What Did Britain Know About 911?

[TRUTH]

One of the many perplexing things about the events that unfolded on the day of September 11 last year was the rapid speed at which British Prime Minister Tony Blair drew his own conclusions about the nature of the attacks. His all but his instant offering of completely unqualified support for the Bush administration was remarkable.

For some it seemed that a more reassuring approach would have been to allow a delay of a day or two to receive Foreign Office and intelligence briefings - in order to fully consider what was believed to have happened, who was behind it, and what should be the appropriate response.

One eminent foreign policy expert warned the next day that Britain's immediate pledge to stand 'shoulder to shoulder' with America in the aftermath of the attacks could have far-reaching implications for foreign relations. Professor Bulmer-Thomas, Director of London's Royal Institute of International Affairs, told the BBC 12 September that the consequences of offering such strong support for potential US retaliation could not be accurately gauged at such an early stage: "The danger is they do it far too early, before the facts are in."

By contrast, however, Blair gave the impression of being a man who did not need any briefings. Was this because, unbeknown to the rest of us, Blair already knew in advance exactly what the score was?

http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/WATbritain911.htm

[Ally]

A massive UK military 'exercise' was being held in the weeks prior to 911, was a handy pitstop to launch the invasion of Afghanistan over the coming months.

"Preparations are currently under way for one of the largest ever British military exercises in the Gulf"


A strong naval force is also already on its way to the Gulf region - some 24 surface ships in all, together with two submarines.
Among the vessels are the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious, with both Navy Sea Harriers and RAF Harrier GR7s on board, the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean and the assault ship HMS Fearless.
Royal Marines from 3 Commando Brigade will be staging landings on the Omani coast and over 30 combat aircraft are also due to take part in the exercise, which extends through to October.

[SHERITON HOTEL]

We've had no comment from our 'dear leader' about the fact the FBI have no hard evidence to link Osama Bin Ladin with the events of 9/11.As we all know, he was flitting round the globe, like Bush's foreign secretary, telling any world leader who'd listen to him that he had 'smoking gun' intelligence(snigger) that proved OBL was guilty of planning and ordering the attacks.

He's gotten his 'thingy caught in his flies' so many times by slavishly toeing the Washington line, you'd think he'd learn WMD, Saddam400K plus mass graves...etc.

[Ally]

Saif Sareea is a massive exercise involving 23,000 British military personnel and 14,000 Omanies.
It has been years in the planning, but no one could have predicted that the recent terrorist attacks would make it so important.

see also
Saif Sareea

The presence of such a large military force in the Middle East gave United Kingdom and United States commanders important assets for conducting the war against the Taliban government in Afghanistan, the UK contribution to which was known as Operation Veritas.

[bratcat808]

[IronSnot]

I suspect other governments were also involved but as for the British, I'm absloutely certain they were. Whether this was at the Blair level (not the highest office in the land) I'm not sure. But if it wasn't then he's remiss in not making sure he was appraised of it. So he's either complicit or not good at this job.

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[Wokeman]

A "put" option is a leveraged bet that a stock price is going to fall precipitously (a "call" option is the opposite bet). One option covers 100 shares of a given stock and usually has an expiry date of four months. For a very small investment — sometimes a dollar a share — a speculator can purchase the right to sell a stock at a fixed price during the contract period even though he doesn't have to own the stock when the option is placed. So if one were to place a put option contract on American Airlines at $30 per share and the stock fell to $18 a share a few days or a few weeks later, one could go out and purchase one hundred shares at $18 and sell them immediately at $30 per share netting a $12 profit per share or $1,200. This is what happened on a far larger scale and with many companies around the world on 9/11.

Insider trading, or suspicious trades indicating possible 9/11 foreknowledge, were reported in the USA, Germany, BRITAIN, Canada, Japan, (8 times above normal level on the Osaka exchange) Switzerland, Hong Kong, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and Singapore. Official investigations were announced in eight of those countries. Details of international trades have not been disclosed, but shares of American companies are routinely purchased through foreign exchanges.
Mike Ruppet, quoted in CROSSING THE RUBICON

According to Cleveland Plain Dealer's Jonathan Schrader:
While trading fluctuations happen all the time for no apparent reason, it seems there's certainly something here. It's interesting that they thought they could get away with it.
Back to Mike Ruppert: Indeed, no one could hope to get away with it unless they controlled all the enforcement mechanisms that would be called in afterward.

[bratcat808]

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[IronSnot]