Pete, At 15:13 03/09/02 -0700, you wrote: >Wow, Keith, you really are sliding comfortably into the conspiracy >mindset. Slippery slope, you know :^)
Yes! Could be! I've been trying to prevent myself writing anything at all about all this in the last few days because my hypothesis has gone far enough. My only excuse has been that this is probably one of the greatest crises of modern times. I can only think of three others of comparable tension in my lifetime: Chamberlain's midnight challenge to Hitler; The Berlin airlift challenge to Stalin; Kennedy's challenge to Krushchov. As my final speculation, I'll suggest that high though the tension is in Washington and London, it's even higher in Riyadh, and I forecast some significant news breaking soon. I'll shut up now! Keith > >On Mon, 02 Sep 2002, Keith Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Here's a curious case of a man who has been found innocent even before he >>goes on trial. >> >>Curious indeed. >> >>Kerim Chatty, who arrested by Swedish police as he attempted to board a >>Ryanair with a handgun in his washbag, along with a number of other >>Muslims going to a conference in England. Within an hour or two, it was >>revealed that Chatty, a devout Muslim with "strongly held anti-Western >>view of the world" had spent time in prison with Osama Kassir, with known >>Al Qaeda links, had learned to fly in America in 1996, was probably >>linked to a five-man terrorist cell, and was almost without doubt going >>to hijack the plane and crash it into a US embassy in Europe. If found >>guilty of hijacking, he would face a sentence of life time imprisonment. >> >>And then, suddenly, the whole sotry changed and he wasn't a suspected >>hikacker any longer! Margaretha Lindroth, Sweden's counter-intelligence >>chief, described all the talk as "blatantly untrue". There was "nothing >>to substantiate" claims originally made by the Swedish Defence >>establishment that he was linked to terrorist groups within fundamental >>Islam. Friends of his have emerged from the woodwork who described him as >>a nice chap "who probably forgot that he'd left his gun in his washbag" >>when he went to the airport. >> >>What a relief! He's innocent after all. He'll possibly only be charged >>with a minor misdemeanour. How clever of the Swedish authorities to >>establish the true facts of the case so quickly. >> >>How relieved Bush will be that it wasn't an intended Al Qaeda attack at >>all. That means he can carry on talking about wicked Iraq and not mention >>al Qaeda in his next speech. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Keith Hudson,6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel:01225 312622/444881; Fax:01225 447727; E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________
