De
Britse geheime diensten zijn blij met het Coronavirus, zo kon men de
enorme blunders verbergen die tot de bomaanslag in de Manchester
Arena hebben geleid…. De verantwoordelijke terreurgroep Libyan Islamic
Fighting Group (LIFG) is een aantal jaren gesteund door de Britse
geheieme dienst, daar deze terreurgroep Khadaffi omver wilde werpen…… Na een
mislukte aanslag vluchtten een aantal LIFG leden naar
Groot-Brittannië waar ze asiel kregen…… De leden werd geen
strobreed in de weg gelegd als zij naar het buitenland afreisden en
uiteraard als ze terugkeerden….
Overigens blijkt uit gelekte documenten van MI6 dat deze dienst al in 1996 vergevorderde plannen had om Khadaffi, de voormalige president van Libië, middels een staatsgreep af te zetten….. Khadaffi dezelfde man die van Libie het rijkste land van Afrika maakte, waar studie en scholing (voor jongens en meisjes), huisvesting, gezondheidszorg en energie praktisch gratis waren…… Na ingrijpen van de VS en haar NAVO-partners beleef een land achter dat in puin lag en dat nu tot de armste landen van Afrika behoort, een land waar chaos en terreur heersen (met toestemming van het western) en waar zelfs openlijk slavenmarkten worden gehouden….. Ofwel: het zoveelste waanzinnige ‘succes’ van grootschalige westerse terreur!!!
De bomaanslag in Manchester was een grote misser van de geheime diensten MI5 en MI6, zoals die er al een fiks aantal op hun conto hebben, terwijl deze diensten (ook andere geheime diensten zoals ‘onze’ AIVD en MIVD) na elke
‘islamitische aanslag’ meer geld en bevoegdheden eisen en dat meestal
krijgen, i.p.v. deze diensten eens tegen het licht te houden om de efficiëntie te onderzoeken……
Na elke
aanslag in EU lidstaten, maar ook in de VS, blijkt dat geheime
diensten deze hadden kunnen voorkomen, was men meer alert geweest en
men bepaalde figuren beter in de gaten had gehouden……
Terzijde: opvallend
dat de Nederlandse geheime diensten al in 2016 hebben gewaarschuwd
voor een tekort aan IC bedden en beademingsapparatuur mocht er een pandemie uitbreken, iets waar Rutte 2 noch Rutte 3 iets mee hebben gedaan. Echter als het gaat om
aanslagen laten ook ‘onze geheime diensten’ (zoals gezegd) het afweten in het
voorkomen daarvan……
Het
volgende artikel werd geschreven door Tom Coburg en werd op theCanary gepubliceerd:
The
shocking story ‘lost’ in the coronavirus crisis that MI5 and MI6
would prefer you didn’t see
Tom
Coburg 6th April 2020
On 17 March 2020,
Hashem Abedi was convicted
of the murder
of 22 people at the Manchester Arena. They died as a result of a
bombing carried out by his brother, Salman Abedi, who died at the
scene. Hashem Abedi was found
guilty of aiding his brother in this heinous act, which also saw
237 people injured.
Following the trial,
the corporate media rightly focused on the coronavirus (Covid-19)
outbreak. Perhaps this explained why there was little mention in the
press of how MI5 failed to monitor Libyan jihadists properly in the
part of Manchester where the Abedis lived; or of how MI6 may have
helped radicalise the jihadist group that the Abedi brothers, via
their father, were linked to.
‘Blowback’
Journalists Mark
Curtis and Nafeez Ahmed previously argued
that the Manchester bombing was “blowback” for UK foreign policy
and intelligence operations in Libya, saying:
While a
number of factors operate to contribute to an individual’s
radicalisation, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that one of
these contributory factors is British direct and covert action in
Iraq, Libya and Syria. Without these actions – by Britain and its
close allies – it is conceivable that [Salman] Abedi might well not
have had the opportunity to become radicalised in the way he did.
MI6 was responsible
for covert action in Libya. Monitoring of exiled Libyans in Britain
was down to MI5.
MI5
and the LIFG
In the wake of terror
attacks in London and Manchester, a former senior policy adviser to
David Cameron commented
on how Theresa May should accept responsibility, tweeting:
Theresa May responsible for security failures of London Bridge, Manchester, Westminster Bridge. Should be resigning not seeking re-election
Indeed, under May’s
watch there was an apparent catalogue
of failures by both MI5 and the police to follow through on
warnings and intelligence.
As RT
previously reported:
An
official report into the attack, conducted by David Anderson QC,
noted that: “On
two separate occasions in the months prior to the attack,
intelligence was received by MI5 whose significance was not fully
appreciated at the time. It was assessed at the time not to be
[related to] terrorism but to possible non-nefarious activity or to
criminality on the part of Salman Abedi.
“In
retrospect, the intelligence can be seen to have been highly relevant
to the planned attack.”
In particular, it was
under May that MI5 reportedly
conducted an ‘open door’ policy for the Manchester-based LIFG
(Libyan
Islamic Fighting Group). One LIFG fighter told
Middle
East Eye that
MI5 had inspected but returned their passports and that
counter-terrorism police at Heathrow Airport were told to let them
board their flights. As for Salman Abedi, Middle
East Eye
reported
that:
after his
father returned to Libya in 2011 to fight for LIFG, Abedi reportedly
travelled back and forth between his home and Manchester and Tripoli,
and fought alongside
his father during the school holidays.
MI6
and regime change
As the Guardian
reported, many LIFG members had escaped
Libya and arrived in the UK after a plot to assassinate Libyan leader
Muammar Gaddafi failed:
When that
plot – which some claim was backed by MI6 – failed, the LIFG was
pursued by Gaddafi’s security forces. A large number fled to the
UK, where they were granted asylum on the grounds that as opponents
of Gaddafi “our enemy’s enemy is our friend”, and many went to
Birmingham and Manchester – home to established Arab communities
that had found work in the cities’ engineering industries.
A leaked top-secret CX
(MI6) document – with the title LIBYA:
PLANS TO OVERTHROW QADAHFI IN EARLY 1996 ARE WELL ADVANCED
– shows details of that plot. According to the document, an agent
referred to as ‘Tunworth’ admitted contacts between the
assassination plotters and extremists. They were described as “Libya
veterans who served in Afghanistan”, i.e. people with connections
to groups like al-Qaeda. Explanatory notes
to that document suggest that the permanent under secretary’s
department, GCHQ, MI5, the Ministry of Defence, and MI6 stations in
Tunis, Cairo, and Washington all knew of the assassination attempt in
advance.
As Mark Curtis
observed:
The plot went
ahead in February 1996 in Sirte, Qadafi’s home city, but a bomb was
detonated under the wrong car. Six innocent bystanders were killed,
and Qadafi escaped unscathed.
MI6 also played a
pivotal
role in the alleged rendition
of LIFG leader Abdel
Hakim Belhaj, who was subsequently tortured
by Libyan intelligence. Several incriminating documents
retrieved
by Human Rights Watch showed the extent to which MI6 head Mark Allen
personally intervened and assisted the Libyan authorities in the
matter.
Blowback
revisited
Libya is currently one
of the most unstable
countries in north Africa. There are now reports
of Syrian jihadists allied to Turkey providing support to the
Tripoli-based government of national accord.
Covert intelligence
operations can lead to unforeseen results, and it’s impossible to
predict how events would have panned out had Britain not interfered
in the geo-politics of that region. But while politicians who oversaw
those operations appear to have emerged relatively unscathed, the
same can’t be said for the ordinary folk who merely wanted to
attend an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena.
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