Re: [Osx-nutters] President Bush Vows Attacks “Across the World”

[Google Kreme]

On 06 Oct 2006, at 10:57 , Chuck Bennett wrote:
> On Oct 6, 2006, at 11:19 AM, Google Kreme wrote:
>> On 05 Oct 2006, at 15:01 , Chuck Bennett wrote:
>>> We know they want to attack us and have made plans to do so.
>>
>> You mean like that "gel" scare in which what was it, 2 of the ten  
>> people arrested actually had passports?
>>
>> yeah, "plans"
>>
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> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14278216/

<http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? 
context=viewArticle&code=DIX20061004&articleId=3378>

On August 10, deputy commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police  
Paul Stephenson declared that a plan to “cause untold death and  
destruction” and “mass murder on an unimaginable scale” had been  
foiled with the arrest of 24 people. “We believe that the terrorists’  
aim was to smuggle explosives onto planes in hand luggage to detonate  
them in flight”, Stephenson alleged. Britain’s and the world’s mass  
media trumpeted the claims.

However, within days the dramatic case against the detainees as told  
to the media by anonymous US and British government and police  
“sources” began to unravel. The claim that an attack was “imminent”  
was false. No reservations had been made or airline tickets purchased  
by the 10 charged with serious terrorism offences; several did not  
even have passports. Apparently, just one had used the internet to  
check flight schedules recently. There were no bombs.
The assertion that the detainees intended to destroy 10-12 aircraft  
was “speculative and exaggerated”, a British official admitted to the  
August 28 New York Times. Claims of a convoluted “Pakistani  
connection” between the plotters and al Qaeda have disappeared. The  
possibility of successfully concocting “liquid bombs” from household  
products in a plan’es toilet mid-air has been dismissed by chemical  
experts.

Misrepresentation
Gareth Pierce, defence lawyer for the 17-year-old in the case accused  
of possessing items “useful to a person preparing acts of terrorism”,  
told the August 31 Chicago Tribune how police had misrepresented what  
they had found at the boy’s mother’s home and twisted it to fit their  
grandiose claims. According to police, “suicide notes”, a map of  
Afghanistan and a bomb “manual” had been found.

What was actually discovered, Pierce told the Tribune, were wills  
written by people who had fought in Bosnia more than 10 years  
earlier. The accused was just six when much of this material was  
placed in the box! “They’re not suicide notes at all. They’re really  
simple wills. To call these suicide notes was absolutely  
disgraceful”, Pierce said.


Need we go on?

It was a farce, pure and simple.

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