Times discovers US Predator base in pakistan that US senator told the world about last week - as did the LA Times.

The Times claims an EXCLUSIVE - Secrecy and denial as Pakistan lets CIA use airbase to strike militants which is odd because you could read here about it Sunday, February 15, 2009 Afghanistan / Pakistan-Waziristan - Hellfire Holbrooke 's sleek charm use to solve the, "deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan"

They have traced the base to the base's use by the CIA of the Shamsi airfield — originally built by Arab sheikhs for falconry expeditions in the SW province of Baluchistan — for at least a year. About 30 miles from the Afghan border, the strip allows US forces to launch a Drone within minutes of receiving actionable intelligence as well as allowing them to attack targets further afield. The Predator is said to have a range of more than 2,000 miles and can fly for 29 hours depending upon armaments, typically can carry four Hellfire missiles and two 500lb bombs, plus fuel load etc,
Flight is controlled from CIA sites in the US who supplied this pic to us and may or may not be a pic of the Shamsi base.It was known that US special forces used Shamsi - also called Bardari (about 190 miles SW of the city of Quetta,) during the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, but the Pakistani Government declared publicly in 2006 that the Americans had left it and two other airbases. In January 2002, a US Marine KC130 tanker aircraft crashed close to its runway, killing seven Marines on board attempting a night landing in difficult conditions without night vision euipment.

The Times have now been able to show that the US Defence Energy Support Centre delivered 730,000 gallons of F34 aviation fuel (commonly JP8) to Shamsi on the website of the Pentagon’s fuel procurement agency. Delivery was made by a civilian supply company, Nordic Camp Supply (NCS), (Virkelyst 11 DK-9400 NØRRESUNDBY, Denmark www.dcsgroup.dk ) under a US $3.2 million, from Pakistan Refineries near Karachi.

It was of course Diane Feinstein the very powerful chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Feinstein is privy to classified details of U.S. counter-terrorism efforts who blew the whistle about the use of the (un-named by her) base. The LA Times report was published last week about her remarks to the Senate Intelligence Committee - evidently apart of the orchestrated manouevres over Pakistan / Afghanistan by Hellfire Holbrooke as he waved his big stick around on his trip to the region as O'Bombers new envoy / gauleiter.

Athens - Expecting the Unexpected

Epaminondas Korkoneas, the 37-year-old police officer who is alleged to have shot the teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos is a special guard, a force that was created in 1999 but fully inducted into the police only this year.

9/11, Madrid, 7/7, Bali, Mumbai ..expecting the unexpected

Tomi Ungerer was a commercial artist with leftist intent who prospered in the 60's and produced many of the iconic anti-war poster images.

He created a created a campaign for the New York Lottery ..."Expect the Unexpected" which they never used but was tweaked to promote the Village Voice.
It may well be, post 9/11 and the War of Terror a suitable brand tag for the unexplained and inexplicable things that happen violently in the world.

President Asif Zardari of Pakistan was in New York the weekend of September 26th / 27th September. To pass the longeurs of the weekend he called in on CIA Director Michael Hayden who was passing through New York. Nobody but them knows what they discussed but maybe they chatted about the ideas Hayden put forward to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for “Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) reform” in July.

Maybe they talked about the unexpectedly warm fall weather , prospects for quail.

One result appears to have been that on 29th September , Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha replaced Lt. Gen. Nadeem Taj as director general of (ISI).

Taj, a Musharraf relative and appointee, got an Irishman's rise and is now heading Gujranwala’s XXX Corps.

Lt. General Pasha, remarkably, just promoted from major general, had been director general of military operations (DGMO). As such , he headed the Pakistan Army’s operations in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), and so his appointment would not indicate any change in the military establishment’s war on terror policy.

Pasha has also represented Pakistan at the tripartate commission meetings and served as UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s adviser on peacekeeping operations.

The Pakistan Army simultaneously announced some other senior personnel changes. Perhaps the most significant is the appointment of Lt. Gen. Tahir Mehmood as corps commander in Rawalpindi — the second most critical position, behind chief of army staff, for any coup.

The new corps commanders for Bahawalpur and Karachi are, respectively, Lt. Gen. Muhammad Yousaf and Lt. Gen. Shahid Iqbal. Lieutenant General Mohsin Kamal, formerly Rawalpindi corps commander, has been appointed military secretary at GHQ.

As Chief of Army Staff Gen. Ashfaq Kayani (who became head of the army last November when President Pervez Musharraf stepped down from his military role)met with Prime Minister Gilani on the Monday an announcement was made that some senior officers were scheduled for retirement that weekend.

As head of ISI, General Pasha will be dealing directly with the Central Intelligence Agency and will have to handle Washington’s concerns over Taliban and Al Qaeda forces staging attacks against American troops in Afghanistan.

The appointment of General Pasha came two months after the new civilian government tried but failed to wrest control of the spy agency from the army, which has always run it.

The well informed English language newspaper Dawn said that Kayani , “has put in place a new team to implement his vision for reviving the prestige of the armed forces and for enhancing the security of the state.”

It was no surprise therefore when in early November General Pasha, visited Washington for talks with America's top military and spy chiefs, and everyone seemed to come away smiling.

Probably celebrations were hedl to mark the decease of Khalid Habib, who was said (by the CIA at least) to be al Quaeda's deputy chief of operations. On October 16th he was reported killed. The CIA had been gunning for Habib for several years, including a January 2006 Predator attack that produced false reports that he had been killed.

This is seen by some observers as evidence since General Pasha' s promotion of growing and clandestine cooperation between the United States and Pakistan on the Pakistan / Afghanistan border which U.S. intelligence officials now regard as the crucial front in the war on terrorism.

It is also said to be concrete evidence that Sirdari's chance encouter with Michael Hayden resulted in a secret agreement for coordination of both intelligence and further Predator attacks and a jointly approved list of high-value targets ( Gulbuddin Hekmatyr, the Haqqani family and clan, Mohammad Omar and Baitullah Mehsud) . This is said to signify a recognition by Zardari government, and Gen. Kiyani, that the imminent threat to Pakistan's security comes from Islamic terrorists rather than from arch-rival India.

Fast forward Mumbai

We may never fully grasp who were the planners / funders / traners / facilitators of the audacious and highly successful terror attacks in Mumbai. A great deal of misinformation has been spread bith by invention, uninformed officials, and my malicious intent to obfuscate.

There has however been a leitmotif to sell the attack to the US public as yet another front in the War of Terror. Joe Biden in his acceptance speech on August 27th , as Barack Obama's running mate said (text npr) ;

"As we gather here tonight, our country is less secure and more isolated than at any time in recent history.... the resurgence of fundamentalism in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the real central front against terrorism."

He went on to be more specific ...

"The fact is, al-Qaida and the Taliban — the people who actually attacked us on 9/11 — have regrouped in those mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan and are plotting new attacks."

On Thursday, October 6, 2005 Mayor Bloomberg at a press conference said a "credible threat" has been made against the subway system of New York City. NYPD and National Guard presence, as well as the terror alert level, was been increased.

During a press conference, Mayor Bloomberg stated that an unidentified news outlet knew about the threat as many as two days in advance, but did not release the story to the public for security reasons, and that the threat seems to have originated from abroad.

While New York was on high-alert The Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Russ Knocke down-played the risk, "the intelligence community has concluded this information to be of doubtful credibility. We shared this information early on with state and local authorities in New York"

CNN ran a story the same day that stated "According to law enforcement sources, the information garnered from the individual in Iraq claimed that a group of 15 to 20 people were in the United States to carry out the attacks in the New York metropolitan area."

They also reported that this announcement of a possible attack on New York's subway system had prompted San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit to raise its alert, from orange to "enhanced orange,"on the Friday. ( as they helpfully pointed out the 7th 3 months to the day after the Lonon 7/7 attacks)(?)

The Hindustan Times on November 28th , reported that again Mayor Bloomberg had put the city's underground metro system on high alert following the horrific terror attack in Mumbai.

The decision to put the underground metro system on high alert was taken after New York received reports of potential terrorism threat.

"Just today, we dealt with an unsubstantiated report of potential terrorism here in New York. This report led the New York Police Department to take precautionary steps to protect our transit system, and we will always do whatever is necessary to keep our city safe"

President George W. Bush issued a statement on Friday 28th November , saying the wounded were in his thoughts and prayers.

"My Administration has been working with the Indian government and the international community as Indian authorities work to ensure the safety of those still under threat. We will continue to cooperate against these extremists who offer nothing but violence and hopelessness."

White House Spokeswoman Dana Perino said senior administration officials met Friday afternoon and focused on ensuring everything possible is being done to help American citizens affected by the attacks.(Fox)

On introducing Hilary Clinton as his choice for Secretary of State President elect Barack Obama carried on the the theme...

And as we learned so painfully on 9/11, terror cannot be contained by borders, nor safety provided by oceans alone.

Last week, we were reminded of this threat once again when terrorists took the lives of six American among nearly 200 victims in Mumbai. In the world we seek, there is no place for those who kill innocent civilians to advance hateful extremism.

We'd all better get ready to expect more of the unexpected....

David Belfield / Dawud Salahuddin / Hassan Abdulrahman /Hassan Tantai and the missing Bob Levinson in Iran - is October "surprise" on the way ?

It must have been a bit of a surprise on the afternoon of Friday 21st November when Sean McCormack, Spokesman for the State department started his Press briefing with a statement about the curious tale of ex FBI agent Robert Levinson . (see video here )

The United States continues to call on Iran to cooperate with U.S. authorities on the case of Robert Levinson, an American citizen who has been missing since disappearing from Iran’s Kish Island over nineteen months ago. The U.S. Department of State remains committed to determining Mr. Levinson’s whereabouts, and returning him safely to his family that includes seven children, one grandchild and a second grandchild on the way. The quicker members of the Press saw that this was of course in response to Senator Nelson's remarks on the 20th November to raise a Senate resolution about the mysterious disappearance of Bob Levinson, a businessman who vanished after checking out of his hotel on the resort island of Kish on March 9, 2007.

Bob is / was however no ordinary businesman and is/was an FBI agent who in his retirement was in some way involved in investigating cigarette smuggling. His signature appears in a resort log book, showing that he checked out. His passport has never turned up.

Florida Republican Senator (Bob lives in Coral Springs) also raised his case in the senate on November 20th . (Miami Herald) .

On September 5th Wapo reported that Levinson's trip to Kish island, an Iranian duty-free zone that does not require visas, wqas being investigate by Swiss diplomatic staff, anxious to find a duffle bag - but they had been refused access by the Iranian Governmnt.

Subsequently in December his wife Christine Levinson, accompanied by their 22 year old son, Daniel, visited Iran and met hotel staff and airport workers on Kish Island but obatined no further information.

Since then Iran continues to claim it has no information on the fate of Mr. Levinson and when his wife sought a meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was at the United Nations for the U.N. General Assembly he declined to meet with her.

However CNN reported that Levinson met with a Dawud Salahuddin, who is a fugitive from American justice who now lives in Iran, shortly before his disappearance.

Salahuddin -- now known in Iran as Hassan Abdulrahman -- converted to Islam and was given refuge in Iran after admitting in interviews to killing Ali Akbar Tabatabai, a former Iranian diplomat under the Shah, in Maryland in 1980.

Salahuddin said Iranian officials in plain clothes detained him to examine his pasport and he was taken away from the room he shared with Levinson to be interrogated about his Iranian passport. He says he was told when he was freed the following day that Bob levinson had returned to Dubai.

Senior US administration officials have told CNN that they think Salahuddin met with Levinson, but do not believe him to be a credible source of information on Levinson's whereabouts.

Which is OK as far as it goes but Salahuddin is actually David Belfield, (born Roanoke Rapids, NC on November 10, 1950.) the disaffected son of a black father and white mother from North Carolina. He paid a postal worker $500 to borrow his Jeep and uniform. The 29-year-old then drove the few miles to the affluent Washington suburb of Bethesda, Maryland, where Ali Akbar Tabatabai, a former Iranian diplomat and critic of Ayatollah Khomeini, lived and shot him three times in the stomach with a handgun.(Guradian)

As if this is not enough, Belfield turned up agin 21 years later Hassan Tantai, in a false beard in an Iranian film called Kandahar, (Safar-e Ghandehar ("Journey to Kandahar") and, alternatively, The Sun Behind the Moon) directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, head of Iran's most celebrated film-making dynasty.

How so ?

Well in Montgomery County, Doug Gansler, the young state attorney who has been on Belfield's tail since he surfaced momentarily in Istanbul in 1995, to confess to the killing on ABC's 20/20 programme, couldn't quite believe his eyes when he saw David Belfield / Dawud Salahuddin /Hassan Abdulrahman /Hassan Tantai re-play the role of a black American who, like him, joined up to fight the Russians and then returned years later to tend to the women suffering under Mullah Omar's bizarre and cruel interpretation of Sharia law in Afghanistan.

As if that is not enough he seems to have tired of life in Teheran and in 1995 wrote to then US attorney general Janet Reno offering to surrender himself - but on quite novel terms. First, former president Jimmy Carter would have to testify at his trial, and Belfield was to remain free until a verdict was reached. "Even while awaiting possible execution," he wrote, "I would have to retain freedom of movement while, at the same time, waiving any right of appeal." Reno refused the offer. .. perhaps his frequent overseas travels to Arab countries and North Korea may have put him beyond the pale.

But yet he lives on in life and fillum..

In 2006 French born film-maker Jean-Daniel Lafond released a film entitled "American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan", about Salahuddin. Lafond's film , which involves interviews with Belfield stirred controversy - especially as lafond was said to be a Quebec separatist and had ties to some terrorists. Some reviewers thought it was too sympathetic to Salahuddin. Other reviewers have expressed the opinion that Lafond should not address controversial topics because he is married to the current (Hiaitian by birth), 27th and 1st black Governor General of Canada, Her Excellency Michaëlle Jean.

It couldn't be possible that Dubya is about to spring a surprise detente with Iran - yet another volte face to up stage the new President ?

Help Bob Levinson

All very curious. As FDR sais, "Nothing happens by accident"

WTC 7 NIST report says it burned down due to out of control debris fires

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the results today of their, three-year scientific and technical building and fire safety investigation into the collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11 - which has intrigued many observers.

The fall of the 47-story World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7) was "primarily due to fires," and "was the first known instance of fire causing the total collapse of a tall building". No shit Sherlock!.

"“Heating of floor beams and girders caused a critical support column to fail, initiating a fire-induced progressive collapse that brought the building down.” Appartently ..."temperatures “hundreds of degrees below those typically considered in current practice for fire resistance ratings." induced thermal expansion which played a "key role". Philadelphia's One Meridian Plaza, a 38-story skyscraper that burned for 18 hours in 1991, did not collapse due to ..."differences in the design of the structural system. "

“Video and photographic evidence combined with detailed computer simulations show that neither explosives nor fuel oil fires played a role in the collapse of WTC 7,” Apparently from the Q&A sheet supplied the fires were of "debris" which "burned out of control." , th sprinklers failed to work because the city water main had been cut. Which debris burned for six hours ?

Well that's what NIST WTC Lead Investigator Shyam Sunder told the press when introducing the long awaited report .Plus 3 videos ( with sub titles for the hard of understanding )you can see here

NIST found that the impact of debris from the collapse of WTC 1 ignited fires on at least 10 floors of WTC 7, and the fires burned out of control on six lower floors. The heat from these uncontrolled fires caused thermal expansion of the steel beams on the lower floors of the east side of WTC 7, damaging the floor framing on multiple floors. Eventually, a girder on Floor 13 lost its connection to a critical interior column that provided support for the long floor spans on the east side of the building. The displaced girder and other local fire-induced damage caused Floor 13 to collapse, beginning a cascade of floor failures down to the fifth floor. Many of these floors had already been at least partially weakened by the fires in the vicinity of the critical column. This collapse of floors left the critical column unsupported over nine stories.

“When this critical column buckled due to lack of floor supports, it was the first domino in the chain,” Sunder explained. “What followed in rapid succession was a progression of structural failures. Failure first occurred all the way to the roof line—involving all three interior columns on the most eastern side of the building. Then, progressing from east to west across WTC 7, all of the columns in the core of the building failed. Finally, the entire façade collapsed.”

If you want to comment on the report you have 3 whole weeks until noon Eastern Daylight Time on Sept.15, 2008. The draft and recommendation is available online http://wtc.nist.gov

Comments (instructions for submission are available at http://wtc.nist.gov/ can be submitted via:

e-mail to wtc@nist.gov;
fax to (301) 869-6275; or
surface mail to WTC Technical Information Repository, Attn: Stephen Cauffman, NIST, 100 Bureau Dr., Stop 8611, Gaithersburg, Md. 20899-8610.

Better minds, sharper brains, skilled engineers, sceptical demolition men will take some time to plough through this.

We are struck by the ruse of getting the defence in first...

"WTC 7 did not enter free fall. According to NIST analysis of WTC 7 video, the building collapsed 18 stories in 5.3 seconds. If the building exhibited free fall, this process would have taken just 3.9 seconds. The actual collapse time exceeded the free fall time by 40 percent."

There is also a wonderful explanation about why thermite wasn't used ... and why in three years they examined no physical evidence.

If you believe that ....

The building was empty ... a useful precaution as the BBC warned everyone 20 minutes before it fell that ... er ... it had already fallen.

Michael Todd - Dead Men tell no Tales - The living are silent as well ... what happened to cop who investigated UK collusion in CIA Renditions ?

At 5.00pm on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 BBC4 "PM" programme broke the news that Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Michael Todd had been found dead on Snowon. AT 5.06 pm we posted EX Met , GMP Police Chief Michael Todd found dead near beauty spot after long solitary countryside walk

We immediatelt reported that Michael Todd had been leading a probe into claims that CIA 'extraordinary rendition' flights had been landing in the UK, on behalf of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO).

We pointed out that "On 19 December Liberty held a meeting with Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Michael Todd. Chief Constable Todd has confirmed that he will look into “extraordinary rendition” flights on behalf of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO). According to Chief Constable Todd, the police have begun initial inquiries and will follow Liberty’s recommendations for further questioning." UN Convention in Torture UNCAT Vol 2 160/6 Page 166. House of Lords report 26thMay 2006

Shag Happy top cop

Since then the UK press have revealed that a much admired cop had been, as they put it in the cateen in Stretford GMP HQ..."Puttin' it abaht a bit" and beyond a straighforward reference to his role in the "Rendition" enquiry framed the stories of an unhappy copper / troubled marriage / suicide letters (eventually denied)/ texts to ladies revealing a stressed man torn between desire and duty ... oh and a bottle , half empty / empty of "spirits" / gin.

Hidden agendas and conspiracy theories

The vast bulk of readers / viwers simply do notbelieve that the State and it's organs have a policy of killing people. Despite the lengthy catalogue of state employed assassins / bombers / double agents in Northern Ireland, Police collusion with terrorists / drug dealers over many years meticulously deatikled and published by Nuala O'Loan the Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman in her 7 year term of office. Her first report into death of Raymond McCord junior beaten to death by the Ulster Volunteer Force in north Belfast in 1997 gave details of at least 15 murders directed by a Police informant with Police approval and frequent their help.

Kevin Fulton, the pseudonymous agent has published a great deal about his experience working with MI5, how they helped obtain arms and bombing devices from the US - also his contacs with Jonathan Evans (now Head of MI5) or "Bob" and the Force Research Unit (FRU) - which may yet be revealed in court as he sues for a promised pension and new identity from MI5.

Therefore we tried to provide a possible narrative of events that led to the murder of Michael Todd, the discovery of his body, and the motives behind it ...Thursday, March 13, 2008 Another bloody silly conspiracy theory - Dead Men tell no tales Part II

Briefly, Todd had been passed over the the top Met job after Sir Ian Blair becaus of his shagging the troops (prejudicial to good order an ddsicipline) - precisely the reason he was asked to do the "rendition" enquiry by X Home Office lawyer Sami Chakrabarti of Liberty. In the way John Stalker (with his flawed connections to the Manchester underworld) could be dragged off the NI "Shoot to Kill" enquiry 20 years earlier.

Passed over and pissed off, he became a loose cannon and threatened to reveal how the UK Gubment colluded in the us of UK airports an airspace and how UK forces never "arrest"any likely lads in Afghanistan or Iraq but pass them on to the US forces for them to handle - so Mr Straw can weasel his way out of "any evidence".

Todd agreed a meeting (as did Dr Kelly) at some place, time, way as yet unknown , was transported to the mountain with clumsily contrived props, the mountain rescue were sent ona wild goos chase and then providently in the worst gale in 10 years some walkers "found" his body.

Today's Mail on Sunday and more evidence
Alan Rimmer and Andrew Chapman filed a story 'Suicide' police chief: Why didn't they call us earlier ask rescue services? in today's Mail on Sunday.

It isn't the intention to precis the article here but it reveals some fascinating details which can help update, improve and justify the theory that Michael Todd was murdered because of his involvement in the "rendition" enquiry.

1. Mr Walker, 52, head of Llanberis Mountain rescue says they were called in hours after Todd was first reported missing.

2. The pair of hikers who found what is said to be Todd's rucksack containing personal items ( and at approx 1 pm made a 999 call) were male and female , both young and one was from Brighton. He took them after they had been helicoptered in to the Mountain rescue Centre - " before long they were whisked away by a squad of police. I don't know where they went to".

3. A standard rescue involves a 36 man team, a proven method ... but at the insistence of the police they wanted a very small team.

"They used only three men and a dog, which is totally against normal practice," he said. "Thirty-six people and all the dogs are normally called out to any incident. The three men have been sworn to secrecy by police."

4. Todd's Range Rover was parked almost outside Walkers house in Llanberis - standard procedure is to locate the lost person's vehicle and break in to get sniffer dogs to raise a scent and follow it. It was only subsequent to finding the body this became apparent and GMP officers (operating on someone else's patch ?) and NW Police interviewed neighbours and villagers.

5. The helicopter that brought down the 2 walkers then took up ..."a local police officer and a member of our team flew back up the mountain in the helicopter to Bwlch Glas where the rucksack had been found. They found Mr Todd's body almost immediately.

"Mr Todd was found face-down covered in snow. A half-empty bottle of gin was found by his side. His winter jacket was also found discarded in the snow a few yards away. "

"Someone told me that they also found a bottle of champagne in Mr Todd's rucksack, a strange thing to take up a mountain. I don't know whether it was full or empty."

6. The main party of rescuers reached the body at about 3pm. By that time the weather was really closing in.

"To make matters worse, a huge Chinook helicopter suddenly appeared and tried to make a landing. It made two attempts, but it was impossible and it soon pulled off. No one had a clue where it came from.

"Six men at a time were used to carry the stretcher in relays with Mr Todd's body strapped to it down the mountainside. "

7. The rescue party eventually reached the bottom of Snowdon by 7pm on the Tuesday.
Mr Walker added: "Men in dark suits were swarming all over the place. They were not in uniform. We took it they were spooks, Government agents. They weren't normal plainclothes detectives, and they didn't introduce themselves to us."

Pushing aside requests to rush to Heathrow and solve the problems terminal 5 and re-acquainting 15,000 pieces of luggage with their owners , our vast technical staff are attempting to revise the Bloody Silly Conspiracy Theory to take account of the above.

It will be fascinating to have a chat with the two bemused young walkers who providently stumbled across the drunk ? shagged out ? hypothermic ? but definitely dead body of Michael Todd at "approximately" 1.00pm on Tuesday March 11th.

How very odd that they have remained silent - as no doubt will the 3 members of the search team sworn to secrecy.

Let's not forget that one person has already been murdered who was reluctantly involved in approving a CIA kidnapping / rendition in Denmark ...Of course the Bromma airport incident in Sweden on December 18th 2001, is the most interesting of cases where approval was given because the lady (Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh) who gave the approval for the kidnapping was murdered in public nearly two years later (curiously she died on 11th September 2003 at about the time that details of the incident were surfacing publicly) – by a Kosovan hit man (Mijailo Mijailović he confessed in Jan 2004). See -Monday, December 12, 2005 - CIA prisoners Diplomatic Cover - questions to be asked - and hopefully, answered.

PS : There is of course an enquiry into the activities (extra and intra mural shagging) of Michael Todd by his fellow ACPO Vice President Sir Paul Scott-Lee, the Chief Constable of West Midlands Police, which will take a (very) long time, demand secrecy, destroy evidence and silence witnesses. (qv 3 members of Mountain Rescue Team)

BBC Newsnight launches terrist offensive Day 7 ..take cover

BBC2 Newsnight obligingly stepped up the drumbeat on home grown DIY Islamic terrists who live in scruffy bedsits manipulating legions of crazy jihadists and gave us tonight a detailed and frightening run down on the mastermind who could (if feline) be called McCavity but prefers the less melodramatic handle of ;

Which translates as Terrist 007. As if.

Slick editing, rapid cuts, moving titling, subliminal (and not so subliminal) texts , stock images of Osama Bin Laden, the fabled Iraq AQ mastermind Zarkawi ( no mention of how many legs he had, and the (alleged) pictures looked as though he had two. Although the many and sequential reports of his death always remarked that he was distinctly unipedal) . all to a fast beating wailing rythm.
Plus ..and this was the most frightening , were the images of real terrists ...

Oddly the AQ jihadist Radicalised Islamic Fundamentalists in the Balkans had stacks and stocks (again allegedly) of mortars, explosives and our home grown DIY'ers have to make do with mascara, cascara and a little Brylcreem and hair bleach, rapidly assembled in a tiny airplane toilet to wreak havoc on civilisation as we know it.

Curiously the Sphincter of the Yard looked pale, wan and not a little underweight .. has he lost his lunch pail ? certainly not his paunch but gained some bags under his eyes. Perhaps his Amex card has been forfeited and those 17 course light lunches at the Addis Hilton have been denied him ?

Anyway if it has passed you by, the The First International Conference on Radicalisation and Political Violence kicks off in a secret location in London, tomorrow and continues until the day after.

We also have the good fortune to expect Jacqui Smith the intellectual powerhouse from the Home Affairs department (as we now must call the much slimmed down HomeOffice) to tell us more on Newsnight tomorrow. We can hardly wait....especially for the cyber terrist who explained that no terrist worth his salt would ever think about using the internet.

If we are really lucky we can expect more of the lady Dame Baroness Jane Pauline Neville Jones Fan Club and the RUSI Mafia, Michael "Pixie" Gove, glamorous pouting Melanie Philips, one of a clutch of retired generals and crusty sea dogs, or the lengthy list of bone headed academics on the terrist gravy train from the The First International Conference on Radicalisation and Political Violence see here. ***

Sleep well ...it won't happen near you.

**** Maybe it could be Dr. Ely Karmon a Senior Research Scholar at The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) and fellow at the Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS) at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel , across the road from Mossad HQ.

Or maybe Sir Michael Pakenham for 3 years as Cabinet Secretary for Defence and Overseas Affairs, as Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (same as Pauline) and as Intelligence Coordinator and he was also our man from MI6 in Embassies around the world for 40 years. His old chum Sir Richard Dearlove head of MI6 will also be there - he took over from Sir David Spedding as ‘C' in September 1999

Another very, very,very , interesting participant will be Nick Fielding . Senior Reporter on the Roop the Poop's Sunday Times where he covered the aftermath and implications of the 9/11 attacks. As he result he co-authored with Yosri Fouda , Masterminds of Terror in 2003 which examined in detail the planning for the 9/11 attacks and which has become the standard reference work on how the operation was carried out ( ie perpetuated the lies of the "official " FBI version how planes evaporated , etc) . The lies have been spread globally in translations into seven languages.

While working as chief investigative reporter for the Mail on Sunday he broke the sensational story of David Shayler, the former (well do they ever leave ?) MI5 officer who went public with criticisms of his former employers. This eventually resulted in the publication of his first book, Defending the Real: MI5 and the Shayler Affair - but doesn't explain how this shambling fat lout keeps appearing unasked and uninvited to meetings, demos, of leftish, critical truth seekers on 9/11, 7/7 bombings, 21/7 bombings etc., etc., (no longer with the hard faced bitch Alice Machon (ex MI5 (?) in tow). Pic on left above is of a fascinating chappie who turned up at election time in Blackburn on 30th April 2005 being a real arse with a megaphone who local Asians (for some reason) considered an MI5/6 /SIS /Police agent provocateur from Luton (!?)pretenting to be from al-Muhajiroun , oddly the very numerous Plod ignored him and requests to have him moved on.

Here for example is a single and typical example how Nick Fielding re-cycles the "official" demonisation of Muslims (most of whom are well funded MI5 contacts) Times : Terror links of the Tottenham Ayatollah July 24, 2005 which contains the memorable remark in the leading paras.

"At least one of the bombers who killed himself and six other people in the Edgware Road Underground blast two weeks ago associated with ALM acolytes in Britain and Pakistan."

Just the guy you want to have around when you want to stoke the fear (and the fires) of anti Muslim /Islam / Jihadist / Extremist / Radicalised / brown faced / palefaced / bearded / terrists. (ALM = al-Muhajiroun )

Cry woe and let slip the dogs of war.

GB/UK meets GB/US - swap lies about terrist threats

So GB / UK meets GB / US and he we are engaged in a "generation-long battle" against al Qaeda-inspired terrorism - Brown (CNN) said ...

"This is a battle for which we can give no quarter. It's a battle that's got to be fought in military, diplomatic, intelligence, security, policing and ideological terms. There should be no safe haven and no hiding place for those that practice terrorist violence or preach terrorist extremism."

He went on to say (WH Press transcript);

"So we are at one in fighting the battle against terrorism, and that struggle is one that we will fight with determination and with resilience, and right across the world."

" preach terrorist extremism" - So where does Mr Boris Berezovsky fit in THAT scheme of things ? Or is he one of those GOOD terrists ?

"right across the world" - Fuck it we can't hack it in Afghanistan and Iraq.

STOP PRESS BREAKING NEWS MOnday 12.00 pm

Oceania has declared war against Eastasia

US Intelligence Knew Of Glasgow Attacks 2 Weeks Prior

Federal Marshals were assigned to US Flights into and out of Glasgow and Prague ? Prior notice and no action taken to advise UK Security Services? ... now why would the US Security Services do that ? Iraqi / Jordanian Doctors ... exiles presumably from Iraq.

Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff was quoted in a CNN news report (text) saying
"We haven't singled out Glasgow [Scotland] until a couple of days ago as a particular location for focus, but there has been a strategy of mixing up the deployment of these air marshals, sometimes more in one destination, sometimes more in another destination," he said.

Something is definitely murky in the woodshed here that not even the Sphincter of the Yard is going to fathom ... Lockerbie Redux ?

CNN video report available here 13.00 BST - possibility that the 2 drivers of the Mercedes in London were also the 2 in the Glasgow Jeep .

UPDATE 4th July 2007

Remarkably the Gruaian has a report today - 4 days old.

Mark Oliver, James Sturcke and agencies..

"In other developments today, ABC News reported that US law enforcement
officials received intelligence reports two weeks ago warning of a possible
terror attack in Glasgow against "airport infrastructure or aircraft".

An unnamed senior official told the US broadcaster that the intelligence led to the
assignment of federal air marshals to flights into and out of Glasgow and Prague
in the Czech Republic."