The 7/21 London "Bombings"
are very bizarre for a few reasons. First, they come right after I found this weird story about British MI-6 Agents trying to blow up Chicago subway trains being arrested.
Second, is how all four attacks failed-- only the detonators seem to have gone off on the bombs.
Third, is how confused the story is--it is still not clear whether the police have arrested any suspected bombers yet, since they seem to have survived the attacks.
The fact that there were four bombs, three on a train and one on a bus is clearly some signature here.
But most strikingly is how the bombs didn't go off.
Either these were the lamest terrorists imaginable (failed at making four out of four bombs), or their MI-5/MI-6 controllers didn't WANT the bombs to go off.
I suspect it was the latter-- this attack wasn't really meant to hurt anyone, merely to send a message.
What message?
It's hard to believe that it is a mere coincidence that the US congress was debating renewal of the USA Patriot Act on the same day the bombs went off.
Of course, other more generic messages probably were about staying in Iraq and to keep thinking about invading Iran.
Another thing this particular scenario accomplishes is the capturing of "live terrorists". Assuming these captured bad guys never receive any normal judicial treatment, i.e. are held as "enemy combatants", they can be used as a convenient source of "information" about how these bad guys were linked to Al Qaeda and how now the authorities have rolled up the terror cell and how these new bombers were linked to the old bombers. In other words, the government can wrap up everything in a nice neat package that says whatever they want it to say.
Second, is how all four attacks failed-- only the detonators seem to have gone off on the bombs.
Third, is how confused the story is--it is still not clear whether the police have arrested any suspected bombers yet, since they seem to have survived the attacks.
The fact that there were four bombs, three on a train and one on a bus is clearly some signature here.
But most strikingly is how the bombs didn't go off.
Either these were the lamest terrorists imaginable (failed at making four out of four bombs), or their MI-5/MI-6 controllers didn't WANT the bombs to go off.
I suspect it was the latter-- this attack wasn't really meant to hurt anyone, merely to send a message.
What message?
It's hard to believe that it is a mere coincidence that the US congress was debating renewal of the USA Patriot Act on the same day the bombs went off.
Of course, other more generic messages probably were about staying in Iraq and to keep thinking about invading Iran.
Another thing this particular scenario accomplishes is the capturing of "live terrorists". Assuming these captured bad guys never receive any normal judicial treatment, i.e. are held as "enemy combatants", they can be used as a convenient source of "information" about how these bad guys were linked to Al Qaeda and how now the authorities have rolled up the terror cell and how these new bombers were linked to the old bombers. In other words, the government can wrap up everything in a nice neat package that says whatever they want it to say.
posted by spooked at 7:36 PM
1 Comments:
great post. right on the money...i couldn't agree more with your take/conclusions on this most bizzare new london "terror" attack. :)
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