[lbo-talk] How London brought terror on itself

Joseph Wanzala jwanzala at hotmail.com
Thu Jul 21 15:49:53 PDT 2005



>From the South African Mail & Guardian:-

"In case you're politically naive and need proof that governments, and specifically the UK government itself, would kill or bomb its own citizens, well, they've done it before. Read how an MI5 British agent took part in the bombing of Omagh: British Double Agent Was in Omagh Bomb Team. Also read The Army Asked Me to Make Bombs for the IRA and IRA Torturer Was in the Royal Marines."

London calling

Ian Fraser: FRASER'S RAZOR

http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=245875&area=/insight/insight__columnists/

20 July 2005 07:00

As the lies and misinformation continue to mount with regard to the London bombings, the corporate media both there and here continue to parrot the official story, regardless of the evidence showing that what happened in London seems to be something entirely different.

I thought some useful links showing you the gulf between reality and what the TV and newspapers are trying to make you believe is "the truth" are worth pointing out, so that you can make your own mind up as to what happened -- and what is happening.

Starting off, isn't it suspicious that a "crisis-management" firm was conducting a bombing exercise involving the London underground at exactly the same time as the real bombings? Naturally it isn't saying who its clients were: Bombing Exercises. Download a 550k MP3 of the interview, taken off BBC Radio, with the MD of the crisis-management company here.

Note also the strangely "mutating" story of what actually happened. To start with, it's noteworthy that an ex-Mossad chief, writing on the same day of the bombings, seemed to know more than everyone else. Look at the first sentence from this Jerusalem Post article. First read the article from the same day of the bombing, Rules of Conflict for a World War

Here's the BBC's report from three days later, when the police officially stated that the bombs happened within seconds of each other: Tube Bombs Almost Simultaneous. Again, note the first paragraph referring to a "stunning revision" of the time between the blasts, as late as Sunday July 9, at Clues Emerge in Bombing.

You have to ask how someone writing on the day of the bombings knew something that no one else (apart from the bombers themselves, that is) knew for nearly three days.

And don't forget how the explosives themselves changed from being firmly described by a senior French police official sent to help with the initial investigation as "being of military origin" to being "homemade from pharmacy ingredients".

Then, the explosives were not only homemade, but "the same as used by suicide bombers in the Middle East" and with a sexy nickname (presumably for the media to feed on), namely "The Mother of Satan".

(This is an interestingly weird name, given that the United States produces more explosives and munitions than any other state in the world, and is generally called "The Great Satan". You'd have to ask just who exactly would call bombs for use against this state the "Mother of Satan".)

Now there are supposedly bomb-making factories (which the bombers families didn't know about), and a very surprised holidaymaker in Egypt has been arrested. Read Hunted Chemistry Expert Arrested. Quietly, the following news item appeared via news agency AFP: British Police Face Doubts over Bombing Role by Egyptian.

(Want to bet that, seeing how Egypt isn't playing according to the script, there's going to be a "terror attack" in Egypt within a week or so of this announcement, to bring it in line with the official story? Watch this space.)

Back to the unfolding story. Oddly, Israel features again -- thanks to an Associated Press article, reporting that Israeli Finance Minister Was Warned by British Police ahead of First Blast. According to Stratfor Consulting Intelligence Agency, the warnings ahead of the first blast came not hours, but "days before" -- and they report that rumours suggest that (oddly enough, just as with 9/11) that it was Israel Who Warned the United Kingdom Government.

By July 8, however, Israel is telling its officials to keep quiet and let the official story take over -- read between the lines at the Jerusalem Post's Israeli Missing in London.

What suicide bombers? Note this early quote from July 9: "Deputy Assistant Police Commissioner Brian Paddick said the near-simultaneous nature of the attacks indicated timers -- not suicide bombers -- set off the explosions."

And remember that website, apparently run by al-Qaeda, that claimed responsibility for the London attack? The sheep of the media leapt on this for a while. What wasn't given as much prominence was the fact that not only does this site operate from Maryland, in the US, but that the owner of the site is friends with members of US President George Bush's family. Read The Guardian article, where this is tucked away within the body of the article: UK-Based Dissident Denies Link to Website. And here's Al-Qaeda Website Is in Maryland.

You'd think the bombings were worth investigating, wouldn't you? Not according to the British prime minister, though: Blair Rejects Bomb Inquiry.

And you don't hear anything about the two separate bomb scares ahead of the London bombings, which might have suggested to anyone who dabbles in intelligence work that something larger was in the offing. It's also significant that local print and TV "decided" pretty much to ignore the two bomb scares, suggesting that the police told them to shut up: Bomb Scare in Cardiff and Bomb Scare in Edinburgh.

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