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12Nov06 - Mail on Sunday
- OUTRAGE AT LONDON STING BY U.S. SPIES
by Alf Mendes
It would seem that the US Administration is finally approaching its point-of-no-return in the Near/Mid-East region, due, in no small measure, to the arrogant stupidity of its global strategy in the region which has resulted in chaos in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
For decades there has been a close politico/economic relationship with Saudi Arabia, best exemplified by: (a) the setting up of the joint Arabian American Oil Company which was given exclusive rights to mine, produce and export oil from the eastern part of the country, free of Saudi taxes and duties; (b) In 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt made Saudi Arabia eligible for Lend-Lease assistance by declaring the defense of Saudi Arabia of vital interest to the U.S, and in 1945, King Abdel Aziz and President Roosevelt cemented the tacit oil-for-security relationship when they met aboard the USS Quincy in the Suez Canal - an agreement later formalized in 1951.
Now, today, America finds Saudi Arabia deeply alarmed at the chaotic situation in Iraq - the main reason for the latter’s concern being that it shares a border with Iraq - a country now, in effect, under the control of Shiite Muslims, thus posing a serious threat to the Sunnis of Saudi Arabia, with its monarchical, puritanical Wahhalabites.
As evidence of this concern - as revealed by the managing director of the Saudi National Securiy Assessment Project (NSAP), Nawaf Obaid, in the Washington Post in November ‘06:
(a) a month before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Saudi foreign minister had warned President Bush that he would be “solving one problem and creating five more” if he removed Saddam Hussein by force;
(b) two months before he quit his job as Saudi Ambassador to the US in December ‘06, Prince Turki al-Faisal had, in a speech, said “since America came into Iraq uninvited, it should not leave Iraq uninvited”. Nawaf adding “If it does, one of the first consequences will be massive Saudi intervention to stop Iranian-backed Shiite militias from butchering Iraqi Sunnis”;
(c) “Major Saudi tribal confederations, which have extremely close historical and communal ties with their counterparts in Iraq, are demanding action. They are supported by a new generation of Saudi royals in strategic government positions who are eager to see the kingdom play a more muscular role in the region”.
(d) “Finally, Abdullah may decide to strangle Iranian funding of the militias through oil policy. If Saudi Arabia boosted production and cut the price of oil in half, the kingdom could still finance its current spending. But it would be devastating to Iran, which is facing economic difficulties even with today's high prices”. (This would pose an intriguing question: “What would be ARAMCO’S reaction to this?”).
With reference to (b) in the paragraph above, Nawaf - with a touch of irony - could have added that Prince Turki al-Faisal had been head of the Saudi intelligence services at the time his government had been allied with America in supporting the mujahadeen/taliban during the latters’ struggle against the USSR in Afghanistan.
As reported by the CNN on December 13th ‘06: at Vice-President Dick Cheney’s trip to saudi Arabia in November 25th ‘06 (his fourth such trip), King Abdullah had warned him that, in the event of the US pulling out of Iraq, Saudi Arabia would back the Sunnis in that country, and, referring to the recent US Iraq Study Group’s call for further talks with Iran and Syria, he “voiced strong opposition” to such ‘talks’.
On the 19th December ‘06, Parliament - and the Brtish public - were somewhat puzzled by Tony Blair’s decision, via the Attorney General, to stop the 3-year-old Security Fraud Office (SFO) investigation into allegations of corruption/bribery between the BAE and the Saudi government - covering the past 20 years. As reported by the Independent on Sunday (IOS) of 17th december ‘06: BAE had claimed that in the previous month “..the Saudi government had halted the commercial talks over the 10 billion-pound Eurofighter deal because of anger over the SFO inquiry”.
In view of the foregoing subject matter of this article, it would seem that Blair’s timing was , at the very least, intriguing. And keeping in mind his subordinate role vis-a-vis Bush (who, as revealed above now finds himself in yet another impasse - this time with the Saudis), then surely the only rational explanation for Blair’s decision to close down the SFO’s investigation is that he was told to ‘lay-off the Saudis at this critical US/Saudi impasse.
(Author’s poscript: as author of my article “The Gulf War” [written in the aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq in 1991] I made the following prediction: “Nevertheless, if this means that, as the custodians of such omnipotent weapons, the Americans may now be perceived as unchallengeable on the conventional battlefield, then the angry resentment and frustration of the Arab fellaheen - exacerbated by the Gulf War - will both enhance the isolation of their Sheikhs and Emirs, and foment Khomeini-like revolts against those same Sheikhs and Emirs”. Today, I await, with trepidation, the materialisation of my prediction...)
Nicola Smith, Brussels and Michael Woodhead, Frankfurt
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C2089-2496216%2C00.html
10th December 2006
GERMANY’S European commissioner, Günter Verheugen, faced calls to resign this weekend after photographs showing him naked on a beach with his chief of staff were obtained by a magazine.
The 62-year-old commissioner had already become embroiled in accusations of favouritism and a conflict of interest after he appointed Petra Erler, 48, to her £94,000-a-year job amid reports of a close friendship. He has denied that they are having an affair.
Jose Manuel Barroso, the commission president, defended Verheugen but insiders suggested that behind-the-scenes pressure was mounting for both him and Erler to go.
While accusations of favouritism were denounced by Verheugen, one of Barroso’s vice-presidents and the commissioner for enterprise and industry, as “pure slander”, photographs of the pair holding hands during a two-week seaside holiday in Lithuania last summer have already been splashed across the German press.
Last week Brussels and Berlin joined forces in an attempt to dampen down the publicity, fearful that it would overshadow Germany’s presidency of the European Union, which starts in the new year. But the heat seems certain to intensify if Focus magazine publishes the pictures, which were taken on a nudist beach in August.
Last week Verheugen and Erler were insisting they had done nothing wrong. Ensconced in her commission office late on Friday night, Erler said in a shaky voice: “I’m sure you understand that this is an entirely private matter.”
However, the photographs were shown to a number of German MEPs last week and several of them demanded Verheugen’s resignation.
Focus, whose lawyers were debating whether publishing the photographs would breach Germany’s strict privacy laws, has up to six pictures of the couple naked on a beach. One is said to be of them in the water and another shows them lying in a hollow in the sand. Verheugen is said to be wearing nothing but a white baseball cap.
He was reported yesterday to have instructed a Hamburg lawyer to ensure that the photographs would not be published, citing “invasion of privacy”.
Markus Ferber, a senior member of the parliament’s budget committee, said: “Mr Verheugen says there is nothing between him and the chief of his cabinet. The naked photographs make it clear that that isn’t correct. To protect the reputation of his office he should accept the consequences and resign.”
Verheugen has repeatedly insisted there is no sexual relationship with Erler. “Can’t two adults do as they wish in their private lives?” he reportedly asked.
At the family home in Brühl, south of Bonn, his wife Gabriele remained outwardly unperturbed. “This is old hat,” she said when confronted with the details of the Lithuania trip. “I knew that my husband had this holiday.”
Rumours about Verheugen and Erler began to circulate earlier this year when they were apparently spotted holding hands while wandering through expensive shops on the exclusive Avenue Louise in Brussels, and on another occasion arm in arm holding flowers at a local weekend market.
Journalists began to ask questions after Verheugen appointed Erler, who was already on his staff and likes to dress in black with silver jewellery, to head his office in April. Her salary increased from £6,000 to £7,800 a month.
She also began to act as his gatekeeper. “If you want to get Verheugen to do something, you first have to have Erler on board. He eats out of her hand. Resisting her is pointless,” said an official.
Verheugen first met Erler, a single mother with a daughter, on the political and social circuit in Brandenburg in the late 1990s.
She had already earned a formidable reputation as a high-flyer while state secretary for Europe in the first and only elected East German government. The position brought her into contact with Angela Merkel, the future German chancellor, who was then working as a government press officer.
In 1999, Erler was invited to join Verheugen’s staff and she became one of his most trusted aides. Sources close to Verheugen say it seemed only logical for him to appoint someone who had his complete confidence. “He’s been a little bit naive really,” said the source.
During their Lithuanian holiday, Verheugen and Erler gave an interview to the country’s largest newspaper, Lietuvos Rytas.
“We have had breakfast together and then went to cafes and bars,” Verheugen told the paper. He insisted the trip was perfectly innocent, calling it a “joint meeting during vacation time”.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German foreign minister, sprang to the embattled commissioner’s defence. “There is hardly anyone who knows the EU better than Verheugen, and as a heavyweight in Brussels with us taking over the presidency he is indispensable,” he said.
Merkel has also backed him. Her spokesman said: “The German government shares the European commission’s view . . . that the private life of commissioner Verheugen should be respected.”
If Verheugen were to heed calls for his resignation, it would create a headache for Berlin, with tensions likely in the governing “grand coalition” since the social democrats of the SPD and the conservatives of the CDU would argue over the appointment of a successor.
By Christopher Leake - Mail On Sunday - 12th November 2006
HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR
UNDERCOVER American agents are staging secret 'sting' operations in Britain against criminal and terrorist suspects they want to extradite to the US.
In a recent operation, agents from Amer-ica's Department of Homeland Security set up a suspect by posing as dealers wanting to illegally sell night-vision goggles for export to Iran.
The spies arranged a series of clandestine meetings in London hotels, which they secretly filmed as evidence. It is thought to be the first time American agents have been caught using such sting tactics in Britain.
Last night urgent questions were being asked about whether the British Government had been aware of the operation. If so, it raises issues of the State collaborating with foreign agencies to entrap suspects - and if not it raises the spectre of American spies working unchecked on British soil.
Human rights campaigners demanded an explanation from Home Secretary John Reid and Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett.
The case has provoked a huge row because the agents used tactics banned in Britain. In addition, the offence of which he is accused would not be a crime in this country. If British police officers had employed this type of sting, the ensuing case would almost certainly be thrown out of court.
In July 2003, ten defendants, accused of laundering £15 million, walked free from Southwark Crown Court after Judge George Bathurst-Norman described police actions as 'massively illegal'. The judge said a police sting aimed at trapping them had 'overstepped the line between legitimate crime detection and unacceptable crime creation'.
Following the US spy sting an Iranian-born businessman - named by Whitehall officials last night as former Iranian ambassador to Jordan Nosratollah Tajik - now faces extradition to America.
Mr Tajik, who has lived with his family in Britain for several years, is accused of conspiring to sell military equipment to Islamic extremists. He was arrested on the Americans' behalf by British police officers before the alleged deal went ahead and detained in prison for a week.
The sting operation also raises new questions about Britain's one-sided extradition arrangements with the United States, under which British citizens can be sent across the Atlantic for trial with ease. It is much harder for British authorities to extradite American citizens to the UK.
During the operation, the under-cover American agents, who were unarmed, claimed they wanted to sell night-vision goggles, said to be worth £50,000, for export to Iran, in breach of US export controls.
Mr Tajik, who is 52 and was recently in hospital with a serious illness, has since been released on substantial bail and has reported daily to a police station near his Durham home. He is an honorary fellow of Durham University's Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and has an engi-neering degree from the Univer-sity of Westminster.
Mr Tajik is now due to appear at an extradition hearing at City of Westminster magistrates court on December 4. The Mail on Sunday understands Mr Tajik's legal team will claim he has no terrorist connections or criminal record and that the Amer-ican agents acted illegally as 'agents provocateurs' by trapping him.
Sources close to Mr Tajik say he feels he is being made a scapegoat for America's opposition to Iran, and the case could widen the rift between America and Iran because of Mr Tajik's former diplo-matic role.
According to a witness at a House of Representatives inquiry into state-sponsored terrorism in Iran in February last year, Mr Tajik was one of several Iranian diplomats recruiting Palestinians to establish terrorist cells.
Matthew Levitt, director of ter-rorism studies at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said: 'Iran actively recruits Palestinians for terrorist training in its camps.'
He added: 'Iran arranged for free travel, medical treatment and terrorist training for Palestinians [who had been wounded in the violence in the Middle East] who then returned to the Palestinian ter-ritories to establish terrorist cells. Among those involved in the recruitment drive were... Iranian ambassador to Jordan Nosratollah Tajik.'
Iran, along with Syria, is also the main sponsor of Hezbollah.
It is not known whether the sting operation is connected to a British investigation launched in August after Israel accused Britain of indi-rectly supplying Hezbollah terror-ists with military night-vision equipment that helped them target Israeli soldiers in Lebanon.
The batch of 250 systems, each stamped 'Made in Britain', was dis-covered by Israeli troops in Hezbol-lah command bunkers in southern Lebanon. Israel demanded to know whether the night -vision gear was part of a batch sold by Britain to Iran in 2003 for use against drug smugglers.
The sting comes just days after it was revealed that Home Office Ministers signed away crucial British extradition rights with America without holding a single meeting with their US counter-parts. The Government last month defeated attempts to block further 'fast-track' extraditions despite a rebellion by backbench Labour MPs. .
Critics of the 2003 treaty claim that the burden of proof now required makes it too easy for US authorities to demand that British subjects stand trial in America, as demonstrated by the recent case of the NatWest Three.
British bankers Gary Mulgrew, David Bermingham and Giles Derby fought a long-running but unsuccessful battle to avoid extra-dition on fraud charges related to the collapse of energy giant Enron. They were extradited in July, and were not allowed to return to the UK despite being granted bail. Their trial will be held in Houston, Texas, next year.
Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights group Liberty, said last night: 'We already have a one-sided extradition arrangement that allows people to be bundled off to America without so much as a by-your-Ieave. Now we have US agents operating in Britain entrap-ping people into criminality in the first place.
'The Home Secretary and the Foreign Secretary must tell us the nature of these agents' operations in Britain.'
Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesman Nick Clegg said last night: 'The case of rendition flights to transport American prisoners for interrogation in other countries raised concerns about the degree to which the American security services run operations on British soil without the full knowledge of the British Government.
'Everyone wants the British and American security services to co-operate well, but we don't want a situation in which American author-ities can act on British soil with complete impunity and without regard for British, domestic law.'
The Metropolitan Police refused to comment on the case. A spokesman said: 'We do not discuss our inves-tigative techniques, but we do noth-ing that is illegal and we work to Home Office guidelines.'
A Home Office spokeswoman said: 'We are aware that this man is wanted by the US Government on charges of alleged arms sales. The matter is before the courts, so we cannot comment.'
Litvinenko, now a British citizen, co-authored a book in 2002 entitled Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within, in which he alleged Federal Security Service (FSB) agents coordinated apartment block bombings in Russia that killed more than 300 people in 1999. Officials blamed the bombings on Chechen rebels.
Litvinenko in very serious condition, remains in intensive care
11/23/2006
The hospital treating him said "he is heavily sedated and on a ventilator because overnight he went into a heart failure." The BBC reported three unexplained "objects of dense matter" had been found in his stomach.
Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned in London three weeks ago, has suffered a sudden turn for the worse and is now seriously ill, the hospital treating him said on Thursday.
"There has been a major deterioration in Mr Litvinenko's condition overnight. He is now in a very serious condition and remains in intensive care," London's University College Hospital said.
The 41-year-old critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin says he fell ill after meeting two Russians at a hotel. He had been investigating the killing of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, also a vocal critic of Putin, who was gunned down at her Moscow flat on Oct 7.
Litvinenko's friends accuse the Kremlin of orchestrating a plot to poison him, but Russia has dismissed the allegation as "nonsense".
Alexander Goldfarb, a friend of the London-based former agent, told the BBC that Litvinenko was on life support. "He is heavily sedated and he is on a ventilator because overnight he went into a heart failure ... although the doctor who spoke to his wife and to me said his heart is not damaged. It is beating normally," he said.
The BBC reported that three unexplained "objects of dense matter" -- one of which had seemingly ruptured -- had been found in Litvinenko's stomach.
Goldfarb said an X-ray that had been taken had revealed what he called "shadows", but that they were not being treated as threatening or suspicious.
"The doctor who has seen these X-rays says these are three shadows -- he didn't characterise these as foreign objects or a rupture or something that he has swallowed. "They don't know their origin and they are not concerned at all about this from a medical standpoint," Goldfarb said.
Litvinenko has lost all his hair and is suffering major organ failure. The toxicologist treating him has said the poison may have been laced with a radioactive substance to render it more lethal.
Litvinenko, now a British citizen, co-authored a book in 2002 entitled Blowing up Russia: Terror from Within, in which he alleged Federal Security Service (FSB) agents coordinated apartment block bombings in Russia that killed more than 300 people in 1999. Officials blamed the bombings on Chechen rebels.
Nov 23, 2006 - http://www.sana.org/eng/22/2006/11/23/88350.htm
BEIRUT, (SANA) - Lebanese Minister of Industry Pierre Gemayel who was assassinated the day before is paid tribute today in central Beirut . the funeral ceremony was made at St George Cathedral where Patriarch Nassrallah Sfeir conducted the rites.
Meanwhile, the Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram underlined today that fingers are pointed to the Israeli Mossad in the case of assassinating Pierre Gemayel, noting "there is an intention to divide and bring to account with victories and heroism of the national Lebanese resistance."
In an article, the newspaper said " The Mossad itself has executed hundred of criminal acts in similar circumstances on the Lebanese soil and everywhere it was caught red handed with dirty actions ."
It added and here we are with a new dirty operation that could not be executed in that way and at this time but by the Mossad, its agents and supporters of defeated and callers for normalization as well as Israel's widows.
Another Egyptian newspaper al-Akhbar, said that Israel has planned for the assassination of Pierre Gemayel because it does not want to forget its defeat in Lebanon but wants to make an interior war in revenge against the Lebanese, noting that pointing fingers will not be stopped as long as the Lebanese security and judiciary have no evidence and no one is tried for involvement in the series of assassinations.
In Tehran, the Iranian Foreign Minister Manoushaher Muttaki condemned assassination of Pierre Gemayel saying enemy's of Lebanon and his unity and solidarity are those behind the assassination.
In a joint press conference with his Malaysian counterpart, Muttaki hoped to solve and settle pending issues in Lebanon on the basis of wisdom and dialogue with the aim of establishing the unity and national solidarity.
By Philip Thornton, Economics Correspondent
Published: 20 November 2006
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article1998906.ece
Europe's failure to produce proper accounts is an "annual embarrassment", the Treasury minister Ed Balls is to say today, in a harsh verdict on the Commission's bean-counters.
The Economic Secretary to the Treasury is condemning the failure of the EU's accounts to gain approval from its own auditors for the 12th year in a row. He is to tell MPs today that Britain will take the lead in reforming the management of the EU Budget.
His tough language will be seen as a sign that Mr Balls, who is seen as Gordon Brown's right-hand man, is prepared to reinforce the Chancellor's reputation for delivering harsh messages to fellow EU finance ministers.
Mr Balls flies to Brussels tomorrow for the debate in the Belgian capital between finance ministers over the 2007 EU Budget.
Today, he is to tell the annual conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales that the failure to get the European Court of Auditors to sign off the EU's accounts is a disappointment. "Europe must do better to end this annual embarrassment," he will say.
At the same time he will deliver a written statement to MPs, pledging the Government to provide Parliament with an annual statement on all EU Budget spending within the UK and ask the National Audit Office to audit it.
At tomorrow's meeting, Mr Balls will urge other EU member states to follow this model. The Treasury said the proposal had already won support from the Netherlands and Denmark. The move is likely to be backed by the Commission, the European Parliament and the Court of Auditors.
Mr Balls will say: "All member states must accept their responsibilities to work together to achieve the clean bill of health for the EU's accounts that taxpayers deserve."
Four-fifths of EU spending is jointly managed between the Commission and member states, meaning countries have the power to ensure money is well spent within their borders, in particular by strengthening their management of agricultural and structural funds, and their controls against fraud. The European Commission in London was unavailable to comment.
Meanwhile, the ICAEW published its business confidence monitor, showing the first fall for five quarters. It said it was the first sign the latest rise in interest base rates to 5.0 per cent had had an impact on the economy.
Business confidence among companies employing fewer than 10 people hit its lowest level recorded since the survey began three years ago. Confidence in micro businesses, historically the most buoyant of business sizes and accounting for 95 per cent of UK businesses, fell to an index score of zero this quarter.
This mid-term US election has resulted in President G.W Bush appointing Robert Michael Gates as Defense Secretary to replace Donald Rumsfeld. (Whether or not the Senate authorises this appointment is of no pertinence to this article). A brief resume of Gates role on the US political scene is therefore called for:
While attaining his Master’s degree in history at Indiana University (1966), he was recruited to join the CIA - and after doing his 2-year stint in the US Air Force, he became a full-time CIA Intelligence Analyst, and, as such was assigned to the National Security Staff, serving there from 1974 to 1979. Returning to the CIA in late 1979, he was subsequently named the Director of the DCI/DDCI Executive Staff in 1981, Deputy Director for Intelligence in 1982, and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from April 18, 1986, to March 20, 1989.
In early 1987 Gates had been nominated to become the Director of Central Intelligence, but withdrew after it became clear that the Senate would reject the nomination because of controversy about his role in the Iran-Contra affair. Understandably, Gates was close to many figures who played significant roles in the Iran-Contra Affair and being in a position to have known of their activities, was therefore called in late December 1986, to testify before the Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh, who had been appointed to carry out an investigation into this matter. This investigation received an additional impetus in May 1991, when President George H.W. Bush nominated Gates to be Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), as a result of which the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) requested in a letter to the Independent Counsel on May 15, 1991, any information that would “significantly bear on the fitness” of Gates for the CIA post. This investigation resulted in a minutely detailed report completed by September 3, 1991 which concluded, in its chapter 16 - and in typical double-speak legalese: “Independent Counsel found insufficient evidence to warrant charging Robert Gates with a crime for his role in the Iran/contra affair. Like those of many other Iran/contra figures, the statements of Gates often seemed scripted and less than candid. Nevertheless, given the complex nature of the activities and Gates's apparent lack of direct participation, a jury could find the evidence left a reasonable doubt that Gates either obstructed official inquiries or that his two demonstrably incorrect statements were deliberate lies”. After reading this report, this author can only add that Gates was prone at times to suffer a convenient ‘loss-of-memory’. (An intriguing postscript to this: At the time the Independent Counsel reached this decision, the possibility remained that Clair E. George, the CIA's former deputy director for operations, could have provided information warranting reconsideration of Gates's status in the investigation. George refused to cooperate with Independent Counsel and was indicted on September 19, 1991. George subpoenaed Gates to testify as a defense witness at George's first trial in the summer of 1992, but Gates was never called - and he was subsequently pardoned by President Bush).
As revealed by Pierre Salinger in his book “Secret Dossier”, in late 1989, the Director of the Kuwaiti State Security Department, Brigadier al-Fahd, had had a secret week-long meeting in Langley, Virginia, with the US Director of the CIA, William Webster. In his own words: “We agreed with the American side that it was important to take advantage of the deteriorating situation in Iraq in order to put pressure on that country’s government to delineate our common border. The CIA gave us its view of appropriate means of pressure, saying that broad co-operation should be initiated between us, on condition that such activities are co-ordinated at a high level”. On the other hand, as noted by Kenneth Timmerman in his book “The Death Lobby”, a delegation of US Senators visited Saddam Hussein at Mosul on April 12 1990 to try and persuade the latter not to jeopardise the “foundations of a sound business relationship”between the two countries. Saddam’s reply was merely to threaten Israel if it attacked Iraq. When Dennis Kloske of the US commerce Department learnt of this, he suggested that the US impose new controls on licences for exports to Iraq at an interagency meeting. This was criticized by Robert Gates and ruled out by Robert Kimmitt (under-secretary of state for political affairs). “If the United States didn’t sell high technology products to Iraq, then France, Britain and Germany would”. Saddam had, in effect, been given the ‘go-ahead’.
In view of the fact that Webster was Gates predecessor as DCI, it is therefore obvious that the latter was well aware of the meeting between Webster and al-Fahd (noted above). The only conclusion to be drawn from this is that the US had effectively manipulated the circumstances surrounding the Iraq\Kuwait confrontation - thus ensuring the inevitability of the invasion that followed in August 1990.
In his book “The Silent Conspiracy” (p. 421), Stephen Dorril reported that “The CIA launched Operation Maseraagh (‘laundry’) which flooded Iraq with forged dinars to undermine the economy” (with a little help from Britain), adding that “At the beginning of 1992, CIA Director Robert Gates travelled round the Middle East states to drum up support for renewed covert action”.
As a prelude to what follows, it is necessary to recall that, in the ‘80’s, U.S. military assistance to Iraq during the latter’s war against Iran resulted in an unwelcome controversy in America, known as ‘Iraqgate”. And In 1995, the American company Teledyne Industries Inc.was accused of having shipped explosive zirconium pellets to Chilean manufacturer Carlos Cardoen, who then fashioned them into cluster bombs used by Iraq in said war. Howard Teicher, a former national security official under Ronald Reagan, came forward with a startling affidavit in the Teledyne case. He asserted that the secret arming of Iraq had been ordered by President Reagan in June 1982 as part of a National Security Decision Directive. Under it, CIA Director William Casey and his then-deputy, Robert Gates, "authorized, approved and assisted" delivery of cluster bombs to Iraq through Cardoen. With Clinton now president, instead of welcoming the new evidence, the administration attacked the credibility of Teicher's affidavit and ordered it sealed as a national security secret. Federal prosecutors then convinced the Teledyne case judge to block Teicher's testimony on the grounds that it was irrelevant - and Clinton promptly had the Teicher affidavit sealed as a "state secret"! (Another intriguing postscript: As reported by Seymour Hersh in his book, “The Samson Option” [footnote p.260]: Ben- Manashe, of the Israeli Defense Force, “..also accused Robert M. Gates...of direct involvement, despite Israeli protests, in the sale of arms, including chemical weapons, to Iraq from 1986 to1989”. He had obviously been one of the whistleblowers exposing Teledyne).
The foregoing clearly exemplifies the fact that the US Administration is prepared to use whatever means are necessary to attain their ultimate goal of economic/political domination on a global scale - ‘double-speak’ was now the ‘order of the day’. And the fact that both Republican and Democrat Presidents share the same aim - and use of the same manipulative tactics to achieve this aim - merely reveals that their allegiance is primarily to the US Corporate Establishment, that epitome of capitalism, rather than to its electorate. This is understandable, in view of the fact that, for decades now, presidential elections were bought by the Corporate Establishment, and, since the mid-sixties, augmented by the introduction of manipulated electronic vote-rigging systems - which culminated in Dubya Bush’s Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of October 2002. (A misnomer of an Act if there ever was one!). No US government can now reasonably claim to be a democracy. Indeed, It is capitalism with strong overtones of fascism.
At this point it is pertinent to the subject of this article to note that one Robert Michael Gates for some years served on the board of directors of a company, Votehere, which, in their own words “... is a pioneer in developing secure e-voting technology that simplifies the election process...It is the leading worldwide supplier of secure Internet voting technology”. And they are not kidding - the USA has ensured that vote-rigging methods are now widespread.
In conclusion, it can justifiably be assumed that by appointing Gates to replace Rumsfeld, Bush Jnr. is thus assuring his corporate controllers that there will be little change of strategy during this administration.
The immediate future looks bleak for the earthlings on this planet Earth!
Daily Mail - 14th November 2006
Security has been stepped up around police investigating the cash for honours allegations.
Special measures have been brought in to protect detectives and the incident room involved in the inquiry, the Evening Standard - the Mail's sister paper - has learned.
The extra security is believed to include additional CCTV cameras and alarms.
Security is understood to be particularly tight surrounding the Scotland Yard offices of temporary Assistant Commissioner John Yates, who is leading the investigation.
His team of hand-picked detectives and investigators are working from an incident-room in a secret location in central London. Sources say it was standard practice to review the security surrounding potentially vulnerable offices which may contain sensitive information.
One source said: "This is one of the most difficult and sensitive inquiries the Yard has ever undertaken. It could topple a government, so people have had to think of every contingency."
Tensions surrounding the inquiry are rising as it moves steadily closer to the heart of the Government and the Prime Minister himself.
Questions surrounding the security of police investigations into sensitive issues were first raised during the Lord Stevens inquiry into collusion between the security forces and paramilitaries in Northern Ireland.
The former Met chief 's HQ - supposedly one of the most secure buildings in the province - were burned down while offices in another supposedly secure location were burgled and highly sensitive documents were stolen.
While police emphasise there has been no evidence of any dirty tricks surrounding Mr Yates's investigation, Scotland Yard confirmed security at the premises involved in the cash for peerages investigation had been reviewed but refused to comment further.
Members of Tony Blair's inner circle - including director of government relations Ruth Turner and, reportedly, chief-of-staff Jonathan Powell - have already been quizzed.
Last week it emerged that virtually all ministers who served in the Cabinet in the run-up to last year's general election had been contacted by Scotland Yard.
Detectives are now preparing to interview the Prime Minister in person in the coming weeks. Asked yesterday whether Mr Blair had been contacted over the affair, a Downing Street spokesman said there had been "no change".
At the weekend senior Downing Street figures are reported to have accused the police of deliberately setting out to prove that Mr Blair and other No10 officials were corrupt.
They are also said to be angry at the way the inquiry is being run and claim that the police are leaking information to the media. The alleged remarks prompted fears that the inquiry was being targeted by a smear campaign orchestrated by Labour and Downing Street.
However, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott yesterday declared himself satisfied with the police's conduct.
The investigation was sparked by claims this year that wealthy Labour backers were being rewarded with seats in the House of Lords in return for providing secret loans.
The scope of the inquiry was then widened to cover similar claims about the Conservatives.
Three people - including Labour's unofficial fundraising chief Lord Levy - have been arrested since April, with many others questioned.
Scotland Yard sources say officers on the Operation Ribble investigation team are as determined as ever to establish the truth.
Mr Yates, 47, is one of the Yard's most experienced detectives and colleagues say he won't be intimidated from pursuing his investigation.
One said: "He will follow the evidence trail, go where the evidence takes him."
The former public school-educated history graduate is considered to be the Met's most experienced troubleshooter and is no stranger to taking on difficult assignments. He led the illfated inquiry into the Princess of Wales butler inquiry which collapsed at the Old Bailey in 2002 after an 11th hour intervention by the Queen. After that case Mr Yates was fiercely criticised and friends say the experience made him doubly determined to ensure that the cash for honours investigation was fair and thorough. The investigating team has also refused to speak about the inquiry and Mr Yates has declined all requests for interviews.
The investigation has recently been widened to look into possible accounting irregularities involving millions of pounds of Labour party loans.
Police are examining claims that officials tried to hide as much as £12 million in party loans in the approach to last year's election.
However Mr Blair's role in the honours process is still considered to be at the heart of the inquiry.
He is said to have been one of only two Cabinet ministers who knew about the secret Labour loans. The only other minister with prior knowledge of the £5 million worth of loans from businessmen is claimed to have been former party chairman Ian McCartney.
Labour claims it has committed no wrongdoing in securing more than £5 million of secret loans from a clutch of businessmen to fund its 2005 campaign.
But investigators want to know whether the deals were used to circumvent a 2000 Act of Parliament requiring all donations of more than £5,000 to be made public.
The Government has since changed the rules to ensure all loans are also fully declared.
Attorney General Lord Goldsmith today revealed that he had not received a letter from the police investigating the affair asking him for an interview. Lord Goldsmith also insisted he would not shy from any decision on whether prosecutions should be brought as a result of the inquiry.
Other Cabinet members - including Gordon Brown, John Prescott and Jack Straw - have been sent letters asking them to set out what they know about the loans.
Daily Mail, Wednesday, November 1, 2006
By Sean Poulter
Consumer Affairs Correspondent
SIX out of ten Britons are tired of the rat race and considering ditching their material ambitions for a better quality of life.
The dream that inspired the Seventies sitcom The Good Life has endured for decades. But never has it been so popular.
Sixty-one per cent of working adults are reassessing their priorities and thinking about a 'lifeshift' which would give them stress-free jobs and more time with their loved ones.
Three years ago, the proportion was only 53 per cent.
The findings come in a survey by the Prudential, which reveals that those most likely to be seeking a change are aged 35 to 44, with children, in well paid jobs and with a home.
Alongside that, both partners will be working, probably long hours, and they are likely to be living under the tyranny of a hefty mortgage.
Dropping out of the fast lane was once considered something of a sur-render to the stress that is so often the price of material success.
But the study suggests the pursuit of emotional balance is now consid-ered a positive and worthy aspiration.
The Prudential found that 17 million Britons would happily give up money and material wealth for a better lifestyle, whether it be to get away from city life, find a more fulfilling career, or build a new life abroad.
At the same time, 38 per cent would be happy to take a lower paid job in return for more leisure hours without making a geographical move.
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The research found that a good work/life balance is the most impor-tant aspect of any job for a quarter of the nation. A third of workers said money was not their key motivator. Forty per cent would consider moving abroad, while a third would relo-cate to cheaper areas of the UK. .
Gary Shaughnessy, of the Prudential, said: 'The country cottage and move abroad are two things people normally associate with retirement.
'But this is increasingly becoming an aspiration for the younger genera-tions. Whereas in the past ditching the rat race for a less stressful exis-tence could be seen as a sign that you couldn't hack the pace, the "life-shifters" are showing us that, for many people, a balanced lifestyle is what really counts towards being fulfilled.'
Spiralling house prices, particularly in London and the South, have opened the door to life shifting for millions.
It has become possible to sell a home in the South and use the equity to buy a property outright in another part of the country or overseas.
Once the mortgage is gone, workers can afford to take a job paying much less than they are used to.
Another motivation is the search for a better quality state education.
The highest number of lifeshifters are in Greater London, where the fig-ure is 71 per cent.
In the North East, a desire to spend more time with the family was the biggest factor. People in the North West and in Scotland were appar-ently happiest with their current lifestyles.
spoulter-at-dailymail.co.uk
by Alf Mendes - 03Nov06 - bilderberg.org
It is an indisputable fact that the collapse of the USSR in 1991 was the most significant post-WW 2 event on the world scene (as the Americans would be the first to admit) - leading, as it did, inevitably, to the cataclysmic scenario facing us today. It is thus essential to examine this said event in greater detail if we are to reach a clearer understanding of the matter - always keeping in mind that it was but one more step in the stand-off between the capitalist West and the communist USSR - and that its border with that unstable nation, Afghanistan, would, understandably, play a crucial role in subsequent events - given the fact that the Soviet Republics in that region were of Muslim orientation. This was exacerbated by the following events preceding the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979: (a) In Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud ousted his brother-in-law, King Zahir Shah, in 1973; (b) In 1978, Mir Akbar Parcham, leader of the communist-orientated Parcham Party (of Afghanistan), was murdered & Daoud ordered the arrest of other leading figures of the Parcham Party - which resulted in the Parcham Party taking over the government in a coup. Daoud was killed. [1]
As revealed by Zbigniew Brzezinski: “on July 3, 1979, unknown to the American public and Congress, President Jimmy Carter secretly authorized $500 million to create an international terrorist movement that would spread Islamic fundamentalism in Central Asia and ‘de-stabilise’ the Soviet Union. The CIA called this ‘Operation Cyclone’ and in the following years poured $4 billion into setting up Islamic training schools in Pakistan (Taliban means ‘student’). Young zealots were sent to the CIA's spy training camp in Virginia, where future members of al-Qaeda were taught ‘sabotage skills’ - terrorism... In Pakistan, they were directed by British MI6 officers and trained by the SAS”. [2]
Five months later, and well-aware of Ops. Cyclone, in December ‘79, the USSR invaded Afghanistan, and after a long and devastating war with guerrilla opposition forces (the mujahideen) the last of the Soviet troops left Afghanistan in February1989, their economy and rubles in tatters. America’s role in destabilising the USSR (as noted above) therefore calls for closer scrutiny, and from the vantage point of hindsight, the fact that in the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR the American oil companies (with others) quickly bought their way into the vast reserves of Russian oil and gas is surely proof enough that this was one of the crucial aims of America’s strategy. [3]
This ‘destabilisation’ was implemented, primarily, by money-laundering - an illegal method used by political, military, intelligence, business, drug cartels, and the Sicilian Mafia - better known as ‘Black Ops.’. Two Americans, Leo Emil Wanta, and the notorious Marc (Reich) Rich, were the main players in this - but it must not be forgotten that the Medellin Cartel and the Sicilian Mafia also played a crucial role in this money-laundering scam.
Leo Emil Wanta had worked at the White House, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and six other government agencies during his career (which lasted from 1963 until his arrest in 1993), holding numerous jobs: in the DEA, the CIA, and Department of Defense - many of a secretive nature. And as for the Soviet Union - in a publicised interview he had stated that, during Reagan’s administration, and working under Bill Casey’s Special Operations Branch, Black Ops. (see above) “he had dealt with both the fusion bomb and the destabilisation of the ruble” - in conjunction with Kok Howie Kwong of the Chinese Secret Service! [4]
As evidence of America’s enormous influence on the global political scene, Wanta was acting as Somalian ambassador to Switzerland when he was arrested by authorities there on July 7, 1993, in Geneva, held for four months, then extradited to Wisconsin to stand trial for state taxes of $14,000 owed for the years 1982 and 1988., and sentenced to 22 years in prison, for a crime which he was not guilty of. He had, in fact, paid the sum noted above twice - under protest! It later transpired that the Wisconsin revenue agent at the trial had fiddled Wantas’ state tax returns: a print out from the State in December 1995 revealed that the sum he owed was $00.15! [5]
Intriguingly, on September 21st 1996 - and while in prison - he wrote a letter to Hillary Rodham Clinton, referring to "U.S. President Bill Clinton's Short Term Notes and IMF Sale of Bullion", reminding her both of his "de-stabilization of the Soviet Union Rubles (SUR)", and how he had "prevented the Soviet & Italian Mafiosa from the Soviet Funds in favour of our U.S. Treasury & Metals Accounts in excess of US$ 150 billion" - closing his letter with the somewhat threatening statement: "Until my legal release from the un-consitutional/ false incarceration in Wisconsin--as a diplomat & non-resident--I am legally interested in the corporate placement of short-term notes & I.M.F. gold bullion/troy ounce delivery contract. Thank you for your kind assistance in this timely situation". In plain english: if he was not released, he would ‘spill the beans’. On Jan. 10, 1997, Wanta received a reply to this letter from Erskine Bowles at the White House, as a result of which, on February 1, 1997, after Bowles had checked with W.H. Agency Relations, Leo Wanta was released on $90,000 bail. His ‘threat’ had proven effective!
Here, it is important to note that at one point “Wanta had bank accounts at Metishe Bank in Moscow, Avenue Bank on the Champs-Elysee in Paris, Credito Italiano in Milan, Anker Bank in Geneva, Swiss Bank Corporation in Geneva, the Algemeine Spaar in Brussels, the Zentralsparkasse und Kommerzialbank in Vienna, Creditanstalt Bankverein in Vienna, and--the perennial favorite of money launderers--Citibank in Milan, New York, and Los Angeles”. [6] Furthermore, according to Wanta’s Los Angeles attorney, he and President George Bush Snr. had “set up the Ameritrust account in the Credit Suisse bank for the government to use in case it needed to counter terrorists from overseas”.[7]
Inasmuch as banks bear the ultimate responsibility for the movement of money - including that which is ‘laundered’. Their role in this matter will therefore be looked at more closely below.
In 1983 Marc David Rich was convicted in U.S. federal court of tax evasion, racketeering, and other charges related to Rich's oil deals with Iran during a U.S. embargo, and fled to Switzerland, where he has settled since, having gained Swiss citizenship - thus making him unextraditable to face trial in America. However, his wife lived on in America and contributed money to Clinton’s library fund and Hillary’s Senate campaign in 2000. It was therefore hardly surprising that President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich just before leaving office in January of 2001. [8]
Head of the world’s second largest commodities company in the world, Marc Rich was soon providing 5 million tons of grain to Russia, as well as becoming the largest exporter of raw materials from that country. After all, he had been operating on Soviet territory since 1983. As reported in the Russian Izvestiaya of June 5th1993: Rich collaborated with the Russian Istok, transferring 4 million tons of petroleum to Western Europe - at a profit of about half-a-billion dollars. And, by 1993, his yearly turnover on ex-Soviet territory was $3 billion - up half-a-billion dollars over the previous year.
In an article of this length, the above is understandably not a complete list of the money-laundering activities of Wanta and Rich, but confirms the role played by America in it. At this point, it is important to examine the role of the banks, as implied above. It goes without saying that they must have been perfectly well aware of the illegality involved. This is confirmed by the fact that, ‘that central bank of central banks’, the Bank for International Settlements [9], had, in December 1988, in their Statement: ‘Prevention Of Criminal Use Of The Banking System For The Purpose Of Money-Laundering’ considered the matter comprehensively. The BIS had been formed in 1930, ostensibly to deal with the problem of economically unstable post-WW 1 Germany. In fact (as revealed by historian Carroll Quigley in his book“Tragedy and Hope - a History of the World in Our Time” [Macmillan & Co. 1966]), its immediate aim was to install the Nazi Party into power in 1933 to act as a tactical foil against communist USSR - a tactic in which Hjalmar Schacht, ex-Governor of the Reichbank, and co-founder of the BIS, had played a crucial role - with not-a-little-help from the fascist-minded Bank of England Governor Montagu Norman (a fellow co-founder of the BIS)- and Corporate America.
To return to the BIS Statement mentioned above: of particular significance are the following comments made in the preamble/introduction: (section 3) noting that in some countries the national banking supervisory authorities have a specific responsibility in the suppression of money-laundering - while others do not have direct responsibility - “This reflects the role of banking supervision, the primary function of which is to maintain the overall financial stability and soundness of banks rather than to ensure that individual transactions conducted by bank customers are legitimate”; and (section 6) This “Statement is not a legal document and its implementation will depend on national practice and law.....Whatever the legal position in different countries, the Committee considers that the first and most important safeguard against money-laundering is the integrity of banks own managements”..(this authors’ emphases).
In other words: the most influential powerful banking organisation on this earth is unable to stop money-laundering. Indeed, many -if not all - of its members engage in this ‘illegal ‘ practice!
The only conclusion to be drawn from this is that this is the price we have to pay for living in a capitalist society.
[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/29/newsid_2970000/2970317.stm
[2] http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=271&mode=&order=0&thold=0
[3] http://www.bilderberg.org/pepis03.htm “The Crux of the Matter” by Alf Mendes
[4] http://www.apfn.org/pdf/Vreeland_faxes.htm
[5] http://www.apfn.org/apfn/wanta.htm
[6] http://www.aci.net/kalliste/
[7] Ref; [4] above
[8] http://www.who2.com/marcrich.html
[9] http://www.spectrezine.org/war/Mendes4.htm http://www.spectrezine.org/Economy Society/mendes.htm
Rocket launcher ‘found at dentist’s house’
Published on 06/10/2006
http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=420965
A RETIRED Grange dentist is accused of being part of a bomb plot after a record number of explosives were seized in a Lancashire town. David Bolais Jackson, 62, of Trent Road, Nelson, was arrested on Friday in the Lancaster area after leaving his Grange practice for the last time. Jackson was charged with being in possession of an explosive substance for an unlawful purpose.
However, it is unclear who or what the intended target might have been. Police found rocket launchers, chemicals, British National Party literature and a nuclear or biological suit at his home. The find came shortly after they had recovered 22 chemical components from the house of his alleged accomplice, Robert Cottage, a former BNP election candidate, who lives in Colne.
The haul is thought to be the largest ever found at a house in this country.
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=9882
by Charlie Kimber
Here's a police seizure of weapons that wasn’t splashed all over the front pages. This week a British National Party election candidate has been accused of possessing the largest amount of chemical explosives of its type ever found in the country. That’s right, the largest ever - imagine if he’d been an Asian man. Home secretary John Reid would have held a special press conference and it would have led every news bulletin.
The home of another man charged with similar offences contained a rocket launcher and a nuclear biological suit as well as BNP literature and chemicals!
Robert Cottage of Talbot Street, Colne, and David Bolus Jackson of Trent Road, Nelson, made separate appearances in court charged with being in possession of an explosive substance for an unlawful purpose. Cottage was arrested at his home on Thursday of last week, while retired dentist Jackson was arrested in the Lancaster area on Friday.
The 22 chemical components recovered by police are believed to be the largest haul ever found at a house in this country. Cottage stood as a BNP candidate in the Pendle council elections in May.
Christiana Buchanan, who appeared for the prosecution in Jackson's case, alleged the pair had "some kind of masterplan".
http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/2823/34/
http://www.ministryoftruth.org.uk/2006/10/06/
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Far right targets NUJ members
http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/story1072.shtml
14:44 - 10 October 2006
A Lecturer at Bristol University says it is "utterly reasonable" for North Korea to carry out testing for nuclear weapons.Dr Eric Herring, right, a senior lecturer in international politics at Bristol University, blamed American foreign policy over the last 50 years for provoking North Korea into atomic testing.
The test was carried out in defiance of international warnings and was described by the White House as a "provocative act", while China denounced it as "brazen".
But Dr Herring said: "Between 1950 and 1953 the Americans killed three million people in North Korea, shooting everything that moved, and there's a lot of anger still there.
"Officially America is still at war with North Korea, which has repeatedly said that it wants security guarantees and promises that it won't be attacked again.
"If they get that, they will promise not to use atomic weapons and will freeze all nuclear testing.
"President Clinton was close to getting that but when Bush came to power he put North Korea straight on his 'axis of evil', ended all negotiations and started talking about preemptive war."
Dr Herring said it was only the "disastrous" war in Iraq which would stop an invasion of North Korea.
He said: "The cost of the war in Iraq has put America under so much pressure that it will restrain them from going to war again."
as seen at
http://www.nineeleven.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=4631
and
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/10/352658.html
Webster Tarpley's revelations about 'Able Danger' the terrorist exercise team on 911 organised by US special forces, mean that we are beginning to identify the true planners, inside the US military, of the 911 attacks. Yet these facts are being deliberately kept from the European public by a Western media who apparently refuse to listen.
So how can those of us who understand that 'False Flag' 911 type attacks have been going on for many years' work to change that?
With the reporting of 21st Century terrorism the British press has let the public down catastrophically. It is as if Allan Francovich's three Timewatch 'Gladio' documentaries of 1992, showing far-right NATO Special Forces gunning down and blowing up hundreds of innocent European civilians, had never been made.
Through systematic bias and a criminally complicit government the BBC, which the public is legally forced to fund, has turned on us and become an accessory to the crime. Despite the wealth of evidence to the contrary, the corporation's misleading and partial coverage is that of the discredited Metropolitan Police and MI5 anonymous 'narrative' line of unproven but 'obvious' Islamic guilt. After London's most devastating attack since the blitz, Londoners are told there will be no enquiry and to: 'trust us, they're suicide bombers'.
The Corporation crossed a lethal professional line when it decided to refer to the four 7/7 suspects as 'suicide bombers'. By rubber stamping Muslim guilt here in the UK, ignoring Peter Power/Visor Consultants' parallel exercise; the Netenyahu/Scotland Yard warning and other hard facts, the corporation has taken on a leading role in an anti-Muslim pogrom. BBC actions now fly in the face of its motto carved on Broadcasting House, 'Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation', as its one-sided presentation of the facts of modern terrorism assumes a NeoCon/Zionist case for a religious war against Islam and for Islamic oil.
The fact that such an extraordinary proportion of the corporation, and other mainstream media's senior staff, are Jewish begins to look less a result of 'fears of another Jewish holocaust' or 'individual merit' and more a Pro-Israeli, anti-Arab bias which has urgently to be corrected.
A professional journalistic blunder is committed with almost every new story of a 'suicide bomber'. Whether a bomb explodes accidentally, by remote control or if a 'bomber' believes he has a shipment of cocaine in his bag he's still likely to be termed a 'suicide bomber' in the news. In April 2004 Bush's Iraq chief Paul Bremer initiated the Iraqi insurgency by closing down the Al Sadr newspaper. The reason? The editor had printed a front page lead story that a 'suicide bomb' in a bus queue was, according to eyewitnesses, actually a missile fired from a helicopter. The newspaper was closed down by the US Army the next day.
The simple lie, referring to a 'suicide bomber' on the say-so of military 'contacts' with little or no evidence, is a propaganda narrative of which Josef Goebbels himself would be proud. It sends out a clear message demonising the target racial or religious group as 'insane', dangerous and impossible to reason with. Condemned with no proof, no court case the lie of the 'suicide-bomber' is not only bad journalism, it seeds genuine terrorism. When a racial or religious group, after false flag attacks, becomes demonised and targeted by racists it begins to fight back and give rise to real terrorism.
False flag or domestic state terrorism is proving a horrific but successful tool both to persuade MP's to wage war, and cow populations into accepting a stripping away of civil liberties. The horror 'serves well' to dissuade almost everyone, including police and investigative journalists from addressing the truth and pursuing the true criminals. The aversion to believing states can kill their own people means that everybody wants to believe 'official lies' but what sort of world does that leave for our children?
Horrific unprovoked massacres at Supermarkets and Railway Stations, no wonder people want to forget them. But we do so at our peril as they explain many oddities with terrorism 'spectaculars' today. 'Gladio' False Flag 'Strategy of Tension' attacks have been going on throughout Europe under the watch of NATO Intelligence's Clandestine Planning Committee (CPC) since the 1960's. It all became public with an Italian Parliamentary Enquiry in 1990 followed by one in Belgium. Make sure your local politicians, soldiers, journalists and police force are aware of Gladio, maybe by giving them a DVD copy of Allan Francovich's BBC Timewatch series.
2nd SS Panzer Korps Oberstgruppenführer Paul Hausser said after the war that NATO was "formed from the international brigades of the SS". Gladio, which was organised by NATO, is alleged by Belgian journalist Rene Haquin to be "a secret army on the model of the SS". Hundreds of innocent people have been killed in false flag terrorist attacks, particularly in Belgium and Italy, where Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped then assassinated for inviting Communists to join the Italian Government. These attacks were blamed on leftist groups such as Baader Meinhof, Red Brigades etc. which came out of the 1968 student uprisings. So be on your guard, the rogue network looks increasingly to be an 'ODESSA' organisation and there is no reason to think the 7/7 attack on London will be their last.
Be vigilant for warning signs such as drills or exercises, 'power failures' or unusual delays including unusual announcements on tube or rail station platforms or other public places. Carry recording equipment, camera and notebook with you at all times and keep contact details of all those you question. Use your right to take pictures of or film anyone who approaches or follows you and do not be afraid of arrest. If the police are either too embarrassed to admit their failures or complicit in false flag terror it is up to us ordinary people to gather evidence and find ways round them if necessary.
Much interesting information comes out in the hours immediately following a false flag attack. Set your radio cassette, computer, and DVD/VHS to record as much output as possible for later use. It is interesting to note that almost all London's Indymedia (IM) reporters were away from town covering the G8 in Gleneagles on the day of the 7/7 attacks. If you find strong evidence that points to a false flag attack, check the source then contact every newsroom you can immediately. If you found the info. on the Internet, save it immediately as a PDF file for later use as much material evidence was published on the net, noticed by the rogue network and removed after legal threats. Remind all publishers that legal threats and/or polite requests to remove 'inaccurate' articles will probably originate with the rogue network.
Choose your favoured method, writing, photography, audio or video and practice until you know you can turn up at the scene of a 'terrorist attack' able to gather evidence by talking to survivors or eyewitnesses or simply taking pictures. Familiarise yourself with how to upload files to IM and remember, if their editors tamper with or hide your material you can make a fuss about it, republish it as many times as you want on IM and there are always other places you can publish too along with the fact that it's been hidden on IM.
Keep a list of newsdesk phone numbers for your favourite news services so you can become a freelance journalist for the day. You can telephone TV news or the papers before publishing your pictures or copy free on the net but don't let them faff you about. If they do, get their name and politely ask to speak to the editor. Remember, if you come across a scoop or take a good photograph you may be able to sell an exclusive for a five-figure sum!
Centuries ago the Egyptian state mislead its people by censoring anything which showed its leaders in a bad light. Today, the battle for public opinion is much more subtle and being fought by a secret 'rogue network' of which researchers, producers and media managers are largely unaware. With tentacles in the secret state, police, the City of London, politics, press etc. the network keeps several steps ahead of the game. It uses the vacuum of information immediately following 'spectacular' false flag terror events to disseminate lies, which soon become myths. The rogue network then acts through its media owners and agents to discredit anyone who comes close to gaining enough exposure to challenge that myth and there is a reluctance amongst production staff to backtrack, a reluctance to admit professional mistakes. The rogue network also like to infiltrate our movement so that they can have pieces 'on both sides of the chessboard'.
0500 909 693, 0207 224 2000, learn these phone in numbers and use them. Phone-ins are the least used and most obvious way by which anyone can simply pick up a phone and present thousands of people with evidence (or just opinion) that 911 was an inside job, or point out misconceptions with any attack. Challenge the assumption that 'suicide bombers' were behind the 7/7 attacks, and remember, millions of people have simply not been posed basic questions like 'where was the US Air force for 1 hr 45 minutes on 911?'
Having worked on these shows I can tell you that some days there is a distinct lack of people calling in and that those producing the programme are only too happy to have someone make a controversial point to get the show going. Some phone-ins are on specific topics and others are an 'anything goes' so try to choose your phone-in sensibly. Particularly if you can move a stale debate on terrorism on by pointing out the lack of evidence that the four so-called 'London bombers' actually did it. A list of eight or ten 'killer questions' to hand might be helpful to have handy while you're on the air, see if you can get them all the questions in!
Mainstream media is moving closer every day to the monolithic multinational model. Safeguards such as guarantees of regional ITV news and locally produced programmes have gone out of the window to benefit shareholders. These are some of the main reasons the media has failed us over 911 and terrorism as a whole.
1. Long time lag as evidence emerges - journalists don't know the facts
2. Journalists' fear - job insecurity is exacerbated by low wages
3. 'Burden of proof' is skewed in favour of government
4. Downing St./NeoCon/Zionist/MI6 (I/OPS) penetration of editorial process - journalists' copy scanned & censored before publication
5. High cost of investigative journalism - pressure of time means journalists don't leave the office
6. Ideological influence of media's financial backers, banks and shareholders
7. Young and/or credulous candidates employed as journalists because they're cheap and don't ask too many questions
8. Reluctance to backtrack - "sorry everyone we got it wrong!"
Behind the scenes journalists discuss at length the reliability of sources and contacts. Whispering campaigns abound which is why it's essential to speak to journalists personally, and build up a list of contacts (see 911 truth PR - below).
Brilliant -Tarpley identifies US Special Forces exercise Able Danger/Able Warrior as at the heart of 911 - drills and exercises that 'turn real' are clearly the preferred MO of Gladio, 911 and 7/7 - see and read - nuff said
If you haven't seen all Daniel Hopsicker's various 911 and related DVD's then do please have a look. His professional experience has taught him to travel to the scene of the myth creation to do primary research which blows that myth apart. For example in Venice, Florida where the 911 'hijackers' supposedly 'learned to fly' Daniel interviews witnesses who pour scorn on the official version of events.
Many of these local witnesses want to explode the myth. The lies they see in the mainstream press coverage can make them puzzled and angry. They often feel a necessity to 'unburden themselves'. You may remember that people who were in key positions as witnesses to 911 'hijacker training' in Venice found that crucial evidence was either 'lost' by the FBI or never gathered in the first place. The same happened in London with at least one witness to the killing of Jean Charles De Menezes at Stockwell contacting the anti-terror 'hotline' only to be told later that his contact details and statement had been 'lost'. This leaves people feeling let down and undervalued by a criminalised or otherwise inadequate law enforcement system and often only too happy to talk on camera.
Through a lot of original hard work and determination Daniel has built up the credibility to get well known public figures to front his productions and shown beyond a shadow of a doubt how much more fruitful the 'inside job' line of enquiry is than the barmy conspiracy theories!
Back in 2004 I came across Simon Aaronowiz's www.911truthradio.com internet radio site. He put together a 14 hour continuous audio loop of mostly telephone interviews with key 'witnesses for the prosecution' for 911 being an inside job, interspersed with music. At the Dialect Radio Co-op in Bristol we were relaying that audio stream off the London Indymedia server at Rackspace when it was famously seized, without explanation, by the FBI.
To build 911 truth radio Simon bought an eight channel audio mixer with clean feed for £150 and a Telebalance unit for about the same price. These are available from Canford Audio, Broadcast Warehouse and other radio equipment stockists. He also used two computers, one to stream the audio using Shoutcast software and the other to play in music and pre-recorded interviews. The end result was streamed at 8-16k bitrate so that it could be heard uninterrupted on a dialup account. It is also possible to have an extra 32-64k bitstream to give broadband listeners an FM rather than AM sound quality. On top of this £350 a relay server costs about £20 a month or you may be able to use Indymedia which is free. Most importantly this unique 14 hour loop of evidence was produced with minimum time and manpower.
Journalists are very busy people but they appreciate being forewarned of significant events and informed of significant stuff they don't know in the immediate aftermath. As a movement we need to absolutely sharpen up and focus attention on our eight killer questions of 911. These are the points and questions which will persuade people to take our cause seriously rather than ridicule it. We hold our movement up to ridicule if we don't insist on discussing 911 on solid ground.
We need a London based team to build on contacts within the mainstream press and independent production companies to get articles placed and documentaries commissioned. This team should have an identifiable logo for all press releases and well trained spokespeople who have the discipline to stick to hard facts and the confidence to think on their feet during a live interview.
There are times when news programmes are much more likely to cover issues we are concerned about. And we must identify and use those windows by following the news and proactively contacting newsdesks with our point of view. "Who is working on the X story, we may have something for them"
Opposing what is probably the best financed and technologically advanced rogue network in history is an intimidating task. Sometimes it can be difficult to see how the ultimate triumph of truth, righteousness and justice will ever materialise.
There are powerful psychological forces at work when challenging an earth-shattering lie like the 911 myth. Adolf Hitler knew this well and used it to his advantage cowing much of the German population and that of occupied nations with his myth of the German 'master race' the scapegoating of the Jews, Gypsies etc. and the ultimate threat of the concentration camp.
The rogue network appears to have, at its core, a Nazi-like 'death cult', possibly linked to the Skull and Bones club at Yale University, that accrues power from spilling innocent human blood and from the knowledge that the more evil it becomes the less anyone will dare to take it on. Put bluntly, the fact that press and public 'don't want to go there' is an essential psychological element in the rogue network's depraved plans.
Spiritual beliefs and an understanding that we are not fighting alone are essential if one is not to give up in the face of apparently overwhelming odds. But the forces of darkness know this and are certain to be preparing their own man-made phoney spiritual solutions. Beware of spiritual paths promising 'hidden knowledge'. Freemasonry, Scientology or Spain's 'Nuevo Acropolis' are examples. Truth is pure and simple stuff, it neither thrives nor is it disseminated in a secretive way. As Carl Jung said: "The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison that alienates the possessor from the community."
The most powerful weapon we have may simply be our own love of righteousness expressed through prayer, meditation and spiritual fellowship.
As well as dismantling the 911 myth with hard evidence it we have a responsibility to point the way, as a sort of 'deep-ecology' 911 truth policy, towards a world where cataclysmic fraud like 911 can never happen again. George Monbiot's The Age of Consent begins to address international politics.
Nationalisation of money, land, water, energy and even the railways would all massively thwart the rogue network's private plan to own our world. We have to show we're clear about what exactly would make the world a better place, however 'impossible' people tell us those reforms are. Humour and ridicule of idiotic puffed-up 'leaders' plays a crucial part in this.
We cannot entirely blame the mainstream press for not dealing with our issues for one central reason: Few people have a good enough grasp of the facts of 911 and 7/7, even fewer are able to 'go public' and articulate those facts with any confidence, therefore nobody but the 911 truth movement can make a case for producing a 911 sceptic documentary. i.e. They don't know what we know!
We assume too easily that the facts which brought us to a 911 sceptic point of view are known about, so when making our case we must bear two things in mind.
1) To aim as much of our material as possible at an audience that believes the official version of events covering all the questions they are likely to have about our evidence and never assuming any audience knowledge other than the official version.
2) We must allow as our spokespeople only those who stick to the territory which we are sure of such as eyewitness accounts of explosions or hijackers inability to fly, not get side-tracked with techno-babble we can't prove such as 'holograms' or 'pods'. This stuff should be for internal discussion, a kind of peer review, only. Anyone who breaks ranks with easily discredited speculative stuff is 'pissing in the pot'.
Daniel Hopsicker - http://www.madcowprod.com
Webster Tarpley - http://www.tarpley.net
Operation Gladio - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio - DVD available from http://www.bilderberg.org/videos.htm
Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom - www.cpbf.org.uk - 0208 521 5932
Monetary reform - The Bromsgrove Group - www.prosperityuk.com - 0141 332 2214
Monetary reform - Green Economics Institute - www.greeneconomics.org.uk - 07990 590463
Sustainable Economics Magazine - www.sustecweb.co.uk
NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe - Daniele Ganser
Radio Production by Robert McLeish - Focal Press
McNae's Essential Law for Journalists - Butterworths
Media Law for Journalists - Ursula Smartt
The Brotherhood, the secret world of the freemasons - Stephen Knight
Take a look at and link to this page full of cheap 911 DVD's
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Public-Information-Films_W0QQcolZ4QQdirZ1QQfsubZQ2d33QQftidZ2QQtZkm
http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=74747
This makes perfect sense to me because the ISI works hand-in-hand with both the CIA and MI6. It also works with several terrorist groups which are collectively known as 'Al Qaeda'. Most of these groups can be traced back to the CIA and MI6. By making threats to bomb Pakistan "back to the stone age" etc it has proven very easy for the Musharraf regime to be used by the USUK to promote the lie of the "War on Terror." -Rory Winter.
Mumbai, September 30: Claiming to have cracked the July 11 serial blasts in Mumbai trains, Mumbai Police said that Pakistan's ISI was the `mastermind' behind the terror attacks carried out by Lashkar-e-Toiba with help from SIMI activists.
Addressing a press conference, Mumbai Police Commissioner A N Roy said that out of the 15 people arrested in connection with the blasts the `direct role' of 12 people has been established. Out of them, 11 are Pakistanis, who had arrived in India in batches, Roy said.
The conspiracy was hatched in Mumbai and adjoining areas after taking training in Bahawalpur in Pakistan, he said.
The Commissioner said the main players behind the blasts are Faizal Sheikh, Kamaluddin Ansari, Ehtasham Siddiqui, general secretary of SIMI, Maharashtra.
Two of the Pakistanis had come through Nepal reaching Mumbai around May 25. The second group had come via Bangladesh after spending some time in Kolkata while another separate group of four people had come through the Gujarat border.
Roy said they were kept in separate places in Mumbai. Faizal Sheikh, a local, had arranged rented houses for them one in Malad and four in Bandra in Mumbai.
About 15 to 20 KG of RDX was used in the blasts which was brought from Pakistan by one Ehsanullah. Ammonium Nitrate which was mixed with RDX was provided by local groups. The bombs were put together in the Chembur area by one Mohammad Ali around July 8 to 10.
Roy said the bombs were kept in Faizal's home in Bandra from where they were transported to the Railway Stations in taxis. The bombs were kept in eight pressure cookers of five litre capacity which were bought from two shops.
Each bomb contained two to 2.5 kg of RDX and 3.5 to four KG of ammonium nitrate. The pressure cookers were kept inside bags which were in turn camouflaged in things like newspapers and umbrellas, he said.
Roy said teams of two people each in a combination of a Pakistani and an Indian took the bombs in taxis and placed them in the trains.
All the bombs were fitted with quartz timers and the suspects left the trains before the bombs were set to go off.
He said Saleem, a Pakistani from Lahore, had died in the blasts carried out in Khar and Bandra section.
Of the seven Indians suspected to be involved in the blasts four have been arrested. They are Faizal Sheikh, Kamaluddin Ansari, Ehtashan Siddiqui and Naved.
A hunt is on for three other Indians suspected to have been involved in the blasts.
Roy said the accused had purchased eight pressure cookers and used seven for triggering blasts.
"It was a professional, precise and well-planned operation," he said.
He said the first clue received by the police was a phone call made from Navi Mumbai to a place along the Indo-Nepal border.
Following this piece of information, police arrested prime suspect Kamaluddin Ansari from Madhubani in Bihar.
He said all the arrested were trained in Pakistan and knew how to dodge interrogators.
The Commissioner said the narco-analysis tests conducted on the arrested persons also helped in tying several loose ends.
Faizal Sheikh told police he had received around Rs 60 lakh from Pakistan during the last few years. Police recovered 26,000 Riyals from his house, which he received from one Rizwan Devra, an ISI operative living in Saudi Arabia, Roy said.
http://www.newcriminologist.co.uk/article.asp?aid=1158484887
Lieutenant-Colonel (ret.) Nigel Wylde, a former senior British Army Intelligence Officer, has suggested that the police and government story about the "terror plot" revealed on 10th August was part of a "pattern of lies and deceit."
British and American government officials have described the operation which resulting in the arrest of 24 mostly British Muslim suspects, as a resounding success. Thirteen of the suspects have been charged, and two released without charges.
According to security sources, the terror suspects were planning to board up to ten civilian airliners and detonate highly volatile liquid explosives on the planes in a spectacular terrorist operation. The liquid explosives -- either TATP (Triacetone Triperoxide), DADP (diacetone diperoxide) or the less sensitive HMTD (hexamethylene triperoxide diamine) -- were reportedly to be made on board the planes by mixing sports drinks with a peroxide-based household gel and then be detonated using an MP3 player or mobile phone.
But Lt. Col. Wylde, who was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for his command of the Belfast Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit in 1974, described this scenario as a "fiction." Creating liquid explosives is a "highly dangerous and sophisticated task," he states, one that requires not only significant chemical expertise but also appropriate equipment.
"The idea that these people could sit in the plane toilet and simply mix together these normal household fluids to create a high explosive capable of blowing up the entire aircraft is untenable," said Lt. Col. Wylde, who was trained as an ammunition technical officer responsible for terrorist bomb disposal at the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Sandhurst.
After working as a bomb defuser in Northern Ireland, Lt. Col. Wylde became a senior officer in British Army Intelligence in 1977. During the Cold War, he collected intelligence as part of an undercover East German "liaison unit," then went on to work in the Ministry of Defense to review its communications systems.
"So who came up with the idea that a bomb could be made on board? Not Al Qaeda for sure. It would not work. Bin Laden is interested in success not deterrence by failure," Wylde stated.
"This story has been blown out of all proportion. The liquids would need to be carefully distilled at freezing temperatures to extract the required chemicals, which are very difficult to obtain in the purities needed."
Once the fluids have been extracted, the process of mixing them produces significant amounts of heat and vile fumes. "The resulting liquid then needs some hours at room temperature for the white crystals that are the explosive to develop." The whole process, which can take between 12 and 36 hours, is "very dangerous, even in a lab, and can lead to premature detonation," said Lt. Col. Wylde.
If there was a conspiracy, he added, "it did not involve manufacturing the explosives in the loo," as this simply "could not have worked." The process would be quickly and easily detected. The fumes of the chemicals in the toilet "would be smelt by anybody in the area." They would also inevitably "cause the alarms in the toilet and in the air change system in the aircraft to be triggered. The pilot has the ability to dump all the air from an aircraft as a fire-fighting measure, leaving people to use oxygen masks. All this means the planned attack would be detected long before the queues outside the loo had grown to enormous lengths."
Even if it was possible for the explosive to have been made on the aircraft, a detonator, probably made from TATP, would be needed to set it off. "It is very dangerous and risky to the individual," Wylde said. "As the quantity involved would be small this would injure the would-be suicide bomber but not endanger the aircraft, thus defeating the object of bringing down an aircraft."
Despite the implausibility of this scenario, it has been used to justify wide-ranging new security measures that threaten to permanently curtail civil liberties and to suspend sections of the United Kingdom's Human Rights Act of 1998. "Why were the public delicately informed of an alleged conspiracy which the authorities knew, or should have known, could not have worked?" asked Lt. Col. Wylde.
"This is not a new problem," he added, noting that 'shoe-bomber' Richard Reid had attempted to use this type of explosive on a plane in December 2001. "If this threat is real, what has been done to develop explosive test kits capable of detecting peroxide based explosives?" asked Wylde. "These are the real issues about protecting the public that have not been publicised. Instead we are going to get demands for more internment without trial."
Lt. Col. Wylde also raised questions about the criminal investigation into the 7th July terrorist attacks in London last year. He noted that police and government sources have maintained "total silence" about the detonation devices used in the bombs on the London Underground and the bus at Tavistock Square. "Whatever the nature of the primary explosive materials, even if it was home-made TATP, the detonator that must be used to trigger an explosion is an extremely dangerous device to make, requiring a high level of expertise that cannot be simply self-taught or picked-up over the internet," Wylde stated.
The government's silence on the detonation device used in the attacks is "disturbing," he said, as the creation of the devices requires the involvement of trained explosives experts. Wylde speculated that such individuals would have to be present either inside the country or outside, perhaps in Eastern Europe, where they would be active participants in an international supply-chain to UK operatives. "In either case, we are talking about something far more dangerous than home-grown radicals here."
Wylde's concerns are echoed by others familiar with British terrorism-related intelligence operations, such as Glen Jenvey, who is profiled in the bestselling book, The Terror Tracker, by terrorism investigator Neil Doyle. Jenvey worked for several military attaches monitoring terrorist groups in London and obtained crucial video and surveillance evidence used by British police to arrest radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, who was convicted last February.
"I've been closely monitoring the internet communications of extremist Muslim groups inside the UK both before and after 7/7, and they are intimately interconnected," said Jenvey, who is affiliated with the London-based terror watch group VIGIL. "We've identified a coordinated leadership of at least 20 and up to 60 people, extremist preachers with blatant international al-Qaeda terrorist connections."
Jenvey noted that even though they are known to the authorities and are monitored while breaking the law with impunity, particularly in their private sermons, the police have failed to take appropriate action against them. "The police don't need to round up and detain thousands of British Muslims. If they only arrested, charged and prosecuted these 20 key terrorist leaders, they will have a struck a fatal blow against the epicentres of al-Qaeda extremism in the UK. But they're sitting on this."
Jenvey points to Omar Bakri Mohammed, a colleague of convicted terrorist Abu Hamza who headed the now-banned Islamist group al-Muhajiroun in the United Kingdom. Despite being exiled to Lebanon, Omar Bakri continues to communicate with UK-based extremist groups which are believed to be successors of al-Muhajiroun operating under new names, including the Saved Sect and al-Ghurabaa. British security sources have confirmed that the 7/7 bombers were associates of Omar Bakri's network, and Bakri himself publicly boasted a year before the London bombings that an al-Qaeda cell in London was planning a terrorist strike.
An investigation by the counterterrorism unit in the New York Police Department found that Bakri's al-Muhajiroun had formed 81 front groups and support networks in six countries, most of them based in London, the home counties bordering London, the Midlands, Lancashire and West Yorkshire. By the time Home Secretary Dr. John Reid moved in July to proscribe the latest incarnation of al-Muhajiroun, al-Ghurabaa, this sprawling interconnected network was fully functioning and continues to operate namelessly, despite proscription. Bakri's network has recently adopted the name "Al Sabiqoon Al-Awwaloon".
Jenvey complains that, despite the arrest in early September of radical cleric Abu Abdullah, convicted terrorist Abu Hamza's successor at the Finsbury Park Mosque, a "hardcore group of 20 or more extremists operating around Omar Bakri" remains at large. "The police have every reason to act, and they know who these people are. Their failure to do so has only exacerbated unjustified demonization of Muslims. These extremists are not Muslims in any meaningful sense, they are simply terrorists obsessed with violence."
Even the arrest of Abu Abdullah only occurred after his support for terrorism was widely reported in the British and American media in late August. On 23rd August, he justified the killing of Westerners and told CNN correspondent Dan Rivers that Tony Blair is a "legitimate target" of jihad. The Sunday Times remarked that he "is apparently being allowed to operate unchecked by the authorities five months after a law was passed making it a criminal offence to glorify terrorism."
Torture may have been used to extract evidence for the weekend police raids which resulted in the arrest of 14 British Muslims, including Abdullah. Sources confirm that information came from detainees at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo, where interrogation techniques classified as torture under international law are routinely used.
The reluctance to take decisive action against the leadership of the extremist network in the UK has a long history. According to John Loftus, a former Justice Department prosecutor, Omar Bakri and Abu Hamza, as well as the suspected mastermind of the London bombings Haroon Aswat, were all recruited by MI6 in the mid-1990s to draft up British Muslims to fight in Kosovo. American and French security sources corroborate the revelation. The MI6 connection raises questions about Bakri's relationship with British authorities today. Exiled to Lebanon and outside British jurisdiction, he is effectively immune to prosecution.
Other London-based radical clerics with terrorist connections also had a relationship to the security services. Abu Qatada, described as al-Qaeda's European ambassador, was, according to French sources a long-time MI5 informant. Pakistani government insiders similarly believe that Ahmed Omar Sheikh Saeed, the British al-Qaeda finance chief from Forest Gate, not only worked with the ISI, Pakistani's military intelligence service, but was also recruited by the CIA as an informant. Saeed, who reportedly wired several hundred thousand dollars to alleged chief 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta, is currently in Pakistani custody for the murder of Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl.
Omar Bakri regularly uses the internet to communicate from Lebanon with his followers in Britain. On Sunday evening, 3rd September, Omar Bakri told participants in an online chat forum that he had been pulled in by the Lebanese authorities at the request of the US and British governments and questioned in relation to the "terror plot". Although he denied involvement in the plot, he claimed that some of the 24 British Muslim suspects were known to him. When asked to confirm or deny whether Bakri had indeed been arrested at the request of the British, the Foreign Office had no comment. Bakri said that he was regularly questioned by Lebanese officials on behalf of the British government.
The official reluctance to act against Bakri and his active associates in the UK does not match the government's willingness to act pre-emptively to foil a plot of doubtful reality. Official reluctance to acknowledge the significance of the detonators used in the 7/7 terrorist operation suggests that the threat is far more sophisticated than authorities have admitted, and that emphasis on home-grown amateurs is mistaken. Lt. Col. Wylde's observations would seem to indicate that the terror-threat narrative is being manipulated for reasons of political expediency.
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Acknowledgements: Thanks to Graham Ennis, Nigel Wylde and Glen Jenvey for
their research assistance and contribution to this story. They bear no
responsibility for any errors therein. An abridged version of this story
will be printed in The Muslim News, UK on 29th September 2006.
Monday, August 21, 2006
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed - www.independent inquiry.co.uk
http://nafeez.blogspot.com/2006/08/truth-about-terror-plot-and-new-pseudo.html
I am disappointed to say that so far there has been very little serious critical discussion, grounded in factual analysis, of the alleged “Terror Plot” foiled on the morning of Wednesday, 10th August 2006. Except for a few noteworthy comment pieces, such as Craig Murray’s critical speculations published by the Guardian last Friday, the mainstream media has largely subserviently parroted the official claims of the British and American governments. This is a shame, because inspection of the facts raises se