WHITE GUYS BEHIND THE LONDON BOMBINGS?
Many people on the left, including George Galloway, Robert Fisk and John Pilger,
are taking the line that this week's bombings in London were connected in some way to the occupation of Iraq and that they prove that the Anglo-American policy there is counterproductive. Tariq Ali, for example, although he admits that we don't know who carried out the bombings, nonetheless goes on to write: 'it is safe to assume that the cause of these bombs is the unstinting support given by New Labour and its prime minister to the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.' But this is a huge leap to make, considering that we know nothing at all about the identities and motives of the bombers.
1) There is no evidence whatsoever that the bombings were perpetrated by Islamic terrorists. Blair: 'We know that these people act in the name of Islam.' How do we know that? No copies of the Koran have been found at the crime scenes. Rather, the links to Islam came courtesy of two Israeli security 'experts' - Boaz Ganor, director general of Israel's International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism, and Mordechai Kedar, a counter-terrorism analyst for Israel's public television - who, unless they have psychic powers, are no more qualified to say who was behind the bombings than anybody else. What's more they have a geopolitical predisposition to blame Muslims for terrorism, which make them too biased to be taken seriously as security analysts.
2) In order to keep alive the myth that the bombings were the work of Muslims, the physical description of the bombers is being suppressed. First, notice that Richard Jones, the witness aboard the bus who saw someone acting suspiciously, provides no description of the man. I think we can safely presume that the BBC was instructed to suppress such information, because it simply doesn't make sense for someone to be interviewed about what he saw and not be asked what the suspicious individual actually looked like.
Second, note that although the bus had FOUR CCTV cameras, not one of them happens to have been switched on! Quote: 'the investigation received a serious setback when it was discovered the CCTV cameras on the bus that blew up were not working so detectives will not get vital images of the bomber. One senior Yard source said: "It's a big blow and a disappointment. If the cameras had been running we would have had pin-sharp close-up pictures of the person who carried out this atrocity. "We don't know if the driver forgot to switch them on or if there was a technical problem but there are no images." The bus had four cameras - one covering people getting on, the second at the exit doors and one on each deck scanning the length of the vehicle.'
If this story is true, it proves one thing, which is that when people say that heightened security measures will enable us to catch terrorists in future, we shouldn't believe them! Whatever measure is in place, you can be sure that due to some inexplicable hiccup it won't be functioning the day it's needed. However, as it happens, I don't believe the report at all, and I think the CCTV evidence is being 'disappeared' because it would show precisely who the man on the bus was. I don't think we are meant to find out who he was and I feel sure that we never will.
It's interesting, finally, to note that the theory has emerged that 'a gang of white "mercenary terrorists" was hired by al-Qa'ida to carry out last week's devastating attacks on London.' It's hard to see why such a theory would have emerged, if there wasn't evidence implicating white people in the crime. I think Mike Rivero of the website What Really Happened is on the money when he writes: 'Translation: "The witnesses all saw white guys placing the bombs, so we gotta figure out a story by which we can keep the blame on the Arabs."'
So it looks to me like the bombings were the work of white guys, but that the information is being suppressed until a story can be concocted that will somehow connect them to al-Qaeda.
UPDATE: So Blair plans to reject a probe into the bombings, 'insisting such a move would distract from the task of catching the perpetrators.' Funny how I saw that one coming! (NB: if we don't catch the perpetrators, that means we get precisely nothing! So my prediction is that sooner or later Tony will have to give in and there'll be a probe of sorts. Paging Lord Hutton! Paging Lord Hutton!)
1) There is no evidence whatsoever that the bombings were perpetrated by Islamic terrorists. Blair: 'We know that these people act in the name of Islam.' How do we know that? No copies of the Koran have been found at the crime scenes. Rather, the links to Islam came courtesy of two Israeli security 'experts' - Boaz Ganor, director general of Israel's International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism, and Mordechai Kedar, a counter-terrorism analyst for Israel's public television - who, unless they have psychic powers, are no more qualified to say who was behind the bombings than anybody else. What's more they have a geopolitical predisposition to blame Muslims for terrorism, which make them too biased to be taken seriously as security analysts.
2) In order to keep alive the myth that the bombings were the work of Muslims, the physical description of the bombers is being suppressed. First, notice that Richard Jones, the witness aboard the bus who saw someone acting suspiciously, provides no description of the man. I think we can safely presume that the BBC was instructed to suppress such information, because it simply doesn't make sense for someone to be interviewed about what he saw and not be asked what the suspicious individual actually looked like.
Second, note that although the bus had FOUR CCTV cameras, not one of them happens to have been switched on! Quote: 'the investigation received a serious setback when it was discovered the CCTV cameras on the bus that blew up were not working so detectives will not get vital images of the bomber. One senior Yard source said: "It's a big blow and a disappointment. If the cameras had been running we would have had pin-sharp close-up pictures of the person who carried out this atrocity. "We don't know if the driver forgot to switch them on or if there was a technical problem but there are no images." The bus had four cameras - one covering people getting on, the second at the exit doors and one on each deck scanning the length of the vehicle.'
If this story is true, it proves one thing, which is that when people say that heightened security measures will enable us to catch terrorists in future, we shouldn't believe them! Whatever measure is in place, you can be sure that due to some inexplicable hiccup it won't be functioning the day it's needed. However, as it happens, I don't believe the report at all, and I think the CCTV evidence is being 'disappeared' because it would show precisely who the man on the bus was. I don't think we are meant to find out who he was and I feel sure that we never will.
It's interesting, finally, to note that the theory has emerged that 'a gang of white "mercenary terrorists" was hired by al-Qa'ida to carry out last week's devastating attacks on London.' It's hard to see why such a theory would have emerged, if there wasn't evidence implicating white people in the crime. I think Mike Rivero of the website What Really Happened is on the money when he writes: 'Translation: "The witnesses all saw white guys placing the bombs, so we gotta figure out a story by which we can keep the blame on the Arabs."'
So it looks to me like the bombings were the work of white guys, but that the information is being suppressed until a story can be concocted that will somehow connect them to al-Qaeda.
UPDATE: So Blair plans to reject a probe into the bombings, 'insisting such a move would distract from the task of catching the perpetrators.' Funny how I saw that one coming! (NB: if we don't catch the perpetrators, that means we get precisely nothing! So my prediction is that sooner or later Tony will have to give in and there'll be a probe of sorts. Paging Lord Hutton! Paging Lord Hutton!)
