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July 29th 05, 08:05 AM

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Tick, Tick, Boom
In the wake of 7/7 the Brits are livid over their government?s
intelligence failures. Just wait until they hear about ours.

by John Aravosis

Three new studies by the Saudi government and think tanks in Israel
and Britain conclude what everyone already knows: The war in Iraq has
incited more, not less, terrorism. The British study, funded by the
government, found that ?the situation over Iraq gave a boost to the
Al-Qaeda network?s propaganda, recruitment and fundraising, caused a
major split in the coalition, provided an ideal targeting and training
area for Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists, and deflected resources and
assistance that could have been deployed to assist the Karzai
government and to bring bin Laden to justice.?

Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how?d you like the war?

While the American public is paying the bad news the usual inattention
it gives any scandal not involving a missing blonde chick, the Brits
have gotten the message and they?re not happy. A recent Guardian/ICM
poll shows that two-thirds of Britons see a link between the recent
London bombings and Britain?s decision to join the war in Iraq. My
conversations with locals on a recent visit to London, hours after the
July 7 bombings, confirmed as much. In addition to the surprising
number of people I spoke to who blamed the attacks on Britain?s
involvement in Iraq, the sole cop standing guard in front of
Buckingham Palace that evening, when asked why the attacks happened,
told me that it was ?because some people want to be free.? Imagine a
Secret Service agent saying that in front of the White House on 9/11.

The British public?s ire over the bombings only increased after it was
discovered that police had one of the suspects in custody months ago,
but released him after determining he posed no threat. No doubt the
Brits will be even more ****ed once they realize the Bush
administration twice botched efforts that could have helped prevent
the attack.

The first screw up was back in 2002. According to the Seattle Times,
the US had in its custody at that time Haroon Aswat, a man federal
prosecutors believe helped set up a terrorist training camp in Bly,
Oregon in late 1999. For reasons no one can quite figure out, John
Ashcroft?s Justice Department blocked efforts by its own Seattle-based
prosecutors to seek a grand-jury indictment of Aswat. Why is that
relevant? Aswat has now been tied to the London bombings (the Brits
think he was in cell phone contact with at least two of the bombers in
the days preceding the attack).

The second screw up is even more astounding.

Let's see, GW Bush is responsible for 9/11,for high gas prices,bombings
in London,suicide bombers in Iraq,hip-hop music,Dick Cheny's
baldness,Ted Kennedy's boozing,Aids,SARs,Queen Elizabeth's constipation
and the most heinous of all(gasp!)YOU posting this inane dribble.Yeah,
the world is full of sinister conspiracies and those who conspire to
commit them and GW Bush is (evidently)behind them all.

David, meet the Bozo bin. Bozo bin, meet David