The London Explosions, the Rogue Networks, Bush and Iran

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The London Explosions, the Rogue Network, Bush and Iran


by Webster G. Tarpley

July 13, 2005


Last week's London explosions carry the characteristic features of a state-sponsored, false flag, synthetic terror provocation by networks within the British intelligence services MI-5, MI-6, the Home Office, and the Metropolitan Police Special Branch who are favorable to a wider Anglo-American aggressive war in the Middle East, featuring especially an early pre-emptive attack on Iran, with a separate option on North Korea also included.

With the London attacks, the Anglo-American invisible government adds another horrendous crime to its own dossier. But this time, their operations appear imperfect, especially in regard to the lack (so far) of a credible patsy group which, by virtue of its ethnicity, could direct popular anger against one of the invisible government's targets. So far, the entire attribution of the London crimes depends on what amounts to an anonymous posting in an obscure, hitherto unknown, secular Arabic-language chatrooms in the state of Maryland, USA. But, based on this wretched shred of pseudo-evidence, British Prime Minister Tony Blair — who has surely heard of a group called the Irish Republican Army, which bombed London for more than a decade — has not hesitated to ascribe the murders to "Islam," and seems to be flirting with total martial law under the Civil Contingencies Act. We are reminded once again of how he earned his nickname of Tony Bliar.


SCOTLAND YARD KNEW IN ADVANCE

That the British Government knew in advance that blasts would occur is not open to rational doubt. Within hours of the explosions, Israeli Army Radio was reporting that "Scotland Yard [London police headquarters] had intelligence warnings of the attacks a short time before they occurred." This report, repeated by IsraelNN.com, added that "the Israeli Embassy in London was notified in advance, resulting in Foreign Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remaining in his hotel room rather than make his way to the hotel adjacent to the site of the first explosion, a Liverpool Street train station, where he was to address an economic summit." This report is attributed to "unconfirmed reliable sources." At around the same time, the Associated Press issued a wire asserting that "British police told the Israeli Embassy in London minutes before Thursday's explosions that they had received warnings of possible terror attacks in the city," according to "a senior Israeli official." This wire specifies that "just before the blasts, Scotland Yard called the security officer at the Israeli Embassy to say that they had received warnings of possible attacks...."

According to eyewitness reports from London, BBC claimed between 8:45 and some minutes after 10 AM that the incidents in the Underground were the result of an electrical power surge, or alternatively of a collision. Foreign bigwigs, presumably not just Netanyahu, were warned, while London working people continued to stream into the subway. These reports have been denied, repudiated, sanitized, and expunged from news media websites by the modern Orwellian Thought Police, but they have been archived by analysts who learned on 9/11 and other occasions that key evidence in state-sponsored terror crimes tends to filter out during the first minutes and hours, during the critical interval when the controlled media are assimilating the cover story peddled by complicit moles within the ministries. These reports are not at all damaging to Israel, but are devastating for British domestic security organs. An alternative version peddled by Stratfor.com, namely that the Israelis warned Scotland Yard, is most probably spurious but still leaves the British authorities on the hook. Which Scotland Yard official made the calls? Identify that official, and you have bagged a real live rogue network mole.

Another more general element of foreknowledge can be seen in the fact reported by Isikoff and Hosenball of Newsweek that, since about November 2004, the US FBI, but not other US agencies, has been refusing to use the London Underground.

Operations like these are generally conduited through the government bureaucracies under the cover of a drill or exercise which closely resembles the terror operation itself. So it was with Amalgam Virgo and the multiple exercises held on 9/11, as I show in my 9/11 Synthetic Terror — Made in USA (Joshua Tree CA: Progressive Press, 2005). So it was with the Hinckley attempt to assassinate Ronald Reagan, when a presidential succession exercise was scheduled for the next day, as I showed in my George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992; reprint by Progressive Press, 2004). An uncannily similar maneuver allows the necessary work to be done on official computers and on company time, while warding off the inquisitive glances and questions of curious co-workers at adjoining computer consoles.


THE COVER STORY TERROR DRILL

Such a parallel drill was not lacking in the London case. On the evening of July 7, BBC Five, a news and sports radio program, carried an interview with a certain former Scotland Yard official named Peter Power who related that his firm, Visor Consulting, had been doing an anti-terror-bombing drill in precisely the Underground stations and at the precise times when the real explosions went off. Peter Power and Visor had been subcontractors for the drill; Power declined to name the prime contractors. Small wonder that Blair, in his first official report to the Commons on July 11, went out of his way to rule out a board of inquiry to probe these tragic events.

Tony Blair may be eyeing the advantages of emergency rule for a discredited lame duck like himself, but the British people may have a different view. The alternative is clear: on the one hand is the American response after 9/11, marked by submissive and credulous gullibility in regard to the fantastic official story of what had happened. On the other hand is the militant and intelligent Spanish response after March 11, 2004, marked by powerful mass mobilization and righteous anger against politicians who sought to manipulate the people and sell a distorted account of events. Which way will the British people go? Straws in the wind suggest that the British response may be closer to the Spanish, although it may develop more slowly because of the lack of mass organization and related factors. If this is the case, Tony Blair, Jack Straw, and the rest of the malodorous "New Labor" crypto-Thatcherites will be out the window.

My thesis is that the London explosions represent a form of communication on the part of the transatlantic Anglo-American financier faction with Bush, Blair, and the heads of state and government assembled at Gleneagles, Scotland for the G-8 meeting on the day of the blast. The London deaths were designed to deliver an ultimatum in favor of early war with Iran. Here a word of clarification may be necessary. The demonization of Bush by his many enemies, while understandable, risks blurring the basic realities of power in the US and UK. Since the Bay of Pigs and the Kennedy assassination (to go back no further than that), we have been aware of a secret team. During the Iran-contra era, the same phenomenon was referred to as an invisible, secret or parallel government. This is still the matrix of most large-scale terrorism. The questions arises for some: do Bush and Cheney tell the invisible government what to do, or does the invisible government treat the visible office holders as puppets and expendable assets? To ask the question is to answer it: Bush, Cheney & Co. are the expendable puppets. The explanation of terror is not Bush MIHOP [Made It Happen On Purpose], as some seem to argue, but rather invisible government MIHOP, an altogether more dire proposition.

How then does the invisible faction communicate with the public mouthpieces? Given the violence of the power relations involved, we can be sure that it is not a matter of sending out engraved invitations announcing that the honor of Bush's presence is requested at the launching of an attack on Iran. Rather, the invisible and violent rogue network communicates with Bush, Blair, and others by means coherent with their aggressive nature — as they did on 9/11. Bush, of course, is a weak and passive tenant of the White House whose instinct is to do virtually nothing beyond the day-to-day routine.

We therefore need to note that the London blasts come after two months of vigorous and impatient prodding of Bush by the invisible government. On May 11, a small plane almost reached the White House before it was turned away, while the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the White House (but not the Pentagon, the Treasury, etc.) were evacuated amid scenes of panic. The White House went to red alert, but Bush was not informed until it was all over, and was riding his bicycle in the woods near Greenbelt, Maryland. Flares were dropped over the Brookland district and Takoma Park, MD. The resemblance of all this to a classic coup scenario was evident. On May 18, a live hand grenade, which turned out to be a dud, landed near Bush as he spoke at a rally in Tbilisi, Georgia.

On June 29, the approach of another small plane led to an evacuation of the Congress and the Capitol, again with scenes of panic. On the afternoon of July 2, no fewer than three small planes came close to Bush's Camp David retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland; this story was suspiciously relegated to the local news page of the Washington Post. The details of these incidents are of little interest; what counts is the objective reality of a pattern. These incidents also provide background for Bush's unbalanced behavior on July 5 at Gleneagles, when he crashed into a policeman while riding on his bicycle. Then came the London blasts on July 7.

What is it that the invisible government wants Bush and Blair to do? Scott Ritter announced last January that Bush had issued an order to prepare an attack on Iran for the month of June. According to a well-informed retired CIA analyst I spoke with on July 3, this order actually told US commanders to be ready to attack Iran by the end of June. This project of war with Iran is coherent with most of what we know about the intentions of the US-UK rogue faction, and thus provides the immediate background for the London explosions. The Bush administration and the Blair cabinet have failed to deliver decisive military action, and the invisible government is exceedingly impatient.

One way to increase the pressure on Iran would be to implicate a group of Iranian fanatic patsies in the London bombings. This would not be difficult; in fact, as I show in 9/11 Synthetic Terror, the British capital, referred to during the 1990s as Londonistan, is home to the largest concentration of Arab and Islamic patsy groups in the entire world in such infamous locations as Finsbury mosque and Brixton mosque; these groups are known to have enjoyed de facto recruiting privileges in Her Majesty's Prisons. But perhaps an Iranian patsy group would be too obvious at this time. More likely may be the sinking of a US warship in the Gulf by a third country, duly attributed to Iran.

In a recent speech, Dr. Ephraim Asculai of Tel Aviv University made two main points: first, that there is no military solution to the Iranian nuclear issue, and second, that there is no such thing as a point of no return in nuclear weapons development. Dr. Asculai showed that South Africa, Sweden, and other nations had turned away from deploying A-bombs well after having acquired the ability to produce them. Dr. Asculai is evidently arguing against widespread tendencies in the US-UK-Israeli strategic community who are whipping up hysteria around the notion that Iran is now indeed approaching exactly such a point of no return.

For her part, Miss Rice of the State Department has now declared that it will no longer be sufficient for Iran to turn away from nuclear weapons production; the entire Iranian program for nuclear energy production will also have to be dismantled, in her view. Such maximalism makes a negotiated solution impossible as long as the current Washington group holds power.


SCO: US GET OUT OF CENTRAL ASIA

The US, UK and Israel have been on the brink of war with Iran for at least a year, and the rogue network is generally aware that time is not on its side. There is also an important new development which threatens the ability of the Anglo-Americans to wage war. On July 5, the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which brings together China, Russia, Uzbekistan, Krygyzia, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan plus new members India, Pakistan, and Iran, issued a call for the United States to vacate the bases seized in the autumn of 2001 under the cover of the 9/11 emergency and the looming invasion of Afghanistan. The parties to this call represent about half of the world's population. This demand was immediately rejected by the State Department, but veteran Russian Eurasian expert Yevgeny Primakov crowed that for the first time a formula had been agreed to by which the US would be ejected from this region. The US presence goes back to the Bush-Putin emergency hotwire talks of September 11, 2001, when Putin, seeing that the madmen had seized control in Washington, dropped Russian objections to a US intrusion into the former Soviet republics of central Asia. The US-UK can attack Iran from Iraq in the west, from Afghanistan in the east, and from Qatar in the south, but without the Uzbek and Kyrgyz bases, the Anglo-American ability to attack from the north as well will be severely limited. The SCO states are also concerned about US-backed "color revolutions" on the recent Georgian and Ukrainian models, traditionally known as CIA "people power" revolutions, being used to destabilize their governments. To make matters worse for Washington and London, Kazakhstan is a few months away from opening an oil pipeline to China, which will diminish the US-UK ability to use their Gulf presence to blackmail Beijing. Washington and London are also dismayed by the pro-Iranian overtures in various fields being made by their Shiite puppets in Baghdad.

And what of the report in the Washington Post of July 11, which claims that US and UK planners are now contemplating a sharp reduction in the US forces in Iraq? The most plausible explanation is that this is pure disinformation, similar to news blips issued by both Hitler and Stalin in May and June of 1941. It should also be noted that the British plan explicitly provides for most of the forces now at Basra to go to Afghanistan, where they would be positioned for operations against Iran, or into central Asia.

Generally, the invisible government appears dismayed by its loss of momentum and the constant erosion of the political position of its asset, Bush. 110,000 US factory workers lost their jobs in June, the worst total in a year and a half: auto and textiles are collapsing. The housing bubble may also be nearing its end, with the bankruptcy of Fannie Mae on the near-term agenda. World derivatives have officially reached $300 trillion, with JP Morgan Chase holding the largest single portfolio. The one virtuoso performance of July 7 was that of the Federal Reserve, Bank of England, and European Central Bank, which flooded equity and capital markets with liquidity through such vehicles as the Plunge Protection Team (PPT), turning a big Wall Street loss into a small gain.

During the recent Reopen 9/11 tour of 8 European cities, Jimmy Walter repeatedly forecast that the general predicament of the Bush regime and the US financier faction would lead to another large-scale terror attack before the end of 2005; this has now occurred, and there is no end in sight. The tide of US public opinion has now definitively turned against the Iraq war and to some degree against Bush, as all major polls demonstrate. Notable is the 42% affirmative response to the Zogby International question as to whether, if it could be proved that Bush lied to launch the Iraq war, he should be impeached. Larry Franklin of the Wolfowitz-Feith neocon apparatus has been indicted for divulging US secrets, and the American-Israeli Public Affairs Council has been raided twice; further indictments are expected. Karl Rove has now been revealed as the source of the Valerie Plame leak, making Rove and perhaps other White House officials fair game for federal indictment. The Niger yellowcake forgeries and the Chalabi state secrets cases are still pending — to say nothing of two stolen elections and the 9/11 Septembergate itself. All these factors incline the rogue network to seek an improvement in their situation through a flight forward to a wider war in Iran. Those who stand to lose most by such an Iranian adventure must now mobilize to make Mr. Bush's second term as eventful as Nixon's second term turned out to be in 1974.

 

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now that the english cops say they know who did the bombing, that is a group of inconspicuous middle class lads from up north, where does this put the above view?

 

Exactly where it belongs; in the 'paranoia' bucket.

 

Unlike you, I don't believe everything I read in the media.

The people who were blamed are patsies. Just look at the people who were blamed. . . they certainly don't match the profile of Muslim extremists.

 

dont jump 2 conclusions

no they don't. and if this view of what really happened is right then in setting up patsies the people really responsible will certainly make mistakes or introduce contradictions into the official story (such as they did with 9/11 and the arab patsies who never even boarded the planes). that's all i'm getting at.

 

yea, one of them was a primary school teacher who was loved by his little students and did some volunteer work with disable kids on the side..

nodoubt a typical muslim extremist.

 

On the bottom of the page of the article it says; Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Centre for Research on Globalization.

So it's one guy's personal opinion. We don't know where he's gotten his "facts" from or if his sources of information are reliable. Any Tom Dick and Harry can contribute to that website with an "article". I have written dozens of public reports because of the work I do, and as an academic I've learnt to always prove my statements with facts when I write something. It seems to me that a person can write just about ANYTHING on the internet and have people believe it.

 

Thats the scarey thing matt, something you should think about for a while..rather than blameing the people that are trying to stop it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/05/london_blasts/html/bombers.stm

 

And how would you know what the facts are, when you clearly haven't researched this subject yourself? It is a fact, and has been reported by the mainstream media, that former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was warned prior to the attacks, and that there was a drill taking place at the same time as the explosions in the London Underground.

This is FACT, not supposition.

And Webster Tarpley is not any "Tom, Dick or Harry." He is a well-respected, well-established researcher and investigative journalist with several acclaimed books under his belt; one being George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography.

It's funny because you claim the contents of the article to not contain any facts, alluding to it being all supposition and conspiracy theory, yet you will automatically believe the stories the government and the media feeds you, without questiuon, as if they never lie.

You talk about people who believe everything they read on the internet. What about people who beleive everything they read and hear in the mainstream media? The dangerous thing is that people have been conditioned to believe everything they hear in the mainstream media, while believing any alternative information on the net is false.

If you're an "academic" and as all-knowing as you portray yourself as being, why don't you take the article apart piece by piece and tell me what is fact and what isn't. Or, if none of it is fact, explain why.

 

Ok, you've convinced me. Netanyahu and Tony Blair were in on this thing together. I also believe that the Hare Krishna people are really behind Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and the Hamas terror organization. All that peaceful talk and the orange dresses are nothing but a clever disguise. I'm not going to waste any more of my time on this stupid discussion. Have a nice day! May Krishna be with you.

 

Here you are again demonstrating your years of supposed academic ability and objectivity by simply making snide retorts and suggesting you shall never return to the thread.

Unfortunately we see that you do return and with nothing more substantial to add than more snide remarks.

You wouldn't be related to PB in any way now would you?

 

that's a shame because there shouldn't be enough evidence 2 convince anyone of anything... yet. it seems that 4 a lot of ppl who, for their own no doubt good reasons, vocally defend the government and its actions and inaction, no amount of evidence in the world will persaude them otherwise. some are content 2 leave it at that but others seek to denigrate other people who aren't necessarily convinced of anything the mass media and official spin merchants say. there's nothing odd, bizarre, or paranoid about trying 2 get at the truth. and that is a long complex, and self-correcting exercise: getting at the truth. i don't especially enjoy being told i'm a paranoid or a conspiracy nut when all i believe i'm doing is seriously questioning things and seeking out information in the only place it's freely available: on the internet. where else do i go '60 minutes'? no one source has got a premium on the truth, particularly not the corporate media.

it's surprising what u learn when u look: there is another world out there really. or to paraphrase myself from another forum: there are more things in heaven and earth than u can poke a stick at doris.

 

James, Pressed Rat and the like were denouncing all this as a 'plot' by goverments from day one (from about 11am that very day). Peoples bodies were not even cold. Personaly i have no problem with 'conspiracies' but if you read certain peoples posts they have completly ignored relevant facts and have started there own hysterical plot ...

James these people thrive on 'speculation' the above information is partly true, a web message was found and given all the credance it deseverd (not much) of course the media lapped it up i watched them connect the dots and to a certain degree pressed rat and the like have a point.. but you can't take the speculative nature of the news media and set judgemental headline grabing info in stone, and use this as a valid reason/proof for half this bullshit these people come out with. NOW circumstances have overtaken this speculative view and the suspects have been named and pictures of them published... Will 'conspiracy theorists' take any of this on board ?? of course not. .. 'patsies' these people are now..how very conveniant.

Goverments/Media to different entities..

 

Once again, Rat, I am wondering how you can be so interested in something yet expend so little mental effort on it.

It seems like the conspiracy theorists have reached a consensus to give their readers - who are desperately waiting for the conspiracy theory explanation for the bombings - a theory based on this "drill" since it is the best material they are going to get, other than the boilerplate material which is included in every conspiracy theory.

But having watched the video, I found myself disappointed as usual. While much excitement is made of the drill taking place at the same time and the same place, the same time turns out to mean the same day, and the same place turns out to mean the drill hypothesized the London transport system in general, but didn't actually take place there. The drill, as best as I can figure it, meant a bunch of people at a private company in london whose business would have been disrupted by a terror attack sitting around a conference room saying "OK, what's our backup system if transport goes down because of a bombing."

This is now being spun by the wild eyed believers to make it sounds like the exercise involved people going into those very stations at the very time the bomb went off to simulate a terror attack. But that's not what happened at all. I just wonder why you come here and post this story and then wait around for someone to point out the obvious flaws for you. Can't you do that yourself?

So it seems one part willful deceit, one part willful obfuscation, and one part herd like behaviour by the credulous conspiracy theory sheep.

The part I find funny though is that this would somehow provide a cover. How exactly is that a cover for anything? I guess its one of those things people repeat without questioning.

 

From what I have read, it was an actual 1,000+ person strong drill taking place in the London underground, at the same time that morning:

http://aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/conspiracy_theory/fullstory.asp?id=247

You see, I HAVE read up on this. I am not sure you have.

People who have studied state-sponsored terror are not falling for this "drill" nonsense. It seems awfully funny that there are often these "drills" coinciding with these attacks, as was the case with 9/11, OKC, and several other "terrorist" incidents.

You if think this sounds half-baked, it's nothing compared to the "official" story the media is selling. The government and media can place the blame on anyone they choose and people will buy it. You attack me for never questioning things, but does that also apply to people who never question anything the mainstream media presents to them?

 

that was a good article rat, at aljazeera. whether or not every fine detail of the 'conspiracy' is accurate or not, or even whether the london bombings were the work of the intelligence agencies or not, it seems 2 me that u would have to be incredibly naive or have shares in halliburton not 2 see that the state does sponsor terrorism and the greatest beneficiaries of this are the the friends of tony bush and george blair, the bobbsy twins. i reckon someone like pointbreak uses the more contentious, some might say even ridiculous, aspects of the conspiracy theory to justify not having 2 look at any information or evidence whatsoever that might dissaude him. well, that's his problem. meanwhile pressed rat, keep on posting. i always enjoy ur work. even if i dont agree with everything u say i'd rather read about it and make up my own mind rather than stay in ignorance myself.

 

You have completely misread the article, although the article contradicts itself if that makes you feel any better. One thing Al Jazeera did get right though was correctly posting it under "conspiracy theories".

The article says:

...and then quotes the TV news transcript, which says something quite different:

Pretty sloppy, yet you still missed it.

I have read it, and unlike you, I took a critical, sceptical, approach and found obvious errors.

Your definition of study is to visit echo chamber conspiracy websites and repeat what you hear. I see nothing to suggest that the drill was anything other than a private company consulting for another private company, a bunch of people sitting in a conference room discussing disaster recovery. There is nothing to back up your claim that the drill was "taking place in the London underground". And your assertion that this provides a "cover" remains unexplained. How does a bunch of people in a conference room provide a cover? Why would the Illuminati immediately go on live television to announce their drill?

No, people who never question in general deserve to be criticised.

But the official story is that a few fanatics strapped bombs to themselves and boarded trains. Is this really "half baked" or is that just a reflexive response on your part to repeat everything you learned to say about 9/11 about 7/7 as well? These bombings happen in Israel all the time. British people went to Israel and did it. This time they did it here.

 

“our exercise …involved just a few people as crisis managers actually responding to a simulated series of activities involving, on paper, 1000 staff”

Quote from Peter Power of Visor consultants.

Full email

"Thank you for your message. Given the volume of emails about events on 7 July and a commonly expressed misguided belief that our exercise revealed prescient behaviour, or was somehow a conspiracy (noting that several websites interpreted our work that day in an inaccurate / naive / ignorant / hostile manner) it has been decided to issue a single email response as follows.

It is confirmed that a short number of 'walk through' scenarios planed well in advance had commenced that morning for a private company in London (as part of a wider project that remains confidential) and that two scenarios related directly to terrorist bombs at the same time as the ones that actually detonated with such tragic results. One scenario in particular, was very similar to real time events.

However, anyone with knowledge about such ongoing threats to our capital city will be aware that (a) the emergency services have already practiced several of their own exercises based on bombs in the underground system (also reported by the main news channels) and (b) a few months ago the BBC broadcast a similar documentary on the same theme, although with much worse consequences. It is hardly surprising therefore, that we chose a feasible scenario - but the timing and script was nonetheless, a little disconcerting.

In short, our exercise (which involved just a few people as crisis managers actually responding to a simulated series of activities involving, on paper, 1000 staff) quickly became the real thing and the players that morning responded very well indeed to the sudden reality of events.

Beyond this no further comment will be made and based on the extraordinary number of messages from ill informed people, no replies will henceforth be given to anyone unable to demonstrate a bona fide reason for asking (e.g. accredited journalist / academic)."
Peter Power

 

Thats was a lovely bit of debunking. Well done!