"Is he going? The press could hang him with his own words if they wanted to.

As usual, they are letting him get away with a technicality.

Blair: "This was an absolutely fundamental charge... this extraordinarily serious allegation which if it were true would mean we had behaved in the most disgraceful way, and I would have to resign as prime minister."

The government have tried to convince us, aided and abetted by a willing press, that the information presented by Andrew Gilligan was a complete fabrication. In fact Gilligan was guilty only of rushing to go to air with the bombshell that Dr Kelly had provided him with. In his haste, he failed to script his report and thus used a few words which were not accurate reflections of what he was told. He revised this in subsequent broadcasts but it has allowed the government to imply that his whole report was baseless.

As such, Blair can then say that he would have resigned but didn't because Gilligan was proved wrong.

Blair's government is banking on the public not thinking. They're hoping that we'll just soak up the spin and the headlines, rather than the nitty gritty, namely that they presented a one-sided argument for war and played on the public's fear in the wake of the September 11th attacks.

Of course Blair couldn't help but have Dr Kelly appear before the Foreign Affairs Select Committe (FASC) - they wanted him to deny that he was the BBC's source. Then they could successfully kill Gilligan's story. It was only when the BBC confirmed that he was the source after he'd been found dead that the war was on again. Kelly's death would have put the allegation of Downing Street manipulation to bed; the BBC messed up the government's plan by owning up to the contact with Kelly. Blair revealed that he had a telephone conversation with Gavyn Davies, Chairman of the BBC to see how the sitution could be `calmed down'.

One question you can guarantee will not be asked at the inquiry is why did Dr Kelly lie before the FASC and deny that he was the BBC's source? The reason that it will not be asked is that it would shed light on the intimidation and pressure on the late Dr Kelly to kill the story.

Blair was Bush's diplomatic figleaf. It was only the UK's stated enthusiasm to deal with Saddam illegally that assuaged the concerns of the American people. Many there had doubts that Bush was not being 100% honest but they were pursuaded by their belief in Tony Blair's conviction that he was an honest guy and that Saddam presented a credible threat.

If Blair goes, the move to dump Bush will get a big boost since the mainstream US press could not ignore what would be the biggest scandal since the arms-to Iraq affair, but a chapter in this long caper.

All we are waiting for is the mainstream press to stop playing the spin game and allowing Blair, Campbell and all the other back-room boys to set the news agenda. The Times is using Hoon's evidence today to show the trail to 10 Downing Street.

Some think that the press in the UK is more independent than what passes for news coverage in the USA. How wrong they can be sometimes. If our press were free they would have called Blair on his lying years ago.

Blair should resign. Bush should never have been in office in the first place. The problem would then be that we'd end up with the same old crap, just with a new name."

- Editor

Gordon Thomas: Microbiologists With Link to Race-Based Weapon Turning Up Dead

University lecturer branded `racist' for weblink

by Simon Aronowitz

The two leading Jewish newspapers in the UK last weekend kicked off a potential firestorm over the views held by university academics.

Dr Nat Queen, lecturer in mathematics and statistics at the University of Birmingham, has been lambasted for a link on his homepage to a website which accuses the US government of being satanic, criticises Israeli policy and questions what involvement Israel may have had in the September 11th attacks in the US.

Read the full story

and Dr Queen's response

"Yesterday I didn't think that the Hutton Inquiry into the death of Dr Kelly would be anything more than a literally made-for-television script. (To the American readers, TV cameras are not allowed into the courtroom, so the various news programmes and channels have been dramatically recreating the day's events from the transcripts).

Today - early I might add, I need to go to bed - I'm not so sure. According to Murdoch's Times, John Scarlett, Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee ramped up the threat that Iraq posed in his testimony on Tuesday. Scarlett " disclosed secret raw intelligence claiming that Iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction in an average of 20 minutes — less than half the time finally published by the Government before the war."

The Independent however points this out in its story headlined

`Spy chief undermines key plank of case for war'

"John Scarlett, chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, which was in charge of compiling the Iraq weapons dossier, revealed that the alleged threat related not to long-range missiles, which could hit the West, but "battlefield mortar shells or small-calibre weaponry" that did not threaten Britain or even Iraq's neighbours."

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the smoking gun, if we pay attention to it and don't get distracted by the other stuff they wave in your face. Such a damning admission would not normally be made unless they wanted to open a way for our Dear Leader Tony Blair to depart with his saving his reputation in some way.

There have been rumours that the descision to dump Blair and Bush was made at the Bilderberg meeting in Versailles in July of this year. Sometimes rumours turn out to be true.

The inside track from the BBC

I bumped into Mark Mardell from BBC Newsnight yesterday, and he told me that he was covering the Hutton Inquiry. Let me relate the conversation to you as best as I remember it:

Ed: It's all bogus, isn't it?

MM: What?

Ed: The official story. I mean, last Tuesday Andrew Marr let slip on the Ten O'Clock News that `Dr Kelly was killed,' the BBC keep referring to the `apparent' suicide and surely with all the contact the BBC had with Kelly, you guys have the inside track on the story.

MM: That's a conspiracy theory. Are you seriously suggesting that if the BBC had knowledge that the British government murdered Dr Kelly we'd just sit on it?

Ed: Yes.

Mardell also informed me that Newsnight's Susan Watts will probably be going to Channel 4 News. To me it didn't look like she'd be working for the BBC after her testimony to the inquiry.

So Mardell calls it a `conspiracy theory'. You may recall that the same term was used for speculation of what happened to Roberto Calvi, also known as `God's Banker', when he was found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in London in what appeared to many to clearly be a masonic murder. I'm sure that when Calvi's body was found there were elements of the UK mainstream press who knew what really happened, but in just the same way that the FBI manages to drown out any alternative information on 9/11 as the only `credible' source, this happens in the UK too.

It took 21 years for the truth about Calvi to come out. Hopefully we won't have to wait this long for the real story about the strange and unexpected death of Dr Kelly."

- Editor

Gordon Thomas: Microbiologists With Link to Race-Based Weapon Turning Up Dead

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