Enver Masud, "Deadly Deception,
Pretexts for War," The Wisdom Fund, July 30, 2001
"Iraq Insurgency Comes to
London," The Wisdom Fund, July 8, 2005
[Tal Hanan, security expert and CEO of Demoman International Ltd., notes
that TATP is hardly military grade. An unlucky tap or nearby cigarette can
set it off, leading to fatal "work accidents" among terrorists and explosive
ordinance disposal officers alike. Outside of Israel and the territories,
the peroxide-based explosive is used - if at all - only as a detonator, and
not the main charge, like in the hollowed out heel of "shoe bomber" Richard
Reid.--"Triacetone
triperoxide, or TATP is highly unstable," dailykos.com, July 15, 2005]
VIDEO:
Keith Olberman, "The Nexus
of Politics and Terror, MSNBC, October 12, 2005
Enver Masud, "What Really Happened to 7 World
Trade Center?," The Wisdom Fund, April 17, 2006
Rupert Cornwell, "Sears Tower Plot Was Not All
That It Seemed," Independent, June 25, 2006
Joseph Watson, "Red Alert For Staged Government
Terror Attack," Infowars.com, August 10, 2006
Erik Leaver and Raed Jarrar, "Iraq's Sectarian
Bloodshed 'Made in the USA'," Asia Times, August 10, 2006
[ . . . if Blair was in discussions with Bush over the weekend about an
"imminent" terrorist attack, why did he still leave for his holiday in
Barbados on Tuesday? And given that the plot is said to have targeted
planes, why did the security services allow him to do so?--"Questions that need to be
answered," War In Iraq, August 11, 2006
[The London terror plan was "known" last Sunday by British and American
authorities, according to the Indian press. American Airlines flight 109
from London Heathrow to Boston boarded a family of five, however, after the
plane left Heathrow authorities determined that the father appeared on a
British suspect list drawn up after the 7/7 London transit attacks. At
first, the pilot was instructed to fly all the way to Boston where U.S.
authorities could claim credit for apprehending the suspect. However, the
pilot, fearing for the safety of his passengers and crew, refused and
quickly returned to Heathrow without informing the passengers. Once on the
ground, it was discovered that the male had in his carry-on baggage the type
of combination liquid explosive and electronic device now being hyped by the
British and American media.--Wayne Madsen, "Tony Blair government cooked up
a new "terror" scare," waynemadsenreport.com, August 11, 2006]
Robert Fisk, "How
London's Terror Scare Looks From Beirut," counterpunch.org, August 12,
2006
[A senior British official knowledgeable about the case said British police
were planning to continue to run surveillance for at least another week to
try to obtain more evidence, while American officials pressured them to
arrest the suspects sooner. . . . In contrast to previous reports, the
official suggested an attack was not imminent, saying the suspects had not
yet purchased any airline tickets. In fact, some did not even have
passports."Gregory,
Stephanopoulos ignored, downplayed NBC report that U.S. officials rushed UK
to make terror arrests," mediamatters.org, August 13, 2006]
"FBI:
No terror groups in cell phone case," Associated Press, August 14, 2006
[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.
. . . 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. . . . Be very, very
sceptical.--Craig Murray, "The UK Terror plot: what's really going
on?," craigmurray.org, August 14, 2006]
[Here is a checklist of some things we should shortly be hearing about.
Bombs. Chemicals. Detonators. Labs. A testing ground. Airline tickets.
Passports. Witnesses. Suspicious neighbors. Suspicious parents. Suspicious
friends. Threats. Confessions.--James K. Galbraith, "Could this case
blow up?," Nation, August 16, 2006]
[Police on Monday confirmed that they had seized bomb making equipment,
including hydrogen peroxide--Jimmy Burns and Farhan Bokhari, "Eleven
charged over alleged terror plot," Financial Times, August 21, 2006]
[The NBC News report further reveals, citing British security sources, that
British police did not want to yet arrest Rashid Rauf, the alleged
mastermind, al-Qaeda facilitator and key informant on the details of the
plot: "British security was concerned that Rauf be taken into custody 'in
circumstances where there was due process,' according to the official, so
that he could be tried in British courts. Ultimately, this official says,
Rauf was arrested over the objections of the British." . . .
"Under Rumsfeld's new approach, I was told, US military operatives would be
permitted to pose abroad as corrupt foreign businessmen seeking to buy
contraband items that could be used in nuclear-weapons systems. In some
cases, according to the Pentagon advisers, local citizens could be recruited
and asked to join up with guerrillas or terrorists. This could potentially
involve organizing and carrying out combat operations, or even terrorist
activities."--Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, "The Truth about the 'Terror Plot'.... and the new
'pseudo-terrorism'," nafeez.blogspot.com, August 21, 2006]
[The genius of this scheme is that TATP is relatively easy to detonate. But
you must make enough of it to crash the plane, and you must make it with
care to assure potency. One needs quality stuff to commit "mass murder on an
unimaginable scale," as Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson put it.
While it's true that a slapdash concoction will explode, it's unlikely to do
more than blow out a few windows. At best, an infidel or two might be killed
by the blast, and one or two others by flying debris as the cabin suddenly
depressurizes, but that's about all you're likely to manage under the most
favorable conditions possible."--Geov Parrish, "Was British
terror plot a load of crap?," WorkingForChange.com, August 22, 2006]
Don Van Natta Jr. et al, "Details
Emerge in British Terror Case," New York Times, August 28, 2006
[The criminal frame-up of young Muslim-South Asian British citizens by the
British security officials was specifically designed to cover up for the
failed Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and the Anglo-American backing for
IsraelŐs destructive but failed invasion of Lebanon.--James Petras, "The Liquid Bomb
hoax," voltairenet.org, August 31, 2006]
[Lt. Col. Wylde, who was awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for his command
of the Belfast Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit in 1974, described this
scenario as a "fiction." Creating liquid explosives is a "highly dangerous
and sophisticated task," he states, one that requires not only significant
chemical expertise but also appropriate equipment. . . .
"This story has been blown out of all proportion. The liquids would need to
be carefully distilled at freezing temperatures to extract the required
chemicals, which are very difficult to obtain in the purities needed."
Once the fluids have been extracted, the process of mixing them produces
significant amounts of heat and vile fumes. "The resulting liquid then needs
some hours at room temperature for the white crystals that are the explosive
to develop." The whole process, which can take between 12 and 36 hours, is
"very dangerous, even in a lab, and can lead to premature detonation," said
Lt. Col. Wylde. . . .
According to John Loftus, a former Justice Department prosecutor, Omar Bakri
and Abu Hamza, as well as the suspected mastermind of the London bombings
Haroon Aswat, were all recruited by MI6 in the mid-1990s to draft up British
Muslims to fight in Kosovo. American and French security sources corroborate
the revelation. --Nafeez Ahmed, "August terror
plot is a 'fiction' underscoring police failures," rawstory.com,
September 18, 2006]
