Tom Ridge's U.K. visit, aimed at provoking fear and loathing to justify the New World War, was given a boost by
the slavish grovelling and scare mongering of Jack Straw's
Home Office. As Ridge, one of the key players in American domestic warmongering, addressed the Centre for Defence Studies at Kings College, London, the Home Office distributed a draft document raising the spectre of nuclear and gas attacks on U.K. soil. This text, whilst full of caveats such as "we cannot be sure" and "maybe" mentions dirty bombs, gas and "conventional" terrorists attacks as being possible things that "we can be sure ("fanatical extremists") will try". It was withdrawn an hour after it's release, presumably because it consisted of little more than speculation. Ridge's speech promised "casualties in the thousands or tens of thousands" as the result of such attacks. Is this a realistic assessment or psyops/psychological warefare aimed at terrorising us into being led blindly into an unjust, terrorist war?