NYT article - criminal attempt to subvert UK justice.

Today is a Public Holiday in the UK. An ideal day for the UK Gubment to allow a "leak" that "emerged" in discussions with "high ranking British, European and American officials last week" by Don Van Natta Jr. Elaine Sciolino and Stephen Grey of the New York Times Pages A 1 / A 8 in pole position in the top left front page. Thus continuing the dishonourable method of subverting the UK court proceedings against alleged conspiracy for murder, bombing aircraft etc.,

The blatancy of this attempt is made even more apparent by the boxed warning on Page A8. See pic above.

So those "high ranking British, European and American officials last week" knew exactly what they were doing. They also knew that by releasing information to the Press that they had gained from their employment without approval was a breach of the criminal law, their employment terms and conditions and would also prejudice the trial proceedings of the defendents currently charged.

As such they should be investigated and charged under disciplinary rules and by the courts for subverting the course of justice in a criminal case.

But they won't be.

Here is the start of the story and an analysis of it's contents, the full story is available at Lord Levy Kidnapped Please have patience, Lord Patel whilst travelling does not have access to a scanner and is a crap typist.
This article was reported and written by Don Van Natta Jr.,Elaine Sciolino and Stephen Grey.

London Aug.27 - on August 9th in a small second floor apartment in East London, two young Muslim men recorded a video justifying what the police say was their suicide plot to blow up trans-Atlantic planes: revenge against the United States and its "accomplices" Britain and the Jews.

"As you bomb, you will be bombed; as you kill you will be killed," said one of the men on a "martydom" videotape, whose contents were described aby a senior British official and a person briefed about the case. The young man added that he hoped God would be "pleased with us and accepts our deeds" read on ....

The article claiums that after 7/7 and 21/7 bombings the "police were tipped off by informers". a "former British counterrorism official then working for the UK Gubment, said several "working class angry young Muslim men" were identified living in the London suburb of Walthamstow, where more than 17,000 Pakistani immigrants live.

A 24 hour surveillance operation began on 12 men .. bugging apartments, tapping their phones, monitoring their bank transactions, eavesdropping on their Internet traffic and e-mail, even watching where they travelled, shopped and took their laundry..."according to senior British officials".

The leader was an unemployed man in his 20's who had twice travelled to Pakistan in the past year.

In June a 22 year old,Walthamstow resident among the suspects arrested on August 10th (no sex given or if they were charged with offences) paid US$260,000 (approx 160,000 Pounds Sterling) cash for a 2nd floor apartment in a house on Forest Road.

6 young men were regular visitors to the flat which became known (at least by Plod) as the "bomb factory" according to " a British official and the person briefed about the case."

2 of the men, were conducting a series of experiments with chemicals, said the "person briefed on the case".

MI5 agents installed video and audio recording equipment inside the apartment, "2 senior British officials said". "A British official " said that twice one of the "leaders"nd a man in his 20's met to discuss the susoected plot, as MI5 agents secretly watched and listened.

On August 9th hours before police raids in 50 locations the 2 men conveniently met to discuss the plot and record a "martydom video".

The ominous language of the seven martydom tapes (which is a term which seems synonymous with recording s on hard disks of computers and also memory sticks) is among new details "that enmerged from interviews with high ranking British, European and American officials".

Details included

1. Receipts for cash transfers from abroad
2. A handwritten diary that appears to sketch out elements of a plot
3. Martyrdom tapes including eseveral suspects statements of their motives.

5 Senior British officials ( the ones who revealed the above or different ones is not detailed) said the suspects were not prepared to strike immediately.

6. It is claimed that the arrest in Pakistan of Rashid Rauf on August 9th precipitated action as "British officials heard from intelligence sources" (ther's a solid journalistic source) that one of his associates had "tried to contact" some of the suspects in London. " plotters received a very short message to, 'Go now'" said Franco Frattini the EU security commissioner and the only named source in the story, who had been briefed by John Reid in London. "I was convinced by British authorities that this message exists". Hmmmmmmm.

In searches the police discovered
1. The necessary components to make a highly volatile liquid explosive known as HMTD
2. Jihadist materials
3. receipts of Western Union money transfers
4. 7 martyrdom videos made by 6 suspects
5 The last will and testament of a would be bomber One suspect saying that he had been motivated to act because of the "war against Muslims" in Iraq and Afghanistan.
6. The key to the "bomb factory" was held by an unemployed 20 year old who lived in a modest flat on Government benefits and also helped in making martyrdom videos.
7. A memory stick was found "indicating" that one of the men had looked up airline schedules for flights from Londoin to cities in the UNited States. Anybody can of course obtain from the airlines printed flight schedules, which available also at any travel agent and many public libraries.
8. 2 of the suspects had apparently no passport and had applied (no date provided) for expedited delivery ... which is available as a standard overnight service for a replacement passport.
9 In the flat at Forest Road, the police found " a plastic bin ( atrash can ?) filled with liquid, batteries, nearly a dozen empty drink bottles, rubber gloves, digital scales (the sort no doubt used by drug dealers) and a disposable camera (note the singular definite article) that was "leaking liquid".
10 a diary possessed by the man who had the memory stick was "interpreted by police as a step-by-step attack plan and included items such as batteries and Lucozade bottles. It also helpfully included a reminder to select a date for the attack.

The LUCOZADE bombers

US and other overseas readers may not be familiar with the product Lucozade. (now a brand of Smith Kline Beecham) .. originally (i.e 1930's) called Glucozade. This was and probably still is, simply a solution of glucose in water which was clear but the bottle was wrapped in transparent yellow cellophane wrapping and given to children when they were ill in the 50's in the absence of antibiotics .. it had apparently magical properties. It is still sold in this format in Africa according to Wikipedia.

Lucozade is now marketed very cleverly as a "sports drink" in smaller plastic bottles with a shink wrap orangey / red opaque sleeve (as are many similarly packaged products) with words like electrolyte, isotonic to fitness jerks. Wikipedia claim it contains ...Ingredients (Energy Original Flavour) Carbonated Water, Glucose Syrup (26% !!!!!!!!!), Citric Acid, Lactic Acid, Flavourings (including Caffeine), Preservatives (Sodium Benzonate, Sodium Bisulphate), Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid), Colour (Sunset Yellow). i.e it is flavoured coloured sugary fizzy water. It's use in making bombs is zero.

Interestingly a CIA sponsored US site posted a story on the 11th of August "Lucozade Bombers: Let’s Talk About Root Causes" ostensibly a right wing site that refers to "Koranimals" etc., one wonders how they got to use the name of Lucozade so quickly and authoritatively when it hasn't appeared elsewhere in relation ot the terror plot until today. Also of interest Google News used the site as part of their News web ..... Hmmmmm.

"While officials and experts familiar with the case say the investigation points to a serious and determined group of plotters, they add that questions about the immediacy and difficulty of the suspected bombing plot cast doubt on the accuracy of some of the statements made at the time. (e.g John Reid said "attacks were highly likely" and could, "lead to loss of life on an unprecedented scale".

"In retrospect," said Michael A Sheehan, the former deputy commissioner of counterterrorism in the NYPD, "there may have been too much hyperventilating going on ".

It is increasingly evident that this plot, was managed, massaged and manipulated by official sources through planted narks over a lengthy period (at least 12 months) and that at every step and stage they knew who was doing what, the finances, purchases, meetings, videos ... and above all what a bunch of nerdish wannabes they were.

No wonder Mr Ryanair wants compensation for this farrago which cost the arline industry untold millions in direct costs, delays, public confidence and future business.

Even now the nonsense goes on ... there have been, abc TV says, 11 alerts on planes in the air since alert levels were dropped from "critical" but none (apart from drunks) previously.

Perhaps the UK authorities hope that NYT's deliberate attempt to sabotage the UK court proceedings will be sufficient for the defendants lawyers to force a dismissal and save them the embarassment of explaining how exactly the 'Lucozade" bombs were going to work.

Time will tell. They certainly don't seem anxious to prosecute the "flour power" bombers of 21/7, even though they have the "bombs" as evidence and all the players locked up behind bars.

Perhaps they have learnt something from the "Ricin" plot.