"More Propaganda Than Plot" - Former British Ambassador on Alleged UK Terror Plot

wexford | rights, freedoms and repression | other press Sunday August 20, 2006 22:40 by Michael K. - IAWM

"The timing of the arrests has been deeply political and should be viewed with skepticism"

"There’s, as you've reported, no sign that the people had plane tickets. It's very difficult to bomb a plane without a plane ticket, no sign that they’d actually made any bombs yet. And the evidence is that these people had been under surveillance for quite a long time by the British Security Services, who hadn't seen any need of the early arrests ...

And then a combination of some new intelligence coming out of Pakistan, which it seems very likely was got under torture -- it was certainly got by interrogation by Pakistani intelligence services -- and pressure from United States officials has led to this, to the arrests, still nobody charged, and the most enormous political propaganda being made of the case".

(full Democracy Now interview with Craig Murray available on link)