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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (264817)	6/17/2002 8:54:12 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

BRITAIN DOUBTS: A dirty bomb from Pakistan? Or a dirty trick from Washington? news.independent.co.uk <Copy> A dirty bomb from Pakistan? Or a dirty trick from Washington? Just as the heat was building on the CIA and FBI over failures of intelligence-gathering, up popped a brand new suspect. Rupert Cornwell smells a rat 16 June 2002 Internal links A dirty bomb from Pakistan? Or a dirty trick from Washington? Radiological attack: 'Manhattan would be uninhabitable for years' It sure sent a jolt through the United States. Yet last week's much ballyhooed arrest of the "dirty bomb" suspect Jose Padilla now seems, like other developments in the "war against terror", to have been a political device of the Bush administration – designed to distract attention from US intelligence failures and solidify support behind President Bush. For who, exactly, is Mr Padilla, aka Abdullah al-Muhajir? Is he a highly trained al-Qa'ida operative who was about to explode a radioactive "dirty" bomb in Washington DC, as the US attorney general, John Ashcroft, would have us believe? Or a Chicago street punk of no great danger to anyone? With each passing day, the latter looks more likely. No plot and no accomplices have been discovered, despite Mr Padilla having been in detention for more than a month before his existence was revealed to the nation, which duly panicked. As the New York Times said on Thursday, quoting some of those unnamed "US officials" who abound in the nation's press, he was "an unlikely terrorist, a low-level gang member with no technical knowledge of nuclear materials who was arrested long before he represented a significant terrorist threat". And why, if it was as important as Mr Ashcroft claimed, was his arrest kept secret for five weeks – only for the attorney general to reveal it while in Moscow of all places? <Continues........> """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" The Pinocchio Nose on this Administration is obvious to just about the whole world. Ciao!