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The media and the bombings

Martin Sullivan | 03.07.2007 14:28 | Analysis | Anti-racism | Terror War

The media coverage of the botched terrorist attacks in London and Scotland has been much as you might expect.

Daily Express: Car bomber is British Doctor
Daily Express: Car bomber is British Doctor


Yesterday we had BBC News 24 reporting that the police had stated that none of the suspects was of British origin – and then broadcasting a piece suggesting that the attacks had been carried out by young British Muslims who had been radicalised by the internet and then travelled to Pakistan to be trained as terrorists.

And nobody seems to have picked up on the contradiction of claiming that the attacks were carried out or inspired by Al Qaida, while at the same time finding guilty before trial (see the Daily Mail front page, left) a doctor reportedly of Iranian origin who is presumably a Shia.

Needless to say, right-wing (and liberal) commentators have been eager to pin responsibility on the Muslim community for failing to stop the bombers – who for all we know may in fact have had no connection with any section of the UK Muslim community. An article by Philip Johnston in the Telegraph carries the headline "We need Muslims to do more", while the London Evening Standard goes with "Muslims must reject extremism", asserting that "many Muslim leaders drag their feet". Over at the Independent, in an article entitled "Sane, ordinary Muslims must stand up and be counted", Yasmin Alibhai-Brown gives a boost to the tiny and irrelevant British Muslims for Secular Democracy and welcomes the government's sidelining of the Muslim Council of Britain, which she describes as an "apologist" for the "killing brigades".

Leo McKinstry in the Express rants that "British Muslims must show which side they are on", complaining bitterly that "Alex Salmond claimed that 'individuals, not communities' were responsible for terrorism, a piece of nonsense given that it is the Muslim community that has bred these terrorists. In London, Mayor Ken Livingstone was even more reprehensible. He dismissed the idea of any connection between Islam and terrorism, claiming that: 'Muslims are less likely to support the use of violence for political ends than non-Muslims'. Yeah, right, tell that to the relatives of those killed in the July bombings, or the Twin Towers, or the Bali attacks or the Madrid massacre."

Mad Mel in the Mail calls for a ban on Hizb ut-Tahrir (who have in fact publicly opposed the attacks) and goes on to assert that "while most British Muslims say they would have no truck with terrorism or violence, an insupportable number of them do endorse appalling ideas". Mel has an explanation for this state of affairs: "Our [sic] Muslim community is particularly vulnerable to Islamist extremism because of the collapse of Britain's belief in itself and the corresponding rise of multiculturalism and minority rights."

An editorial in the Express headed "We should abandon failed policy of multiculturalism" chimes in with the recommendation that the government should adopt a programme of "no state funding for Muslim faith schools and ... an end to so-called 'chain migration' under which young British Muslims are pressured into marrying foreigners to afford their extended families a route into the UK.... It is surely also time for the Government to consider a legal ban on the burkha in public places. This is a nation where law-abiding citizens are not ashamed to show their faces. The era of politically correct cultural surrender must be brought to an end."

And, in the right-wing blogosphere, David T of Harry's Place takes the opportunity to have another go at Osama Saeed of MAB, accusing him of advocating "the deliberate slaughter of civilians" and helpfully providing a link to an earlier post describing Osama as a proponent of "clerical fascism".

Martin Sullivan
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what about The Sun?

03.07.2007 19:16

The Sun, 2 July 2007
The Sun, 2 July 2007




 http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2007300339,00.html



Doctors of Death

by Mike Sullivan and Andrew Parker, The Sun, 2 July 2007


"THE suspected ringleader of a plot to unleash a blitz of car bombs on Britain is an Iranian doctor arrested with his burka-clad wife."

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Why has this story disappeared from the right hand column?

03.07.2007 15:45

Al-Qaeda car bomb false flag MI6 garbage
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/374728.html

dh | 29.06.2007 23:21
More propaganda bullshit from the propaganda mill. Operation Gladio writ large once again over the streets of the capital
A compilation of views from the far seers


Oh we need you now!

Its amazing how Gordon Brown comes into power and all of sudden theres a terror threat, coincidence??

Wonder what policies Gordon wants to introduce??

I'm just glad he had the brains not to explode the device and save innocent lives for a change.

Maybe I'm completely off the mark too early to say have to wait and see the aftermath and investigation.

But false flag terror is the sea on which the Brown ship sails. The PM has very little say any more.

One of the NWO's weakest arguments is that Al-CIAda's political aims can be furthered by killing innocent civillians. Of course that has the opposite effect. As any real freedom fighter knows well.

So here we have another attempt by nasty Asian types to get white Londoners to hate them even more. It's the weakest and most farcical aspect to apparent 'meme' incidents like this.

What a surreal, nightmare these little Hitlers are ushering in. Could it be the Brown leadership will be characterised by even more fear-mongering mind control than before? If so we have to highlight the fundamental illogic in killing those who are their potential anti-NWO allies.

These racist anti-terror police have elbowed their way in to a monopoly on public fear incidents. They are trusted absolutely by the press but never accountable for even one of the lies that they tell. If anyone hasn't already seen it ge hold of a DVD of Troy Kennedy-Martin's BBC drama "The Edge of Darkness" which goes about as far as anyone has into this subject.

Maybe we should have a report by the Health and Safety Executive into how many medals those who defuse pretend bombs should be awarded? All I can find myself thinking this morning is "double the MI5 budget!" they are our saviours!! Who can stand up to these creatures?

A real terrorist would hit the centres of corrupt power and/or the pockets of the city slickers and merchant bankers, such as the Bishopsgate, Stock Exchange and Canary Wharf bombs in the 1990s.

Perhaps the unseen forces are testing their new underling, maybe they have sent a little shot across his bows and keep him on his toes. Come on PM sort out this awful mess before we are overrun with terrorists. Chop Chop.

Any bets, there will be no chain of custody for this car, no insurance, no road tax, and it will have been brought with cash from a second hand car dealer months ago, possibly being resold privately in a newspaper by an Asian who is arrested and then released after months of interrogation.

MI5 can congratulate themselves because they have found their own bomb, just remember the bearded SAS soldiers arrested in Iraq, driving around in a car full of explosives dressed as Arabs. Say no more except there is nothing like a FALSE FLAG or the threat of a FALSE FLAG to launch the new prime minister into power. These people are sick and evil.

What a shame, with all those hundreds of thousands of CCTV cameras in London, we dont seem to have captured any decent image of the gladio operatives, er.. i mean islamic maniacs who are doing it because they hate my freedom.

What happened to those high tech CCTV cams, linked to those 'secret' underground bunkers that beep beep when a dodgy car enters its zone of stalking? does that mean the car was legitimate, papers tax etc? or if it wasant legitimate where were those stealth keystones cops?

when you have these cameras primed and some thug waiting to pounce and follow your every move for miles for dropping a cigerette end or macdonalds carton, surely, surely this incident in the heart of London aroused a teeny weeny bit of suspicion?

Will we have another De Menezes bout of lies about a, dark skinned man seen hurdling obstacles in a thick coat fleeing the scene, with a box of wires protruding as he disappeared into the night, and this is a clear indication that one of the 200 al qaedaers cells are now busily reverting to plan B.

All thats missing is the boot was filled with jerry cans full of kerosene that would have melted surrounding buildings causing instant ''building falling into its own footprints''.

Still this is an ideal team for my new protector and man of truth and honour Brown, to show us all what a great shepherd he is.

2 gas bottles and 6oz of roundhead nails, al qaedas are certainly not the outfit they used to be, from single handedly standing the whole USA airforce to stand down, and bypassing the pentagons anti missile defence from a cave, and being the most sophistcated terror network ever seen, to crashing a merc on a deserted road, armed with 2 gas bottles and 6oz of nails.

Can you please stalk me more, and take more of my freedoms please, as i am now sleeping even more soundly knowing that by taking away all my freedoms bit by bit, i will be free.

We have gone from, the merc swerving into some bins and the driver legging it

But not before putting one of his gas bottles behind the car as if using it as a 'cone' warning

To the bouncers approaching the car and looking in the boot and signalling the alarm.

We then have the conspiracy theory turning into, the car was parked up nicely, and along came an ambulance, saw some smoke, and alerted the local keystones who came running, truncheons in hand.

One would have thought these likely Gladio operatives would be better planners than this, it would appear its some crazy ill thought out al qaedas doing it again false flag, judging from the concocted version of events we have been subjected to thus far. Almost as an after thought to, hey Gordo's the new primey, lets set up one of those al qaedas dun it cluedo games, so Gordy can show us how good and qualified he is

BBC 6 O'clock News is a wonderful programme. They just said that "CCTV will help this investigation just as it did with the 7/7 bombers"!

Hmmm.

Plus, why on earth are the journos not asking why there was an intelligence vacuum YET AGAIN?

90 day detention without trial is on the agenda.
The 'right' climate has to be created.
Just like climate change justifies ever more punitive taxes and loss of services so a climate of terror justifies ever more repressive measures.

The racist nature of this campaign is so blatant that the Rothermere press have printed pictures of discos and bars implying muslims want to blow them up and that a terror plot of enormous proportions was averted.

If they continue along this path ...tourism will go down the pan.
How long will all businesses put up with it?

Interesting that Al Ukqaeda have to keep re-inventing the whee... er IED. No sooner than they discover the devastating chapati flower SADM, it's off to liquids and planes. Now gas canisters and nails. Shall we start a sweepstake on what their next devilish munition will be? Rhubarb and custard is my entry.

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It's back

03.07.2007 16:03

It's now on the front page again, scroll down, it's between these articles:

Leeds Saturday
29-06-2007 23:53 | 1 addition

Image Al-Qaeda car bomb false flag MI5 garbage
29-06-2007 23:21 | 27 comments

Audio Guantánamo Bay: The Case of Omar Deghayes
29-06-2007 22:32

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Sorry, so what exactly are you saying?..

04.07.2007 09:34

...you don't like bombs in blighty but its ok anywhere else? Even if the anywhere else is a result of illegal war of aggression in terms of international Law?

So who, exactly, are the criminals?

One of them is now brightly and breezily lauching a whole raft of new democratic constitutional reforms for blightyworld. Problem. He's a war criminial with mind boggling frightening karma who would do best to fuck off and die.

Blessings.

King Amdo


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irrelevant

04.07.2007 12:05

amdo, your comment has no relevance to the articles above, which are analysis or comment on the media coverage.

anarchoteapot


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04.07.2007 18:32

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