Försvarsberedningens ordförande, Karin Enström viftar med diffusa hotbilder om terrorism. Det är efterhand ganska många som inte tror på det här för Sveriges del, man menar att terrorism är något man kan drabbas av som en asymmetrisk respons om man invaderar andra länder.

Den här bloggaren är inte så säker på det utan hävdar istället att terrorismen är ett monsturöst falsarium, en myt skapad av våra egna västliga medier och säkerhetstjänster och något man kan drabbas av när ett väsentligt politiskt skifte ska genomföras där vi inte känner oss tillräckligt rädda för att gå med på vad som helst. Lyssna på Donald Rumsfeld vid ett lunchmöte för två år sedan:

The perception of the threat is so low in this society that it’s not surprising that the behavior pattern reflects a low threat assessment. The same thing’s in Europe, there’s a low threat perception. The correction for that, I suppose, is an attack.

Och titta lite närmare på terrorismens historia:

Daniele Ganser: NATO’s secret armies linked to terrorism? (pdf)

“You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game,” right-wing terrorist Vincezo Vinciguerra explained the so-called “strategy of tension” to Casson. “The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security.”

Tydligare kan man nog inte uttrycka motivet. Läs mer om Operation Gladio och spänningens strategi som i Italien 1978 uppgick till som mest 2500 årliga terroristdåd utförda av högerextrema krafter, skyllda på vänstergrupper och organiserade under NATO av SISMI, CIA och MI6.

Detta hände mitt under det kalla kriget för trettio år sedan och motiverades med att man ville förhindra ett kommunistiskt maktövertagande i Italien. Så här sade en insider i organiseringen av operation Gladio, tidigare president Fransesco Cossiga, i Corriere della Sera 30 November förra året angående en video av Usama Bin Laden.

“From areas around the Palazzo Chigi, nerve centre of direction of Italian intelligence, it is noted that the non-authenticity of the video is testified from the fact that Osama bin Laden in it ‘confessed’ that Al Qaeda would have been the author of the attack of the 11 September to the Twin Towers in New York, while all of the democratic areas of, America and of Europe, with in the forefront those of the Italian, centre-left, now know well that the disastrous attack was planned and realized by the American CIA and Mossad with the help of the Zionist world to put under accusation the Arabic Countries and to persuade the Western Powers to intervene in Iraq and Afghanistan”

Slutsatsen att videon är en förfalskning förstärks av Benazir Bhutto som i en intervju från november förra året berättar att Usama bin Laden mördats, är han död kan han ju inte spela in videoband. Den påstådde mördaren, Omar Saeed Sheik, är inte heller vem som helst utan mannen som skickade 100 000 dollar till flygplanskaparen Mohammad Atta på uppdrag av ISI generalen Mahmood Ahmed, en avgörande transaktion som konfirmerats av FBI och spelas ner så här av 911 kommisionen:

To date, the US government has not been able to determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately the question is of little practical significance.

När det gäller den terrorism som ligger närmast oss, bombningarna i Londons transportsystem 7/7-2005 berättade federale åklagaren John Loftus i en TV intervju så här om den misstänkte huvudmannen bakom bombningarna.

…apparently Aswat was working for British intelligence

Läs mer om de märkliga omständigheterna här:
MI6 och Demokratins dödgrävare

FRA debatten är ännu inte slut, låt oss hoppas på ett avgörande nej.

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“Sure, this proclamation [of independence] blows up the founded international right on the sovereignty of the States. “ – Former KFOR commander gen. Fabio Mini.

USA har förlagt en av världens största utländska militärbaser i Kosovo på gränsen till Makedonien.

William F. Engdahl:Kosovo and Washington’s Strategic Agenda for Europe and Eurasia

The US strategic agenda for Kosovo is primarily military, and its prime focus is against Russia and for control of oil flows from the Caspian Sea to the Middle East into Western Europe. By declaring its independence, Washington gains a weak state which it can fully control. So long as it remained a part of Serbia, that NATO military control would be politically insecure. Today Kosovo is controlled as a military satrapy of NATO, whose KFOR has 16,000 troops there for a tiny population of 2 millions.

US-NATO military control of Kosovo serves several purposes for Washington’s greater geo-strategic agenda. First it enables greater US control over potential oil and gas pipeline routes into the EU from the Caspian and Middle East as well as control of the transport corridors linking the EU to the Black Sea. It also protects the multi-billion dollar heroin trade, which, significantly, has grown to record dimensions in Afghanistan according to UN narcotics officials, since the US occupation. Kosovo and Albania are major heroin transit routes into Europe. According to a just -released 2008 US State Department annual report on international narcotics traffic, several key drug trafficking routes pass through the Balkans. Kosovo is mentioned as a key point for the transfer of heroin from Turkey and Afghanistan to Western Europe. Those drugs reportedly flow under the watchful eye of the Thaci government.

Former NYSE chief Richard Grasso embrace FARC commander with “a message of cooperation from U.S. financial services”

Since its dealings with the Meo tribesmen in Laos during the Vietnam era, the CIA has protected narcotics traffic in key locations in order partly to finance its covert operations. The scale of international narcotics traffic today is such that major US banks such as Citigroup are reported to derive a significant share of their profits from laundering the proceeds.

February 22, 2005 67 page German BND report, labeled Top Secret, which has been leaked, stated, … Translation: “Through the key players—for example Thaci, Haliti, Haradinaj—there is the closest interlink between politics, the economy and international organized crime in Kosovo. The criminal organizations in the background there foster political instability. They have no interest at all in the building of a functioning orderly state that could be detrimental to their booming business.”

Michel Chossudovsky:”OSAMAGATE”

Albania and Kosovo lie at the heart of the “Balkan Route” that links the “Golden Crescent” of Afghanistan and Pakistan to the drug markets of Europe. This route is worth an estimated $400 billion a year and handles 80 percent of heroin destined for Europe.

Michael Chossudovsky:Kosovo: The US and the EU support a Political Process linked to Organized Crime

“The KLA [formerly headed by Hashim Thaci] is tied in with every known Middle and Far Eastern drug cartel. Interpol, Europol, and nearly every European intelligence and counter-narcotics agency has files open on drug syndicates that lead right to the KLA,…” (Michael Levine former official of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA))

Under UN mandate, the purpose of the provisional government was “to provide ‘provisional, democratic self-government’ in advance of a decision on the political status of Kosovo.

What this signifies is that the United Nations has not only set the stage for an “Independent” Kosovo government in violation of international law, it has also installed a Kosovo government integrated by the members of a criminal syndicate. All three Kosovo Prime Ministers, Ramush Haradinaj, Agim Ceku and Hashim Thaci are war criminals.

Artikeln fortsätter med citat från tidigare rapporter om samröre mellan KLA och muslimska terrorister under premiärminister Hashim Thaci.

“Some members of the Kosovo Liberation Army [headed by the current Kosovo Prime minister Hashim Thaci] , which has financed its war effort through the sale of heroin, were trained in terrorist camps run by international fugitive Osama bin Laden — who is wanted in the 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 persons, including 12 Americans.

The reports also show that the KLA has enlisted Islamic terrorists — members of the Mujahideen –as soldiers in its ongoing conflict against Serbia, and that many already have been smuggled into Kosovo to join the fight. ….
The intelligence reports document what is described as a “link” between bin Laden, the fugitive Saudi millionaire, and the KLA –including a common staging area in Tropoje, Albania, a center for Islamic terrorists. The reports said bin Laden’s organization, known as al-Qaeda, has both trained and financially supported the KLA.” (Washington Times, May 4, 1999, see complete article below)

Sverige, som politiskt befinner sig i fritt fall, erkände Kosovos självständighet 4 mars 2008.

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BBC censurerar Benazir Bhutto:Bin Laden mördad av 9/11 finansiär/#balkanislamists

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Deep Edition:Några anteckningar runt den fascistiska staten

Det handlar om en större fråga: om frihet kontra falsk säkerhet.

Blogge Bloggelito:Krönika 2007: Med stormsteg mot Thomas ”Stasi” Bodströms endemiska övervakningssamhälle

Betyget 2.2 innebär ”systemic failure to uphold safeguards” enligt den klassificering som Privacy International använder, den tredje sämsta kategorin av sju möjliga.

Också Säpo varnar för en situation med trafikdatalagring utomlands där åtkomsten regleras av andra lagar, kanske ryska. Säpos bekymmer är ett annat än intrånget i den privata sfären, trafikdatat beskriver strukturen för Sveriges kollektiva medvetande och har ett strategiskt värde intimt kopplat till suveräniteten.

Frendo: Säpo ser faror med trafikdatalagring

“Säkerhetspolisen har pekat på att detta förhållande kan innebära att information som har stor betydelse för rikets säkerhet kan bli åtkomlig i andra länder.”

Säpos varning gäller förstås också länder där lagar inte följs. Så här läckte svenska banktransaktioner ut till USA under nästan fem år:

Svd: Regeringen visste om olaglig läcka

Swift började förmedla data över transaktionerna, även till och från svenskar, strax efter terrorattackerna i New York 2001. USA ville spåra misstänkta överföringar. Swift ansåg sig tvingat att säga ja sedan en begäran lämnats till dess filial i USA. Uppgifterna gick till amerikanska finansdepartementet – som vidarebefordrade till FBI och CIA.

Svd: Ringholm motsägs av sin medarbetare

Men enligt Riksdag & Departement stoppade regeringen i själva verket granskning av bankläckorna.

USA ville spåra misstänkta överföringar för att fånga terrorister kan man tro men var det verkligen så? Så här sade man i 9/11 kommisionens rapport.

“To date, the US government has not been able to determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately the question is of little practical significance“.

De flesta främmande säkerhetstjänster har intresse av Svenskarnas mjölpåsar, särskilt de anglo-amerikanska som hårdast drivit på införandet av folkövervakning i EU men de är inte ensamma. Om man går tillbaka några år utrikes kan man se precis hur de brott Oscar Swartz citerar nedan begåtts med koppling till just trafikdata.

Oscar Swartz:Bodströmsamhället och dess risker:Expressen

MEN: Man motiverade lagen med att bekämpa “terrorism, spionage och författningshotande verksamhet samt organiserad och systemhotande brottslighet”.

C’t (2002):Dutch tapping room not kosher

The insiders at the AIVD and the tapping room were interviewed by the radio program of the EO¹¹. According to them, the Dutch government and Comverse have a gentlemen’s agreement that the Dutch government would get the Comverse systems for a very reduced price and in exchange the Israelis would get full access to all tapped information.

Kopia av Fox News 2001 rapport om Comverse i USA.

Investigators don’t believe calls are being listened to, but the data about who is calling whom and when is plenty valuable in itself.

But investigators within the DEA, INS and FBI have all told Fox News that to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying through Comverse is considered career suicide.

A handful of former U.S. law enforcement officials involved in awarding Comverse government contracts over the years now work for the company.

Los Angeles, 1997, a major local, state and federal drug investigating sours. The suspects: Israeli organized crime with operations in New York, Miami, Las Vegas, Canada, Israel and Egypt. The allegations: cocaine and ecstasy trafficking, and sophisticated white-collar credit card and computer fraud.

When investigators checked their own wiretapping system for leaks, they grew concerned about potential vulnerabilities in the computers that intercept, record and store the wiretapped calls. A main contractor is Comverse Infosys, which works closely with the Israeli government, and under a special grant program, is reimbursed for up to 50 percent of its research and development costs by Israel’s Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Beyond the 60 apprehended or detained, and many deported since Sept. 11, another group of 140 Israeli individuals have been arrested and detained in this year in what government documents describe as “an organized intelligence gathering operation,” designed to “penetrate government facilities.“

Och slutligen den typ av terrorism som lagförslaget om trafikdatalagring vilar på.

Den 13 juli 2005 upprepade rådet i sitt uttalande om fördömande av bombattentaten i London behovet av att så snart som möjligt anta gemensamma åtgärder om lagring av telekommunikationsuppgifter.

Click here to view the embedded video.

LOFTUS: Right, Aswat is believed to be the mastermind of all the bombings in London.”

LOFTUS: This is the guy, and what’s really embarrassing is that the entire British police are out chasing him, and one wing of the British government, MI6 or the British Secret Service, has been hiding him. And this has been a real source of contention between the CIA, the Justice Department, and Britain.

LOFTUS: Well, apparently Aswat was working for British intelligence. Now Aswat’s boss, the one-armed Captain Hook, he gets indicted two years later. So the guy above him and below him get indicted, but not Aswat. Now there’s a split of opinion within US intelligence. Some people say that the British intelligence fibbed to us. They told us that Aswat was dead, and that’s why the New York group dropped the case. That’s not what most of the Justice Department thinks. They think that it was just again covering up for this very publicly affiliated guy with Al-Muhajiroun. He was a British intelligence plant.

Falskflaggad terrorism? Svårt för en del, för andra en långsam inre jordbävning där magnetisk nord och sydpol byter plats och alla kompasser visar fel tills de kalibrerats om. Blogge Bloggelito skriver om övervakningen:

Och det är sant att den enda vettiga invändning som finns är av principiell natur.

Som omkalibrerad kan man också invända att de lagar och förslag som refererar till Londonbombningarna, kan misstänkas vila på en falsk premiss och därför bör suspenderas tills de undersökts noga i en revision.

Några frågor man kunde ställa vid en sån:

När fick Thomas Bodström kännedom om intervjun med John Loftus? Vad tänkte han då, vilka personer kontaktade han och vilka hade kontaktat honom? Eftersom Thomas Bodström och andra inblandade måste antas förstå innebörden av vad Loftus berättar, är tidspunkten viktig då referenser till Londonbombningarna i lagtexter och förslag gjorda efter denna tidspunkt, kan förmodas vara inte bara falska, utan också bedrägliga.

Om Thomas Bodström, Beatrice Ask eller tjänstemännen på justitiedepartementet inte känner till intervjun, måste de informationskanaler som dessa och Riksdagen förfogar över undersökas för att finna den eller de personer som är ansvariga för att ha filtrerat bort den. Frånvaro eller bristande förståelse av informationen hos beslutsfattare har nu lett så långt att det kommit att beröra rikets säkerhet (enligt säpo).

Är övervakningen Thomas Bodströms egen ide eller är det någon som viskar i hans öra, har den en historia och impuls som kommer någon annanstans ifrån, såsom till exempel främmande makt?

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Update 2010-05-03 According to “The Nation” Seymour Hersh says Benazir Bhutto killed by U.S. Special squad led by Stanley McChrystal.

I en TV-intervju med David Frost 2 November 2007 berättar Bhutto om situationen i Pakistan och ett tidigare attentat mot hennes liv där hon nämner flera förmodat ansvariga personer, bl.a. en med förbindelser till Omar Saeed Sheik som Bhutto påstår är mannen som har mördat Usama Bin Laden

BBC News har redigerat intervjun och klippt bort fru Bhuttos utalande, meningen “and he also had dealings with Omar Sheik, the man who murdered Usama Bin Laden” är borttagen och tydligen följer Fox news i BBCs censurerande fotspår. Här finns en kopia från Al Jazeera där uttalandet fortfarande kan höras @6:10.

Var det det sensationella påståendet om Bin Ladens död som motiverade BBCs censorer att redigera bort meningen eller var det den känsliga uppgiften om Omar Saeed Sheiks relation till höga Pakistanska militärer och tjänstemän? Uppgifter om Omar Saeed Sheik har en lång historia av förvanskning och försvinnande i media relaterat till, som fru Bhutto sade -det finansiella stödet för terrorism.

Vem är Omar Saeed Sheik?

Omar Saeed Sheik är mannen som skickade $100 000 till flygplanskaparen Mohammad Atta på uppdrag av ISI generalen Mahmood Ahmed innan attackerna i New York och Washington 11 September 2001.

Så här beskrivs han av brittiske MP Michael Meacher i samband med Londonbombningarna 7 Juli 2005.

Guardian:Britain now faces its own blowback

One British Muslim of Pakistani origin radicalised by the civil war in Yugoslavia was LSE-educated Omar Saeed Sheikh. He is now in jail in Pakistan under sentence of death for the killing of the US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002 – although many (including Pearl’s widow and the US authorities) doubt that he committed the murder. However, reports from Pakistan suggest that Sheikh continues to be active from jail, keeping in touch with friends and followers in Britain.

The Observer Research Foundation has argued that there are even “grounds to suspect that the [London] blasts were orchestrated by Omar Sheikh from his jail in Pakistan”.

Omar Sheikh who, at the behest of General Mahmood Ahmed, head of the ISI, wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, the leading 9/11 hijacker, before the New York attacks, as confirmed by Dennis Lormel, director of FBI’s financial crimes unit.

Yet neither Ahmed nor Omar appears to have been sought for questioning by the US about 9/11. Indeed, the official 9/11 Commission Report of July 2004 sought to downplay the role of Pakistan with the comment: “To date, the US government has not been able to determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately the question is of little practical significance” – a statement of breathtaking disingenuousness.

The extraordinary US forbearance towards Omar Sheikh, its restraint towards the father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb, Dr AQ Khan, selling nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea, the huge US military assistance to Pakistan and the US decision last year to designate Pakistan as a major non-Nato ally in south Asia all betoken a deeper strategic set of goals as the real priority in its relationship with Pakistan.

Pittsburgh Tribune Review:Did Pearl die because Pakistan deceived CIA?

There are many in Musharraf’s government who believe that Saeed Sheikh’s power comes not from the ISI, but from his connections with our own CIA

Wikipedia:Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh

Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf, in his book In the Line of Fire stated that Sheikh was originally recruited by British intelligence agency, MI6, while studying at the London School of Economics. He alleges Omar Sheikh was sent to the Balkans by MI6 to engage in jihadi operations. Musharraf later went on to state “At some point, he probably became a rogue or double agent”.

För att bredda sammanhanget är det värt att känna till miljön och samarbetet mellan västmakter och islamister i Bosnien och Kosovo där också Haroon Rashid Aswat, den misstänkte hjärnan bakom Londonbombningarna rekryterades av MI6. Den som saknar tid eller intresse av ett breddat sammanhang kan lugnt hoppa vidare till Omar Saeed Sheiks intressanta bio.

Islamister på Balkan

Guardian:America used Islamists to arm the Bosnian Muslims

Now we have the full story of the secret alliance between the Pentagon and radical Islamist groups from the Middle East designed to assist the Bosnian Muslims – some of the same groups that the Pentagon is now fighting in “the war against terrorism”.

“Mojahedin fighters were also flown in, but they were reserved as shock troops for especially hazardous operations.”

Rather than the CIA, the Pentagon’s own secret service was the hidden force behind these operations.

EIR 2 November 2001:U.S. Protects Al-Qaeda Terrorists in Kosovo

While the United States is relentlessly bombing Afghanistan with the official aim of getting Osama bin Laden, one of bin Laden’s top collaborators is running a terrorist training camp in an area of Kosovo that is under U.S. control.

These revelations, and the clear position taken by Macedonian intelligence in confirming and expanding them, are now reopening the explosive question of the protection and sponsorship granted to the narco-terrorists by Anglo-American agencies

If the Anglo-Americans are at “war” with bin Laden’s terrorism, why are bin Laden operatives active in Kosovo in an area totally controlled by NATO?

On Oct. 16 Novosti reported: “A training camp of Albanian militants functions near the village of Ropotovo, close to Kosovska Kamenica, in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, which is controlled by the American force, sources from the Russian peacekeeping force in Kosovo reported on [Oct. 16]. According to [the sources], the camp is now training 50 Afghan and Algerian mujahideen, led by Zaiman Zawahiri. He is reportedly the brother of one of the closest associates of international terrorist Osama bin Laden.

Strangely enough, according to an expert who testified before a U.S. Congressional committee in January 2000, al-Zawahiri was granted U.S. residence by the Immigration and Naturalization Service—something almost impossible for many legitimate immigrants to obtain. Should we be surprised that one of the centers of operation for al-Zawahiri was London, where one of his closest relatives resided? President Mubarak is believed to have referred to him when, after the Luxor massacre, he stated: “There are people who carried out crimes and who were sentenced [in Egypt] and live on British soil.”

Michel Chossudovsky:”OSAMAGATE”

The “blowback” thesis is a fabrication. The evidence amply confirms that the CIA never severed its ties to the “Islamic Militant Network”. Since the end of the Cold War, these covert intelligence links have not only been maintained, they have in become increasingly sophisticated.

Throughout the 1990s, the Pakistan Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) was used by the CIA as a go-between — to channel weapons and Mujahideen mercenaries to the Bosnian Muslim Army in the civil war in Yugoslavia

It was alleged that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had full knowledge of the operation and that the CIA believed that some of the 400 had been detached for future terrorist operations in Western Europe.

On the more substantive “foreign policy lies” regarding drug running and covert operations in the Balkans, Democrats and Republicans agreed in unison, no doubt pressured by the Pentagon and the CIA not to “spill the beans”.

Confirmed by British military sources, the task of arming and training of the KLA had been entrusted in 1998 to the US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Britain’s Secret Intelligence Services MI6, together with “former and serving members of 22 SAS [Britain's 22nd Special Air Services Regiment], as well as three British and American private security companies”.

While British SAS Special Forces in bases in Northern Albania were training the KLA, military instructors from Turkey and Afghanistan financed by the “Islamic jihad” were collaborating in training the KLA in guerilla and diversion tactics.

What was largely hidden from public view was the fact that the KLA raise part of their funds from the sale of narcotics. Albania and Kosovo lie at the heart of the “Balkan Route” that links the “Golden Crescent” of Afghanistan and Pakistan to the drug markets of Europe. This route is worth an estimated $400 billion a year and handles 80 percent of heroin destined for Europe.

US military advisers mingle with Mujahideen within the same paramilitary force, Western mercenaries from NATO countries fight alongside Mujahideen recruited in the Middle East and Central Asia. And the US media calls this a “blowback” where so-called “intelligence assets” have gone against their sponsors!

A major war supposedly “against international terrorism” has been launched by a government which is harboring international terrorism as part of its foreign policy agenda. In other words, the main justification for waging war has been totally fabricated. The American people have been deliberately and consciously misled by their government into supporting a major military adventure which affects our collective future.

New York Press:Happy Days, Here Again

Chechnya has always been seen here as a rerun of Kosovo, which itself was a rerun of Afghanistan. All the ingredients are there: a spurious “national liberation” struggle financed by organized crime, drug trafficking and the global Islamic network; support from Western governments and human rights groups;

The UN expressed shock and surprise and demanded proof that people on its payroll were terrorists. This was an odd request. The UN had itself reported a year earlier that the KPC was a bunch of gangsters

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya:Europe and America: Sharing the Spoils of War

In 1993, Zbigniew Brzezinski stated that, “The tragedies of Lebanon of the 1980s, or of Kurdistan and the former Yugoslavia of the early 1990s are previews of things to come within the Eurasian oblong of maximum danger.” [4] What was implied by Brzezinski was balkanization ranging from sectarianism to ethnic clashes. The situation in Iraq is part of this process, as are the tensions in Lebanon, Kosovo, Turkey, and Caucasia.

Man kan anta att frågan om ett självständigt Kosovo har mindre med frihet och demokrati att göra än den geostrategiska placeringen av en angloamerikanskt kontrollerad narkoterrorismstat som förser Europa med heroin för att finansiera och genomföra terrorattacker mot bångstyriga länder. Alltsammans går tillbaka till Pakistan och symbiosen mellan ISI, Al Queda och Omar Saeed Sheik och en sannolik orsak till Benazir Bhuttos död.

Cooperative research:Sept. 11’s Smoking Gun: The Many Faces of Saeed Sheikh

But at the same time, much of his time was spent working with the ISI. He worked with Ijaz Shah, a former ISI official in charge of handling two terrorist groups, Lieutenant-General Mohammad Aziz Khan, also a former deputy chief of the ISI in charge of relations with Jaish-e-Mohammad, and Brigadier Abdullah, a former ISI officer. He was well known to other senior ISI officers. [National Post, 2/26/02, Guardian, 7/16/02, India Today, 2/25/02] How much of his work with al-Qaeda was done on the orders of the ISI is not known.

While the FBI and media have been putting forth a series of names sounding remarkably similar to Saeed Sheikh or the aliases he used, they have been ignoring or forgetting solid evidence that links Saeed Sheikh to the funding of 9/11. To do so would mean confronting Saeed’s ISI ties, and the possibility that he was acting on orders from Mahmood, or even President Musharraf.

The FBI has reported that many of the hijackers passed through Dubai and met with the 9/11 paymaster. They would be given Visa credit cards, travelers checks, and help in opening bank accounts. [Washington Post, 12/13/01, MSNBC, 12/11/01, Congressional Intelligence Committee, 9/26/02, London Times, 12/1/01, Congressional Intelligence Committee, 9/26/02] This further suggests that the paymaster was Saeed, since he was making frequent trips to Dubai at this time. [Guardian, 2/9/02]

The relationship between the US and the ISI is hard to fathom. On September 4, 2001, ISI Director Mahmood Ahmed arrived in Washington, D.C. On September 10, a Pakistani newspaper reported on the visit, saying that it had “triggered speculation about the agenda of his mysterious meetings at the Pentagon and National Security Council” as well as meetings with CIA Director George Tenet, unspecified officials at the White House and the Pentagon, and his “most important meeting” with Marc Grossman, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.

In May 2001, both CIA Director George Tenet and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage had visited South Asia. It’s not known if they met with Mahmood or anyone else in the ISI, but according to credible news reports, Tenet had “unusually long” consultations with President Musharraf. It is also worth noting that Armitage is known for his “large circle of friends in the Pakistani military and ISI” [SAPRA, 5/22/01] as well as his connections to the Iran-Contra affair.

But what many don’t know is that on the morning of September 11, Lt. Gen. Mahmood was at a breakfast meeting at the Capitol with the chairmen of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, Senator Bob Graham (D) and Representative Porter Goss (R). The meeting was said to have lasted at least until the second plane hit the World Trade Center. Goss is a self-admitted 10-year veteran of the CIA’s clandestine operations wing. [Washington Post, 5/18/02] Goss and Graham were later the heads of the joint House-Senate investigation into the September 11 attacks, and Goss in particular made headlines for saying there was no “smoking gun” indicating that the government had sufficient foreknowledge to prevent the September 11 attacks.

On September 12 and 13, Lt. Gen. Mahmood met with Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Senator Joseph Biden, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Secretary of State Colin Powell. An agreement on Pakistan’s collaboration in the new “war on terror” was negotiated between Mahmood and Armitage. [Miami Herald, 9/16/01] All these meetings coordinated Pakistan’s response to September 11. [New York Times, 9/13/01, Reuters, 9/13/01, Associated Press, 9/13/01] Isn’t it strange that the terms of Pakistan’s commitment to fight al-Qaeda were negotiated with the man who may have given orders to send $100,000 to the September 11 hijackers?

The timing of [FBI Director Robert] Mueller’s visits certainly is curious. After months of doing little to catch Saeed, suddenly Mueller is traveling all over Asia and both Saeed and Ansari are arrested within days? Did Mueller act with Musharraf to silence Saeed so the Indian reports of Saeed’s involvement in 9/11 could be quashed?

An anonymous former senior ISI official has stated, “The biggest problem we have [in Pakistan] are the rogue elements in the intelligence agencies, especially those who at some time became involved with the CIA.”

Update: 2010-05-03

The Nation 2009-05-18:’US special squad killed Benazir’

Former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on the orders of the special death squad formed by former US vice-president Dick Cheney, which had already killed the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafique Al Hariri and the army chief of that country.

The squad was headed by General Stanley McChrystal, the newly-appointed commander of US army in Afghanistan. It was disclosed by reputed US journalist Seymour Hersh while talking to an Arab TV in an interview.

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Drygt två år har gått sedan bombningarna i Londons transportsystem. Genom den långa vandringen i maktens korridorer har Thomas Bodströms initiativ via de märkliga turerna i EU-parlamentet kommit tillbaka till Sverige i form av EU direktiv och ett utredningsförslag för folkövervakning av Generaldirektör Gudrun Antemar.

DN: Alla svenskars kommunikation lagras

Uppgifter om alla telefonsamtal, all internettrafik och alla sms ska från och med januari 2009 samlas in och göras tillgänglig för polisen vid brottsutredningar, enligt ett utredningsförslag.

Ett hundratal svenska telefonbolag och internetoperatörer ska samla in alla uppgifter om vem som ringer eller sms:ar till vem, var de befinner sig, och hur länge samtalen pågår. Uppgifter om vem som loggar in sig på internet och hur länge

Men förslaget handlar egentligen inte om brottsbekämpning utan om befolkningskontroll:

Lagen riskerar också ge en psykologisk effekt, enligt experterna, som gör att “människor blir rädda och misstänksamma och i högre grad upplever att de lever i ett kontrollsamhälle

En rysk bekant berättade en gång att man under hans uppväxt i Sovjetunionen sällan förde några samtal i familjen på grund av rädslan att bli avlyssnad, hur språket blev fattigt och otydligt och tillvaron kantig och dyster. Hos oss är skillnaden att det inte handlar om vad man säger utan vem man pratar med.

Trafikdatat kan användas till att undersöka vem vi känner och påverkar inte yttrandefriheten så mycket som organisationsfriheten. Vi kommer att behöva lära oss tänka efter när vi har kontakt med någon, som kan tänkas känna någon som är misstänkt. Också oskyldiga samtal kan leda till trubbel, den lagrade informationen beskriver inte vad som sagts, det finns inget som visar att samtalet var oskyldigt.

Däremellan ska uppgifterna göras tillgängliga och lätt sökbara för polisen enligt två olika lagrum, där det ena varken kräver någon särskild misstänkt eller domstolsbeslut. Uppgifterna ska också kunna lämnas till myndigheter i andra länder.

Informationen utgör rådata till kartan över landets och senare Europas sociala nervsystem och kan såvitt det ser ut utan misstanke lämnas över till inhemska säkerhetstjänster eller organ för främmande makt. Efter statistisk bearbetning utgör datat ett kraftfullt verktyg för att identifiera och manipulera nyckelpersoner, såsom politiker och tjänstemän och möjliggör ett maktövertagande till relativt liten kostnad.

TT/DN lyfter fram operatörskostnaderna som en kontroversiell punkt i förslaget och väcker en mild förhoppning att det kommer att bli för dyrt för Telia. Hanteringsproblemet får man anta, kommer att minska allteftersom samtalsvolymerna sjunker ju mer vi tystnar.

Terrorismen

I utredningsförslaget anges terrorattacken i London 7/7-2005 som ett motiv till övervakningen men selektiv rapportering i media måste sägas vara en bidragande om inte avgörande orsak. Medan man här hemma gjorde nummer av folkpartiets förslag att låta skolbarnen anmäla varandra för Säpo och att vi inte ska vara rädda för att låta polis och militär samarbeta i kampen mot terrorismen, sades några uppseendeväckande saker i Amerikansk TV och Brittisk press som inte rapporterades här och som gjorde det möjligt för Thomas Bodström att agera:

Tre veckor efter attacken berättade terroristexperten och tidigare federale åklagaren John Loftus i en TV-intervju att den misstänkte huvudmannen bakom dåden arbetade åt den Brittiska säkerhetstjänsten, MI6.

Terror Expert: 7/7 Mastermind was working for British Intelligence, Group was used by Brits in Kosovo in the late 90s

LOFTUS: Right, Aswat is believed to be the mastermind of all the bombings in London.”
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LOFTUS: This is the guy, and what’s really embarrassing is that the entire British police are out chasing him, and one wing of the British government, MI6 or the British Secret Service, has been hiding him. And this has been a real source of contention between the CIA, the Justice Department, and Britain.
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LOFTUS: Well, apparently Aswat was working for British intelligence. Now Aswat’s boss, the one-armed Captain Hook, he gets indicted two years later. So the guy above him and below him get indicted, but not Aswat. Now there’s a split of opinion within US intelligence. Some people say that the British intelligence fibbed to us. They told us that Aswat was dead, and that’s why the New York group dropped the case. That’s not what most of the Justice Department thinks. They think that it was just again covering up for this very publicly affiliated guy with Al-Muhajiroun. He was a British intelligence plant.

Loftus’ information is backed up by the New York Times and CNN who reported on this incident also.

Enastående nyhet om man velat sälja lösnummer, en snabb och ovetenskaplig Yahoosökning på strängen: ‘Aswat London MI6′ på olika språk gav en fingervisning om spridningen i några Europeiska länder, från 6/9 (ca) och 27/9 – 2005.

Svenska medier

Hur många hade behövts för att rädda demokratin?

Även om inget omnämnande fanns på någon svenskspråkig websida kände förstås många till intervjun, förutom medierna (åtminstone Aftonbladet och radions studio ett) med säkerhet regeringen. Loftus är välrenomerad och inslaget hade sänts i en större amerikansk nyhetskanal.

Skulle Bodströmprojektet överhuvudtaget taget varit möjligt att driva om media visat intresse för händelsen och öppnat debatt?

I Sverige fick inte den här nyheten plats i det offentliga samtalet.

Ur Brittiskt perspektiv

I Storbritannien däremot skrev tidigare miljöminister och Brittiske parlamentsledamoten Michael Meacher så här:

Guardian: Britain now faces its own blowback

Whether the hunt for those behind the London bombers can prevail against these powerful political forces remains to be seen. Indeed it may depend on whether Scotland Yard, in its attempts to uncover the truth, can prevail over MI6, which is trying to cover its tracks and in practice has every opportunity to operate beyond the law under the cover of national security.

Kanske ett tips för den som vill sålla lite bland det som sagts om Londonbombningarna och belyser det faktum att Scotland Yard inte visat något intresse av att förhöra Aswat sedan han fängslades.

Nedan följer en fördjupning kring några iakttagelser om attacken, den som har ont om tid, inte behöver veta mer eller i allmänhet ogillar ‘konspirationsteorier’ kan lugnt hoppa vidare ner på sidan till historiska paralleller.

Opinionen

Terrorism är en taktik för psykologisk krigföring som syftar till att skapa en specifik mediarespons i avsikt att forma en folkopinion. Noggrann planläggning och bearbetning krävs, därför kan det vara värdefullt att se vad som händer i media inte bara efter utan också före en attack.

Guardian: It’s not only about Iraq

On Monday it was Chatham House. Yesterday it emerged that the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (Jtac) – a group that combines the police, MI5, MI6 and GCHQ – had filed a report three weeks before 7/7 that cited Iraq as a “motivation and a focus of a range of terrorist-related activity in the UK”.

Tre veckor innan den sen tidigare efterlyste huvudmannen obehindrat reser från London och slipper ut ur arresten i Pakistan, sluter MI6 upp bakom den 2/3 av Britterna som opponerade sig mot Tony Blair och kriget i Iraq. Påståendet att kriget är en motivation för terrorism verkar rimligt men på grund av huvudmannens uppdragsgivare måste kopplingen här förmodas vara falsk. MI6 och resten av säkerhetsetablissemanget tar en ståndpunkt synbarligen i opposition mot regeringen och avvärjer misstankar genom att förena sig med majoriteten av arga Britter mot Tony Blair. Man är ‘the good guys’ som också ‘kämpar mot etablissemanget’ och sänker samtidigt hotnivån inför G8-mötet i Gleneagles till den lägsta efter 9/11.

FAS: MI6

With the passing of the Intelligence Services Act, SIS was placed on a statutory footing under the Foreign & Commonwealth Secretary to whom it is responsible for all aspects of its work.”
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“The Service’s principal role is the production of secret intelligence in support of Her Majesty’s Government’s security, defence, foreign and economic policies…”
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“Specific operations are subject to longstanding procedures for official and ministerial clearance.“

Om saker skett enligt boken är motsättningen mellan regering och underättelsetjänst skenbar, den vänstra handen vet vad den högra gör. Meningsskillnaden har taktisk betydelse, som Lenin en gång ska ha sagt: “Det bästa sättet att kontrollera oppositionen är att själva leda den”.

Efter bombningarna polariserades opinionen i två läger, en höger som fördömde och en vänster som förstod, bägge sidor övertygade om ett främmande hot av Arabiskt ursprung. Medan konsensus i skuldfrågan är närmast självklar i Sverige finns en större vaksamhet i Storbritannien där många är medvetna om att brittisk säkerhetsjänst tidigare varit inblandade i terrorattacker som skyllts på IRA.

Frågor..

I filmen Mind the gap sammanfattar tidigare MI5 agenten David Shayler många av oklarheterna kring bombningarna, en sådan är ögonvittnet som fick besök av drottningen:

Cambrige Evening News: I was in tube bomb carriage – and survived (404 – rense.com kopia)

The policeman said ‘mind that hole, that’s where the bomb was’. The metal was pushed upwards as if the bomb was underneath the train. They seem to think the bomb was left in a bag, but I don’t remember anybody being where the bomb was, or any bag,” he said

Iaktagelsen stöds av andra ögonvittnen intervjuade på plats av Mark Honigsbaum, Guardian.

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“an explosion this morning under the carriage of the train (…) some passengers described how the tiles, the covers on the floor of the train, suddenly flew up, raised up“.

Explosioner i golvet… Fransk expertis var tidigt på plats och hävdade att sprängämnet var av militärt ursprung, förmodligen från Kosovo där MI6 under lång tid rekryterat islamister, bland dem den misstänkte Haroon Aswat.

Independent: Explosive in London Bombs “of Military Origin”

Christophe Chaboud, head of the French Anti-Terrorism Co-ordination Unit, told Le Monde newspaper that the explosives used in the bombings were of “military origin”, which he described as “very worrying”. “We’re more used to cells making home-made explosives with chemicals,” he said. “How did they get them? Either by trafficking, for example, in the Balkans, or they had someone on the inside who enabled them to get out of the military establishment.

He added that the victims’ wounds suggested that the explosives, which were “not heavy but powerful”, had been placed on the ground, perhaps underneath seats.

En tredje indikation av bomber monterade under eller nära golvet. I den Brittiska utredningen ändras nu sprängämnet till det extremt stötkänsliga TATP som man sade sig ha funnit i ‘bombfabriken i Leeds’ vilket ledde till följande gräl med Fransmännen.

Herald Tribune: French leak stirs fury in Britain

So poisonous is the atmosphere that the talk in European intelligence circles is that the British feel that the French may have leaked bad information on purpose.”They believe they released this incorrect information deliberately,”said the head of a European intelligence agency.

Märkligt, varför detta melodrama?

Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, Nov-Dec 2005 The Balkans

“CK123 is a PRC-made HE very close to Semtex. Both the JNA (pre-war Yugoslav Armed Forces) and the Bosnia-Herzegovina (Muslim) forces purchased it. The HE in Spain and the captured truck came from stockpiles in B-H. This was confirmed by chemical signature. Because of the difficulties in retrieving forensic evidence, and the presence of home-mixed HE in the charges, the chemical signature of the London bombing is inconclusive as to whether the CK123 came from the same batch as the others (then it is from B-H) or from another batch (which, on the basis of other intelligence, points to the Albanian/UCK source).”

(ej kontrollerad mot pappersutgåvan).

Paralleller

Om tanken på statsterrorism känns hårdsmält kanske operation Gladio med kopplingar till NATO högkvarteret, CIA och MI6 kan fungera som en referens.

Chris Floyd: Sword Play: Attacking Civilians to Justify “Greater Security”

Indeed, it would not do for the families of the 85 people ripped apart by the Aug. 2, 1980 bombing of the Bologna train station to know that their loved ones had been murdered by “men inside Italian state institutions and … men linked to the structures of United States intelligence,” as the Italian Senate concluded after its investigation in 2000.

Så här beskrivs logiken bakom dåden av en terrorist kopplad till den Italienska säkerhetstjänsten:

Daniele Ganser: NATO’s secret armies linked to terrorism? (pdf)

“You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game,” right-wing terrorist Vincezo Vinciguerra explained the so-called “strategy of tension” to Casson. “The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security.”

EIR: Italy’s Black Prince: Terror War Against the Nation-State

Terrorism exploded in Italy, with 147 attacks in 1968, another 398 in 1969, and peaked at 2,498 in 1978.

Sammanfattning

Frendo: Trafikdatalobbyisterna

Tillsammans med USA är Storbritannien det land som hårdast drivit på för storskalig lagring av trafikdata. Redan 2000 hade en rad brittiska polis- och underrättelsemyndigheter arbetat fram ett skarpt förslag till hur detta bäst borde ske.

Grundat på historiska iaktagelser och frågetecken kring Londonbombningarna verkar det rimligt att anta att strategin bakom dessa varit att ‘hjälpa till’ och fungera som drivkraft till införandet av drakoniska åtgärder i EU avsedda att kontrollera politiken, förhindra organisering och passivisera befolkningen. I det har ett desinformerat och naivt Sverige spelat en avgörande roll genom att se till att trafikdatat och EU’s sociala nervsystem hamnar hos de misstänkta terroristerna.

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Blogginlägg: Christian Engström, Oscar Swartz, Rick Falkvinge.

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