After a quick skim through the 7/7 'narrative of events'. The preface contains this;
This narrative summarises what the police, intelligence and security
agencies have so far discovered about the bombers and how and why they
came to do what they did.
A few points to make for starters.
1. Annex A point 4 says
The key event in the founding of Al Qaida was the Soviet invasion and
occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
As well as Annex C, which says
1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and subsequent occupation.
Zbigniew Bzrezinski has stated that al-Qaeda was created by the Americans before the invasion of the Soviets.
2. No mention of the Israelis receiving the advance warning.
3. Regarding 'Londonistan', Annex A point 9 says
As Al Qaida developed in the 1990s, a number of extremists in the UK,
both British and foreign nationals – many of the latter having fled from
conflict elsewhere or repressive regimes – began to work in support of its
agenda, in particular, radicalising and encouraging young men to support
jihad overseas. These included Abu Hamza and Abdallah al Faisal (both
now serving prison sentences), Abu Qatada (currently detained pending
possible deportation) and Omar Bakri Mohammed (now outside the UK and
excluded from returning here). During the 1990s, it is now known that there
was a flow of young Muslims, from the UK and elsewhere, travelling to
Pakistan and Afghanistan for indoctrination or jihad..
There is plenty more to be said about this e.g. MI5 mole Reda Hassaine inside Finsbury Park Mosque having his observations of Abu Hamza totally ignored by his handler.
4. No mention of previous surveillance of suspects, or information received from other intelligence agencies e.g. Saudi Arabia regarding bomb plots on the London Underground.
5. The suspects apparently still caught the 0740 from Luton, which I thought didn't run that day. I'll have to check up on that one.
This appears at first reading to be a total whitewash and a total waste of time, paper and memory.
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The ISC Report says this;
43. We have been told in evidence that none of the individuals involved in the 7 July
group had been identified (that is, named and listed) as potential terrorist threats
prior to July. We have also been told that there was no warning from intelligence
(including foreign intelligence) of the plans to attack the London transport network
on 7 July 2005.
Plans for an attack
44. There was much media speculation following the attacks and various claims
were made that prior warning had been given.We have been assured by the Agencies
that there was no prior warning of the attacks that took place from any source,
including from foreign intelligence services.We have looked in detail into claims that
the Saudi Arabian authorities warned the British Agencies about the attacks. We
found that some information was passed to the Agencies about possible terrorist
planning for an attack in the UK. It was examined by the Agencies who concluded
that the plan was not credible. That information has been given to us: it is materially
different from what actually occurred on 7 July and clearly not relevant to these
attacks.
As the evidence was taken in secret and not under oath can this be believed? A full open judicial inquiry would give me alot more confidence. Alas, I have zero confidence.
The intelligence from Saudi Arabia named one of the bombers, Siddique Kahn, by name! All this excerpt says is that the events which transpired were different from that suggested in the Saudi intelligence. This does not get anyone off the hook. The thing is this; Kahn was named in a potential bomb plot, he was 'on the periphery' of a suspected terrorist network, had been taped talking of joining Jihad and had been under surveillance at least once before.
WHY WAS HE NOT PUT UNDER SURVEILLANCE AGAIN?
Again this a first impression. The ISC report seems to be more comprehensive than 'the narrative' but a good read of both over the weekend should be very interesting.
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