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Terror threat: The great deception

 
 
Zippo
 
Reply Wed 15 Feb, 2006 11:20 am
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Terror threat: The great deception
As MPs vote today on another security bill, we reveal how the public was misinformed and manipulated over the war on terror


By Ben Chu
Published: 15 February 2006


Today, The Independent publishes detailed analysis of how Tony Blair manipulated the serious threat of terrorism facing Britain to suit the Government's political agenda. It argues the Prime Minister has repeatedly misrepresented security intelligence to the British people, pandered to the right-wing media, and scuppered a golden opportunity to achieve a cross-party consensus on terrorism in the wake of the London bombings of 7 July.

The revelations come in an extract from the Centre for Policy Studies pamphlet by the journalist Peter Oborne. The Use and Abuse of Terror is an examination of the actions of the Government, the police and security services in the heightened state of alert since 11 September 2001.

It investigates how the Government and security services have exploited the scare stories in recent years, including "ricin poison plot" arrests and a "plan to bomb Old Trafford". Mr Oborne analyses - with the help of first-hand testimony - the twists and turns of government policy and comes to his damning conclusion: "New Labour has set out to politicise terror, to use it for narrow party advantage. Few people now believe what the Prime Minister, the security services and police tell us about security matters."


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Reply Thu 16 Feb, 2006 08:50 am
Re: Terror threat: The great deception
Zippo wrote:
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Terror threat: The great deception
As MPs vote today on another security bill, we reveal how the public was misinformed and manipulated over the war on terror


By Ben Chu
Published: 15 February 2006


Today, The Independent publishes detailed analysis of how Tony Blair manipulated the serious threat of terrorism facing Britain to suit the Government's political agenda. It argues the Prime Minister has repeatedly misrepresented security intelligence to the British people, pandered to the right-wing media, and scuppered a golden opportunity to achieve a cross-party consensus on terrorism in the wake of the London bombings of 7 July.

The revelations come in an extract from the Centre for Policy Studies pamphlet by the journalist Peter Oborne. The Use and Abuse of Terror is an examination of the actions of the Government, the police and security services in the heightened state of alert since 11 September 2001.

It investigates how the Government and security services have exploited the scare stories in recent years, including "ricin poison plot" arrests and a "plan to bomb Old Trafford". Mr Oborne analyses - with the help of first-hand testimony - the twists and turns of government policy and comes to his damning conclusion: "New Labour has set out to politicise terror, to use it for narrow party advantage. Few people now believe what the Prime Minister, the security services and police tell us about security matters."


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So, would it be fair to say that you believe the West is not in danger of attack from Muslim extremists?
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Zippo
 
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Reply Thu 16 Feb, 2006 09:31 am
Yes Brandon, we're safe from Muslim extremists, but not from Bush.

Also read this : The Right Way To Stop Terrorism Now!

The manufacture of the war on terror – along with the systematic branding of Arabs and Persians as America's enemy – has coincided perfectly with the race in a geopolitical chess match to see who can secure the remaining fields of the resource known as the devil’s excrement, the black blood needed to run the machines of mankind. Had the vast amounts of oil fields been in Latin America instead of in the Middle East and Central Asia the war on terror would be taking place in Brazil or Ecuador or Venezuela, and Hispanics would be today’s bogeymen. Instead, America finds herself having lied and deceived her own people, trying to find justifications to penetrate and control the remaining oil fields, unleashing psychological war on us the easier to manipulate the population and using terror as a pretext to invade and occupy a most important geopolitical and geostrategic prize, Iraq.

Subsequently, the occupation of Iraq has opened the door to the rest of the Middle East and has become a gateway to Central Asia and its vast quantities of oil. In its own right, Afghanistan, now in the hands of the Americans, has become a geopolitical prize of grand strategic importance, used for oil and gas pipelines and for the permanent military bases and the presence they provide needed to contain America’s next enemies, namely Iran, China and Russia. With Iraq and Afghanistan now for all practical purposes American colonies, its military firmly entrenched in permanent bases designed to protect and control the flow of oil, the high possibility exists of further intervention in Iran and/or Central Asia...Continued
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