Bomb suspects 'had been arrested before'

[Frederik]

Well, someone is lying...

Daily Mail (UK):

Some of the suspected suicide bombers who attacked London last week had been arrested in 2004 but freed in a bid to catch a wider network, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has claimed.
"It seems that part of this team had been subject to partial arrest... in Spring 2004," Sarkozy told a news conference, reportedly quoting what British Home Secretary Charles Clarke had told an emergency meeting of EU justice and home affairs ministers.

But Mr Clarke has strenuously denied the claims.

"I've not even talked to Mr Sarkosy about this matter. I find it amazing. I simply don't understand where he's said that from. He's simply wrong in that assertion."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=355717&in_page_id=1770

[LibertyorDeath]

1. So the French Interior Minister is lying about what the

British Home Secretary said or it's the other way around either way this whole thing stinks.

[Kelvin Mace]

2. Might explain why Blair doesn't want an outside investigation

into the bombings.

[LibertyorDeath]

8. They don't want an investigation into anything that occurs on their watch

You think they'd want to get to the bottom of it No stone unturned & all that.

Blair thinks an inquiry into the bombing would be "ludicrous".

[Minstrel Boy]

3. "Round up the usual suspects"

[Frederik]

4. Remember that it was the French who leaked

the meeting between Bin Laden and the CIA station chief in Dubai in July 2001 after 9/11, a crucial little piece of information to indicate that all was not what it seemed.

[LibertyorDeath]

9. Good point thanks for the reminder.

[leesa]

13. No freedom fries for you young man (or woman)!

[Monkie]

5. the friends of the suspects that have been interviewed on the BBC

all tell the same story of well adjusted,well educated friendly boys who were into sports and one man who was a youth worker who was looked up to in the community and has left behind a 8 month old baby and a wife.
not your typical crazed jihadi's
That doesnt include the 4th bomber who's name hasnt been released.

[LibertyorDeath]

10. That's one hell of a blog you have

"the usual suspects"

[leesa]

12. Sorry, didn't see your post. My thoughts EXACTLY.

This was a Neocon job, without a doubt.

[fedsron2us]

6. This suggest a massive intelligence failure.

According to the BBC, Sarkosky sourced his claims from information given by his own security agency not discussions with Clarke. It appears that, on the eve of the G8 summit, the British government was more concerned with devoting huge amounts of security resources to controlling disruptive but essentially harmless anti-globalist demonstrators in Scotland than with protecting their general populace. Blair's government has more than a little explaining to do.

edit for link - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4680155.stm

[FreeStateDemocrat]

7. It requires massive security resources to protect an idiot on a bike

[IndianaGreen]

14. This is why Blair opposes an inquiry into the intelligence

that permitted the bombing to occur. Here is more:

In the London bombings, too, a number of questions have emerged. (See “Unanswered questions in London bombings”.)

* Why was Britain’s threat level not raised in advance of the G8 summit of major industrial nations held last week at Gleneagles, near Edinburgh?

* Are reports that the Israeli embassy was informed of the bombings beforehand true?

* Did Israel’s security service Mossad warn MI5 of a possible attack, as has been suggested by Stratfor?

In the past two days, more questions have been raised that demand answers. Not least is the fact that military explosives appear to have been used, according to Superintendent Christophe Chaboud, the chief of the French anti-terrorist police, who is working with Scotland Yard. Who would have access to such explosives?

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/lond-j13.shtml

[fedsron2us]

15. "Who would have access to such explosives?"

A key point and a question I have raised elsewhere

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1622881&mesg_id=1624152

[leesa]

11. "Round up the usual suspects"

A surprise? Not!