TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Thursday, November 27, 2003

Gordon Thomas writes:

It has emerged two intelligence warnings were ignored that the British Consul and the HSBC Bank in Istanbul were prime Al Qaeda targets. The warnings came from the CIA and Mossad. . . .

President Bush was in London when the Istanbul attacks happened. He . . . immediately ordered Americans to be once more warned they are facing an unprecedented security threat.

Over 50 people died and 700 were injured, many seriously, in the Istanbul truck bombings.

Both targets had been identified by the CIA and Mossad – as “soft targets” and in need of “urgent protection upgrading”.

Their first warnings had been passed on to MI6 last May.

The second warning came only a week ago after suicide bombers partly destroyed two Istanbul synagogues.

British Consul-General Robert Short was working on a security review for MI6 when he died in the bombing.

His report was due to be in the hands of MI6 chief Richard Dearlove this week.

So sensitive were its contents that Short had asked his personal assistant, Lisa Hallworth, 38, to personally encrypt it after typing the document. She also died in the blast.

They were together in Short’s temporary office on the first floor of the consulate gatehouse when the car bomber – in a green van bearing the logo of a local food catering company – detonated his 500-pound bomb only yards from them. . . .

Short, fluent Turkish speaker, he had developed good connections with Turkish intelligence, MIT.

Was there a more sinister reason for the failure of Turkish intelligence to anticipate the attacks virtually on the doorstep of its own headquarters?

Mossad analysts have told me that help may have come from Absar al-Islam. It has links with a shadowy group called Great Islamic Raiders of the Orient (IBDA-C). Backed by Iran, this group is violently anti-Christian.

Washington ordered its own consulate in the city to relocate to the suburbs. A team of US security experts quickly turned the building into a secure fortress, bristling with bomb-proof windows and a range of sophisticated electronic defences to warn of and repel any attack. All approaches were heavily guarded.

But the British consulate – two buildings and a gate lodge – was not similarly protected. Its entrance was directly on the road and, though guarded, its metal gate offered only token resistance to a truck bomber.

The main buildings were being renovated.

With the Bush visit to London already about to begin, last Tuesday Mossad passed on details to the MI6 officer at the British embassy in Ankara.

TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS: There is some interesting info in this piece. But Gordon Thomas, who comes from a family with deep connections to British intelligence, buries it in propaganda about bin Laden, Al Qaeda and a conflict between the West and Islam. he also naturally spins the anomalies as mistakes.

But the two key points in the article is that a) The British had foreknowledge of the attacks and B) The British consulate was under information about the renovation. Such construction is ideal for false-flag operations, as thexplosives can be strategically planted and problem employees placed in death zones in preparation for the 'terrorist' attack. So here we have a man writing a report on the previous week's synagogue attacks - which had some hallmarks of a Mossad false-flag operation -- being taken out at a sublimely convenient time for the UK government -- during the Bush state visit.

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