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What a great time for a "Terrorist Attack."

Sean 4489 | 08.07.2005 22:33 | Analysis | Terror War | London

The timing of the "Terrorist Attacks" in London is curious indeed.

The timing of the "Terrorist Attacks" in London is curious indeed. Especially when you consider that just one day prior a terrorist attack could have killed thousands of people if it had taken place at the Olympic Committees' Announcement Street Party. If a terrorist wanted to really cause severe damage and death and disrupt London’s economy, attacking this event would have accomplished all three. In fact, if timed properly, such an attack may have been able to deter the Olympic Committee from choosing London and instead choosing France (as they are not involved in the Iraqi war). However, this would be really bad business for Londoners and at that party weren't there quite a few "important people," (I don't thing Tony Blair rides the tubes in the morning-does he). The fact is this attack appears to be all about shifting the focus away from the 200,000+ in Scotland protesting the G8, overshadowing the news coverage of the War in Iraq and the demand by millions of people and many in the entertainment community to forgive Africa's debt. Since the attack took place every other word on the news is "terror" or "terrorist." How convenient for President Bush, whose popularity is the worst of any President since Nixon after Watergate. In fact, the only issue the American people remotley trust the President on is his handling of the "War on Terror." Luckily for him the bombers chose to attack during the G8 Summit, now he doesn't have to explain why the United States refused to support improving environmental standards, nor is the news likely to provide the details of the Aid to Africa Package( an issue the whole world was focused on until this attack took place). This bombing will undoubtedly raise Bush's approval ratings at home and likely lead to a more militarized England. Both results that benefit Bush and Blair and stifle dissent. Why would a terrorist group want to do that? Who benefits from this attack? I think George W. Bush and Tony Blair owe whoever bombed London a great big "Thanks."

Sean 4489

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Logically

08.07.2005 23:15

"The story of terrorism is written by the state and is therefore highly instructive. The spectators must certainly never know everything about terrorism, but they must always know enough to convince them that, compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic."
Guy Debord

We will see how slow the spectator is to leave his passive acceptence behind. Those who always wait to see what will happen next, never act. Such is the fate of the spectator. It is easier to suspend one's disbelief in the legitamacy of the gov't charade than think of what can be done about it.

Portland, Oregon USA

What????????????????

09.07.2005 00:02

It sounds like a nice story. When you have any proof that Messers Blair and Bush conceived, planned and arranged the London bombing please let us know. I'm sure Mossad will be involved somewhere. Ahh the internet - the new home for the paranoid conspiracy obsessed.

observer

Observation

09.07.2005 05:26

Oh, observer, you sad little racist you. When you actually have proof of Al Qaeda being more than a bunch of pictures of scowling Muslims on the Internet and corporate news broadcasts, would you let us know? It has become so obvious to the thinking world who the paranoid conspiracy theorists are--can you recall, for instance, anyone invading and devastating 2 sovereign nations out of fear of the Illuminati, space aliens, or global warming? No, that ability is reserved for those who believe a bloodthirsty Arab or Muslim lies in wait to eat their children behind every street corner. Shame on you, and may god or whoever is in charge of justice in this universe have mercy on your hateful soul.

Paté

I hear you

09.07.2005 10:45

I had the same kinds of thoughts. Sure is a convenient time for a "terrorist" attack. How can people trust anything that Blair or Bush have to say? Plus, what is the logical thinking of a "terrorist" that they would do a similar strike on the US? But yet, here they have upped security immensely. Some of the pictures remind me of being in Israel where there are soldiers everywhere with machine guns strapped on their backs ready to fire at any suspect. I know its not that bad here in America but we're moving in a fearful direction. At whose will?

Abigail
mail e-mail: aafishel@yahoo.com

free movement

09.07.2005 11:28

i don't expect that security services were directly involved in planting these bombs - but they may well have co-ordinated the people who did, without their knowledge of who their real masters were. the timing has been perfect for so many reasons.

and the mandate is now straightforward enough.

biometric id cards mandatory for all means of public travel, for our own safety, in place before the olympics 2012.

vehicle tax abolished in favour of mileage tax monitored by satellite.

end result - movement of citizens all sewn up.

http://www.pledgebank.com/refuse

NO2ID

Bombing UK a big paradox,

09.07.2005 13:40

since MoD on July 4, just three daye before the attacks, officially
announced that it was planning for a "significant withdrawal
of British troops from Iraq".

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/a1384df4-ecbc-11d9-9d20-00000e2511c8.html

someone somewhere

EARTH CALLING ANARCHISTS

09.07.2005 15:12

Oberver at least theres someone else that enjoys reading this drivel for nothing more that to wonder as to where these people get their ideas from. Pate it is not racist when you address the AQ as terrorists thats what they are pure and simple AQ is not a race or a country they are an organisation so stop slagging folk off for nothing. And yes they do exist outwith the internet not that you appear to have a life away from it by the loks of things i have fought them and they are real enough to me. So all you idiots who believ that the London bombings were the work of shadowy elements of the western governments WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ROSES GET UP OFF YOU ARSES AND GET A LIFE

nemo nos impune lacesset

TRIPOD
mail e-mail: tripod@hotmail.co.uk

Get a life?

09.07.2005 17:15

Dearest Tripod (if that's your REAL name),

I know you think you've fought "AQ", but it's really time to come down from your drug-and-steroid-induced militant fantasies. Your writing seems to mark you as either an obsessive Guns and Ammo reader, or an actual Hessian mercenary. Either way, I beg you to open your eyes to the beauty in the world around you--start a garden, volunteer to help the poor, take up meditation, you decide!

See, no one wants to live like you do, in constant fear of assassins lurking in the shadows quietly reciting Quranic verses as they wait to chop off your head. While it may be what keeps your sanity intact, given the massive doses of indoctrination you've allowed your gray matter to be deformed by, to those of us in the real world it is quite obvious that frightening fairy tales are best left for children to enjoy, until they develop the marvelous adult ability to seperate fact from fiction.

I do hope you find peace away from your many demons, and that "the evil ones" eventually stop talking to you and following you around. One day, you might even find a girlfriend (or boyfirend--it's all good!)

Peace,

Foie Gras

FOI GRAS

09.07.2005 21:28

Foie Gras I know how much you enjoy trying to demean anone who does not agree with your paranoid little version of life but hey i dont really care.

PS i dont read guns and ammo try to be less judgemental and acept hat here is two sides to every story and if you want to do my garden fill yer boots

TRIPOD

Just a thought

09.07.2005 23:18

Consipracies of the bomb blasts galore.

Can anyone tell why the government, CIA, FBI, etc. etc. should bomb London transport when they could have "killed two birds with the one stone" (excuse the pun) and blew some protesters away at any number of Scottish places during the week?

At least it could have hyped the "alledged conspiracy goings on" just that little more? Wouldn't it?

Thinker

From the horse's mouth!

10.07.2005 02:16

Download: Visor Consultants MD tell the dirty secret. - mp3 186K

Peter Power, Managing Director of Visor Consultants a "consultancy agency" with government and police connections divulged that they were running an exercise for an "unnamed company" that revolved around the London Underground being bombed at the exact same times and locations as happened in real life on the morning of July 7th.

All on a BBC Radio 5 interview that aired on the evening of the 7th.

Time to make sure that the Scottlan Yard and Interpol strings up the people behind that "excercise"!

someone somewhere

Great time

10.07.2005 03:24

We know that you dont really care "tripod", you have already been exposed on these listings as a wanker and a wind up.

Up yer wind. With due respect.

notmerealname

Tripe head

Woop...

10.07.2005 03:47

sorry for the typos... It's been a long wet night 8D

someone somewhere in summertime

Tripe Head

10.07.2005 07:21

Tripe head how apt a name, exposed as a wanker or a wind up !!! Oh sorry but thats usually how you lot respond to anyone who doesnt FIT into your cosy wee versions of world events Alistair Campbell would luv this site more spin here than in a labour party conference.....

foi gras course its not my real name u tosser is foie gras yours..... pot calling kettle...

Tripod

There is no doubt re suspicious timing

10.07.2005 10:40

Firstly, There's a lot of personal mud slinging going on here, most people don't want to read it, please put your personal e-mail on if you want to slag of others then you can do it via personal corress and not burden the rest of us with reading tripe. Thanks.

Secondly, There is no doubt the timing is suspicious. Who does it benefit? Only the G8, particularly Bush. There was an unpresidented about of attention on the G8 to come up the goods re climate change, debt cancellation, fair aid and trade. They didn't, it would have been front page news around the world, including the US, and it would have damaged Bush considerably. If the 'terrorists' had struck just a day or two later it would have damaged the politicians more as it could have been read as a reply from the third world re our actions and highlighted how poverty breeds 'terrorism'. Doing the bombings the day before the announcements only strengthens Bush etc as it totally diverts attention away from the G8 failure, takes the pressure of Bush to do anything costly to US corporate interests and aligns the populace behind their 'leaders', the whole 'we must be protected' arguament kicks off again - support for losing civil liberties increases(good for them) and no more talk of trade justice etc (good for them).

Read Chomsky

Occam's Razor

11.07.2005 16:33

Anything is possible. However, I think it's unlikely the government murdered its own citizens in a mock terrorist attack for political purposes. There are theories abound about the NYC attacks too, some are even half-way plausible sounding. But I still don't think any Western nation would take that big of a risk.

All it would take is one whistle-blower to expose a scandle. Not only would those leaders be removed from office and tried, they could even face the death-penalty here in the USA.

I think the truth lies somewhere in the middle of the official gov. explanations, and the wild conspiracy theories. It's perfectly clear the middle east wars were jumped into for profit, not protection in response to 9-11, and that fact alone should be enough to change peoples minds about the direction the US/UK are leading the world toward. Conspiracy theories, not without certain merit on certain points, overall muddy the very sane and worthy argument of an end to violence all around. There is more than enough legitimate, proven fact to oust Bush and Blair. That's where the focus should be placed. If that can be achieved, and the balance of power checked, other possible scenarios, if they exist, are bound to surface.

Opine

planning, my friend

12.07.2005 16:03

I think one very good reason why they attacked London when they did, whilst security forces had their attentions on Scotland and as London woke up from the hangover of the Olympic bid, was because they knew they were hitting London at its most vulnerable, when they would be least likely to come across anything or anyone that would stop what was obviously a very well planned and thought-out attack.

paul
mail e-mail: geekessay@hotmail.com

You are mad or stupid, but unquestionably deeply offensive

13.07.2005 00:21

Had it occured to you that the G8 leaders might not really give a monkeys about 200,000 smelly people in a field near stirling when there's a chance to take an effective populist posture of caring about the issues of poverty and climate change.

Your post is so paranoid/stupid it's hard to know where to begin. So instead i'll stop at saying i don't think you're very bright or usefull to the cause of world socialism. On the otherhand I am very bright, and have a 1st class honours degree from Oxford University.

xx

:-)

"planning, my friend"

13.07.2005 00:52

"when they would be least likely to come across anything or anyone that would stop what was obviously a very well planned and thought-out attack."

You mean since around 1000 people were involved in an "exercise" in the Underground
right at the very time and stations where the "real" bombs were placed?

Visitor

Nice try.

13.07.2005 03:34

"On the otherhand I am very bright, and have a 1st class honours degree from Oxford University"

And your horrible spelling tends to disprove that.