Comment: Firstly, as evidence of how the mainstream press is in no way "free" or "impartial" but rather infiltrated by extremist right-wing thinkers and government lackeys, the abovementioned so-called "terrorism expect", employed by Rupert Murdoch's Sky News, is ex-British parliamentarian and Professor of Marketing at London City University, Eric Moonman, who just also happens to be President of the Zionist Federation of London.

Surely everyone would agree that the opinion of the President of the Federation of Zionists on Arab terrorism is anything but objective, yet we note that Sky News did NOT inform their viewers of Moonman's extremist Pro-Israel background, stating only that he is a "terrorism expert" and even then neglecting to provide any credentials that might support his claim to terrorism expertise.

We would like to appeal to all our readers to think about these attacks rationally. First of all, ask yourself, what does "al-Qaeda" or any other "previously unknown" Islamic group have to gain from carrying out these attacks at this particular time in London. Coming on the very day that the "G8" leaders meet in Scotland, the only tangible results of the attacks have been to vector British and world public attention TOWARDS the "reality" of "Arab terrorism" and AWAY from the crimes of people like Bush and Blair as regards the pillaging of the resources (both human and natural) of third world countries. On the very day that G8 leaders were expected to deliver on the demands of the World public to alleviate "third world" debt, "al-Qaeda" steps in and saves them the trouble by bringing "terrorism" center stage.

One of the most troubling aspects of "Arab terror" attacks in Europe and the US is that the victims are almost always ordinary civilians. By now, any Arab terrorist strategist should surely have realised that their issue is not with the civilian population of Western nations but rather with the politicians that make the decisions, many of which run contrary to the will of the people. The massive anti-Iraq war demonstrations around Europe and the US made this point quite clear. In this case, what does "al-Qaeda" have to gain from attacking London trains and buses filled with civilian workers when it is patently obvious that civilian deaths at the hands of "terrorists" will do nothing to sway the average Western government from their political and military designs on the Middle East, quite the opposite in fact.

It really is a no brainer that "al-Qaeda" terrorism very definitely serves the agenda of Bush and Blair.

Another most interesting aspect to today's London bombings is that right next door to the scene of one of the attacks on the London Metro, the Great Eastern Hotel was hosting a conference on the Israeli economy, attended by Israeli finance minister Benjamin Netanyahu, one of the most extreme right-wing "Zionist" members of Sharon's Likud party and a staunch opponent of next month's Gaza pullout plan. Most bizarrely of all, one initial report claimed that the Israeli embassy had received advanced warning of the attacks from British police, a claim that Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom later denied, while another report had British police denying that they had received advanced warning of the attacks from the Israeli embassy, which then THEY denied! What seems clear is that one or other or even both DID know of the attacks in advance and now both are attempting to cover up that fact.

Contrary to the headlines on mainstream news sources and claims by the British government, the attacks today in London bear all the hallmarks of yet another false flag operation carried out by a Western intelligence agency. Perhaps now is a good time to talk about the fact that, on many, many occasions in the past, US, British and Israeli intelligence agencies have employed "false flag" operations to further their political and military goals. Indeed, the idea of attacking oneself or the population of one's own country and then blaming it on your enemies is as "old as the hills" and is a core element of covert intelligence agency tactics.

Take, for example, the Madrid train bombing of March 11th 2004. 191 people were murdered, supposedly by al-Qaeda, yet all of the victims were simple, working class people, many of whom had protested against the Iraq invasion and the then Spanish government's decision to send troops to Iraq. So why would al-qaeda, an organisation that claims to represent the interests of the Islamic people, want to attack innocent people who to some extent share their opposition to pro-American European governments? It just doesn't make sense, and the claim that the "terrorists" are just crazy and that there is no logic to their actions is not in keeping with the lucid and erudite demands that the "terrorists" have made. Because the Madrid train bombings lead to the ousting of the right-wing Aznar administration, the argument has also been made that this was the actual goal of "al-qaeda" in carrying out the bombings, yet "Arab terrorists" won few supporters in Spain by killing 191 innocent Spaniards, and most analysts had been expecting a popular swing towards the left at the polls regardless. No indeed, the most obvious explanation is that, like the train bombings in London today, the Madrid train attacks of "3/11" were an attempt to turn Spanish (and wider Europe and and world) public opinion against "Arabs" in general and garner support for Bush and Sharon's war on the Arab population of the Middle East.

The shadow of a false flag operation has in fact been spread across the headlines over the past couple of weeks, yet due to the chronic lack of real journalism in the US, the general public is mostly unaware of it. Last month an Italian judge called for the detention of 13 alleged CIA agents who had "rendered" (abducted) from Milan to Egypt Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, a Muslim Cleric and CIA informant on February 17, 2003 according to Albanian intelligence officials as published in the Chicago Tribune on July 2, this year. While the official line is that the Americans were CIA agents, there is reason to believe that they were in fact part of "a covert team of U.S. Defense Department Special Forces, mercenaries, and intelligence agents who are now the subject of international arrest warrants" as Wayne Madsen writes.

Running parallel to this is the story from the Italian daily Corriere della Sera that Italian officials have uncovered an underground police network while investigating the death of Fabrizio Quattrocchi, an Italian private security contractor slain in Iraq in 2004. The investigation by the Genoa Public Prosecutor's Office revealed that the officially illegal anti-terror police, called the Department of Strategic Antiterrorism Studies (DSSA), was staffed by Freemasons and shadowy CIA operatives. Among the 50 people that are being investigated are Gaetano Saya and Riccardo Sindoca, both Freemasons and DSSA directors with links to the extreme right and intelligence organizations including "Gadio". Wayne Madsen tell us:

Former Italian President Francesco Cossiga has quickly distanced the parallel intelligence network from official intelligence and police networks by claiming that Saya and Sindoca are just criminals and not tied to the Italian Gladio, which a number of intelligence experts believe Cossiga once headed. Cossiga also defended the secret U.S. intelligence operation in Italy that is presently under attack by Milan prosecutors. Cossiga said that by not telling the Italian government of the operation, the U.S. avoided having its secret plans spread throughout the Middle East.

By mentioning both the Milan and Genoa cases, Cossiga may have unintentionally linked the two. The parallel intelligence network is reportedly the outgrowth of a Gladio network consisting of six divisions that operated in Italy, North Africa, and the Middle East during the Cold War. The P-2 Lodge, headed by fascist leader Licio Gelli, reportedly maintained close links to former Secretary of State Alexander Haig and his one-time foreign affairs adviser, Michael Ledeen.

A number of SISMI agents and assets have also been tied to the group, including Francesco Pazienza, an SISMI agent, and Rocco Martino, who said he was the source of the faked Niger yellowcake uranium documents that were laundered through Rome and used as proof by the Bush White House that Saddam Hussein was shopping for uranium in Niger. That charge prompted the CIA to send Ambassador Joseph Wilson to Niger, resulting in a retaliatory outing of Wilson's wife as a covert CIA operative and exposure by the White House of the CIA's covert weapons of mass destruction counter-proliferation network.

It would seem reasonable to assume that there is indeed a very definite connection between a group of American "black ops" personnel with ties to the Pentagon who were involved in kidnapping a Muslim Cleric in Italy who was on their payroll as an informer and a shadowy extra-judicial Italian anti-Muslim terrorist organisation founded by two Italians who were also being funded by the Pentagon. The mention of the term "Gladio" and Saya and Sindoca being affiliated with this organisation is very interesting. Chris Floyd writing in the Moscow Times explains the essence of "Operation Gladio":

'You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force ... the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security."

Operation Gladio [was] a decades-long covert campaign of terrorism and deceit directed by the intelligence services of the West -- against their own populations. Hundreds of innocent people were killed or maimed in terrorist attacks -- on train stations, supermarkets, cafes and offices -- which were then blamed on "leftist subversives" or other political opponents. The purpose, as stated above in sworn testimony by Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra, was to demonize designated enemies and frighten the public into supporting ever-increasing powers for government leaders -- and their elitist cronies.

First revealed by Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti in 1991, Gladio (from the Latin for "sword") is still protected to this day by its founding patrons, the CIA and MI6. Yet parliamentary investigations in Italy, Switzerland and Belgium have shaken out a few fragments of the truth over the years. These have been gathered in a new book, "NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe," by Daniele Ganser, as Lila Rajiva reports on CommonDreams.org.

Originally set up as a network of clandestine cells to be activated behind the lines in the event of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, Gladio quickly expanded into a tool for political repression and manipulation, directed by NATO and Washington. Using right-wing militias, underworld figures, government provocateurs and secret military units, Gladio not only carried out widespread terrorism, assassinations and electoral subversion in democratic states such as Italy, France and West Germany, but also bolstered fascist tyrannies in Spain and Portugal, abetted the military coup in Greece and aided Turkey's repression of the Kurds.

Among the "smoking guns" unearthed by Ganser is a Pentagon document, Field Manual FM 30-31B, which details the methodology for launching terrorist attacks in nations that "do not react with sufficient effectiveness" against "communist subversion." Ironically, the manual states that the most dangerous moment comes when leftist groups "renounce the use of force" and embrace the democratic process. It is then that "U.S. army intelligence must have the means of launching special operations which will convince Host Country Governments and public opinion of the reality of the insurgent danger." Naturally, these peace-throttling "special operations must remain strictly secret," the document warns.

What seems to be true is that Operation Gladio was the brain child of American intelligence personnel after the (so-called) defeat of Fascism during WWII. It goes without saying that the very existence of tyrants like Hitler and Mussolini was extremely useful for the "allies", particularly the Americans. After all, when your goal is global hegemony, you need a good reason to send the troops overseas. However, with the defeat of the Nazis, America was forced to find a new boogeyman, or rather boogey ideology, to justify continual war. Very quickly after WWII, "the commies are coming" became the new battle cry and with it came a plan to establish "stay-behind" groups of mercenaries trained by Americans in the art of guerilla warfare in the event that a Communist (or in any way left-leaning) government should gain strength in any strategically important (from the point of view of the US) nation.

Going one level deeper, and with the benefit of hindsight, we realise that Communism itself, much like the "Arab terror" threat of today, was a wholly manufactured threat and was used by the US throughout the "cold war" to justify US covert and overt aggression against any country it chose. One example of the many atrocities carried out by the US backed and financed "Gladio" included the Bologna (Italy) train bombing of August 2nd 1982 where 85 civilians were massacred, an act that was then blamed on Italian Communists who were vying for political power in Italy at the time.

Over the years Gladio's so-called "strategy of tension" -- fomenting fear to keep populations in thrall to "strong leaders" who will protect the nation from the ever-present terrorist threat was used to great effect, mainly by the US, in many parts of the world. Both the Reagan and Bush administrations employ the use of mercenaries in South American countries throughout the 1980s and right up until the present day. As soon as it appeared that a populist group might gain political ground, the US-sponsored death-squads sung into action committing murder, creating mayhem and blaming it on the opposition as a way to cajole the population into accepting the need for "strong leadership", or to put it another way, fascists, that would be much more amenable to allowing large US corporations access to their countries resources. Of course, in the case that this tactic did not work, as was the case in Chile in the early 1970's, direct coups were financed and a military dictatorship imposed.

Of course, with the fall of the "iron curtain" (you gotta love those metaphors) Communism was dispensed with, but not before the groundwork had been laid for the creation of the next terrifying threat to world "freedom" (read American dominance) - Muslim terrorism. In exactly the same way that groups like "Gladio" infiltrated Socialist and Communist "enemy" groups, similar bands of cutthroats are today infiltrating and even creating Muslim terrorist groups that they can maneuver to be the patsies for US, UK and Israel-sponsored terrorist attacks.

While the word is today synonymous with mass murderers like Hitler, Fascism is,a nd always has been, an ideology adhered to by those who seek ultimate control over as much of the world and its people as possible. In this regard, the real fascists in the world today are alive and well and conducting covert false flag terror attacks from their headquarters in the White House, Whitehall and the Knesset.

Just to close the circle and bring the topic back to current US headlines; it has been recently revealed that covert CIA agent Valerie Plame was outed by US Presidential advisor Karl Rove in retaliation against her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, who had discovered that the documents stating that Saddam had tried to procure uranium from Niger were in fact false. And from whom did the Bush cabal get the Niger documents? Rocco Martino, an agent of the Italian Intelligence Service (SISMI) who is also linked to Saya and Sendoca, the NeoCon's agent provocateurs in the global phony war on terror.

As an aside, yet 100% linked to this discussion, it is entirely likely that the Gladio network is behind many "insurgent" attacks in Iraq, particularly the ones that involve the mass murder of innocent Iraqi civilians and the kidnapping of European aid workers like Giuliana Sgrena. It is no coincidence that Sgrena's bodyguard, Nicola Calipari a legitimate member of the Italian Intelligence Service (SISMI), was murdered in an American covert operation on March 4th this year, just as he was escorting Sgrena to freedom. The obvious conclusion is that Calipari had become aware of the fact that Sgrena's kidnappers were not the evil Muslim terrorists that the White House claimed they were, but rather were made up of US and Israeli agents assigned to demonise the "enemy" - the legitimate Iraqi resistance who simply wanted the occupying US troops to leave their country. It was for this reason that he had to be silenced.

It is likewise very possible that the US informant Muslim Cleric Moustafa Hassan Nasr, who was kidnapped by the American "Gladio gang", had decided that he didn't want to play Gladiator anymore and was perhaps threatening to spill the beans on the real cause of most Muslim terrorism in the world today.

Comment: Notice the date on this article (which is unfortunately no longer available at the URL). One year ago. If as often happens they were reporting comments made the day before, that would put it exactly one year ago, July 7, 2004. Of course, with the amount of fear mongering that has been going on over the last years, one shouldn't put too much weight on the coincidence of dates. You could probably find similar statements for many other dates. Still....

So, yes, we have been softened up to expect such an attack, and to immediately associate such an attack with those inhuman brutes known as al Qaeda. The Pavlovian association is well imprinted. It was only a question of when: when the powers that be needed a little boost in the "war against terror" because we don't put much credence in the idea that this was carried out by Islamic fundamentalists. Of course, it is possible. There may be a cell of genuine Islamic terrorists out there who aren't in some way being manipulated by Mossad or MI5 or the US intelligence agencies. It's possible, but we don't think it is likely they would have pulled off a blast such as this.

More probable is that is was a group in one of the spy agencies of a "civilised" country. We'll look at that question below.

At the moment, though, it is important for people to remain critical and lucid. These events are designed to stir us up, to get the juices flowing so that we can be swept along into accepting changes that we wouldn't accept with a clear head. It is important to be on guard in times like these against such manipulations. You can see that Blair is getting ready to try when you look at what he said today in reaction. It was full of the old colonist lines about "civilisation".

That the "civilised" countries are even more barbaric than the one's he was criticising goes unmentioned. Our crimes are always for the good of others. The white man knows best.

Comment: We watched as a, to use a hackneyed phrase that suits a hackneyed politician, "visibly shaken" Tony Blair spoke from Gleneagles at noon today, UK time, to give his reaction to the London bombings. We found this remark particularly barbaric:

"It is particularly barbaric this has happened on a day when people are meeting to try to help the problems of poverty in Africa and the long term problems of climate change and the environment."

As well as the following:

"Whatever they do, it is our determination that they will never succeed in destroying what we hold dear in this country and in other civilised nations throughout the world."

Yes, the civilised nations, the ones responsible for pillaging the rest of the globe to fuel their economies, the ones that send their troops to the four corners of the earth, suppressing local dissent, employing children to do their labour, leaving a trail of pollution and blood. And home in time for tea.

The ones who, today, were sitting down to solve the problems for those poor, helpless Africans, not to mention global warming.

Oh, so, civilised. Oh, so, caring. Listen to these words from Bush:

"The contrast couldn't be clearer between the intentions and the hearts of those of us who care deeply about human rights and human liberty and those who kill, those who have such evil in their heart that they will take the lives of innocent folks," Bush said.

The president said the ideology of hope and compassion would triumph over that of hate.

While Agence France Presse reported that Bush affirmed that the war on terrorism would continue and that the contrast between what we see on the television screens here and what is happening there couldn't be clearer. Bush went on to say that while the G8 was working to reduce poverty and stem the spread of AIDS and protect the environment, on the other hand yo have people who kill the innocent. The contrast couldn't be clearer.

Yes, indeedy.

George, how many innocent people have been killed by your invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq? Oh, that's right. You don't keep count. And how many died because of your embargo on Iraq in the 90s? How many hundreds of thousands?

While watching the television reports from London, we saw scenes of bodies being removed from the underground, including on shot of medics attempting to revive someone being wheeled along the London street on a stretcher. When was the last time people watching Fox News saw a shot like that from Iraq, a shot of an innocent bystander in the last throes is life. Yes, they give us images of "insurgents", or people they are trying to pass off as insurgents such as the dead teenager with planted guns next to his body on the news recently.

The "civilised" Mr Blair has blood on his hands.

Comment: The killing games have been going on for as long as our species has walked this planet. If you want to make your way up the hierarchical pyramid of power, you have to "play the game". The death of Kelly, that we have covered (use our searchable archives), allowed one facet to be seen. Then there was this report from a reader of the site Propaganda Matrix.

Comment: As with so many reports on the Internet, it is hard to verify whether this is true or not. We read it and judge that it sounds plausible, but, then again, that could simply be because it confirms a picture we have of Tony Blair built up from his many pronouncements, the Tony Blair who told us that Saddam could hit London in 45 minutes, for example.

Comment: Blair's statement translate to: "Our terror shall defeat 'their' terror." It looks to us like it is all one terror, part of an elaborate system designed to keep us frightened and running on our emotions so that we are incapable of standing back and looking critically at events and the statements of our elected officials.

It will be curious to see what effect the London bombings have on Bush's standing back in the US. We've noted that the polls show that his approval rating has dropped and that there is more open criticism of the war in Iraq -- even if it amounts more to how the US can save face than recognition that it was an illegal war and that the perpetrators should be tried for war crimes.

Comment: Another curious synchronicity. Could it be that someone doesn't want British troops out of Iraq?

Comment: Scotland Yard saw fit to warn the Israeli Embassy, and yet according to BBC and SkyNews television broadcasts this morning, the British people and apparently even law enforcement officials and government leaders were not given any warning??

No sooner had this report appeared, then the Israeli government issued an official denial:

Comment: The Fox URL had the initial report that Israel had been warned and has now been replaced with the above article.

Where have we seen this before? Israelis are warned about an attack, then the report is denied?

Oh, yes, it was on 9/11 when reports appeared stating that employees of the Israeli company Odigo had received warnings prior to the attacks to stay away from the World Trade Centre that day. The reports were quickly denied amid suggestions that they were put out by anti-Semitic forces.

Only trouble was that they were later confirmed by Odigo itself as being true.

Comment: We commented at the time:

The rumour that Odigo had been warned of the 9/11 attacks was denounced as anti-Semitism after the attack because it implied that the force behind 9/11 was not "Islamic terrorists." In the two and one-half years since, much evidence has come out to suggest that this is in fact the case. The Bush administration has yet to produce the slightest hard evidence that the hijackers were the men they claim or to show the slightest proof that the attackers were part of the mythical al Qaeda.

Notice the ridiculous explanation by the CEO of the company that received the message. It is not clear whether "Odigo" is an American company, an Israeli company or an Israeli-American company. Whatever the case, Odigo, at the time of the 9/11 attacks, had an office in the WTC itself, as well as offices in Herzliya in Israel. The article states that the ISP information was eventually given to the FBI, and we assume that the FBI checked into the ISP and the sender, so who was it? Well, perhaps we don't need the FBI to make the first obvious connection. In the article we notice that that two employees of Odigo that received the warning immediately contacted Israeli intelligence. While the article above does not state it, this would seem to suggest that the two employees were in the Israeli office, and that the message originated either in Israel or somewhere else in the Middle East.

The Israeli offices of Odigo are noteworthy for their location - Herzliya, a resort city to the north of Tel Aviv, which was named after one of the founders of the Zionist movement, Theodor Herzl. Most significant however is that the actual office building of Odigo in Herzliya is right next to the "Herzliya Interdisciplinary Centre", a private university financed by US donors, mainly the trader Marc Rich, the Israeli criminal and lobbyist that Clinton was "forced" to pardon. Thierry Mesan has this to say of the centre on his Reseau voltaire site (translated from the original French):

[...] the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Centre, a private university near Tel Aviv and financed by US donors, mainly the trader Marc Rich (Glencore). It comes from the International Institute on Politics and Counter-Terrorism that has made its specialty to the supposed links between Palestinian resistance movements, Al Quada, and the "Axis of Evil." The institute is notoriously linked to the secret services of the Israeli army, and two of its former directors sit on the Institute's Board of Directors: Generals Shlomo Gazit and Eli Zeira. The offices of the Institute are next to those of the private telecommunications firm Odigo that announced the attacks on the World Trade Centre two hours before they were perpetrated.

Interesting indeed. We find it unlikely that a internet messaging business would be located so close to the heart of Israeli intelligence without there being some co-operation between the two.

If we look at 9/11 from the point of view of who benefited, there are only two countries in the world - Israel and the United States. Israel has used the attacks to justify their ruthless murder of Palestinians; the United States to justify their intervention in the internal affairs of Afghanistan and Iraq. [...]

False flag operations are nothing new. They are pretty much the rule when it comes to the battle for the minds of the population. If you need to demonise your enemy, what better way to do it than to carry out a bloody attack on innocent civilians and then put the blame on them.

Israel is particularly good at this. How many of the "suicide bombers" are in fact working, whether they know it or not, for Israeli intelligence? How many of the current round of kidnappings in Iraq, especially those that end in executions such as Nicholas Berg, are in fact false flag operations?

Closer to "home", or the Home Office, we only have to go back to 1994 to find Mossad engaged in a false flag operation in London: against the Israeli Embassy!

Comment: With that bit of evidence, now look at this following report on the bombing that appeared the year before.

Comment: So, here we have a Mossad operation carried out against the Israeli Embassy, and the head of Mossad at the time gets on his high horse and says that "we would have passed it on" if it had happened to them. Such concern. Such caring.

And note the reference to the group that was supposedly responsible: a previous unknown group. Today's attack in London is being claimed by a "previously unknown group" called the "Secret Organization group of al-Qaeda Organization in Europe".

Comment: Anyone interested in learning more about Mossad false flag operations should read By Way of Deception, Victor Ostrovky's account of his years in Mossad.

The most spectacular of these was 9/11 itself which appears to have been a joint Israeli/US operation.