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We start off with Interesting Items in the media from PoSW:
Well, what can one say? On Thursday 7-July Britain changed for ever as the long expected terrorist attack finally took place with bombs on the Underground and on a bus. When news first came through on that morning the initial reports said that there had been an explosion on an Underground train caused by a power surge which to some of us didn't seem very likely; a power surge might blow fuses and trip circuit breakers all over the place but it would take some unprecedented electrical fault to cause the kind of explosion which eye witnesses were describing. Over 50 dead and many terrible injuries. Poor London, eh?; in the space of a few days they had to endure the Live8 concert in which a load of extremely wealthy personalities from the music business harangued their audience over the issue of sending ever more money to that great cesspit of corruption, one-party dictatorships and incompetence called Africa, then the news that London had been chosen to host the 2012 Olympics - as if the place wasn't already congested enough with a transport system always on the point of overload and then the bombs of 7/7. Some of the cant and hypocrisy which emenated from various quarters in the days that followed was hard to take, in particular the mayor of London, Mr Ken Livingstone, whose Cheshire Cat grin and nasal whine are well known to us Brits. In the course of a few days he changed from smug satisfaction on the Olympic Games news to anger when the bombs went off. This is the same man who, when head of the Greater London Council, frequently hosted functions for sympathisers of the IRA at a time when British soldiers were being shot in the back in Northern Ireland and IRA bombs were going off; and he also had various individuals connected with Palestinian terrorist groups round for tea and buns with their flag flying over the GLC Headquarters on more than one occasion.
It didn't take long for the Muslim connection to become apparent. The reaction of the BBC, supposedly standing for the British Broadcasting Corporation - although you have to wonder if there shouldn't be another letter in front of the fist "B", namely "A" for anti - was preditcable knowing their past form on such matters. Once it had become established that the outrage had been committed by British Muslims their Radio 4 news programmes went out of their way to give the followers of Islam plenty of air time to put over their point of view, as did that great beacon of Metropolitan political correctness Radio 5 Live. It was particularly galling to hear a whole succesion of Muslim appologists putting forward the view that the British people have got to understand why young Muslim men are so angry. They are angry, seemingly, for a whole variety of reasons including the current situation in Palestine, Iraq, Kashmir and Chechniya, and are even peeved, apparantly, at the fact that Islam was expelled from Spain over five centuries ago. All of which went unchallenged by the BBC interviewers. Most bizarre of all was that a spokesman from something called the Muslim Human Rights Organisation was invited to spout forth on the situation and give a whole load of excuses as to why Muslims should want to set off bombs on the public transport system. I think this must be an example of what my old English teacher used to call an "Oxymoron".Given that all of the Muslim world is ruled by tyrants, thugs or despotic monarchs it is about as likely an institution as the Gobi Desert Yacht Club or the Chocolate Teapot Manufacturer's Association. At no time were good ol' Essex Boys invited to state their thoughts; we certainly don't want to understand these bastards; anyone involved with this kind of mass murder and who survived, as the planners of this suicide mission must have done, should in the opinion of some of us, be arrested, tried in a court of law and upon conviction hanged. And if the skills of the hangman have been lost over this last forty years or so I can produce a whole load of volunteers willing to take a training course.
By the way, I noticed that when the CCTV pictures were analysed and the suicide bombers had been identified attention was drawn to the khaki coloured backpacks they had been wearing. Several newspapers and the reporter on Channel 4 TV News all said that the backpack was "like that which an army radio operator might wear". I bet the members of the Military Amateur Wireless Society will think twice before taking that old 46 set out for a bit of alfresco QRP operation! [The 46 set was the first surplus radio I ever bought, nice bit of kit: 5/- less coil pack and xtals and the special battery. The antenna rods and 37 webbing haversack was well worth the 5/- alone]
When the second incident took place a couple of weeks later, generally supposed to be a failed suicide mission because the devices failed to explode, there were arrests and afterwards an unfortunate set of circumstances in which a young man assumed to be one of the bombers was shot dead by the police as he boarded a train. There was a lot of whooping and hollering of delight when it was reported that one of the bombers had been corpsed but everyone fell silent went it turned out that the unfortunate individual had no connection with terrorism. However, the jubilation picked up again just a little bit when it was revealed that the shot man was working illegally having come to the UK from Brazil on a student visa which had long since expired and had been employed as a electrician, no doubt part of that huge army of overseas cheap labour to which the authorities turn a blind eye because it keeps the cost of wages down to the detriment of British tradesmen.
The performance of our elected politicians also had some of us reaching for the sick bag. As more became known about the incidents Blair made a speech in Parliament about the determination of the government to defeat terrorism. This was immediately praised by the so-called opposition, several of whose members got up and praised Blair for his leadership even using such bullshit as "a truly Churchillian performance" and "surely one of the greatest Prime Ministers ever". The thought of any current politician being classed with Sir Winston is offensive, if not almost bordering on blasphemy. What they were doing here, no doubt, was trying to deflect the criticism which was starting to be heard along the lines of that governments of both hues have stood by and done nothing as militant Islam took root in this country in spite of all the warnings from overseas intelligence services - the French secret service have for a long time referred to our capital as "Londonistan" - and individuals such as David Shayler who has often spoken of the high number of Islamic militants known to be resident in the UK. Both the main parties are shrewd enough to realise that when it come the next General Election, or perhaps the one after that, the Muslim vote may well be decisive and with a current figure of perhaps a couple of million and increasing rapidly due to the extremely high birth rate that vote is something that both parties are determined to capture. Hence the law now going through Parliament which will, in effect, make all negative comment on Islam a criminal offence.
Obituaries;- on 20-July the death was reported of American General William Westmoreland the leading personality in charge of the United States' disasterous war in Vietnam. At one point he had one million troops under his command - but wanted two million in order to, as he put it, "pacify" Vietnam. I recall that at the time he was satirised as General Wastemoreland but he seemingly had no regrets over the death and destruction that was caused in waging war in Southeast Asia and the eventual ignominious withdrawal of the Americans. Perhaps there is a lesson here that Uncle Sam is going to have to learn all over again in Iraq.
Around the same time the death was also anounced of the former British Prime Minister Edward Heath. It is generally considered "bad form" to speak ill of the dead but many commentators made an exception for him. There was much discussion as to whether or not he was the worst Prime Minister of our times, or merely the second worst. Many if not all of the problems which currently beset the British nation can be directly atributed to Heath's actions.
When in the late 'sixties one of this party colleagues made a speech in which he suggested, perhaps a little forcefully, that the mass immigration into the UK of people who did not wish to integrate was not necessarily in the long term interests of Britain, Heath instead of debating the issue had the man thrown out of his position in the his party and mass imigration took off unchecked; and that started a process which led directly to the London bombings. And he also signed the treaty which took the UK into the European Union, or Economic Community as it was in those days. For the first time ever a nation whose political system had been evolving for a thousand years was subject to laws made not by its own legislature but by un-elected officials in a foreign country who nowadays contrive laws which we must obey, sent to the British goverment in sealed envelopes just as they would have been if we had been conquered in 1940. I must confess that when I heard the news of Heath's passing I poured myself a large drink and imagined the scene which might be taking place at that very moment in the realms of Hell with Satan instructing all his little demons to get the fires stoked up in preparation for the tormenting of a very special soul. So I was pleased to see in the Daily Telegraph of 19-July a short article on the subject of something called the National Association of Ted Heath Burners who have never forgiven him for handing us over to Brussels and burned his effigy on November 5 each year. The campaigns manager, one Rob McWhirter, was quoted as saying "We'd actually been planning to relaunch our website this November but his death has rather scuppered it. He always was good at spoiling things". NATHB chairman Alex Stanway only has one regret, saying "I'm just sorry we never got to see him stand trial for treason" [Tnx PoSW]
Now onto the rest:
I take the SWM on subscription [as well as PW and a couple of other mags]. This month the SWM ‘Scanning Scene’ opened with a short on the events of 7th July. The author mentioned the devices may have been detonated by mobile phone and adds that the suicide bombers perpetrated the act. [Mobiles do have alarms that can be used in the same way]. The author then mentions that we should consider the use of the USA FRS radios detonating devices in Iraq and suggests there may not be a better time to monitor all the PMR446/FRS/GMRS type frequencies as these persons may be testing their radios in consideration of other attacks and detonation techniques.
Perhaps an interesting story away from the usual ‘Brazilian shot dead’ saturation of media coverage was the Sunday Times of 21/08 front cover ‘Police foil gas attack on Commons.’
Apparently the plot was discovered in coded emails on computers seized from terror suspects in Britain and Pakistan.
It was stated that an al Qaeda cell had already carried out extensive research and video recorded reconnaissance in preparation of the attack.
Luckily these encrypted emails were decoded with the help of an al-Qaeda supergrass who assisted MI5 and GCHQ discover several other plots. The thwarted plot apparently involved a gas/chemical or dirty bomb attack on parliament. Later the article seemed to twin the Tube bomb to the same group of emails.
So here we have detail of encrypted emails being passed. SSB utilities in SWM Dec 04 mentioned an increase in terrorist related HF radio traffic.
The author mentions that much of the equipment was purchased [the Babar Ahmed affidavit mentions such action] but that a large amount is simply stolen from aid vehilcles.
These radios, the author suggests are linked to laptops and such modes as PSK31 are used to send textual based messages.
[Any interested party can hear PSK31 around 7038kHz — decode it with ‘digipan’ available from www.digipan.net].
The powers used by terror groups is around 20-30w. Interstingly the article ends ‘There is a really strong body of opinion that this mode is being used by Islamic terror groups in remote areas.’
In the SWM of September 2005 the author again makes reference to terror in a column entitled ‘London Bombings.’
In this column he ruminates on emailing and the use of Echelon dictionaries and suggests that HF radio may well be the only way for these terror groups to keep in touch.
Interestingly, the following paragraph [reminiscent of the WW2 Radio Security Services] appeared ‘Utility monitors have access to equipment and knowledge that few others possess. It is our duty to listen out for suspicious communications and report them to the police. These days the authorities are very aware of technically competent members of the public who possess skills that they themselves may not have immediately available.’ Earlier on in his piece the PSK31 mode is again mentioned. SWM is a decent mag that is a must for radio hobbyists.
[MF contacted PLondon with details of this story]:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10334992
'Police shot bombers' reports New Zealander
NZ Herald 09.07.05
A New Zealander working for Reuters in London says two colleagues witnessed the unconfirmed shooting by police of two apparent suicide bombers outside the HSBC tower at Canary Wharf in London.
The New Zealander, who did not want to be named, said the killing of the two men wearing bombs happened at 10.30am on Thursday (London time).
Following the shooting, the 8000 workers in the 44-storey tower were told to stay away from windows and remain in the building for at least six hours, the New Zealand man said.
He was not prepared to give the names of his two English colleagues, who he said witnessed the shooting from a building across the road from the tower.
Reports of attacks carried out by suicide bombers have been rife in London.
Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper reported an unconfirmed incident of police shooting a bomber outside the HSBC tower.
Canadian Brendan Spinks, who works on the 18th floor of the tower, said he saw a "massive rush of policemen" outside the building after London was rocked by the bombings.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050707.wcanar0707/BNStory [Hard copy sent to EMIGMA 2000 by AnonNZ]
And there’s more from Canade:
By KATIE ROOK
Thursday, July 7, 2005 Updated at 11:34 AM EDT
Globe and Mail Update
From the 18th floor of Canary Wharf in London, Canadian Brendan Spinks could see a “massive rush of policemen” outside the building Thursday after the city was rocked by terrorist attacks.
The Internet in his office had just gone done down when Mr. Spinks, an investment banker at HSBC, saw a flurry of police cars and yellow-vested men outside.
Reports of attacks carried out by suicide bombers were rife, and in one unconfirmed incident police shot a suicide bomber outside the 42-floor banking tower.
“It was just a matter of time. It's absolutely shocking and terrifying and terrible,” he said.
“All you can do is say, ‘Thankfully it's not me' and feel horrible for the people that it did happen to and hope that that number is limited.
“We've been preparing for this for two years, there have been numerous, numerous mock evacuations and emergency planning services over the last number of years.”
Getting home will prove especially difficult for Mr. Spinks, who moved to London in 2002, because the bus that blew up near Tavistock Square is right outside his apartment.
Mr. Spinks's brother, Macgregor, who was due to arrive in London later Thursday, may be delayed at Heathrow, because Terminal 3 has been evacuated, Mr. Spinks said.
Co-workers are scrambling to find ways home, many of them opting for the ferry across the Thames River, he said.
PLondon writes,
"I was shocked at this and contacted my mate in NZ to see if the story had appeared in the NZ Herald as claimed.
> Hello 'nnnnnnnnn'
>
> As you know we were bombed on 07/07. What we haven't been told is
that two suicide bombers were apparently shot dead in Canary Wharf.
> The NZ Herald reported it - all apparently witnessed by a Kiwi.
> Have you heard about it? Do you have a cutting you could please scan
in and send please?
> We have no reports here - has the hallmarks of an SAS op!
> Massive Police ops here as they identified 4 bombers - not saying
suicide but its quite possible.
> One of the bombers was reported missing by his mother before the
explosion. What a rotten shock she had when shje was told what he'd done.
>
> Hope all well with you.
>
> Regards
> PaulHe replied,
>Hi Paul
>Yes I read that report and thought it was strange at the time. Will
>take all papers home tonight to find article. Had quick scan, but I think
>it must have been in the Sat edition which is at home, I hope. Rubbish
>goes out tomorrow.
>Cheers
> 'n'
Plondon also received information, from MF, that the Israeli Finance Minister Mr Bejamin Netanyahu was held in his Hotel near to Liverpool Street Railway station prior to the explosion on the tube system. There were rumours that the Israeli Embassy received previous intelligence warnings of these attacks, he said.
The Police denied shooting anyone but what if it wasn't the Police? On 6th March 1988 three IRA bombers were shot in Gibraltar, by an SAS unit, as a result of Intelligence received. There was a backlash to this operation; some called it murder.
On 26th July 1994 two car bombs exploded, one was outside the Israeli Embassy London, the other Balfour House. Two young Palestinians were subsequently convicted of conspiracy to cause explosions. [Interestingly there is a properly conducted campaign to overturn this conviction].
Then, in April 2003, two British suicide bombers attacked a Tel Aviv bar leading to a rather worrying headline of the Daily Mail newspaper: 'Israel Secret Agents Target London'.
The article, which started on page 1 continued onto column 1 of page 4. It read,
"Israeli secret agents are dramatically stepping up operations in Britain to counter the threat of exported terror.
PM Ariel Sharon, furious at the suicide bomb attack in Tel Aviv by two Britons last week believes murdeerous Islamic [why is it always Islamic?] fanatics are being allowed to operate freely from London.
He has ordered his secret service Mossad to increase operations here, infiltrating radical groups, trailing militants and gathering intelligence aimed at preventing further atrocities.
The move will put crack foreign anti-terror agents onto the streets in numbers not seen for many years."
So was there a shooting? Did relevant Government computer files disappear……………
From a blog:
'Anon:
I heard this story from a "friend of a friend" on Thursday evening. She works as a solicitor in Canary Wharf and phoned her brother, a police officer in Southampton, to see if he knew anything about it. A different source but the events were described exactly as in this story.
More Anon:
My sister just moved back to the US 2 weeks ago after living in the UK for 15 years. Her boyfriend in London called her on Thursday after the bombings to say that he was OK and told her that a bomber had been shot at Canary Wharf by police. I didn't really believe her at the time thinking it was probably just panicked rumors. '
So one has to weigh the facts and probabilities. Did the shootings actually occur? If so who did them?
Here is one comment from our mate Sal ibn Hari:
Do you really think the Government would want to let it be known that Muslims have been shot by Israeli Mossad agents in London whilst the Police stand by in support?
Of course not, they'd allow and promote the interest in the more prominent story of the Tube bombings and tell the media not to report it all the while ensuring that we receive a mass of relative newscasts to keep our minds off the lesser known shootings [assuming of course they really happened].
One thing springs to mind was the inability of certain persons to be able to make calls on their mobile phones [cellphones elsewhere]. Some networks were affected more than others. We were told that the security services were granted access to the networks but accesss was overwhelmed by us ordinary users. But what if the networks were closed around Canary Wharf and the effect was a striated service elsewhere? There was mention of the net being slow at the time too.
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Actual cuttings from the NZ Herald detailing the story. Somebody sent in details of the story to a British Radio station on 13th July and the presenter went almost ballistic. Far from inviting discussion he stated out of hand that the story was nonsense. Wonder what he based his decision on – or is this a fine example of a cover up with all media warned to leave the story alone? There was an interesting mention in ‘icwharf’ as seen below [and an expected ending to the account] |
http://icthewharf.icnetwork.co.uk/ [A proper printed Newspaper – Plondon saw an issue whilst traveling on the Tube]
‘DID YOU KNOW A SUICIDE BOMBER WAS SHOT DEAD?’
Jul 14 2005
By Renato Castello
YOU'VE heard it, we've heard it - in fact, it's become one of the boldest rumours emerging from the July 7 terrorist attacks.
Two suicide bombers, or one depending on who you talk to, killed by police on the Canary Wharf estate outside HSBC/Bank of America/Citigroup/Four Seasons Hotel.
Where it started remains unclear, but it's filtered onto internet weblogs, circulated through office emails and even made the pages of the international press. One report sustaining the rumour was in The New Zealand Herald. The paper quoted an antipodean source at Reuters whose two mates working at HSBC witnessed the unconfirmed shooting of two bombers outside the bank's Canada Square headquarters at 10.30am.
Staff were told to stay away from the windows, he said.
Unlikely, according to our sources. Conspicuously, the national press, who undoubtedly would have latched onto any hint of veracity, has remained silent on the matter. And the police have categorically denied the allegations. TheWharf has received a couple of phone calls from people asking if the reports were true or who had heard from other sources that it had happened.
One female caller said a friend of a friend works for the Met's “quick armed response unit” and knew of the killings.
Where did they happen? She didn't know, but suggested we phone the “quick armed response unit”.
One security guard patrolling the estate on Thursday summed up his sentiments on the rumours.
“You think we'd be strolling around this place if there was a suicide bomber”.
[Tnx for sending Jmm] http://icthewharf.icnetwork.co.uk/
Most interesting were the later claims that the CIA had indeed tipped London off about a forthcoming action. Their info had been gained from a person held by them and believed to be good intel.
And the best yet? In newspapers published over the weekend of 30/07 a pic was shown of a police marksman with ski mask, body armour and suchlike. He was toting the H&K G3K with modified stock – a weapon favoured by the SBS. Even the PR wasn’t right. So who is he?
The vehicles used with smoked windows had also been seen before at an exercise near you [The leading chapters of Immediate Action and The One that Got Away refer]. There’s some strange stuff going on at the moment. Someone even asked E2k if the Brazilian was actually shot by police, given the easiness that the chequebook came out to help his grieving parents.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1715880,00.html
for more info
Makes you think doesn't it? [Tnx MF, PLondon, Jmm, Sal ibn Hari and AnonNZ]
Then we have this well chewed story of the Brazilian electrician who, it is claimed, was shot dead by police. A variety of stories are in the public domain. Then we learn that he was not wearing a puffer jacket and did not vault the ticket barrier. It is also claimed there was no shouted warning by police. One fact slung in to the massive melting pot was the fact that he was an illegal or overstayer and that his passport was stamped with a style of stamp mot used.
Eight rounds to the head from one firearm has become 11 rounds fired from two firearms, seven to the head, one to the shoulder and three missed rounds.
The missing CCTV tapes, The Chief Constable not told until 24hrs after [and he comes on TV with a right LOB about Houston we have a problem].
What trained person would stand behind a person and pull the trigger of a handgun 6 to 8 times at close range? After all, British Police are not issued with automatic weaponry. More to the point, what professionally trained person with an automatic firearm would squeeze the trigger and ‘walk’ the rounds in at close range – hence 3 rounds elsewhere, one in the shoulder and rest to head? SAS or SBS – doubtful, but there is another lot who spring to mind, det is not a shortened term for detective here. Now re-read about the shootings in Canary Wharf and ask yourself again if there is a cover up!
[From Jmm ]
http://www.wprost.pl/ar/?O=78516 (I did not know Gordon Thomas was fluent in Polish. Below is a translation attempt)”
Jul 11. Do KGB agents, recruited by al-Qaeda, still guard the post-Soviet biological weapons hidden in Britain? It's like in a game "Russian roulette": nobody knows where's the bullet and when the gun will fire a shot. During the Cold War, the Soviet intelligence hid some WMDs in the West: biological, chemical and nuclear. There's a lot of evidence that the weapons remain in place, guarded and main-tained by Russian spies. Will terrorists use them?
MI5 have identified 32 spies of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, SVR, operating under full diplomatic cover from their London embassy in Kensington. The spies have links to former deep-cover KGB agents who, during the Cold War, hid scores of genetically-engineered biological warfare weapons in Britain's countryside. They were to be used in a pre-emptive strike against London and other major cities. After a post-Cold War purge of the KGB - described by the CIA's former director George Tenet as "pure window dressing" - the sacked KGB agents offered their detailed knowledge of Britain to the highest bidder.
An internal MI5 document for its director, Eliza Manningham Buller, states: "There is a strong probability that some of the (KGB) agents have been recruited by al Qaeda".
MI5 have identified the license-plates of all cars used by the Russian spies. Several weeks ago, a car bearing the telltale number plate for all Russian diplomatic vehicles - 248D (and three more digits) was spotted in the vicinity of RAF Lyenam in Wiltshire. The car was being driven by a middle-aged man on a road leading to Marlborough. An MI5 source confirmed that the Security Service believes part of the mission of the Russian spies includes ensuring that the hiding places for the germ vials remain undetected. Until recently the knowledge of the lethal germs remained so secret that not even Eliza Manningham Buller and her specialists on Russian intelligence had any inkling of their existence.
Kouzminov's revelations
Then a former KGB spymaster, Alexander Kouzminov, revealed his agents had planted the vials in the Home Counties. And he has claimed that some of the SVR spies today operating in Britain are involved in ensuring the deadly germs remain hidden. Kouzminov was head of the KGB's ultra-secret unit, Department 12 of Directorate S.
"Our work was biological espionage, planning and preparation of acts of biological terrorism, sabotage and biological war", he revealed.
From his home in New Zealand - close to the home of former MI5 officer Peter Wright [There's a cock-up. Peter Wright took residence in Tasmania, three hours flying time from New Zealand] - Kouzminov said: "Huge efforts and money was spent in our work. It would be foolish to believe our people were stood down just because Russia took part in biological weapons talks in Geneva".In an introduction to his own book, Biological Espionage, he hopes it "will attract the attention of the intelligence services". His claims have stunned MI5. Even top Cold War Russian defectors like Oleg Gordievsky and Vasiliy Mitrokhin had no hint of Department 12's activities. Or that it survives to this day.
The biological germs were prepared by Russian scientists of the Soviet Union's Bioprepart programme. Their brief had been "to produce bacteria against which Britain would have no defence". The germs were created after the Soviet Union signed the 1972 Biological Warfare Convention. They were engineered in secret laboratories in the Ural Mountains. From there the vials were smuggled into Britain in diplomatic bags. Scientists at Porton Down, Britain's biological defence establishment, fear the vials could contain plague germs and even smallpox.
"Bioprepart was actively engaged in producing weapons of that kind", confirmed Dr Ken Alibek, the programme's former director until he defected to the United States.
Kouzminov insists that in making his bombshell revelations about the way his department left a deadly collection of germs buried in the English countryside, "I do not intend to push a political line for or against any state and its policies". But ten years after he left Department 12 to live with his wife in New Zealand, he still refuses to say if he knows where the deadly germs are hidden.
[Gordon Thomas]
On September 12, 2001, a day after the terrorist attack against the World Trade Center, an intensive search was in progress to detect nuclear devices, allegedly hidden in the area of the NYC haven. Warnings about a possibility that former Soviet "suitcase bombs" could be used by terrorists came from Ameri-can intelligence agencies. But also from other countries, including Poland and the Czech Republic. No nuclear weapons had been found then, but, four years later, the problem surfaced again.
Recent reports by American and British intelligence services pointed to errors and misinterpretation of al-Qaeda's capabil-ity to procure and use the WDMs. These reports also suggest that some terrorists might be in touch with former Soviet and present Russian undercover agents.
A Paul L. Williams' book, "Osama's Revenge: The Next 9/11 - What the Media and the Government Haven't Told You" was published in the U.S., a year ago.
Paul Williams is a seasoned investigative reporter, and a former consultant for the FBI on organized crime and international terrorism. He claims that credible intelligence sources told him that some nuclear demolition devices (so called "suitcase bombs") might be already hidden by al-Qaeda's "sleeper agents" in several American cities: New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, Miami, Washington DC. and in Rappahannock, Virginia. Why there? Because that tiny rural county house an underground bunker - a U.S. Government Central Command (for the time of war, or other emergency situation). [In his book] Williams describes, in detail, how al-Qaeda could have purchased some post-Soviet mini-nukes, and what threat this poses to the United States. "In 1996, in Grozny, Chechen mafia members negotiated the sale of 20 nuclear "suitcase bombs" to representatives of Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden paid for them $ 30 million, and added 2 tons of heroin".
According to Williams, reliable sources indicate that these bombs may already be in the possession of al-Qaeda operatives [in the United States].
Theodore Taylor, a prominent American nuclear specialist, who had miniaturized the nuclear weapon, said that a suitcase bomb could "emit intense thermal radiation, creating a fireball with a diameter that would expand to 460 feet. The core of the fireball would reach a maximum temperature of 10 million degrees Celsius," Williams said the heat that collapsed the Twin Towers [ on 9/11] never exceeded 5,000 degrees Celsius.
Nuclear suitcase bombs, much more dangerous than the radiological "dirty bombs", could instantly kill hundreds of thousand Americans, and then millions more would die because of the radioactive fallout.
"I expect such an attack would come between now [2004] and the end of 2005", said Paul L. Williams. American Intelligence and Counterintelligence don't ignore the danger. Porter J. Goss, Director of Central Intelligence, told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: "It may be only a matter of time, before al-Qaeda or another group attempts to use chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons.". Robert S. Mueller III, Director of the FBI, was quoted recently: "I am also very concerned with a growing body of sensitive reporting that continues to show al-Qaeda's clear intention to obtain and ultimately use some form of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear or high-energy explosives material in its attacks against America." Vice-Admiral Lowell Jacoby, Director of the DIA, "told the Subcommitee that al-Qaeda has said that it wants to conduct an attack "exceeding the destruction' of the September 11, 2001 strikes" (All quotes by Bill Gertz, The Washington Times, February 17, 2005). According to Fox News Channel, an exchange of information, via the Internet, between al-Qaeda's cells indicates that a planned attack against the U.S., similar to 9/11, is still a serious menace. Would former Soviet (now - Russian) covert "sleepers", guarding the hideouts of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons take part in this attack? This can't be excluded. But the trouble might get even worse: Russian nuclear weapons of a new generation are even more miniaturized and much more difficult to detect.
[from Jmm]
Supposedly British police have asked the government for a bunch of new powers to fight terrorism, including the right to detain a suspect for up to three months without charge (current limit is 14 days), and make it a criminal offence not to give police encryption keys. When Sir Ian Blair was asked why the police wanted the extra time, he said that they sometimes needed to access encrypted computer files and 14 days was not enough time for them to break the encryption.
That answer makes no sense. While it's certainly possible that password-guessing programs are more successful with three months to guess, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act -- which went into effect in 2000 -- already allows the police to jail people who don't surrender encryption keys.
Sam Cohen, the inventor of the neutron bomb, passed to "Wprost" some vital information, which confirmed his observations and experience of many years of the monitoring of the development of the Soviet, then Russian nuclear weaponry. Historically, the Russians had been world leaders in high-pressure tech-nology which is very relevant to the production of "red mercury" (RM 20/20, which is a mercury antimony oxide, it's chemical formula: Sb2O7Hg2), a base material for the production of cheap, miniature neutron weapons.
Red mercury is a kind of gel-like chemical compound of high density. It can be used to detonate a very small quantity of tritium (a super-heavy hydrogen), which would explode and produce a massive pulse of deadly neutrons.
Already in February of 1992, the President of Russia, Boris Yeltzin, signed a Secret Directive No 75-RPS, allowing a state-owned enterprise, Promekologia, to fabricate and sell (also abroad) up to 10 metric tonns of RM 20/20. At the beginning of the 1990's, on the black market, the price of one kilogram of RM 20/20 exceeded $ 400,000. The difficulties in the obtaining of this mysterious substance caused many criminal impostures, a "trade mark" of the Russian mafia. Following 9/11, the demand for RM 20/20 and it's price went up rapidly. On the 24th of September, 2004, British Police arrested four persons, whom they suspected of an attempt to purchase a "radioactive material of a very high explosive power, originally made in Russia, and known as a red mercury". The four suspects were supposed to offer $ 541,000 per one kilogram [of RM 20/20], to a Saudi national (described as a sympathizer of the Islamist fundamentalists). Other persons, suspected of the trading in red mercury, had been also arrested in Italy.
In one of his interviews, the inventor of the neutron bomb described the technical properties of this unusual explosive material: "Most frightening is the relative ease by which neutron bombs can be created with a substance called red mercury. Red mercury is a compound containing mercury that has undergone massive irradiation. When exploded, it creates tremendous heat and pressure - the same type needed to trigger a fusion device such as a mini-neutron bomb."
Cohen said that Americans had not been successful to develop a low-yield pure fusion weapon, using RM 20/20, in spite of many efforts. Meanwhile, in the former USSR, and later on in Russia, the research to produce a workable weapon had been (and still was) continued. In 2004, Cohen confirmed to us the chemical composition and other technical parameters of RM 20/20, upon receiving a Technical Certificate, coming from one of the secret Russian laboratories. Already in 1993, a Russian general, Y. Negin, claimed in public that his country had developed a low-yield nuclear weapon "in which a doubling of yield is achieved with a hudredfold reduction of weight compared to existing weapons." Describing the weapon, an other Russian specialist, Evgeny Kerolev, added that red mercury is so potent that a "bomb the size of a grenade could blow a ship out of the sea."
Cohen remarked that the micro-neutron weapon has a dreadful potential for terrorism: it is cheap (without the use of expensive uranium or plutonium), it is almost undetectable (due to a very low level of radiation) and it is miniature (the size of a hand-grenade, or a baseball). When detonated, neutron bombs generally produce a minimal blast and thermal effect, but they produce a substantial pulse of neutron radiation which penetrates hardened shelters and causes a destructive ionazing effect when it interacts with living tissue. The neutron radiation kills all living organisms in the radius of 1/3 of a mile, destroying no buildings but killing many thousands of people.
More and more evidence supports a suspicion that Putin's Russia focuses only on Chechen terrorists, and that the real "brain" of the world terrorist campaign, being wedged against the Free World, is the Russian Military Intelligence, the GRU.
http://www.wprost.pl/ar/?O=78516
[Tnx for sending Jmm]
Around 300 MI5 officers will be sent to regional offices to create a covert version of Neighbourhood Watch.
These areas include Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham.
One of the failed suicide bombers who scarpered to Rome has really scored with his Italian lawyer. You thought Britain was full of do-gooders? Cop this one: According to the Times 03/08/05 page 7 a ‘Mafia-style’ immunity deal could put suspect beyond reach of British Law. The Italian lawyer is trying to get a new identity and immunity if he cooperates with investigators in Rome.
What a piss-take – European cooperation. Does this 40 year female lawyer not realise her client is part of a terror cell hell bent on enforcing his ideals on the world at any cost? What is she after – fame, money or had she been told what will happen to her if she does not comply with demands made to her by al-Qaeda? No guts for a fight? She lets down the memory of the Italian who was murdered in Iraq and who bravely showed the world how an Italian dies – defiantly and with dignity.
This is disgusting indeed; is there nothing that Britain can do to hasten the extradition as this Signora achieves fame and makes money out of this?
It has been reported in the Metro newspaper of 2nd August 2005 page 5 that at least 50 jobs are to be axed at the organisation.
The newspaper describes the organisation as one 'which helps the Government monitor reports about global issues such as terrorism.'
It goes on,'BBC Monitoring supplies the Government, as well as media agencies and businesses, with political and economic news from more than 3000 mass media outlets across the globe'.
Apparently a Cabinet Office review of funding is responsible for the decision to cut the jobs by the spring of 2005
HMS Invincible, upon which the Duke of York was based as a Sea King helicopter pilot during the Falklands War, sailed into retirement at Portsmouth Monday 1st August 2005. The 22000 tonne ship was taken out of service six months early and will be mothballed until 2010 when it will be sold.
According to experts [that's what the paper stated] this move is a cost-cutting move needed to fund operations in Iraq.
HMS Invincible was launched by MH Queen on May 3rd 1977, in 2001 it had a £64 Million refit and was the flagship in June's fleet review.
[The one that was a reconstruction of the Battle of Trafalgar where the two sides were expressede as Red or Blue fleet so as not to upset the French or Spaniards. PC gone potty].
The first Invincible in the Royal Naval was a French ship L'Invincible, captured in 1747, off Finisterre, and commissioned in the Royal Navy.
Opposition MPs are demanding a full Commons statement from ministers amid fears over hundreds of defence jobs across Scotland.
The Ministry of Defence has said an announcement is imminent on the future of the early warning radar station at RAF Saxa Vord on Unst.
Major job losses or downgrading could have a dramatic effect on Britain's most northerly inhabited island.
There are also concerns over the future of three MoD munitions centres.
Opposition MPs are furious that they will not be given more time to question ministers on Thursday, the final day of Westminster's parliamentary term. They fear there will be a rationalisation of the munitions facilities at Beith in North Ayrshire, Glen Douglas in Argyll and Crombie in Fife, which employ more than 600 people between them.
Unst has been home to the radar and early warning centre since 1957.
The MoD is the largest employer on the Shetland island, which had a population of 720 when the last census was carried out in 2001.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/scotland/4701933.stm
Daily Mail 22nd July 2005, Page 19: ‘Air power is cut by a fifth, as ministers ‘butcher’ the RAF’
The article explains how Ministers were accused of waging a war of ‘attrition’ against the RAF as massive cuts in men [from 52000 to 41000].
In addiition to that several flying stations and the entire fleet of 46 Jaguar fighters will be scrapped two years earlier and four squadrons that operate the surface to air defence system will be disbanded. As if that isn’t bad enough the Nimrod fleet will be reduced from 21 to 12 aircraft, RAF Saxa Vord, the early warning radar station on the Shetland Isle of Unst will go as will a section of the military supply chain based at Stafford, Llangenech and Longtown.
The news that this was to happen was released on the last day of Parliament before it moved into Summer Recess. [Recognise this type of democracy]? When Ministers revolted against this ‘butchery’ they were told that far from poorly repaying the RAF for its good service the aim was improving efficiency by increasing fighting power [and that is LOB – E2k also heard of 2 regiments being scrapped with the change of fortune in NI].
Marconi, the Hi-tech equipment firm, is thought to be in talks with the Chinese company Huawei Technologies concerning a £600M sale.
If such a sale went ahead fears of thousands of British jobs would be realised.
[From Jmm]
Created: 15.07.2005 18:34 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:19 MSK
MosNews
Construction workers involved in building a new hotel just across from the Kremlin were surprised to find 250 kg of TNT buried deep beneath the old Moskva Hotel that had just been demolished to make way for a new one. Police astonished Muscovites further when they said that the 12 boxes of explosives lodged in the basement could have been there for half a century.
And now, new evidence points to the possibility that Moscow could be dotted with such explosive caches — planted by the secret police in the early days of World War II.
The day after Moscow learned of the stash of TNT, a man with a secret called the Komsomolskaya Pravda tabloid to warn that the Moskva Hotel was not the only one.
“You see,” said Yuri Krotov, “it was my father who put those explosives under the Moskva Hotel. And there were other buildings, too.”
It all started in September, 1941, when his father, Yevgeny Krotov, joined the Special Apparatus of the NKVD — the dreaded secret police that was later renamed the KGB, the predecessor of today’s FSB. Germany had declared war on Russia, and Hitler’s troops were closing in on Moscow. The government and the people braced themselves for occupation.
Defense plans called for some typical, Russian-style warfare: namely, once the Germans took the capital, they would be blasted to bits in the very buildings they had taken over.
“In October, the group where my father served, got an order,” Yuri recalled. “The NKVD was to ask for 12 officers from the front to be quartered in the Moskva Hotel. The telegram said that it must be on the first floor.”
And that turned out to be no accident. “At night, they descended into the hotel’s basement, designated a man to watch, and dug. They dug through the brick foundation and made a cache beneath the basement.”
Then, on another night, other NKVD officers secretly delivered a truck full of TNT right into the hotel’s inner yard. The officers quartered on the first floor helped unload the explosives and carry the packages one by one into the cache beneath the basement. When they were through, they covered up the cache.
“My father said that the plan went like this: the Germans weren’t supposed to suspect anything when they examined the premises. They say that the propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels wanted to be housed in the Moskva Hotel and turn it into his personal propaganda office with a view of the Kremlin.”
Thankfully, the Germans never made it to Moscow. But Muscovites didn’t seem to notice a thing — for over 50 years. But Krotov is convinced that the Moskva Hotel isn’t the only “lucky” building. “Once, when I was about 14, my father and I were walking past a nice building on Spiridonovka, and he stopped to tell me it was the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs building.”
The policeman on duty barked at them that there was “nothing to look at”.
“And that’s when my father told me how they mined that building as well,” Krotov now recalls. “Just like they did with the Moskva Hotel.” It was believed that Ribbentrop himself — the Nazi foreign minister of Molotov-Ribbentrop pact fame — was to occupy the building.
Indeed, the recollections of another NKVD officer only corroborate Krotov’s story. “On October 20, 1941, there was an order to place explosives beneath the most prominent objects in the capital,” Pavel Sudoplatov, once the head of the Central Staff of the Fighter Battalion of the NKVD, wrote in a memoir. According to Sudoplatov, the Bolshoi Theater and other buildings were on the list. They could be blown up only on very special orders, however, and only if occupied by Germany’s top leadership.
Only time will tell whether the explosives are still there. Still, given Joseph Stalin’s penchant for lavish building plans especially in times of defense — just look at the Moscow subway, and particularly the stations that were built to double as massive bomb shelters — mining dozens of buildings in anticipation of defeat would not be too out of the ordinary, either.
http://www.mosnews.com/feature/2005/07/15/bomba.shtml
[Tnx Jmm]
After the London Bombs the Times announced on 09/08 that MI6 is to break with over a century of tradition by receuiting spies openly.
Apparently the adverst will make it clear who is advertising.
The service has [the article claims] been approached by a number of patriotic Muslims who wish to do something for their country.
The core of MI6's operation or agent running cadre is drawn from “high-calibre graduates with a commitment to public service who exhibit integrity, strong intellectual skills, strength of character and an interest in international affairs”
Those with analytical skills, able to map out terrorist networks, linguists, particularly Arabic speakers, and computer specialists are also wanted
All graduate entrants are expected to serve abroad as intelligence officers during their careers.The starting salary for a 23-year-old agent is about £24,000. Non-graduate entrants with two A levels work in support roles, but also serve abroad. Candidates, who should be in their early 20s to early 30s, may include those bored with other careers [20-30! no hope for PLondon then - fiercely patriotic and bored brainless with his occupation]. About a quarter of the 2,000 staff serve as undercover intelligence officers in British embassies whilst it can take up to six months to complete the vetting process
Not a tty slip [anyone else recall the the slips and the variety of cock-ups you could perform with some good effects when combined with shift errors?] but an intro to an interesting story concerning some rather discerning foxes.
According the The Mail on Sunday newspaper the Whitehall MoD HQ has been deeply penetrated by a family of foxes. Whilst the building was unoccupied by civil servants refurbishment was being carried out. It is believed the foxes, who were living beneath the floorboards, ate leftovers of sandwiches and fast food.
For three weeks these sly intruders remained undetected until an alarm wire was gnawed through triggering alarms. [PLondon was once involved in rewiring a surveillance comms link that had been similarly treated by rats – it must be the arsenic used in the production of the sheath that makes it so tasty]!
The foxes were eventually trapped using humane traps and let free in a South London wood. [Tnx for sending in E].
The source of Saddam Hussein’s WMD programme that led to the Iraqi wasr was an Oxford cow whose ear was a vector for Anthrax spores that were later weaponised. The particular genus was called Vollum after the bacteriology Professor. However its origins were from Rhodhesia. During the second world war sheep placed on the Scottish island Gruinard were bombarded with anthrax in trials. The island remained quarantined for 50 years after. Samples of this Vollum Bacillus Anthracis were sent to the Ameruican Type Culture Collection as no 14578. However, a batch of strain 14578 was sent to Iraqi Higher Education Ministry in 1986 and was classified by the CIA as Saddam Hussein’s exclusive choice for bioweapons research.
The American biological warfare research capability is believed to be at fort Detrick, whilst the British version is at Porton Down.
Cambridge Police have discovered that the more intelligent thieves are using Bluetooth to detect laptop computers that have been locked in car boots. This is following thefts from three cars in a hotel car park.
Other thefts occured in Herts and the general advice from police is that owners should deactivate wireless connections when the PC is not in use.
The Ipcress File was an excellent film in which Michael Caine played the unamed spy [in the book] as 'Harry Palmer'. During his investigation into the abduction and mental ruination of award winning scientists he is shown a book entitled Induction of Psycho-neuroses by Conditioned Reflex with Stress. [IPCRESS]The rest is well known. Now enter IPCRESS but not the file!
This IPCRESS is an IPv6 High Grade Internet Protocol Cryptographic equipment developed by Secure Systems under contract to MOD-DPA. Design Approval Certification (DAC) for IPCRESS was received in June 2005.
And, in a suitable cockney accent, "I'll bet you didn't know that!" [Did you know that PLondon’s missus went to the same school as Shakira Baksh. Mrs Michael Caine]?
A revolutionary [?] body worn antenna links radios, computers, weapons sights and new technology designed to assist tomorrows soldier irrespective of the attitude [position] adopted by the user. This circularly polarised antenna is worn on the upper part of the soldiers’ body and utilises circular polarisation to ensure a minimal loss through polarisation mismatch.
Wonder if it will connect to ‘Dustpan No1, working parts, sweeping up for the use of’ to allow for the immediate kitpart collection of a dropped SA80 rifle.
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