{"id":1550,"date":"2006-08-15T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/2006\/08\/pretty-good-take-on-bomb-scare.html"},"modified":"2006-08-15T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T17:21:00","slug":"pretty-good-take-on-bomb-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1550","title":{"rendered":"A pretty good take on the bomb scare&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"style1\">As spoken by  Britain&#8217;s outspoken Ex- Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Craig_murray\">Craig Murray<\/a>:-<\/p>\n<p><\/span><i>&#8220;None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane<br \/>ticket. Many did not even have passports, which given the efficiency of<br \/>the UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn&#8217;t be a plane bomber for<br \/>quite some time.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>To me the whole episode smells and not of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TATP\">Acetone<\/a> either, given that it all happened within 36hours of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/tm_objectid=17544947&amp;method=full&amp;siteid=94762&amp;headline=where-s-blair---name_page.html\">Tony leaving the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Craig says about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Reid_%28UK_politician%29\">John Reid<\/a>, Home Secretary  <i>&#8220;A hardened Stalinist with a long term reputation for personal<br \/>violence, at Stirling Univeristy he was the Communist Party&#8217;s<br \/>&#8220;Enforcer&#8221;,&#8230;..Reid was sent to beat up those who deviated from the Party line&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>As Craig ends<br \/>&#8211; <i>Be sceptical.  Be very, very sceptical<\/i>. and I most surely am.<\/p>\n<p>More on it inplausibility <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/on_the_implausi.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As spoken by Britain&#8217;s outspoken Ex- Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan, Craig Murray:- &#8220;None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a planeticket. Many did not even have passports, which given the efficiency ofthe UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn&#8217;t be a plane bomber forquite some time.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}