Ooh, a new conspiracy! Daddy like!

Apparently, there are grumblings that the Israelis had advance knowledge of the London bombings! Justin Raimondo of antiwar.com takes a look at things:

In denying widespread reports that Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a warning of the London terrorist attacks "minutes before" they occurred, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom claims that "After the first explosion, our finance minister received a request not to go anywhere."

The problem with this explanation is that it was only after the third explosion that London police realized they were in the midst of a terrorist attack. Up until that point, authorities thought they were dealing with a series of accidents caused by a power surge...

...If Netanyahu was told a terrorist attack was underway after the first explosion -- which everyone, including the police, thought was due to a power surge -- then that's a lot more than the victims of the subsequent explosions were told as they rode the Tube to their doom. Which means the Foreign Minister's explanation -- Netanyahu was told to stay in his hotel room after the first explosion, rather than show up at the Israeli economic conference at a hotel near Liverpool station -- is entirely consistent with the claim that he was tipped off to what was really going on, while the rest of the city stumbled into disaster and, in some cases, death.

Interesting - read more here.

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Written on Friday, July 08, 2005