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Mathias Broeckers’ blog (badly translated from the German by Google) reveals an interesting bit of information: the so-called London suicide bombers had purchased round-trip tickets, according to the British newspaper the Mirror. “The London bombers may have been duped into killing themselves so their secrets stayed hidden,” writes Jeff Edwards for the Mirror. In response to this revelation, British police are pushing the line that the “al-Qaeda handlers” of the bombers duped the unwitting bombers because if they had “lived and were caught they’d probably have cracked. Would their masters have allowed that to happen? We think not.” Of course, it is open to interpretation who their “masters” were, although predictably (and on-script) the deafening roar of the corporate media resounds with the slavering chant al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda.
Broeckers’ take on the London bombings (it wasn’t al-Qaeda, or not the al-Qaeda we read about in the New York Times) is especially relevant because he wrote a book (in German) about the peculiarities surrounding nine eleven (in Europe such books are actually published and sold in bookstores) and also had an article published in Telepolis on March 13, 2004, entitled “Al Qaeda, ETA-Gladio?” Broeckers writes that the Madrid attack “rather points to a very obvious parallel: the bomb attack on the central station of Bologna in August 1980, with 80 dead and 200 wounded, which then marked the high point of a whole series of terrorist attacks on civilian targets in Italy.” Fifteen years after the Bologna attack, two members of the fascist NAR (nuclei armati revoluzionari) were arrested and sentenced, along with two members of the Italian secret services, as well as the head of the P-2 lodge, Licio Gelli, and his aide, CIA agent Francesco Pazienza, Broeckers writes for Telepolis. Investigations revealed the hand of the Gladio network in the attacks and the murder of three Carabinieri men (Arma dei Carabinieri, an Italian military corps of the gendarmerie type with police functions, which also serves as the Italian military police).
Gladio was (possibly still is) a right-wing terror organization responsible for discrediting (and killing and framing) leftists in Italy. Gladio employed a “strategy of tension,” that is it engaged in terrorism (such as the Oktoberfest bomb blast of 1980 in Munich and the above mentioned bombing of the “Italicus” train and the Bologna train station) in the hope such terror would push the Italian populace to the right and away from progressive political organizations. “You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force... the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security,” admitted Gladioite Vincenzo Vinciguerra.
Gladio was in the news last month when a “parallel police” organization (the Department of Anti-terrorism Strategic Studies, or DSSA) was discovered in Italy. Two long-time Gladio operatives, Gaetano Saya and Riccardo Sindoca, were arrested and charged with running the DSSA. It was also discovered Saya and Sindoca are founders of a political organization called Destra Nazionale - Nuovo Msi, loosely translated as the National Right, which is a right-wing terrorist outfit once funded by the CIA and thought to be responsible for the above mentioned 1980 Bologna Railway Station bombing (note: the T4 explosive found at the scene in Bologna matched the Gladio material used in the Brescia, Peteano, and other bombings, according to expert testimony presented to Italian Judge Mastelloni).
Broeckers’ take is that al-Qaeda is a Gladio-like operation. Now, instead of demonizing commies, the idea is to demonize Muslims and force “the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security.” I believe London was selected as a target because it “probably [has] the most secure public transit system in the world,” according to Steve Weber, researcher and international consultant. “Cameras everywhere, people watching everywhere.” And this redoubling of security and Big Brother snooping did nothing to stop the supposed suicide bombings last week. Obviously, the terrorism-weary citizens of the empire will need “turn to the state to ask for greater security” and beg for protection from evil Muslims (and the corporate media is now in the process of making sure larger and larger portions of Islam are considered evil and irredeemable, as the neocons have told us all along).
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18 July 2005, 15:14
I had suspected from the beginning that the "bombers" may have been as much victims as the the others that died in the explosions. The description of "a young man fiddling nervously with the contents of his rucksack" sounded to me more like someone who was suddenly suspicious of what he was actually carrying. He may have been told that he was carrying a pretend bomb and was supposed to part of a test of security on the underground system (remember that there was an as yet still unidentified security group carrying out an "anti-terrorist exercise" in exactly those areas where the explosions happened). If his bomb had failed to go off, he may have accidently set it off later, while fiddling with it on the bus. This would also explain why they met together before splitting up to go on the various trains; a real group of terrorists would never have let themselves be seen together on cameras. All it would have taken would have been someone representing themselves as being from the government, or from a security agency or company, who wished to employ four young men to test London security, and the rest, as they say, is history...