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To mark the 20th anniversary this past week of the devastating July 7 Islamist bombings in London, Netflix has released Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers, a four-part documentary series directed by Liza Williams. This compelling and meticulously crafted series revisits the terror attacks that killed 52 people and injured over 700, while also chronicling the intense police investigation that followed. Through survivor testimonies, previously unreleased footage, and interviews with key figures, including former MI5 Director General Eliza Manningham-Buller and former Prime Minister Tony Blair, Attack on London serves up a gripping reconstruction of the events and their aftermath.
However, while the series excels in its storytelling and historical detail, it treads too carefully around the broader societal implications of the attacks, particularly regarding the ideology that drove them and the divisive impact of mass Muslim immigration on the tiny United Kingdom. This caution, reflective of today’s Islamophilic sensibilities of Britain’s political elites, underscores a dangerous reality: the memory and meaning of the 7/7 bombings are being dishonored by the official suppression of any criticism of Islam, which is smeared as “Islamophobic.”
The series opens with a chilling account from survivor Dan Biddle, who describes locking eyes with one of the bombers, Mohammad Sidique Khan, moments before the latter set off the explosion on the Circle Line. Biddle’s harrowing description of the chaos—limbs severed, darkness enveloping the carriage—sets the tone for the documentary’s unflinching portrayal of the human cost. Biddle himself suffered the loss of his legs, which makes for a breath-catching reveal in the documentary.