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UK Muslim 7/7 London Bombings survey 06.04.2007 - FAIR USE
Propaganda piece from UK news channel about the 7/7 London bombings.

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Google Direct London Bombings Survey

I susoect the results of the poll reported in the clip in fact understate the case. It may well be that a significant number of those surveyed were unwilling to state their true views for fear of reprisals or whatever.

I have worked closely with Muslims for over 16 years now and can state quite categorically that the vast majority of those with whom I work and share friendship simply don’t accept the official version of 7/7. And these are not terrorists, or extremists, or fundamentalists… simply ordinary folk just trying to live their lives  and provide for their families without interference.

And I, as a non-Muslim, find mysef agreeing with them. Far too many anomalies about the entire 7/7 episode to warrant unquestioning acceptance of the official version.

And when this is put in context of the deceptions that were practised on the British public by the government and the media in the lead-up to the Iraq war, is it any wonder that whatever explanations they produce will lack credibility?

Far too many transgressions against human rights, freedoms, morality - even just common decency - are committed in the name of “National Security” and rationalised by resorting to the argument “The end justifies the means”.

However there’s a major flaw, both logically and morally, with that argument.
I had a rant about it some years ago when I was active in the anti-Iraq war movement, and the essence of what I said then still holds good today…

“Y’see, that’s the fallacy with the ‘end justifies the means’ argument – we can never truly know what the real end will be, or even when…
…’The end justifies the means’ can only ever work if we extract a slice of time and arbitrarily (i.e., to suit our own purposes – in other words, whatever’s convenient) determine ‘this particular point is the beginning’ and ‘this other particular point is the end’.”

(www.tiltingatwindmills.org.uk/imo/niggles.htm)

The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis, by Bill Moyers

This is the full length 90 min. version of Bill Moyer’s 1987 scathing critique of the criminal subterfuge carried out by the Executive  … all » Branch of the United States Government to carry out operations which are clearly contrary to the wishes and values of the American people. The ability to exercise this power with impunity is facilitated by the National Security Act of 1947. The thrust of the exposé is the Iran-Contra arms and drug-running operations which flooded the streets of our nation with crack cocaine. The significance of the documentary is probably greater today in 2007 than it was when it was made. We now have a situation in which these same forces have committed the most egregious terrorist attack on US soil and have declared a fraudulent so-called “War on Terror”. The ruling regime in the US who have conducted the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, are now banging the war drum against Iran. We have the PATRIOT act which has stripped us of many of our basic civil rights justified by the terror of 9/11 which is their own doing.

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A short time ago I had a little rant about the al-Qaeda myth that lots of folk seem to have bought into¹ . Inspired me to think about assembling all the various bits and pieces of stuff I’ve amassed over the years and putting it all up on the main website (I’m still thinking about it at the mo’, mainly cos I really don’t relish the task of having to trawl through all the files I appear to have acquired!).

Anyway - talk about synchronicity - what should happen to pop up on MySpace today? This intriguing little clip; apparently its an excerpt from the documentary “The Power of Nightmares” that was broadcast by the BBC in 2004 - available in three parts on Google Video² …

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Listening to how Osama bin Laden became demonised into some sort of fiendish mastermind started ringing bells for me, a la “working to a tried and tested formula” so to speak. Anyone remember the Fu Manchu series of novels by Sax Rohmer?Returning to the 9/11 theme, I remain unconvinced that the attack could have been planned, organised, implemented, and indeed co-ordinated to such a remarkable degree (to say nothing of the events immediately following the initial attacks) absent State backing at a high level. And by”State backing” I refer at the very least to the support of one or more State intelligence organisations.Moreover, my understanding is that there’s perhaps only a half-dozen or so countries running Intelligence Agencies that’d be up to the task - and the only Middle Eastern country that’s included in that “half-dozen or so” is Israel; i.e., not Iraq, not Iran, not Syria, etc etc. And of the others, we’re looking at the likes of the US, the UK, etc.Here’s a possible clue… look at which countries have been cashing in most on the events of 9/11 to ramp up their security budgets, introduce seemingly endless legislation restricting the rights of their citizens, introduce even more seemingly endless legislation giving ever greater powers to the State, and so on.Go figure!Looking at how the mainstream media are so quick to debunk and discredit “conspiracy theories” one can’t help wonder why they’ve so avidly bought into the al-Qaeda myth (when just basic research would raise some very penetrating questions) which is arguably one of the biggest conspiracy theories doing the rounds.

1. al-Qaeda a front for something else? [↩]
2. The Power of Nightmares [↩]

As a general rule I try to avoid reposting stuff here that I’ve already posted on the main TaW site - the two sites were intended to serve two somewhat different purposes. However, if I think the subject-matter merits it then I don’t really mind bending my own rule a bit, and this post is one of those occasions.

The reason I’m bending the rule this time is cos I think the subject-matter’s quite important, and because the relevant TaW page is not particularly easy to find if one’s just casually surfing.

Essentially the page in question is a list of selected links to a variety of resources. Here’s the reposted intro:

Carefully and objectively examining all the evidence, witness testimonies and documentation about 9/11 that is now available in the public domain, I cannot see how any rational person can come to a conclusion other than that the “official” explanation of the 9/11 event (with particular regard to the collapse of the Twin Towers) requires us to accept that the natural Laws of Physics were inexplicably and magically suspended on that day.
And if the official explanation of the Twin Towers’ collapse is wanting, then so too may be the apportioning of the blame by the Bush administration.

Examine the evidence, the witness testimonies, and the commentaries for yourself - and then remind yourself that 9/11 was the trigger event for Bush’s bombing of Afghanistan, invasion of Iraq, declaration of the so-called “War on Terror”, and continuing encroachments upon the civil liberties of the American people.

But, I contend, it is a mistake to examine 9/11 out of context, as a stand-alone event. It could not have, and did not, “spring from nowhere”.
This applies equally whether the official explanation is correct or not. And, equally, 9/11 could not have been executed without detailed long-term planning and sophisticated preparations.
If the official explanation is not correct (and all the indications appear to point in this direction) then I suspect time could beneficially be spent examining some of the events that were occurring on the American economic scene in the months prior to 9/11 - an unfolding of matters that were suddenly and dramatically wiped from public attention by 9/11.
Moreover it could be equally as beneficial to look at the controversies surrounding the Presidential election that first put George Bush into the White House. I find it difficult to avoid the conclusion that this move was engineered specifically to ensure that GBW would be the “9/11 President”.

Think about it!

You can find the page here.

Further to my post of 12th April re al-Qaeda in Africa, starting to browse around the web (before I resort to rummaging through my absolutely massive archive of offline material - an onerous task!) I happened to come across this interesting little gem…

“Letter from A. K. Dewdney, Coordinator Scientific Panel Investigating Nine-eleven to the Directors of major Intelligence organisations in the US, Great Britain, and elsewhere”

You’ll find it at Physics911 - well worth reading.

Another Day in the Empire

It is sincerely mysterious “al-Qaeda” has a knack of showing up in places targeted by the neocons. For instance, Africa, in particular Somalia and, more recently, Algeria. “Terrorist bomb attacks in Algeria yesterday show al-Qaeda and its allies pose a ‘very real threat’ in North Africa, the U.S. State Department said,” reports Bloomberg. “Al-Qaeda is a ‘current and persistent’ threat in the region, department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters in Washington yesterday…. Islamic militants are becoming more active in North Africa, particularly in the Maghreb region of Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria where they have joined forces with al-Qaeda.”

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Hmm… this reminds me… I’ve never totally bought into the “al-Qaeda” myth. Goes right back to the very early days of Bush’s “War on Terror”… I recollect reading a number of articles exploring the genesis of this mysterious “terrorist organisation” most of which, as I remember, seemed to tie it in to certain unsavoury types in the American Establishment.

I’ll see if I can locate them. Might make for an interesting “Briefing” page on the main TaW site.

I have an innate dislike of conspiracy theories, and the often woolly thinking or unquestioning acceptance of those that promote them.

But, even stripping away the more extreme assertions of the committed conspiracist (such as that the world is run by a secret cabal of Zionists, or that our world leaders are actually aliens in disguise intent on wiping us all out) its becoming increasingly difficult to debunk some of these theories simply on the basis that they allege a conspiracy.

For the unpalatable truth cannot be ignored that “cover-ups” do occur - which in essence is simply what most conspiracy theories are alleging.

We know they’ve occurred in the past, generally to mask the blunders, mendacity, avarice, or criminal doings of politicians and other public figures.
And there’s no reason to suppose that such cover-ups are going to stop any time soon.
Therefore, are we as wise as we’d like to think ourselves when we trash the words of conspiracists out of hand, without even bothering to subject their claims to close scrutiny?

Laying aside my prejudices I have in fact spent time exploring some of these theories, and a quite surprising fact emerges.
Very often the extent of what’s being alleged is that there has been some sort of cover-up, and many of these theories do little more than pose serious questions that do actually deserve an answer rather than the prevarications and ambiguities that are so often laid on the table by “official sources”.
Another suprising fact that emerges is that there do indeed seem to be many inexplicable “anomalies” in the “official explanations” of certain events - significant anomalies that warrant (and in some cases cry out for) explanations that are simply not forthcoming. So what gives?

As a consequence of which, I’ve now introduced a page on the main Tilting at Windmills site devoted exclusively to some of the more credible conspiracy theories (consists mainly of brief explanations and links to original sources).
By all means take it with a pinch of salt, but not too big a pinch!