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US-UK Intel Readies Turkestan Islamic Terror Gambit For Beijing Olympics

Posted by seumasach on August 2, 2008

Webster Tarpley

Rense.com

2nd August, 2008

Washington, August 1, 2008 ­ Reliable Australian intelligence sources have issued a warning that US-UK intelligence is attempting to mount a false flag terror operation against China, quite possibly featuring a gaggle of patsies calling themselves the “Turkestan Islamic Party,” at the upcoming Beijing Olympics, where the eyes of the world will be concentrated next week. The goal of the operation will be to duplicate or surpass the bloodbaths the Mexico City 1968 and/or Munich 1972 summer games. Commandant Seyfullah of the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) claims in a video tirade displayed by a US company’s website to represent the Turkish Moslems of Sinkiang province or Chinese Turkestan, where the Anglo-Americans have long sponsored an abortive separatist movement. Patsy leader Seyfullah and his Turkestan Islamic Party have been indirectly mentioned twice over the past two years by Ayman Zawahiri, the veteran British agent who functions as the real leader of “al Qaeda,” in effect sheep- dipping the little known TIP in the vast pool of “al Qaeda” notoriety. If the planned operation actually takes place, the current Chinese leadership will ­ in the hopes of the plotters — loose face and forfeit the mandate of heaven, the prerequisites for continued rule. This could then be the prelude to the installation of a new Chinese government far less committed to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and to cooperation with Russia. It might be a first step towards splitting the SCO and turning Beijing against Moscow, which is the current goal of Anglo-American grand strategy.

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Source: British Territory Used for US Terrorism Interrogation

Posted by seumasach on August 2, 2008

The idea that Diego Garcia is being used for torture is perfectly credible, but that the British authorities don’t know about it is enormously less so. On past form one would expect the British authorities to be collaborating fully in Bush’s programme of torture.

Adam Zagorin

Time Magazine

31st July, 2008

Almost two years have passed since President George W. Bush publicly acknowledged the existence of a CIA program in which agency-leased aircraft fly terrorism suspects between secret prisons and interrogation sites around the world. “This program has helped us to take potential mass murderers off the streets before they have a chance to kill,” the President said on Sept. 6, 2006. Since that admission, the White House has declined to elaborate or comment further on the program’s specifics, although multiple reports have surfaced regarding the existence of secret facilities in Poland and Romania.

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Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News

Posted by seumasach on August 2, 2008

Of course, the fact that these attacks had nothing to do with “Al-Queda” or Steven Hatfill doesn’t mean we should give credence to claims that Ivins was responsible.

Glen Greenwald

Salon.com

1st August

The FBI’s lead suspect in the September, 2001 anthrax attacks — Bruce E. Ivins — died Tuesday night, apparently by suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to charge him with responsibility for the attacks. For the last 18 years, Ivins was a top anthrax researcher at the U.S. Government’s biological weapons research laboratories at Ft. Detrick, Maryland, where he was one of the most elite government anthrax scientists on the research team at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID).

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Rand study recommends new counterterrorism strategy

Posted by smeddum on August 1, 2008

The bogus “war on terror” is near its end; we are seeing a return to pre 9/11 State procedures

POSTED JULY 29, 3:08 PM
A new Pentagon sponsored Rand Corporation report concludes U.S. efforts to undermine al Qaeda have been, largely, unsuccessful and recommends a new strategy against the group.
In looking at how other terrorist groups have ended, the RAND study found that most terrorist groups end either because they join the political process, or because local police and intelligence efforts arrest or kill key members. Police and intelligence agencies, rather than the military, should be the tip of the spear against al Qaida in most of the world, and the United States should abandon the use of the phrase “war on terrorism,” researchers concluded. Read the rest of this entry »

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Jane Mayer “The Dark Side”

Posted by smeddum on July 29, 2008

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Karadzic’s Arrest Puts the Lid on the Fake War on Terror

Posted by smeddum on July 22, 2008

Karadzic’s Arrest Puts the Lid on the FAKE War on Terror
22.07.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru URL: http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/105849-karadzic-0

Corporate western media gleefully announced the arrest of Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic on Monday, thereby adding one more nail on the lid of their hypocrisy, duplicity and self serving arrogance. How these postulating, perverse, immoral demons of hell can stand themselves defies the sensibilities of anyone who truly stands for truth and justice, not the justice of the law of the jungle where the strong crush the weak, but true justice. Read the rest of this entry »

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More Evidence Madrid Bombing was a False Flag Op

Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2008

Kurt Nimmo

Infowars

Agence-France Presse reports:

Spain’s supreme court Thursday overturned the guilty verdicts on four of the 21 people convicted over the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people in 2004.

It also upheld a lower court’s decision to acquit one of the alleged masterminds of the Al Qaeda-inspired attacks, Rabei Ousmane Sayed Ahmed, known as “Mohammed the Egyptian”.

And it handed down a four-year prison term to a Spaniard, Antonio Toro, who had been acquitted on charges of transporting explosives.

Note: the attack is no longer considered the direct handiwork of al-Qaeda but is rather an “al-Qaeda inspired attack.” Back in March, 2004, the corporate media resoundingly declared al-Qaeda to be responsible.

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US urged al-Qaeda to move on Kosovo, terrorist, Serbianna

Posted by seumasach on July 21, 2008

A look back to the days before 9/11 when US/UK backed Al-Queda units were being used to break up Yugoslavia. For a more detailed account of this see Inside the Crevice by Nafeez Mossadegh Ahmed.

Serbian Unity

21st July, 2008

A renown Jihad veteran currently fighting extradition from Bosnia where he has a citizenship, says that the United States was demanding in 1995 that his Bosnian Muslim El-Mujaheed unit move to Kosovo where US was expecting new Balkan fighting to be started soon.

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The Madrid Bombings: Rise and Fall of the “Official Version”

Posted by seumasach on July 17, 2008

 

Auge y caída de una versión oficial

Luis del Pino

Libertad Digital

17th July, 2008

English translation at foot of each paragraph.

Hoy se ha derrumbado un poco más ese edificio en ruinas denominado “versión oficial del 11-M”.

[Today the edifice called “the official version of 11-M” collapsed further.]

Sin autores intelectuales

[A plot without plotters]

La sentencia del Tribunal Supremo da por buena, para los tres autores intelectuales que la Fiscalía había presentado, la absolución de los cargos que se les habían realizado en ese sentido. A Mohamed El Egipcio, a quien durante tanto tiempo se presentó como el máximo ideólogo del atentado, ni siquiera se le condena por pertenencia a banda armada, puesto que El Egipcio ya está siendo juzgado por ese motivo en Italia. A Hassan el Haski, otro de los “autores intelectuales” presentados por la Fiscalía, no sólo no le condenan comoinductor de la masacre, sino que le rebajan la pena que le había caído por pertenencia a banda armada.

 

[The Supreme Tribunal absolves those charged with planning the 11-M bombings as follows. Mohamed El Egipcio, for so long presented as the master planner behind the attacks, isn’t even charged with being a member of an armed band, since he was already charged with being that in Italy. Hassan el Haski, another of the “ringleaders” according to the prosecutors, is not only not charged as being behind the massacre, but his sentence for membership of an armed band has been reduced]

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Three Years, No Justice- Menezes Commemorative Events

Posted by seumasach on July 16, 2008

 

22nd July, 2008


Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead on 22nd July 2005 at Stockwell tube station during a pre-planned police anti-terror operation.  Not a single police officer has faced any disciplinary action for the killing. This is despite a jury at the Old Bailey finding the Office of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan police guilty of ‘catastrophic errors’ at the health and safety trial in October last year.


3 years on, his family continue to tirelessly campaigning to find out all the circumstances into how Jean died and for justice and accountability. 


Please join the family to mark the 3rd anniversary of his death on the 22nd July 2008 by attending one of the following events:


  •  At 9.45am a vigil outside Stockwell tube station to mark the exact moment Jean Charles was killed.

 

If you can only make one event we encourage people to come to the lunchtime event in parliament. 

For further information please contact justice4jean@gmail.com or 07931337890 or 07709656251

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Britain: The significance of the Haltemprice and Howden by-election

Posted by seumasach on July 13, 2008

 

 

Here is a useful and informative report on the by-election which was generally ignored.

WSWS

By Chris Marsden
12 July, 2008

What is the political significance of the Haltemprice and Howden by-election?

Former Conservative Shadow Home Secretary David Davis forced the election by resigning as an MP. He did so with the stated intention of demonstrating the degree of popular opposition to Labour’s anti-terror legislation, which extends the period of detention without charge to 42-days. Moreover, he linked this to broader opposition to the erosion of civil liberties.

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