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From: Luke
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 8:32 AM
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Subject: RE: que?


ha ha - sorry - i didnt realise u'd be curious about my rants - i tried writing a couple today and just figured that i couldnt add much more than what was obvious... i wrote one on tenet's testimony - but it just sounded like the same ranty stuff - theres just so much material that it was basically me saying 'and im astonished (th)at...' blah blah... so i just deleted em and figured i wouldnt bore u... but since u asked:

my first assumption every time we have one of these bombings is that 'they' did it, ( they being the evil people who are destroying the world - im not exactly sure who that is - but maybe some combination of neocunt/likudnik/cia/mossad/idf or their agents or woteva.) rather than the alleged perps.

so if we look at the alleged perps - first eta: i dont pretend to know much about eta, or about terrorism, and i have nothing to add on top of the observed differences in their m.o. and i dont have any reason to disbelieve their denial. i dont really think they should have speculated that the 'arabs did it' - but i can understand them needing to offer an alternative perpetrator given that they were getting so much heat. we were told that the bombs used are the same as those used by eta - but im not sure if that means anything - it could be that everyone uses the same.
b) alqaeda - well, assuming that alq actually exists, then there are obviously parallels between this and other apparent alq attacks. scale and simulatneity being chief amongst them. not much value add from me so far...

the first curiosity comes with the white van - it all sounds a bit suspicious... not the least from the media amplification of the Satanic/Koranic verse tape thingy (obviously). the story sounds false-ish but i havent decided whether the van was planted, or if it is simply being unreasonably implicated. the whole thing about the car being stolen last week near where all the other trains came from sounds a bit rich, as does the finding of the tape of 'arabic texts'. but then, on the other hand, they could have left something more damaging than one tape out of seven being a commercially available reading of the quuran. remember on 911 they were sufficientyl kind to leave arabic flite manuals and absurd to-do lists and such in their cars at the airport. im also a bit unsure about whether the stolen car was now abandoned, and the stupid bombers forgot to take their personal belongings - presumably their favourite seven tapes (or did these tapes belong to the actual owner?) and a bunch of detonators. or did they plan to come back and get their car later? or was it just a car with detonators (there appears to be little detail about the detonators) and tapes? something doesnt quite add up. we also had the 'eta car carrying bombs captured' story last week - which mite point to it being eta - or it mite be a pre-emptive innoculation strike (altho i didnt hear eta deny it was theirs). its amazing how many cars get caught with bombs - ive never had an officer look in my trunk. either there are lots and lots of cars driving around with a trunkful of dangerous explosives and the plods get lucky every now and again, or the plods have triffic intelligence, or there are a bunch of sophisticated terrorists who think its smart to drive around with a trunkful of explosives and missing plates and a bad tail lite while driving erratically, being conspicuously foreign. not to mention driving a white van, which seems to be the vehicle of choice for terrorists these days.

and then we have this email in london in arabic claiming responsibility - talking about 'Operation Death Train' - surely only spooks talk like this, and usually they use something which disguises their true aim so as not to blow cover - like Operation Iraqi Freedom for example. i wonder how 'Operation Death Train' translates in the orginal. the letter also refers to imminent 'black clouds of death' in america - altho interestingly this seemed most under-reported.

i find it odd that terrorists often dont claim responsibility - altho their efforts are presumably political - i dont really see the point. no-one claimed responsibility for 911 - surely the point of terrorist acts is to effect change, and the act is a show of strength/threat of consequences if the political needs are not met. ergo, an unclaimed terror attack is unlikely to meet the purported needs. there appears to be an opposite argument that 'they just wanna create fear' - but that seems a little inadequate - not least cos theres a chance that someone else can claim responsibility and achieve their own aims (which may even be counter to the original purpose). and then theres this thing with 'signatures' - if u are gonna have a signature, just fess the fuck up. if u are trying to create terror and uncertainty, then dont have a signature (and specially not simultaneity). simultaneity tells people that they can get back to life immediately, and it also says 'alqaeda' rather than some undetermined terror group - the devil u dont know.

2 possible explanations: a) i dont understand terrorism (99%) b) some terrorists (cia?) are involved for geopolitical reasons with a goal of instability. why didnt alqaeda threaten the us to get outta saudi (or woteva they wanted) before 911? or afterwards - 'do as we say or u we will hurt u more.'

which brings up the 'why spain?' question - im not sure if it has anything to do with the election (in terms of trying to get a political gain for say eta) altho it mite be part of the msg that 'democracy is under attack' as jackstraw ably reminded us. its difficult to fully appreciate the irony/hypocrisy in that statement - especially in the context of a never-elected president currently overthrowing legitimate democratic regimes in haiti venezuela brazil and arguably iraq. and possibly engaged in equatorial guinea (which is too weird - i havent a clue who's doing what there (or in sth korea).
so why spain? perhaps it was just the next in line. i thought it would be japan. it seems that the strategy is to get more support out of existing customers - thats the sweetspot of the matrix. if they are supporting us, and they get hit, they can justify increasing support to stamp out the terrorists, and then u pincer their friends into supporting twot, which makes them targets etc. if u arent with us, u r against us.

its nice to see the tv heads debate the eta or alq question - by defining it as such, there are no other suspects - and if the debate isnt resolved, then u have two tainted parties - presumably, unless the issue is solved, then (the hate directed at eta) + (the hate directed at alq) > (the hate directed at the actual perp) which is likely to enable greater fascism with more suspects. the cool thing about eta is that the basque complaint crosses the francospanish border. i havent seen anyone else pick up on this apparent border fetish - but its starting to look less like a coincidence. it was maybe 6 months ago when i mentioned that france could really be a target - perhaps thats what this eta thing is about. how on earth will france react to american 'incursions' to 'pick up terrorists'? c ya later sovereignty. what the hell will tony do? oh to be a fly in the phone when chirac and putin are having a chat.

there was no suggestion that these were suicide bombers, which is another apparent muslim signature - perhaps theyve heard my advice that it doesnt help to blow yerself up if u dont have to. its perhaps surprising that the media doesnt even seem to mention the absence or otherwise of suicide bombers, altho theres no suggestion/reason to think otherwise. there were some undetonated bombs found in a backpack, its amzing how often we see this - it presumably makes it easier to link the bombs to certain groups. i cant remember the last time these sophisticated terror geniuses actually managed to not leave some unexploded bombs behind. they doesnt seem to be able to decide whether the terrorist shuold be bumbling clouseaus' or james bond. they are obviously sophisticated cos they can pull off simulatenous attacks - (as we get told often, altho im not sure how much sophistication is required to roughly synchronise watches and press buttons at the same time) - but then we have foreign looking suicide bombers in moscow asking 'where is the kremlin?' - trying too mucheth.

it would be cynical to comment that gwb was opening a 911 memorial today

and u may have noticed amongst the noise the arresting of a spy. (what ever happend to the last spy they arressted?). praps not surprisingly this poor woman used to work for a bunch of democrats - arrest her and u can tar the whole democrat party. this woman hasnt been able to make any announcements but she has been charged with accepting '$10k in cash and expenses' - without any detail - so she may have been cash reimbursed for dinner and had her flite and accomodation paid for as far as we know. judging by the gaps in the story, she may not have been doing any more than trying to find a non-invasion solution. i wonder what she knows. in a stewartesque orwellian fuck - she is only being charged for bringing the money into the us - not actually for spying or anything, and theres no suggestion that she divulged sensitive information or anything.

grrrrrrrr

who's next to get their own 911?