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International Action Center Statement on the July 7 Bombings in London
International Action Center
While the people of London and worldwide were grieving for those who were
slain and injured, and as the International Action Center extends heartfelt
sympathy and condolences to all who have lost loved ones in today's
bombings in London, the Bush Administration has wasted no time in taking
advantage of tragedy to once again advance its own agenda of endless war
and colonial occupation. The news is not that bombs kil! led more than 40
people today; it is that those people live in London rather than Basra. The
U.S. and British occupation of Iraq causes the death of an average of 20
people a day, every day...

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“The bombs belong ultimately to Blair and Bush”
John Pilger, Socialist Worker
NO ONE doubts the atrocious inhumanity of those who planted the bombs that
killed and caused mayhem in London yesterday. No one should also doubt that
this outrage has been coming since the day Tony Blair joined George Bush in
their bloody invasion and occupation of Iraq. They are “Blair’s bombs,” and
he ought not be allowed to evade culpability with yet another unctuous
speech about other people’s violence...

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From Bunker Hill to Baghdad
Ahmed Amr, Editor, NileMedia.com
...When Bush stood on the podium at West Virginia University on July 4th,
he saw another opportunity to continue his campaign to re-package and
re-sell his war of choice. Once again, the president warned that Iraqi
insurgents “seek to drive America out of the region.” And he invoked the
memory of battles “from Bunker Hill to Baghdad” to stir the crowd (...) Was
Fallujah our Bunker Hill or their Bunker Hill or their Guernica? Is it not
indecent to celeb! rate our love of independence and insist on our
entitlement to empire in the very same presidential speech?

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Human Life in East & West: A hell of a Difference
Abid Ullah Jan, MMN
Close to 150,000 died in the illegal and unjust war imposed on Afghanistan
and Iraq and no one is even willing to diligently count the dead. Deadly
bombs went off in Iraq Wednesday and not a word was published. Hours later,
in London, more bombs exploded and the western media was all over the
story. Ottawa Citizen alone published 43 stories with more than 20,000
words together. It seems as if they were ready and only waiting for the
bombing to ! take place in London. Not to speak of the fact that most of
these stories were to frame Muslims and Islam. The stories are focused on
three main aspects: fixing the blame on Muslims, showing resolve to
continue war and spreading more fear.

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The London Bombings
Robert Thompson, Axis of Logic
Like every decent person, we must condemn the persons responsible for the
bombings which have taken place today in London, but we must also condemn
with equal vigour those who commit similar crimes every day in the Holy
Land in the name of Zionism or in Iraq and elsewhere in support of Mr
George W. Bush's war against our civilisation...

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‘If Osama bin Laden didn’t exist if would be necessary to invent him’
William Bowles, I'n'I
Some on the left (and not just on the left) have talked of the invasion of
Iraq as creating the conditions for the carnage we witnessed in London this
week but I question the logic behind this argument. I am reminded of a
statement made some time back that ‘if Osama bin Laden didn’t exist if
would have been necessary to invent him’ for if, as I contend that to
justify the ‘war on terror’ it was necessary to invent the terr! orist
threat first, then come hell or high water, acts such as the London bombing
are a necessary and inevitable result of the larger strategic mission of
the USUK to justify their even greater acts of carnage and aggression...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Friday, 8 July 2005
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board,
the Free Arab Voice.
In a dispatch posted at 10:15am Mecca time Friday morning, Mafkarat
al-Islam reported that a short while before, fierce fighting had broken out
between Iraqi Resistance forces and US Marines together with their Iraqi
stooges in the city of al-Fallujah, west of Baghdad. The correspondent for
Mafkarat al-Islam reported that at the time of writing the combat had be!
en raging for about an hour and was concentrated in the southern environs
of al-Fallujah, on the outskirts of the ash-Shuhada’ neighborhood. At that
time, no information on the number of forces involved or the nature and
extent of casualties was available...

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Cui Bono Revisited
Butler Shaffer
...This is an opportune time for intelligent men and women to begin
formulating their own questions, rather than continuing to internalize
answers fed to them by those with an interest in conditioning their minds.
Such an inquiry ought to include the possibility that some of these events
might be the product of provocateuring (i.e., the political establishment
engineering attacks in order to arouse public sentiment on behalf of
expanded police powers and a war agenda). The! very existence of the word
admits of its historic role in matters political. The burning of the German
Reichstag facilitated Hitler’s rise to power, while Roosevelt’s conscious
efforts to bring about the bombing of Pearl Harbor made it possible for him
to overcome public opposition to entering the war...

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False flag over London
John Leonard, Online Journal Contributing Writer
Yesterday we saw a classic false flag attack in London, organized by
western secret services to distract attention from the deepening political
troubles of Bush and Blair, and perhaps even to create the pretext for war
on Iran. Of course, Bush and his poll ratings have been sinking under
scandals and rumblings of impeachment. Blair too has been badly hurt by the
Downing Street memo...

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The London bombings: rounding up the unusual suspects
Jerry Mazza, Online Journal Contributing Writer
Let's play detective to George W. Bush's announcement from Gleneagles,
Scotland, "The war on terror goes on," while we offer our deepest sympathy
to Londoners as the casualties rise to more than 50 dead and hundreds
injured in the four London bomb blasts. Though the death and injury figures
are significantly less than 9–11's 2,800 dead and untold thousands of
injured, London's four explosions echo the US events i! n microcosm,
including the call to arms by Blair as well as Bush against al Qaeda, with
a promise of victory for democracy, which you have heard before...

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The Media Farce Over Iran's Newly Elected President
Walter C. Uhler
... Was it too much to ask that the mainstream media withhold these stories
about Ahmadinejad, until the allegations of former American hostages could
be investigated? Why the urgency? Did the out-of-context references to the
embassy seizure, respectively published and broadcast by the Times and the
CBS Evening News on June 26, 2005, cause the news cycle to degenerate into
unverified claims that Ahmadinejad was one of the hostage takers of 1979? !
Regardless of how these questions are answered, the damage has been done.
For, just as the attacks on September 11 rendered many Americans
susceptible to spurious arguments for invading Iraq, so, too, has the
media's irresponsible reporting of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's involvement in the
embassy seizure generated yet more susceptibility to political manipulation
by the Bush administration. Although it's now Iran, it nevertheless appears
to be "Déjà vu all over again."...

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