The London Bombings of July 7th, 2005
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Consequences after the bombing
Even as the bodies were pulled from the wreckage of the bombing sites, authorities were already beginning to spin.
Remember when they called the suicide bombers’ work one of clean skins, people who were unknown to the police? In fact, at least one of them was under surveillance.
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A month after
A month after the bombing, Tony Blair summoned the British Press to Downing Street on August 5th, 2005 to announce his great plan to fight extremism and terror.
“Time and again, over the past few weeks, I’ve been asked to deal firmly with those prepared to engage in such extremism.”
There’s 12 major initiatives announced at that conference to taint the terrorist threat
“Let there be any doubt that the rules of the game are changing.”
This was a way to divert from his other problems.
A drafted anti-terror bill was already in the works. A few days after the London Bombings, the Home Secretary took the extremely unusual step of inviting members of the opposition parties to seek agreement by working with him.
Mark Oaten, |