Of course, the "terrorists" are ALL FUNDED and DIRECTED by WESTERN GOVERNMENTS, but when you are pushing wars rather than reporting truth, well....
See: The Boston Globe Knows About "Al-CIA-Duh"
Naivete or Disingenuousness?
Which means this is ALL GARBAGE and THEY KNOW IT!!!
"In Britain, an antiterror debacle; High-profile sting ends with release of 12 detainees" by Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times | April 23, 2009
LONDON - In an embarrassment for the British government, all 12 men arrested during a high-profile counterterrorism sweep two weeks ago have been released, despite warnings at the time that a "very big" attack was imminent, authorities said yesterday.
Related: Diversion from murder? - Find an al Qaida Cell
Officials are seeking to deport 11 of the men to their native Pakistan. But none of the former suspects has been charged with any wrongdoing, and authorities conceded that there was not enough evidence to continue holding them in custody.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown had called the April 8 arrests across northwest England a necessary step to foil a "very big terrorist plot" that police had been following "for some time."
Another lying fat-shit heading a country.
Rumors spread, but searches of the suspects' homes and of their computers apparently failed to produce any actionable evidence, and authorities scrambled yesterday to answer accusations that the hurried arrests subjected the men to needless stress and humiliation.
The police sweep that resulted in the arrests stemmed from a major security blunder. On the morning of April 8, Bob Quick, then the head of counterterrorism at Scotland Yard, was photographed carrying top-secret documents about an investigation into a suspected Al Qaeda plot. The contents of a sheet were visible, and the photographs were posted on the Internet.
Oh, that's why the arrests. So which British agents were identified?
Because of the breach in security, police said they were forced to mount their sweep hours earlier than planned. Quick resigned the following day.
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This stuff would be laughable and absurd were it not so deadly fatal.
LONDON - Two men cleared of helping to plot London's 2005 suicide bombings were each sentenced yesterday to seven years in prison on charges connected to terrorism training.
No double jeopardy in Britain?
Judge Peter Gross jailed Waheed Ali and Mohammed Shakil after they were found guilty by a jury of conspiracy to attend a terrorist training camp.
Run by CIA or MI6?
The two suspects, and a third man, Sadeer Saleem, were cleared Tuesday of playing any role in the July 7 London bombings, when four suicide bombers killed 52 bus and subway commuters and themselves in one of the country's worst-ever peacetime attacks.
Gross said that, though a jury had accepted they had no role in organizing the bombings, the two convicted men had been serious in their attempts to seek terrorism training. "This was not play acting and you were determined players, not naive dupes," Gross said at London's Kingston Crown Court.
Prosecutors said during the trial that the men were close friends of the 2005 suicide bombers, and had traveled with members of the group to terrorist camps. Ali traveled with Mohammed Siddique Khan, the ringleader of the July 7 plot, to a Pakistan training camp in 2001, and again in 2004, when they were joined by Shehzad Tanweer, another of the London bombers....
Oh, Mr. Khan, 'eh?
--more--"Also see: May Day Memories: British Patsies
May Day Memories: The U.S. Connection
Terror Expert: London Bomber Was Working For MI5
Kinda a kick in the head, huh?
"Trial opens for terror suspects in Germany; 200 witnesses may be called; could take 2 years" by Nicholas Kulish, New York Times | April 23, 2009
BERLIN - The trial of four suspected Islamic militants charged with plotting a series of deadly bombings in Germany began in Duesseldorf yesterday. The highly anticipated proceedings have been billed here as the biggest terrorism trial since the top leaders of the far-left Red Army Faction were prosecuted in the 1970s.
Ever hear of Operation Gladio, readers?
Turns out all those "violent, left-wing groups" were FALSE-FLAG PATSIES directed by GOVERNMENT INTEL AGENCIES!
This is GETTING OLD, folks!
The four men are accused of planning attacks against high-profile targets, including the airport in Frankfurt and American military installations like Ramstein Air Force Base, attacks prosecutors say could have surpassed the fatal bombings of commuter trains in Madrid in 2004, in which nearly 200 people were killed.
German authorities arrested three of the four suspects in September 2007 with 26 military detonators and 12 drums of hydrogen peroxide, the main chemical in the explosives used in the London suicide bombings of July 2005. All four men have been held without bail leading up to the trial, which is expected to involve some 200 witnesses and take up to two years to complete....
The police arrested Yilmaz and two German citizens who had converted to Islam, Fritz Gelowicz and Daniel Martin Schneider, in a rented cottage in the village of Oberschledorn in the Sauerland region of North Rhine-Westphalia, earning them the appellation "the Sauerland Cell" here in Germany. Investigators followed the men for more than six months, assembling what prosecutors say is a rich trove of evidence, including recorded conversations between the suspects and intercepted e-mail correspondence.
Keeping an eye on their patsies.
Attorneys for Gelowicz and Schneider issued a statement yesterday challenging the legality of much of that evidence.
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Also see: Germany's Beauty-Bomb Plot
And when was the last time the paper carried an article on Mali?
You are excused for saying where, readers. It's the first time I've seen an article about them.
"Mali says 4 foreign hostages released" by Associated Press | April 23, 2009
BAMAKO, Mali - Al Qaeda's North Africa branch had claimed responsibility for the kidnapping....
The UN staffers were captured in December, while the two women were members of a group of four tourists seized a month later. Cissouma had no further details and there was no word on the fate of the two other missing tourists. A Canadian government spokeswoman had no immediate comment.
The Al Qaeda group did not issue demands for the hostages' release, but in the past it has obtained ransoms for Western tourists kidnapped in the Sahara, the world's largest desert. The group operates mainly in Algeria but is suspected of crossing the country's porous desert borders to spread violence in the rest of northwestern Africa.
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