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UK "Terror Plot": Gordon Brown points finger at Pakistan

dandelion salad | 12.04.2009 11:48 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Repression | World

Now that the UK Defense Minister has publicly announced Britain’s engagement in Obama’s “Af-Pak War”, it is hardly surprising that the latest wave of relentless false-flag terrorism propaganda by the British government and media specifically target Pakistani citizens living in the UK.

Just a day before the “Easter Plot”, the “civilian” Prime Minister of Pakistan went as far as saying “give us the drones and missiles that will allow us to take care of this problem on our own”; meaning the Pakistani Armed Forces’ extermination of its own people who resist the imperialist invasion of their country.

Guardian, 10 April 2009
Guardian, 10 April 2009

Daily Telegraph, 10 April 2009
Daily Telegraph, 10 April 2009

Times, 10 April 2009
Times, 10 April 2009

Daily Mail, 10 April 2009
Daily Mail, 10 April 2009

Daily Mirror, 10 April 2009
Daily Mirror, 10 April 2009

Daily Star, 9 April 2009
Daily Star, 9 April 2009

Sun, 11 April 2009
Sun, 11 April 2009


Now that the UK Defense Minister has publicly announced Britain’s engagement in Obama’s “Af-Pak War” [1], it is hardly surprising that the latest wave of relentless false-flag terrorism propaganda by the British government and media specifically target Pakistani citizens living in the UK.

Just a day before the “Easter Plot”, the “civilian” Prime Minister of Pakistan went as far as saying “give us the drones and missiles that will allow us to take care of this problem on our own”; meaning the Pakistani Armed Forces’ extermination of its own people who resist the imperialist invasion of their country. [2]

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North West England “terror plot”:

1) The new enemy within is invisible (Daily Telegraph)
2) Students of terror (Daily Mail)
3) Terror plot: universities seen as safe havens (Daily Telegraph)
4) Scramble to find the Easter bomb factory (Times)
5) Al-Qaeda terror plot to bomb Easter shoppers (Daily Telegraph)
6) Terror plot to blow up top footie grounds (Daily Star)
7) Student visa link to terror raids as Gordon Brown points finger at Pakistan (Guardian)
8) UK and Pakistan to work together against terrorism

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from the archives:

1) Zardari: 'Give us the drones and we will take out the militants ourselves'
2) UK backs Pakistan offensive
3) UK Interior Minister: The threat of a chemical or nuclear attack is now more real
4) British tabloid press: Britain is now harbouring a menacing enemy within

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 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/concoughlin/5133188/The-new-enemy-within-is-invisible.html


excerpts from: The new enemy within is invisible

by Con Coughlin, Daily Telegraph, 10 April 2009


Within Britain's counter-terrorism community they are known as the "clean skins": highly trained, professional killers whose blameless backgrounds provide not the slightest clue as to their true, evil intent.

The phenomenon was first identified during the bloody 30-year campaign the IRA waged against the British Isles. […]

Now it appears that the "clean skins" may be back, this time in Islamist form. That is the logical conclusion to be drawn from the latest operation in which anti-terror police detained […] 11 Pakistani-born nationals who had entered Britain on student visas (and one British national), which suggest that al-Qaeda might now be attempting to effect a radical transformation in its tactics.

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 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1168902/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-What-Miss-Smiths-creditability.html


excerpt from: Students of terror

leading article, Daily Mail , 10 April 2009


Every year, some 10,000 Pakistanis arrive here on student visas. Ministers have virtually no means of knowing how many are dangerous radicals, and how many genuine seekers after knowledge.

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 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5133542/Terror-plot-universities-seen-as-safe-havens.html


Terror plot: universities seen as safe havens

Wednesday's arrests were a deeply disturbing reminder that Britain remains the prime target of Islamist terrorists in the West.

by Anthony Glees, Daily Telegraph, 10 April 2009

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 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6070133.ece


excerpt from: Scramble to find the Easter bomb factory

by Sean O’Neill, Andrew Norfolk, Russell Jenkins and Michael Evans, Times, 10 April 2009


A desperate search was under way last night for the terrorist bomb factory from which a suspected al-Qaeda cell planned to launch a devastating attack in Manchester.

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 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5133535/Al-Qaeda-terror-plot-to-bomb-Easter-shoppers.html


Al-Qaeda terror plot to bomb Easter shoppers

An al-Qaeda cell was days away from carrying out an "Easter spectacular" of co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks on shopping centres in Manchester, police believe

by Duncan Gardham, Daily Telegraph, 10 April 2009

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 http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/76027/Terror-plot-to-blow-up-top-footie-grounds/


Terror plot to blow up top footie grounds

Fears were growing over a bomb threat to last night’s Euro cup clash as police foiled a “major” terrorist attack.

by Bill Martin, Daily Star, 9 April 2009

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 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/10/student-visa-terror-arrests-link


Student visa link to terror raids as Gordon Brown points finger at Pakistan

Gordon Brown: police foiled 'very big terrorist plot'

by Sandra Laville, Richard Norton-Taylor and Vikram Dodd, Guardian, 10 April 2009

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 http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page18985


excerpt from: UK and Pakistan to work together against terrorism

Number10 (website of the UK Prime Minister’s Office), 10 April 2009


“I think one important part of this that has got to be recognised is that increasingly we have seen terrorist links with Pakistan and Britain. […] I think one of the lessons we are learning from the events of the past few years is that Pakistan has got to do more to root out the terrorist elements in its country as well.”

[UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, 9 April 2009] [1]

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from the archives:


 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/29/pakistan-afgan-border-foreign-policy


[1] excerpts from: UK backs Pakistan offensive

Defence secretary insists Britain has to back American plans to hunt down al-Qaida leaders across the Afghan border

by Mark Townsend, Observer, 29 March 2009


Britain has offered its full backing for a renewed military offensive inside Pakistan, as UK ministers confirmed the country was now "part of a single campaign" alongside Afghanistan. […]

Confirming that Britain was being drawn into a widening regional conflict, Hutton said the time had come to target Taliban and al-Qaida havens inside Pakistan. In his most explicit statement of intent against Afghanistan's troubled neighbour, Hutton said that the military objectives in the region must now have "an equal focus on both countries".

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 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/zardari-give-us-the-drones-and-we-will-take-out-the-militants-ourselves-1665548.html


[2] Zardari: 'Give us the drones and we will take out the militants ourselves'

Pakistan's embattled leader tells Andrew Buncombe what the US should be doing to help him tackle the extremist menace

by Andrew Buncombe, Independent, 8 April, 2009

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 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/the-threat-of-a-chemical-or-nuclear-attack-is-now-more-real/


[3] UK Interior Minister: The threat of a chemical or nuclear attack is now more real

Dandelion Salad, 25 March 2009

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 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/03/424149.html


[4] British tabloid press: Britain is now harbouring a menacing enemy within

Indymedia UK, 13 March 2009

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Comments

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The reality of Pakistani terror

12.04.2009 12:32

Pakistan is a well known centre of terrorism where attacks such as the one on the Sri Lankan cricket team, the police acadamy in Lahore, the attack on on Bombay/Mumbai, bombings of mosques that don't follow the line of the fanatics etc have become routine.

Unless you are suggesting that these were all black propaganda operations, which would be rather fantastic, to automatically call measures against them "false flag" operations is dishonest.

Martin


I tend...

12.04.2009 12:56

...to agree with Martin.

I think there are extremists who would use violence to get what they want. However, I do think the UK gov exploits and presents a false picture i.e. not allowing us to hear the actual demands and reasons for such acts which through negotiation i am sure some compromise could be reached. A terrorist first target is always his 'home' country and some perceived injustice.

Peewee


ethnic cleansing

12.04.2009 17:49

The police have no evidence. They never have. Non of the victims will be convicted of terrorism. But I'd expect most of them to be deported. It will help justify ID cards for immigrants. It will make it harder for them to come here. It is just pure racism aimed at Pakistanis in the little britain. The student population is being ethnically cleansed.

Twiggs


Timing?

14.04.2009 09:27

Is it my imagination but wasn't this all rather convenient time wise? The press headlines for the days before were about the Police killing Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests. Hey presto! We then have the "war on terror" and Police painted as the heroes stopping the horrible nasty men.

I doubt they will find anything, unless it is planted. Call me a cynic but the timing was very good for them was it not?

Mal Feasance