UK Government Plays Fear Card To Trump Blair Scandals
Beheading scam, bird flu and letter bomb take headlines to disguise cash for peerages criminality

Prison Planet | February 5, 2007
Paul Joseph Watson

By an amazing coincidence, a criminal inquiry into a cash for peerages scandal in Britain that last week threatened to cost Tony Blair his premiership, was immediately followed by a number of scary scenarios involving terrorism and bird flu, stealing the headlines and sparing Blair's blushes.

We should not seriously consider for a second that Blair's government had anything to do with a quick fire series of fear-laden stories that amply terrified the British public enough to distract from the Prime Minister's troubles and remind them who the bosses are, especially as every single other major terror alert has not in any way been a lurid manifestation of Downing Street, expedited at the most politically opportune moment to frighten the population into acquiescence.

The senior policeman leading the investigation into an alleged plot to behead a Muslim British soldier believes the inquiry has been "hijacked" by the Government," reports the Daily Mail . "Assistant Chief Constable David Shaw was "seething" when he discovered Whitehall officials leaked sensitive details of Operation Gamble to the media in an apparent attempt to divert attention from the problems engulfing Tony Blair."

Within days of it being reported that fanatical Muslims were running around planning to chop people's heads off, a story that hit the headlines within hours of Blair being questioned by police for a second time over the cash for peerages scandal, the credibility of the alleged plot is already starting to crumble and its carefully timed release exposed as a cynical ploy on behalf of the government.

According to t he Times newspaper, the plot was uncovered by MI5 last Autumn, meaning the government sat on it for six months before choosing to leak it to the media at this particular time.

Mirroring other similar cases, such as the laughable Toronto conspiracy to storm the Canadian parliament and behead Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the Birmingham "plot" was a police entrapment operation , the main smoking gun that initiated the arrests being the shocking development of one of the suspects buying a video camera from an electronics store.

Why the story would be leaked to the media, alerting the suspects still at large and possibly endangering the security service moles that had supposedly penetrated the group, is another indicator that the whole scenario is a half-baked farce.

"At one point, to the bewilderment of senior officers, details of the operation were being broadcast while one of the suspects had still to be found," reports the Mail, adding that police chiefs seethed while the Blair government gleefully hyped the lurid details to a transfixed British public.

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