Sky News chopper over-flying the site the next morning appears to show a mostly intact skylight. The Guardian claims the blast also blew a crater in the middle of the Lobby’s marble flooring but, again, no crater is visible.
I was unable to re-find the video from which I took the above images but it’s clear that the scene is shown from above the next morning. Paramedic detritus clearly litters the street outside the Arena, while in the image of the scene, it does not. All this detritus would have been cleaned up later, so this is obviously the very next morning. If I can find the link, I’ll edit this post to add it when I do.
EDIT: Sky News clip from above Manchester Arena next morning found again!
Manchester Arena seen from the air after Manchester Attack
And now embedded within this post…
The scene shown of the lobby in the suspicious, mysterious image shows NO paramedic detritus which is further evidence that the image was taken before any paramedic staff arrived on-scene.
We are told that the Islamist suicide bomber Salman Abedi suicided himself in the explosion, which would obviously have blown him to bits along with any innocents adjacent to him on detonation. Yet there is no sign in the image of any body parts, either Abedi’s or anyone else’s.
As at the 7/7 bus bombing scene in London thirteen years previously, paramedics/ambulance teams endured interminable delays given the severity of the incident.
https://news.sky.com/story/manchester-arena-bomb-inquiry-critically-injured-had-to-wait-three-hours-to-be-taken-to-hospital-12256737
While fire-fighters were furious that they were “held back” from the scene & unable to assist.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-56241659
The CCTV within the Arena Lobby apparently failed to capture the blast itself, but a homeless chap hailed a hero at first was later arrested & jailed after the CCTV caught him stealing cell phones from the dead & the injured that he was initially lauded for assisting… How could the CCTV catch a thief stealing from the dead but could not capture the suicide bomber exploding himself just a short time earlier?
Homeless Man Hailed a Hero at Manchester Arena Jailed After CCTV Caught Him Stealing From the Victims
Strangely enough, this is yet another anomaly shared with the bus bombing scene in Londons Tavistock Square in July 2005. During it’s day-long reports from the scene, Sky News showed traffic camera images showing the broken bus. This camera was clearly facing the scene of the explosion, but no images or footage has ever emerged showing the blast itself.
Four Hours Long Sky News Broadcast on July 7th, 2005, as London Comes to Grips With Four Apparent Suicide Bombings, Three on The Tube, & One on a Famous Red London Bus.
Back to the Manchester images. One other image shows the Lobby from outside of the inexplicably undamaged Lobby swing-doors. That image shows a gentleman leaning over a “victim” of the bombing. Strangely, perhaps, he is also leaning over the same victim in the same position seen in the anomalous & mysterious image from inside the Lobby. This is suggestive of a Hollywood-style “places, please, people”. What are the chances that the only two images, one from inside the Lobby & one from outside the swing-doors, should just happen to have been taken at exactly the same time? Pretty unlikely coincidence.
So… What Really Happened at the Manchester Arena Lobby on May 22nd 2017?
A few years ago a very enlightening video emerged through a now defunct organisation called LiveLeaks. The footage, filmed off a laptop screen, shows ISIS terrorists arming a car-bomb in Baghdad before making a get away in a white car. Seconds later the car-bomb detonates on an empty street & as soon as it has done so, the apparent “victims” run onto the scene to splash blood around & fall down. They are then immediately rescued by pre-positioned ambulances. The video then goes onto to show cameraphone footage of the aftermath. The blast was around the back of a school & this footage is filled with genuinely traumatised Baghdad children. As the “victims” have been evacuated, the kids & everyone else has no idea that the attack was faked. The blast was real & the traumatised kids are real but the victims are not. This offers compelling evidence that something similar happened in Manchester Arena in 2017. The blast may have been real, as in Baghdad, & the traumatised Ariana Grande fans like the kids in Baghdad, are also 100% genuine. The anomalous image however suggests that, as in Baghdad, the victims were not genuine.
cc Manchester Arena: Fake, Hoax, Staged Terrorist Bombing ISIS Baghdad
Also on Youtube, for now. False Flag Bombing ISIS Baghdad
And now, thanks to Substack permitting the option, AN has embedded the Baghdad ISIS hoax video… Good to have this archived here as well. Some people think this is one of the most important video’s ever to emerge…
The Baghdad staged car-bombing was reported by several outlets, including Global News Canada & the British Daily Mail, as 100% genuine, with the numbers of dead & injured reported.
The brown wooden doors appear in both the blast video with the victims running onto the scene AND in the images & footage from Global News Canada & the Daily Mail image.
Global News Canada Reports Fake/Staged ISIS Terrorist Car-Bomb in Baghdad as Genuine
Daily Mail - "In a series of apparent retaliatory attacks, bombs exploded in five of Baghdad's mostly Shiite neighborhoods, killing at least 17 people. The deadliest — a parked car bomb — hit a popular fruit and vegetable market near a school in the northwestern Hurriyah area, killing at least 10 people and wounding 34. IS claimed responsibility for the attack."
The DM article has an image clearly from the same False Flag attack. It shows those same wooden double doors...
EDIT: Before we move onto Hall’s run-in with the BBC, I am editing this post on Nov 9th 2024 to add this image in the wake of Halls recent conviction for harassing folks he suspects of crisis acting. The image shows both the injury to this Arena attendee’s leg, which looks very serious, as well as a still image from a video clip from inside the Arena, but of the same victim victim walking easily.
Apparently, this woman, Ruth Murrel, was interviewed by ITV where the scar to her leg was shown (& from where Hall grabbed the image) so AN is looking for that link now.
Meantime, have a look at the beaming “victims” being visited by the now departed queen. Not a single victim has a single visible injury & despite an explosion of “nuts-&-bolts”, not a single one of these victims has even the slightest injury to their faces, not even a scratch. As well as producing high-speed shrapnel, an explosion tends to be pretty hot too. Even a TATP blast, although less likely to produce an orange fireball, is still an extremely hot event. Yet no burns are visible, & there’s no singed hair. Everyone’s hair & skin looks, frankly, fantastic. Looking great for the camera’s there, folks, not looking so great for the narrative though.
The Queen visits the BRAVE survivors of the Manchester bomb blast
Like I said, all these poor people look suspiciously chipper for terrorism survivors. All I did was WITNESS terrorist attacks & I was traumatised for life.
Hall admits on Page 54 of his book Night of The Bang that “In the John Barr video discussed earlier, a woman, who I believe is Ruth Murrell walks past the camera in platform shoes.” I found the following image which appears to confirm that the lady dressed in jeans & a flowery top is definitely Ruth Murrell.
Image from: Richard D. Hall's 2023 investigative film about the 2017 Manchester Arena staged event. From Twitter/X.
Okay, that didn’t take too long. Here’s Ruth Murrell speaking to the queen, claiming that she took a nut or a bolt to the leg, which went straight through. As you can see thanks to the images from a video clip, Murrell is walking fine inside the Arena after the blast. Video link below along with an embedded copy.
PS Haha. Watch closely as Murrell talks to the queen in the clip below. Note her smile/smirk when claiming some teen died. Also note that she shifts markedly in an otherwise comfortable position as she makes this claim. Those are TELLS, they help body language experts to detect deceit. She’s lying.
Queen visits Manchester attack victims (including Ruth Murrell). Clip from ITV Facebook
Now we get on briefly to the recent Disaster Trolls BBC podcast reports & the BBC Panorama team targeting Richard D Hall. Hall made a video & wrote a book called Night of The Bang, flagging the anomalies discussed above as well as many others. He has also shown scepticism towards numerous other incidents, including 9/11 & 7/7 but is most famous for his absolutely exhaustive work exposing the parents of Madeleine McCann.
This Was Going to be a Link to Richard D Halls Night of The Bang from His Own Rich Planet Website But Unfortunately the Link is 404 NOT FOUND
Fortunately, we have mirrored this video on our Bitchute.
Richard D Hall - Night of The Bang on Alternative Narrative Bitchute
Marianna Spring door-stepped & harassed Hall uninvited at his market stall in Wales, his use of which has now been permanently revoked by the local council. Despite repeatedly advising the BBC through emails that he did not wish to participate in their Panorama episode or talk to them & inviting the BBC in no uncertain terms to leave him alone, Spring drove from London with a camera team, turned up at the market stall to harass Hall whilst at the same time actually accusing HALL of the exact same sort of harassment. Hall has made a video in which he takes apart the accusations the Panorama team have laid at him on his website Rich Planet & exposing the Panorama team, the BBC & Spring of hypocrisy.
Richard D Hall Refutes Allegations of Harassment of Manchester Arena Victims
The Same Video Can Also Be Seen on Alternative Narrative's Bitchute Channel. Titled: "Whilst Actually Harassing Richard D Hall the BBC Accuses HALL of Harassment."
The hypocrisy of accusing Hall of harassment & of turning up to Manchester “victims” homes & workplaces whilst actually having turned up at Halls workplace uninvited to film him & to harass him despite his invitation to the BBC to stay away, is not lost on Alternative Narrative. And it makes an excellent point at which to end this report.
Thanks for reading.