Here are several mainstream newspapers that are now saying what we’ve been saying all along: It simply doesn’t add up that a group of otherwise normal and quiet individuals with families and children would blow themselves up as part of a terrorist attack.

These patsies didn’t have any real motive. Who had the motive? Who benefited from the attack? Tryannical governments everywhere, most especially in the UK and the US, where these events have increased support for Blair and Bush and greased the skids for more intense “anti-terror” legislation.

Its very exciting to see mainstream publications not buying into the propaganda. Never before have so many people witnessed a government-backed terrorist attack and immediately seen through it. The results of the bombings have not been what the Globalists expected. People are awake or waking. They refuse to swallow the lie and its forcing the real perpitrators of this atrocity to change their story.
Full: infowars.com

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Sunni Muslim members on a committee drafting the new Iraqi constitution suspended their membership Wednesday in the wake of a colleague’s assassination. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside an army recruiting center in central Baghdad, killing at least 10 people.news.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON, July 19 – China is modernizing its military and emphasizing preparations “to fight and win short-duration, high-intensity conflicts” over Taiwan, the Pentagon said Tuesday with the release of its annual report on Chinese military power.

With military spending that has grown by double digit rates since the mid-1990’s, China “appears focused on preventing Taiwan independence or trying to compel Taiwan to negotiate a settlement on Beijing’s terms,” the report said.

This political and military pressure on Taiwan may run counter to American national security interests – and to American calls for a peaceful, negotiated resolution of the Taiwan question. But China has not yet built the military power to have full confidence it can achieve its political objectives regarding Taiwan.

Beijing’s conventional forces also are not deemed capable of threatening American territory, as “China’s ability to project conventional military power beyond its periphery remains limited,” the report stated.

At the same time, it cautioned that China was both modernizing and expanding its arsenal of nuclear missiles capable of reaching the territory of the United States.
Full: nytimes.com

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An independent investigation of the murder last week of 32 Iraqi children has been conducted by a local Iraqi news location (Mufakirat Al-Islam / Islamemo.cc) with results as follows:

The writing is in Arabic, so I will translate some highlights for non-Arabic speakers:

– All major Iraqi Resistance groups issued joint written communiqué that was distributed on Thursday proclaiming that this operation was not undertaken by any of the groups neither in terms of execution or planning or involvement.

– Interview with local residents of the bombing stated that US forces cordoned off the street under the pretence that a vehicle (a KIA) parked in the street was wired to explode.

– Local residents stated that the US soldiers began handing out candy and schoolbags attracting the children.

– When residents, fearing for their children, asked about the KIA car , the US soldiers said that it was a ‘false alarm’ and that there was no bomb (but that a couple of US soldiers remained fiddling with the car).

– Children from neighboring streets came upon hearing of the sweets and free bags (as well as a rumor that Pokemon toys were being given out).

– After a period of about 15 minutes from them entering the street, the US forces dumped the remaining toys/sweets in a pile in the middle of the street and frantically drove off hitting 4 children in the process with their vehicle.

– Seconds later, the KIA vehicle exploded killing 32 children and wounding about ten others who were gathered in the street.

– Residents also reported that, contrary to what the US military stated, there were no US casualties or injuries from this blast as the US forces had rushed out of the street just before the explosion took place.

– Information gathered from the Iraqi fire services stated that the explosion did not leave the signature traces of a TNT blast as used by the Resistance (being left over from Russian explosives used by the Iraqi army), as the TNT blast is always outward from the place of explosion and does not leave a crater as this car bomb did.

In conclusion, the evidence and interviews revealed what was obvious from the very start…That this evil crime was perpetrated by occupation forces with the objective of murdering Iraqi children and blaming the national Resistance so as to lessen its base of support (sounds like Vietnam tactics all over again – Phoenix).

May God grant peace to the dead, victory to the Resistance, and shame and retribution to the occupiers and their allies/supporters.
Full: uruknet.info

WASHINGTON — In the 1988 Hollywood hit “Die Hard,” starring Bruce Willis, a group of “terrorists” take over a Japanese banking institution in Los Angeles, hold hostages and make demands for release of “political prisoners.”

But it turns out the terrorists aren’t really terrorists. They are bank robbers trying to make off with the fortune in the bank’s vaults.

Could it be Osama bin Laden has seen “Die Hard”?

That is a question Scotland Yard and other law enforcement agencies are actually asking themselves following the July 7 London transit system attacks that killed 54 and injured scores more as they continue to scour the planet for evidence and additional conspirators.

Why? Because it appears some profited by short selling the British pound in the 10 days leading up to the attacks.

The pound fell about 6 percent (approximately 1.82 to 1.72) against the dollar for no apparent reason – until, of course, the terror attacks sent the British markets reeling still further.

“This was an almost unprecedented weakness and far too sharp to be a coincidence,” one economist with more than 35 years of experience in the investment industry, told Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium, online intelligence newsletter published by the founder of WND. “That is, after all, an annualized rate of loss of well over 100 percent.”

The fall did not go unnoticed by investigators, who are wondering whether the terrorist masterminds behind the attacks decided to make some money on their action or whether other investors with inside information about possible attacks took advantage of that knowledge.
Full: worldnetdaily.com

These are titles of links to be found on the website linked below:

Vinnell bombing leader Khaled Jehani, fought for the CIA in Afghanistan, Bosnia & Chechnya

Did Rambo ever stop loving Osama?
Full:apfn.net

IRAQ is slipping into all-out civil war, a Shia leader declared yesterday, as a devastating onslaught of suicide bombers slaughtered more than 150 people, most of them Shias, around the capital at the weekend.

One bomber killed almost 100 people when he blew up a fuel tanker south of Baghdad, an attack aimed at snapping Shia patience and triggering the full-blown sectarian war that al-Qaeda has been trying to foment for almost two years.

Iraq’s security forces have been overwhelmed by the scale of the suicide bombings — 11 on Friday alone and many more over the weekend — ordered by the Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

“What is truly happening, and what shall happen, is clear: a war against the Shias,” Sheikh Jalal al-Din al-Saghir, a prominent Shia cleric and MP, told the Iraqi parliament.

Sheikh al-Saghir is close to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the supreme Shia spiritual leader and moderate who has so far managed to restrain powerful Shia militias from undertaking any outright attack on Sunni insurgents. His warning suggests that the Shia leadership may be losing its grip over Shias who in private often call for an armed backlash against their Sunni assailants.

The sheikh also cautioned Sunni clerics supporting the insurgency against American forces and the Shia-Kurdish Government elected in January. “I am very keen to preserve the Sunni blood that would be shed due to the irrational acts of some of their leaders, who do not see that they are leading the country into civil war,” he told the national assembly.
Full: timesonline.co.uk

‘Civil war’ is creeping into more and more news reports. See how absurd, the US ostensibly supporting a Shi’ite government. This is all in the script.

Egypt’s interior minister, Habib al-Adli, has criticised the British police for coming to “hasty conclusions” about an Egyptian biochemist who was living in Leeds and who returned to Cairo several days before the London attacks.
The pro-government daily, Al Jumhuriya, said the minister had told it that reports of the scientists’s links to al-Qaida were groundless.

The prosecutor general, Maher Abdel Wahid, has also come out with a pointed reminder that Egypt and the UK have no extradition treaty, so that even if the chemist were charged in Britain, Cairo need not send him back.

Egyptian police arrested Magdi el-Nashar, 33, last Thursday after British officials gave his name to the Egyptian authorities a few days earlier. Investigators found explosives in a house in Alexandra Grove, Leeds, to which Dr Nashar was reported to have links.

Muhammad Muhammad, the imam of the Tawhid mosque in Cairo, told the Guardian yesterday: “Police attended prayers on Thursday. They stood beside him and at the end just linked their arms to his and walked him out to a waiting car. That’s the way it’s done here.”

The arrest has caused shock and consternation in the lower middle-class neighbourhood of Cairo where his family lives. Residents say Dr Nashar was known as a quiet, polite scientist who did his family proud by his educational achievements.

Although he attended the mosque regularly, he was not known as a fundamentalist, and he retained close links to a Christian family in the dusty street where he grew up.

Egyptian human rights advocates have taken up the case, urging access to him by independent lawyers. Montasser El Zayat, a senior member of the Bar Association, said: “We are against the bombings; at the same time we want honesty and fairness.”
Full: guardian.co.uk

How many people have been detained since the 7th, being tortured into ‘confessions’?

…Our best strategy now is a prompt withdrawal plan consisting of clearly defined political, military and economic elements. Politically, the United States should declare its intention to remove its troops and urge the Iraqi government and its neighbors to recognize the common regional interest in allowing Iraq to evolve peacefully and without external intervention. The first Iraqi election under the permanent constitution, planned for Dec. 15, is an appropriate date for beginning the pullout.

Militarily, we should establish a timetable for reducing the scope of operations that has enough flexibility so as not to provide a tactical advantage to insurgents. We should also plan on continuing measures like no-flight zones, border surveillance, training for Iraqi security forces, intelligence collection and maintenance of a regional quick-reaction force.

Economically, we should define what amount of assistance we are prepared to extend to Iraq as long as it stays on a peaceful path. It would be best if this aid was but one facet of a broader set of economic initiatives to benefit Arab states that advance our interests.

Of course, these measures cannot guarantee a secure and democratic Iraq free of external domination. But they could be first steps of a strategy to pursue America’s true long-term interests in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf.
nytimes.com

Since ‘a secure and democratic Iraq’ is far far from America’s true long-term interests, whether US troops stay or leave is irrelevant, except in terms of electing Jeb Bush in ’08.

Iraq suicide bomber kills 98; Saddam indicted
MUSAYYIB, Iraq (Reuters) – Stricken townspeople swept away the wreckage of a fuel truck bomb that killed 98 people south of Baghdad and three more suicide car bombers hit the Iraqi capital on Sunday in a devastating new campaign.

The tribunal empowered to try war crimes issued its first charges against Saddam Hussein and said it would announce within days when the ousted dictator will stand trial for his life.

The overnight attack in the highway town of Musayyib was the most lethal since the Iraqi government took power in April and the second deadliest single bombing since the war began in 2003.

It prompted denunciations of the authorities in parliament and calls for local militia to take up arms.

Some 15 suicide bombers have struck within just over 48 hours in the capital and along the main road south in what al Qaeda’s Iraq wing has declared is a campaign to seize Baghdad.

In Saturday’s attack a suicide bomber blew up a fuel truck near a crowded vegetable market outside a Shi’ite mosque in Musayyib, in a lawless area U.S. troops call “the triangle of death.” In addition to the 98 killed, hospital sources said 75 people had been wounded, 19 of whom were in serious condition.

“After the bomb I went over there and found my son’s head. I could not find his body,” said Mohsen Jassim of his son, 18.

Khatami hails new era in relations with Iraq
TEHRAN (AFP) – Iranian President Mohammad Khatami hailed a “turning point” in relations with Baghdad as Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari made a historic visit to Tehran aimed at strengthening ties after decades of enmity.

Following talks with the first Iraqi head of government to visit Iran since the fall of Saddam Hussein, Khatami said on Sunday that Iran was prepared to do anything it could to help its one-time foe, with whom it fought a devastating eight year war.

“The visit of the Iraqi prime minister to Iran is a turning point in the historic relations between the two countries. It will allow us to plaster the wounds and repair the damage caused by Saddam Hussein through joint cooperation,” said Khatami, quoted by the official IRNA agency.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran will do everything it can to assure the reconstruction, security and stability of Iraq,” said Khatami. “The strategy of Iran is to support a free Iraq, independent and developed.”

Jaafari is heading a large delegation on the visit and is expected to sign a number of deals aimed at aiding his war-torn country to meet its growing energy needs.

“We know the evil wrought by Saddam Hussein on the peoples of the region but he does not represent the Iraqi people,” IRNA quoted Jaafari as saying after the talks.

“Putting security and stability in place in Iraq will benefit all the countries in the region,” he added.

Although serious sources of friction have remained, the two neighbours have embarked on a major process of reconciliation whose success has worried the United States and some Arab countries.

Iraq’s Shiite-led government is the first such in an Arab country for centuries and should be a natural ally for the theocratic regime in Iran, an almost entirely Shiite country.
Not to mention Syria.

Why Iraq oil money hasn’t fueled rebuilding
WASHINGTON – First, the good news: With oil prices at record highs, Iraq is on track to bring in $20 billion or more in oil revenue this year.
That may sound like a lot of petrodollars, especially for a war-torn country with tremendous needs in infrastructure repair and services delivery.

But the bad news is that very little, if any, of that money will actually be used in the country’s stalled reconstruction – despite past lofty predictions that oil-rich Iraq would be financially self-sufficient by now.

Dealing with Iraq’s insurgency is a chief reason for the gap between oil revenues and improving living conditions. But another reason for the lag is a growing problem of income loss from smuggling and outright theft of the revenues.

One worrisome consequence of the inability to turn higher oil revenues into street-level improvements is the impact on the Iraqi public’s faith in the country’s new government and direction.

“The insurgents know that oil is the lifeblood of the Iraqi economy, and that keeping it from improving daily life is key to building up the frustration and sense of helplessness and lack of faith in the new government – all of which they are out to encourage,” says Gal Luft, codirector of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security in Washington. “Unfortunately, I don’t see the government taking advantage of what should be a good time for an oil-producing country to make some money and move forward.”

As the country with the world’s second-largest known oil reserves, Iraq should be sitting pretty at a time of $60-a-barrel oil, analysts say. But they quickly add that Iraq’s potential has been tamped down by a continuing failure to invest in renewing the country’s decrepit oil infrastructure and an ill-conceived strategy of placing exports above oil-field modernization.

Any ‘ill-conceived strategy’ issues straight from Washington. The issue is outlined in the previous article on Iran. It is not in US interests for there to be any semblance of ‘building’ in Iraq. Whatever else this “Al Quaeda in Iraq’ might be, it dovetails exquisitely with American and European aims. As does Hamas in Palestine. As do the ‘religious schools’ in Pakistan. As does all this endless ocean of human blood.