A Bogus New 9-11

[Paul Mackin]

On Aug 16, 2006, at 11:48 AM, David Morris wrote:

> FYI, I decided to start using my Gmail account and resurrect my old  
> moniker.
>
> From "This Modern World" website:
> http://www.thismodernworld.com/
>
> This has been zipping about, but if you haven't seen it already, don't
> miss the take of Craig Murray, the former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan,
> on the latest terror plot. (Murray was fired by the British Foreign
> Office for criticizing Uzbekistan's routine torture, thereby mucking
> up England's highly moral and extremely rational foreign policy.)
>
> I have been reading very carefully through all the Sunday newspapers
> to try and analyse the truth from all the scores of pages claiming to
> detail the so-called bomb plot. Unlike the great herd of so-called
> security experts doing the media analysis, I have the advantage of
> having had the very highest security clearances myself, having done a
> huge amount of professional intelligence analysis, and having been
> inside the spin machine.
>
> So this, I believe, is the true story…
>
> Continue reading here:
> http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2006/08/the_uk_terror_p.html
>
> Money Quote:
> We then have the extraordinary question of Bush and Blair discussing
> the possible arrests over the weekend. Why? I think the answer to that
> is plain. Both in desperate domestic political trouble, they longed
> for "Another 9/11". The intelligence from Pakistan, however dodgy,
> gave them a new 9/11 they could sell to the media. The media has
> bought, wholesale, all the rubbish they have been shovelled.
>

I suspect this is what a lot of people will soon be saying.. It was  
my own immediate reaction to the arrests.