Letter Bomb in London

[Mark Gobell]

TV News is reporting a letter bomb has gone off in Victoria Street, Central London at a business premises.

One woman was injured and has been taken to hospital.

Reports are saying that the device went off on the 1st floor of 71 Victoria Street.

Home to the IT Services Consultancy - Capita Group plc - the company responsible for the Congestion Charge system and TV Licencing among many other contracts, including council tax collection, security services recruitment and government recruitment.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/foi/commercial.shtml

This can't be Al Qaeda because "police are refusing to discuss who may be responsible", whereas they normally tell us it's Al Q within the first 5 seconds.

[Mark Gobell]

Didn't know about this recent, 19th Jan letter bomb until today.

DNA lab worker injured as letter bomb explodes

Oxfordshire: A woman was injured in a blast as she opened a letter at a DNA testing firm in Abingdon

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=99472007

[conspiracy analyst]

Bombs, bird flu, bedroom bomb factories, chappati flour bombers etc.

The police must be on some type of extended overtime going into overdrive on these multifaceted threats. The climate of fear is usually created before a new war drive...

[Mark Gobell]

The plot thickens.

Sky News reporting that Rod Aldridge the former head of Capita is one of those enmeshed in the Cash for Peerages scandal.

A warning to keep his mouth shut ?

And only silly conspiracy theorists would speculate that his "personal" loan of £1,000,000 to the New Gestapo had anything to do with why Capita has so many government contracts.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8210-2101112,00.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Aldridge

[conspiracy analyst]

[GazeboflossUK]

I love (and by that I mean hate) how the mainstream TV News stations (mostly Sky News) were running this story live for absolutely ages....much longer than BBC News 24 were, even when nothing was happening for an hour - and they were costantly mentioning that they "weren't sure if it was related to Terrorism at this point"......

What they really mean is "weren't sure if it's a staged event so we can't blame it on some Muslims at this point".

I would say that sending a Letter Bomb to a building IS an act of terrorism but obviously they are now trying to save the Terror Label to any attack which is linked (real or fake) to Arabs/Muslims and generally any "brown person".

It's sick.

[Skeptic]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6395095,00.html

[Mark Gobell]

GazeboflossUK agreed.

One Sky reporter even said at one point that this perhaps wasn't terrorism but a "criminal act".

Doh. And they get paid how much ?

I think that might mean nobody knows wtf this is, but since we haven't been tipped the wink from "security sources" it can't be Al Q, "homegrown" or otherwise.

[mobypaterson]

BBC have just hinted that it might be the work of animal rights activists. . .

[Hazzard]

WHO IS THE WOMAN!?

[Mark Gobell]

TV News reports of another letter bomhb going off at a company called Vantis at Oaklands Business Park in Wokingham.

Two men have been treated for injuries.

Vantis' businesses are accountancy including forensic accounting and "business continuity".

HMRC have recently been investigating Vantis and considering criminal prosecutions over Gift Aid tax issues.

http://www.accmanpro.com/2006/12/28/vantis-raid-is-hmrc-considering-cr iminal-proceedings/

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/newspapers/sunday_times/britain/artic le1264330.ece

[Patrick Brown]

There may be more going on than we're being told as several expected packages haven't arrived over the last ten days. I was also told by a supplier that they've had problems we've a large number of packages not arriving at their destinations.

So if packages are being vetted that's mean there could have been hundreds of these incendiary devices feed into the system. If this is the case then it sound like terrorism.

[Mark Gobell]

TV News reporting another letter bomb at DVLA in Swansea.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1250528,00.html

[Mark Gobell]

Another letter bomb has been received at a private address in Folkestone, Kent.

[Mark Gobell]

Stark contrast with Herr Gruppenfuhrer Reid's reaction today vis his reation and "lead" role on the 10.8 liquid bomb fiasco.

He shrugs his shoulders and tells the press to talk to the police. Not in the slightest bit visibly bothered or interested.

[uselesseater]

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/070207letterbomber.h tm

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Wednesday, February 7, 2007

A third UK company that oversees Big Brother tracking and taxation policies has been targeted in a letter bombing campaign that has only succeeded in demonizing privacy and personal freedom advocates, while also wiping Tony Blair's cash for honors scandal off the front pages. British media outlets are busy trying to link the letter bomber to anti-surveillance and tax protest groups.

For years we have been predicting that attacks on Big Brother institutions would be blamed on extremists who are angered by rapidly expanding surveillance and taxation and used to demonize organizations that legitimately oppose government encroachment on privacy.

The individual or group responsible for these attacks, if the whole thing isn't an orchestrated set-up run by the government itself, needs to cease and desist immediately. Their actions betray a stupidity unparalleled. How on earth are a few letter bombs going to change a decades entrenched policy of increased control over our personal lives, feverishly undertaken by a government that exploits or manufactures every terror alert to fuel its fearmongering agenda?

Another terror scare, no matter how minor this appears to be, can only help Tony Blair further marginalize the cash for honors scandal, while at the same time tarring all privacy and personal freedom advocates as dangerous extremists.

There are other reports of "suspicious packages" across the country that are contributing to the paranoia while allowing the Blair government to grandstand once again.

The individual or group responsible could have achieved more sustained and positive attention by staging protests outside the office buildings that were targeted, not injuring some oblivious worker drones who don't even have any say in how tax and surveillance policies are crafted. What is that going to accomplish apart from allowing the media and the state to dismiss us all as dangerous extremists?

The obvious counter-productive outcome of these events leads us to suspect that Blair's intelligence apparatus may be up to its old tricks again. While scant evidence is available to come to any conclusions, past history provides a clear legacy whereby the government has hijacked, exploited or outright manufactured every major terror alert in the past five years.

Furthermore, if the individual responsible is doing this simply to get attention, then the government and the media are helping him achieve that aim at every step of the way. As we have discussed before, the only means by which very minor acts of terror such as this can have any influence is if they are over hyped and given credence by those in a position to steer public opinion. If the Blair government was really interested in marginalizing extremists and preventing damage to the economy and consumer confidence, they would downplay incidents such as this.

What do we hear instead? Home Secretary John Reid describes the events as "worrying." Worrying to who? The minutia of the British population that work in offices related to motor taxation and speed cameras and whose job it is to open letters? Why on earth should this worry the overwhelming majority of the population, unless the Blair government is successful in reveling in and encouraging the fearmongering?

Peter Power, the former Scotland Yard anti-terror official and currently head of Visor Consultants, whose company was running inconceivable drills on 7/7 which targeted the same locations at the same time, admitted to the BBC that Visor had been running mail bomb exercises in the past few weeks. Although Power urged a contained reaction to the letter bombs, he also raised the specter of chemical and biological weapons and bizarrely stated that people in their own private homes should now be nervous about opening mail.

Police are now linking a fourth letter bomb that was opened by an individual in his private home on Saturday with the other three that were sent to business offices. The fearmongering seems to have advanced to the point where everyone across the country should be in fear of what might be lurking inside their letter box.

A leaked Downing Street memo that brainstormed ways of convincing Brits to give up liberty in exchange for apparent security emerged earlier this week, in which the call to empower police to scan postal packages amongst other surveillance measures was argued. The lettter bombs have provided a golden opportunity to enact the very measures the government secretly desired.

British media outlets are eagerly doing their level best to link the letter bomber with anti-surveillance and tax protest movements.

Up until now, a growing movement of anti-Big Brother vigilantes who destroy speed cameras in the middle of the night have received widespread support across the country. This burgeoning wave of populist backlash against taxation and surveillance was a direct threat to the expansion of Big Brother's speed camera network.

BBC reporters are desperately trying to link speed camera vandals to the letter bomber, flashing up images of destroyed speed camera terminals during blanket news coverage.

No doubt this will also lead to increased scanning and opening of letters and parcels, falling in line with recent legislation in the U.S. which allows the Bush administration to read private mail without a warrant, a total violation of the 4th amendment.

With more letter bombs predicted to be delivered day after day, we'll stay on top of this story and try and counter the deranged fearmongering and fatuous demonization propaganda being emitted by the state and their press mouthpieces in what is becoming another laissez faire, ad hominem assault on freedom activists in the UK.

[Stephen]

Peter Power also said on the BBC yesterday that he thought we were all blowing things out of proportion, EG the Media and politicians.

Why don't we email Visor Consultants Give them some everidance and tell Mr Power that 9/11 was an Inside Job!

http://www.visorconsultants.com/aboutvisor.html

[London Mick]

I've sent them a letter asking when their next drill is so that I can be out of town on that day to avoid being blown to smithereens!

[Mark Gobell]

Police have arrested Miles Cooper of Cherry Hinton, Cambs in connection with the letter bombs.

London's congestion charge zone is extended tomorrow.

The last letter bomb of the Unabomber killed Gilbert B. Murray on 24.4.1995

The first reported letter bomb in this recent series was in London on 5.2.7

An interval of 11 years, 9 months and 11 days. (11911)

[Patrick Brown]

[Mark Gobell]

What is it that you don't find funny Patrick ?

[Patrick Brown]

[Mark Gobell]

Ok I'll answer your question then perhaps you can answer mine.

Oh yes. Very much so.

I also have a lot of other patterns on my brain as you put it.

However, these do not seem to be as valid for most folk, for some reason, as 911 does.

A strategy that points out 911 and 119 and it's derivatives therefore should hopefully serve to educate people about it's possible frequency of use.

I have no idea if the events linked by such patterns are always significant.

That doesn't change the fact that the pattern is there. The dates can't lie Patrick.

Now, what is it you don't find funny ?

[dontbelievethehype1970]

[Patrick Brown]

[Mark Gobell]

I have no idea what that is all about Patrick, maybe you need to lie down for a bit.

Do you think that, for example, the 911 day interval between 9/11 and Madrid was deliberate or accidental ?

[Patrick Brown]

[Mark Gobell]

So, deliberate, accidental or don't know Patrick ?

[THETRUTHWILLSETU3]

[Patrick Brown]