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Report: UK blasts could have been prevented
Hagit Klaiman
Published: 11.05.06, 00:28
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1. British need to read a great book by Phillips LONDONISTAN
Ron ,   LA   (05.11.06)
This will explain everything... http://www.melaniephillips.com/
2. Well, the English Sociopath just being the English Sociopath
Ruslan Tokhchukov ,   Redmond, WA, USA   (05.11.06)
thinking that appeasing evil at the expense of the only democracy of the Middle East will buy him safety, just like in Munich in 1938, when he thought that he bought him "peace in his time" by betraying the only democracy of Eastern Europe and sacrificing it to Hitler.
3. Very stupid comment as it will bit them in the butt
(05.11.06)
in the future if another suicide bombing occurs
4. I second #1!
(05.11.06)
5. They have perfect 20/20 hindsight. Trust arabs? DUH!!!
Bunnie Meyer ,   Santa Monica, CA   (05.11.06)
6. BBC
Lior ,   London   (05.11.06)
Yes, and when the security services had failed, the BBC failed us again... telling us cock and bull story about "power surges" in the Underground. It was valuable minutes that allowed the remaining bomber to blow up the bus, three quarters of an hour later. Some half-hour before the bus bombing, Israeli, German and Central European radio stations were announcing the terror attacks before the BBC was diseminating this vital information to the British capital. When they did finally announce the truth, they announced every 25 seconds - I counted them - every 25 seconds that Moslem community leaders condemned the attacks. When Moslem community leaders were called to 10 Downing Street, the Moslem community didn't know who these "leaders" were and said they didn't represent the community. The BBC systematically lies to us. On this occasion, the lies cost lives.
7. # 6 Lior Don't be be be see junkie,only Fox news
Ron ,   LA   (05.11.06)
With two loonies like red Ken and Repspspect Galloway, and joker MP Komfman what left to do in Londonistan? The only sane guy in London seems to be Ali G or Borat http://stopborat.com/
8. Lior
Viveka ,   Finland   (05.11.06)
When I heard about the "power surges", my first thought was that it's probably a bomb. My guess is that I was not the only one. Even if they had found out that there was still one bomber on his way, how would they have caught him or killed him without him killing himself first and taking others with him? He was in a heavily crowded area and they didn't even know who the bomber was. Don't mean to imply you're wrong, I'm merely curious about this.
9. Every time a bomb went off BBC said "POWER SURGE IN TUBE"
Myron ,   London   (05.11.06)
10. I'll give you munich...
Lior ,   London   (05.11.06)
First, Czechoslovakia was not the only democracy in Eastern Europe. Second, Britain was trying against considerable odds - and failing - to change German foreign policy alone. I note with interest that it is an American who rather gleefully points this out. Where exactly were the Americans at the time? Joseph Kennedy, your Nazi-loving American ambassador to Britain (1937-1940) didn't exactly try to help matters, either, did he... I am getting a little sick of self-righteous, bigoted, ill-informed, historically biased and culturally ignorant Yanks telling me that Britain alone is responsible for the debacle of Munich. If America had intervened and come to the aid of her struggling and only natural ally in Europe - namely Britain - then, just perhaps, we could have helped Czechoslovakia. If America had not willfully persued a policy of isolationism, she could perhaps have stopped Hitler's reoccupation of the Rhineland in 1936. If America had not listened to the anti-Semitic rantings of its own ethnic German population, many of whom were overtly pro-Nazi, perhaps Munich could have been avoided. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. Munich took place in September 1938 and it took you until December 1941 to take up arms against the Nazi war machine. We were fighting, alone, and half-starved. You sat there, sneering at Europe, belittling British efforts against the worst tyrant the world had ever seen and then, when it went wrong, you sneered at us even more. And you're still sneering at us now. Who do you think you are, Ruslan Tokhchukov, calling us sociopaths, when America stood by and did sweet nothing? I am getting a little sick and tired of hearing American criticism of European and British anti-Americanism when all I hear coming across the Atlantic is ill-informed, anti-European and anti-British bigotry. At least we tried.. You just sat on your hands with your fingers up your heenies listening to Glen Miller and ruining your teeth on Coka Cola.
11. 10 Lior ,London: I am sure you were not around then to
Gabrielle Goldwater ,   Geneva Switzerland   (05.11.06)
Even know details - or where you ? But one thing I can tell you - it was the American boys that saved me and my family from the programmed death Nazi Berlin - it wasn't you Despite the RAF having aerial pictures of camps and rails etc. and could have bombed the rails. the RAF had the capability to reach Auschwitz with bombers. it could have saved many of us Jews RAF were under orders not to attack any sites. Sir Martin Gilbert, the great historian of the Holocaust, had described the inertia and the excuses found to do nothing despite the wish of the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, that the RAF bomb the rail lines leading to Auschwitz. A series of attacks would have sent a clear message to the Nazis that their genocide was known to the world. Britain had plenty of bombers but none were used to hit Auschwitz to try and save Jewish lives. Remember: In the 1930s, many British politicians wanted nothing to do with Europe. The Conservative prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, referred to Czechoslovakia as “ a faraway country of which we know nothing.” Papers like the Daily Mail supported Hitler and Lord Rothermere, a powerful newspaper owner, campaigned to stop asylum seekers from Nazi Germany – mainly Jews – from being allowed into Britain because of the argument used then that with a population a little over half of the British population today we were an over-crowded island. My family was one that was refused into Britain - so don't tell me nothing about the British
12. Here we go again...
Lior ,   London   (05.12.06)
Of course, of course, of course, of course, how stupid, silly, uneducated, unhinged and completely daft I am ever to have even entertained the thought that Britain might, just possibly, have had a role to play in leading the free world by example and therefore contributing to the downfall of evil. Silly me. And the sun shines out of each and every American's backside. Of course, if you were saved by the Americans, everyone was saved by the Americans - I wonder, now, why any Brits bothered to get killed at all. I would tell you plenty about the British - only you're too bloody ignorant and bigotted to listen. And I'm fed up with your prejudice. Of course, we should have done this and we should have done that and we should have done the other. Wasn't what we did enough? It was, pro-rata, a damn sight more than the Americans in fact did, in deaths, injuries, national funds... you name it. But it clearly wasn't enough for you. Well, I'm just so sorry about that, but a lot of people without your jaundiced attitude are grateful. It just proves that those who make the most efforts rarely receive recognition or the thanks. Sweden loved the Nazis, but you complain about British failures. The French capitulated and deported their Jews, but you complain about Britain. The Dutch deported their Jews, but you complain about the British. The Italians, the Hungarians, the Rumanians, the Austrians, the Serbs, the Slovakians, the Greeks, the Bulgarians, the Estonians, the Latvians, the Lithuanians - they all contributed to the Holocaust and what do you do? You criticize the British. I'm just so sorry we aren't perfect for you. It seems that you have one rule for murdering, anti-Semitic, persecuting, Jew-baiting Europeans and another for Britain. And yet another for Americans. Well, I hope it makes you happy, because it leaves me feeling sick.
13. No wonder they're understaffed
G Whittington ,   Toronto, Canada   (05.12.06)
Re: "they discovered the man conducted a thorough Internet search for explanations on how to manufacture a bomb" What a boring / compelling job to sit there and watch every Internet search by every UK resident. No wonder they're understaffed!
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