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  • Police State London: Refuse to obey police instructions = 5 shots to the head
    23 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    London, July 22: A man, said by passengers to be “Asian”, was pinned down on the floor of an Underground train at Stockwell station in south London today and shot through the head five times by plainclothes policemen hunting for the London bombers.
    “This sort of thing happens only in Hollywood movies,” exclaimed a TV journalist.
    It seems British Pakistanis determined to introduce suicide bombings in London are now up against a police shoot-to-kill policy.
    Initial reports had suggested (…)

  • London mayor defends the use of Palestinian suicide bombers
    22 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Haaretz Service and News Agencies
    Less than two weeks since the London terror attacks, the city’s Mayor Ken Livingstone has sparked controversy by defending the use of suicide bombers in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and charging that Israel had indiscriminately slaughtered Palestinians in acts that "border on crimes against humanity."
    "Given that the Palestinians don’t have jet planes, don’t have tanks, they only have their bodies to use as weapons," Livingstone told Sky News in (…)

  • Police of a civilised society killed a man...
    22 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    They killed a man in daylight. Police and security services are main beneficiaries of The ’war on terror’. State and its institutions are frighteningly powerful. They want more powers. They are unaccountable, unchecked and are presentened as ’protectors’. Here is what happened in London on 22 July 2005. Are we living in a civilised society?? The controlled the man or suspect. If had a bomb, why would they sit on the top of him and kill him? if he was unarmed why didn’t they arrested him. (…)

  • In London, the war against Iran has started
    22 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In London, the war against Iran has started
    by MICHEL COLLON
    His name was Jack. Or Robert. Or Hassan. He was against the war and he hated Bush & Blair. Just as many Londoners who were going to work on that Thursday morning. But he didn?t know that this was going to be the last trip he ever took.
    A majority of Londoners is against the occupation of Iraq and Londoners had voted in an anti-war mayor. Many of the other victims, misled by their own domestic media, simply did not (…)

  • MEDIA ALERT: BIASED, BLINKERED, CULPABLE
    21 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    John Pilger, Hans von Sponeck, Dahr Jamail and Others Respond to BBC Statement Regarding The World Tribunal on Iraq
    "Why say more? Observe this distinction: between the fool who longs for his own advantage and the sage who acts for the advantage of others." (Shantideva, 8th century)
    Media Lens recently issued a media alert about the lack of British media coverage given to the World Tribunal on Iraq, held in Istanbul last month. Our alert, The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing World (…)

  • Rep. Barbara Lee to introduce Resolution of Inquiry this week
    20 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Members of Congress - including Oakland’s representative - will mark the third anniversary of a British government meeting detailed in the "Downing Street memo" by taking criticism of the Iraq war to the masses.
    Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, will host a town hall meeting from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Grand Lake Theatre, 3200 Grand Lake Ave. in Oakland. Eight other lawmakers from New York to Michigan to New Mexico to California will hold district meetings this weekend as well. (…)

  • Horrors of Iraq brought to London
    20 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NO ONE doubts the atrocious inhumanity of those who planted the bombs that killed and caused mayhem in London yesterday. No one should also doubt that this outrage has been coming since the day Tony Blair joined George Bush in their bloody invasion and occupation of Iraq. They are “Blair’s bombs,” and he ought not be allowed to evade culpability with yet another unctuous speech about other people’s violence. He was warned. Indeed, the only reliable warning from British intelligence in the (…)

  • Letter to Corporate Media- About the London Bombings...When will you do your jobs?
    20 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To Whom It May Concern:
    With all the coverage of the London bombings, it is extremely upsetting to me, but not surprising, that one detail is being left out of every mainstream media article: Visor Consultants, a security consultant firm, was conducting a "terror drill" in the London Underground on July 7, 2005, at the exact same time in the exact same locations that the actual bombs went off. Visor’s Managing Director, Peter Power, discussed this amazing coincidence in two separate (…)

  • The “Bloody Footprints” at 10 Downing Street
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    “This is a religious ideology, a strain within the worldwide religion of Islam, as far removed from its essential decency and truth as Protestant gunmen who kill Catholics or vice versa are from Christianity.” prime Minister Tony Blair
    “The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a man only tells them with all his might” Mark Twain 1867
    There are only two implements in the imperial tool-chest; fear and deception. So, we can forget about diplomacy, negotiation or, (…)

  • Flasback: Does al-Qaeda exist?
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    28 November 2003
    ’Al-Qaeda bombing foiled’ says the front page of today’s UK Sun, reporting the arrest yesterday of 24-year-old student Sajid Badat in Gloucester, England, on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activity. Other reports have referred to Badat as ’having links with al-Qaeda’ and being a potential ’suicide bomber’ (1).
    Also this week, media reports claim that al-Qaeda may have developed ’car-bomb capability’ in the USA, and that al-Qaeda has compiled a ’kidnappers’ manual’ (…)