"Mein Kampf " by George Bush & Tony Blair

A major shift in the language of conflict has commenced on both sides of the Atlantic this week. It is a shift we should note with concern, because it helps to mask another rasp on the ratcheting up of control over our freedoms of speech, thoughts and ideas.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and General Myers chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as such the supreme military commander of US Forces worldwide,( and the guy who was shooting the Breeze with Congressman McLellan in his office whilst Manhattan burned, Across the Hudson river the Pentagon was blitzed and a field in Pennsylvania became the instant grave of hi-jacking Suadi terrorists and their passengers that clear September Morning in 2001) have spoken of "a global struggle against violent extremism" rather than "the global war on terror," which had been the catchphrase, the leitmotif, the cliché for almost any military activity anywhere that the US chose to use it. Hitler of course used the title for his autobiography of "Mein Kampf" ... My Struggle.


“War in Terror “ is evidently a phrase may has outlived its usefulness, not because it doesn’t frame the policy but it exposes the failure of that war, and hence the failure of the Military in fighting that war.

General Richard Myers, told the National Press Club on Monday (25/7) that he had "objected to the use of the term 'war on terrorism' before, because if you call it a war, then you think of people in uniform as being the solution."

He said the threat instead should be defined as violent extremism, with the recognition that "terror is the method they use."


Whilst military might has evidently failed – although that is not what he said, he saw that we need to use "all instruments of our national power, all instruments of the international communities' national power." The solution is "more diplomatic, more economic, more political than it is military," he concluded. i.e after having fumbled the ball too often, we military heroes are passing the ball to the Politicians.


The scuttlebut on the Hill from a swarm of spinners and Presidential apparatchicks says this reflects the evolution in Bush's own thinking nearly four years after the Sept. 11 attacks. It is also said to follow through from Bush's recent utterances emphasizing freedom, democracy and the worldwide clash of ideas.

To emphasise this shift in “thinking” ( a word we don’t often attribute to POTUS) Rumsfeld used the new language of deceit on Friday when addressing a an ausidence , for the retirement ceremony of Admiral Vern Clark as chief of naval operations at Annapolis, Maryland. Rumsfeld described America's heroic efforts as it "wages the global struggle against the enemies of freedom, the enemies of civilization."

Since then “Rummy” has jetted off to Iraq and been seen in photo ops with the token coloured female soldiers , he arrived there on a surprise visit via Tajikistan and Kyrgistan. Prompted by the joint July 5th announcement of Russia, China, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in recommending a deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. and other foreign troops which the US had used the bases and had air access and overfly rights rights since the 2001 war in Afghanistan.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld held separate meetings with leaders in Kyrgyzstan, who promised continued base facilities in the country, and in Tajikistan, which permits flyover, fueling and emergency operations. The public assurances marked an official turnaround by the countries, both of which on July 5 joined Russia, China, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in recommending a deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. and other foreign troops.

Most critical in the region was a commitment by Ismail Isakiv , Kyrgistan’s defence Minister Kyrgyzstan that U.S. forces can continue operations at the strategically important Manas (also called Ganci) air base. About 1,000 U.S. troops are stationed at the base, established near a civilian airport outside the capital of Bishkek in December 2001 to carry out refueling, airlift and fighter missions to support the war in Afghanistan.

In Dushanbe, the capital, of Tajikistan Rumsfeld met with President Imamali Rakhmonov, provided words of comfort for the US “war on terrorism”.
Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov appeared with Rumsfeld on the lawn of the Presidential dacha and confirmed Tajikistan's. "We intend to continue our active cooperation with the United States and other anti-terrorist coalition in terms of the anti-terrorist struggle,"

So no real change in the “War on terrorism” in central Asia then. Military build up and carrots and sticks for the ruling despots.

In the real world of US and European politics this shift in language is one of the most public changes in the administration's strategy to battle Al Qaeda and its alleged affiliates, and it follows through from Bush's recent speeches emphasizing freedom, democracy and the worldwide clash of ideas. It is also echoed – surprise , surprise by the comments at a Press briefing by Tony Blair, lawyer and Prime Minister on 26th July at No 10 … QUOTE

“Again this is very difficult to say, but I want to say it to you nonetheless, people have got to be prepared to go into the Muslim community and say, what you are saying about America is rubbish. Now that is difficult because look, there are lots of people, there are people who write things in this country saying America has an evil foreign policy and all the rest of it, look leave aside whether it is right or wrong, American foreign policy or not, or British foreign policy, America is not acting to suppress Islam. People who are Muslims in America, or Muslims in this country, are entitled to worship. We have got to confront this in a more fundamental way, otherwise what happens is, and as I say I know this is a difficult thing to say but it has to be said I think otherwise you don't get to grips with this properly, we have got to be prepared to confront the ideas of these people as well as their means, their ends as well as their means. If you don't do that, you never get to the heart of this, because what will always happen is that there will be people there who, if it is accepted as a matter of course, yes of course Israel shouldn't exist, yes American foreign policy is evil, yes what happened in Iraq or Afghanistan was designed to suppress Islam, if people accept those as ideas it is far less of a step into the extremism of terrorism. If you challenge the ideas, you challenge it at its roots”.

Steven Hadley, the US national security adviser is quoted in the International Herald Tribune " It's a global struggle against extremism. We need to dispute both the gloomy vision and offer a positive alternative."

Which is again reflected in our Dear leader’s remarks on Tuesday , in a chilling and telling way, displaying how this Christian zealot aligns with the defenders of Zion.

“There is only one side, it is the side of the people wanting a democracy. Yes of course that is what they want to do, what they want to do everywhere, the people who expound this terrorist ideology, they want to divide us. That is why I don't even agree actually Michael that in the end they just want us out of Arab countries, they don't, it is far more fundamental than that, they want a war between Islam and other religions, that is what they want, that is why they keep to referring to this as the crusader Zionist alliance and all this sort of rubbish. That is what they want, they want a situation in which we end up being divided..”

Again and again he returns to the belief in an ideological struggle..

“There is no justification for suicide bombing ….. the ideology of this evil. Not just the methods but the ideas. When we actually have people going into the communities here in this country and elsewhere and saying I am sorry, we are not having any of this nonsense about it is to do with what the British are doing in Iraq or Afghanistan, or support for Israel, or support for America, or any of the rest of it. It is nonsense, and we have got to confront it as that. And when we confront it as that, then we will start to beat it.”

This declared (and let’s face it, uncontested by anyone ) shift in emphasis won’t change policy one bit but is carefully designed ;

1. To stress to the public that the effort is not only military.
2. The unnerved leadership also wants / needs to reassure those in uniform (and their families) who complain that it is only the armed forces who are making the sacrifice for the war on terror.


Opinion polls highlight that the US voter is increasingly pessimistic about the mess / mission in Iraq, and show that many more now doubt it has anything to do with the much publicised counter - terrorism mission. The Administration (who have better spinners than the Australian Cricket team – and that’s an admission) is therefore trying to force the public to realise the broader, long-term threat to the United States and “put into perspective “, i.e diminish the daily mayhem in Iraq and the mounting military casualties which increasingly form a slice of TV news. Indeed there has been such an emphasis on the events in London , that one suspects this is to blank out the recent carnage in Baghdad. (Incidentally did you see that the first pics, inside the ruined Tube trains was first seen by the US public on ABC TV ?) It also helps of course to internationalise the “struggle” – a modest plus which conspiracy theorists might sieze on as evidence of authorship for the slaughter on London Transport.


Douglas Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy, who with his father were hugely responsible for the Zionist neo-con sea change in US foreign policy which was engineered into place by 9/11 is quoted in an interview that if America's restricted itself "protecting the homeland and attacking and disrupting terrorist networks, you're on a treadmill that is likely to get faster and faster with time." The key to "ultimately winning the war," he said, "is addressing the ideological part of the war that deals with how the terrorists recruit and indoctrinate new terrorists." Which on analysis means , keep up smashing the anti-Zionists in the Middle East – and making there life even more difficult here in the UK.

In the most reported sound and sight bite of his Press Conference, at which he gave a bravura performance, our Dear Leader chose a striking metaphor..

“ (On 9/11 )… a lot of the world woke up for a short time and then turned over and went back to sleep again. And we are not going to deal with this problem, with the roots as deep as they are, until we confront these people at every single level. And not just their methods, but their ideas.”

In a million saloon bars, and golf clubs the heads nodded in agreement..of course it’s their ideas we must attack, extreme views, books, the Internet… and secretly the members of Parliament whose members are elected to protect our interests, .. sit down and tick off the Policemen’s shopping list, at the behest of police men like Blair of the Yard, who can 4 hours after the event, barefacedly lie that a man lying dead with 8 bullets in his head, mercilessly shot by his men was “connected with the terrorist bombings”.

The language not only shifts, but with it the increasing stranglehold on liberty and ideas. For a pessimistic view on the solipsistic universe that our dear leader has connection with, listen to a man who has seen his rise from closer than many… Sir Roy Hattersley, the former deputy Labour leader,

"The ultimate justification for the war in Iraq - when it was no longer possible to pretend that weapons of mass destruction were only 45 minutes away - was that Blair's conscience allowed no other course of action.”

"The notion of accepting a view other than his own has never entered his head."

Mein Kampf indeed

Also on this topic see Pissed off Patricia at Blondesense - Do I have to declare a struggle on you ?

Men on the Moon ? The Ultimate conspiracy

Obsessed with public executions, bombs, Acetone peroxide, the Blair twins PR Roadshow explaining why they haven't er... actually managed to nab any of the miscreants...well shattering new Satellite imagery now available and just released reveals the cause for the concerns expressed about Armstrong and Aldrin's celestial Cook's tour in 1969. One mall step for man ? One BIG lie for mankind ?

“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.”

“I believe we should go to the moon.”
President John F. Kennedy, Speech to Congress. May 25, 1961


Oh yeah ? Now we have the space shuttle today, to try to (re) launch the flagging NASA budgets.

Goto this Link select Apollo 11 voyage (the first "trip" and using zoom bar on left of screen increase by steps to maximum (more memory the better)for the details that have been kept from us about space exploration.

The truth about the moon which cannot be kept secret any longer.

HM Government announces “No Bomber Left Behind” Policy

In several announcements today the UK Government made it clear that the NBLB (just a bloodied mess) policy which had been covertly introduced by the previous Chief Constable of the Metropolitan Police Lord Stevens, as “Operation Kratos” would continue and if necessary be extended. What this policy involves is what the elite members of London's finest , SO19 , call the "the shot of excellence."
It's a single gunshot through the mouth that snaps the spinal cord and instantly kills a suspected suicide bomber. It is the essence of Operation Kratos, so-named for the Greek god of strength.

The guidelines also call for up to four more shots -- five in total and all to the head -- to immediately immobilize a suspected suicide bomber.

The rationale for this seemingly brutal approach is simple: a twitching, barely alive suicide bomber is still capable of detonating an explosion in the remaining moments of his life even if he has a body full of bullets.


Mr Blair (Prime Minister) said at 10 Downing Street today …

”…we also have to understand the police are doing their job in very very difficult circumstances and I think it is important that we give them every support and that we understand that had the circumstances been different and for example, this had turned out to be a terrorist and they had failed to take that action (i.e wasted the poor struggling bastard as he lay pinned down after 28 minutes of intense observation by “highly trained police”), they would have been criticised …..”

Foreign Minister Jack Straw defended the police involved in the shooting …

"These very brave officers, on behalf of the citizens of London, were pursuing somebody they had good reason to believe was involved in this terrorist outrage,"

he said… apparently they didn’t have good reason to dish out summary justice and execute him publicly. On BBC Radio Straw said,

"It is obviously deeply regrettable but what we have to appreciate is the very intense pressure under which the police officers have to work." Straw added, "We have to ensure that clear rules are operated but we also, tragically, have to ensure that the police do have effective discretion to deal with what could be terrorist suicide outrages about to take place. That's the dilemma."

Home Secretary Charles Clarke didn’t see any need for a change in policy,

"I don't think that means they are wrong to have a policy to deal with these appalling circumstances. I wish we didn't have to, I wish we didn't have suicide bombers but we do. And we have to find means of combating them."

He probably also wishes he didn’t have to interrupt his holiday plans and stay back in London whilst his family swans off to the sun.

Lord Stevens, previously Chief Constable of the Metropolitan PoliceLondon police commissioner, wrote in Sunday's News of the World (one of Rupe’s rags) that he had sent teams for training to Israel and other countries hit by suicide bombers. There, he said, he had learned that,

"There is only one sure way to stop a suicide bomber determined to fulfil his mission: destroy his brain instantly, utterly."

Sir Ian Blair current Chief Constable of the Met. was pressed in an interview on Rupe’s Sky News about whether a repeat of the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes was possible. He said:

"Well somebody else could be shot.
"Everything is done to make it right, but you know this is a terrifying set of circumstances for individuals to make decisions in.”
"I mean, the important point here is there's nothing gratuitous in what's going on, there's nothing, you know, cavalier here. There's no conspiracy to shoot people.”
"I am very aware that minority communities are talking about a shoot-to-kill policy. It is only a shoot-to-kill-in-order-to-protect policy. There is no point in shooting at someone's chest because that is where the bomb is likely to be.
"There is no point in shooting anywhere else if they fall down and detonate it. The only way to deal with this is to shoot to the head.”
"I think we are quite comfortable the policy is right but these are fantastically difficult times. We have to take this tragedy, deeply regret it and move on to the main investigation which is proceeding at an extraordinary pace."

For those who may be confused, Yes, this is the same man who, hours after the shooting of the inoccent, Jean Charles de Menezes , told the blatant , unequivocal, unambiguous lie, that the shooting was "directly linked to the ongoing and expanding anti-terrorist operation."


Peter Hain, the secretary for Northern Ireland, put it more bluntly in televised remarks on Sunday, offering a message to the police officers: "They have our full support." Government minister Peter Hain said the threat of suicide bombings had put police under "enormous pressure", but added that they were acting responsibly.
Mr Hain The Minister for Northern Ireland (not forgetting Wales) knows all about gun toting terrorists . Last week Craig McCausland, 20, was shot dead at the house he shared with his partner and two children in north Belfast.

Mr McCausland’s mother, Lorraine, was believed to have been beaten to death by members of the loyalist Ulster Defence Association in March 1987 near a drinking club. Craig’s death is said to result from a feud between Ulster Volunteer Force and the rival Loyalist Volunteer Force, which has already claimed two lives in the city.

Earlier this month 25-year-old Jameson Lockhart was gunned down as part of the feud as he worked on a building site in east Belfast.SSShhhhh…we musn’t mention the continuing violence, deaths, massive bank robberies, prostitution and protection rackets, drug dealing, VAT and Excise fraud that is a daily experience in Northern Ireland where the sanction is that the Northern Secretary Peter Hain could say last week, that he “was considering withholding the party’s Assembly allowance for another year following a report in May which indicated the UVF and Red Hand Commando remain involved in organised crime, violent and active.”
So, no 8 slugs in what little brains the Loyalist mad dogs have then.

Ken Livingstone, the London mayor and a longtime champion of civil liberties, and no stranger to the Terrorists in Westminster, defended the police officers involved in the execution of Jean Charles de Menezes, said in a statement released on Saturday night (23/7) that the terrorists, not the police, were to blame.. he said:

"The police acted to do what they believed necessary to protect the lives of the public. This tragedy has added another victim to the toll of deaths for which the terrorists bear responsibility,"

Mr Blair can even look across the House to find allies, as the waggons are circled around Westminster, "I'm proud we have a Prime Minister who knows what he's doing," David Cameron, a leading contender ofe the Conservative Party leadership, told Rupe’s Sky News TV on Sunday. He said this was not a time to play politics, adding, "We are all in this together."

Ann Cryer, a Labour member of the Commons Home Affairs committee told the Financial Times (to her eternal credit) that she was not “knocking” the police officer who killed Jean Charles de Menezes but…

“We mustn’t automatically go down the path of shoot-to-kill. We are taking on the mantle of terrorists if we do that. We are playing by their rules. We can’t lower ourselves to that standard.
“We have to uphold British justice . . . We still have the courts system . . . They [suspects] must be apprehended, prosecuted and where found guilty they must be punished. I would never support a shoot-to-kill policy.”

Calling for clarification of the police guidelines on shoot-to-kill, she sympathised with the officer put in the position of shooting Mr de Menezes in the belief that he was a suicide bomber. Ms Cryer was backed by other colleagues on the committee Gwyn Prosser, another Labour and Nick Harvey, a Liberal Democrat.

Tony Blair will meet U.K. opposition party leaders (26/7) to discuss plans for new anti-terrorism legislation after Parliament returns from its summer recess on Oct. 9. Conservative Party leader Michael Howard and Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy have both supported Blair in his response to the London terror attack.

``There is absolutely no doubt that these terrorists will use Iraq as a reason,'' Blair said. ``They used different justifications. The roots of this are deeper. Nothing can excuse or justify what they have done.''

Meanwhile the Met. will have along way to go to meet the achievements of the NYPD (New York’s finest – who maintain a presence in London, which has been beefed up since 7/7 see NYPD Website) in 199 when four NYPD officers shot at Amadou Diallo 41 times, hitting him fatally 19 times, while standing at the door of his house. They thought he was going for gun and was actually taking out his wallet. At the trial which was shifted to upstate Albany NY resulted in the officers being found innocent of any wrongdoing.

On June 4th 2000 in Atlanta, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band introduced a song "American Skin (41 Shots)". The lyrics do not explicitly mention Diallo, they refer to 41 shots, confusing a wallet with a gun, and suspects being shot for reasons of race. Shortly thereafter, the New York City Patrolmans Benefit Organisation called for a Boycott of Springsteen's concerts in the city.

Let’s hope Chumbawumba don’t decide to write a song.

Stockwell Tube - what happened ?

Bob Crow General Secretary RMT Union

Press release 22nd July 2005

“Their concerns will have been fuelled by the revelation that an innocent Tube driver today found himself with a police gun at his head during the incident in Stockwell station in which a suspect was shot dead.

“No apology could ever be enough ever take away the trauma that that driver has suffered and there should be a full inquiry into the handling of the incident,”

Naturally press / media reports have been confused and confusing. "Official" statements have been minimal.

I saw the story that the train driver escaped from the train and ran into the tunnel and was there held up against the wall, by a highly trained plain clothes "policeman" who drawing on his extensive training, took a split millisecond decision not to pump him full of lead.

I think this driver , has like other eye witnesses, a tale to tell. Who gave the orders to delay the train ? Why ? Who gave orders to shut / open doors. Why ? Why did the driver leg it ?

Urban Myths

This is Mark " I know fucking everything about, spies, spooks, weapons, plots, bombers, plastique etc etc " Urban. Ex Army with the quizzical raised left eyebrow and the mufti shirt and tie.
This man is dangerous, he spreads disinformation / misinformation and unadulerated bullshit (Newsnight Friday 22nd 10.50) e.g Of the "Bomber on the Empty Bus" CCTV pic (courtesy HMG and the Met) he points to the device in the (heavily Photoshopped) left hand as a trigger. This would be a simple device he explains to the simple minded. It would also to the simple minded have to be attached to a fucking long piece of wire to detonate the bomb as Bill the "Blackie" Bomber left the bus and it detonated 13 minutes later. To the even simpler minded it looks like a mobile phone which people may occasionally be seen clutching.

He then points to the picture taken later of the Fitness First bag on the bus and a Gold and Black Duracell battery on the seat (He doesn't mention that this photo is courtesy of a resident and keen photgrpaher (not HMG and the Met) who lived right by the bus and took the picture, and what could be Jiffy bags (and slipping into industrial chemist mode he sagely remarks) "to insulate the unstable acetone peroxide".

Does this guy do sophisticated chemical analysis by mind reading ? 2 weeks and the forensic chappies still don't or won't tell us what the 7/7 bombs were made of.

Remember the BBC is part of the State apparatus - the World Service is funded by the Foreign (and is indeed part of it) Office.

You have beem warned. ... this also applies to every ex member of the Army (especially the SAS / SBS) Diplomat, Civil Servant, Academic they have perform like poodles to promote the party line.

Keeping Score

7/7 4 bombs - 53 deaths 200 injured, 50 seriously
21/7 4 "bombs"

1 man arrested and held for 14 days and released without charge - His name is Nadeem Fiez and he ws in charge of the Hamara centre in Leeds - you will not find his name in any official statements - or on the BBC Website.

2 unknown men from Stockwell area arrested and being held without charge.

1 Brazilian electrician shot five times in the head in public.

1 Inoccent Tube train driver has gun held to head by plain clothes Police at Stockwell tube (added 23/7/05)


``There, of course, will now be the most intense police and security service action to make sure we bring those responsible to justice." Tony Blair Prime Minister 7th July 2005

We are not afraid

From Stef

POLICE call Stockwell Tube execution a "Tragedy"

BBC Online
The statement reads: "We believe we now know the identity of the man shot at Stockwell Underground station by police on Friday 22nd July 2005, although he is still subject to formal identification.

"We are now satisfied that he was not connected with the incidents of Thursday 21st July 2005.

"For somebody to lose their life in such circumstances is a tragedy and one that the Metropolitan Police Service regrets."

The statement confirmed the man was followed by police from a house in Tulse Hill that was under surveillance.

His death is being investigated by officers from the MPS Directorate of Professional Standards, and will be referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission. (after a very, very long time no doubt)

No further details were available about the victim of the public execution.

ITV Newsflash

London Transport - a Logo war

Muslim Public Affairs commitee

Man bombs empty bus

Mark Urban Newsnight / BBC 22.50 22/7/05 says that the man holds a trigger device in his left hand - looks like a mobile phone and is silver.

He points to bus pic showing Fitness First rucksack and battery on seat Gold / black Duracell battery (?) as the trigger the man had. Plus puffed up jiffy bags but no evident plastique. Urban says jiffy bags would insulate the "unstable acetone peroxide"..yeah, yeah, whatever.

Windows did NOT blow out on bus.

Small explosion in Stockwell, no-one hurt.

Dead Men. Tell no Tales. Pt. 2.00

Ooops !

One down , Four to go.

BBC report that man killed by gunfire at Stockwell was NOT one of the four men sought for the bombing on 21st July but was "connected". Mark Urban PM Radio 4 17.20 hrs

Dead Men. Tell no Tales.

One down. Three to go.

Police breakthrough in 2nd London bombing outrage

The Police, on the basis of eyewitness acounts from four diffferent locations have been able to assemble a description of the men they are looking for.

A huge amount of overtime is now beeing booked as they look for four men who meet the description of - an evil Muslim Bomber.

Stay Alert.

Lord Shaftesbury please come back

170 cleaners organised by The Transport and General Workers Union staged a 24-hour walkout from Parliament on Wednesday, General Secretary Jack Dromey joined the protest with some 2- Labour MP’s.

The cleaners, employed by 2 private contractors, not directlty by parliament, earn £5 an hour, with no sick pay or pension, and receive 12 days' holiday a year. Staff directly employed by parliamentary authorities receive £8 an hour, six weeks' holiday, sick pay and a pension.

The statutory minimum wage is currently £4.85 an hour, set to increase to £5.05 an hour in October.

Martyn Besey, the director general of the Cleaning and Support Services Association, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the cleaning industry was "highly competitive" and profits last year for every company in the sector were less than 4%.

One of the cleaners, Tesfaalen Gebru, 43, said he had two cleaning jobs at the Commons to earn a decent wage. He cleaned kitchens during the night and then cleared rubbish during the day, working a 64-hour week. (Technically against EU legislation on Maximum working hours)

MI 5 Mules trained in deception ?

Theorist posts this on xymphora .... as Mule Ver. 2.1

Lets modify the mule theory a bit.

Four young men involved in petty crime probably small time drug pushers too. MI5 are looking for human intelligence sources on extremist muslims. Catch said youths and threaten them with 30 years in the slammer if they dont cooperate. Encourage them to grow beard and seek out hardline muslims in the community.

After a period of time, send them over to Pakistan to try and work their way into Madrassas with known links to 'terrorist groups' such as LET and JEM. Operatives turn out to be too inexperienced and naive to penetrate closed intelligence circles in madrassas. The people M15 seek intelligence on realise where these kids are from and turn them away.

Said youths return to UK without any success and are now expendable. Now use different operatives to rope them into some minor drug running operations to gain their trust. Send them on a mission with packages containing explosives rather than drugs. Previously simulated drills enacted for real and the capital undergoes a rather conveniently timed terrorist attack.

Adds a level of complexity but widens possible authors.

Indirectly incite terrorism....

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In a statement on the aftermath of the London bombing, Mr Clarke also said he planned a new offence of "indirect incitement to terrorism", to add to the current offence of direct incitement.

He said it "targets those who, while not directly inciting, glorify and condone terrorist acts knowing full well that the effect on their listeners will be to encourage them to turn to terrorism". BBC Online report 20/7/2005

" OK.. it's a fair cop Guv, you've got me bang to right. So you have"

Al Quaeda in action. Istanbul 2003.

A massive car bomb exploded at the Consulate in Istanbul, just round the corner in Taksim Square another exploded minutes later outside the HSBC bank building on 21/11/2003. 14 dead in Consulate.3 HSBC staff and 430 injured.

A man who called the semi-official Anatolia news agency claimed that al-Qaeda and the Turkish Islamic militant group IBDA-C had jointly carried out the attacks.

Mr Blair said: "Once again we must affirm that in the face of this terrorism there must be no holding back, no compromise, no hesitation in confronting this menace, in attacking it wherever and whenever we can and in defeating it utterly."

This bombing happened at 9 am, 5 days after 2 synagogues in Istanbul were targeted by suicide bombers.

In early September 2004, 69 people were put on trial. Harun Ilhan, admitted he was one of the bombers."I acknowledge having fought in the ranks of Al-Qaeda and I`m proud of it," he told the judge. "Al-Qaeda aims to combat American imperialism and the zionist regime in order to liberate Muslims."

He apologized to Muslim victims and justified the synagogue bombings - "All Jews are spies of the Zionist regime."

He claimed full responsibility for the attacks.

The bombings "belong to Habib Akdas, Gurcan Bac (another suspect, still on the run) and me — all the others are innocent," Ilhan said.

Akdas was reported killed in Iraq the week previous to the trial during a US raid on Al Anbar, near Fallujah, in a video recording purporting to show his body and delivered to the Turkish news agency Ihlas.

Adnan Ersoz, who said he was in Iran at the time of the bombing said the money was brought to Turkey by an unidentified "Syrian militant, ... 50,000 dollars of it via Europe and the other 100,000 dollars via Iran."

"We cannot speak of an Al-Qaeda branch in Turkey, but there were ties of mutual assistance between the group that committed the bombings and Al-Qaeda, and the money came from Al-Qaeda," he said.

Now that, Mr Jack Straw, does bear the hallmarks of an Al Quaeda bombing. Massive vehicle bomb (who gives a fuck what the explosive was - it worked), Clear, unashamed, proud, public declaration of who did it and why. Evidence of funding.

Now will the logicians, the "terror" experts, Police specialists, academic gurus in Middle East politics - Jack Straw even, please explain how they make that congruent with the London Bombings?

Say it again Ilhan ...

"Al-Qaeda aims to combat American imperialism and the zionist regime in order to liberate Muslims."

He apologized to Muslim victims and justified the synagogue bombings - "All Jews are spies of the Zionist regime."

He claimed full responsibility for the attacks.

Evil ideology + young Muslims + DIY Bombs = Terror

A 2004 joint Home Office and Foreign Office dossier prepared for Tony Blair — ‘Young Muslims and Extremism’ — is reported to say (in one of Rupe's rags) the Iraq war is a key cause of young Britons turning to terrorism. The analysis is reported:

“It seems that a particularly strong cause of disillusionment among Muslims, including young Muslims, is a perceived ‘double standard’ in the foreign policy of western governments, in particular Britain and the US."

“The perception is that passive ‘oppression’, as demonstrated in British foreign policy, eg non-action on Kashmir and Chechnya, has given way to ‘active oppression’. The war on terror, and in Iraq and Afghanistan, are all seen by a section of British Muslims as having been acts against Islam.”

(Robert Winnett,David Leppard, ‘Terror in London, Leaked No 10 dossier reveals Al-Qaeda’s British recruits,’ The Sunday Times, July 10, 2005; http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ art...1688872,00.html


``The greatest danger is that we fail to face up to the nature of the threat that we´re dealing with…And what we are confronting here is an evil ideology. ... It is a battle of ideas, of hearts and of minds, both within Islam and outside it.´´Tony Blair July 16th 2005

Evil ideology + young Muslims + DIY Bombs = Terror

Now we have even more "Anti terror" legislation planned in the UK, upon which Charles Clarke on the BBC "PM" program said last night all parties agree and which they can move ahead with very quickly.

Now today our Dear Leader has called in the surprisingly obedient Muslim leaders (was that my name sake Lord Patel I saw settling down in the Cabinet Room at the end of the table ?) to tell them that "Evil ideology + young Muslims + DIY Bombs = Terror" and not one of them told him to fuck off.

However , Whoever, organised the bombs achieved at least one very clear objective, in conveying to the MSM influenced public -

Evil ideology + young Muslims + DIY Bombs = Terror

Now could our dear leader have sold that message to the Great British public ...nay the world, before 7/7 ?

PROPAGANDA SHOP ... whose ?

The daily Mirror have given us some interesting information .. the 19 year old Jamaican who splurged £900 on exclusive scent yesterday, nor today their intrepid reporters have an unnamed source who tells them ...

PROPAGANDA SHOP.. FUNDED BY LOTTO CASH
By Jeremy Armstrong Daily Mirror 19 July 2005
The men who ran the Iqra Learning Centre in Beeston, Leeds - Mohammad Tafazal (AKA Taf) , army-trained Martin Abdullah McDaid and Naveed Fiaz - allegedly funded the store through grants to the Hamara Youth Centre, which received £589,000 in taxpayers' money made up of a £200,000 capital grant, a £200,000 neighbourhood renewal grant and a £189,000 EU building grant says the Mirror today .

Siddique Khan who died in the bombing was a regular companion of Fiaz for several years and the pair even visited our insider's home.

Keys to the "terror base" at 18 Alexandra Grove in Burley, Leeds, were regularly used by "brothers in arms" who came to the store and needed somewhere to stay.

The insider, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, also says McDaid asked for high-security encryption for their computer systems so it would hard even for government agencies to access e-mails.

He claimed: "Hidden Agenda and Think Again (£5 a throw DVD’s the Mirror obtained) even stole material from the Government's own websites and then used it in the propaganda messages against them."

He went on: "Taf would tell us about how he could get money from the Hamara and said it all came from Leeds city council, community grants and even EU funding.

"I could not believe all this Government money was being used to pump-out such anti-Government, anti-West propaganda."

He said that the address where the DIY explosives were allegedly found - 18 Alexandra Grove in Burley - was immediately known to me because that was the place that was used to house any 'brothers' who needed somewhere to stay."

Police know the keys were with bomber Lindsay three weeks before the attacks.
Khalid Khaliq, the Ikra assistant being quizzed by police, was not at his family address yesterday. A man leaving Fiaz's home refused to comment and his partner Tracey Corrigan declined to come to the door.

Tafazal has not been seen at either of his addresses in Leeds for several days.
Abdullah McDaid referred us to his London-based solicitor!!!, who has declined to return our calls for the past five days.

"I could not believe all this Government money was being used........"

It may surprise the Mirror and their readers to know that the Governments (includng the UK) have setup "sting" sites to entrap paedophiles... they have encouraged the development of dissenting voices .. a famous case was the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and "International Times" in the early 60's run by Jim Haynes ex US Army Intelligence...at the time the CIA have agreed they funded "Encounter".

Of course any such suggestion that this was the case in Leeds with the Iqra learning Centre would be far fetched, outrageous, without foundation, unsupported by evidence and complete nonsense.

Just like the idea that the 3 victims of the bombing from the locality , and their Jamaican friend were raging Jihadists and islamic fundamentalist seeking martyrdom.

Many years ago in the 60's there was an Alternative Bookshop in Leeds, near the Univerisyt, called Books of Leeds, which was funded and run by a lady who turned out to be the daughter of the UK Ambassador to Moscow. A chap who worked there, ended up in Pyongyang working as the official translator of the State newspaper in English of the DPRK, where I met him.

They attracted and supplied by post a nationwide audience for left wing and radical books .. Che , Regis Debray, the Spectaclists etc.,even Mao's Little Red Book.

Small world.

Footnote : Naveed Fiaz cannot be contacted by the Press because he was arrested by Police ( so far the ONLY person arrested) last Tuesday when they raided all the Leeds addresses, he is held under the Anti Terrorist legislation - no comment has been made by the Police. Now yer actual conspiracy theorist might make soemthing of that.... His brother, Ejaz is said to be a registered schizophrenic and moved to Luton from Leeds last year..

US department of Energy slips it out....high cost oil forever

The DOE has just slipped out on a very remote part of their site The following statement ((C) US Gubment I guess) is the full text, no heading, no contacts for Press Office - Nothing.


Hydrogen Cost Goal

In 2005, the Department of Energy developed a new hydrogen cost goal and methodology. The previous hydrogen cost goal of $1.50/gasoline gallon equivalent (gge, delivered, untaxed, 2001$, by 2010) was developed in 2002, and was based on hydrogen produced from distributed natural gas reforming. The strategy was that hydrogen should cost no more than gasoline on an equivalent energy basis. Since one kilogram of hydrogen contains approximately the same energy as one gallon of gasoline, the hydrogen cost goal was set at $1.50/kg (or $1.50/gge) to be equivalent to the untaxed cost of gasoline.

The new hydrogen cost goal of $2.00-3.00/gge (delivered, untaxed, 2005$, by 2015) is independent of the pathway used to produce and deliver hydrogen. In addition, the new methodology accounts for the energy efficiency of the gasoline hybrid vehicle and the fuel cell vehicle on a cost-per-mile basis. The cost goal was derived using the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) fuel-efficiency improvement factors and the Energy Information Administration (EIA) “High A” gasoline price projection for 2015. In the High A case, the U.S. economy is more vulnerable to limited oil supplies from foreign sources due to the increasing world and U.S. oil demand, resulting in higher oil prices. This case is more representative of the economic and energy security environment in which hydrogen must compete. (Emphasis mine)

The new hydrogen target is in alignment with the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative goal of enabling an industry commercialization decision by 2015, and will be used to guide the Department’s hydrogen and fuel cell research and development activities.
-----Ends

Now how will that play in Peoria ? The DOE say we have high gas prices forever ? I guess Toyota have struck really lucky to have plans to make 1 Mn Prius Hybrids worldwide this next 12 months.

FCUKED - House of Lords reports

I started the Forthcoming UK Energy Deficiency group (FCUKED) 3 years ago. It requires back of an enevelope math to see that with the absence of any nuclear or coal fired power stations being built or being considered that the dependency on imported gas (70% by 2020 at least) is a threat to UK security.

Wind / water / biofuels / energy efficiency are playing at the edges. I can't precis this report just read it for yourself - having of course read the comical White Paper New Labour issued a Stone Age (and several Energy Ministers )ago.

House of Lords, Science & Technology Committee, Report on Energy Efficiency, says ... amongst its 350 odd pages which a must and unput downable read... Remember for some reason they exclude transport air and land from the report which is odd but made the report manageable. Their conclusion makes it evident why the dear leader wants rid of the HOL.... well besides the brown nosers he appoints, Lord Warner etc (I could go on but won't)

"Energy efficiency has been drafted into the service of a wide range of policy objectives since the 1970s, but the way it has been understood and measured has been elusive and variable. We have been dismayed in the course of our inquiry by the inconsistency and muddle of much current thinking about energy efficiency.
This muddle is not the sole responsibility of Government, but only Government can resolve it. However, the current attempt to present energy efficiency as “the most cost-effective way to meet all [four] energy policy goals” only adds to the confusion. At the very least, careful oversight will be needed to ensure that the targets set for energy efficiency are defined, that conflict between them is avoided, and that progress is measured. We urge the Government to bring greater clarity and intellectual rigour to its presentation of energy efficiency.
[...]
Energy still figures low on most people’s priorities, and consequently as a nation we are profligate in our waste of energy. Long-term reductions in energy use will only be possible if the millions of users—individuals, businesses, schools and other public-sector bodies—are educated, encouraged, and given access to real-time information on their use of energy and its costs, economic and environmental."

see also ...

House of Lords, Select Committee on Economic Affairs, The Economics of Climate

...bit of a chnage from the fucking bombers anyway...

Dead Men. Tell no Tales

Well, as the belief in the "official" story of zealous angry young Muslims who have had their brains taken out and washed seems to be seen for the nonsense it is, the belief that these "bombers" were murdered, as were all the other victims has been set running.

The Mainstream Press , of course maintains an aloof silence. A theory has been floated that they were jihadist plotters but their handlers told them they could leave the bombs, then get off at the next stop. This does not survive much scrutiny or overcome the hurdle that these guys did not fit any Islamic fundamnetalist profile however hard you try.

The "official" line - trickling out through "attributions" to anonymous "senior officers " in the Police, MI5, for all I know the Boy Scouts however keeps changing.

The bombs were timed, ...er...no they weren't.
It was military HE from the Balkans..er.. no it was a home made brew...hey they actually have bombs from the cars in Luton... are these Forensic guys properly trained ?
The Egyptian biochemist is the mastermind...er...well no he isn't say ther Egyptian Government ... and boy do they have ways of making you talk !

You make your mind up...here's some recent discussion to help you do that.

http://xymphora.blogspot.com/
Who are the British authorities trying to protect?
Monday July 18th

http://www.williambowles.info/ini/ini-0348.html
Dead men tell no tales
Were the London bombings a set up?
by William Bowles and Edward Teague Friday, 15 July 2005

http://www.williambowles.info/ini/ini-0348a.html
Forcing the facts to fit the theory
by William Bowles • Sunday, 17 July 2005

http://kos.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/16/22343/3182
Suicide Bombers or Murdered Men? LONDON BOMBING (Updated)
by suskind
Sat Jul 16th, 2005 at 19:03:43 PDT

Of course, if you have a better theory, tell me ..or even better go to the MI5 website and tell them.



Pic courtesy Independent

Pick’n’Mix bombing

The beauty of recruiting mules means that you can have multiple recruiting centres, dispersed. Automatically they remain silent, drug men enforce discipline in well publicised and deadly fashion. Mum would never know, hey, says the man, show up at the mosque, study the Koran – who will guess what you are doin’ ?

Look serious man, this is serious bread man.

You have happy well paid mules, all you need is money – in terms of the endless plots, plotting and plotters, that operate in this seedy and murky world, we are talking peanuts.

One endless leitmotif is the fit, happy, smiling Asian who spends time down at the gym… lots of it …. Endlessly repetitive sets, day in day out. Time ? It’s something he has plenty of.

Far fetched this idea of recruting drug couriers from the jobless ? BBC Thursday, November 18, 1999

A drugs courier told Cardiff Crown Court how a team of former paratroopers recruited him to join a multi-million pound smuggling ring.

Mark Ralph, 34, was an unemployed factory worker when he was persuaded to become a drugs runner, carrying more than £4m in cannabis and amphetamines.

But Ralph became a police informant. The former soldiers of the Third Parachute Regiment are accused of using their military expertise to distribute cannabis and amphetamines in an operation spanning Britain.

Approached by gang

Ralph is alleged to have moved drugs worth £4m in 15 trips from Dover to south Wales. Ex-paras Adrian Howells, 32, John Davidson, 32, ex-soldier John Bloodworth, 29, are on trial for being part of the gang.

Ralph, of Cwmbran, South Wales, told the court he was approached by the gang after losing his job. He said: "I was paid £200 a trip to take money to Dover and bring drugs back and I was also paid to store drugs in my shed."

Business used as cover

But Ralph began giving information to the police.
The court was told the gang set up a second-hand car sales business as cover for their cash and for running couriers around the country.

Police found a military-style list of instructions to John Bloodworth from his ex-para brother Steven, 29.

John Bloodworth, of St Dials, Cwmbran, south Wales, Howells, of Thanet Gardens, Folkstone, Kent, and Davidson, of Odo Road, Dover, Kent, all deny conspiracy to supply amphetamine and cannabis.

Outsourcing a bombing

Maybe OBL decides to outsource his in house terrorist activity. With a myriad of willing or coerced (?) (the Coalition of the frightened Emirs) who do the funding they get a drug gang to do the dirty work .

Do this ......, 1 tanker full of LNG deliver anywhere up front - (1st delivery to Canvey island was re-routed 2 weeks ago) on completion of job 2 more tankers. Whatever.

Maybe it wasn't OBL, maybe they got paid in drugs ? I have heard but find it unbelievable that the CIA have in the past run drugs in the Far East. There are wild stories in the press that the now peaceful and subdued Afghanistan is producing heroin in large quantities. As UK armed forces are in charge of controls there is no possible chance of any of that being re-routed is there ?

The Bluetooth Bombers

The bloody silly conspiracy theory is gaining momentum. The Mirror and Aftonbladet have stories that now suggest that the bombers were used and manipulated. PC Plod has come to that thinking already. Now where did they get that idea from ?

Matey who missed the Northern Line was re-routed by an observer by mobile. "Go to Trafalgar Square, on the balcony in front of the door of the National gallery, 11.00 clock, woman with a red coat, Harrods shopping bag will meet you at 11.00." Whatever.

Or maybe automatic error default. Get tube else go to XXXXXXXXXXX

Wi-fi re-set of bomb timer by observer. Bluetooth.

Now we see Giuliani was in Harrogate last week. My, it was getting crowded with Americans around and about near Menwith Hill, Leeds, Harrogate.

NYPD website shows that a crack team of their guys was on a plane as soon as bomb went off to "re-inforce current liason team". Strange that the MSM haven't picked up on that or the Met crowing about their heavy level of US support. Probably too busy.

Leeds Visitor 3 days before the London Bombings

On July 4th, 3 days before the London Bombings, William Scott Ritter, ex marine, "ex" CIA, ex UNSCOM Weapons Inspector, a man arrested in 2001 for child sex offences in Albany upstate New York (he visited a Burger King after having arranged an Internet meet with a junior for sex sesions but met the Police - Google "Scott Ritter Burger King" for over 200 links to story ) visited Leeds.

The picture shows him neatly framed with the inverted US flag in the background - a criminal offence in the USA., before addressing the annual Independence Day protest organised by Lindis Pierce, Peace Protester who the Police wanted to serve an ASBO on, and now having failed to do so want her electronically tagged.

Later in the evening he addressed a crowd in Leeds. The previous weekend he had been in Edinburgh and adressed some G8 associated events.

Now the Metropolitan Police say an al-Quaeda operator entered the country and left just before the London bombings.

Just what was he doing in Leeds ?

As a footnote, the lady in the pic with glasses and board is Pam Chambers, an American from Philadelphia currently in Sheffield who has wide experience and contacts in the Middle East who kindly arranged for Lindis to "invite" Scott Ritter to the demonstration and for the talk later in the evening.(The other two are from BBC Look North in Leeds)

Synchroncity ?

Another bloody silly conspiracy theory

We all make assumptions. Four guys were carrying bombs that blew up. They knew each other, they had travelled together that day, twoAsians from Leeds, an Asian friend from Leeds who had moved to Luton and a West Indian guy who had recently arrived in Aylesbury.

The four men joined the Thamesmead train from Luton to London Kings Cross carrying rucksacks. They looked, said a police man who has seen CCTV footage from Kings Cross Main Hall," as though they were going on a walking holiday", smiling joking.

They split up, three to die within some 20 minutes, the fourth an eighteen year old another hour later on a bus where he was sat on the back seat upstairs.

All of them were carrying bombs that killed them.

You know that. Did they ?

Consider this news item from the Scotsman December 11th 2004.

Mohammed Hanif, 31, and Abdul Mateen, 22, from Deeplish in Rochdale were caught in Glasgow with 10kg of the drug, worth £1 million in street deals. Hanif claimed that Mateen had driven him to Glasgow to collect £500 owed to him for a car by another Asian. Strathclyde Police drug squad detectives, acting on a tip-off, arrested the pair and found the drugs in a car boot.The men said they knew nothing about the drugs.
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1162&id=1453462004

Drugs are a massive business, they are moved into and around the country endlessly, apparently with minimal disruption, 10Kg of heroin – (5 bags of granulated sugar) are worth £1Mn at street level.

What do we know ?

We know the bombs went off. We know the bombers did not act alone. Somebody somewhere sent them on their deadly mission.

So someone, somewhere, wanted to send four young Asian / Muslim men with primed and timed bombs onto London Transport.

Imagine being faced with this task. You are young management graduate , student officer , war gamer, member of a revolutionary Islamic jihad movment, a member of a state sponsored security organisation in the UK, Israel, the USA ?

Think out of the box.

Say you make it your business to get alongside the unemployed, the vulnerable, rebellious, anti-authoritarian youth. “ You want some money, you want to be in on the scene”.

“Take this package, meet a man – come back £100 cash. No questions”
“ Hire a car take this package, get a friend drive to this place, meet a man – come back collect £500 cash ”

He doesn’t look in the bag, these guys play hard ball. Take it. Deliver it. Get paid. Go away forget the man. Forget the face. Wait for the call. Everybody does it man. Seen the barred outside doors in Beeston. Inside as well. Drugs.Drugs. Play some football, in the park , cricket in season, go to the mosque like dad wants me to.

“ Take the car, meet a man all take one of the bags deliver to these 3 places – come back collect £ 1000. Cash”

…and so on. Maybe he even fits in a trip for himself, for others to Pakistan. To go to a madrassa ? To see the BIG man in Pakistan where it all comes from, seeping out of Afghanistan. Maybe go on Haj – that costs money, but he we have it.

Soon enough your man has bought himself , like one of the bombers a brand new red Mercedes. He’s not bought a car, he’s bought prestige, he’s a man on the street – everyone knows by what method, but hey he stands his round and his famil are very generous.

..and so on.

Then eventually we have a big deal, hire the cars, drive here, meet the man, take the train , take the four underground trains, the man will meet you, back on the train, back in the car, back here - £XXXX cash – luvvly jubbly.

Another big deal

Another

Then the BIG deal.

They’ve done this before. The bags, don’t look, don’t ask. 2 grand apiece and there’s going to be another run next week. Meet back as usual in the Starbucks near the British Library. 2 o-clock … and don’t switch your bloody phone on or use it.

But the don’t come back. One mother, anxious like mums are, is worried, her boy has been to London before, like he says, he’s never late for his mum. A good boy, he’s only young, maybe he has got in with some bad boys, been caught shoplifting but they all do it – he’ll grow out of it. Give the Police a call. It’s late. He should be in bed asleep at his age.

He is asleep. Forever.

Far fetched ? Find a fact that doesn’t fit.

Of course all sorts of people with all sorts of agendas are pointing their finger at Islamic fundamentalists – Al Quaida, Al Johnson, Al Read maybe. That’s an agenda that supports, a state of perpetual war, perpetual terror, a need for more legislation to restrict liberties, control freedoms, issue what will be (effectively) internal passports, or what we called in the days of apartheid, Pass books.

Now it’s a big jump to say that the main agents of this criminal endeavour are agents of a state – well take your pick, Israel, UK, USA or a religious grouping, Muslims, Zionists, Methodists – freelance embedded warriors in the State’s apparatus, MI6, Mossad, CIA.

It does show that there is more than one way of getting 4 young men on London Transport, whilst G8 is on, whilst President Bush is a guest in the country, to blast 50 odd travellers to their deaths. Of course you kill the couriers.

Dead men. Tell no tales.

"Ex" MI5 spy hard at work in Blackburn

"Ex" MI5 spy,David Shayler, marching against Jack Straw and peddling his girl friend's book.

Blackburn election time 2005

Blackburn 30.4.04 al-mahujiroun

Superintendant Peter Clark gets his men.....

London Transport CCTV footage shows that a group of 4 men carrying what are described as Army surplus backpacks who are from West Yorkshire men arrived in Kings Cross Station at approx 8.30 am last Wednesday 7th July. Some 20 minutes later 3 bombs exploded on tube trains which originated from there going East, West and South.

One hour later a third bomb exploded on the 30 London Transport bus then entering Tavistock Place.It is probable that the man on this bus was due to travel on a North Bound tube and was not destined to travel on that bus.

The four men are said to be British born, 3 from West Yorkshire and a fourth man possibly from Luton (see story below) where a suspicious car has been identified in the Luton Railway Station Car Park and secured for forensic examination. This may be a hire car, for which the owner apperaed today to collect. Documents and property found at the scenes of the bombings have been found identifying all four men, and other people from West Yorkshire. There is still insufficient evidence to say that three of the men died in the Tube bombings but it looks most likely that they did.

The parents of the fourth man who probably died in the bus bombing , his parents in Leeds, contacted the Police to notify he was missing on Thursday morning after the bombings.

In Leeds the Police have arrested one man, said to be a relative of one of the bombers, who is being taken to London. At least six properties are being searched and some property has been “made safe”.

Pic of Sayful Islam click here for story of Luton Muslim fundamentalists

Who Bombed London ?.....well certainly not this lot ..?

It is not difficult to find “experts” on the Web who point their fingers at London based al-Muhajiroun along with the comical Jihadist Omar Bakri and Abu Hamza.

This bunch of black garbed loony toons appeared on the streets of Blackburn at election time – co-incidentally on the same day that (ex?) MI5 spies, David Shayler and the glamorous Anne Machon put in an appearance hustling her new book …” Spies,Lies and Whistleblowers: MI5 and the David Shayler Affair” ..(Was £17.95, now remaindered.) al-Muhajiroun are rejected by every Muslim organisation in the UK.

Omar Bakri, is reported as saying in April 2004 that a group calling itself al-Qaida Europe "has a great appeal for young Muslims. I know that they are ready to launch a big operation."

Some two hours after the bombing a statement was briefly posted on an obscure website from a previously unheard of group claiming itself the Secret Organization of al-Qaida in Europe and claimed responsibility for the attacks in London (also misquoting Koranic verses). This in the fevered minds of “expert” conspirators could (?) that be Bakri's "Al Qaida Europe".

Bakri is said to be facing arrest. He took over from Hamza after his arrest. Most of the September 11 hijackers are said to have been through the London offices of Bakri and Hamza. Bakri said quite a lot in past. For example, he told the Italian Journal, Publica in an interview published on Sunday that there were several "freelance" militant groups in Europe, such as al-Qaida London and are prepared to launch attacks similar to those carried out by the al-Qaida network. Yeah ! Yeah ! Whatever.

These farcical fundamentalists share the distinction with the McCarthyite American Communist Party in receiving more money from the Government through their planted agents than from it’s members.

When Ronnie Kray wanted to hit you, he didn’t invite you outside, he offered you a cigarette and whilst your mouth was open, and your guard was down, ... taking the proffered fag, smashed you from the side, breaking your jaw in 2 places.

Professionals don’t send telegrams, even after the event. The bombings exploited very successfully, and very professionally, the evident, deep seated, crucial weaknesses at the heart of the system at a certain time (G8 in Scotland). Just like the Greenpeace climbers of Big Ben, the Queens “Balcony Batman” and his Whitehall ladderman colleague.

Every day that passes exposes those weaknesses and the confusion that reigns.

"Out of the blue......." OFFICIAL

Lord Stevens, (now a pensioner) ex cop, still however beavering away on his report into the death of Lady Diana, wrote in March 2005 in the News of the World, (that Icon of truthful reportage from the Murdoch stable), claiming that there are probably some 200 Osama Bin Laden trained terrorists walking free on the streets of Britain who(according to him) "would all commit devastating terror attacks against us if they could". When challenged about these remarks he couldn't or wouldn't provide any backup, evidence or any form of substantiation for his claim.

Now this descendent of Gypsy Petulengro tells us the Underground / Bus bombers were "almost certainly" British and he told the BBC,the attackers would not "fit the caricature al-Qaeda fanatic from some backward village in Algeria or Afghanistan".

Now I don't know where the quarry is where you can find the stuff that from which he manufactured his amazing crystal ball, but it sounds to me that ;

1. Lord Stevens ought to be helping the Police with their enquiries
2. ... or he should shut up.

Presumably if enough ideas are floated, chaos theory will predict one of them to be true..monkey on typewriters banging out Shakespeare are brought to mind.

It is 4 days since the outrage and we are told (after some revealing re-cantations over timings) ..

1. Co-ordinated bombing
2. Use of High Explosive
3. No warning
4. er.....

Jack Straw MP (AKA Foreign Secretary)tells us these are the hallmarks of Al Quaeda ? ..... They must make this stuff up as they go along. Simple me, I thought they flew planes into skyscrapers, had single massive vehicular bombs, suicide bombers...etc., But then I don't read Rupe's rags.

On Thursday the BBC reported that London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair ( Mystic Meg Steven's successor) told the BBC at 11.18 am (2.5 hrs after tube bombs)he knows of "about six explosions", one on a bus and the others related to Underground stations.

If they don't make it up, they get it wrong.

The more we are told, the less we know. The more we are not told, the more of a shambles this appears to be.

Charles Clarke MP (AKA Home Secretary, responsible for our protection) said in Parliament the day following the bombs..." The fact is we have a very effective intelligence service but we didn't predict this particular attack at this particular time.

"But, in fact, we don't think anything was missed and it simply came out of the blue.

There you go .... Johnny Terrorist - tricky fella to deal with dontcha know. Now you see him.... well. er .. no you don't.

The people of Birmingham are lucky that their Chief Constable knows how to deal with these terrorist swine ... send everybody home to an early bed ... that'll warn those murdering cowards.

This is a moment to seize. The Kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us. Tony Blair. Labour Party Conference Oct 2nd 2001

I haven't been posting here for as month because I have otherblogs with other concerns.
Paradoxical my last post related to the posters on Washingtoj area trains to be on the lookout for ...anything.

Probably the weirdest story to appear about the bombing is A New Zealander working for Reuters in London says 2 colleagues witnessed the unconfirmed shooting by police of two apparent suicide bombers outside the HSBC tower at Canary Wharf in London.

The first and overall impresson so far is of a complete shambles of a response.

We now discover that;

1. The central control (Gold Commander) did not know of any bombing until 9.17 am , a delay of 28 minutes.
2. The public were being told that the cause of problems was a "power surge" which was wrong.
3. According to eye witness accounts the first rescuers in the tunnels were Underground staff equipped with torches, no safety equipment , no sensors to detect gases, biological contaminants , no protective clothing - not even first aid kits.
4. We now discover 50 hours after the incidents, that the bombs were synchronised over at most 55 seconds and not over some 28 / 30 minutes as has been repeatedly publicised.
5. There is no evidence from TV footage, reporting, blogs, personal contact of any fielding of any Bio / nuclear / gas testing, operators, treatment units. ... or did they know they weren't needed ?

Now we have reports in the Scotsman that we seek extradition of "the usual suspects" from France.

Meanwhile we see, on the anniversary of the bombing by the French CGSE of the "Rainbow Warrior" was approved by President Mitterand personally.

Of course States don't get involved in international acts of terror....

Why Jack Straw talks to Hamas ?

LE MONDE | 09.06.05 | 13:54 Ex Nur-al-Cubicle

Expectations soared. After a lengthy period of inaction, Fatah, the principal faction within the Palestine Liberation Organization, finally scheduled its first party congress in sixteen years. The date was decreed: August 4th. The congress would have closed a chapter and injected fresh blood into its moth-eaten institutions, beginning with the Central Committee, the most important decision-making body within the movement. But the Revolutionary Council, the second most important body, decided on Sunday 5 June to postpone the date sine die—a decision which provoked both resentment and doubt.

Fatah, the movement in which the head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, is a member, is not doing well. Its public image is tarnished. And Abbas paid dearly in the recent partial municipal elections, which had been called in December 2004 for Gaza and the West Bank.

Functional difficulties compound its poor public image: the inability to agree on a single slate in local precincts or to select candidates likely to garner the largest number of votes. Fatah, whose political weight was once crushing, is now challenged by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

We must rebuild the base by reaching out to people, says Mohammed Shtayyeh, a Palestinian Authority minister close to Mr. Abbas. I was in favor of the postponement of the legislative elections--scheduled for July 17th but indefinitely delayed—because it seemed absurd to hold our congress following them. Common sense tells you that a party has to first rebuild its executive bodies so that it can select its candidates. We have to get busy, and quick! Time is running out. Internal elections have to be organized at every level and the Palestinian Authority cannot indefinitely put off the legislative elections, which could be held this fall, after the Gaza pullout. Officially, the party congress has been postponed for practical reasons.

Since the death of Yassir Arafat, Fatah is officially led by Farouk Kaddoumi in Tunis. Kaddoumi was hostile to the 1993 Oslo Accords and refuses to return to the Palestinian Territories. A complicated situation which does not lend itself to making the needed reforms.

For those who intend to keep their commitment to renew party cadres and ideas (and they are numerous inside Abbas’ entourage), the baulking comes from those who have everything to lose in the internal elections. Relations are horrible between the majority of the Central Committee and Abu Mazen –nom de guerre of Mahmood Abbas—who knows very well that they would have had done with him had the elections occurred, says Mamdu Nofal, a old associate of Yassir Arafat and member of a minority faction, FIDA.

In fact, Fatah, which had become "Arafatized" over the last ten years, now finds itself in a situation not unlike that of the Nasserite parties after the death of Nasser--without substance and without programs. It gives the impression that it is unable to modernize, he adds.

Mohammed Ourani, an MP close to Marwan Barghouti, the charismatic young Fatah leader sentenced to multiple life terms in Israel, has doubts himself. On the ground the situation risks becoming explosive very quickly. Expectations are extremely high and no one understands the current bottlenecks. We’re cornered. But no one is prepared to split. At worst, if nothing changes between now and the legislative elections, we’ll forgo the opinion of the Central Committee and run as independents.

The impasse works to the advantage of Hamas, to that point that some reformers within Fatah are beginning to wonder why there is contact with the Islamist movement, most notably by the British, which Jack Straw acknowledged on June 7th.

Even if it is out of the question for London—not to mention Washington—to consider Hamas as a possible partner in dialog, (perfidious Albion at work again !) some Palestinian observers fear a shift in which the Islamist movement would turn out to be a credible alternative to Fatah, lastingly weakened by its divisions.

Of course the winner gets the EU money to spend ......

Your neighbour is watching you.....

Washington area subway train poster - G Orwell would be lovin' it.

First Commercial Wave farm for Portugal

Ocean Power Delivery (OPD) will deploy unique sausage-shaped tubes off Povoa de Varzim ,Portugal creating the world's first commercial wave power plant, providing electricity to 1,500 homes from 2006.

Ocean Power Delivery (OPD) will build the wave farm about five kilometers (3.1 miles) off Portugal's northern coast, near Povoa de Varzim, OPD's Norwegian backer Norsk Hydro said.

Portuguese Enersis SGPS, part of the Semapa Corporation, is one of Portugal’s leading renewable energy companies with 100MW of mini hydro, 500MW of wind farms under operation/construction and a further 500MW under development.

They will install three wave power generation units with capacity of 2.25 for 8 million euros ($10.12 million), but the project could be expanded significantly
OPD's Pelamis P-750 wage energy converter is an elongated metal unit that looks like a big semi-submerged sausage, with hinged segments that rock with the sea, up and down and side to side, pumping fluid to hydraulic motors that drive generators. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, OPD (www.oceanpd.com) has been developing the Pelamis technology for the past 7 years. Supported by the UK DTI and its investors including Norsk Hydro Technology Ventures, Sustainable Asset Management, the Carbon Trust and 3i plc, the prototype for the Portuguese machines was launched in February 2004 and is currently under test at European Marine Energy Centre, Orkney, Scotland

The power produced by the generators is fed into underwater cables and brought to land where it enters the power grid.

A 120-meter (394-foot) long prototype has been tested since February 2004 in the Orkney Islands. Norsk Hydro, the energy and aluminum group, owns 16 percent of OPD.

"The farm will...displace more than 6,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions that would otherwise be produced by conventional hydrocarbon-fueled power plants," Hydro said. Carbon dioxide is the main gas widely blamed for global warming.

A typical 30MW installation would occupy a square kilometre of ocean and provide sufficient electricity for 20,000 homes. Twenty of these farms could power a city such as Edinburgh says their website This project benefits from a special feed in tariff established by the Portuguese Government to support wave energy. The initial phase is also supported by the Demtec programme with a €1.25m grant provided by the Agência de Inovação


The deal with Enersis includes a letter of intent for a further 30 Palamis wave machines for a total of 20 megawatts before the end of 2006, subject to satisfactory performance by the initial installation, Hydro said.

"If all goes well, many additional sites producing up to a total several hundred MW could be developed along the coast," Norsk Hydro said although no costings are available for the production of electricity yet.

"We see this order as just the first step in developing the Portuguese market, which is anticipated to be worth up to a billion euros over the next 10 years," OPD Managing Director Richard Yemm said in the statement.

OPD is also in talks with Scottish Power, which has shown interest in installing a wave farm in the UK.

The European Union requires 22 percent of electricity consumption to come from renewable energy sources -- such as solar, wind and wave -- by 2010. 6% of European total demand is currently met by so called renewables.

Enersis is a unit of Portuguese cement company Semapa.

Norsk Hydro's partners in Edinburgh-based OPD are investors Sustainable Asset Management, the Carbon Trust and 3i plc. The firm also has financial support from the UK energy ministry.
A number of Portuguese organisations are currently involved in the project. These
include the Agência Portuguesa para o Investimento - API , Portuguese Wave Energy Centre , Instituto Hidrografico , and INETI .

The order follows high profile meetings held recently between British and Portuguese officials at the British Embassy in April. These were attended by the UK government’s Chief Scientific Advisor, Sir David King, who highlighted the need for immediate action to tackle the potential impacts of climate change.

Swiss vote for same sex partners to have equal tax & pension rights

Swiss voters go to the polls today to vote to end passport checks on the country's border by 2007 (i.e join the Shengen Agreement).

They also have the chance to vote on whether to allow registration of same-sex partnerships, allowing them many of the same rights as married heterosexual couples.

Opinion polls indicated a majority of voters support the measure, which would mean that registered same-sex couples are treated the same as married couples for tax and pensions purposes.

Jack Straw then Condi fit in trips to Israel

Jack Straw is scheduled to arrive in USsrael on Tuesday afternoon for a 2 day visit to USsrael and the PA to "take the pulse of the region" before Britain's assumes Presidency of EU on July 1. He is also expected to visit other countries in the region.Israeli Channel One announced Sunday(5th June) that US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice AKA "The Whore on terror", will visit Israel and the Palestinian Authority as part of a Middle East tour later this month prior to Sharon meeting Abbas at the end of the month.

USsrael will issue instructions to Straw on 4 main topics :

EU must press the PA to ensure that territory USsrael evacuates won't become staging post for international terrorism. EU to ignore call for Hamas to be taken off the terror list because it is a political party. To demand the full implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1559, calling for Syria's full withdrawal from Lebanon, but also for the dismantling of the militias, especially Hizbullah. To take a more forceful position toward the Iranians regarding their nuclear program as demanded by AIPAC , Perle and his Zionist gangster lobby.

What is the betting Jack tells them to fuck off out of the Left Bank, bag and baggage, get rid of their nuclear weapons, stop arming China, interfering in Romania, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and start behaving towards the Arab population of Israel as though they were humans ? .. don't hold your breath.

Definitely not on the agenda will be discussion of the Israeli Navy detecting a sub snooping off its shores on November 9^th which belonged to the American navy and was on a spy mission, which USsraeli Channel Two TV reported today.

The Navy had detected the submarine after it had penetrated two nautical miles into USsrael's territorial waters, about 18 kilometers from shore.

The Navy followed the submarine for a few hours, but the moment it took active measures to close in on the submarine, it quickly turn and headed back to international waters.

United States has increased U.S. satellite monitoring of Israel to determine military movements, import and export of weapons and weapons tests. The Americans have also expanded the interception of signals communications from Israeli government and military facilities.(Remember the "USS Liberty")

The Widow Makers

January 2005 , approx 41,000 permanent resident aliens were in the United States armed forces - 3,639 Mexicans. The Mexicans arethe largest group among the 63 immigrants who have been killed in action in Iraq, say the Pentagon

Private Fonseca, who on Jan. 17 took a sniper's bullet in the stomach while patrolling in Ramadi, is only are accorded citizenship after death..

When they buried Private Fonseca on Feb. 2 in Mexico , an officer from the United States Army gingerly handed the flag that had covered his coffin to his teenage wife. Then a group of mariachis, including his father-in-law, belted out the classic "México Lindo y Querido" as they lowered the casket.

"Beloved and beautiful Mexico, if I die far from you, just say that I'm sleeping and bring me back to you," they sang.
Pic .Private Fonseca’s wife, Marlene Zaragoza, at home in Mexico NYT

Straws in the wind in the Soviet republics - US readies for action

Kazakhstan , hosted high level visitors including Turkish Prime Minister Recept Tayyip Erdogan who met Kazakh Prime Minister Daniyal Akhmetov for talks focused on expanding trade ties and cooperating in the fight against terrorism and organized crime. Ukrainian President Vladimir Yushchenko met with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev, who said that Kazakhstan might be willing to become a "shareholder" in a project to extend Ukraine's Odessa-Brody pipeline to Gdansk in order to gain access to the Baltics. Nazarbaev also attended the “opening” of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline in Baku on 25 May. And while Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan have yet to finalize an agreement on exports of Kazakh oil through the BTC, Prime Minister Akhmetov noted that Kazakhstan plans eventually to pump 30 million tons of oil each year through the newly inaugurated pipeline.

In Kyrgistan Acting President Kurmanbek Bakiev addressed a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna, urging donor states to boost investment and grant-based support for Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia. Back in Bishkek, the OSCE opened its election-observer mission in preparation for the 10 July presidential election in Kyrgyzstan. The plight of some 500 Uzbek asylum seekers in Kyrgyzstan continued to concern rights organizations, which urged the Kyrgyz government not to repatriate them.

Rumours over the possibility of a new military base in Osh, variously reported as Russian, Chinese, or affiliated with the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) or the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Acting President Bakiev told a Russian newspaper that a base could appear within the framework of the CSTO or SCO, but other officials downplayed the idea.

The Kyrgyz government has hired international lawyers to track down foreign properties or businesses owned by Askar Akaev or those close to the ex-president, who was overthrown during an uprising in late March.

A state commission headed by acting Vice PM Daniyar Usenov has been probing the Akaev family finances in Kyrgyzstan since April 19.

So far, 114 criminal cases have been opened against companies connected with the Akaevs and their inner circle, though the ex-president has not been directly named. “If one calculates the damage done to the country from illegal privatisation, tax avoidance, non-payment of duties, illegal seizure of business from businessmen, in all areas, I would assess this at billions of soms,” said Usenov.

In Sunny Tajikistan, Ghaffor Mirzoev, former head of Tajikistan's Drug Control Agency and the presidential guard, faced 73 charges under 33 articles of the Criminal Code, including murder and terrorism, even as prosecutors extended the investigation period of his case for a sixth time (until 6 July). President Rakhmonov re-appointed General Rustam Nazarov to head the Drug Control Agency on 9 August who held the post before Mirzoev.

In November Tajikistan's Supreme Economic Court
lower court transferring ownership of a meat-processing plant, casino,
and store from Abdurasul Mirzoev, the brother Ghaffor Mirzoev, to the state..

Ghaffor Mirzoev is currently in jail awaiting trial on murder
and corruption charges.

Rumours have circulated in Dushanbe that a military coup is in the planning stages. Some troops in the capital have been placed on higher alert. Mirzoev is reported previously as saying he “will not take up arms, and I will not go against the people”.


A court sentenced seven members of the Bayat group to long jail terms for murder, assault, and robbery. The group had initially been presented as a religious extremist organization, but a prosecutor said that the investigation showed that it was instead an organized-crime group.

Over 83 percent of the country's 6.5 million inhabitants live below the national poverty line, according to the World Bank, while a full 17 percent are considered destitute.
"HIV/AIDS is on the rise in Tajikistan," Azamdjon Mirzoev, the director of the republican centre for AIDS prevention in, Dushanbe the Tajik capital.

As of February 2004, of the total 152 officially registered cases, 33 were recorded in January 2004 alone, Mirzoev said, warning that the real number could be 20 times the official figure.

With the first official case of HIV / AIDS was registered in 1991, 7 in 2000, 34 in 2001, 32 in 2002 and 42 in 2003.

But such a sharp increase in the number of cases registered was partly due to a lack of testing equipment. "Our laboratory hadn't worked from January 2002 until the middle of 2003 because we didn't have testing systems," Mirzoev explained. As for the root causes of the problem, Mirzoev cited illicit drug trafficking as one of the primary factors exacerbating the situation. "Before 1991 most of the drug addicts in Tajikistan were smoking hashish but after the borders became more open, heroin trafficking kicked off," he said, adding that based on some unconfirmed reports some seven to 14 mt of heroin was being kept on the Afghan border ready to be shipped via Tajikistan.

TB's hold on Central Asia strengthened after the break-up of the Soviet Union, and both incidence and mortality rates have increased alarmingly since the mid-1990s. A shortage of drugs and trained medical staff, and inadequate detection and diagnosis has contributed, along with poverty, poor living standards, poor nutrition and immune defences brought low by a general poor standard of health.

Beset by civil war for much of the 1990s, Tajikistan has suffered abominably. The World Health Organization put the incidence at 127 per 100,000 in 2001 and anticipated it would rise to 170 by 2004, one of the highest rates in the world.

Financial checks are now being carried out on the bulk of foreign NGOs organisations operating within the republic. And the Tajik interior ministry now requires foreign embassies and international organisations to inform it of the date and topic of any meetings with local NGOs, political parties and journalists, claiming that “their activity threatens the information security of the country and does not match the requirements of the development strategy for Tajik society".

The head of the United States National Democratic Institute, (AKA State dept. / CIA) which supports the development of political parties and debate, was refused an entry visa, and the organisation’s local office had difficulty in becoming registered. Internews is also said to be facing pressure from the authorities.

In Uzbekistan violence in Andijon continued to ripple through Uzbekistan. Human rights groups warned of a crackdown amid reports of arrests and harassment. (Pic - white gold of Uzbekistan - your next T shirt)

U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan John Purnell was present at a press conference in the Embassy cellars (Tashkent) on Friday, with delegation comprising Republican Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and John Sununu.

Senator John McCain (Arizona) the senior Senator on the trip led the criticism. Calling the events in Andijon "shocking but not unexpected," McCain urged the Uzbek government to heed international calls for an independent investigation into the killings.

McCain recommended that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), of which Uzbekistan is a member, conduct that investigation and added that the U.S. government could not continue to enjoy good ties with Uzbekistan under the current circumstances.

"We believe there should be a complete investigation conducted by the OSCE and I believe that the United States must make the [Uzbek] government understand that a relationship is very difficult, if not impossible, if a government continues to repress its people," he said. "And history shows continued repression of human rights leads to tragedy such as the one that just took place."

Senator Sununu (New Hampshire) emphasized that the Uzbek government seemed to be backtracking on pledges of reform. Sununu said that compared to his first visit to Uzbekistan about three years ago, the situation in the country seemed worse now.

"At that time [three years ago] I think a lot of people were optimistic that there may be the beginnings of real reform or change in the country," Sununu said. "But today, I think the degree of economic and political repression we see is almost certainly greater."

"Of course, I am concerned about the impact of all these on the U.S.-Uzbek relations," he said. "There's no question about it. We will continue to urge Uzbek authorities to consider an international investigation. As the senator rightly points out, we think the OSCE is an excellent vehicle to participate in that kind of investigation."

The U.S. is in constant dialogue with the Uzbek authorities. However, Purnell said, the Andijon events "will undoubtedly have a real impact" on U.S.-Uzbek relations. He did not provide any other details.

The U.S. currently has hundreds of troops stationed at a military base at Dushanbe in Uzbekistan as part of the international coalition fighting terrorism in neighboring Afghanistan. So Washington has proven sympathetic to the Uzbek government's battle against what Tashkent calls religious extremists.

The news conference was attended by representatives of four Uzbek opposition groups whom the Government refuse to meet or negotiate with.

The three senators went on to Kyrgyzstan as they continued a regional (See previous post re departure of US and USraeli Embassy staff and families)

Meanwhile, President Karimov enjoyed a warm reception on a visit to China. Before leaving, he strongly rebuffed appeals for an independent investigation about Anijon killings. In China he signed a treaty on "friendly and cooperative partnership" and signed a deal for a $600-million oil joint venture.

The U.S. State Department designated the Islamic Jihad Group a terrorist organization, describing it as a splinter group of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and blaming it for a series of bombings and shootouts in Bukhara and Tashkent in March-April 2004 that claimed 47 lives. (see previous posts)

sniff...snifff... sumthin' in the wind. Watch this space

US and USraeli Embassies in Tashkent evacuated

Israel is removing embassy staff and families from Uzbekistan

Staff at the Israeli embassy in Uzbekistan and their families have been instructed to leave the country owing to heightened security concerns, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev told The Associated Press Friday. He gave no further details.
Haaretz said only ambassador Ami Mel and security guards were left on station in the capital, Tashkent.
The stories I’ve seen about the US embassy all say that some staff and all families are allowed to leave, but I certainly trust the information I’ve posted here that says families must leave.

Jerusalem Post

Staff at the Israeli embassy staff in Uzbekistan and families have been instructed to leave. Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev told AP. He gave no further details.

The US State Department on Thursday warned of potential terrorist attacks in Uzbekistan and gave permission for some if its embassy staff and their families to leave the country. The statement named the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, al-Qaida, the Islamic Jihad Union and the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement as among the groups active in the region.

Sounds like Mr K is going to get some heavy back up from his Friends in the War on Terror from the Whore on Terror in the State department.