Unless you know something everybody else does not, the question of who carried out the bombings in london remains a mystery. The idea that they might have been carried out by right-wing extremists is, at this point as plausible a scenario as anything else. The most recent bombings in London (other than earlier IRA bombings), as the story reminds us, were carried out by right-wing elements. When the Federal building in Oklahoma was bombed, it was assumed - as in London that it was the work of 'Islamic terrorists'. Later it turned out to have been carried out by people from the extreme right-wing milieu.
For the record, I sposted the article as a point of information. I do not necessarily buy-into any theories about who carried out the London attacks and why (Including the 'inside job' view which has been very popular even on mainstream lists and call-in shows (Daily Kos, C-Span) Like many 'smart' people I can simultaneously entertain several contradictory theories put forward to explain given phenomena.
I think it is *your* smarts that are in question here Doug, and not only your smarts, but your sense of fairness and impartiality. The fact is: we don't know who did it. Why are you acting as though we do?
Your post is another example of how the term 'conspiracy theorist' is deployed only to attack ideas that are at variance with mainstream conventional wisdom.
Joe W.
p.s. as we speak, Scotland Yard investigators are busily 'conspiracy theorising' about who may have carried out these attacks. (that is what they do, in case you didn't know)
>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] London - Amnesia Express
>Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:56:08 -0400
>
>Joseph Wanzala wrote:
>
>>http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/diplomatic/foreign.htm
>>
>>LONDON, July 11, 2005 -- Some informed British sources believe that the
>>recent London Transport bombings may have been the work of far right-wing
>>British terrorists
>
>It took what, four days for this? I'm disappointed. I'd been waiting for
>this kind of nonsense since I first heard the news.
>
>Joseph, you seem like a smart guy. Why do you fall for every piece of
>conspiracist nonsense in the bitstream?
>
>Doug
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