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Pirma gera šių metų naujiena - tai, kad pasak London Daily Mail, britų valdžiai jau gana "Karo su terorizmu" isterijos. Military.com ir kiti šaltiniai perspausdino ši Daily Mail straipsnį.

Sir Ken Macdonald said terrorist fanatics were not soldiers fighting a war but simply members of an aimless "death cult."

The Director of Public Prosecutions said: 'We resist the language of warfare, and I think the government has moved on this. It no longer uses this sort of language."

London is not a battlefield, he said.

"The people who were murdered on July 7 were not the victims of war. The men who killed them were not soldiers," Macdonald said. "They were fantasists, narcissists, murderers and criminals and need to be responded to in that way."

Smagu matyt britus grįžtant į sveiką protą. Deja, Amerikoje, teroro isterijos technologai įsismaginę, smegenų plovimas taip greit nesibaigs. Jis prasiskverbė net į tradicinių komercinių švenčių - tokiu kaip Kalėdos ir Nauji metai - retoriką. Šiemet pastebėjau, kad sveikinimuose "merry" ar "happy" pakeitė magiškas burtažodis "secure". Net mūsų daugiaaukščio lifte iškabinti sveikinimai sakė: "Have a Secure New Year!"

Tuo tarpu bent jau Patrick Smith, avialinijų pilotas, NY Times Jettlaged Blog ko-writeris, negaili aštriųos kritikos avialinijų bullshit "security" procedūroms, ir antrina dar 2006-ais (vėl) britų valdininkų išvadas, kad vieši pranešimai, padaryti po taip vadinamo "liquid explosives plot" buvo mažų mažiausiai persūdyti, netikslūs ir "apgailėtini."

Allegations surrounding the conspiracy were revealed to substantially embellished. In an August, 2006 article in the New York Times, British officials admitted that public statements made following the arrests were overcooked, inaccurate and "unfortunate." The plot's leaders were still in the process of recruiting and radicalizing would-be bombers. They lacked passports, airline tickets and, most critical of all, they had been unsuccessful in actually producing liquid explosives. Investigators later described the widely parroted report that up to ten U.S airliners had been targeted as "speculative" and "exaggerated."

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