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07/07/2005:
"Netanyahu Changed Plans Due to Warning"
Both of these are from AP articles an hour apart bearing the above title:Version 1: 7:17amET
JERUSALEM - British police told the Israeli Embassy in London minutes before Thursday's explosions that they had received warnings of possible terror attacks in the city, a senior Israeli official said...
Full: news.yahoo.com
Version 2: 8:17amET
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on his way to a hotel near the scene of one of the London blasts Thursday when he received a call to stay put, the foreign minister said.
''After the first explosion, our finance minister received a request not to go anywhere,'' Finance Minister Silvan Shalom told Israel Army Radio.
Netanyahu was to have been the scheduled keynote speaker at an Israeli corporate investment conference at the Great Eastern hotel near the Liverpool Street subway station.
Full: nytimes.com
Version 3: 8:14pmET
Full: washingtonpost.com
...Police said there had been no warning and that the blasts at three subway stations went off within 26 minutes, starting at 8:51 a.m. in an Underground train just outside the financial district. Authorities initially blamed a power surge but realized it was a terror attack after the bus bombing near the British Museum at 9:47 a.m. _ less than an hour after the first explosion.
Pretty astonishing that the Israeli government was warned, and not the police.
