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Saturday, July 16, 2005 |
CommonDreams: "Transformed into a police state after last winter's siege, this should be the safest city in all of Iraq.
Thousands of American and Iraqi troops live in crumbling buildings here and patrol streets laced with concertina wire. Any Iraqi entering the city must show a badge and undergo a search at one of six checkpoints. There is a 10 p.m. curfew.
But the insurgency is rising from the rubble nevertheless, eight months after the American military killed as many as 1,500 Iraqis in a costly invasion that fanned anti-American passions across Iraq and the Arab world."
What Bush and Blair don't want to understand is that they have practically the whole people of Iraq against them.
11:51:12 AM 
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MotherEarth: "The Belgian House of Representatives has adopted a resolution on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, calling for the withdrawal of the US nuclear weapons based in Europe. They also ask to exclude nuclear weapons from the common EU security policy.
The United States is currently the only country to have nuclear weapons stationed on the territory of other countries."
11:42:15 AM
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Yesterday I heard a BBC tv reporter say that the man arrested in Cairo was responsible for making the bombs and that he had Al-Qaeda links.
In times of crisis it seems everyone goes mad and normal standards, in this case journalistic, don't apply.
At present there is no proof that the purported 'bombers' were indeed the bombers, apart from the fact that they carried rucksacks and were at the places of the attack like so many others. There is no proof that the Egyptian biochemist made the bombs, the only thing that 'points to him' is the fact that he left England before the attack. That is not very much to go on.
"Police have traced three of the four bombers back to West Yorkshire.
They were first alerted when the mother of Hasib Hussain, 18, rang the casualty line to report him missing after the blasts. He had told his family he was going on a day trip to London and had not been heard of since.
Officers found his property on the bombed bus at Tavistock Square and began to link him with three other men at the other bomb locations."
That only proves they were victims, everything else still needs to be corroborated.
"Explosives made from ingredients available from high-street chemists were found in one of the homes in Leeds, sources have told the BBC."
They would find those same ingredients in thousands of houses if they can be bought from a local chemist. Al-Qaeda dabbling in schoolboy chemistry? No way.
In the case of the Madrid bombings some wrongful arrests were made.
"An FBI official stated in an e-mail, a day before Brandon Mayfield was wrongly arrested for allegedly having links to March 2004 train bombings in Madrid, that the agency did not have enough evidence to arrest the Portland attorney."
The police is eager to show results, the government is eager to get support for its anti-terrorism laws and to point fingers and the press is eager to oblige and create sensation, and we all want those reponsible behind bars. But we'd better make sure we got the right ones.
11:37:44 AM
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