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.

Last summer, just after the Democratic convention, then-Secretary of
Homeland Security Tom Ridge issued another of his many Code Orange
terror alerts. The secretary-who-cried-terrorist was facing increasing
criticism for politicizing the terror warnings in the months before
the presidential election, so this time he did something different.
Secretary Ridge gave the public details, and lots of ‘em.

“Reports indicate that Al Qaeda is targeting several specific
buildings,” Ridge said at an August 1, 2004 press conference,
“including the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in the
District of Columbia; Prudential Financial in Northern New Jersey; and
Citigroup buildings and the New York Stock Exchange in New York.”

Those details were enough for the New York Times, in less than
twenty-four hours, to uncover and break the rest of the story. The
Times reported on August 2 that US officials had announced the terror
alert after receiving hard evidence that Al Qaeda was targeting New
York and DC financial centers. The evidence came from the laptop
computer of Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, the Times said, an Al Qaeda
operative arrested in Pakistan several weeks prior who was now working
as a US mole inside Al Qaeda. That’s when all hell broke loose.

While it remains unclear who spilled Khan’s name—the Americans blame
the Pakistanis, and vice versa—the Times story created a panic in
English and Pakistani law enforcement circles. Khan’s Al Qaeda buddies
in both countries, upon learning that their friend was a double agent,
quickly went into hiding. Both British and Pakistani officials were
“furious” with the Americans for helping to unmask their spy,
according to the New York Daily News, and the Brits had to launch a
series of high-speed chases to catch Khan’s fleeing cabal. A senior
Pakistani official told the Associated Press “this intelligence leak
jeopardized our plan and some Al Qaeda suspects ran away.”

Now back to 7/7.

There was an important piece of information not revealed last August
by either Tom Ridge or the Times. As ABC News reported after the
London bombing, Khan’s laptop not only contained information about US
financial centers, but also evidence that Al Qaeda was planning to
target the London Tube. ABC, of course, forgot the clincher: How
Bush’s leaky goon squad sabotaged a multinational operation to thwart
what would ultimately become the successful London bombings of July 7,
2005.

Beats a missing blonde chick any day.

"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."

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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