Will they dare "postpone" elections due to a terrorist plot?  Will they escalate their tactics -- say by staging a terror attack?

Will they bomb Iran?  

Published on Tuesday, August 15, 2006
The UK Terror plot: What's Really Going On?
by Craig Murray
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0815-36.htm

I have been reading very carefully through all the Sunday newspapers to try and analyse the truth from all the scores of pages claiming to detail the so-called bomb plot. Unlike the great herd of so-called security experts doing the media analysis, I have the advantage of having had the very highest security clearances myself, having done a huge amount of professional intelligence analysis, and having been inside the spin machine.

So this, I believe, is the true story.

None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane ticket. Many did not even have passports, which given the efficiency of the UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn't be a plane bomber for quite some time.

In the absence of bombs and airline tickets, and in many cases passports, it could be pretty difficult to convince a jury beyond reasonable doubt that individuals intended to go through with suicide bombings, whatever rash stuff they may have bragged in internet chat rooms.

What is more, many of those arrested had been under surveillance for over a year - like thousands of other British Muslims. And not just Muslims. Like me. Nothing from that surveillance had indicated the need for early arrests.

Then an interrogation in Pakistan revealed the details of this amazing plot to blow up multiple planes - which, rather extraordinarily, had not turned up in a year of surveillance. Of course, the interrogators of the Pakistani dictator have their ways of making people sing like canaries. As I witnessed in Uzbekistan, you can get the most extraordinary information this way. Trouble is it always tends to give the interrogators all they might want, and more, in a desperate effort to stop or avert torture. What it doesn't give is the truth.
The gentleman being "interrogated" had fled the UK after being wanted for questioning over the murder of his uncle some years ago. That might be felt to cast some doubt on his reliability. It might also be felt that factors other than political ones might be at play within these relationships. Much is also being made of large transfers of money outside the formal economy. Not in fact too unusual in the British Muslim community, but if this activity is criminal, there are many possibilities that have nothing to do with terrorism.

We then have the extraordinary question of Bush and Blair discussing the possible arrests over the weekend. Why? I think the answer to that is plain. Both in desperate domestic political trouble, they longed for "Another 9/11". The intelligence from Pakistan, however dodgy, gave them a new 9/11 they could sell to the media. The media has bought, wholesale, all the rubbish they have been shovelled.
We then have the appalling political propaganda of John Reid, Home Secretary, making a speech warning us all of the dreadful evil threatening us and complaining that "Some people don't get" the need to abandon all our traditional liberties. He then went on, according to his own propaganda machine, to stay up all night and minutely direct the arrests. There could be no clearer evidence that our Police are now just a political tool. Like all the best nasty regimes, the knock on the door came in the middle of the night, at 2:30 am. Those arrested included a mother with a six week old baby.

For those who don't know, it is worth introducing Reid. A hardened Stalinist with a long term reputation for personal violence, at Stirling Univeristy he was the Communist Party's "Enforcer", (in days when the Communist Party ran Stirling University Students' Union, which it should not be forgotten was a business with a very substantial cash turnover). Reid was sent to beat up those who deviated from the Party line.

We will now never know if any of those arrested would have gone on to make a bomb or buy a plane ticket. Most of them do not fit the "Loner" profile you would expect - a tiny percentage of suicide bombers have happy marriages and young children. As they were all under surveillance, and certainly would have been on airport watch lists, there could have been little danger in letting them proceed closer to maturity - that is certainly what we would have done with the IRA.

In all of this, the one thing of which I am certain is that the timing is deeply political. This is more propaganda than plot. Of the over one thousand British Muslims arrested under anti-terrorist legislation, only twelve per cent are ever charged with anything. That is simply harrassment of Muslims on an appalling scale. Of those charged, 80% are acquitted. Most of the very few - just over two per cent of arrests - who are convicted, are not convicted of anything to do terrorism, but of some minor offence the Police happened upon while trawling through the wreck of the lives they had shattered.

Be sceptical. Be very, very sceptical.

Craig Murray was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004.

Does the administration have a copyright on these announcements or could I per-se, order an attack to coincide the arrival of my Mother-in Law's annual visit? Just kidding Mom!!!!

I know it's not something to poke fun at, in light of the seriousness of loss of life attached to attacks, but what can be done about this "Cry Wolf" bunch that are intent on total control of the fear factor?

The Lebanon thing was a disaster and they needed to remind us once again how evil and threatening terrorists are.

Their point man in the Dem party Lieberman took a body blow in the primaries and with it the attack Iraq policy was shown to have worn thin with the public. Time to scare the public again.

Then why not pick these surveilled terrorists in the ACT?   What was the need to grab them in the middle of the night?  I suspect with good lawyers most will be released.

The trouble is... we now can't fly with a bottle of water, a book or toothpaste.  Rubbish!

We need to push back hard against these fascists and their media lapdogs.  I wouldn't expect an expose from our media... they love this sh*t.

9.11 proved to them that this type of mass hysteria can work.  They succeeded in stealing about a half a trillion bucks with that caper... and trashed the constitution in the process and took out perhaps 150,000 people in the process... and have wrecked two countries.

Never, never in my life have I dispised some one as much as I do George Bush. There are not enough adjectives in the English language to describe that man. I wont be around then; but, wouldn't it be most interesting to see how History treats him in text books.

And we don't need people of Lieberman's ilk in Congress either. He proved to be nothing but a Republican in sheep's clothing. As an independant,
I neither have respect for him.

Where I feel it was planned by Neoconservative's et al... to have the pieces of the plan in place by the end of the Bush term of government, I sense an ever increasing urgency arising from this collaboration of sick minds and "Ism's" to step up the plan completion dates, and to act before the mid term elections in November. Call it paranoia, intuition, sixth sense, whatever - the little niggle in the back of my mind says that the nervousness of losing their opportunity that has been held through the total control of our Congress and administration, has resulted in a marked step-up to avoid the possibility of the plan being scuttled by a turn in the U.S. political partisan arena.

I also feel that our elected Democrat's have been privy to this plan and have opted to remain on board for the ride and have silently sold Democracy down the river for the sake of saving their own worthless hides in the ensuing flood.

Possibly, what we have all predicted as another "9/11 type incident" brought on by Rovian strategies, is not that at all, but rather one of the final moves to gain control of global resources through a systematic removal of stubborn resistance in the middle east region.

Throughout these years since the attempts of this administrations to deceive not just the American people, but the world, on the grounds for invading Iraq under the guise of "War on Terrorism", we all have been constantly set-up with distractions, fear mongering, and chases down dead end streets in order to ultimately distract everyone from the game being played out for global resource control.

Though our voices are being heard somewhat over the din of the ongoing war machine and multitude of distractions, we are but a small contingency force of resistence.

Most people around us are absolutely unconscious to what is happening, don't give a damn unless it happens in their own backyard, content to let sleeping dog's lie because they are profitting from world events, or wouldn't say shit if they had a mouthful!

Unfortunately we hold our species in much higher moral regard than is actually warranted or deserved. This will be our ultimate downfall! The only thing that holds mankind back from Anarchy as it exists in the animal kingdom is our sentient abilities over that of the lesser non sentient animal's on the planet. Or so the story line goes.

Please consider the post I submitted on "France to the Rescue", and read the other posts as well in order to let the urgency of the times sink in and cause you to act, if you have the nerve to stand up and fight. If you continue in the dream state, the purge of our world will not stop and true freedom and democracy will have been fleeting dreams of a long forgotten people on this planet. Our space in history is but a fleeting blink of an eye, but the blink will change humanity forever more if we allow it!

And if executives think that they have to push the envelope to lie, cheat, steal or pervert the truth on their way to ratings that will 'enhance shareholder value,' then they think they are just perfectly right to do so.  Because that is the strategic goal of any corporation, and the FCC and SEC be damned...to a  certain extent...as long as their stock value goes up

So, if you want to keep reading the truth that no one dares to publish for some reason,  send in a fin or two to this media company whose strategic goal seems to be adding shareholder value by reporting the truth. Period.

March 5th, 2003 CAPSTONE EVENT, ALEXANDRIA, VA
                Sheraton Old Towne Suites
                St. Asaph St.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:  Newt Gingrich

The Capstone Dinner & Address is the finale of a 6-week course required of higher level military officers during their career.

Newt rose to the podium. I remeber cringing internally, coaching myself silently to be open-minded. Newt bgan to speak: I was surprised. He spoke about his philosophical evolution which he attributes to his exposure to many different cultures; particularly those in Africa.

However, several minutes later, Newt abrubtly transitioned into war with Iraq. It was as is someone dropped a quarter into a juke box: from an old, country and western song; to heavy metal.

Newt said this:

"Men: prepare your troops. The United States will invade Iraq in two, to two and a half weeks!"

The room erupted into chaos: the officers shot out of their chairs, knocking some of them over; arms waved wildly through the air; and questions were fired at Newt like aumminition from an automatic weapon. One officer shouted out: "We have no armor." Another said,"There is NO equipment: my men aren't ready." And a third protested: "I have heard nothing of this - what is the strategy?"

I turned to my date, seething. "Shhhh" he whispered, caressing my shoulder. My disdian for Newt had returned,

I looked around the room, memorizing the expressions of disbelief, the confusion, the utter chaos that had engulfed the room. Spouses fought back tears. And there was one, only one officer who stood, pumping his clinched fist in the air, "barking" with glee. I shook my head.

Newt was clearly not expecting this response. He continued to try to restore calm back to the room. Eventually, silence fell; Newt returned to the microphone.

"All you need to know now is that you ARE going. Everything will be in place: just know that you are going in two to two and a half weeks. Get your affairs in order."

Again, I turned to my date, angry:
"E - A - S - Y", shhhhh," he replied. I pivoted back around in my chair to hear Newt say these words; the most damning of all:

"When the public asks why we are going to war; tell them we are going to liberate the Iraqi people. USE the word LIBERATE."

"There are no WMDs, are there?" I questioned my date. "How would he know this? Shouldn't information of this caliber; a declaration of war be disseminated by Bush or Rumsfeld? What is going on?"

"Shhhhhh."

Newt excused himself to file his commentary at FOX Studios. On his way out of the room, he stopped directly in front of me:

"Well - what's your name?" Newt asked.

I told him.

"What did you think about tonight's event?" he queried.

"Well, the salmon was okay," I replied.

"So, I take it you don't agree with my position on Iraq."

"I'm a hundred and eighty degrees from you Newt."

"Well, lets discuss our differences over a couple of drinks" he suggested.

I declined and said he would have my position in writing. He has. And now he knows that I will be VERY outspoken about his involvement in the OSP.

The Office of Special Plans is comprised of many high profile AEI neo-cons and Pentagon officials, who colluded to falsify the pre-war intel - namely Wilson's Niger "yellowcake" report. When former Ambassador Wilson became a moral obstacle by refusing to modify his report; Plame's name was leaked to create a crisis personal situation for the Wilson family.

I have spoken with former CIA counter terror experts, investigative reporters Robert Dreyfuss, Mel Goodman, Col. Karen Kwiatkowski (who was present at the OSP meetings), and others.

I will NOT be SILENT about this gross level of deception that has cost thousand of our military their lives, not to mention what has happened to the Iraqi people. With news of every deployment, my heart breaks, and the frustration mounts.

I can go on and on, but let me ask all of you this very important question:

IF, another nation came to our shores, invaded our country; killing thousands and thousands in their wake - to access a natural resource that our country had, and their country lacked: in an effort to stabilize their economy - how would we (Americans) respond?

      TRUTH is the lens that creates vision.
             LIES distort the vision.

You CANNOT  build  policy  on  lies - and that's exactly what they have done; to the detriment of all of us.

They are "prostitute puppets" whose political strings are eagerly pulled by corporations.
Members of Congress and lobbyists are the pimps that facilitate, and seal the deals between the parties.

      Why have our voices grown silent?