-------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:38:50 -0400 Subject: UK bombings From: The Wisdom Fund <•••@••.•••> Content-type: text/html X-MS-Request-Fidelity: High THE WISDOM FUND <http://www.twf.org>http://www.twf.org July 6, 2007 The Cutting Edge Improvised Un-explosive Devices? Larry C. Johnson, a former senior US counterterrorist official for the CIA and State Department who works as a consultant to governments on terrorism issues, described the Friday episode as a crock of crap: gasoline is not a high explosive. If we were talking 50 pounds of Semtex or the Al Qaeda standby, TATP, I would be impressed. Those are real high explosives with a detonation rate in excess of 20,000 feet per second. Gasoline can explode (just ask former owners of a Ford Pinto) but it is first and foremost an incediary. If the initial reports are true, the clown driving the Mercedes was a rank amateur when it comes to constructing an Improvised Explosive Device aka IED. Unlike a Hollywood flick the 50 gallons of gas would not have shredded the Mercedes into lethal chunks of flying shrapnel. His observations on the next days Glasgow incident are even more cutting: Preliminary, unconfirmed reports indicate a nuclear blast has occurred at Glasgows international airport. No one has seen the mushroom cloud or heard the blast, but something by God is happening and it must be terrible. There is smoke and fire. In fact, a car is on fire. It must be Al Qaeda. Only Al Qaeda knows how to set themselves on fire inside a car. Please. Flee to the hills (leave your doors unlocked). Oh the humanity!... we need to stop equating their [religious fanatics] hatred with actual capability. If today's events at Glasgow prove to be linked to the two non-events yesterday in London, then we should heave a sigh of relief. We may be witnessing the implosion of takfiri jihadists religious fanatics who are incredibly inept Propane tanks and petrol (gas for us Americans) can produce a dandy flame and a mighty boom but these are not the tools for making a car bomb along the lines of what we see detonating on a daily basis in Iraq. more at this URL: <http://www.twf.org/News/Y2007/0604-JFKplot.html> June 4, 2007 The New York Times Papers Portray Plot as More Talk Than Action by Michael Powell and William K. Rashbaum The plot as painted by law enforcement officials was cataclysmic: A home-grown Islamic terrorist had in mind detonating fuel storage tanks and pipelines and setting fire to Kennedy International Airport, not to mention a substantial swath of Queens. "Had the plot been carried out, it could have resulted in unfathomable damage, deaths and destruction," Roslynn R. Mauskopf, the United States attorney in Brooklyn, said in a news release that announced charges against four men. She added at a news conference, "The devastation that would be caused had this plot succeeded are just unthinkable." . . . But the criminal complaint filed by the federal authorities against the four defendants in the case - one of them, Abdel Nur, remained at large yesterday - suggests a less than mature terror plan, a proposed effort longer on evil intent than on operational capability. . . . At its heart was a 63-year-old retired airport cargo worker, Russell M. Defreitas, who the complaint says talked of his dreams of inflicting massive harm, but who appeared to possess little money, uncertain training and no known background in planning a terror attack. "Capability low, intent very high," a law enforcement official said of the suspects. Some law enforcement officials and engineers also dismissed the notion that the planned attack could have resulted in a catastrophic chain reaction; system safeguards, they said, would have stopped explosions from spreading. . . . There is, too, the question of the role played by the unidentified undercover informant who befriended Mr. Defreitas. The informant is a convicted drug trafficker, and his sentence is pending as part of his cooperation agreement with the federal government, said the authorities. . . . more at this URL: http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html -- -------------------------------------------------------- Posting archives: http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/ Escaping the Matrix website: http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website: http://cyberjournal.org Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html To subscribe to the newslog list: Send message to: •••@••.••• with Subject: subscribe newslog To subscribe to one of the mirrors of newslog, send a message to either: •••@••.••• •••@••.••• Moderator: •••@••.••• (comments welcome)
