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2006-08-19 Fifth Column

Ex-British envoy calls plane plot 'rubbish'

Former British ambassador Craig Murray has called the alleged plot to bomb American transatlantic flights as "rubbish" that the media has bought, wholesale.

...none of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb or bought a plane ticket and many of them did not even have passports...

Murray writes in the online publication Counterpunch that none of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb or bought a plane ticket and many of them did not even have passports, which, given the "efficiency" of the British Passport Agency, would mean they could not have become plane bombers for "quite some time". Murray notes that many of those arrested had been under surveillance and finds it "extraordinary" that the plot had not turned up in a year of surveillance. "Of course, the interrogators of the Pakistani dictator have their ways of making people sing like canaries," he writes.

Posted by Fred 2006-08-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Gee... I wonder how the brilliant Mr Murray will explain the Jihadi Swan Song Videos discovered yesterday... Just for laughs, were they?

Shit-for-brains putz.

Posted by flyover 2006-08-19 00:52|| 2006-08-19 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 This is your brain on BDS (or its tranzi equivalent).

Dr. Sanity has a whole series of posts on this phenomna. They make for interesting reading.

Posted by N guard 2006-08-19 07:28|| 2006-08-19 07:28|| Front Page Top

#3 How many of these George Galloway wannabes do they have in Londonstan, anyway?

Posted by regular joe 2006-08-19 07:28|| 2006-08-19 07:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Oooooh, Counterpunch.
Weekly World News didn't want the story?

Posted by tu3031 2006-08-19 09:05|| 2006-08-19 09:05|| Front Page Top

#5 guess every country has a Joe Wilson

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-08-19 09:45|| 2006-08-19 09:45|| Front Page Top

#6 We're the Left! We're more intelligent!

Posted by gromgoru 2006-08-19 10:14|| 2006-08-19 10:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Craig Murray the fatal stupidizing toxin.

Posted by Duh! 2006-08-19 10:50|| 2006-08-19 10:50|| Front Page Top

#8 C'mon, he's a career ambassador who was removed from his post with cause. He's a 'tard who has no more information than the demented Andrew Sullivan.

It is amazing how long the list of this war's Lord Haw Haws and Tokyo Roses is gonna be, though.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-08-19 16:00|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-08-19 16:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Back during WWII there were those that believed the Germans were only protecting the jews by putting them in camps. After the war ended these folks were labeled as fools and forgotten. Mr. Craig Murray is about to join the ranks of the forgotten fools. Have a nice quiet life, moonbat.

Posted by 49 pan 2006-08-19 19:52|| 2006-08-19 19:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Discipline charges

In July 2003, some of his embassy staff were sacked while he was away on holiday. They were reinstated after he expressed his outrage to his bosses in the FCO. Later during his holiday, he was recalled to London for disciplinary reasons. On 21 August 2003, he was confronted with 18 charges including "hiring dolly birds (pretty young women) for above the usual rate" for the visa department (though he claims that it had an all-male staff) and granting UK visas in exchange for sex. He was told that discussing the charges would be a violation of the Official Secrets Act punishable by imprisonment. He claims that he was encouraged to resign.

He collapsed during a medical check in Tashkent on 2 September 2003 and was flown to St Thomas' Hospital. After an investigation by Tony Crombie, Head of the FCO's Overseas Territories Department, all but two of the charges (being drunk at work and misusing the embassy's Range Rover) were dropped. The charges were leaked to the press in October 2003. [2] When he returned to work in November 2003, he suffered a near fatal pulmonary embolism. In January 2004, the Foreign Office exonerated him of the 18 charges, but reprimanded him for speaking about the charges.
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Removal from post

Murray was removed from his post in October 2004, shortly after a leaked report in the Financial Times [3] quoted him as claiming that MI6 used intelligence gained by the Uzbek authorities by torture. The Foreign Office denied there was any direct connection and stated that Murray had been removed for "operational" reasons. It claimed that he had lost the confidence of senior officials and colleagues. The following day, in an interview on the Today programme, the BBC's flagship political radio show, Murray countered that he was a "victim of conscience", and in this and other interviews criticised the Foreign Office.[4] A few days later he was charged with "gross misconduct" by the Foreign Office for criticising it in public.[5] Murray resigned from the Foreign Office in February 2005.

Posted by 3dc 2006-08-19 22:08|| 2006-08-19 22:08|| Front Page Top

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