***Bukan begitu. Kalo London tidak di bom, Inggris harus keluar dari
Basrah, kena omelan Gedung Putih.
***Sama ceritanya dengan 9/11, yang melegalisir AS menduduki Irak,
mengamankan supply of oil untuk AS.
London could have averted July 7 bombings: Saudi King
Tue, Oct 30, 2007
The Straits Times
LONDON - SAUDI Arabia's King Abdullah yesterday accused Britain of
failing to act on information from Riyadh that might have averted
London's July 7, 2005 suicide bombings.
King Abdullah told the BBC, hours before arriving in London for a
state visit, that Britain was not doing enough in the war on terror.
'I believe that most countries are not taking this issue too
seriously, including, unfortunately, Great Britain,' he said through
a translator.
'We sent information to Great Britain before the terrorist attacks
in Britain, but unfortunately no action was taken, and it may have
been able to avert the tragedy.'
Months before the attack in which four suicide bombers killed 52
people and wounded hundreds on London's transit network, Riyadh told
the British and US governments that it had arrested a young Saudi
man who confessed to raising money for a terrorist attack in crowded
areas of the British capital, officials told The Associated Press.
The Saudis had obtained information that the attack would involve
explosives and a Syrian contact for financing, and that at least
some of the four attackers would be British citizens, according to
officials in several countries with direct access to the
information, the officials said.
They also said that the investigation had not connected any players
from the July 2005 attacks to the original Saudi warning and that
the information provided in December 2004 did not provide attackers'
names, a date, specific location or time of attack.
But they said the information gleaned from the suspect after he was
captured returning to Saudi Arabia was detailed enough to heighten
British concerns about the possibility of an attack around July 2005
in crowded sections of London, including nightclubs.
The bombings were Britain's most devastating peacetime attack.
Following the King's comments, a spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon
Brown told Reuters that no warnings were received before the
attacks.
'We made it very clear at the time that no specific warnings were
received from any source,' he said. 'We do have a very close
intelligence relationship with the Saudis and cooperation on counter-
terrorism is generally very good. We just happen to disagree on
this point.'
King Abdullah's three-day state visit has prompted protests in
Britain from critics of the Saudi government's human rights record.
Protesters are due to stage a human rights demonstration outside the
Saudi Embassy in London tomorrow, supported by figures including
senior ruling Labour party lawmaker John McDonnell.
'The British people will be aghast at the government entertaining on
a state visit one of the most prominent anti- democratic and human
rights abusing leaders in the world,' he said.
A separate statement yesterday said Foreign Minister David Miliband
would be unable to attend a conference alongside his Saudi
counterpart Prince Saud al-Faisal.
He would be on leave after adopting a child, his office said,
without giving details.
Mr Miliband, whose violinist wife Louise is an American citizen,
adopted a boy named Jacob, his office said.
A Foreign Office spokesman denied that the cancellation was a snub
to the Saudis prompted by the King's comments on terrorism.
Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells replaced Mr Miliband, but
officials said the Prince had also decided not to attend the
scheduled meeting.
The King is also set to visit Italy, Germany and Turkey after
Britain.
ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
http://news.asiaone.com/News/The%2BStraits%
2BTimes/Story/A1Story20071030-32975.html
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