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Posted on Dec 13, 2006
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A judge in Pakistan has dropped the terrorism charges against one of the alleged leaders of the London airline bomb plot. Britain, undeterred by the ruling in favor of Rashid Rauf, says it will move ahead with its case against co-conspiracy suspects in its custody.


BBC:

The arrest of Rashid Rauf in Pakistan triggered arrests in the United Kingdom of a number of suspects allegedly plotting to blow up transatlantic flights.

The Pakistani authorities described him as a key figure.

But an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi found no evidence that he had been involved in terrorist activities or that he belonged to a terrorist organisation.

As well as forgery charges, Mr Rauf has also been charged with carrying explosives.

But his lawyer says police evidence amounts only to bottles of hydrogen peroxide found in his possession.

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By Jackie T. Gabel, December 14, 2006 at 4:26 am Link to this comment
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This grand-stand “bomb plot” was debunked several months ago by Lt. Col. Wylde, who was awarded the Queen’s Gallantry Medal for his command of the Belfast Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit in 1974. He described the “liquid bomb” scenario as a “fiction.” Creating liquid explosives is a “highly dangerous and sophisticated task,” he states, one that requires not only significant chemical expertise but also appropriate equipment.

That MI-5 has succeeded in resonating this ridiculous “plot” through the media is, in itself, proof as to just how thoroughly ensconced in the main stream media the alphabet spooks really are. The US/UK War of Terror has become a perverse farce, any way you look at it. For sure, innocents have died by the thousands, but where the media’s compromised position has failed is in pursuing any serious analysis of the roles played by these alphabet spooks in running, patsies, moles and professional executioners: false flag black-ops/psy-ops.

The BBC, to it’s credit, has exposed the intense wanna-be terrorist patsy recruiting that has gone on so heavily at the Brixton and Finsburry Mosques; now widely referred to as MI-5/6 Patsy Schools. And now with Perter Lance’s new book “Triple Cross,” though Lance takes the “limited hangout” position that Ali Mohammed worked against, not for the CIA, this should afford and indeed inspire a significant opening into exposure of CIA/MI-6 control in Al Queda operations, as far as they really exist. The Myth of Islamofascism has been so carefully cultivated, serious investigation and analysis may well reveal that most of the major players are CIA/MI-6 assets and most of the hysteria is manufactured as well.

To be sure, residual fear from 911 is real, but 911 truth has nothing to do with the 911 Commission. The new Congress must hold transparent hearings. They must investigate all aspects, indict all suspects, prosecute and execute. Nothing less than treason is at the heart of this nightmare.

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By Winter Patriot, December 13, 2006 at 4:00 pm Link to this comment
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Hello, and thanks very much for posting this. It’s a very important part of a very important story, IMHO. In several key respects, the road to tyranny seems to go through Heathrow.

I’ve been following the “Liquid Bombers” case very closely and I’ve written about it extensively. I see this as another very strange development in a story full of very strange developments.

If you’d like to learn a lot more about it, you’re most welcome to visit my blog and read, and read, and read ... here would be a good place to start.

If you don’t have much time but you’re interested in the most salient details, I would recommend this relatively short post.

Of course, if you’re not interested, you don’t need to start anywhere! wink

Thanks again and best wishes.
WP

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