New figures from Europol, the European police agency, reveal that Islamist terror attacks in Europe constituted 0.2% of all 'terrorism' throughout the continent in 2006.* Unsurprisingly, there has been little in the media about this interesting figure in the month since it was published.
In their first report of this nature - European Terrorism Situation and trend Report 2007 - reports that across the EU there were 498 terrorist attacks in 2006. These include:
424 'ethno-nationalist and separatist' (mostly in France and Spain)
55 'left-wing and anarchist' (mainly Greece , Italy, Spain and Germany)
1failed Islamist terrorist attack (in Germany, plus two more attempts allegedly foiled in Denmark and the UK)
1 right-wing terrorist attack (in Poland)
The figures appear to over report left and anarchist 'terror' by categorising some political demonstrations which result in damage to property as 'terrorism'. On Germany it reports that 'the G8 Summit 2007 that still has to be held has already been the target of left-wing and anarchist terrorists.' The report also appears to under report 'right wing' and neo-fascist violence since this is as the report states: 'mainly investigated as right-wing extremism and not as right-wing terrorism'. The report only includes rightwing and animal rights political violence as terrorism if reported as such by member states.
The report does also note that the 0.2% of attacks undertaken by Islamists resulted in fully half the 706 arrests in the EU being of Muslims. The UK itself has seen hundreds of arrests on trumped up charges which are later shown to be false and often propagandist. Indeed one of the two alleged 'foiled' attacks in the figures is the much heralded transatlantic bomb plot in the UK which has certainly adversely affected millions of air passengers. However, it does appear that this plot existed much more in the minds of the security establishment than in reality.
I wondered how well the pattern of media reporting conformed to the pattern of offences or the pattern of arrests. In 2006 the National press in the UK carried 26, 577 reports which mentioned the word 'terrorist' or 'terrorism'.** Of these 7,620 also referred to 'Islam', 'Islamist' or 'Muslim'. In other words the media reported Islamist violence out of all proportion to the number of attacks. This is hardly helpful to those trying to resist the wave of Islamophobia emanating from sections of the police and from the intelligence agencies and politicians. Nor does it give much hope for muslims under attack throughout the UK.
Notes
* Thanks to Eric Herring for drawing these figures to my attention.
**Figures from searches conducted on Lexis-nexis press database.
Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 128 Location: North Humberside
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 10:45 am Post subject:
How have these people got the nerve to continually assume we are dumb? They produce fake CCTV images, fake terrorism alerts.
So 0.2 percent of all terrorism on the continent is that of Muslims..sounds about right. Now add this to the news that Blair is pushing for a tough anti-terror law:
In an inexorable build-up of propaganda and military encirclement prior to a first strike attack on Iran, the Bush junta, along with its London quislings, have switched their anti-Iranian propaganda from nuclear issues to accuse the Iranian government of "meddling" in Iraq and supplying Iraqi guerillas weapons with which to fight the US and British occupying troops.
The evidence for such allegations was always sketchy and reminiscent of the concocted lies about Yellowcake Uranium and WMDs, used by Bush and Blair to drag their people into a genocidal war crime against a much weaker country.
Now, an independent research organization, the British American Security Information Council, has produced its own report on the alleged involvement of Iran in Iraq.
"Whatever the true extent and nature of Iranian military action in Iraq," the report concludes, "few independent analysts believe Tehran is playing a decisive role in the sectarian warfare and insurgency."
Instead, the report suggests that "other, more strategic motives also lie behind the considerable US political energy being expended on highlighting the Iranian role in Iraq. Iran may present a useful scapegoat to divert the blame for failures in Iraq away from the occupying powers."
"Recent allegations must also be considered in the context of the current crisis surrounding Iran’s nuclear programme. If Tehran can be cast as a source ofregional instability in the eyes of the international community, then the US administration’s hand will be strengthened as it seeks support for stronger measures to oppose Iranian nuclear ambitions."
"In particular, should the administration decide to embark on a military strike – an option which it says is still ‘on the table’ – then garnering public and political support in advance would be vital. Without it, the global unpopularity for military action would likely greatly exceed the opposition to the invasion of Iraq."
Meanwhile, in an extremely disturbing statement, John Reid, the UK's Home Secretary (Minister of the Interior) has threatened to implement emergency powers in order to derogate Britain's obligation to uphold the European Convention of Human Rights.
If emergency powers were to be implemented as an excuse to extend the fake "war on terror" then Britain will, to all intents and purposes, become a naked dictatorship. And even if bully-boy Reid's stepping-down from office in late June were to put such a threat on the back-burner it is more than likely that his successor would continue with such a policy.
Derogation of the European Convention on the basis that there is an emergency threat would need the approval of both Houses of Parliament. But that would be a mere issue of technicalities to a dangerously Manichaean, Blair-Brown regime which, as before, would simply organize yet another Black Op crime against its people in order to plunge the country into a full blown totalitarian state prior to further domestic or international crises such as an apocalyptic nuclear attack on Iran.
I believe that it is extremely significant that moves by Blair and Reid to steer Britain into a state of permanent emergency and dictatorship is happening at the very time when Bush is making similar moves in the USA. The two are taking place in coordination with each other as a transatlantic conspiracy to finally do away with so-called liberal democracy. And it is the chief players, the US and the UK, in the Anglo-Saxon alliance of 21st century imperialism that are leading the world into this darkness.
You can bet the quashing of rights goes hand in hand with quashing any public dissent against another unjust War!
So I'll see you on the street then _________________ 'Come and see the violence inherent in the system.
Help, help, I'm being repressed!'
“The more you tighten your grip, the more Star Systems will slip through your fingers.”
US officials are expected to call on Iran to stop arming and funding Shi'ite militias as Iranian and American diplomats hold rare talks in Baghdad.
Iran denies the charge, despite the US military putting on display what it says are Iranian-made rockets, mortars and sophisticated roadside bombs seized in Iraq.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Sunday summoned the Swiss ambassador to Tehran, who represents US interests in Tehran, to voice its displeasure at the spy networks.
US President George W. Bush recently called for stronger sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme, which Washington says is being used to develop a nuclear bomb.
The talks between US ambassador Ryan Crocker and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Kazemi-Qomi mark a reversal by Washington, which broke ties with Tehran in 1980 and has largely sought to isolate the Islamic Republic in recent years.
Crocker has said he does not expect "any stunning, startling breakthroughs" from the meeting. US officials say he will press Iran to take steps to reduce violence in Iraq.
http://news.uk.msn.com/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=5093619 _________________ 'Come and see the violence inherent in the system.
Help, help, I'm being repressed!'
“The more you tighten your grip, the more Star Systems will slip through your fingers.”
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 1107 Location: Free Scotland!
Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject: A trans-Atlantic Conspiracy
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You can bet the quashing of rights goes hand in hand with quashing any public dissent against another unjust War! So I'll see you on the street then
It's not just Muslims, its animal lib activists, environmentalists, anti-war protestors who are ALREADY feeling the brunt of oppressive policing. Under Thatcher, it was the trades unionists and the miners.
This process has been building up for decades. It's what the late radical historian, Edward Thompson, warned would happen when oppressive policing techniques were imported from Ulster into the mainland.
America has declared war on all muslims as has their pet poodle blair.
So this business of sunni and shia is a made up angle.
It is a case of divide and rule.
Do u know who is a catholic and who is a protestant?
Most sunni and shia consider themselves exactly the same as 99.9% of their beliefs are the same. There is more difference between catholics and protestants then sunni and shia.
And if we swallow this false flag angle we are being naive.
Why only after america and britain have killed nearly a million iraqis and blown up so many bombs and still there is no civil war?
Iran may be helping the shia groups but it would be helping the sunni groups as well because it needs to keep america under pressure because as soon as the iraq front and the afghan fronts go quiet that is when they start bombing Iran.
No body can blame iran for keeping the war away from it's own borders.
as a us presidential candidate said during his keynote speech
"lets bomb bomb iran, bomb bomb iran"
who is the terrorist
i thought incitement to commit terror was a criminal offence? _________________
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