London Bombing: Home Grown Terrorists?
Remember after the Oklahoma bombing when the U.S. wrongly assumed it was an international terrorist attack? Is the same thing happening in London? There are a few parallels emerging. Right after the London bombing, U.S. and British officials surmised al-Zarqawi and his international al-Qaeda group were behind the attack. Then the bombs turn out to be home-made, weighing less than 10 pounds apiece and composed of readily available materials. Now, the New York Times reports,
That finding supports a theory gaining momentum among the authorities that the plot was carried out by a sleeper cell of homegrown extremists rather than highly trained terrorists exported to Britain.
Over at Huffington Post, Max Blumenthal analyzes the different theories, including one that the one-eyed, one-handed cleric Abu Hamza Al-Masri, whose terror trial is supposed to begin in Britain Tuesday, is behind the attacks. Blumenthal concludes the U.S. is spinning the al-Zarqawi theory to gain support for its theory that Iraq is a key enemy in the terror war:
This looks, smells and quacks like a Pentagon/State Department disinformation campaign designed to reinforce the notion of Iraq as a "central battlefield in the war on terror." Zarqawi's involvement in the London attacks would also bolster his profile among the American public, fulfilling a PR goal the White House established once they essentially gave up on capturing bin Laden.
....As long as the Bush administration's disinformation is accepted at face value, we are living in the land of the blind, a place where, as Bob Dylan reminded us, the one-eyed man is king.
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