On 19 February 2006, The Mail on Sunday reported that new forensic tests have been carried out by the lawyers representing Al Megrahi, the Libyan jailed in connection with the Lockerbie bombing.
Defence experts simulated the Lockerbie explosion. The results showed that the device which detonated the bomb could not have survived the explosion.
According to The Mail on Sunday: "Sources close to Megrahi's lawyers said the new tests pointed to the evidence having been planted at the scene of the crash...
"The source added that Megrahi's legal team claimed they had obtained 'clear proof' that investigators had 'planted and manipulated' evidence...
"He said... if there is any justice in Scotland... certain Scottish police officers will be jailed for their part in the proceedings...
"Megrahi's lawyers already have a sworn statement from a retired Scottish police officer confirming that evidence had been planted to secure the Libyan's conviction.
"A similar claim was made by a former CIA agent...
"The ex-CIA man (claimed) that the fragment of circuit board had been planted under orders from a very high level in the organisation...
"The fragment was found by two policeman during a search of a wood near Newcastleton, 35 miles from Lockerbie.
"It was later identified by the CIA's Thomas Thurman as being part of a sophisticated timer device made by the Swiss firm of Mebo.
"Thurman was later unmasked as a fraud who had given false evidence in American murder trials..."
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What does Aangirfan think? We guess that when the government has stopped blaming the Libyans for Lockerbie, the government will start blaming some other lot of Moslems, such as the Palestinians, Syrians or Iranians.
We reckon that the real culprits, the people who were smuggling heroin on Pan Am planes, may be too powerful to prosecute.
An internal investigation by Pan Am is believed to have found that the bomb planted on Flight 103 was NOT put on the plane in Malta.
The Pan Am report is believed to have concluded that the bomb was not aimed at the killing of Americans in general, but was targeted specifically to kill a small band of DIA operatives that had uncovered a drugs ring run by a CIA unit in Lebanon.
The drugs-ring is said to have been set up by Israeli Mossad agents.
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McKie case linked to Lockerbie; Scottish justice controlled by the CIA? Reputation of Scottish justice in ruins?
"In 1998, Lindauer was making a deposition in the Lockerbie Trial that contradicted the official Libya did it! yarn, corroborating the accounts of others, such as former DIA operative Lester Coleman that it was instead all about Bekka Valley heroin and CIA drug dealing. (Coleman's book, Trail of the Octopus, can be read online with free registration here.)"
Markovian Parallax Denigrate
Lockerbie Trial Document: Susan Lindauer Deposition
http://www.meib.org/articles/0007_me2.htm
Lockerbie: the politics and dirty tricks
http://www.copi.com/articles/target.html
The top government prosecutor and trials that appear to be rigged.
Reportedly the CIA is still flying heroin to Europe and America
Forensic mix-up casts fresh Lockerbie doubt.
Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked
LOCKERBIE BOMB - LONDON BOMBS
Lockerbie Bomb and Ecuador and New Zealand
Lockerbie bomb verdict thrown into doubt
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Sunday, February 19, 2006
99 per cent of UK Moslems thought the London tube bombers were wrong.
A very large number of white Britons probably want hanging and flogging for certain types of criminal. There is a worry about increasingly violent streets.
A large number of white Britons no longer trust the criminal justice system.
A poll of UK Moslems has been carried out.
The poll carried out for the Sunday Telegraph, 19/02/2006, suggests 60% of UK Moslems do not want Sharia law in any part of the UK. But around 40% seem to think that Sharia law is the way to reduce violence and drug taking on our streets.
The ICM opinion poll showed that 99 per cent of UK Moslems thought the London tube bombers were wrong to carry out the atrocity.
50pc said interracial relations were worsening.
91 per cent still say they feel loyal to Britain.
Nearly two thirds thought the video images shown last week of British troops beating Iraqi youths were symptomatic of a wider problem in Iraq. Half did not think the soldiers would be "appropriately punished".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/19/nsharia19.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/02/19/ixportaltop.html
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What do we think?
Fortunately, 99% of Moslems thought the tube bombings were wrong!
Unfortunately the ICM poll did not ask Moslems if they thought the security services were behind 9 11 and the tube bombings.
Sadly, 40% of Moslems appear to like Sharia law. Perhaps these people could be encouraged to go and live in Saudi Arabia.
We can imagine some Moslem women and even some 'white Christian' women wanting Sharia law as a way of ridding the streets of violent youths and drug pushers.
But, experience of Sharia law in certain Moslem countries suggests that it is the petty criminals who end up being taken to court. The criminals in the government and the military are usually untouchables.
Women may feel safer in strict Islamic countries. But, have countries such as Pakistan been able to rid themselves of drugs and violence. No.
Singapore has managed, more or less, to keep its streets safe. But is this because Singapore executes all drugs offenders or is this because Singapore has tried to keep some sleaze and violence out of the media?
The real answer to crime is to clean up the media. No more Rupert Murdoch. No more nightly bombardment on TV with sleaze and violence.
And severe punishments for drugs offences? We would favour harsh punishments for any CIA operatives who are smuggling heroin into Europe.
Sadly it has been the Tony Blair policy to allow into the UK, in order to boost the economy, lots and lots of immigrants, even if they are poorly educated. We need immigrants, but not the ones who carry guns and sell drugs.
~~
A large number of white Britons no longer trust the criminal justice system.
A poll of UK Moslems has been carried out.
The poll carried out for the Sunday Telegraph, 19/02/2006, suggests 60% of UK Moslems do not want Sharia law in any part of the UK. But around 40% seem to think that Sharia law is the way to reduce violence and drug taking on our streets.
The ICM opinion poll showed that 99 per cent of UK Moslems thought the London tube bombers were wrong to carry out the atrocity.
50pc said interracial relations were worsening.
91 per cent still say they feel loyal to Britain.
Nearly two thirds thought the video images shown last week of British troops beating Iraqi youths were symptomatic of a wider problem in Iraq. Half did not think the soldiers would be "appropriately punished".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/19/nsharia19.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/02/19/ixportaltop.html
~~
What do we think?
Fortunately, 99% of Moslems thought the tube bombings were wrong!
Unfortunately the ICM poll did not ask Moslems if they thought the security services were behind 9 11 and the tube bombings.
Sadly, 40% of Moslems appear to like Sharia law. Perhaps these people could be encouraged to go and live in Saudi Arabia.
We can imagine some Moslem women and even some 'white Christian' women wanting Sharia law as a way of ridding the streets of violent youths and drug pushers.
But, experience of Sharia law in certain Moslem countries suggests that it is the petty criminals who end up being taken to court. The criminals in the government and the military are usually untouchables.
Women may feel safer in strict Islamic countries. But, have countries such as Pakistan been able to rid themselves of drugs and violence. No.
Singapore has managed, more or less, to keep its streets safe. But is this because Singapore executes all drugs offenders or is this because Singapore has tried to keep some sleaze and violence out of the media?
The real answer to crime is to clean up the media. No more Rupert Murdoch. No more nightly bombardment on TV with sleaze and violence.
And severe punishments for drugs offences? We would favour harsh punishments for any CIA operatives who are smuggling heroin into Europe.
Sadly it has been the Tony Blair policy to allow into the UK, in order to boost the economy, lots and lots of immigrants, even if they are poorly educated. We need immigrants, but not the ones who carry guns and sell drugs.
~~
McKie case linked to Lockerbie; Scottish justice controlled by the CIA? Reputation of Scottish justice in ruins?
TWO American fingerprint experts were warned by the FBI to back off from the Shirley McKie case for fear it would scupper the trial of the Lockerbie bombers.
Lockerbie may have been about drug smuggling by the CIA. The evidence at the Lockerbie trial may have been faked. There is a suspicion that top people within the Scottish police, legal profession and government were persuaded by the CIA and FBI to take part in a cover-up of CIA crimes.
In Scotland, at about the same time as the Lockerbie trial, there was a case, involving finger-print evidence, called the McKie case.
What links the two cases. Was evidence faked in both the McKie fingerprint case and the Lockerbie bomb case?
~
The following is extracted from a news story in Scotland on Sunday, 19 February, 2006: Cover-up, conspiracy and the Lockerbie bomb connection
Cover-up, conspiracy and the Lockerbie bomb connection
By EDDIE BARNES, POLITICAL EDITOR
Scotland on Sunday has been passed documents (about the McKie case) obtained under Freedom of Information legislation.
(Scotland on Sunday has seen) an e-mail written by a senior official in the Scottish Executive Justice Department, Sheena Maclaren, to another senior Justice Department official, John Rafferty...
On September 20, 2001, Maclaren wrote: "James Mackay, then DCC Tayside police, was appointed to lead the investigation of the issues relating to fingerprint evidence. On 3 August 2000, we were informed that investigations so far suggested that the evidence given in court by... SCRO (Scottish Criminal Record Office) fingerprint personnel was 'so significantly distorted that without further explanation, the SCRO identification likely amounts to collective manipulation and collective collusion'."
Mackay's explosive report into the McKie case that August came three months after Colin Boyd began the prosecution of Libyan suspects Abdelbaset Al Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah. The eyes of the world were focused on Scottish justice. What would it have said of that system if - just as the Crown was trying to convict the bombers - it emerged that fingerprint officials had been involved in "criminality and cover-up"?
Boyd strenuously denies that Lockerbie has any relevance to his judgments regarding the McKie case. When Iain McKie first raised the issue in 2000, Crown Office officials declared that Lockerbie "had not affected in any way the response from this or indeed any other department of the Scottish Executive to the issues raised by you."
But there is clear proof that senior justice chiefs had a stake in both cases; SCRO director Harry Bell, for example - whose agency was coming under such scrutiny - was a central figure in the Lockerbie investigation, having been given the key role in the crucial Maltese wing of the investigation, and given evidence in court.
Today's revelation that two American fingerprint experts who savaged the SCRO over the McKie case were asked by the FBI to "back off" suggests that plenty of people were aware of the danger that the case could undermine the Lockerbie trial.
Former MP Tam Dalyell - who has long campaigned on the Lockerbie case - said: "I have always felt that there was something deeply wrong with both the McKie case and the Lockerbie judgment. It is deeply dismaying for those of us who were believers in Scottish justice. The Crown Office regard the Lockerbie case as their flagship case and they will go to any lengths to defend their position."
The pressure for a full public inquiry is now growing day by day.
It is understood that, this week, the Scottish Parliament's Justice 1 Committee will consider launching a full parliamentary inquiry. One thing is sure: this murky affair looks set to rock the foundations of Scotland's criminal justice system.
• SCOTLAND on Sunday revealed last week that justice officials were warned six years ago by police of "cover-up and criminality" in the Shirley McKie fingerprint case. Our story was picked up across Scotland, leading to calls for a judicial inquiry from MSPs.
Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson is now under growing pressure to act over the scandal but - nearly two weeks on - has so far refused to talk once about why ministers decided to offer £750,000 to Shirley McKie, just as she was about to take her case to court.
Lord Advocate Colin Boyd is also in the firing line, over his decision not to press charges against fingerprint experts, despite the allegations of criminality. Jim Wallace, Justice Minister when the McKie scandal broke, is also under fire. He was aware of the allegations but failed to act. First Minister Jack McConnell is under pressure to call a public inquiry.
• TWO American fingerprint experts were warned by the FBI to back off from the Shirley McKie case for fear it would scupper the trial of the Lockerbie bombers.
David Grieve, the senior fingerprint expert at Illinois State police, said that FBI agents pleaded with him to stay silent, fearing the case "would taint the people involved in Lockerbie".
Campaigners for the McKie family last night claimed that the plea to "let everything drop" shed new light on why the former policewoman was denied justice. They believe that the Crown was determined to protect the reputation of the Scottish justice system at a time when it was coming under international scrutiny.
The astonishing claims come as Scotland on Sunday reveals that:
• former justice minister Jim Wallace was aware six years ago that fingerprint experts at the Scottish Criminal Records Office (SCRO) were accused of "collective manipulation and collective collusion", yet they were allowed to return to work two years later;
• MSPs are preparing to launch their own parliamentary inquiry into the scandal to get to the truth of the allegations.
Wertheim and Grieve, both internationally respected fingerprint experts, were central in clearing McKie in 1999 when she was accused of having left her fingerprint at a crime scene. The case left the Scottish justice system open to claims its fingerprint evidence was unsafe. FBI officers took both aside before the Lockerbie trial in the Hague began in February 2000.
Grieve, the senior fingerprint expert at Illinois State Police, said: "I was asked not to mention anything about the case and not to publicise it because we had to think about the higher goal, which was Lockerbie."
He also claims that the FBI had been visited weeks earlier by an official from the SCRO.
"I was pulled aside and given a lecture on the importance of not embarrassing a 'sister agency' which had 'very important and high profile' cases pending of an international significance. I knew the reference was to the Pan-Am bombing," he said.
Wertheim, a fingerprint expert of 20 years' experience, added: "I was at the FBI for a meeting and one of their people approached me and made the suggestion that I let everything drop."
Iain McKie, Shirley McKie's father, said yesterday that he believed Lockerbie provided a motive for the 'cover up' over his daughter's case.
He said: "I have always suspected the Lockerbie connection, but when I put it to the Lord Advocate, I got nothing from them. I could never understand why they treated my daughter like that. Lockerbie would give them that motivation."
Former MSP Mike Russell, who has campaigned for the McKie family, said: "This new information suggests the context for the Shirley McKie miscarriage of justice. It suggests that this context is much bigger than previously thought.
"It places the Lord Advocate (Colin Boyd) in a completely untenable position and he too must now be considering his future. If he was influenced by this [Lockerbie] then he cannot continue as Lord Advocate."
SNP MSP Alex Neil, another campaigner for the McKies, said: "A lot of people think that there was pressure put on the FBI by the Scottish law authorities which maybe explains some of the bizarre decisions taken by the Lord Advocate."
The link between Lockerbie and the McKie case goes deeper as several police chiefs and prosecutors were involved in both. The director of the SCRO at the time of the allegations of criminality, Harry Bell, was one of the key police officers whose evidence led to the conviction of Abdel-baset Al Megrahi.
Lord Advocate Colin Boyd led the Lockerbie trial, securing a conviction in January 2001. In September of that year, despite the evidence presented by the Mackay report, he decided not to prosecute the SCRO officers over the McKie case.
The SCRO admitted yesterday that its officials had visited the FBI in 1999 and 2000, but insisted the trips had nothing to do with the McKie case.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Crown Office strongly denied that the decision not to prosecute the SCRO officers had been taken with Lockerbie in mind. She said: "SCRO was not involved in any way with fingerprinting in the Lockerbie case, the evidence of which was never disputed at all."
Boyd declared on Friday that he had decided not to prosecute the four SCRO officials because of "conflicting" evidence from fingerprint experts. He added that a prosecution would have to prove criminal intent.
Also from Scotland on Sunday: Cover-up, conspiracy and the Lockerbie bomb connection
Scottish fingerprinting has become a laughing stock around the world...
Independent experts have also been highly critical about SCRO's crime-scene investigation work, described by Bayle as the worst he's ever seen. The organisation must be forced to acknowledge its many flaws.
There is also a pressing need to break the strong link between the SCRO and the police service, especially Strathclyde Police. The current director, John McLean, was an Assistant Chief Constable with the force. His predecessor, Harry Bell, was a Det Chief Superintendent there.
Agencies involved in detecting and solving crime, the police, forensic examiners, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, tend to form bonds and pull together. But that has to be resisted as it undermines the necessary independence of each of those bodies.
Scientists and analysts who examine crime scenes for fingerprints, traces of DNA and any other clues should simply be concerned with finding the best evidence and passing it on. They should not become part of the drive to secure the conviction of an accused person. It has been suggested to Scotland on Sunday that SCRO experts have in the past been given targets to meet in making positive identifications. That should never happen. A print either matches a crime scene mark or it does not.
International experts have proved the mark in Marion Ross's home was not left by McKie; five colleagues of the four who insisted it was refused to support their identification; an independent inquiry by senior police officers found evidence of criminality on the part of the SCRO. Yet the organisation, with no dissent from the Executive or the Crown Office, continues to stand by its discredited experts. It does not bode well for Scottish justice.
~~
The following is from The Sunday Herald
http://www.sundayherald.com/54191
UK fingerprint expert: evidence more likely to be fabricated than incompetent
By Liam McDougall, Home Affairs Editor
THE pressure on Jack McConnell to order a judicial inquiry into the Shirley McKie case became unbearable last night after a slew of fresh forensic evidence was unearthed by the Sunday Herald.
Investigations by this newspaper have uncovered damning material alleging “collective manipulation of evidence” and “fabrication” on the part of fingerprint officers at the Scottish Criminal Record Office (SCRO) in Glasgow.
The allegations follow revelations last week that a police inquiry led by James Mackay, then deputy chief constable of Tayside Police, found evidence in 2000 of “criminality and cover up” among SCRO experts.
In a confidential precognition of Mackay he revealed his “surprise” that there was no prosecution against “four experts (and perhaps others) at SCRO in light of the sufficiency of evidence of criminality involved”.
However, for the first time, new material shows that the allegations of criminality against experts go beyond the erroneous McKie print – found at the murder scene of Kilmarnock woman Marion Ross in 1997. It now makes the position held by SCRO experts – that they made no mistakes in the Ross investigation – utterly untenable.
Previously unseen reports, compiled by British and US fingerprint experts for the lawyer Cameron Fyfe, allege that a second SCRO fingerprint identification in the case, which led to the conviction of David Asbury for Ross’s murder, was “pure fabrication”.
~~~
Lockerbie may have been about drug smuggling by the CIA. The evidence at the Lockerbie trial may have been faked. There is a suspicion that top people within the Scottish police, legal profession and government were persuaded by the CIA and FBI to take part in a cover-up of CIA crimes.
In Scotland, at about the same time as the Lockerbie trial, there was a case, involving finger-print evidence, called the McKie case.
What links the two cases. Was evidence faked in both the McKie fingerprint case and the Lockerbie bomb case?
~
The following is extracted from a news story in Scotland on Sunday, 19 February, 2006: Cover-up, conspiracy and the Lockerbie bomb connection
Cover-up, conspiracy and the Lockerbie bomb connection
By EDDIE BARNES, POLITICAL EDITOR
Scotland on Sunday has been passed documents (about the McKie case) obtained under Freedom of Information legislation.
(Scotland on Sunday has seen) an e-mail written by a senior official in the Scottish Executive Justice Department, Sheena Maclaren, to another senior Justice Department official, John Rafferty...
On September 20, 2001, Maclaren wrote: "James Mackay, then DCC Tayside police, was appointed to lead the investigation of the issues relating to fingerprint evidence. On 3 August 2000, we were informed that investigations so far suggested that the evidence given in court by... SCRO (Scottish Criminal Record Office) fingerprint personnel was 'so significantly distorted that without further explanation, the SCRO identification likely amounts to collective manipulation and collective collusion'."
Mackay's explosive report into the McKie case that August came three months after Colin Boyd began the prosecution of Libyan suspects Abdelbaset Al Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah. The eyes of the world were focused on Scottish justice. What would it have said of that system if - just as the Crown was trying to convict the bombers - it emerged that fingerprint officials had been involved in "criminality and cover-up"?
Boyd strenuously denies that Lockerbie has any relevance to his judgments regarding the McKie case. When Iain McKie first raised the issue in 2000, Crown Office officials declared that Lockerbie "had not affected in any way the response from this or indeed any other department of the Scottish Executive to the issues raised by you."
But there is clear proof that senior justice chiefs had a stake in both cases; SCRO director Harry Bell, for example - whose agency was coming under such scrutiny - was a central figure in the Lockerbie investigation, having been given the key role in the crucial Maltese wing of the investigation, and given evidence in court.
Today's revelation that two American fingerprint experts who savaged the SCRO over the McKie case were asked by the FBI to "back off" suggests that plenty of people were aware of the danger that the case could undermine the Lockerbie trial.
Former MP Tam Dalyell - who has long campaigned on the Lockerbie case - said: "I have always felt that there was something deeply wrong with both the McKie case and the Lockerbie judgment. It is deeply dismaying for those of us who were believers in Scottish justice. The Crown Office regard the Lockerbie case as their flagship case and they will go to any lengths to defend their position."
The pressure for a full public inquiry is now growing day by day.
It is understood that, this week, the Scottish Parliament's Justice 1 Committee will consider launching a full parliamentary inquiry. One thing is sure: this murky affair looks set to rock the foundations of Scotland's criminal justice system.
• SCOTLAND on Sunday revealed last week that justice officials were warned six years ago by police of "cover-up and criminality" in the Shirley McKie fingerprint case. Our story was picked up across Scotland, leading to calls for a judicial inquiry from MSPs.
Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson is now under growing pressure to act over the scandal but - nearly two weeks on - has so far refused to talk once about why ministers decided to offer £750,000 to Shirley McKie, just as she was about to take her case to court.
Lord Advocate Colin Boyd is also in the firing line, over his decision not to press charges against fingerprint experts, despite the allegations of criminality. Jim Wallace, Justice Minister when the McKie scandal broke, is also under fire. He was aware of the allegations but failed to act. First Minister Jack McConnell is under pressure to call a public inquiry.
• TWO American fingerprint experts were warned by the FBI to back off from the Shirley McKie case for fear it would scupper the trial of the Lockerbie bombers.
David Grieve, the senior fingerprint expert at Illinois State police, said that FBI agents pleaded with him to stay silent, fearing the case "would taint the people involved in Lockerbie".
Campaigners for the McKie family last night claimed that the plea to "let everything drop" shed new light on why the former policewoman was denied justice. They believe that the Crown was determined to protect the reputation of the Scottish justice system at a time when it was coming under international scrutiny.
The astonishing claims come as Scotland on Sunday reveals that:
• former justice minister Jim Wallace was aware six years ago that fingerprint experts at the Scottish Criminal Records Office (SCRO) were accused of "collective manipulation and collective collusion", yet they were allowed to return to work two years later;
• MSPs are preparing to launch their own parliamentary inquiry into the scandal to get to the truth of the allegations.
Wertheim and Grieve, both internationally respected fingerprint experts, were central in clearing McKie in 1999 when she was accused of having left her fingerprint at a crime scene. The case left the Scottish justice system open to claims its fingerprint evidence was unsafe. FBI officers took both aside before the Lockerbie trial in the Hague began in February 2000.
Grieve, the senior fingerprint expert at Illinois State Police, said: "I was asked not to mention anything about the case and not to publicise it because we had to think about the higher goal, which was Lockerbie."
He also claims that the FBI had been visited weeks earlier by an official from the SCRO.
"I was pulled aside and given a lecture on the importance of not embarrassing a 'sister agency' which had 'very important and high profile' cases pending of an international significance. I knew the reference was to the Pan-Am bombing," he said.
Wertheim, a fingerprint expert of 20 years' experience, added: "I was at the FBI for a meeting and one of their people approached me and made the suggestion that I let everything drop."
Iain McKie, Shirley McKie's father, said yesterday that he believed Lockerbie provided a motive for the 'cover up' over his daughter's case.
He said: "I have always suspected the Lockerbie connection, but when I put it to the Lord Advocate, I got nothing from them. I could never understand why they treated my daughter like that. Lockerbie would give them that motivation."
Former MSP Mike Russell, who has campaigned for the McKie family, said: "This new information suggests the context for the Shirley McKie miscarriage of justice. It suggests that this context is much bigger than previously thought.
"It places the Lord Advocate (Colin Boyd) in a completely untenable position and he too must now be considering his future. If he was influenced by this [Lockerbie] then he cannot continue as Lord Advocate."
SNP MSP Alex Neil, another campaigner for the McKies, said: "A lot of people think that there was pressure put on the FBI by the Scottish law authorities which maybe explains some of the bizarre decisions taken by the Lord Advocate."
The link between Lockerbie and the McKie case goes deeper as several police chiefs and prosecutors were involved in both. The director of the SCRO at the time of the allegations of criminality, Harry Bell, was one of the key police officers whose evidence led to the conviction of Abdel-baset Al Megrahi.
Lord Advocate Colin Boyd led the Lockerbie trial, securing a conviction in January 2001. In September of that year, despite the evidence presented by the Mackay report, he decided not to prosecute the SCRO officers over the McKie case.
The SCRO admitted yesterday that its officials had visited the FBI in 1999 and 2000, but insisted the trips had nothing to do with the McKie case.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Crown Office strongly denied that the decision not to prosecute the SCRO officers had been taken with Lockerbie in mind. She said: "SCRO was not involved in any way with fingerprinting in the Lockerbie case, the evidence of which was never disputed at all."
Boyd declared on Friday that he had decided not to prosecute the four SCRO officials because of "conflicting" evidence from fingerprint experts. He added that a prosecution would have to prove criminal intent.
Also from Scotland on Sunday: Cover-up, conspiracy and the Lockerbie bomb connection
Scottish fingerprinting has become a laughing stock around the world...
Independent experts have also been highly critical about SCRO's crime-scene investigation work, described by Bayle as the worst he's ever seen. The organisation must be forced to acknowledge its many flaws.
There is also a pressing need to break the strong link between the SCRO and the police service, especially Strathclyde Police. The current director, John McLean, was an Assistant Chief Constable with the force. His predecessor, Harry Bell, was a Det Chief Superintendent there.
Agencies involved in detecting and solving crime, the police, forensic examiners, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, tend to form bonds and pull together. But that has to be resisted as it undermines the necessary independence of each of those bodies.
Scientists and analysts who examine crime scenes for fingerprints, traces of DNA and any other clues should simply be concerned with finding the best evidence and passing it on. They should not become part of the drive to secure the conviction of an accused person. It has been suggested to Scotland on Sunday that SCRO experts have in the past been given targets to meet in making positive identifications. That should never happen. A print either matches a crime scene mark or it does not.
International experts have proved the mark in Marion Ross's home was not left by McKie; five colleagues of the four who insisted it was refused to support their identification; an independent inquiry by senior police officers found evidence of criminality on the part of the SCRO. Yet the organisation, with no dissent from the Executive or the Crown Office, continues to stand by its discredited experts. It does not bode well for Scottish justice.
~~
The following is from The Sunday Herald
http://www.sundayherald.com/54191
UK fingerprint expert: evidence more likely to be fabricated than incompetent
By Liam McDougall, Home Affairs Editor
THE pressure on Jack McConnell to order a judicial inquiry into the Shirley McKie case became unbearable last night after a slew of fresh forensic evidence was unearthed by the Sunday Herald.
Investigations by this newspaper have uncovered damning material alleging “collective manipulation of evidence” and “fabrication” on the part of fingerprint officers at the Scottish Criminal Record Office (SCRO) in Glasgow.
The allegations follow revelations last week that a police inquiry led by James Mackay, then deputy chief constable of Tayside Police, found evidence in 2000 of “criminality and cover up” among SCRO experts.
In a confidential precognition of Mackay he revealed his “surprise” that there was no prosecution against “four experts (and perhaps others) at SCRO in light of the sufficiency of evidence of criminality involved”.
However, for the first time, new material shows that the allegations of criminality against experts go beyond the erroneous McKie print – found at the murder scene of Kilmarnock woman Marion Ross in 1997. It now makes the position held by SCRO experts – that they made no mistakes in the Ross investigation – utterly untenable.
Previously unseen reports, compiled by British and US fingerprint experts for the lawyer Cameron Fyfe, allege that a second SCRO fingerprint identification in the case, which led to the conviction of David Asbury for Ross’s murder, was “pure fabrication”.
~~~
Saturday, February 18, 2006
The top government prosecutor and trials that appear to be rigged.
Colin Boyd is the top government prosecutor in Scotland.
The following was published on 8 April 8, 2001 in The Sunday Herald ( http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0408-01.htm ) :
UN Claims Lockerbie Trial Was Rigged
Court was politically influenced by US
by Neil Mackay
THE United Nations has savaged the Crown Office's handling of the Lockerbie trial claiming the outcome was rigged through the unfair suppression of evidence; it was politically influenced by the USA; and the court had no grounds to return a guilty verdict.
Dr Hans Kochler, who was handpicked by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to act as the international observer during the trial in Holland, hinted that the trial was rigged, claimed the guilty verdict handed down in February to Abdelbasset Ali Mohamed Al Megrahi was "arbitrary" and "irrational" and gave his tacit support for an acquittal at the planned appeal. Megrahi's co-accused, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, was found not guilty.
Kochler's report, which calls for the case to be re- investigated and is heavily critical of the conduct of the three trial judges - Lord Sutherland, Lord Coulsfield and Lord MacLean - has sparked a bitter war of words between the Scottish Executive, the Crown Office and the United Nations. A spokesman for Colin Boyd, the Lord Advocate, said the UN and its international observer had "completely misunderstood" the trial and were ignorant of Scots law.
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The following is from The Scotsman, 18 February 2006:
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=253522006
Father tells of disgust as Boyd breaks silence over McKie case
MICHAEL HOWIE
SCOTLAND'S most senior prosecutor broke his silence over the Shirley McKie fingerprint case yesterday to defend his decision not to bring charges against anyone over the alleged "cover-up".
Colin Boyd, QC, the Lord Advocate, took the unprecedented step of writing to George Reid, the Scottish Parliament's Presiding Officer, amid growing demands for a full public inquiry.
Ms McKie, 43, a former Strathclyde Police detective, was wrongly accused of leaving her fingerprint at a murder scene and has fought a nine-year battle to clear her name. She claims the failure to prosecute anyone at the Scottish Criminal Records Office (SCRO) over the incident is as a result of a conspiracy by the legal establishment.
But the Lord Advocate said he chose not to proceed with a criminal case because of "conflicting" evidence from fingerprint experts. He also defended the original decision to prosecute Ms McKie for perjury, saying there was "sufficient evidence in law" for a trial.
Last night, Shirley's father, Iain McKie, said he was "disgusted" at Mr Boyd's letter and insisted he had "irrefutable" evidence to support a criminal prosecution. The Lord Advocate was also accused of "trying to defend the indefensible" by one MSP.
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Forensic mix-up casts fresh Lockerbie doubt.
Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked
LOCKERBIE BOMB - LONDON BOMBS
Lockerbie Bomb and Ecuador and New Zealand
Lockerbie bomb verdict thrown into doubt
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The following was published on 8 April 8, 2001 in The Sunday Herald ( http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0408-01.htm ) :
UN Claims Lockerbie Trial Was Rigged
Court was politically influenced by US
by Neil Mackay
THE United Nations has savaged the Crown Office's handling of the Lockerbie trial claiming the outcome was rigged through the unfair suppression of evidence; it was politically influenced by the USA; and the court had no grounds to return a guilty verdict.
Dr Hans Kochler, who was handpicked by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to act as the international observer during the trial in Holland, hinted that the trial was rigged, claimed the guilty verdict handed down in February to Abdelbasset Ali Mohamed Al Megrahi was "arbitrary" and "irrational" and gave his tacit support for an acquittal at the planned appeal. Megrahi's co-accused, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, was found not guilty.
Kochler's report, which calls for the case to be re- investigated and is heavily critical of the conduct of the three trial judges - Lord Sutherland, Lord Coulsfield and Lord MacLean - has sparked a bitter war of words between the Scottish Executive, the Crown Office and the United Nations. A spokesman for Colin Boyd, the Lord Advocate, said the UN and its international observer had "completely misunderstood" the trial and were ignorant of Scots law.
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The following is from The Scotsman, 18 February 2006:
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=253522006
Father tells of disgust as Boyd breaks silence over McKie case
MICHAEL HOWIE
SCOTLAND'S most senior prosecutor broke his silence over the Shirley McKie fingerprint case yesterday to defend his decision not to bring charges against anyone over the alleged "cover-up".
Colin Boyd, QC, the Lord Advocate, took the unprecedented step of writing to George Reid, the Scottish Parliament's Presiding Officer, amid growing demands for a full public inquiry.
Ms McKie, 43, a former Strathclyde Police detective, was wrongly accused of leaving her fingerprint at a murder scene and has fought a nine-year battle to clear her name. She claims the failure to prosecute anyone at the Scottish Criminal Records Office (SCRO) over the incident is as a result of a conspiracy by the legal establishment.
But the Lord Advocate said he chose not to proceed with a criminal case because of "conflicting" evidence from fingerprint experts. He also defended the original decision to prosecute Ms McKie for perjury, saying there was "sufficient evidence in law" for a trial.
Last night, Shirley's father, Iain McKie, said he was "disgusted" at Mr Boyd's letter and insisted he had "irrefutable" evidence to support a criminal prosecution. The Lord Advocate was also accused of "trying to defend the indefensible" by one MSP.
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Forensic mix-up casts fresh Lockerbie doubt.
Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked
LOCKERBIE BOMB - LONDON BOMBS
Lockerbie Bomb and Ecuador and New Zealand
Lockerbie bomb verdict thrown into doubt
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Friday, February 17, 2006
Reportedly the CIA is still flying heroin to Europe and America
"The CIA drug smuggling activities in Afghanistan are centered on Christian fundamentalist groups."
Remember the Lockerbie Bomb?
An internal investigation by Pan Am is believed to have found that the bomb planted on Flight 103 was targeted specifically to kill a small band of DIA operatives that had uncovered a drugs ring run by a CIA unit in Lebanon.
The drugs-ring is said to have been set up by Israeli Mossad agents.
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Wayne Madsen http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ reported the following on 10-13 February 2006:
Informed intelligence sources report that the CIA's rendition and other "support" aircraft are ferrying around more than "Al Qaeda" suspects and flying spies in and out of remote countries.
CIA aircraft operating under the cover of post office box firms and a humanitarian assistance operation are reportedly engaged in flying heroin out of Afghanistan as part of a 1980s-style covert operation to sell drugs for off-the-books operating capital.
The narcotics smuggling operation also maintains a presence in Geneva, Switzerland where cash can be easily laundered. A reputed relative of CIA Director Porter Goss (last name is Goss), who is based near Geneva, is reportedly involved in the drug smuggling operation. Sources confirm that Goss has re-engaged a number of CIA assets from the Iran-Contra scandal to participate in the operation.
CIA contract flights are being used to transport high-grade Afghan heroin from the nation to black markets in Europe (particularly Turkey and Albania) and North America...
Goss has reportedly re-engaged Iran-contra operatives who were involved in drug smuggling activities to illegally support the contras and other off-the-books CIA activities in the 1980s.
In particular, the CIA drug smuggling activities in Afghanistan are centered on Christian fundamentalist groups, including "aviation ministries," that operated various CIA money laundering fronts in Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala during the contra wars.
Some of the CIA contractor "Christian" aviation missionary fronts active in the Afghan drug smuggling operations, including one based in Dallas, have been linked in the past to Pat Robertson's 700 Club's Operation Blessing.
Forensic mix-up casts fresh Lockerbie doubt.
Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked
LOCKERBIE BOMB - LONDON BOMBS
Lockerbie Bomb and Ecuador and New Zealand
Lockerbie bomb verdict thrown into doubt
~~
Remember the Lockerbie Bomb?
An internal investigation by Pan Am is believed to have found that the bomb planted on Flight 103 was targeted specifically to kill a small band of DIA operatives that had uncovered a drugs ring run by a CIA unit in Lebanon.
The drugs-ring is said to have been set up by Israeli Mossad agents.
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Wayne Madsen http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ reported the following on 10-13 February 2006:
Informed intelligence sources report that the CIA's rendition and other "support" aircraft are ferrying around more than "Al Qaeda" suspects and flying spies in and out of remote countries.
CIA aircraft operating under the cover of post office box firms and a humanitarian assistance operation are reportedly engaged in flying heroin out of Afghanistan as part of a 1980s-style covert operation to sell drugs for off-the-books operating capital.
The narcotics smuggling operation also maintains a presence in Geneva, Switzerland where cash can be easily laundered. A reputed relative of CIA Director Porter Goss (last name is Goss), who is based near Geneva, is reportedly involved in the drug smuggling operation. Sources confirm that Goss has re-engaged a number of CIA assets from the Iran-Contra scandal to participate in the operation.
CIA contract flights are being used to transport high-grade Afghan heroin from the nation to black markets in Europe (particularly Turkey and Albania) and North America...
Goss has reportedly re-engaged Iran-contra operatives who were involved in drug smuggling activities to illegally support the contras and other off-the-books CIA activities in the 1980s.
In particular, the CIA drug smuggling activities in Afghanistan are centered on Christian fundamentalist groups, including "aviation ministries," that operated various CIA money laundering fronts in Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala during the contra wars.
Some of the CIA contractor "Christian" aviation missionary fronts active in the Afghan drug smuggling operations, including one based in Dallas, have been linked in the past to Pat Robertson's 700 Club's Operation Blessing.
Forensic mix-up casts fresh Lockerbie doubt.
Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked
LOCKERBIE BOMB - LONDON BOMBS
Lockerbie Bomb and Ecuador and New Zealand
Lockerbie bomb verdict thrown into doubt
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Monday, February 13, 2006
Marc Dutroux
Photo Livre: La saga Dutroux
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Marc Dutroux is a Belgian.
Allegedly, Belgium is an important centre of the Israeli mafia's sex trafficking operations.
Reportedly, Dutroux was part of a mafia-style operation which kidnapped and killed children and which organised orgies for top people including politicians and police.
In 1989, Dutroux was sentenced to 13 years in jail for kidnapping and raping young girls. He was out within 3 years.
Police re-arrested him in 1996 for kidnapping, child pornography, murder, and child prostitution.
In 1998, while being transferred to a court house without handcuffs, Dutroux managed to escape. He was caught some hours later.
He did not go on trial until 2004.
It is asserted by http://judicial-inc.biz/marc_dutroux.htm that Marc Dutroux had links to the Jewish mafia.
Reportedly, Dutroux's accomplices were:
Benjamin Weinstein - the money man 'who traveled to Tel Aviv and Moscow'.
Michelle Martin - Dutroux's wife who allegedly traveled through Europe abducting children.
Michel Nihoul - a nightclub owner who allegedly handled police and politicians.
Michel Lelievre - allegedly, his speciality was drugging and psychologically preparing children.
In September of 1996, twenty-three suspects, at least nine of whom were police officers, were detained and questioned about their possible complicity in the crimes and/or their negligence in investigating the case.
Belgian state investigators were brought in, and they raided homes of 23 magistrates, politicians and police.
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Michel Nihoul was the one who allegedly organised orgies in a Belgian chateau.
These orgies were allegedly attended by a former European commissioner, judges, senior politicians, lawyers and policemen.
A book was written called 'The X-files: What Belgium Was Not Supposed to Know About the Dutroux Affair.' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent_europe/1962244.stm
Regina Louf testified to the authorities about orgies at which she allegedly saw children tortured and murdered.
The allegation in the X-files is that, at Black masses, attended by members of Belgium's elite, children were sacrificed.
At the village of Forchies-la-Marche, the police investigated an institute of Black Magic. They dug up human skulls.
The International Herald Tribune did a famous piece about all this. They quoted a judge called Guy Poncelet as saying the X-files book was convincing. Belgium Pedophilia Scandal /Did Authorities Cover Up Its Scope ...
Guy Poncelet's son, a police officer, was mysteriously shot dead.
This son had been investigating a case involving Dutroux.
Judge Connerotte was the judge who caught Dutroux.
The authorities removed Connerotte from the case.
De Baets was the official in charge of investigating the X-files. The authorities removed him from the case.
In 1991, Belgium's former deputy prime minister, Andre Cools, announced that he was about to make some revelations about the mafia and their links to some of the most important people in Liege.
Cools was shot dead before he could speak out.
After Dutroux's arrest in 1996, arrests were made in the Cool's case. One of those arrested was Alain Van der Biest, a Socialist Minister, alleged to have close links with the mafia gangs of Liege.
Belgian TV came up with an anonymous witness who claimed that leading Socialist politician, Guy Mathot, had ordered Cools to be killed.
In 1994 Mathot was charged with corruption over kickbacks paid to Belgium's Socialist parties.
Willy Claes was NATO Secretary General and a Belgian. He was caught up in the Mathot kickbacks affair and was forced to resign.
Melchior Wathelet was the judge who released Dutroux from prison in 1991. Wathelet was Belgium's judge at the European Court of Justice.
Wathelet was Belgium's Justice Minister at the time when Cools was shot dead. Cools' son called for Wathelet and other top judges to be removed from office.
In 1996 there were suggestions that the gangs involved in the Cools' killing had been involved with Dutroux.
1,300 children disappeared in the Brussels region between 1991 and 1996. According to government official Mr De Baets, what happened after several of these disappearances was that Marc Dutroux paid large sums of money into various bank accounts.
The BBC referred to other mysterious deaths: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent_europe/1962263.stm
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According to an article at Conspiracy planet:
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=120&contentid=1337&page=2
Cools had most imprudently announced to the Belgian press after his return from Switzerland, that he would soon release startling evidence about corruption in Belgium's growing arms industry and its ties to the Canadian billionaire Bronfman brothers, a number of major U.S. political figures and republican fat cats with influence reaching into the inner circles of the Bush White House.
Among the names that Cools promised to present evidence on were Dick Cheney, Neil Bush, Frank Carlucci, Donald Rumsfeld and members of the powerful Republican Barbour and Racicot clans who all own large shares in major arms manufacturers as well as Britain's Jonathan Aitken, Thatcher's secretary of state for defense who had large holdings in a string of British arms suppliers and was a leading figure in the Tory Party hierarchy.
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The following 'news' items are quoted at:
http://judicial-inc.biz/marc_dutroux_supplement.htm#Russian%20Jews%20Italy
Rome, Italy - Italian and Russian police, working together, broke up a ring of Jewish gangsters who had been involved in the manufacture of child rape and snuff pornography.
Three Russian Jews and eight Italian Jews were arrested after police discovered they had been kidnapping non-Jewish children between the ages of two and five years old from Russian orphanges, raping the children, and then murdering them on film.
Mostly non-Jewish customers, including 1700 nationwide, 600 in Italy, and and unknown number in the United States, paid as much as $20,000 per film to watch little children being raped and murdered.
Jewish officials in a major Italian news agency tried to cover the story up, but were circumvented by Italian news reporters, who broadcasts scenes from the films live at prime time on Italian television to more than 11 million Italian viewers. Jewish officials then fired the executives responsible, claiming they were spreading "blood libel."
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June 23, 2004
Sentence has been passed in the Belgian "trial of the century" of the pedophile child murderer Marc Dutroux and his accomplices.
Dutroux was sentenced to life in prison plus 10 years "internment at the government's pleasure" - a measure intended to block his being paroled. His mate and accomplice Michelle Martin got 30 years in prison, as requested by the prosecution. Another accomplice, Lelièvre, got 25 years, 5 less than requested by the prosecution.
Peculiarly, the enigmatic alleged ringleader Michel Nihoul was only sentenced to 5 years in prison, despite requests by the prosecution that no sentence less than 10 years be pronounced.
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Dutroux claimed that two police officers had helped Lelievre and himself to kidnap Marchal, and Lambreks who were later raped and murdered. The common knowledge that police officers and high ranking officals also attended Nihouls orgies at the chateau must give further fuel to the fire that the accused was not acting alone.
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“...The Israeli soldiers shoot with silencers. The bullets from the M-16 rifles tumble end over end through the children's slight bodies. Later, in the hospital, I will see the destruction: the stomachs ripped out, the gaping holes in limbs and torsos. Yesterday at this spot the Israelis shot eight young men, six of who were under the age of eighteen. One was twelve. This afternoon they killed an eleven-year-old boy, Ali Murad, and seriously wound four more, three of who are under eighteen.” - Christopher Hedges, American Journalist on assignment in Gaza
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There have been suggestions that the security services of one country or another may have made use of Dutroux's network in order to control certain top people through blackmail.
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How do you persuade members of a parliament to vote for actions that are illegal and that will do harm to their own country?
How do you persuade policemen and judges to put innocent people into jail and to let the guilty go free?
How do you persuade journalists to lie about terrorism?
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UK economy in trouble
Blair and Brown have tried to make the UK economy look good by
1. bringing in lots of immigrants
2. creating lots of jobs in local and national government
3. making it easy for people to borrow lots of money.
Now it is clear that the economy is in trouble.
Larry Elliott, economics editor of The Guardian, on 13 February 2006, described the present state of the UK economy.
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1708252,00.html
Some quotes:
Eight and a half years of Labour has seen the UK's industrial base shrink as a share of the economy to less than 16%.
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The UK's deficit on goods hit £65bn last year, more than 5% of GDP.
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Away from the capital (and, indeed, in pockets within it), the reality of modern Britain is lots of people doing fairly mundane jobs for low-ish wages in the service sector.
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The surprise is not that voters in seats such as Dunfermline and West Fife have turned on the government, but that it has taken them so long.
The parts of Britain devastated by the Conservatives in the 1980s and early 1990s have seen the gap with the rich south-east widen since 1997.
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In the years since the turn of the millennium, UK growth has been stronger than that in the eurozone for three reasons -
1. immigration boosted the working population,
2. consumers were willing to borrow against the rising value of their homes
3. and the government invested heavily in the public sector.
But at least two of those three sources of growth have now been switched off:
1. consumers have tightened their belts in the face of a flattening out of house-price inflation and a squeeze on real incomes,
2. and the government can no longer afford to continue spending at the rate it has been over the past five or six years.
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Britain's export performance, by virtue of its weak manufacturing base and an overvalued currency, has been far weaker than that of Germany, Japan and the United States.
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1. bringing in lots of immigrants
2. creating lots of jobs in local and national government
3. making it easy for people to borrow lots of money.
Now it is clear that the economy is in trouble.
Larry Elliott, economics editor of The Guardian, on 13 February 2006, described the present state of the UK economy.
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1708252,00.html
Some quotes:
Eight and a half years of Labour has seen the UK's industrial base shrink as a share of the economy to less than 16%.
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The UK's deficit on goods hit £65bn last year, more than 5% of GDP.
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Away from the capital (and, indeed, in pockets within it), the reality of modern Britain is lots of people doing fairly mundane jobs for low-ish wages in the service sector.
~
The surprise is not that voters in seats such as Dunfermline and West Fife have turned on the government, but that it has taken them so long.
The parts of Britain devastated by the Conservatives in the 1980s and early 1990s have seen the gap with the rich south-east widen since 1997.
~
In the years since the turn of the millennium, UK growth has been stronger than that in the eurozone for three reasons -
1. immigration boosted the working population,
2. consumers were willing to borrow against the rising value of their homes
3. and the government invested heavily in the public sector.
But at least two of those three sources of growth have now been switched off:
1. consumers have tightened their belts in the face of a flattening out of house-price inflation and a squeeze on real incomes,
2. and the government can no longer afford to continue spending at the rate it has been over the past five or six years.
~
Britain's export performance, by virtue of its weak manufacturing base and an overvalued currency, has been far weaker than that of Germany, Japan and the United States.
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Will the soldiers who beat 4 Iraqi children be punished?
The beating of Iraqi children by British troops is systemic.
“It reflects exactly the real situation in Iraq,” Muhanned Atta, a physician at al-Kadumiya hospital, in Baghdad, said. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2038156,00.html
Will the soldiers who beat up four Iraqi children be punished?
No officers or senior NCOs stepped in to halt the assaults or reported them later.
Retired Colonel Bob Stewart said: "Why has it taken so long for people to come forward to show that this abuse has occurred?" http://english.cctv.com/english/20060213/100879.shtml
1. The Daily Mirror once pointed out that there were abuses by UK soldiers in Iraq. Editor Piers Morgan was sacked.
2. A court martial of seven paratroopers accused of murdering an Iraqi teenager collapsed in November 2005 after the judge said basic policing errors had been made by military investigators.
3. Trooper Kevin Williams of the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment was found not guilty in April 2005 of murdering a lawyer near Basra in 2003. Charges were dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service following evidence submitted by senior army sources and comments from the trial judge, who remarked on the dangers that British troops faced in Iraq.
4. The BBC were mildly critical of the sexing-up of the dossier on WMD. The Director General and the Chairman were forced out.
5. Iraq is awash with cancer. The Depleted Uranium in Iraq is likely contaminated with plutonium and other radioactive waste. No politicians or generals responsible for the use of depleted uranium have been arrested.
The reputation of the British forces around the world is rotten.
"The name of the British forces around the world is one we must defend and protect. It must be safeguarded by taking the action necessary" - Chancellor Gordon Brown.
The rotten reputation must be defended?
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“It reflects exactly the real situation in Iraq,” Muhanned Atta, a physician at al-Kadumiya hospital, in Baghdad, said. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2038156,00.html
Will the soldiers who beat up four Iraqi children be punished?
No officers or senior NCOs stepped in to halt the assaults or reported them later.
Retired Colonel Bob Stewart said: "Why has it taken so long for people to come forward to show that this abuse has occurred?" http://english.cctv.com/english/20060213/100879.shtml
1. The Daily Mirror once pointed out that there were abuses by UK soldiers in Iraq. Editor Piers Morgan was sacked.
2. A court martial of seven paratroopers accused of murdering an Iraqi teenager collapsed in November 2005 after the judge said basic policing errors had been made by military investigators.
3. Trooper Kevin Williams of the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment was found not guilty in April 2005 of murdering a lawyer near Basra in 2003. Charges were dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service following evidence submitted by senior army sources and comments from the trial judge, who remarked on the dangers that British troops faced in Iraq.
4. The BBC were mildly critical of the sexing-up of the dossier on WMD. The Director General and the Chairman were forced out.
5. Iraq is awash with cancer. The Depleted Uranium in Iraq is likely contaminated with plutonium and other radioactive waste. No politicians or generals responsible for the use of depleted uranium have been arrested.
The reputation of the British forces around the world is rotten.
"The name of the British forces around the world is one we must defend and protect. It must be safeguarded by taking the action necessary" - Chancellor Gordon Brown.
The rotten reputation must be defended?
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Sunday, February 12, 2006
Morocco - the CIA's dustbin and the CIA's recruiting ground?
Some people see Andre Azoulay, counselor to King Mohammed VI of Morocco, as the most important person in Morocco.
Andre Azoulay is Jewish.
Morocco is one of those Moslem countries that appears to be run by the military and the secret police.
Morocco is one of those Moslem countries that appears to be friends with Israel and the Pentagon.
The King of Morocco and his generals are very, very rich.
The bulk of the population is very poor.
There are huge slums on the outskirts of cities such as Marrakech which the tourists never see.
In 2003, when a Moslem party began to win support among the poor, bombs went off. No Jews or Israelis were among the casualties. The bombs were blamed on the Islamists. There was a crackdown on opponents of the military. More than 3,000 people were arrested.
Morocco occupies a strategically important position and is useful to the Pentagon.
Some people suspect that the CIA recruits Moroccans for some of its work.
Tourists should be very careful in Morocco.
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The Sunday Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2036185_2,00.html reported 12 February 2006, that, according to intelligence sources, the USA is involved with the building of a new interrogation and detention facility at Ain Aouda, near Rabat.
Locals said they had often seen American vehicles with diplomatic plates in the area.
According to The Sunday Times:
The construction of the new compound, run by the Direction de la Securité du Territoire (DST), the Moroccan secret police, adds to a substantial body of evidence that Morocco is one of America’s principal partners in the secret “rendition” programme in which the CIA flies prisoners to third countries for interrogation.
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other groups critical of the policy have compiled dossiers detailing the detention and apparent torture of radical Islamists at the DST’s current headquarters, at Temara, near Rabat.
A recent inquiry into rendition by the Council of Europe, led by Dick Marty, the Swiss MP, highlighted a pattern of flights between Washington, Guantanamo Bay and Rabat’s military airport at Sale.
French intelligence and diplomatic sources said the most recent such flight was in the first week in December, when four suspects were seen being led blindfolded and handcuffed from a Boeing 737 at Sale and transferred into a fleet of American vehicles...
The secret police HQ at Temara has a fearsome reputation among former inmates. Binyam Mohammed, an Ethiopian-born Briton later sent to Guantanamo Bay, told Amnesty International that interrogators there cut his chest and penis when he refused to answer questions.
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Andre Azoulay is Jewish.
Morocco is one of those Moslem countries that appears to be run by the military and the secret police.
Morocco is one of those Moslem countries that appears to be friends with Israel and the Pentagon.
The King of Morocco and his generals are very, very rich.
The bulk of the population is very poor.
There are huge slums on the outskirts of cities such as Marrakech which the tourists never see.
In 2003, when a Moslem party began to win support among the poor, bombs went off. No Jews or Israelis were among the casualties. The bombs were blamed on the Islamists. There was a crackdown on opponents of the military. More than 3,000 people were arrested.
Morocco occupies a strategically important position and is useful to the Pentagon.
Some people suspect that the CIA recruits Moroccans for some of its work.
Tourists should be very careful in Morocco.
~~
The Sunday Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2036185_2,00.html reported 12 February 2006, that, according to intelligence sources, the USA is involved with the building of a new interrogation and detention facility at Ain Aouda, near Rabat.
Locals said they had often seen American vehicles with diplomatic plates in the area.
According to The Sunday Times:
The construction of the new compound, run by the Direction de la Securité du Territoire (DST), the Moroccan secret police, adds to a substantial body of evidence that Morocco is one of America’s principal partners in the secret “rendition” programme in which the CIA flies prisoners to third countries for interrogation.
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other groups critical of the policy have compiled dossiers detailing the detention and apparent torture of radical Islamists at the DST’s current headquarters, at Temara, near Rabat.
A recent inquiry into rendition by the Council of Europe, led by Dick Marty, the Swiss MP, highlighted a pattern of flights between Washington, Guantanamo Bay and Rabat’s military airport at Sale.
French intelligence and diplomatic sources said the most recent such flight was in the first week in December, when four suspects were seen being led blindfolded and handcuffed from a Boeing 737 at Sale and transferred into a fleet of American vehicles...
The secret police HQ at Temara has a fearsome reputation among former inmates. Binyam Mohammed, an Ethiopian-born Briton later sent to Guantanamo Bay, told Amnesty International that interrogators there cut his chest and penis when he refused to answer questions.
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Why did Blair lose in Dunfermline?
Why did Blair's New Labour party lose the Dunfermline byelection?
Is it because, under New Labour, Britain has copied the USA and the top people have become much, much richer, while the poor people in places like Dunfermline have been neglected.
The following is from a Leader in The Guardian, 11 February 2006.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1707345,00.html
The fact that we have become uncomfortably used to hearing about huge executive salary increases does not make fresh examples any more easy to explain away, especially when the public purse is at stake.
Yesterday QinetiQ, an admirable technology company spun off from the Ministry of Defence, was launched on the stock markets with an initial valuation of £1.3bn, giving the chairman and chief executive capital gains of well over £20m each....
... in 2002 ... the US group Carlyle bought a 31% stake.
Research by Professor Robert J Gordon finds that despite the impressive surge in productivity in the US economy, real median earnings per hour have hardly increased at all in the past decade. Where have the fruits of the productivity miracle gone? He finds that it is not profits that have gained but that the top 10% of wage and salary earners have taken half of the income gains going back 40 years. And within these figures the top 1% gained more than the bottom 50%....
Gordon Brown is a fan of the USA.
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Is it because, under New Labour, Britain has copied the USA and the top people have become much, much richer, while the poor people in places like Dunfermline have been neglected.
The following is from a Leader in The Guardian, 11 February 2006.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1707345,00.html
The fact that we have become uncomfortably used to hearing about huge executive salary increases does not make fresh examples any more easy to explain away, especially when the public purse is at stake.
Yesterday QinetiQ, an admirable technology company spun off from the Ministry of Defence, was launched on the stock markets with an initial valuation of £1.3bn, giving the chairman and chief executive capital gains of well over £20m each....
... in 2002 ... the US group Carlyle bought a 31% stake.
Research by Professor Robert J Gordon finds that despite the impressive surge in productivity in the US economy, real median earnings per hour have hardly increased at all in the past decade. Where have the fruits of the productivity miracle gone? He finds that it is not profits that have gained but that the top 10% of wage and salary earners have taken half of the income gains going back 40 years. And within these figures the top 1% gained more than the bottom 50%....
Gordon Brown is a fan of the USA.
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Video shows British troops brutally beating Iraqi children inside military compound. Video shows corpse.
A video, obtained by the News of the World and shown on BBC TV on 11 February 2006, shows a group of British soldiers brutally beating and kicking defenceless Iraqi teenagers in an army compound.
According to The Guardian: 'There appears to be little doubt on the part of officials that it is genuine footage.' http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,,1708161,00.html
Managing editor of the News of the World, Stuart Kuttner said of the video: "we've satisfied ourselves that this an absolutely genuine article." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4705482.stm
The footage shows eight soldiers pulling four teenagers off the street and dragging them into their army base, before beating them with batons, as well as punching and kicking them.
The Ministry of Defence issued the following statement: 'We are aware of these very serious allegations and can confirm that they are the subject of an urgent Royal Military Police investigation.'
The video footage was given to the News of the World by a whistleblower.
There have been investigations by MoD prosecutors into a series of serious allegations of abuse by its troops in southern Iraq.
The video was shot from a rooftop in secret by a corporal.
In one of the most brutal scenes, a soldier punches one of the prisoners in the head and the stomach. He is then headbutted and kicked further.
Another scene shows a soldier walking up to one of the boys and kicking him hard between the legs from behind. The boy is seen doubling up in pain.
In some of the worst footage, a prisoner is kicked in the back and the body six times by two soldiers. As he struggles on the floor, one of the soldiers grabs him again by the shoulder, kicks him twice and then begins to hit him on the legs with a baton.
The video also shows footage of a soldier drawing back the blanket over an Iraqi corpse to display it close up to the camera as if it is a trophy.
The informant is quoted as saying: 'These Iraqis were just kids. Most haven't even got shoes on.'
The informant said the video had been shown by the corporal's friends at their home base in Europe. One of those colleagues reported its contents to the tabloid newspaper.
The film is understood to have been taken in early 2004
During the footage, the cameraman - filming from a rooftop - can be clearly heard encouraging his colleagues to abuse the four young prisoners. The cameraman is heard laughing and saying: "Oh yes! Oh Yes! You're gonna get it. Yes, naughty little boys. You little f***ers, you little f***ers. Die. Ha Ha."
The attacks appear to be led by a sergeant.
Britain went into Iraq to steal the oil and kill Iraqi children?
The British military have links to fake terror?
The spin from the News of the World: the British army does not have a long history of using torture?
MoD to probe Iraq 'abuse' video
UK soldiers 'videoed beatings'
British bombing of innocent Iraqis in the 1920s - to safeguard oil interests.
How Britain invented terror bombing in 1920s Iraq
THE BRITISH ARMY - LONG HISTORY OF USING TORTURE
Saddam worked for the CIA
'Trophy' video exposes private security contractors shooting up Iraqi drivers
Death squads in Iraq http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=FUL20051110&articleId=1230
Photos http://www.uruknet.com/?s1=55&p=17582&s2=09
Pictures
'Americans disguised as Arabs try to set off bomb'.
"It was a booby-trapped car laden with ammunition and was meant to explode in the centre of the city of Basra in the popular market."
Iraqi Interior Minister says the 2 British soldiers were not handed to any militia.
'The so-called "insurgent" bombings are really being carried out by UK and US operatives'; the role of the Special Reconnaissance Regiment.
~~
According to The Guardian: 'There appears to be little doubt on the part of officials that it is genuine footage.' http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,,1708161,00.html
Managing editor of the News of the World, Stuart Kuttner said of the video: "we've satisfied ourselves that this an absolutely genuine article." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4705482.stm
The footage shows eight soldiers pulling four teenagers off the street and dragging them into their army base, before beating them with batons, as well as punching and kicking them.
The Ministry of Defence issued the following statement: 'We are aware of these very serious allegations and can confirm that they are the subject of an urgent Royal Military Police investigation.'
The video footage was given to the News of the World by a whistleblower.
There have been investigations by MoD prosecutors into a series of serious allegations of abuse by its troops in southern Iraq.
The video was shot from a rooftop in secret by a corporal.
In one of the most brutal scenes, a soldier punches one of the prisoners in the head and the stomach. He is then headbutted and kicked further.
Another scene shows a soldier walking up to one of the boys and kicking him hard between the legs from behind. The boy is seen doubling up in pain.
In some of the worst footage, a prisoner is kicked in the back and the body six times by two soldiers. As he struggles on the floor, one of the soldiers grabs him again by the shoulder, kicks him twice and then begins to hit him on the legs with a baton.
The video also shows footage of a soldier drawing back the blanket over an Iraqi corpse to display it close up to the camera as if it is a trophy.
The informant is quoted as saying: 'These Iraqis were just kids. Most haven't even got shoes on.'
The informant said the video had been shown by the corporal's friends at their home base in Europe. One of those colleagues reported its contents to the tabloid newspaper.
The film is understood to have been taken in early 2004
During the footage, the cameraman - filming from a rooftop - can be clearly heard encouraging his colleagues to abuse the four young prisoners. The cameraman is heard laughing and saying: "Oh yes! Oh Yes! You're gonna get it. Yes, naughty little boys. You little f***ers, you little f***ers. Die. Ha Ha."
The attacks appear to be led by a sergeant.
Britain went into Iraq to steal the oil and kill Iraqi children?
The British military have links to fake terror?
The spin from the News of the World: the British army does not have a long history of using torture?
MoD to probe Iraq 'abuse' video
UK soldiers 'videoed beatings'
British bombing of innocent Iraqis in the 1920s - to safeguard oil interests.
How Britain invented terror bombing in 1920s Iraq
THE BRITISH ARMY - LONG HISTORY OF USING TORTURE
Saddam worked for the CIA
'Trophy' video exposes private security contractors shooting up Iraqi drivers
Death squads in Iraq http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=FUL20051110&articleId=1230
Photos http://www.uruknet.com/?s1=55&p=17582&s2=09
Pictures
'Americans disguised as Arabs try to set off bomb'.
"It was a booby-trapped car laden with ammunition and was meant to explode in the centre of the city of Basra in the popular market."
Iraqi Interior Minister says the 2 British soldiers were not handed to any militia.
'The so-called "insurgent" bombings are really being carried out by UK and US operatives'; the role of the Special Reconnaissance Regiment.
~~
Friday, February 10, 2006
Moderate Malaysia and cartoons; millions do not demonstrate.
We condemn the press for running a series of cartoons, but where is the condemnation of a media which so far has shown nearly exclusively footage of Muslim people on violent rampages, burning embassies and flags, threatening and boycotting this and that?
Assaulted by these images, deprived of peaceful, moderate or indifferent reactions from Muslims, it’s no wonder so much of the Western world has such a distorted image of Islam. - Amy de Kanter
http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/46707
~~
Malaysia is a moderate, secular, mainly Moslem country with a relatively successful economy.
In the last elections, the Islamic party performed very badly and a secular party won most of the votes.
Malaysia has criticised the war policies of the Pentagon and Israel.
The Pentagon and Israel do not favour moderate, secular Moslem countries because they do not obey the dictates of the Pentagon and Israel.
The Pentagon and Israel prefer countries like Saudi Arabia which are easy to control.
The cartoon issue has caused problems for countries such as Malaysia.
In Kuala Lumpur, a few thousands have demonstrated against the cartoons.
Millions of others have not demonstrated.
The Jewish-influenced media has shown us endless pictures of a tiny number of fanatics, many of whom are probably working for the security services of certain countries.
~~
Assaulted by these images, deprived of peaceful, moderate or indifferent reactions from Muslims, it’s no wonder so much of the Western world has such a distorted image of Islam. - Amy de Kanter
http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/46707
~~
Malaysia is a moderate, secular, mainly Moslem country with a relatively successful economy.
In the last elections, the Islamic party performed very badly and a secular party won most of the votes.
Malaysia has criticised the war policies of the Pentagon and Israel.
The Pentagon and Israel do not favour moderate, secular Moslem countries because they do not obey the dictates of the Pentagon and Israel.
The Pentagon and Israel prefer countries like Saudi Arabia which are easy to control.
The cartoon issue has caused problems for countries such as Malaysia.
In Kuala Lumpur, a few thousands have demonstrated against the cartoons.
Millions of others have not demonstrated.
The Jewish-influenced media has shown us endless pictures of a tiny number of fanatics, many of whom are probably working for the security services of certain countries.
~~
Byelection victory for anti-war Liberal Democrats
DUNFERMLINE & WEST FIFE
Byelection February 2006 General election May 2005
Liberal-Democrat (anti-war) 35.8% 20.1%
Labour 30.6% 47.4%
Scottish National Party 21.0% 18.9%
(anti-war)
Conservative 7.8% 10.3%
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2034275,00.html
GORDON BROWN was dealt a major blow to his credibility as the next Prime Minister when the Liberal Democrats sensationally captured the constituency where the Chancellor has his home in a shock by-election result early this morning.
Willie Rennie pulled off a huge political coup for his party when he overturned a 11,562 Labour majority and delivered a swing of more than 16 per cent to defeat Catherine Stihler, the Labour candidate, in the Chancellor’s political backyard by 1,800 votes.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/56014.html
THE stunning election upset in Dunfermline early today has created a massive headache for the Holyrood coalition, even bigger problems for holding Labour together north and south of the border, and potential disaster for Gordon Brown's hopes of becoming prime minister.
In Dunfermline, the Liberal Democrats came second in the General Election in May 2005. The voters, this time, saw the Liberal Democrats as the best people to beat Labour.
The voters were not distracted by media campaigns to discredit the Liberal Democrats.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) came second in the General election in May 2005 in a large number of Labour seats. The SNP stand a good chance of winning some of these seats in future elections.
Tony Blair's Labour Party can only hold on to power by holding on to Scotland, where they traditionally have a large number of seats. Dunfermline, a traditionally safe Labour seat in Scotland, has now fallen to the Liberals. The decline of Labour should continue throughout the United Kingdom.
The good people of Dunfermline and West Fife are to congratulated on throwing out the Labour Party.
If Labour is to survive it needs to avoid pro-war leaders such as Tony Blair, Gordon Brown or John Reid. The Labour Party should consider replacing Blair with someone like Michael Meacher.
~~~
Byelection February 2006 General election May 2005
Liberal-Democrat (anti-war) 35.8% 20.1%
Labour 30.6% 47.4%
Scottish National Party 21.0% 18.9%
(anti-war)
Conservative 7.8% 10.3%
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2034275,00.html
GORDON BROWN was dealt a major blow to his credibility as the next Prime Minister when the Liberal Democrats sensationally captured the constituency where the Chancellor has his home in a shock by-election result early this morning.
Willie Rennie pulled off a huge political coup for his party when he overturned a 11,562 Labour majority and delivered a swing of more than 16 per cent to defeat Catherine Stihler, the Labour candidate, in the Chancellor’s political backyard by 1,800 votes.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/56014.html
THE stunning election upset in Dunfermline early today has created a massive headache for the Holyrood coalition, even bigger problems for holding Labour together north and south of the border, and potential disaster for Gordon Brown's hopes of becoming prime minister.
In Dunfermline, the Liberal Democrats came second in the General Election in May 2005. The voters, this time, saw the Liberal Democrats as the best people to beat Labour.
The voters were not distracted by media campaigns to discredit the Liberal Democrats.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) came second in the General election in May 2005 in a large number of Labour seats. The SNP stand a good chance of winning some of these seats in future elections.
Tony Blair's Labour Party can only hold on to power by holding on to Scotland, where they traditionally have a large number of seats. Dunfermline, a traditionally safe Labour seat in Scotland, has now fallen to the Liberals. The decline of Labour should continue throughout the United Kingdom.
The good people of Dunfermline and West Fife are to congratulated on throwing out the Labour Party.
If Labour is to survive it needs to avoid pro-war leaders such as Tony Blair, Gordon Brown or John Reid. The Labour Party should consider replacing Blair with someone like Michael Meacher.
~~~
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Girls Interrupted
I am in a cafe watching a small child, aged about 2, banging his head against a wall. He is being ignored by its parents. Mum and Dad probably both go out to work and have busy social lives.
"In terms of preventing delinquency, parents who look after small children are the most important citizens in the country."
~~
Psychologist Oliver James, in The Times, 9 February 2006, wrote about Brat Camp and the upbringing of children.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-2030784,00.html
James blames authoritarian parenting for the poor behaviour of kids.
James is not keen on American attitudes to child upbringing. James states that America is the developed nation with the most crime.
America jails and executes large numbers of its population.
James considers that America invented bad behaviour.
James writes about the TV series Brat Camp. We meet seven British girls who are depicted as having been spoilt or over-indulged; nothing else is mentioned about what has made them like this, such as their parents or the society in which they have grown up.
James writes:
First and foremost, how sane is the society that the girls are being forced to conform to?
All guzzle drugs and booze, most start having sex in their early teens, and crave expensive clothes and fame.
This only mirrors the mixed messages of 21st-century Britain.
During his time in charge, our god-fearing Prime Minister has encouraged us to take on record levels of debt (credit card and mortgage), liberalised licensing laws and reclassified cannabis to Class C.
At the same time, he has exhibited authoritarian, rather than rehabilitative, approaches to misbehaviour.
The prison population has swelled, and hardly a week has gone by without a coercive gimmick, from ASBOs to the latest serving of tosh, the “Respect” agenda.
Just how confusing are those contrasting messages for a 15-year-old girl or her parents?
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
(I believe that mothers of young children should stay at home.)
James writes:
In terms of preventing delinquency, parents who look after small children are the most important citizens in the country.
Employers must offer them much more flexible hours and discourage long ones.
Instead of turning SureStart (the scheme to help low-income parents) into a giant crèche in which poor mothers dump their babies to go back to work, Blair should have used it to help them look after their babies better.
James explains how parents can cure their children of bad behaviour:
James asks parents to
understand their children,
spend special time with their children,
and express love towards their children.
James writes about UK Prime Minister Tony Blair:
Nothing is known about the kind of care Blair received but I would be willing to bet my house on the proposition that his authoritarianism reflects having had controlling care as a small child. What a shame that we have had to pay the price.
James writes that the scientific evidence predicts that Brat Camp regimes will fail:
Physically forcing or blackmailing children to comply will repeat the authoritarian parenting that is often the cause of the misbehaviour in the first place.
James believes that the vast majority of delinquent children have been neglected by parents.
There will be short-term gains from detoxing and from having clear boundaries provided at the camp. But the rage resulting from unmet infantile needs, or chaotic punishment schedules, or demands for unquestioning obedience, remains untouched.
Being trapped in a wilderness with burly guards, where you are told that you will not escape until you comply means that only the most stupid or disturbed will not, sooner or later, realise that compliance is the only way out; but it will not change the core psychology that is causing the problem, only the behaviour, and then only briefly.
At best, it results in crude adoption of the values, as in “I want to be one of the jailers” or “I want to become the policeman who is lacking inside my head”.
Like so many TV programmes about parenting that now infest our screens, Brat Camp is not a bad metaphor for Labour’s failure to reduce delinquency.
~~~~
James's Guidelines for parents:
Be assertive, not aggressive.
Communicate, don’t coerce.
If you lose your temper, explain why after you have calmed down.
See it from their point of view — they are not little adults.
Engage with the child’s fantasy life — join their imaginary worlds, and find out what’s troubling them.
Be consistent.
Respect and enjoy their idiosyncrasies.
~~
Oliver James is the author of They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life.
His new book, Beating Affluenza: How to be Successful and Stay Sane is published in September
~~~
"In terms of preventing delinquency, parents who look after small children are the most important citizens in the country."
~~
Psychologist Oliver James, in The Times, 9 February 2006, wrote about Brat Camp and the upbringing of children.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-2030784,00.html
James blames authoritarian parenting for the poor behaviour of kids.
James is not keen on American attitudes to child upbringing. James states that America is the developed nation with the most crime.
America jails and executes large numbers of its population.
James considers that America invented bad behaviour.
James writes about the TV series Brat Camp. We meet seven British girls who are depicted as having been spoilt or over-indulged; nothing else is mentioned about what has made them like this, such as their parents or the society in which they have grown up.
James writes:
First and foremost, how sane is the society that the girls are being forced to conform to?
All guzzle drugs and booze, most start having sex in their early teens, and crave expensive clothes and fame.
This only mirrors the mixed messages of 21st-century Britain.
During his time in charge, our god-fearing Prime Minister has encouraged us to take on record levels of debt (credit card and mortgage), liberalised licensing laws and reclassified cannabis to Class C.
At the same time, he has exhibited authoritarian, rather than rehabilitative, approaches to misbehaviour.
The prison population has swelled, and hardly a week has gone by without a coercive gimmick, from ASBOs to the latest serving of tosh, the “Respect” agenda.
Just how confusing are those contrasting messages for a 15-year-old girl or her parents?
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
(I believe that mothers of young children should stay at home.)
James writes:
In terms of preventing delinquency, parents who look after small children are the most important citizens in the country.
Employers must offer them much more flexible hours and discourage long ones.
Instead of turning SureStart (the scheme to help low-income parents) into a giant crèche in which poor mothers dump their babies to go back to work, Blair should have used it to help them look after their babies better.
James explains how parents can cure their children of bad behaviour:
James asks parents to
understand their children,
spend special time with their children,
and express love towards their children.
James writes about UK Prime Minister Tony Blair:
Nothing is known about the kind of care Blair received but I would be willing to bet my house on the proposition that his authoritarianism reflects having had controlling care as a small child. What a shame that we have had to pay the price.
James writes that the scientific evidence predicts that Brat Camp regimes will fail:
Physically forcing or blackmailing children to comply will repeat the authoritarian parenting that is often the cause of the misbehaviour in the first place.
James believes that the vast majority of delinquent children have been neglected by parents.
There will be short-term gains from detoxing and from having clear boundaries provided at the camp. But the rage resulting from unmet infantile needs, or chaotic punishment schedules, or demands for unquestioning obedience, remains untouched.
Being trapped in a wilderness with burly guards, where you are told that you will not escape until you comply means that only the most stupid or disturbed will not, sooner or later, realise that compliance is the only way out; but it will not change the core psychology that is causing the problem, only the behaviour, and then only briefly.
At best, it results in crude adoption of the values, as in “I want to be one of the jailers” or “I want to become the policeman who is lacking inside my head”.
Like so many TV programmes about parenting that now infest our screens, Brat Camp is not a bad metaphor for Labour’s failure to reduce delinquency.
~~~~
James's Guidelines for parents:
Be assertive, not aggressive.
Communicate, don’t coerce.
If you lose your temper, explain why after you have calmed down.
See it from their point of view — they are not little adults.
Engage with the child’s fantasy life — join their imaginary worlds, and find out what’s troubling them.
Be consistent.
Respect and enjoy their idiosyncrasies.
~~
Oliver James is the author of They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life.
His new book, Beating Affluenza: How to be Successful and Stay Sane is published in September
~~~
South Africa and Israel and Hitler
In white South Africa it was the Blacks who were removed from their land.
In Palestine it is the Palestinians who are being removed from their land.
Some of the leaders of white South Africa were fans of Hitler. They became friends of Israel.
~~
Chris McGreal, in The Guardian, 7 February 2006, wrote about Israel, Palestine and South Africa. http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1704036,00.html
Some quotes:
Vera Reitzer (who had survived Auschwitz and moved to South Africa) let slip that she thought Africans inferior to other human beings and not entitled to be treated as equals. I asked if Hitler hadn't said the same thing about her as a Jew. She called a halt to the conversation...
At the turn of the century, the Manchester Guardian's correspondent, JA Hobson, reflected a view that the Boer war was being fought in the interests of a "small group of international financiers, chiefly German in origin and Jewish in race".
Fifty years later, Malan's cabinet saw similar conspiracies. Hendrik Verwoerd, editor of the virulently anti-semitic newspaper, Die Transvaler, and future author of "grand apartheid", accused Jews of controlling the economy...
Percy Yutar, a Jew, prosecuted Nelson Mandela for sabotage and conspiracy against the state in 1963 and sent him to jail for life (in the event, he served 27 years).
Yutar went on to become attorney general of the Orange Free State and then of the Transvaal. He was elected president of Johannesburg's largest orthodox synagogue...
In 1976, Israel invited the South African prime minister, John Vorster - a former Nazi sympathiser and a commander of the fascist Ossewabrandwag that sided with Hitler - to make a state visit...
"We created the South African arms industry," says Alon Liel (Israel's former ambassador to South Africa)...
"We were involved in Angola as consultants to the [South African] army. You had Israeli officers there cooperating with the army. The link was very intimate."
Alongside the state-owned factories turning out materiel for South Africa was Kibbutz Beit Alfa, which developed a profitable industry selling anti-riot vehicles for use against protesters in the black townships.
The biggest secret of all was the nuclear one. Israel provided expertise and technology that was central to South Africa's development of its nuclear bombs...
Today, about six million Israelis live on 85% of the area that was Palestine under the British mandate.
Nearly 3.5 million Palestinians are confined to the remaining 15%, with their towns and cities penned between Israel's ever-expanding settlement blocks and behind a network of segregated roads, security barriers and military installations....
Three years ago, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported the former Italian prime minister, Massimo D'Alema, as telling dinner guests at a Jerusalem hotel that, on a visit to Rome a few years earlier, Sharon had told him that the bantustan model was the most appropriate solution to the conflict with the Palestinians. ...
Israeli soldiers routinely humiliate and harass Palestinians at checkpoints and settlers paint hate-filled slogans on the walls of Arab houses in Hebron. ...
The Israeli press largely ignores the routine of occupation despite the fearless reporting of some journalists on the disturbing number of children who die under Israeli guns (more than 650 since the second intifada broke out in September 2000, of which a quarter were younger than 12 years old); the abuse of Palestinians by settlers, and the humiliations meted out at the checkpoints....
Sharon recruited into his government men who openly called for wholesale ethnic cleansing that would more than match apartheid's forced removals. Among them was the tourism minister, Rehavam Ze'evi, who advocated the "transfer" of Arabs out of Israel and the occupied territories....
"Apartheid was all about land," says John Dugard, the South African lawyer and UN human rights monitor. "Apartheid was about keeping the best parts of the country for the whites and sending the blacks to the least habitable, least desirable parts of the country...
~~~
In Palestine it is the Palestinians who are being removed from their land.
Some of the leaders of white South Africa were fans of Hitler. They became friends of Israel.
~~
Chris McGreal, in The Guardian, 7 February 2006, wrote about Israel, Palestine and South Africa. http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1704036,00.html
Some quotes:
Vera Reitzer (who had survived Auschwitz and moved to South Africa) let slip that she thought Africans inferior to other human beings and not entitled to be treated as equals. I asked if Hitler hadn't said the same thing about her as a Jew. She called a halt to the conversation...
At the turn of the century, the Manchester Guardian's correspondent, JA Hobson, reflected a view that the Boer war was being fought in the interests of a "small group of international financiers, chiefly German in origin and Jewish in race".
Fifty years later, Malan's cabinet saw similar conspiracies. Hendrik Verwoerd, editor of the virulently anti-semitic newspaper, Die Transvaler, and future author of "grand apartheid", accused Jews of controlling the economy...
Percy Yutar, a Jew, prosecuted Nelson Mandela for sabotage and conspiracy against the state in 1963 and sent him to jail for life (in the event, he served 27 years).
Yutar went on to become attorney general of the Orange Free State and then of the Transvaal. He was elected president of Johannesburg's largest orthodox synagogue...
In 1976, Israel invited the South African prime minister, John Vorster - a former Nazi sympathiser and a commander of the fascist Ossewabrandwag that sided with Hitler - to make a state visit...
"We created the South African arms industry," says Alon Liel (Israel's former ambassador to South Africa)...
"We were involved in Angola as consultants to the [South African] army. You had Israeli officers there cooperating with the army. The link was very intimate."
Alongside the state-owned factories turning out materiel for South Africa was Kibbutz Beit Alfa, which developed a profitable industry selling anti-riot vehicles for use against protesters in the black townships.
The biggest secret of all was the nuclear one. Israel provided expertise and technology that was central to South Africa's development of its nuclear bombs...
Today, about six million Israelis live on 85% of the area that was Palestine under the British mandate.
Nearly 3.5 million Palestinians are confined to the remaining 15%, with their towns and cities penned between Israel's ever-expanding settlement blocks and behind a network of segregated roads, security barriers and military installations....
Three years ago, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported the former Italian prime minister, Massimo D'Alema, as telling dinner guests at a Jerusalem hotel that, on a visit to Rome a few years earlier, Sharon had told him that the bantustan model was the most appropriate solution to the conflict with the Palestinians. ...
Israeli soldiers routinely humiliate and harass Palestinians at checkpoints and settlers paint hate-filled slogans on the walls of Arab houses in Hebron. ...
The Israeli press largely ignores the routine of occupation despite the fearless reporting of some journalists on the disturbing number of children who die under Israeli guns (more than 650 since the second intifada broke out in September 2000, of which a quarter were younger than 12 years old); the abuse of Palestinians by settlers, and the humiliations meted out at the checkpoints....
Sharon recruited into his government men who openly called for wholesale ethnic cleansing that would more than match apartheid's forced removals. Among them was the tourism minister, Rehavam Ze'evi, who advocated the "transfer" of Arabs out of Israel and the occupied territories....
"Apartheid was all about land," says John Dugard, the South African lawyer and UN human rights monitor. "Apartheid was about keeping the best parts of the country for the whites and sending the blacks to the least habitable, least desirable parts of the country...
~~~
Islamofascists?
In 1914 there was a great Moslem Empire - the Turkish Empire. Some of the more militant leaders of this Empire made the mistake of getting angry about losses in the Balkans. These leaders decided to enter World War One. The result was that Turkey lost its empire, including Palestine. If Turkey had stayed calm its empire might have survived.
What Turkey needed in 1914 was internal reform and not a bloody war.
Xymphora lists some of the things that The West has recently been doing to Moslems:
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2006/02/nigger-thought-experiment.html
We in the West:
drop bombs on innocent civilians in a country that posed no harm, and boastfully talk of 'shock and awe';
shoot their children in the face as part of an organized program to steal their lands;
imprison their wives and daughters as hostages;
chop down the olive trees that have supported their families for hundreds of years;
threaten more innocent civilians with death in countries like Iran and Syria, countries which again pose no threat;
lock up their young men by the hundreds of even thousands after September 11, unconstitutionally and illegally, and quietly release them months later rather than admit it was all a racist program of profiling;
fire a tank shell into a group of their children, and call it a 'mistake';
set up torture centers to brutalize and humiliate mostly innocent civilians, and continue doing it after photographs of some of the least outrageous acts are shown;
drop bombs on apartment buildings on the chance that some political enemy you are illegally targeting might possibly be there;
set up food distribution for the poor, tauntingly featuring soup made of pork;
surround them with walls to formalize the theft of land from them and make it impossible for them to have a state.
Why do some young Moslems become militants?
1. Some are wittingly or unwittingly working for fascist military governments who find it easier to control people when they become angry fundamentalist fascists.
2. Some are simply angry.
Sometimes the victim of the bully has to learn not to get angry. Getting angry plays into the hands of the bully.
If Britain had declared in 1914 that it was not going to support angry old Russia, there would have been no World War I.
If there had been no Arab-Israeli war in 1948, Palestine might have had a chance to develop into a happy and prosperous state.
In 1953, Iranian CIA operatives, pretending to be supporters of Mossadegh, threatened Moslem leaders with "savage punishment if they opposed Mossadegh." The Moslem leaders got angry and it was then easier for the CIA to control them and control Iran.
The prophet Muhammed said:
"The best jihad is by the one who strives against his own self for God."
“You do not do evil to those who do evil to you, but you deal with them with forgiveness and kindness.” (Sahih Al-Bukhari)
~~
What Turkey needed in 1914 was internal reform and not a bloody war.
Xymphora lists some of the things that The West has recently been doing to Moslems:
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2006/02/nigger-thought-experiment.html
We in the West:
drop bombs on innocent civilians in a country that posed no harm, and boastfully talk of 'shock and awe';
shoot their children in the face as part of an organized program to steal their lands;
imprison their wives and daughters as hostages;
chop down the olive trees that have supported their families for hundreds of years;
threaten more innocent civilians with death in countries like Iran and Syria, countries which again pose no threat;
lock up their young men by the hundreds of even thousands after September 11, unconstitutionally and illegally, and quietly release them months later rather than admit it was all a racist program of profiling;
fire a tank shell into a group of their children, and call it a 'mistake';
set up torture centers to brutalize and humiliate mostly innocent civilians, and continue doing it after photographs of some of the least outrageous acts are shown;
drop bombs on apartment buildings on the chance that some political enemy you are illegally targeting might possibly be there;
set up food distribution for the poor, tauntingly featuring soup made of pork;
surround them with walls to formalize the theft of land from them and make it impossible for them to have a state.
Why do some young Moslems become militants?
1. Some are wittingly or unwittingly working for fascist military governments who find it easier to control people when they become angry fundamentalist fascists.
2. Some are simply angry.
Sometimes the victim of the bully has to learn not to get angry. Getting angry plays into the hands of the bully.
If Britain had declared in 1914 that it was not going to support angry old Russia, there would have been no World War I.
If there had been no Arab-Israeli war in 1948, Palestine might have had a chance to develop into a happy and prosperous state.
In 1953, Iranian CIA operatives, pretending to be supporters of Mossadegh, threatened Moslem leaders with "savage punishment if they opposed Mossadegh." The Moslem leaders got angry and it was then easier for the CIA to control them and control Iran.
The prophet Muhammed said:
"The best jihad is by the one who strives against his own self for God."
“You do not do evil to those who do evil to you, but you deal with them with forgiveness and kindness.” (Sahih Al-Bukhari)
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Lebanon and Syria and cartoons
The Pentagon wants regime change in the Middle East and they may be helped by Moslem religious groups secretly controlled by the West?
Robert Fisk, in The Independent, 7 February 2006, wrote about religious fury threatening to wrest control from secular governments.
The Independent http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=508582
Fisk wrote: In Lebanon yesterday, 2,000troops fought demonstrators in the heart of Christian Beirut during the day as the Danish consulate was set on fire and a large church was attacked by a mob. Other demonstrators headed for the Lebanese foreign ministry....
It shows how quickly nationalist Arab governments can be challenged by Islamists within their own countries...
One Sunni prelate who appeared on the streets in a vain attempt to calm the demonstrators remarked that "they have done more damage to the name of the Prophet today than the cartoons in Denmark''.
...Syria is a largely Sunni nation ruled by Alawites - a branch of Shiism - and it is not difficult to see how even minimum Baathist encouragement of Saturday's demonstrators quickly turned into a Sunni protest... it is the same old problem: who runs Syria?
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Robert Fisk, in The Independent, 7 February 2006, wrote about religious fury threatening to wrest control from secular governments.
The Independent http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=508582
Fisk wrote: In Lebanon yesterday, 2,000troops fought demonstrators in the heart of Christian Beirut during the day as the Danish consulate was set on fire and a large church was attacked by a mob. Other demonstrators headed for the Lebanese foreign ministry....
It shows how quickly nationalist Arab governments can be challenged by Islamists within their own countries...
One Sunni prelate who appeared on the streets in a vain attempt to calm the demonstrators remarked that "they have done more damage to the name of the Prophet today than the cartoons in Denmark''.
...Syria is a largely Sunni nation ruled by Alawites - a branch of Shiism - and it is not difficult to see how even minimum Baathist encouragement of Saturday's demonstrators quickly turned into a Sunni protest... it is the same old problem: who runs Syria?
~~~
Terrorists working for MI6?
Who organises all these militant Moslem groups? MI6?
Are these militant groups used by MI6 to weaken countries like Egypyt, Yemen and Syria?
The following is taken from: http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2004/10/give_me_your_po.html
http://www.mathaba.net/data/sis/mi6-terrorism.html
Abu Hamza al-Masri presided over the Finsbury Park Mosque.
In 1998, the President of Yemen demanded from Tony Blair that Abu Hamza Al-Masri be handed over for trial in Yemen on charges of carrying out terrorist acts in Yemen and several other Arab states.
Abu Hamza al-Masri, asylum-seeker, was protected by Britain from extradition to Yemen.
~~
In July 1998, a former British MI5 officer, David Shayler, revealed that, in February 1996, British security services financed and supported a London-based Islamic terrorist group.
~~
Mohammed al-Massari called for the overthrow of the House of Saud and the creation of an Islamic revolutionary state. He was given "exceptional leave" to remain in Britain.
In April 1996, the British Home Office granted al-Massari a four-year refugee permit to remain on British soil.
Al-Massari was allied with Osama bin Laden, who had a residence in the London suburb of Wembly.
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Islamic Group / Islamic Jihad leaders Adel Abdul Majid and Adel Tawfiq al Sirri :
Abdul Majid was implicated in the October 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and he subsequently masterminded the escape of two prisoners jailed for the assassination.
In 1991, he fled to Britain and immediately was granted political asylum.
He has coordinated the Islamic Group's overseas operations ever since. In fact, he was sentenced to death in absentia for the bombing of the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan in November 1995, in which 15 diplomats were killed.
Abdel Tawfiq al Sirri, the co-director of the movement, has also been granted political asylum in Britain, despite the fact that he was also sentenced to death in absentia for his part in the 1993 attempted assassination of Egyptian Prime Minister Atif Sidqi.
~~
Supporters of Sharia, headed by Abu Hamza Al-Misri, an Egyptian who was convicted of a capital offense in Egypt, but who enjoys political asylum in London, issued one of the most virulent "endorsements" of the Aug. 7, 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.
~~
Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA) leader, Abou Farres was granted asylum in Britain in 1992, after he was condemned to death in Algeria for acknowledging responsibility for a bombing at Algiers airport, which killed nine people and wounded 125.
Farres was believed responsible, from his base in London, for the July-September 1995 string of blind terrorist acts in France, including bombings of three Paris train and subway stations and an open-air market.
~~
On Nov. 17, 1997, the Gamaa al-Islamiya (Islamic Group) carried out a massacre of tourists in Luxor, Egypt, in which 62 people were killed. Since 1992, terrorist attacks by the Islamic Group have claimed at least 92 lives.
Yet, the leaders of the organization have been provided with political asylum in Britain
7 of 14 men, linked to the Luxor massacre and other earlier incidents of terrorism resided in London:
Yasser al Sirri: "Sentenced to death in the assassination attempt on the life of former Prime Minister Dr. Atef Sidqi; founded the Media Observatory in London as mouthpiece for the New Vanguards of Conquest."
Adel Abdel Bari: "At present, heads Egyptian Human Rights Defense Office, affiliated to Media Observatory in London, the mouthpiece for the outlawed Jihad Organization."
Mustafa Hamzah: "Commander of the military branch of the outlawed `Islamic Group.' "
Tharwat Shehata: "Sentenced to death in the assassination attempt on Dr. Atef Sidqi, former Prime Minister; associated with, and in charge of financing extremist elements abroad; involved in reactivating the outlawed `Jihad Organization' abroad."
Osama Khalifa: "Accused no. 1 in the case involving domestic and foreign activities of the outlawed Islamic Group."
Refa Mousa.
Mohamed el Islambouli: "One of the principal leaders of the Islamic Group; sentenced to death in the case of the outlawed organization of `Returnees from Afghanistan.' "
~~
Are these militant groups used by MI6 to weaken countries like Egypyt, Yemen and Syria?
The following is taken from: http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2004/10/give_me_your_po.html
http://www.mathaba.net/data/sis/mi6-terrorism.html
Abu Hamza al-Masri presided over the Finsbury Park Mosque.
In 1998, the President of Yemen demanded from Tony Blair that Abu Hamza Al-Masri be handed over for trial in Yemen on charges of carrying out terrorist acts in Yemen and several other Arab states.
Abu Hamza al-Masri, asylum-seeker, was protected by Britain from extradition to Yemen.
~~
In July 1998, a former British MI5 officer, David Shayler, revealed that, in February 1996, British security services financed and supported a London-based Islamic terrorist group.
~~
Mohammed al-Massari called for the overthrow of the House of Saud and the creation of an Islamic revolutionary state. He was given "exceptional leave" to remain in Britain.
In April 1996, the British Home Office granted al-Massari a four-year refugee permit to remain on British soil.
Al-Massari was allied with Osama bin Laden, who had a residence in the London suburb of Wembly.
~~
Islamic Group / Islamic Jihad leaders Adel Abdul Majid and Adel Tawfiq al Sirri :
Abdul Majid was implicated in the October 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and he subsequently masterminded the escape of two prisoners jailed for the assassination.
In 1991, he fled to Britain and immediately was granted political asylum.
He has coordinated the Islamic Group's overseas operations ever since. In fact, he was sentenced to death in absentia for the bombing of the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan in November 1995, in which 15 diplomats were killed.
Abdel Tawfiq al Sirri, the co-director of the movement, has also been granted political asylum in Britain, despite the fact that he was also sentenced to death in absentia for his part in the 1993 attempted assassination of Egyptian Prime Minister Atif Sidqi.
~~
Supporters of Sharia, headed by Abu Hamza Al-Misri, an Egyptian who was convicted of a capital offense in Egypt, but who enjoys political asylum in London, issued one of the most virulent "endorsements" of the Aug. 7, 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.
~~
Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA) leader, Abou Farres was granted asylum in Britain in 1992, after he was condemned to death in Algeria for acknowledging responsibility for a bombing at Algiers airport, which killed nine people and wounded 125.
Farres was believed responsible, from his base in London, for the July-September 1995 string of blind terrorist acts in France, including bombings of three Paris train and subway stations and an open-air market.
~~
On Nov. 17, 1997, the Gamaa al-Islamiya (Islamic Group) carried out a massacre of tourists in Luxor, Egypt, in which 62 people were killed. Since 1992, terrorist attacks by the Islamic Group have claimed at least 92 lives.
Yet, the leaders of the organization have been provided with political asylum in Britain
7 of 14 men, linked to the Luxor massacre and other earlier incidents of terrorism resided in London:
Yasser al Sirri: "Sentenced to death in the assassination attempt on the life of former Prime Minister Dr. Atef Sidqi; founded the Media Observatory in London as mouthpiece for the New Vanguards of Conquest."
Adel Abdel Bari: "At present, heads Egyptian Human Rights Defense Office, affiliated to Media Observatory in London, the mouthpiece for the outlawed Jihad Organization."
Mustafa Hamzah: "Commander of the military branch of the outlawed `Islamic Group.' "
Tharwat Shehata: "Sentenced to death in the assassination attempt on Dr. Atef Sidqi, former Prime Minister; associated with, and in charge of financing extremist elements abroad; involved in reactivating the outlawed `Jihad Organization' abroad."
Osama Khalifa: "Accused no. 1 in the case involving domestic and foreign activities of the outlawed Islamic Group."
Refa Mousa.
Mohamed el Islambouli: "One of the principal leaders of the Islamic Group; sentenced to death in the case of the outlawed organization of `Returnees from Afghanistan.' "
~~
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
A war against Iran, as indicated by war games.
Qoutes from 'Iran and the jaws of a trap' by Paul Levian, writing in Asia Times online http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HB03Ak02.html
The somewhat standard scenario for this war - as indicated by Chinese and Russian war games - has the following features:
An initial Israeli air attack against some Iranian nuclear targets, command and control targets and Shahab missile sites.
Iran retaliates with its remaining missiles, tries to close the Gulf, attacks US naval assets and American and British forces in Iraq.
If Iranian missiles have chemical warheads (in fact or presumed), the US will immediately use nuclear weapons to destroy the Iranian military and industrial infrastructure.
If not, an air campaign of up to two weeks will prepare the ground campaign for the occupation of the Iranian oil and gas fields.
Mass mobilization in Iraq against US-British forces will be at most a nuisance - easily suppressed by the ruthless employment of massive firepower.
And Israel will use the opportunity to deal with Syria and South Lebanon, and possibly with its Palestinian problem.
The character of this war will be completely different from the Iraq war. No show-casing of democracy, no "nation-building", no journalists, no Red Cross - but the kind of war the United States would have fought in North Vietnam if it had not had to reckon with the Soviet Union and China.
Paul Levian is a former German intelligence officer.
~~
The somewhat standard scenario for this war - as indicated by Chinese and Russian war games - has the following features:
An initial Israeli air attack against some Iranian nuclear targets, command and control targets and Shahab missile sites.
Iran retaliates with its remaining missiles, tries to close the Gulf, attacks US naval assets and American and British forces in Iraq.
If Iranian missiles have chemical warheads (in fact or presumed), the US will immediately use nuclear weapons to destroy the Iranian military and industrial infrastructure.
If not, an air campaign of up to two weeks will prepare the ground campaign for the occupation of the Iranian oil and gas fields.
Mass mobilization in Iraq against US-British forces will be at most a nuisance - easily suppressed by the ruthless employment of massive firepower.
And Israel will use the opportunity to deal with Syria and South Lebanon, and possibly with its Palestinian problem.
The character of this war will be completely different from the Iraq war. No show-casing of democracy, no "nation-building", no journalists, no Red Cross - but the kind of war the United States would have fought in North Vietnam if it had not had to reckon with the Soviet Union and China.
Paul Levian is a former German intelligence officer.
~~
Moslems in prison; Omar Khayam; Mohamed Atta.
Omar Khayam, 22, of Bedford, was jailed in 2002 and released on licence in 2005 after serving only half of his six year sentence for dealing heroin and cocaine.
In January 2006, Khayam was pictured outside Denmark's embassy in London wearing a simulated suicide bombing outfit.
Was Khayam wittingly or unwittingly being used by elements of the security services of a certain country?
A Mr Mohamed Atta was put on trial in Israel in October of 1990. Israel sentenced him to life in prison. The Jerusalem Post claims that he was freed by the Israeli Supreme Court on a technicality.
It is possible that more than one person used the Mohamed Atta identity at various times.
The Mohammed Atta who trained at a US military base, who allegedly spoke Hebrew, and who chose to learn to fly at a Florida airport with links to the CIA, seems to be the one linked to 9 11.
In Indonesia, the American trained military have been accused of recruiting criminal elements for the 'fake' Moslem militias which allegedly do their dirty work.
Mohamed Atta - Welcome to Terrorland.
aangirfan: Atta was working for the US military?
Jack Abramoff and Mohamed Atta
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In January 2006, Khayam was pictured outside Denmark's embassy in London wearing a simulated suicide bombing outfit.
Was Khayam wittingly or unwittingly being used by elements of the security services of a certain country?
A Mr Mohamed Atta was put on trial in Israel in October of 1990. Israel sentenced him to life in prison. The Jerusalem Post claims that he was freed by the Israeli Supreme Court on a technicality.
It is possible that more than one person used the Mohamed Atta identity at various times.
The Mohammed Atta who trained at a US military base, who allegedly spoke Hebrew, and who chose to learn to fly at a Florida airport with links to the CIA, seems to be the one linked to 9 11.
In Indonesia, the American trained military have been accused of recruiting criminal elements for the 'fake' Moslem militias which allegedly do their dirty work.
Mohamed Atta - Welcome to Terrorland.
aangirfan: Atta was working for the US military?
Jack Abramoff and Mohamed Atta
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Sunday, February 05, 2006
Infiltration of Moslem groups
Some time ago we met an old soldier who had once worked for some shadowy group that was a bit like the SAS.
This former soldier, whom we shall call Jimmy, had been employed to infiltrate groups which the government did not like.
Jimmy's job was to cause trouble: to start a fight: to make the group look like a bunch of mad extremists.
What about the Moslem Demonstrations in London.
Some protesters chanted the name of Osama Bin Laden and “You must pay, 7/7 is on its way” . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2025704,00.html
According to The Sunday Times:
Five hundred demonstrators brandished placards, including ones proclaiming “Behead the one who insults the Prophet”, “Down, down UK” and “Freedom go to hell”.
Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said the extremists should be prosecuted.
Bunglawala said: “Lots of innocent Muslims went to the demonstration not realising that it was organised by extremists. They were hijacked by them.”
Sir Iqbal Sacranie, the council’s secretary-general, said: “This outrage was used by some to induce Muslims into taking part in terrorist violence. We condemn their actions.”
It is unlikely that the people carrying the offensive placards will be prosecuted. The placards supporting CIA agent bin Laden were probably written by and carried by members of the security services of certain countries.
No doubt these security services also have their agents in Syria, Palestine and Lebanon.
~
Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty:
We say to Britain’s Muslims in friendship and solidarity — let’s close Guantanamo and end torture flights before we worry about distasteful cartoons. Shutting down free expression is particularly dangerous for minorities. How can my speech be free if yours is so expensive?
~~~
This former soldier, whom we shall call Jimmy, had been employed to infiltrate groups which the government did not like.
Jimmy's job was to cause trouble: to start a fight: to make the group look like a bunch of mad extremists.
What about the Moslem Demonstrations in London.
Some protesters chanted the name of Osama Bin Laden and “You must pay, 7/7 is on its way” . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2025704,00.html
According to The Sunday Times:
Five hundred demonstrators brandished placards, including ones proclaiming “Behead the one who insults the Prophet”, “Down, down UK” and “Freedom go to hell”.
Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said the extremists should be prosecuted.
Bunglawala said: “Lots of innocent Muslims went to the demonstration not realising that it was organised by extremists. They were hijacked by them.”
Sir Iqbal Sacranie, the council’s secretary-general, said: “This outrage was used by some to induce Muslims into taking part in terrorist violence. We condemn their actions.”
It is unlikely that the people carrying the offensive placards will be prosecuted. The placards supporting CIA agent bin Laden were probably written by and carried by members of the security services of certain countries.
No doubt these security services also have their agents in Syria, Palestine and Lebanon.
~
Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty:
We say to Britain’s Muslims in friendship and solidarity — let’s close Guantanamo and end torture flights before we worry about distasteful cartoons. Shutting down free expression is particularly dangerous for minorities. How can my speech be free if yours is so expensive?
~~~
Major victory for Israel and the Pentagon; major defeat for Moslems.
Will any non-Moslem Europeans support the Palestinians in future?
According to Swedish Radio:
"Palestinian extremists have ordered all Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes to leave Gaza.
"The al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a violent group linked to the Fatah party, handed out leaflets giving Scandinavians 72 hours to leave the area. Islamic Jihad made a similar demand, with a 48 hour deadline."
http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International/nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?ProgramID=2054&Nyheter=&artikel=784769
Now, think about it. These Moslem militants in Palestine are doing the work of the Israelis. Some of their leaders may even be being paid by Mossad.
Danish flags are burnt. Who supplied these flags? Was it the CIA/Mossad.
In Indonesia a group called the Islamic Defenders Front has been burning the Danish flag. The Islamic Defenders Front reportedly has links to the American trained Indonesian military. The Islamic Defenders Front has reportedly been used by the police/military to punish people who do not pay their protection money.
In Indonesia, militant Moslem groups are used by the American trained military to do their dirty work.
Remember - most of the extreme Moslem militants are secretly working for the western security services.
According to Kurt Nimmo: http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=186
Hamza was associated with al-Muhajiroun, an offshoot of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a militant Islamic organization that draws its “middle leaders and lieutenants from the old Muslim Brotherhood,” according to Misha Pozhininsky of Sobaka.
It is well known that the Muslim Brotherhood was penetrated and co-opted by the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s (John Loftus, a former Justice Department prosecutor, believes British intelligence sponsored the Brotherhood even earlier, at the close of the Second World War and relocated many of its members from Egypt to Saudi Arabia in the 1950s).
According to the Washington Post, “State Department and CIA officials have met with Brotherhood activists in Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, the Palestinian territories and elsewhere to track currents within Islamic politics.”
Moreover, according to Loftus, “back in the late 1990s, the leaders [of al-Muhajiroun] all worked for British intelligence in Kosovo. Believe it or not, British intelligence actually hired some Al-Qaeda guys to help defend the Muslim rights in Albania and in Kosovo. That’s when Al-Muhajiroun got started.”
According to Kurt Nimmo:
It stands to reason the CIA and MI6 would naturally recruit the most vicious and demented of patsy terrorists for the long-term plan to discredit and slander Islam.
After the cartoon fiasco it now becomes easier for the USA to occupy Moslem countries.
Terror Expert: 7/7 Mastermind was working for British Intelligence ...
Moslems unwittingly help their enemies
Cartoons - Pictures of the militants and their victims
Clash of civilisations - manipulation by the media.
~~
According to Swedish Radio:
"Palestinian extremists have ordered all Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes to leave Gaza.
"The al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a violent group linked to the Fatah party, handed out leaflets giving Scandinavians 72 hours to leave the area. Islamic Jihad made a similar demand, with a 48 hour deadline."
http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International/nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?ProgramID=2054&Nyheter=&artikel=784769
Now, think about it. These Moslem militants in Palestine are doing the work of the Israelis. Some of their leaders may even be being paid by Mossad.
Danish flags are burnt. Who supplied these flags? Was it the CIA/Mossad.
In Indonesia a group called the Islamic Defenders Front has been burning the Danish flag. The Islamic Defenders Front reportedly has links to the American trained Indonesian military. The Islamic Defenders Front has reportedly been used by the police/military to punish people who do not pay their protection money.
In Indonesia, militant Moslem groups are used by the American trained military to do their dirty work.
Remember - most of the extreme Moslem militants are secretly working for the western security services.
According to Kurt Nimmo: http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=186
Hamza was associated with al-Muhajiroun, an offshoot of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a militant Islamic organization that draws its “middle leaders and lieutenants from the old Muslim Brotherhood,” according to Misha Pozhininsky of Sobaka.
It is well known that the Muslim Brotherhood was penetrated and co-opted by the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s (John Loftus, a former Justice Department prosecutor, believes British intelligence sponsored the Brotherhood even earlier, at the close of the Second World War and relocated many of its members from Egypt to Saudi Arabia in the 1950s).
According to the Washington Post, “State Department and CIA officials have met with Brotherhood activists in Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, the Palestinian territories and elsewhere to track currents within Islamic politics.”
Moreover, according to Loftus, “back in the late 1990s, the leaders [of al-Muhajiroun] all worked for British intelligence in Kosovo. Believe it or not, British intelligence actually hired some Al-Qaeda guys to help defend the Muslim rights in Albania and in Kosovo. That’s when Al-Muhajiroun got started.”
According to Kurt Nimmo:
It stands to reason the CIA and MI6 would naturally recruit the most vicious and demented of patsy terrorists for the long-term plan to discredit and slander Islam.
After the cartoon fiasco it now becomes easier for the USA to occupy Moslem countries.
Terror Expert: 7/7 Mastermind was working for British Intelligence ...
Moslems unwittingly help their enemies
Cartoons - Pictures of the militants and their victims
Clash of civilisations - manipulation by the media.
~~
Saturday, February 04, 2006
Moslems unwittingly help their enemies
When Kenya and Malaya were occupied by Britain, it was the policy of the British military to try to discredit the 'independence seekers' by making them look like extremists. Reportedly, terror incidents were organised which helped to discredit the dissidents.
General Frank Kitson: Trail Blazing Fake Terrorism
No doubt there were some Kenyans and some Malayans working for the British security services.
Who was behind 9 11? The evidence seems to point to elements of the security services of certain western and pro-western nations.
Who was behind the London bombs? The evidence seems to point to elements of the security services of certain western and pro-western nations.
9 11 made it easier for the Neo-Cons to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Bali bomb was followed by a general coming to power. That general reportedly has links to the Pentagon.
Bombs in Morocco allowed the military to crack down on Moslem parties.
Now, after the Danish cartoon fiasco, we see militant Moslem protestors holding up posters suggesting that it was Moslems who carried out the terror attacks of 9 11 and 7 7.
These militant Moslems have played into the hands of the people who want to keep the Moslem world weak, divided, unpopular and conquered.
One suspects that the militant Moslem groups have been infiltrated by members of certain security services and are being led by members of certain security services.
Most Moslems are peaceful and moderate.
If the Palestinians or the Iranians want to enjoy prosperity and independence, then they should not allow themselves to be provoked by deliberate acts of provocation.
The Palestinians and Iranians should copy Switzerland. The Swiss are well educated, moderate and peaceful.
~~~
General Frank Kitson: Trail Blazing Fake Terrorism
No doubt there were some Kenyans and some Malayans working for the British security services.
Who was behind 9 11? The evidence seems to point to elements of the security services of certain western and pro-western nations.
Who was behind the London bombs? The evidence seems to point to elements of the security services of certain western and pro-western nations.
9 11 made it easier for the Neo-Cons to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Bali bomb was followed by a general coming to power. That general reportedly has links to the Pentagon.
Bombs in Morocco allowed the military to crack down on Moslem parties.
Now, after the Danish cartoon fiasco, we see militant Moslem protestors holding up posters suggesting that it was Moslems who carried out the terror attacks of 9 11 and 7 7.
These militant Moslems have played into the hands of the people who want to keep the Moslem world weak, divided, unpopular and conquered.
One suspects that the militant Moslem groups have been infiltrated by members of certain security services and are being led by members of certain security services.
Most Moslems are peaceful and moderate.
If the Palestinians or the Iranians want to enjoy prosperity and independence, then they should not allow themselves to be provoked by deliberate acts of provocation.
The Palestinians and Iranians should copy Switzerland. The Swiss are well educated, moderate and peaceful.
~~~
Cartoons - Pictures of the militants and their victims
http://www.anl.org.uk/images/BNP_LyndaMiller_KKK.jpg
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/UN/peace.html
http://www.dqc.org/~ben/source/dead_children.htm
http://www.protection-palestine.org/IMG/jpg/Naplouse_-_enfant_tank_04_10_Corinne.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/asguru/generalstudies/culture/04news/pop04a.shtml
The following is from: Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life
The First Crusaders in the Holy Land were barbarous...
Not only did the French soldiers in the Turkish capital of Nicaea place the heads of Muslims on their spears, but they roasted the slain bodies of indigenous Christian civilians and ate them.
Yes, they grilled Christian children on spits and ate their flesh.
During that same First Crusade, German Crusaders killed enough indigenous peoples of Turkey to leave behind a mountain of bones.
The Crusaders didn't know or care that there were many Christians living in the Holy Land. But the First Crusaders slaughtered all the locals--Muslims, Christians and Jews--because they couldn't differentiate among the various languages spoken by the locals or their Turkish overlords.
The First Crusade entered Jerusalem in triumph in July, 1099. The Crusaders who took Jerusalem in 1099 burned Jews alive in the Great Synagogue and looted the Temple of the Rock. They thought to cleanse the Holy Land with human sacrifice. Any wonder why the Arabs called the Crusaders "the pagan race?"
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http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/UN/peace.html
http://www.dqc.org/~ben/source/dead_children.htm
http://www.protection-palestine.org/IMG/jpg/Naplouse_-_enfant_tank_04_10_Corinne.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/asguru/generalstudies/culture/04news/pop04a.shtml
The following is from: Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life
The First Crusaders in the Holy Land were barbarous...
Not only did the French soldiers in the Turkish capital of Nicaea place the heads of Muslims on their spears, but they roasted the slain bodies of indigenous Christian civilians and ate them.
Yes, they grilled Christian children on spits and ate their flesh.
During that same First Crusade, German Crusaders killed enough indigenous peoples of Turkey to leave behind a mountain of bones.
The Crusaders didn't know or care that there were many Christians living in the Holy Land. But the First Crusaders slaughtered all the locals--Muslims, Christians and Jews--because they couldn't differentiate among the various languages spoken by the locals or their Turkish overlords.
The First Crusade entered Jerusalem in triumph in July, 1099. The Crusaders who took Jerusalem in 1099 burned Jews alive in the Great Synagogue and looted the Temple of the Rock. They thought to cleanse the Holy Land with human sacrifice. Any wonder why the Arabs called the Crusaders "the pagan race?"
~~
Friday, February 03, 2006
Evidence of bias at The Guardian - Gerard Seenan's report from Dunfermline
The Scots should boycott The Guardian?
There is to be a by-election in Dunfermline, in Scotland.
Dunfermline should be a very safe Labour seat.
However, a poll carried out in Dunfermline, around 28 January 2006, had Labour with 37 per cent of the vote and the anti-war Scottish National Party (SNP) in second place with 34 per cent.
http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/NewsFrameset.htm
The media, including The Guardian, have tried very hard to ignore the SNP and the revelations that Scotland would be much better off if independent.
http://scot-land.blogspot.com/2005/12/head-of-central-policy-review-staff.html
NOW, let us look at this report of the Dunfermline by-election which appears in the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,,1700949,00.html
You will note the references to the Labour, Conservative and Liberal parties.
There is no mention of the SNP.
Not a single mention of the SNP.
Heavyweights hit the streets of Dunfermline
By Gerard Seenan
3 February 2006
Chancellor Gordon Brown was having lunch in the local cafe. Out on the high street Charles Kennedy, one time leader of the Liberal Democrats, fought his way through a media scrum as his supporters competed to see who could hold the most yellow balloons aloft. A few moments before David Cameron had battled his way through the cordons of TV cameras, microphones, and reporters.
Dunfermline, Fife, hadn't seen such luminaries since Andrew Carnegie who was born there in 1835. But, with the byelection in Dunfermline and West Fife entering its final week, the nation's political heavyweights descended upon the town en masse, although few of the voting residents got a chance to glimpse them.
Mr Kennedy was making his first major appearance since he resigned the Lib Dem leadership. He confirmed to reporters that he was still "on the wagon" and his health was "just fine". Despite trailing Labour by 11,500 votes in the general election, Mr Kennedy said he was confident the Lib Dems could achieve the required swing. Even the turmoil in the leadership contest would help.
"It's upped our profile - look at this," he said, pointing to the media scrum. "We must be doing something right. The swing to win this seat is half the swing we were achieving towards the end of the last parliament, taking seats from Labour in other parts of the country. Eminently winnable - eminently achievable."
Mr Kennedy made a few pre-arranged stops at a charity shop and a butchers. But only a handful of the voting public got a chance to meet him. Those who at least glimpsed him, though, were impressed. "He's looking well isn't he? Maybe I should give up the drink myself," said resident David McLellan.
Moments earlier Mr Cameron had been offering support to the Conservative party candidate, Carrie Ruxton. In Fife's former mining communities people have long memories. "You shut down the mines," shouted one onlooker at the Tory leader.
But Mr Cameron said he was confident the Conservatives, who came fourth in the last election, would do well. "There's always a chance because we've got a first-class candidate, it's an open contest and we're fighting for every vote," he said.
Mr Brown's constituency borders Dunfermline and West Fife, but Mr Cameron said he did not feel uncomfortable about campaigning in such a Labour heartland. "Gordon Brown doesn't own this place you know, it's an open election," he said.
Earlier in the day Mr Brown was forced to deny a rift with the Scottish first minister, Jack McConnell. At the start of campaigning Mr Brown had said plans to increase tolls on the local Forth road bridge by 400% had been abandoned, even though the Scottish executive had not yet made a decision on the matter.
He's back, fitter but fatter, after four weeks in the wilderness Times Online
Cameron rides into town to give Brown a bloody nose Telegraph.co.uk
Scotsman
Independent
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There is to be a by-election in Dunfermline, in Scotland.
Dunfermline should be a very safe Labour seat.
However, a poll carried out in Dunfermline, around 28 January 2006, had Labour with 37 per cent of the vote and the anti-war Scottish National Party (SNP) in second place with 34 per cent.
http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/NewsFrameset.htm
The media, including The Guardian, have tried very hard to ignore the SNP and the revelations that Scotland would be much better off if independent.
http://scot-land.blogspot.com/2005/12/head-of-central-policy-review-staff.html
NOW, let us look at this report of the Dunfermline by-election which appears in the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,,1700949,00.html
You will note the references to the Labour, Conservative and Liberal parties.
There is no mention of the SNP.
Not a single mention of the SNP.
Heavyweights hit the streets of Dunfermline
By Gerard Seenan
3 February 2006
Chancellor Gordon Brown was having lunch in the local cafe. Out on the high street Charles Kennedy, one time leader of the Liberal Democrats, fought his way through a media scrum as his supporters competed to see who could hold the most yellow balloons aloft. A few moments before David Cameron had battled his way through the cordons of TV cameras, microphones, and reporters.
Dunfermline, Fife, hadn't seen such luminaries since Andrew Carnegie who was born there in 1835. But, with the byelection in Dunfermline and West Fife entering its final week, the nation's political heavyweights descended upon the town en masse, although few of the voting residents got a chance to glimpse them.
Mr Kennedy was making his first major appearance since he resigned the Lib Dem leadership. He confirmed to reporters that he was still "on the wagon" and his health was "just fine". Despite trailing Labour by 11,500 votes in the general election, Mr Kennedy said he was confident the Lib Dems could achieve the required swing. Even the turmoil in the leadership contest would help.
"It's upped our profile - look at this," he said, pointing to the media scrum. "We must be doing something right. The swing to win this seat is half the swing we were achieving towards the end of the last parliament, taking seats from Labour in other parts of the country. Eminently winnable - eminently achievable."
Mr Kennedy made a few pre-arranged stops at a charity shop and a butchers. But only a handful of the voting public got a chance to meet him. Those who at least glimpsed him, though, were impressed. "He's looking well isn't he? Maybe I should give up the drink myself," said resident David McLellan.
Moments earlier Mr Cameron had been offering support to the Conservative party candidate, Carrie Ruxton. In Fife's former mining communities people have long memories. "You shut down the mines," shouted one onlooker at the Tory leader.
But Mr Cameron said he was confident the Conservatives, who came fourth in the last election, would do well. "There's always a chance because we've got a first-class candidate, it's an open contest and we're fighting for every vote," he said.
Mr Brown's constituency borders Dunfermline and West Fife, but Mr Cameron said he did not feel uncomfortable about campaigning in such a Labour heartland. "Gordon Brown doesn't own this place you know, it's an open election," he said.
Earlier in the day Mr Brown was forced to deny a rift with the Scottish first minister, Jack McConnell. At the start of campaigning Mr Brown had said plans to increase tolls on the local Forth road bridge by 400% had been abandoned, even though the Scottish executive had not yet made a decision on the matter.
He's back, fitter but fatter, after four weeks in the wilderness Times Online
Cameron rides into town to give Brown a bloody nose Telegraph.co.uk
Scotsman
Independent
~~~~~
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Clash of civilisations - manipulation by the media.
The clash of civilisations.
It used to be the rogue state of Israel that was involved in a clash with liberals and democrats in the West.
Why was there a clash?
1. The Israelis had used terror to drive the Arabs off their land.
2. Some of the Israelis were religious fundamentalists with 'weird, outdated beliefs'.
But, certain clever people in the USA have managed to change the story.
Now the clash is supposed to be between the 'mad Moslems' on the one side and the western liberals and democrats on the other.
How has the Pentagon and the CIA, together with its friends in Israel, managed to stir a clash between Moslems and the West?
1. Has the CIA/Pentagon given its support to Islamic fundamentalists in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan?
2. Has the CIA/Pentagon/Mossad infiltrated fundamentalist Christianity and allied it to Zionism?
2. Have certain western politicians allowed large numbers of poorly educated Moslem illegal-immigrants to enter certain western countries?
3. Did the CIA/Pentagon recruit Osama bin Laden and people like Mohamed Atta?
4. Have some ignorant Moslems been recruited by certain security services to take part part in various dubious activities?
5. Has a 'Jewish influenced' media stirred up trouble between Christians and Moslems?
6. Have large numbers of Moslems allowed themselves to be brain-washed and manipulated?
It is our impression, after visiting half a dozen Moslem countries, that the great majority of Moslems are moderate, tolerant, hospitable people.
Moderation, tolerance and hospitality can evaporate under pressure.
The Palestinians have had their land stolen and their children murdered - hence the vote for Hamas. Most Palestinians are not fundamentalists!
The CIA gave Iran the dictatorship of the Shah and then the dictatorship of the Ayatollahs.
The Iraqis had the CIA agent Saddam Hussein imposed on them and then they had their country manipulated into a war against Iran. More recently, a relatively secular Iraq has become a more fundamentalist Iraq.
The CIA has helped keep pro-western governments in power in Morocco and Algeria. This has encouraged moderate Moslems to turn to fundamentalist politicians.
The Americans have kept the Saudi monarchy in power.
The CIA toppled Indonesia's Sukarno and Suharto.
If you watch the media carefully you begin to notice the pattern of brainwashing:
BBC NEWS World Europe Journey of Belgian female 'bomber'
Cartoon wars and the clash of civilisations
BNP leader Griffin walks free
Not all Americans are fundamentalists. Not all Moslems are fundamentalists.
~~~
It used to be the rogue state of Israel that was involved in a clash with liberals and democrats in the West.
Why was there a clash?
1. The Israelis had used terror to drive the Arabs off their land.
2. Some of the Israelis were religious fundamentalists with 'weird, outdated beliefs'.
But, certain clever people in the USA have managed to change the story.
Now the clash is supposed to be between the 'mad Moslems' on the one side and the western liberals and democrats on the other.
How has the Pentagon and the CIA, together with its friends in Israel, managed to stir a clash between Moslems and the West?
1. Has the CIA/Pentagon given its support to Islamic fundamentalists in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan?
2. Has the CIA/Pentagon/Mossad infiltrated fundamentalist Christianity and allied it to Zionism?
2. Have certain western politicians allowed large numbers of poorly educated Moslem illegal-immigrants to enter certain western countries?
3. Did the CIA/Pentagon recruit Osama bin Laden and people like Mohamed Atta?
4. Have some ignorant Moslems been recruited by certain security services to take part part in various dubious activities?
5. Has a 'Jewish influenced' media stirred up trouble between Christians and Moslems?
6. Have large numbers of Moslems allowed themselves to be brain-washed and manipulated?
It is our impression, after visiting half a dozen Moslem countries, that the great majority of Moslems are moderate, tolerant, hospitable people.
Moderation, tolerance and hospitality can evaporate under pressure.
The Palestinians have had their land stolen and their children murdered - hence the vote for Hamas. Most Palestinians are not fundamentalists!
The CIA gave Iran the dictatorship of the Shah and then the dictatorship of the Ayatollahs.
The Iraqis had the CIA agent Saddam Hussein imposed on them and then they had their country manipulated into a war against Iran. More recently, a relatively secular Iraq has become a more fundamentalist Iraq.
The CIA has helped keep pro-western governments in power in Morocco and Algeria. This has encouraged moderate Moslems to turn to fundamentalist politicians.
The Americans have kept the Saudi monarchy in power.
The CIA toppled Indonesia's Sukarno and Suharto.
If you watch the media carefully you begin to notice the pattern of brainwashing:
BBC NEWS World Europe Journey of Belgian female 'bomber'
Cartoon wars and the clash of civilisations
BNP leader Griffin walks free
Not all Americans are fundamentalists. Not all Moslems are fundamentalists.
~~~
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