Robn Cook's strange death - 7/7 connections?

[conspiracy analyst]

Jon Henley

Tuesday May 9, 2006
The Guardian

Alarming news from the authoritative Iranian daily Jam-e Jam. "For some time now, there has been an expectation that Jack Straw would fall victim to conduct similar to that used to deal with [his predecessor] Robin Cook," writes the paper's insightful international affairs analyst, Dr Mohammed Hasan Sheykholeslam. "Everyone knows Cook's star started to fade when he expressed stances that were independent of the British prime minister. This was met first with detachment; then with poses of displeasure; then open warnings; then dismissal; and, finally, with Cook's suspicious death." The words "snort" and "disbelief" may, of course, spring instantly to mind. Alternatively, you may care to recall that Robin Cook, an opponent of military intervention in Iraq, ended up leader of the Commons - a post now occupied, by extraordinary coincidence, by Mr Straw, an opponent of military intervention in Iran. Jack: watch your back.

[xmasdale]

Yeah

Don't go climbing any Scottish mountains, Jack.

[andyb]

And Margeret Beckett won't rule out miltary intervention in Iran, while Straw said it was inconceivable!

I'd just send her into Iran, she's such a scary looking woman, who needs weapons?

[James C]

Wasn't it interesting that Cook died one month after the publication of this article in the Guardian which including comments that highlighted the real existence of al qaida.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1523838,00.html

[Sinclair]

I was always an admirer of Robin Cook’s intellectual rigour & his sharp articulate debating skills.

It is interesting to note that his comments on Al-Qaida - "the database", being originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen, was made the day after the London Explosions of 7th July 2005, (probably in response to Jack Straw’s pronouncement that the London attacks “ bear the hallmarks of Al-Qaida”).

Robin Cook was dead in less than a month from then.

Cook would have been a sharp thorn in BlairCo’s side, arguing (I don’t doubt for a minute) against the curtailment of civil liberties that has arisen from the (synthetic) terror that has been imposed upon us. How convenient (for BlairCo) that Robin Cook is now ‘out the way’, likewise Dr. David Kelly


Another quote worth repeating from Professor Juan Cole:

"Not content with creating a vast terrorist network to harass the Soviets, Reagan then pressured the late King Fahd of Saudi Arabia to match US contributions...Fahd not only put Saudi government money into the Afghan Mujahideen networks, which trained them in bomb making and guerrilla tactics, but he also instructed the Minister of Intelligence, Turki al-Faisal, to try to raise money from private sources....Turki al-Faisal checked around and discovered that a young member of the fabulously wealthy Bin Laden construction dynasty, Usama, was committed to Islamic causes. Turki thus gave Usama the task of raising money from Gulf millionaires for the Afghan struggle. This whole effort was undertaken, remember, on Reagan Administration instructions."

[markburdge]

Didn't John Smith die whilst walking in Scotland as well?

Knowing what a 'long game' these people play to get the right people in power, perhaps this is more than a coincidence as well?

[Ally]

[Jayhawk]

Dont think so:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/12/newsid_2550000  /2550803.stm

Heart attack at home...

[Sinclair]

Ally,
You’re mistaken, John Smith was another politician who died of a heart attack.

From here, the 55-year-old leader of the opposition suffered his first attack at his central London flat. He had a second heart attack in the ambulance on the way to hospital and was pronounced dead at 0915 BST on 12th May 1994. So we are told..........

There is an interesting biography on John Smith here.


Interestingly, upon browsing the subject of Smith/Blair etc., it is apparent that Tony Blair attended a Bilderberg meeting, in Greece, 1993 BEFORE becoming party leader (after John Smith' death) in July 1994.

I have read that Blair was groomed for an eventual British Prime Minister - make of it what you will.....

[conspiracy analyst]

Bliars government refusal of a Public Inquiry implies it doesn't want to be open to scrutiny and to create even more public distaste as after the 9/11 Commission in the USA.

Cook as far as I know exposed a military purchase scandal under Thatcher which meant it fell through leading to around $800 million of hardware not being bought from US suppliers. They had it in for him for a long tiime.

Being alive in the post-London bombings would have created too many problems. Hence his mysterious death is an issue for investigation.

[Shaphan]

Coincidentally(?), I've been thinking and writing about Robin Cook's demise on my blog recently. Please see the latest entry, 'Lingering Questions about Robin Cook's Death': http://shaphan.typepad.com/blog/2006/05/questions_about.html

[Ally]

[Sinclair]

Yep, Good Blog & links.

Welcome to the Forum!



~Sinclair~

[Mark Gobell]

Epitaph tribute to anti-war Cook

Robin Cook was a vocal critic of the decision to go to war
Robin Cook's epitaph pays tribute to his opposition to the Iraq war.
Mr Cook, a vocal critic of the decision to topple Saddam Hussein, died of a heart attack, aged 59, in August 2005.

"I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of Parliament to decide on war,"

reads the headstone of the late Livingston MP.

From todays BBC article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6244003.stm

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If you need a political "tonic" to pick up your understandably failing political faith and remind you of what our Parliament should be about then I suggest watching this video of Robin Cook's resignation speech on the very day that Bush, Blair and Jose Maria Aznar had set as the deadline for diplomacy to work before Saddam and the Iraqi people were subjected to shock and awe 6 days later.

Robin Cook resigned from the government because he profoundly disagreed with the rush to war, on the eve of the commons vote which he, as Leader of the House was primarily responsible for securing.

During his speech he reminded the world of such inconvenient facts like the Chief Weapons Inspector, Hans Blik had assured the UN that the remainder of Saddams weapons issues would be resolved within a matter of months and also that the world has waited nearly 30 years for Israel to comply with UNSCR 242 and that the US and UK sold Hussein anthrax and were in not for the issue of hanging chads in Florida 2000 then the UK may well not be needing to decide to commit it's military to an invasion if Iraq.

Robin Cook received a standing ovation for his speech with interesting exceptions on Labour's front bench.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6244003.stm

You don't have to agree with much of Robin Cook, Labour old or new to respect a Parliamentarian who respects and fights to uphold the notion that at least the idea of democracy is something that cannot be compromised.

A fitting epitaph to the rarest of political animals.

[TonyGosling]

See my forum on Robin Cook's death here
http://www.bilderberg.org/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=6

[Mark Gobell]

Does anyone have any information on Robin Cook's erstwhile diary secretary and second wife Gaynor ?

While we're on the matter, John Reid's current spouse also ?

[Bushwacker]

[Mark Gobell]

Did Robin Cook have a mobile phone on him during his walk ?

[numeral]

[troofseek3r]

I wish to ask the question, I would like to know what are peoples thoughts on the death of Robin Cook? I have studied 911 since 2004 and I start to recognise certain behaviour once you understand policy.

Of course one can only speculate (there is an ice gun which would do the trick...)but does anyone agree with me that he was "bumped off" for opposing the Iraq war? Has anyone posted anything about this before? One voice inside the government silenced forever...

His resignation speech could even be compared to JFK's speech on Secret Societies and Freedom of the Press...

[TonyGosling]

[Mark Gobell]

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