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Coca cola linked to london bombing SHOCKER!

Lex Jones, investigative reporter for misinfowars.com | 18.07.2005 19:07 | Analysis | Globalisation | London

In interviews widely reported in the mainstream media last week, links between the men thought to behind the London bomb attacks and the Coca-cola company were exposed....

Every week, 22-year-old Shahzad Tanweer joined friends for games of soccer and his beloved cricket. Now he is suspected of being one of the London sucide bombers.

Tanweer, whos Pakistani-born father owns a fish-and-chips shop, lived all his life in the city's Beeston area. A devoted athlete, he studied sports science at Leeds Metropolitan University and apparently planned to get involved in sports professionally.

He showed up twice a week for pickup soccer games, said a teammate who gave his name only as Saj.

"He was normal. We used to drink Coke and Fanta together," revealed Saj in an inoccent statement which would have far reaching implications!

The Press Association reported that Shahzad Tanweer's uncle said the family was "left shattered" and in disbelief. "It wasn't him. It must have been forces behind him."

"It was total shock, I mean, it's unbelievable," Ahmed told reporters.

Chairman of Leeds Grand Mosque, Zaher Birawi, condemned the news and told the BBC that he feared possible reprisals. The Muslim safety forum has received reports of more than 400 attacks around the country including a fire bomb attack on a Mosque in Liverpool. Surprisingly there have yet to be any reports about attacks on Coca-cola vending machines or retailers.

"I feel angry", said Birawi. "There is no evidence, no indications that such wrong understanding is distributed within the community".

Why such a shock? Well, since the invasion of Afganistan the world's biggest soft drinks manufacturer has been targeted by Muslim campaigners because of its economic ties with Israel and because the imperialist 'war on terror' has made all American brands a focus for resentment in the Muslim world.

Further more, no self-respecting Muslim fundementalist extremist sucide bomber would be seen dead with a drink that sports an anti islamic logo (see

http://www.mashi.com/columnists/editorscorner/2000/editor-may-00.htm and then

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/islam.asp).

In 2003, the Muslim community began to root out the evil of killer-cola by launching competitors such as Mecca-cola and Qibla Cola, which by coincidence, shares same name as jihadi terror group in South Africa (see

http://www.nzmuslim.net/article252.html or for a laugh

http://beautifulatrocities.com/archives/2005/06/the_explosive_t_1.html). Sporting slogans like "Don't drink stupid, drink committed" the Islamic 'real thing' makes last weeks relevations about the link between the alleged bombers and Coca-Cola even more shocking.

The news may be no surprise to those aware of the connection between the murder of union leaders in Columbia (

http://www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk/cocacolacampaign.html

http://www.thenewagenda.org/cvc_rally/transcripts/mark.html) or cases of chemical poisoning in India (

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/FB24Df04.html and

http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-news-0422.html) and the biggest soft drink company. However, the news may be a considerable shock to those who did not know that Fanta was the drink of the Nazis! (

http://www.mtcp.co.uk/coca-cola/background.php

http://www.foundry.tv/nazicoke/

http://www.ubersite.com/m/26514)

Lex Jones, investigative reporter for misinfowars.com
Homepage: http://www.killercoke.org/

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Anti Islamic messages in corporate logos

18.07.2005 19:33

Incrediable, the backwards Coca-Cola logo reads "No Mohammed, No Mecca!"

You couldn't make it up ;-)

no way

Die coke die

18.07.2005 20:14

Shicking doesn't begin to describe their actions in Columbia-carrying weapons for paramilitaries cos their trucks are the only vehicles that go unchecked across the whole of Columbia. Theory about their involvement in London was very witty. The thing is, it makes no difference to the movement who did it or why. Why waste our time trying to defend what we believe in and what we do? We shouldn't lower the level of our debate to try and convince the general public we're really patriotic underneath our dreads+piercings or whatever. That's 'playing into the hands of the terrorists'(G8) because it's always going to be speculative so we can't really ever win the argument even if it's most likely the Iraq war acted as inspiration etc. We can't prove it, what we can prove however is what our goverenments are doing everyday!

Matt K

Links with Iraq

18.07.2005 22:54

We don't have to make the link with Iraq, that is blatent and obvious to anyone. Both the websites that have since 'claimed responsibilty' have made the link and said that is the reason for the attacks. Even the parts British establishment have finally got round to admitting the connection - Claire Short for example. The state can't have it both ways, either it's Al'Q and the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan are a major part of the reason for the attacks, or it's not. Either London has been at increased risk of attack since the invasion of Iraq, and this is it, or they've been lying.

However, Blair and the media are trying to lay the blame on 'the evil ideology' of 'extremist islam' - kind of amusing really, should we be blaming the invasion of Iraq on right-wing 'christian fundamentalism' and insisting that the christian community root out the 'extremists'?

The article above is quite funny. Of course drinking Coke and Fanta have nothing to do with the involvement of these people in the London bomb attacks - it is simply creating a false link of cause and effect. But that of course is exactly what the mainstream media and the polititians are doing right now with blaming 'the evil ideology' while trying to divert attention from the injustices that are the real root of terrorism.

enb

Coca-Cola linked to Chemical Ali ?

19.07.2005 12:28

I'm not sure what I think of that orginal article, I don't quite get it. However, as somebody who has been involved in campaigns against Coca-Cola I am pleased that it raises a few serious issues apart from the bizarre 'link' with a sucide bomber. The article touches on some of the concrete concerns about coca-cola and I thought I'd flesh out the bit about poisoning in India because that is just part of the issue around coca-cola operations in India.

Communities across India living around Coca-Cola's bottling plants are experiencing severe water shortages as a direct result of Coca-Cola's massive extraction of water from the common groundwater resources. Wells have dried up and hand water pumps failed. Variouis studies (including one by the Central Ground Water Board in India) have confirmed significant depletion of the water table.

Coca-Cola has been discharging its waste water into the fields around its plant and sometimes into rivers. When the water is extracted from the common groundwater resource by digging deeper, the water smells and tastes strange. The result has been that the groundwater has been polluted as well as the soil. Public health authorities have posted signs around wells and hand pumps advising the community that the water is unfit for human consumption.

In Plachimada and Mehdiganj, Coca-Cola was distributing its solid waste to farmers in the area as "fertilizer". Tests conducted by the BBC found cadmium and lead in the waste, effectively making the waste toxic waste.

Tests conducted by a variety of agencies, including the government of India, confirmed that Coca-Cola products contained high levels of pesticides, and as a result, the Parliament of India has banned the sale of Coca-Cola in its cafeteria. However, Coca-Cola not only continues to sell drinks laced with poisons in India (that could never be sold in the US and EU), it is also introducing new products in the Indian market.

If selling drinks with DDT and other pesticides to Indians wasn't enough, one of Coca-Cola's latest bottling facilities to open in India, is located in an area with a severe contamination of arsenic in its groundwater.

Perhaps the title should read 'Coca-Cola Chemical Warfare Exposed'

Jody
Homepage: http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/index.html

Coca-Cola part of the Axis of Evil

19.07.2005 14:34

Lets root out the evil of fizzy sugar water from our communities.

Soft drinks manufactures should issue a statement condeming the coca-cola company and take responsibilty to put in place initiatives to purge the industry of this evil ideology.

pepsi

Pepsi did it!

19.07.2005 14:46

Somebody should update McSpotlight's thing about the soft drinks industry, it appears to have nothing on Coca-Cola....

http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/pepsico.html

mohammad

Coca-Cola targetted for retribution

19.07.2005 14:56

Around the country, Killer-Cola vending machines have been targetted by activists in acts of economic sabotage against the Coca-Cola company. Stickers saying 'This company is ethically OUT OF ORDER' have been stuck over the coin slots on hundred of machines places in hospitals, schools, univeristies and other public places.

Other actions include a blockade of a coca-cola bottling plant in Bristol.

See

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/03/306141.html for full report.

Combat Coke
Homepage: http://www.cokewatch.org/

erh?

20.07.2005 20:16

You are kidding right? You don't seriously expect us to think that coca-cola is responsible for these killers?

wtf

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