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"This philosophy was epitomised by Colin Powell, the former US secretary of state, in his dramatic address on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programme to the UN Security Council on 5 February 2003, five weeks before the invasion. He articulated, “every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources” He continued about a “sinister nexus between Iraq and the al-Qaida terrorist network” - a series of meaningless, vacuous and ridiculous words. Colin Powell made reference to the “ricin ring”, a citation used to support the assertion that Saddam and Osama were supporting terrorist cells in Europe. This was the incident in which there was said to be traces of ricin, a deadly poison for which there is no antidote, found in a north London flat, which was occupied by Muslim men of North African origin. Although subsequent tests by Porton Down laboratories (historically the world experts in biological warfare) found no trace of ricin on any of
the equipment found in the flat, this did not stop the whole affair being used by the crusaders to gather support from the subjects that they tyrannise, in the US and UK. "
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Poison plot without any poison
Popular music is filled with poor quality prose of no literary or poetic value. A typical popular song comprises of a series of meaningless, vacuous and ridiculous lyrics strung together in an incoherent fashion. What makes a song popular is the way it is sung. If the delivery has style, passion and feeling the western populace overlook its inconsequentiality. This gloss masks the pernicious issues underlying this form of artistic _expression_. There are many analogies to be drawn here with Western politics. This style over substance approach aids the dissemination of dangerous and erroneous concepts. They believe that if you argue an issue with a skilful and passionate delivery the public will buy it.
This philosophy was epitomised by Colin Powell, the former US secretary of state, in his dramatic address on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programme to the UN Security Council on 5 February 2003, five weeks before the invasion. He articulated, “every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources” He continued about a “sinister nexus between Iraq and the al-Qaida terrorist network” - a series of meaningless, vacuous and ridiculous words. Colin Powell made reference to the “ricin ring”, a citation used to support the assertion that Saddam and Osama were supporting terrorist cells in Europe. This was the incident in which there was said to be traces of ricin, a deadly poison for which there is no antidote, found in a north London flat, which was occupied by Muslim men of North African origin. Although subsequent tests by Porton Down laboratories (historically the world experts in biological warfare) found no trace of ricin on any of the equipment found in the flat, this did not stop the whole affair being used by the crusaders to gather support from the subjects that they tyrannise, in the US and UK.
On 13 April 2005 a London jury refuted yet another section of the case Colin Powell made for war with Iraq. The recent British court verdicts on five defendants, and the dropping of charges against four others, make clear there was no ricin ring. The “ricin ring” did not make any ricin, the “ricin ring” did not have any ricin, and the “ricin ring” was not actually a ring.
Colin Powell constructed a convoluted quasi-logical argument associating this “UK poison cell” (that had no poison) with training camps in Afghanistan. The basis of this discussion was that training camps in Afghanistan were the origin of the information on poisons and chemicals that were allegedly in the possession of the accused. This information covered five pages in Arabic, containing amateur instructions for making ricin, cyanide and botulinum. As well as a list of chemicals used in explosives. These scribblings were the mainstay of the court case. Kamel Bourgass, the sole convicted defendant, had made these notes. His co-defendants believed that he had copied the information from the internet. The prosecution claimed it had come from Afghanistan. It turns out that the recipes and instructions were untested and unoriginal, taken from US sources.
Ricin is not and cannot be used as a toxic agent of mass destruction. It has only ever been used for one-on-one killings and attempted killings. It is ineffective as a toxin if placed on car door handles, which was the supposed method of delivery, unless the car victim opens the doors of hundreds of cars with his or her tongue. For ricin to work effectively it must penetrate the skin. Therefore used as a means to wreak terror on London, it would be impotent. It is apparently true that when the team from Porton Down entered the North London flat in January 2003 their field equipment registered the presence of ricin. But this says more about the analytical sensitivity of the “field detectors” employed. Their equipment was prone to give false positive readings. A few days later in the laboratory, Dr Martin Pearce, head of the Biological Weapons Identification Group, found that there was no ricin. But this result was not passed to the press, or at least the headlines did not reflect this.
The UK government’s case on links to Afghanistan was based only on papers that a freelance journalist working for the Times had scooped up after the US invasion of Kabul. Some were in Arabic and some were in Russian. They were far more detailed than Bourgass's notes. Nevertheless, claimed Porton Down chemistry chief Dr Chris Timperiey, they showed a “common origin and progression” in the methods, thus linking the London group of North Africans to Afghanistan and Bin Laden.
However the trail of evidence points, not to Kabul but to California and the US Midwest. The recipes for ricin now seen on the internet were invented 20 years ago by survivalist Kurt Saxon. He advertises videos and books on the internet. When, in October 2004, the chemical lists found in London were shown to be an exact copy of pages on an internet site in Palo Alto, California, the prosecution gave up on the Kabul and al-Qaida link claims. But it seems this information was not shared with the then British home secretary, David Blunkett, who was still whipping up fear two weeks later. "Al-Qaida and the international network is seen to be, and will be demonstrated through the courts over months to come, actually on our doorstep and threatening our lives," he said on November 14 2004.
Another twist to all this was the attempt to introduce an “al- Qaida manual” into the case. The manual, called the Manual of the Afghan Jihad, had been found on a raid in Manchester, England in 2000. It was given to the FBI to produce in the 2001 New York trial for the first attack on the World Trade Centre. But it wasn't an al- Qaida manual. The US department of justice in 2001 invented the name, and the contents were rushed on to the net to aid a presentation to the Senate by the then attorney general, John Ashcroft, supporting the US Patriot Act. It is not an arduous task to show that the “Jihad manual” was written in the 1980s. That is the period of the US-supported war against the Soviet occupation. The ricin recipe it contained was a direct translation from a 1988 US book called the Poisoner's Handbook, by Maxwell Hutchkinson.
It wasn’t just Colin Powell that was guilty of speaking with passion and conviction about issues that were totally false. Tony Blair, the British prime minister said of the ricin ring arrests (7 January 2003), “They were a stark illustration”, he said, of the dangers of “weapons of mass destruction”. He warned; “this danger is present and real and with us now and its potential is huge”. Two days before Colin Powell’s infamous UN statement, Blair reported to the British parliament, on his return from talks with President George Bush; “Iraq is not the only country posing a risk in respect of WMD. Over the past few weeks, we have seen powerful evidence of the continuing terrorist threat: the suspected ricin plot in London and Manchester...” The following weekend, the Sunday Times (UK) published a long article under the headline: "Terror On The Doorstep." This illustrates another parallel with pop music. One of the main reasons it is popular is because the media insist on telling everyone exactly how popular it is. The Sun, Britain’s most popular tabloid said of Colin Powell’s speech, Mr Powell "told how an Osama bin Laden lieutenant sheltered by Iraq was linked to the ricin poison factory found in north London and the murder of DC Stephen Oake in Manchester." Again more emotional passionate dramatic claptrap bereft of truth.
Source: KCom Journal
Popular music is filled with poor quality prose of no literary or poetic value. A typical popular song comprises of a series of meaningless, vacuous and ridiculous lyrics strung together in an incoherent fashion. What makes a song popular is the way it is sung. If the delivery has style, passion and feeling the western populace overlook its inconsequentiality. This gloss masks the pernicious issues underlying this form of artistic _expression_. There are many analogies to be drawn here with Western politics. This style over substance approach aids the dissemination of dangerous and erroneous concepts. They believe that if you argue an issue with a skilful and passionate delivery the public will buy it.
This philosophy was epitomised by Colin Powell, the former US secretary of state, in his dramatic address on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programme to the UN Security Council on 5 February 2003, five weeks before the invasion. He articulated, “every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources” He continued about a “sinister nexus between Iraq and the al-Qaida terrorist network” - a series of meaningless, vacuous and ridiculous words. Colin Powell made reference to the “ricin ring”, a citation used to support the assertion that Saddam and Osama were supporting terrorist cells in Europe. This was the incident in which there was said to be traces of ricin, a deadly poison for which there is no antidote, found in a north London flat, which was occupied by Muslim men of North African origin. Although subsequent tests by Porton Down laboratories (historically the world experts in biological warfare) found no trace of ricin on any of the equipment found in the flat, this did not stop the whole affair being used by the crusaders to gather support from the subjects that they tyrannise, in the US and UK.
On 13 April 2005 a London jury refuted yet another section of the case Colin Powell made for war with Iraq. The recent British court verdicts on five defendants, and the dropping of charges against four others, make clear there was no ricin ring. The “ricin ring” did not make any ricin, the “ricin ring” did not have any ricin, and the “ricin ring” was not actually a ring.
Colin Powell constructed a convoluted quasi-logical argument associating this “UK poison cell” (that had no poison) with training camps in Afghanistan. The basis of this discussion was that training camps in Afghanistan were the origin of the information on poisons and chemicals that were allegedly in the possession of the accused. This information covered five pages in Arabic, containing amateur instructions for making ricin, cyanide and botulinum. As well as a list of chemicals used in explosives. These scribblings were the mainstay of the court case. Kamel Bourgass, the sole convicted defendant, had made these notes. His co-defendants believed that he had copied the information from the internet. The prosecution claimed it had come from Afghanistan. It turns out that the recipes and instructions were untested and unoriginal, taken from US sources.
Ricin is not and cannot be used as a toxic agent of mass destruction. It has only ever been used for one-on-one killings and attempted killings. It is ineffective as a toxin if placed on car door handles, which was the supposed method of delivery, unless the car victim opens the doors of hundreds of cars with his or her tongue. For ricin to work effectively it must penetrate the skin. Therefore used as a means to wreak terror on London, it would be impotent. It is apparently true that when the team from Porton Down entered the North London flat in January 2003 their field equipment registered the presence of ricin. But this says more about the analytical sensitivity of the “field detectors” employed. Their equipment was prone to give false positive readings. A few days later in the laboratory, Dr Martin Pearce, head of the Biological Weapons Identification Group, found that there was no ricin. But this result was not passed to the press, or at least the headlines did not reflect this.
The UK government’s case on links to Afghanistan was based only on papers that a freelance journalist working for the Times had scooped up after the US invasion of Kabul. Some were in Arabic and some were in Russian. They were far more detailed than Bourgass's notes. Nevertheless, claimed Porton Down chemistry chief Dr Chris Timperiey, they showed a “common origin and progression” in the methods, thus linking the London group of North Africans to Afghanistan and Bin Laden.
However the trail of evidence points, not to Kabul but to California and the US Midwest. The recipes for ricin now seen on the internet were invented 20 years ago by survivalist Kurt Saxon. He advertises videos and books on the internet. When, in October 2004, the chemical lists found in London were shown to be an exact copy of pages on an internet site in Palo Alto, California, the prosecution gave up on the Kabul and al-Qaida link claims. But it seems this information was not shared with the then British home secretary, David Blunkett, who was still whipping up fear two weeks later. "Al-Qaida and the international network is seen to be, and will be demonstrated through the courts over months to come, actually on our doorstep and threatening our lives," he said on November 14 2004.
Another twist to all this was the attempt to introduce an “al- Qaida manual” into the case. The manual, called the Manual of the Afghan Jihad, had been found on a raid in Manchester, England in 2000. It was given to the FBI to produce in the 2001 New York trial for the first attack on the World Trade Centre. But it wasn't an al- Qaida manual. The US department of justice in 2001 invented the name, and the contents were rushed on to the net to aid a presentation to the Senate by the then attorney general, John Ashcroft, supporting the US Patriot Act. It is not an arduous task to show that the “Jihad manual” was written in the 1980s. That is the period of the US-supported war against the Soviet occupation. The ricin recipe it contained was a direct translation from a 1988 US book called the Poisoner's Handbook, by Maxwell Hutchkinson.
It wasn’t just Colin Powell that was guilty of speaking with passion and conviction about issues that were totally false. Tony Blair, the British prime minister said of the ricin ring arrests (7 January 2003), “They were a stark illustration”, he said, of the dangers of “weapons of mass destruction”. He warned; “this danger is present and real and with us now and its potential is huge”. Two days before Colin Powell’s infamous UN statement, Blair reported to the British parliament, on his return from talks with President George Bush; “Iraq is not the only country posing a risk in respect of WMD. Over the past few weeks, we have seen powerful evidence of the continuing terrorist threat: the suspected ricin plot in London and Manchester...” The following weekend, the Sunday Times (UK) published a long article under the headline: "Terror On The Doorstep." This illustrates another parallel with pop music. One of the main reasons it is popular is because the media insist on telling everyone exactly how popular it is. The Sun, Britain’s most popular tabloid said of Colin Powell’s speech, Mr Powell "told how an Osama bin Laden lieutenant sheltered by Iraq was linked to the ricin poison factory found in north London and the murder of DC Stephen Oake in Manchester." Again more emotional passionate dramatic claptrap bereft of truth.
Source: KCom Journal
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