Revealed: militants plotted Iraq anniversary rebellion in London

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A secret meeting of senior Islamic activists held in London last month took the decision to “stir the the Iraqi Shiite resistance” against the US-British led occupation of Iraq which led to the major escalation of hostilities over the last week to coincide with the first anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.

Delegates with affiliations to militant Islamic groups from across the Middle East, including many that are banned as terrorist organisations, travelled from all over Europe for the confidential closed-door sessions at various Islamic centres in central London.

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According to an Arab source in Paris, among them were representatives of active terrorist organisations, like Lebanese Hezbollah, and some figures close to firebrand young Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr who is behind the current uprising in Iraq and now hunted by the US authorities in Iraq as an “outlaw and fugitive from justice”.

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It is highly unlikely that such a gathering would have gone unnoticed and unsupervised by Britain’s intelligence agencies. That points to both the UK and US governments being aware in advance of the timing for a potential escalation in violence – now being seen in Iraq.


more: http://www.sundayherald.com/41237


This is a very damning article-- worth a careful read.

[Devils Advocate NZ]

1. Uh.. Ok...

So the guys who are organising an uprising against the British and Americans held their meeting in London?

Why? Why not hold it in a more friendly locale? Why risk exposure by going into the lair of the beast, so to speak?

It's kind of like saying senior Al Qaeda leaders held a meeting in Washington to discuss tactics to be used in Afghanistan. I mean, just how cocky would that be?

Something just doesn't seem right about this article...

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5. Yes, it is definitely bizarre and counter-intuitive

The paper is going out on a limb to publish a shocking expose of how the US and UK governments let this meeting happen and knew about the insurrection in advance. Did the meeting really happen? Did the intelligence services really know about it? If it's all true, why is this coming out in an obscure Scottish weekly owned by Gannett?

Any way you look at it, it's pretty strange.

[leftchick]

2. Often when I see the word "Revealed" in a headline I think...

Bull shit... Who owns the Sunday herald? anyone?

[kalian]

3. Rupert Murdoch....am I right?

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4. It's owned by Newsquest, a division of Gannett

link:
http://www.newsquest.co.uk/links.html

[Voltaire99]

6. Anything to avoid the obvious conclusion, eh?

Why, at this late date, would anyone still fall for the myths issued by the powers that have created this debacle in Iraq?

The Iraq resistance wants to throw out the despised colonial occupiers. The sooner that fact is faced, the sooner we can have peace.

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7. On the contrary, I agree with that conclusion

"The Iraq resistance wants to throw out the despised colonial occupiers."
No kidding. The question is whether the resistance is being orchestrated by the various "powers" to keep it under some semblance of control.

[ScrewyRabbit]

8. I'm not so sure

Sounds to me like they want everyone to believe that this thing is being organized by outsiders, hence it's not an indigenous uprising, hence it's part of the larger (so-called) war on terror.

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9. But if that's so,

why is this newspaper implicating US and UK intelligence? That sure doesn't look good. Even the suggestion of government complicity is bound to get people angry... if this is some kind of official disinfo tactic, why would they do that?

If the article is in fact true, it makes a lot more sense to me that the US and UK were helping organize a 'planned' insurrection to let off steam, kind of like a controlled crash landing. Of course, nobody wants to believe that, but nobody wants to believe in LIHOP or MIHOP either...