Four Warned
‘AFTER more than a week of unity, finally there was a split in the consensus as the papers began to go their separate ways.
The Royal Institute of International Affairs had looked into why terrorists do what they do and written a report which led the Mail to conclude on Monday: IRAQ WAR MADE BRITAIN TERROR TARGET.
The Institute, a group with a lower profile than a ping-pong ball, although the Mail saw it as Britains most authoritative thinktank, said invading Iraq upset Islamic fundamentalists and people who hate the West. Controversial just wasnt in it.
But there was something bigger. In the Sun, Jude Law, the nice family man with the nice manners, the nice eyes and the nice looking girlfriend, was a cheating rat who had slept with his kids nanny.
Nanny Daisy Wright, the woman with whom Jude had cheated on his fiancée, Sienna Miller, said the actor had made her body tingle during sex. He had been a masterful lover.
By Tuesday things were getting worse for randy Jude as shy and retiring Daisy told us how hed begged her for three-in-a-bed sex.
It was all too terrible, and a source close to the actor put things in perspective when they said Jude felt like the most hated man in Britain.
Though we universally loathed Law for daring to cheat on the blonde Miller, there were others who demanded to be despised.
There was Omar Bakri Mohammed, who spouted the opinion that Britons are all to blame for the terrorist atrocity in London. I blame the British government, said the Syrian-born polemicist, and I blame the British people.
And while Bakri claimed his benefits from social security and ranted about this and that, we noticed Anjem Choudary, the British leader of militant Islamic group al-Muhajiroun.
The British want to show they are on the side of justice and truth, said he, whereas in reality the real terrorists are the British regime, and even the British police.
And, of course there was Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, who said that decades of intervention in the Middle East and the Iraq war could have influenced the terrorists. I suspect the real problem was that we funded these people as long as they were killing Russians, said Ken. We gave no thought to the fact that when they stopped killing Russians they might start killing us.
Law may have been the most hated man in the country on Monday, but he was rapidly slipping down the league table as the week went on.
And on Friday, the competition to be hated was joined by four would-be mass murderers.
In London, passengers on three Tube trains and a bus escaped with their lives because their would-be killers bombs failed to detonate properly.
So much for the Islamic extremists being highly skilled bomb makers; these terrorists were unable to even injure themselves.
And so rather than being cowed we began to think. Perhaps the authorities had already apprehended the master bomb maker, so leaving his stack of Mother of Satan explosives in the hands of someone not up to the task.
Perhaps, to borrow the invective of the Islamic extremists, God was not on their side after all and in His infinite wisdom had put the mockers on his enemies plan to maim and murder.
In fleeing the scene, these idiotic, narcissistic, wicked terrorists had left clues, invaluable in the fight against terrorism. And so on…
The papers didnt know what to make of it. But undeterred by any lack of facts, they gamely filled page upon page with tales of bombers on the loose and killers in our midst, all interlaced with lines about how we are not afraid.
But if the terrorists intent is to create fear, can we really say we are beating them? The terrorists have no chance of winning in any war. But we can still lose.
But things change fast. The fight back began on a Tube train at Londons Stockwell station when a suspect was chased onto a train and shot dead.
Although the killed man was innocent, a Brazilian electrician, the message was unequivocal and deadly.
Which leads us to the question: who should be afraid – a rich country of millions backed by powerful allies, with a trained military and a ruthless armed police force that shoots to kill, or a few suggestible, none-too-bright, gene pool non-swimmers with low self esteem..?’
Posted: 25th, July 2005 | In: Broadsheets Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
