Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: A pensar male si fa peccato, ma...

Craig Murray (  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_murray
 ) e'
l'ex-ambasciatore Britannico in Uzbekistan, licenziato per aver reso
pubblica la complicita' dell'UK negli abusi di diritti umani del regime
Uzbeko.
http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2006/08/the_uk_terror_p.html
The UK Terror plot: what's really going on?
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.
None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane
ticket. Many did not even have passports, which given the efficiency of
the UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn't be a plane bomber for
quite some time.
In the absence of bombs and airline tickets, and in many cases
passports, it could be pretty difficult to convince a jury beyond
reasonable doubt that individuals intended to go through with suicide
bombings, whatever rash stuff they may have bragged in internet chat
rooms.
What is more, many of those arrested had been under surveillance for
over a year - like thousands of other British Muslims. And not just
Muslims. Like me. Nothing from that surveillance had indicated the need
for early arrests.
Then an interrogation in Pakistan revealed the details of this amazing
plot to blow up multiple planes - which, rather extraordinarily, had
not turned up in a year of surveillance. Of course, the interrogators
of the Pakistani dictator have their ways of making people sing like
canaries. As I witnessed in Uzbekistan, you can get the most
extraordinary information this way. Trouble is it always tends to give
the interrogators all they might want, and more, in a desperate effort
to stop or avert torture. What it doesn't give is the truth.
The gentleman being "interrogated" had fled the UK after being wanted
for questioning over the murder of his uncle some years ago. That might
be felt to cast some doubt on his reliability. It might also be felt
that factors other than political ones might be at play within these
relationships. Much is also being made of large transfers of money
outside the formal economy. Not in fact too unusual in the British
Muslim community, but if this activity is criminal, there are many
possibilities that have nothing to do with terrorism.
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.
We then have the appalling political propaganda of John Reid, Home
Secretary, making a speech warning us all of the dreadful evil
threatening us and complaining that "Some people don't get" the need to
abandon all our traditional liberties. He then went on, according to
his own propaganda machine, to stay up all night and minutely direct
the arrests. There could be no clearer evidence that our Police are now
just a political tool. Like all the best nasty regimes, the knock on
the door came in the middle of the night, at 2.30am. Those arrested
included a mother with a six week old baby.
For those who don't know, it is worth introducing Reid. A hardened
Stalinist with a long term reputation for personal violence, at
Stirling Univeristy he was the Communist Party's "Enforcer", (in days
when the Communist Party ran Stirling University Students' Union, which
it should not be forgotten was a business with a very substantial cash
turnover). Reid was sent to beat up those who deviated from the Party
line.
We will now never know if any of those arrested would have gone on to
make a bomb or buy a plane ticket. Most of them do not fit the "Loner"
profile you would expect - a tiny percentage of suicide bombers have
happy marriages and young children. As they were all under
surveillance, and certainly would have been on airport watch lists,
there could have been little danger in letting them proceed closer to
maturity - that is certainly what we would have done with the IRA.
In all of this, the one thing of which I am certain is that the timing
is deeply political. This is more propaganda than plot. Of the over one
thousand British Muslims arrested under anti-terrorist legislation,
only twelve per cent are ever charged with anything. That is simply
harrassment of Muslims on an appalling scale. Of those charged, 80% are
acquitted. Most of the very few - just over two per cent of arrests -
who are convicted, are not convicted of anything to do terrorism, but
of some minor offence the Police happened upon while trawling through
the wreck of the lives they had shattered.
Be sceptical. Be very, very sceptical.

regime Uzbeko.
Puttanata di fantasia.
Al limite "licenziato per essersi comportato come un coglione mentre era
nelle vesti di ambasciatore"
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In February 2004, the Mail on Sunday reported his affair with Nadira
Alieva. Soon after, his wife left him. In July 2004, he told The
Guardian that "there is no point in having cocktail-party relationships
with a fascist regime," and that "you don't have to be a pompous old
fart to be an ambassador." [1]
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Non per niente di prove delle accuse di "complicita' dell'UK negli abusi
di diritti umani del regime Uzbeko" non se ne e' mai vista traccia,
purtroppo per quel *FESSO* di Torrieri.
-Stefano