Terror and politics, what else?
"Agencies cleared in UK attack inquest; British judge says failings in ’05 did not cause deaths" by Karla Adam, Washington Post / May 7, 2011
LONDON — A British judge ruled yesterday that failings in the security and emergency services did not contribute to the deaths of the 52 people killed in Al Qaeda-inspired transit bombings in London during morning rush hour on July 7, 2005....
Really not a surprise, is it?
And the rest has been chopped from the web version?
And how could the response have been so bad when the authorities were simulating a drill that was the exact same scenario(?) carried out by the "terrorists?"
Same thing happened here on 9/11.
Though Judge Heather Hallett said she hoped the inquest would be the last investigation into the worst terrorist attack on British soil, some family members called for a full independent inquiry.
Graham Foulkes, whose 22-year-old son, David, died at the Edgware Road subway station, said in an interview that all of the victims' families he knew wanted an independent inquiry. The inquest examined "about a fifth" of the issues, and an inquiry which is wider ranging, "would finally allow us to look at the whole picture," he said.
Oh, I CAN SEE WHY the AmeriKan media needed to cut that!
Related:
May Day Memories: British Patsies
May Day Memories: The U.S. Connection
Terror Expert: London Bomber Was Working For MI5
Israeli Connections to the London Tube Bombs
Btw, ever hear of Mr. Aswat or Mr. Khan, readers?
I believe Mr. Khan rates a mention in the article (and not much else).
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"British local elections test the ruling coalition; Liberal Democrats are punished over austerity program" by Alan Cowell, New York Times / May 7, 2011
British voters redrew swaths of the country’s political landscape yesterday with a series of local, regional, and national votes that punished the junior coalition partner for the government’s austerity measures and emboldened Scots seeking a ballot on the future of their centuries-old union with England....
According to the BBC, the Scottish National Party had won 65 of the 129 seats in Scotland’s regional Parliament. The result gave the nationalists a majority there for the first time since the assembly was created in 1999 — a triumph that resounded loudly some 77 years after the party was founded as a minority group promising to reverse the three-centuries-old Act of Union between England and Scotland.
Alex Salmond, the party leader, said he would introduce a referendum on independence....
FREEEEEEEEEEEE-DOMMMMMM!!!!
Conservative prime minister David Cameron promised a fight against Scottish separatism....
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