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Reinventing A War Criminal By Stephen Lendman
excerpt:
''Back Home in London, It's Business As Usual Scaring the Public Twice Over
Episode number one:
On his second day in office, new British prime minister Gordon Brown "was thrust into a new terrorism alert" as the New York Times claimed June 29. London police claimed they found two Mercedes Benz cars "filled with (a significant quantity of) gasoline and nails and a number of gas canisters parked close together in an area known for packed night-clubs and late-night bars," according to the Times. Police also claimed they found and defused an "explosive device" in the area overnight. At once and with no evidence, Al-Queda was named suspect number one, heightened by claims that had these bombs detonated they would have caused great harm. Peter Clark, Britain's most senior counterterrorism police officer, said "there could have been significant injury or loss of life."
So what to do? Round up the usual kinds of suspects and pin it on them, Muslim ones, of course. The New York Times reported July 2 "investigations (were) moving (ahead) at breakneck speed, the police expanded their hunt on Sunday (July 1) for the (London and Glasgow) 'plotters'....the British government called the work of terrorists linked to Al-Queda. Officers raided homes in three cities" bringing the total number apprehended to five (plus three more since). "Police said they had recovered a 'rich trove' of evidence" but presented none beyond claiming earlier to have found gasoline, canisters and nails, hardly the makings of a major terror attack.
Front and center Gordon Brown beginning to earn his bona fides saying "As the police and security services have said on so many occasions, we face a serious and continuous threat to our security. (This incident shows) the need for us to be vigilant at all times and the public to be alert at any potential incidents." Sounding much like George Bush and Tony Blair, he added Britain "will not yield" or be intimidated by a threat from "people who are associated with al-Queda. We will not allow anyone to undermine our British way of life." Counterterrorism expert Sajjan Gohel explained in a telephone interview he didn't think it was "a coincidence (this happened) the day after" Brown took office replacing Tony Blair. A familiar aroma from it is emerging.
Episode number two:
In case the public missed the June 29 event, it was repeated the following day at Glasgow Airport, Scotland. Here's how the New York Times reported it: "British officials raised the country's terrorism threat alert to its highest level on Saturday (June 30) after two men slammed an S.U.V. into entrance doors at Glasgow Airport and turned the vehicle into a potentially lethal fireball" 38 hours after police "uncovered two cars in London 'rigged to explode' with gasoline, gas canisters and nails." For the Times, the claimed presence of these items in the cars constitutes their being "rigged."
Here's the BBC version. Notice the important difference: "Blazing car crashes into airport" it headlined and continued saying "A car which was 'on fire' has been driven at the main terminal building at Glasgow Airport. Eyewitnesses have described a Jeep Cherokee being driven at speed (undefined) towards the building 'with flames coming out' from underneath." The report continued saying "The car didn't actually explode. There were a few pops and bangs which presumably was the (burning) petrol." With no corroborating evidence, the report quoted a "maintenance worker" saying he believed the men "deliberately tried to set the car on fire (and) It looked like they had Molotov cocktails with them."
Little attention was paid to the fact no evidence of them was found, one of the two men in the car was badly burned (a witness claimed by self-dousing with petrol), in obvious pain, required hospitalization, yet both were taken away in handcuffs. They're both now being linked, with no corroborating evidence, to the "rigged to explode" cars found in London.
What do we make of these incidents? Do they sound like terror attacks warranting closing down parts of London and Glasgow Airport as well as heightening security alerts across the UK and US? Did they provide the government emergencies committee Cobra justifiable reason to raise the nation's threat alert to its highest level where it might be put for an impending major terrorist event, invasion or nuclear attack? Or might there be another reason behind it? And is it possible the Glasgow incident was just an unfortunate accident or the work of a disturbed or angry solo perpetrator or two? Also, might normal items like nails, gasoline and canisters found in unattended parked London cars have had nothing to do with mischief? Some suggested answers below.
Since 9/11, Britain, under Tony Blair, chose to partner with the Bush administration's "war on terrorism," leaving aside the question of its legitimacy. Waging that type war or any other requires public support, and what better way to get it than by elevating fear levels with an outside threat made to seem real. Enter Al-Queda and "Enemy Number One" Osama bin Laden. Follow them up with unsubstantiated terror threats or episodes labeled terrorism. Then add color-coded alerts and round-the-clock hyperventilating news coverage with scary headlines at strategic moments like winning public support for repressive legislation, diffusing dissent, re-stoking public angst about terror threats so people don't forget them, and giving a new administration cover to continue the same "war on terrorism" hard line agenda as the previous one.
Isn't the timing of the above British "terror incidents" ironic at least? Don't they raise suspicions by coincidentally occurring on days two and three of the new Gordon Brown administration at a time his predecessor's was hated? Might it also not be important to check the record of past terror scares on both sides of the Atlantic and examine their legitimacy in hindsight? When it's done, threats that headlined for days or longer nearly always turned out to be fakes based on cooked up intelligence or unsubstantiated claims. They continue being used, however, because they work. By the time they're exposed as phony, it's on to the next cooked up plot. Note Exhibit A, B and C below plus an additional Exhibit D:''
please read more at:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17956.htm
Reinventing A War Criminal By Stephen Lendman
excerpt:
''Back Home in London, It's Business As Usual Scaring the Public Twice Over
Episode number one:
On his second day in office, new British prime minister Gordon Brown "was thrust into a new terrorism alert" as the New York Times claimed June 29. London police claimed they found two Mercedes Benz cars "filled with (a significant quantity of) gasoline and nails and a number of gas canisters parked close together in an area known for packed night-clubs and late-night bars," according to the Times. Police also claimed they found and defused an "explosive device" in the area overnight. At once and with no evidence, Al-Queda was named suspect number one, heightened by claims that had these bombs detonated they would have caused great harm. Peter Clark, Britain's most senior counterterrorism police officer, said "there could have been significant injury or loss of life."
So what to do? Round up the usual kinds of suspects and pin it on them, Muslim ones, of course. The New York Times reported July 2 "investigations (were) moving (ahead) at breakneck speed, the police expanded their hunt on Sunday (July 1) for the (London and Glasgow) 'plotters'....the British government called the work of terrorists linked to Al-Queda. Officers raided homes in three cities" bringing the total number apprehended to five (plus three more since). "Police said they had recovered a 'rich trove' of evidence" but presented none beyond claiming earlier to have found gasoline, canisters and nails, hardly the makings of a major terror attack.
Front and center Gordon Brown beginning to earn his bona fides saying "As the police and security services have said on so many occasions, we face a serious and continuous threat to our security. (This incident shows) the need for us to be vigilant at all times and the public to be alert at any potential incidents." Sounding much like George Bush and Tony Blair, he added Britain "will not yield" or be intimidated by a threat from "people who are associated with al-Queda. We will not allow anyone to undermine our British way of life." Counterterrorism expert Sajjan Gohel explained in a telephone interview he didn't think it was "a coincidence (this happened) the day after" Brown took office replacing Tony Blair. A familiar aroma from it is emerging.
Episode number two:
In case the public missed the June 29 event, it was repeated the following day at Glasgow Airport, Scotland. Here's how the New York Times reported it: "British officials raised the country's terrorism threat alert to its highest level on Saturday (June 30) after two men slammed an S.U.V. into entrance doors at Glasgow Airport and turned the vehicle into a potentially lethal fireball" 38 hours after police "uncovered two cars in London 'rigged to explode' with gasoline, gas canisters and nails." For the Times, the claimed presence of these items in the cars constitutes their being "rigged."
Here's the BBC version. Notice the important difference: "Blazing car crashes into airport" it headlined and continued saying "A car which was 'on fire' has been driven at the main terminal building at Glasgow Airport. Eyewitnesses have described a Jeep Cherokee being driven at speed (undefined) towards the building 'with flames coming out' from underneath." The report continued saying "The car didn't actually explode. There were a few pops and bangs which presumably was the (burning) petrol." With no corroborating evidence, the report quoted a "maintenance worker" saying he believed the men "deliberately tried to set the car on fire (and) It looked like they had Molotov cocktails with them."
Little attention was paid to the fact no evidence of them was found, one of the two men in the car was badly burned (a witness claimed by self-dousing with petrol), in obvious pain, required hospitalization, yet both were taken away in handcuffs. They're both now being linked, with no corroborating evidence, to the "rigged to explode" cars found in London.
What do we make of these incidents? Do they sound like terror attacks warranting closing down parts of London and Glasgow Airport as well as heightening security alerts across the UK and US? Did they provide the government emergencies committee Cobra justifiable reason to raise the nation's threat alert to its highest level where it might be put for an impending major terrorist event, invasion or nuclear attack? Or might there be another reason behind it? And is it possible the Glasgow incident was just an unfortunate accident or the work of a disturbed or angry solo perpetrator or two? Also, might normal items like nails, gasoline and canisters found in unattended parked London cars have had nothing to do with mischief? Some suggested answers below.
Since 9/11, Britain, under Tony Blair, chose to partner with the Bush administration's "war on terrorism," leaving aside the question of its legitimacy. Waging that type war or any other requires public support, and what better way to get it than by elevating fear levels with an outside threat made to seem real. Enter Al-Queda and "Enemy Number One" Osama bin Laden. Follow them up with unsubstantiated terror threats or episodes labeled terrorism. Then add color-coded alerts and round-the-clock hyperventilating news coverage with scary headlines at strategic moments like winning public support for repressive legislation, diffusing dissent, re-stoking public angst about terror threats so people don't forget them, and giving a new administration cover to continue the same "war on terrorism" hard line agenda as the previous one.
Isn't the timing of the above British "terror incidents" ironic at least? Don't they raise suspicions by coincidentally occurring on days two and three of the new Gordon Brown administration at a time his predecessor's was hated? Might it also not be important to check the record of past terror scares on both sides of the Atlantic and examine their legitimacy in hindsight? When it's done, threats that headlined for days or longer nearly always turned out to be fakes based on cooked up intelligence or unsubstantiated claims. They continue being used, however, because they work. By the time they're exposed as phony, it's on to the next cooked up plot. Note Exhibit A, B and C below plus an additional Exhibit D:''
please read more at:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17956.htm