[Imc-uk-features] Browns 'Bombs'? Feature: Pulled pending revision...

[Shiar]

On Thu Jul 12 15:29:12 UTC 2007, chris at aktivix.org wrote:

> First though I think we need an article that there is more
> agreement on -- I don't think there has ever been a
> feature article that has been as controversial as this
> (though the numerous complaints about it have only been on
> this list and not as comments on the article...), and it's
> been controversial for a lot of stated reasons and perhaps
> some unstated ones (it's opposition to imperialism?), so I
> have unticked UK, Scotland and London on the article now
> so it can only be found on the Terror War topic page and
> I've started a revised version of the feat here:
> https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkFeatureLondonGlasgowTerror#Version_2_London_and_Glasgow_Bro

So I've finally found some time to change/edit this a bit. The modified
version is here:
https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkFeatureLondonGlasgowTerror#Version_3

There's still nothing grassrootie or activistie about the feature; it's
still editorial, mainstreamie and all that. So if people still object,
well, i don't really care any more.

-- 
Shiar


United against (the real) terrorism

Author: Some UK IMCers

Abstract:

On 7 July, 2007, following the failed attack on Glasgow Airport, some
2,000 people gather in Glasgow to protest against the war of terror at a
Scotland United Against Terrorism rally, which was called by a few young
folks from the the Muslim community and was quickly backed by the city's
mosques and Islamic organisations. Speakers ranged from religious and
union leaders, Stop the War Coalition, to police and government
representatives.

Meanwhile, four men convicted of the 21/7 bomb plot in London have been
jailed for life, while four other were sentenced each to 6 years in prison
for 'inciting terrorism' following the Muhammad cartoons protest in London
last year. On the other hand, a second jury in the trial of two BNP
'non-terrorists' accused of plotting explosions has 'failed to reach a
verdict'. The police, meanwhile, continue to use a considerable chunk of
their resources to monitor activists.

Related posts on the newswire: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Latuff Cartoons: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |

Content:

Whose bombs?

While the mainstream and corporate media's frenzy was, as usual, filled
with Islamphobia and demonisation of Muslims, with 'terror fear level'
raised to critical, and while the new prime minister Gordon Brown
continued with further attacks on civil liberties, some more critical
writers tried to ask the more difficult questions.

The initial reaction to the failed 'car bombs' in London from Craig Murray
was "cui bono?" (who benefits?) Nafeez Ahmed, who has written extensively
on Al-Qaeda and their links to the West, the history of international
terrorism and the strategy of tension, asked "whose bombs?", whilst John
Pilger said "these are Brown's bombs."

Nafeez Ahmed's above-mentioned article was radically different from his
piece that appeared in The Independent on Sunday. His views were further
elaborated at a meeting in London: Creating terror - a lateral view on
911, 7/7 and the war on terror.

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