The overwhelming violence of the state
Commentator William Bowles shows there is more than one analyst thoughtfully observing the (glaring) inconsistencies in media accounts and political / police statements relating to the 7-7 and subsequent "bombings". A powerful investigation that highlights the democratic foundation-stone of the "separation of powers" between intelligence, judiciary, police, and state, is disappearing rapidly, compelled by the pretexts of "terror" in what is largely an information war, (bombing victims notwithstanding).
Also sighted a Times Online piece that raises many issues, even if inadvertantly, including:
- "The most readily available sources of accurate online information on bomb-making are the websites of the radical American militia". 'I have not seen any Al-Qaeda manuals that look like genuine terrorist training' according to one academic.
- Reference to a "global jihad, the first virtual terror organisation" and the admission that Government monitoring systems such as Echelon "can track vast amounts of data but have so far proved of minimal benefit in preventing, or even warning, of attacks"
- Mysterious "Israeli intelligence agents" have noticed "something distinctly odd happening on the internet". Apparently, they say, Al-Qaeda's affiliated websites have "vanished until only a handful remain"
Yet the article concludes that "
the terrorists are unlikely ever to lose a war waged with technology" - perhaps the beginning of a calculated info-war strategy to rein in the internet as a bastion of "
virtual terror" (whatever
that is). Note the parallel with a recent item quoted
here where another academic (Australian this time) was also spruiking "terror attacks" on the strength of unnamed "Israeli agents". Yet why would the Israelis be so keen to speak publicly on these matters, where western agencies seem averse to anything but secrecy?
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