No terror attack over holidays proves one of two things

Do miracles really happen? Jesus turned water into wine, but do the spooks that staff the hierarchies of the British and American intelligence establishment possess the same divine powers? Or were they simply lying again when it was sternly reported that only a “miracle” would prevent London from being attacked by terrorists over the holiday period?

British Home Secretary John Reid, former hardcore Stalinist, member of the Scottish Communist Party and an alcoholic bully with a penchant for thumping people in the face, reiterated the threat that it was “highly likely” that terrorists would attempt an attack before the first of the year.

“It will be a miracle if there isn’t a terror attack over the holidays in London,” a senior American law enforcement official told ABCNews.com on December 21st.

By that logic, the fact that a terror attack did not happen proves one of two things - that miracles really do happen in the modern world or governments are lying to us about terrorism in order to scare populations into accepting the deliberately engineered drift towards authoritarianism.

Which do you think it is? (more…)

False Flag 2007 No. 1

The most striking thing about New Years Eve in Bangkok was despite the Bombing Bloodbath just around the corner Pad Pong the Sex Bar lined Market Place in Silom was opened for business, packed with party revelers and its usual trade of men looking for cheap Asian intimacy. The only place emptied by the Army Coup directed Police was a much more innocent part of this multi faceted city. “Coincidently” the very place that the second round of bombs exploded just after Midnight, injuring no one. Hurray for the coup leaders, hurray for a very Thai Terrorist Act, can’t stop the Ping Pong shows!

The Authorities in Bangkok were also immediately sure this had nothing to do with the Muslim insurgency in the south of the country, before any substantial investigation had taken place. We don’t want the people getting “off message”. No the official word is these bombs were planted by forces opposed to the coup.

What a strange message for these people to push, I’m sure that the bombing will get a lot of Thais on to the pro democracy band wagon. Or maybe there is a very obvious logic at work here. Lets join the dots. (more…)

Thailand’s deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has denied being behind bomb blasts in Bangkok that killed three people and injured 38.
In a letter sent from Beijing, Mr Thaksin said the attacks on New Year’s Eve bore all the hallmarks of Muslim militants fighting in the south.

PM Surayud Chulanont has already said it is unlikely insurgents are to blame.

On Monday, he suggested “groups that have lost political powers” were behind the attacks, without giving names.

“These were not just the previous government, but include all those which have lost power in the past. We could not at this stage pinpoint which particular group was involved,” he said.

A number of people linked to the government of Mr Thaksin, which was deposed in a bloodless coup in September, have been questioned over the attacks. (more…)

There’s no such thing as al Qaeda, or al Qaida, or however you want to spell it. It’s a fraud perpetrated on the American people by our own government to scare us into submission. This is a clip from the excellent three-part BBC documentary “The Power of Nightmares”. You can watch the whole thing on Google Video or download it at scholarsfor911truth.org.

BANGKOK — At least six small bombs exploded in Bangkok on Sunday, killing two people and wounding more than 20, shocking the Thai capital into cancelling some New Year countdown celebrations.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombs, which went off within about an hour and included one planted under a seat at a bus stop outside a shopping mall which wounded 17 people, two seriously, they said.

Police said they did not believe the bombs were the work of militants in the Muslim-majority far south who have set off a series of bombs in towns there during three years of separatist insurgency and who do not issue claims of responsibility.

“I don’t believe it has anything to do with the militants in the south,” deputy national police chief General Achiravit Supanpasat told a news conference, referring to an insurgency which has cost more than 1,800 lives. (more…)

‘Fusion’ Facilities Raise Privacy Worries As Wide Range of Information Is Collected

Frustrated by poor federal cooperation, U.S. states and cities are building their own network of intelligence centers led by police to help detect and disrupt terrorist plots.

The new “fusion centers” are now operating in 37 states, including Virginia and Maryland, and another covers the Washington area, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The centers, which have received $380 million in federal support since the 2001 terrorist attacks, pool and analyze information from local, state and federal law enforcement officials.

The emerging “network of networks” marks a new era of opportunity for law enforcement, according to U.S. officials and homeland security experts. Police are hungry for federal intelligence in an age of homegrown terrorism and more sophisticated crime. For their part, federal law enforcement officials could benefit from a potential army of tipsters — the 700,000 local and state police officers across the country, as well as private security guards and others being courted by the centers. (more…)

A car bomb exploded at Madrid’s international airport injuring four people on Saturday after an anonymous warning by telephone and a second call claiming it was the work of Basque rebels ETA, Spanish authorities said.

Passengers at the ultra-modern Terminal Four said the departure hall filled with smoke after the explosion in a nearby parking lot which could mark the end of a cease-fire declared by ETA in March after four decades of armed struggle for Basque Country independence.

The bomb exploded at about 9 a.m. (8:00 a.m. British Time), causing minor injuries to four people including two police officers and a taxi driver, emergency services said, and sending a huge pall of smoke over the terminal at Barajas Airport.

While witnesses said they were evacuated after the explosion, authorities received the first warning at about 8 a.m. (7:00 a.m. British Time) after a man with a Basque accent called Basque traffic authorities to warn them of a bomb in a purple Renault Traffic van in a roofed parking area. (more…)

Earlier today, during an interview on CNN, the Republican chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee — which just released a report rebuking the FBI on its investigation of the 1999 Oklahoma City bombing — was asked if he was helping to “fuel conspiracy theories.”

American Morning’s Miles O’Brien told outgoing Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, (R-CA) that he had “raised a lot of questions that are just kind of ‘out there’ in the conspiracy theorist world.” O’Brien mentioned different theories relating to Middle East terrorists, Iraqi officials, neo-Nazi bankrobbers, and the alleged John Doe #2. (more…)

Thousands more police are to be given special training and equipment to deal with a potential chemical, biological or nuclear terror attack.

A Government spokeman insisted the move was not in response to any specific threat, but “part of an ongoing process”.

The Home Office is to buy 12,000 personal protection suits for the event of a dirty bomb attack.

Around 7,000 police officers across the UK are currently trained to deal with an attack, representing about five per cent of the total number of officers.

The new, high-tech suits will be used over the next few years to replace the 7,000 currently in use, and to make available an extra 5,000 to existing police officers.

A Home Office spokesman said the move would mean an increase in the number of officers trained to deal with an attack, but would not say exactly how many. (more…)

Congressional report criticizes FBI on lingering questions

WASHINGTON — The FBI failed to fully investigate information suggesting other suspects may have helped Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols with the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, allowing questions to linger more than a decade after the deadly attack, a congressional inquiry concludes.

The House International Relations investigative subcommittee will release the findings of its two-year-review as early as Wednesday, declaring there is no conclusive evidence of a foreign connection to the attack but that far too many questions remain.

The subcommittee’s report will conclude there is no doubt McVeigh and Nichols were the main perpetrators, and it discloses for the first time that Nichols confirmed to House investigators he participated in the robbery of an Arkansas gun dealer that provided the proceeds for the attack. (more…)

British intelligence and law enforcement officials have passed on a grim assessment to their U.S. counterparts, “It will be a miracle if there isn’t a terror attack over the holidays in London,” a senior American law enforcement official tells ABCNews.com.

British police have been quietly carrying out a series of key arrests as they continue to track at least six active “plots” tied to what they call “al Qaeda of England.”

Officials said they could not cite any specific date or target but said al Qaeda had planned previous operations during the Christmas holidays that had been disrupted. (more…)

President Bush has dropped to new lows on his handling of Iraq as well as the overall war on terror, according to survey data presented today on CNN.

“Only 28 percent of Americans say they approve of the way President Bush is handling Iraq,” reports CNN’s senior political analyst Bill Schneider. “Disapproval has reached 70 percent.”

Source: Raw Story

Video Shows McVeigh was in military receiving instruction in “explosives and demolition” over a year after official story says he was discharged, whistleblower harassed for years while unknowingly in possession of bombshell tape

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A video that shows Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh at a U.S. military base that specializes in explosives and demolition training over a year after he supposedly left the army puts the official story of the April 19 1995 federal building bombing under serious doubt and mandates a re-opening of an investigation into the terror attack that killed 168 people. (more…)

MELBOURNE, Australia — Thirteen men accused of belonging to a terrorist cell that was plotting a major attack in Australia pleaded not guilty to the charges Monday.

The men, all Muslims, were among 18 suspects arrested last year in coordinated pre-dawn raids in Melbourne and Sydney in a two-year operation police said prevented a catastrophic terror attack in Australia, possibly targeting a nuclear reactor in southern Sydney.

The 13 appeared in the Victorian state Supreme Court to plead not guilty to belonging to a terrorist organization and other terrorism-related offenses. The remaining five suspects were arrested in Sydney, where they are awaiting trial. (more…)