[Osx-nutters] The Timing is Political

[Jared ''Danger'' Earle]

On 18 Aug 2006, at 20:53, Kevin Callahan wrote:
> <http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0818-29.htm>

Or, as it originally appeared here ...

http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2006/08/the_uk_terror_p.html
August 14, 2006

The UK Terror plot: what's really going on?

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  
2.30am. 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.




-- 
      Jared Earle, Nightfall Games, jared at 23x.net - http://www.23x.net
      "We've got a rogue SPORK on our hands.
                           I can't imagine anything more dangerous."