Remember this famous picture, the one the government, police and press used to demonise every brown-skinned person in the country before establishing guilt or innocence through due process?
It’s kept me awake at nights. I asked myself, could Muslims born in this country really have committed the first UK suicide bombing? Indiscriminate killing of civilians, descending to the level of the troops in Iraq? Could Muslims sink that low? Well the answer to the latter question is - there are bad people everywhere, and no creed makes you good. However, no creed makes you necessarily bad either, and that is my point.
So I lay awake. And I thought about Occam’s Razor. And I asked myself, could there be another reason why these guys are wearing camping rucksacks? I asked myself this daft question because suicide bombers tend to strap bombs to their chests. And of course, much has been made of heavy jackets. And one would not need heavy jackets to conceal bombs if the bombs were in one’s camping backpack.
Then I awoke with a start. At least two of the men, Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, had apparently been white-water rafting at Wales recently. I wondered if in fact, using Occam’s Razor, these men were pictured “happily” because they were doing exactly what four men with camping rucksacks might normally do - going camping - or some other outside activity.
Certainly, the carrier bag carried by the man second from front was strange. If you’re off to kill yourself and a bunch of Londoners, what’s the carrier bag for, lunch? Xymphora put it brilliantly - dubbing it the “Sandwich for Allah”.
Then I thought, why has no other footage, especially of Kings Cross been released? There must be hours of the stuff. We are the most CCTVd city in Europe, where is all the stuff? All this was gnawing away at me because I was almost convinced that the more recent “failed suicide bombing” (funny, most of the world can be considered a failure at suicide!) “attempts” were just a sand-in-the-eyes ploy to distract all those making headway on the 7/7 case, which we all know is impossible to put together sensibly.
The next evening, I found what I was looking for. The picture, in my opinion, and I could be wrong, is composited.
Look carefully at the following picture, which is a portion of the original blown-up 4x.
The man at the back is allegedly Mohammad Siddique Khan. Of course, positively identifying him from this shot is next to impossible. But look carefully at his head. Look at the outline of his cap. You will see a distinct black fringe. this is a give-away that the image has been extracted from another photo and pasted on.
Another give-away - look at his left arm. It disappears behind the first horizontal railing from the bottom. This is of course, physically impossible. Another point is that the top railing from the right side as we look at it is embedded into his head.. Again, clear sign of Photoshop-style messing around. These first three points were spotted by other bloggers.
I spotted a couple of other things. Like - where the fuck are his legs? You should see them somewhere in the picture. The perspective is all wrong. If you look at the man in front of him, well, “Khan’s” left leg should appear somewhere below his left elbow. None of his lower body is visible. That doesn’t make sense. Another thing that I’ll point out tomorrow is from another portion of the image.
I didn’t doctor this image. Look for the original in reliable news sources if you don’t believe me. And I urge you not to believe me. Even if I’m wrong, I don’t care, I will happily admit it, I want the truth. Let’s find it. We should unite. We mustn’t divide. What sense is there in being divided by the fascist state machinery of the press, police and parliament? They don’t work for us anymore. They work against us all. We were waking up, all of us, together. Remember how we all marched against the wrong war in Iraq, side by side? They sensed our togetherness, they sensed our power, and they didn’t like it. They are trying to divide us through terror and lies. Don’t let them win.
The image is wrong.
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PostmansKnock 07.27.05 at 12:35 am
The truth about the 7/7 bombers is that they were drug mules who had been duped. This was done over a period of time, not only in Leeds, but in Luton , and probably several other laces.
http://www.postmanpatel.blogspot.com
The lure of easy money to young men is very great, it buys cars, holidays to see the folks, Haj, £900 worth of scent for the lady friends.
All the while chaff is being thrown up to confuse the picture - even confusing pictures. Keep your eye on the main event.
This is part of what the Dear Leader said at his press conference today …
“There is only one side, it is the side of the people wanting a democracy. Yes of course that is what they want to do, what they want to do everywhere, the people who expound this terrorist ideology, they want to divide us. That is why I don’t even agree actually Michael that in the end they just want us out of Arab countries, they don’t, it is far more fundamental than that, they want a war between Islam and other religions, that is what they want, that is why they keep to referring to this as the crusader Zionist alliance and all this sort of rubbish.
And again … he is tripped up by a smart reporter…
TB “These demands of this terrorist ideology are demands, it is not that they don’t have demands, they are just none that any serious person could ever negotiate on, and that is just an end to it.”
About which he is later questioned by an unnamed reporter..
Question:
We know why you do it too, but the fact is your uncompromising language does not fit easily with the fact that political realities, real politick as you put it, of having to deal at some level with terrorists. These terrorists have real demands too. The IRA wanted us out of Ireland and a lot of these people just want us, rightly or wrongly, out of the Middle East, out of Islam, and everybody in this room knows that, except you, apparently they do, they do, many of them have negotiable demands.
Prime Minister:
No, no, I think I did say that they had negotiable demands.
Question:
No you didn’t, you said you couldn’t deal with them, they were impossible.
Read the whole thing, it is very instructive.
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page7999.asp
The lessons of Goebbels have sunk in, lie, repeat the lie and keep repeating it … like the mantra of “evil ideology” which gradually replaces the idea of the Muslim faith … about which the average newspaper reader knows zero.
Meanwhile get ready for the new wave of legislation ….more from the above
Question:
You have talked a lot about confronting the ideology and challenging the ideas which are behind terrorism, you also mentioned earlier the possibility of looking at book shops and what is on the internet. How far can you, or should you, confront those ideas beyond what is in existing law by telling people what they can and can’t buy or read?
Prime Minister:
Well there are difficulties with that, but I think that where it crosses the line to incitement I think you are entitled to try and deal with that.
The picture problem is fascinating , don’t lose sight of Tony Blairs objective (Yes. Tony Blair NOT the Gubment - he told them nothing about his deal with Dubya about bombing / invading Iraq, so why spill the beans on unleashing suicide bombers and blaming it on “the enemy within”?)
Rum pictures, phony statements, it is all part of carefully constructed campaign of disinformation. Whilst you are worrying about photoshopping, they are out there pumping 8 bullets into the head of a guy being held down after having “highly trained …the “best inthe world” marksmen having himunder observation for 29 minutes because they thought he had a bomb contructed from a 6.25 litre bucket shoved up his vest.
“Does my bomb look big in this ?” ..perhaps they expected him to be wearing the latest body vest with no VPL.
What do you do to shut the dogs up ? …throw them a bone. Don’t worry this bone too much, there will be many mnay more to come.
de 07.27.05 at 3:42 am
I suspect you are correct on that point - there will be an array of bones.
The fact that this picture (and others) were released to the public with errors in it does show a degree of contempt. Its almost as if someone is saying “we know its wrong, and we know you know its wrong, But we don’t care”
PostmansKnock 07.27.05 at 6:00 am
Go here for discussion of how the pic is just to confuse and explanation of the bar “in front” of the guy.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/podpeopletwo.html
Shahid 07.27.05 at 8:23 am
Yes - the bar in front of the arm is explained. Fair enough. Now, we just have to explain the bar going through this head, and the black outline around his cap, and his missing legs.
Essentially though postmansknock, you’re right, we should focus on the main issues. I am still asking the questions - why no footage from Kings Cross? Why was this the only released picture?
The drug mules story is an interesting one, but it’s still conjecture and I don’t want to go down that road any more than the official line of suicide bombing,
Shahid 07.27.05 at 8:29 am
To postmansknock - I think you can see that photoshopping is not the only thing I’m worried about.
To everybody else - postmanpatel is a great blog and I highly recommend it - you don’t need the www at the start though, the following should suffice:
http://postmanpatel.blogspot.com
Stef 07.27.05 at 8:34 pm
I agree
I’ve just been through a little todo on another blog that’s banged-on about the suspect Luton picture.
It IS a red herring whether it’s been Shopped on not. No-one who currently believes the ‘official story’ is going to be swayed by this. It is a curiousity, no more.
What we should all be doing is screaming for the missing footage - from 7/7, from 21/7 and from Stockwell where that poor bloke was shot
Shahid - you’re totally right in not following other theories. If you take one to heart and it’s disproved where would that leave you? There’s more than enough hard evidence of deception out there without having to resort to conjecture