Comments on: Pure, distilled evil

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:09:00 +0000

Israel is mentioned once and that's while talking to Israeli radio.

I didn't know Adam Boulton represented Israeli radio - do his bosses at Sky know about this moonlighting?

[Adam Boulton] says more Iraqi civilians have been killed by US and British armed forces than terrorists in Iraq. Mr Blair says: "I don't accept that."

"It's complete nonsense to build some equivalence between what we're doing to bring democracy to Iraq and Afghanistan and what these people are doing.

"And there's no justification for sucide bombing in Israel either - let's just get that out of the way".

"Fox News" also appears to be a front for Israeli radio:

Fox News wants to know how Muslims who grew up in Britain "could have turned on their own people".

"People have got to be prepared to go into the [Muslim] community and say 'what you say about America is rubbish'", continues Mr Blair. America is not supressing Muslims, even if you disagree with their foreign policy, he adds.

People musn't accept the idea that America is evil or Israel should not exist, as then it is a smaller step to extremism and terrorism, Mr Blair says.

By: max

max — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:47:00 +0000

Blair’s latest press conference, during which Iraq, Israel and Afghanistan were mentioned repeatedly.

Not quite. Israel is mentioned once and that’s while talking to Israeli radio.

Otherwise he uses the word Palestine.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4716505.stm

Or is it the BBC’s editors work. Nowadays you can never know.

By: max

max — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:32:00 +0000

Maybe he read Ledeen’s article.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:37:00 +0000

Well, the entire basis for Leeden’s article appears to have been comprehensively undermined by Blair’s latest press conference, during which Iraq, Israel and Afghanistan were mentioned repeatedly. However, he’s still ignoring Thailand, if conspiracy theorists want another bone to worry away at.

By: max

max — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:13:00 +0000

Yes NIB, the question is who would benefit from it, for which we already know the answer.

By: max

max — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:10:00 +0000

Re: dsquared "Worth pointing out that (as Michael's highlighted sentence shows) Blair was specifically referring to Islamist terrorism, and almost all (I would even say all) of the suicide bombs in Israel were placed by Palestinian nationalist groups who are not Islamists."

Maybe Hamas (an acronym that stands for Islamic Resistance Movement) is a bit too confusing for you to point out, but Islamic Jihad should give you a clue though I wouldn't bet on it.

BTW congrats on being mentioned in the grauniad as an apologist for HuT.

By: N.I.B.

N.I.B. — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:57:00 +0000

If London is the centre of the Network, why would they bomb it? That’d be like the US armed forces bombing Washington…

By: john b

john b — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:46:00 +0000

No, I’m right because my belief is supported by all the available evidence, while yours is supported by a few mouth-breathing right-wing maniacs like Mr Ledeen.

By: BEAM

BEAM — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:35:00 +0000

"To start with, Mr Ledeen lies that London is the centre of a "vast terrorist network". No, it isn't: we have some silly religous people here who make silly speeches."

That's right, because The Power of Nightmares told us so!

By: David Duff

David Duff — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:17:00 +0000

Here we go again! I was *not* trying to defend Chalabi as an individual which is why I admitted that I knew next to nothing about him. I was merely attempting to point out, in principle, the danger of accepting unsubstantiated allegations as gospel truth. I am happy to concur with the probability that Chalabi, given his occupation (international money-making mixed with international, as well as national, politics) is no angel. If any of the commenters above can find *any* figure in the middle-east with an unstained reputation, I would love to know of them. In the meantime, I remain unaware of any proof that Chalabi murdered or tortured his opponents, a habit frequently indulged by many of his ilk.

‘Backword Dave’ continues to ignore the fact that I am the founder, life-time president and, so far, the sole member of S.A.D., the Society Against Diminutives – and, yes, my social life is not all it might be! But if he insists that ‘Dave’ it is, then ‘Dave’ it must be. Anyway, he sticks to form by missing my point that we, meaning us Brits, lack the will-power to kill terrorist leaders, as was demonstrated during the days of the IRA campaign. A ‘shoot to kill’ policy against the foot-soldiers is action taken at the tactical level. Shooting dead their leaders is strategic and has real effect. We knew who constituted the leadership of the IRA. We know some of the leaders of the militant Muslims in various countries, and we should take steps to kill them.