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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>A personal blog for me to keep track of reliable documents/articles/sources relating to the war on terror and the events which were used as a reason to start it, other relevant material also.</description><title>CHRISTYXY</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @christyxy)</generator><link>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>Great piece by the judge, exposing the failure of the...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GFotIncrugI?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Great piece by the judge, exposing the failure of the intelligence services to act: “Remembering 9/11: One Day, Our Descendents Will Know the Truth”&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/10124846519</link><guid>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/10124846519</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:37:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>A very interesting debate, including ex-MI5 intelligence analyst...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jD-9cDigUN4?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;A very interesting debate, including ex-MI5 intelligence analyst and whistleblower Annie Machon.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/7213102513</link><guid>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/7213102513</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:18:32 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title> 
British MP Michael Meacher on 9/11 and Iraq:

Part...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/saH7xn4K-gM?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;British MP Michael Meacher on 9/11 and Iraq:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Part 2: &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzbjdPdgHjQ"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzbjdPdgHjQ"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzbjdPdgHjQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/sep/10/terrorism.politics/print"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/sep/10/terrorism.politics/print"&gt;http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/sep/10/terrorism.politics/print&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;“One British Muslim of Pakistani origin radicalised by the civil war in Yugoslavia was LSE-educated Omar Saeed Sheikh. He is now in jail in Pakistan under sentence of death for the killing of the US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002 - although many (including Pearl’s widow and the US authorities) doubt that he committed the murder. However, reports from Pakistan suggest that Sheikh continues to be active from jail, keeping in touch with friends and followers in Britain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sheikh was recruited as a student by Jaish-e-Muhammad (Army of Muhammad), which operates a network in Britain. It has actively recruited Britons from universities and colleges since the early 1990s, and has boasted of its numerous British Muslim volunteers. Investigations in Pakistan have suggested that on his visits there Shehzad Tanweer, one of the London suicide bombers, contacted members of two outlawed local groups and trained at two camps in Karachi and near Lahore. Indeed the network of groups now being uncovered in Pakistan may point to senior al-Qaida operatives having played a part in selecting members of the bombers’ cell. The Observer Research Foundation has argued that there are even “grounds to suspect that the [London] blasts were orchestrated by Omar Sheikh from his jail in Pakistan”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why then is Omar Sheikh not being dealt with when he is already under sentence of death? Astonishingly his appeal to a higher court against the sentence was adjourned in July for the 32nd time and has since been adjourned indefinitely. &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is all the more remarkable when this is the same Omar Sheikh who, at the behest of General Mahmood Ahmed, head of the ISI, wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, the leading 9/11 hijacker, before the New York attacks, as confirmed by Dennis Lormel, director of FBI’s financial crimes unit.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yet neither Ahmed nor Omar appears to have been sought for questioning by the US about 9/11. Indeed, the official 9/11 Commission Report of July 2004 sought to downplay the role of Pakistan with the comment: “To date, the US government has not been able to determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately the question is of little practical significance” - a statement of breathtaking disingenuousness.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/7212957816</link><guid>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/7212957816</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:14:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>
Evidence collected by the US Geological Survey (USGS) showed up...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1LOHiDCbn3I?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/docs/iron_rich_sphere_excerpt.png"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Evidence collected by the US Geological Survey (USGS) showed up in a 2005 report: photographs showing particles with striking spherical symmetry, ranging in diameter from under 100 microns up to about 1.5 millimeters. Another set of reports, prepared for Deutshe Bank in late 2003 also shows micrographs of iron-rich spheres.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The presence of metallic microspheres implies that these metals were once molten, so that surface tension pulled the droplets into a roughly spherical shape. Then the molten droplets solidified in air, preserving the information that they were once molten in the spherical shape as well as chemical information.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Iron melts at 1538ºC, so the presence of these numerous iron-rich spheres implies a very high temperature. Too hot in fact for the fires in the WTC buildings since jet fuel (kerosene), paper and wood furniture ­and other office materials ­cannot reach the temperatures needed to melt iron or steel.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.benthamscience.com/open/tocpj/articles/V002/7TOCPJ.pdf"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.benthamscience.com/open/tocpj/articles/V002/7TOCPJ.pdf"&gt;http://www.benthamscience.com/open/tocpj/articles/V002/7TOCPJ.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/6451442037</link><guid>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/6451442037</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 09:05:46 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>A short physics lesson. Collapse violates Newton’s laws of...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XkXeNawHFFo?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;A short physics lesson. Collapse violates Newton’s laws of motion, specifically the 3rd law:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“&lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction: or the forces of two bodies on each other are always equal and are directed in opposite directions.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/6162026560</link><guid>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/6162026560</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:19:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Ex-CIA man had bin Laden in his sights 10 times</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&amp;#8220;Terrorist hunter Michael Scheuer tells Duncan Gardham and Iain Hollingshead how he was repeatedly ordered not to stop the al-Qaeda chief.&amp;#8221;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://thesussmanshow.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/michael-scheuer-non-intervention-6.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=210"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;There are not many sane people who can say with confidence that, had a president of America only listened to them, they could have saved $1.3 trillion and many hundreds of thousands of lives. Michael Scheuer can.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;During his 22 years in the CIA – three and a half as head of a 18-man Osama bin Laden unit – he told his bosses at Langley on 10 occasions that he had a clear opportunity to kill or capture the terrorist chief. On all 10 he was told to hold his fire.&amp;#8221; &amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8527515/The-bin-Laden-hunter-ex-CIA-man-had-bin-Laden-in-his-sights-10-times.html"&gt;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8527515/The-bin-Laden-hunter-ex-CIA-man-had-bin-Laden-in-his-sights-10-times.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/6161723739</link><guid>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/6161723739</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:10:47 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama renews patriot act with hours to spare.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/27/obama-extends-patriot-acts-emergency-powers-four-more-years/"&gt;Obama renews patriot act with hours to spare.&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/5937941613</link><guid>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/5937941613</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 14:57:17 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2652/noam_chomsky_my_reaction_to_os/"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2652/noam_chomsky_my_reaction_to_os/"&gt;http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2652/noam_chomsky_my_reaction_to_os/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="chomsky300.jpg" src="http://www.guernicamag.com/images/chomsky300.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;#8220;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress &lt;em&gt;“suspects.”&lt;/em&gt; In April 2002, the head of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="caps"&gt;FBI,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; Robert Mueller, informed the press that after the most intensive investigation in history, the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="caps"&gt;FBI &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;could say no more than that it “believed” that the plot was hatched in Afghanistan, though implemented in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="caps"&gt;UAE &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;and Germany.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;What they only believed in April 2002, they obviously didn’t know 8 months earlier, when Washington dismissed tentative offers by the Taliban (how serious, we do not know, because they were instantly dismissed) to extradite bin Laden if they were presented with evidence—which, as we soon learned, Washington didn’t have. Thus Obama was simply lying when he said, in his White House statement, that “we quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda.”&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;#8220;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/5313809362</link><guid>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/5313809362</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 17:00:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Is Al Qaeda/UBL winning the "War on Terror"? Because we're certainly not.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://turpenoid.tumblr.com/post/5257032198"&gt;Is Al Qaeda/UBL winning the "War on Terror"? Because we're certainly not.&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://turpenoid.tumblr.com/post/5257032198"&gt;turpenoid&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[The passage below is taken from a report released in 2004 concerning one of Osama’s tapes.]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;___________________________ &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He said the mujahedeen fighters did the same thing to the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s, “using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;“We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat,” bin Laden said.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;He also said al Qaeda has found it “easy for us to provoke and bait this administration.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;“All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations,” bin Laden said. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;As part of the “bleed-until-bankruptcy plan,” bin Laden cited a British estimate that it cost al Qaeda about $500,000 to carry out the attacks of September 11, 2001, an amount that he said paled in comparison with the costs incurred by the United States.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;“Every dollar of al Qaeda defeated a million dollars, by the permission of Allah, besides the loss of a huge number of jobs,” he said. “As for the economic deficit, it has reached record astronomical numbers estimated to total more than a trillion dollars. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The total U.S. national debt is more than $7 trillion. The U.S. federal deficit was $413 billion in 2004, according to the Treasury Department.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;“It is true that this shows that al Qaeda has gained, but on the other hand it shows that the Bush administration has also gained, something that anyone who looks at the size of the contracts acquired by the shady Bush administration-linked mega-corporations, like Halliburton and its kind, will be convinced. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;“And it all shows that the real loser is you,” he said. “It is the American people and their economy.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;As for President Bush’s Iraq policy, Bin Laden said, “the darkness of black gold blurred his vision and insight, and he gave priority to private interests over the public interests of America.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;“So the war went ahead, the death toll rose, the American economy bled, and Bush became embroiled in the swamps of Iraq that threaten his future,” bin Laden said.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;U.S. government officials said Friday that the tape appeared to be authentic and recently made. It was the first videotaped message from the al Qaeda leader in nearly three years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;_______________________________&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So now, in 2011, The US is facing a national debt of almost &lt;strong&gt;$15 trillion &lt;/strong&gt;and Britain’s is forecasted to pass the &lt;strong&gt;£1.1trillion &lt;/strong&gt;mark sometime this year.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That’s upwards of &lt;strong&gt;$45,000&lt;/strong&gt; per person in the US and more than &lt;strong&gt;£16,000 &lt;/strong&gt;($26,188) per person in the UK.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Are we really winning anything here?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/5279404523</link><guid>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/5279404523</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 14:38:39 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Anwar Al-Awlaki (linked to 9/11 hijackers) was invited to the Pentagon shortly after 9/11 attacks as part of "outreach" programme.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1322397/Al-Qaedas-Anwar-Al-Awlaki-invited-Pentagon-lunch-9-11-attacks.html#comments"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1322397/Al-Qaedas-Anwar-Al-Awlaki-invited-Pentagon-lunch-9-11-attacks.html#comments"&gt;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1322397/Al-Qaedas-Anwar-Al-Awlaki-invited-Pentagon-lunch-9-11-attacks.html#comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;An Al Qaeda leader who is one of the most wanted men in the world was invited for lunch at the Pentagon in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, a new report has claimed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;New documents have been obtained which apparently detail how  Anwar Al-Awlaki, the first American on the CIA&amp;#8217;s kill or capture list, rubbed shoulders with high-ranking military personnel just months after the atrocities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Fox News claim to have acquired documents that state that  Awlaki was taken to the U.S. Department of Defense&amp;#8217;s headquarters as part of the military&amp;#8217;s outreach program to the Muslim community in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NB- I cannot comprehend how utterly &lt;em&gt;stupid&lt;/em&gt; the pentagon/WH appears to have been in regards to this issue. It&amp;#8217;s almost like they want it to look like a conspiracy!?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/5219974610</link><guid>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/5219974610</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 12:03:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Anwar Al-awlaki</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/4676123/anwar-al-awlakis-new-al-qaeda/"&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/4676123/anwar-al-awlakis-new-al-qaeda/"&gt;http://video.foxnews.com/v/4676123/anwar-al-awlakis-new-al-qaeda/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The new &amp;#8220;Face of terror&amp;#8221; in the wake of Bin Ladens death Anwar Al-awlaki. Previously linked to the hijakers of the 9/11 attacks, considered by the US government for some time to be a greater threat to national security than the risk posed by Usama Bin Laden himself.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/21/article-1322397-0909265D000005DC-5_468x583.jpg" alt="Anwar al-Awlaki was reportedly invited for lunch at the Pentagon just months after the 9/11 attacks."/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/5219864981</link><guid>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/5219864981</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 11:57:48 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama blocks release of Bin Laden corpse photos.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/04/obama-blocks-release-of-bin-laden-death-photos/"&gt;Obama blocks release of Bin Laden corpse photos.&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/5219286379</link><guid>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/5219286379</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 11:22:18 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>No proper investigation into 25 similar mysterious deaths? All worked for Marconi weapons systems.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://reinep.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/why-no-proper-investigation-of-the-25-mysterious-deaths/"&gt;No proper investigation into 25 similar mysterious deaths? All worked for Marconi weapons systems.&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why no proper investigation of the 25 mysterious deaths of people who worked for &lt;a href="http://gec-marconi.com/"&gt;GEC-Marconi&lt;/a&gt;? I haven’t been able to find, not even one serious investigation of these murders. How can and should something like this going to be tolerated? There have been at least 25 mysterious deaths of people who worked for GEC-Marconi (the defence arm of GEC) on the Sting Ray torpedo project between 1982 and 1988. The death of the British defense journalist Jonathan Moyle, who was found hanged in his Santiago hotel room on April 1, 1990, has also been the subject of speculation as being connected to the Marconi deaths. Most incidents occurred after the men have successfully completed important projects or left one job for another. Four of the dead men were employees of the GEC group three at Marconi and one at Easams Ltd. Two others worked at separate times at the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham. An investigation by Computer News established that most of the men were involved in computer simulation, a key part of defense procurement.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://reinep.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/marconi-systems.png"&gt;&lt;img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2754" title="marconi-systems" src="http://reinep.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/marconi-systems.png?w=545&amp;h=225" alt="marconi-systems" width="545" height="225"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At the time GEC-Marconi was Britain’s only torpedo supplier and in 1986 was awarded a £400 million order from the Ministry of Defense for advanced anti-submarine Sting Ray torpedoes. The Royal Military College at Shrivenham is also involved in a number of Britain’s leading edge defense projects. The college develops new testing devices for the Ministry of Defense and is engaged as a subcontractor to defense companies on research and development. All the men involved were ambitious and demonstrated a special ability in their particular field. After every death, police gave unofficial press briefings providing journalists with plausible though unconfirmed explanations for the accidents or apparent suicides. The major problem for police has been the lack of obvious signs of depression in any of the cases. Several British MPs demanded a Government inquiry. The UK Ministry of Defense denied that these scientists had been involved in classified Star Wars Projects and that the deaths were in any way connected.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;GEC-Marconi was or are involved with all the major defense company`s. Marconi Electronic Systems (MES), or GEC-Marconi as it was until 1998, was the defence arm of The General Electric Company (GEC). It was d emerged from GEC and acquired by British Aerospace (BAe) on November 30, 1999 to form BAE Systems. GEC then renamed itself Marconi plc. MES exists today as BAE Systems Electronics Limited, a subsidiary of BAE Systems, but the assets were rearranged elsewhere within that company. MES-related businesses include BAE Systems Submarine Solutions, BAE Systems Surface Ships, BAE Systems Insyte and SELEX Galileo is now owned by Finmeccanica.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Take a look at the list and the so called Coroner’s verdict. This is a highly suspicious company according to me at least!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;March 1982: Professor Keith Bowden, 46 Expertise: Computer programmer and scientist at Essex University engaged in work for Marconi, who was hailed as an expert on super computers and computer-controlled aircraft. Circumstance of Death: Fatal car crash when his vehicle went out of control across a dual carriageway and plunged onto a disused railway line. Police maintained he had been drinking but family and friends all denied the allegation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Accident.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;April 1983: Lt. Colonel Anthony Godley, 49 Expertise: Head of the Work Study Unit at the Royal College of Military Science.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Circumstance of Death: Disappeared mysteriously in April 1983 without explanation. Presumed dead.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;March 1985: Roger Hill, 49 Expertise: Radar designer and draughtsman with Marconi. Circumstance of Death: Died by a shotgun blast at home.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Suicide.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;November 19, 1985: Jonathan Walsh, 29 Expertise: Digital communications expert who had worked at GEC and at British Telecom’s secret research centre at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk. Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of falling from a hotel room in Abidjan, West Africa, while working for British Telecom. He had expressed fears that his life was in danger.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Open – No explanation found.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;August 5, 1986: Vimal Dajibhai, 24 Expertise: Computer software engineer with Marconi, responsible for testing computer control systems of Tigerfish and Stingray torpedoes at Marconi Underwater Systems at Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, and was also working on an SDI related simulation system. Circumstance of Death: Dajibhai told his wife he would be working late, and then drove a hundred miles to Bristol (a city with which he had no known connection) and fell 260 feet (80 m) from the Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon. The police report on the body mentioned a needle-sized puncture wound on the left buttock, but this was later dismissed as being a result of the fall. Dajibhai had been looking forward to starting a new job in the City of London and friends had confirmed that there was no reason for him to commit suicide. At the time of his death he was in the last week of his work with Marconi.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Open – No explanation found.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;October 1986: Arshad Sharif, 26 Expertise: Reported to have been working on systems for the detection of submarines by satellite. Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of placing a rope around his neck, tying the other end to a tree and then driving off in his car with the accelerator pedal jammed down. His unusual death was complicated by several issues: Sharif lived near Vimal Dajibhai (see above) in Stanmore, Middlesex, he committed suicide in Bristol and, inexplicably, had spent the last night of his life in a rooming house. He had paid for his accommodation in cash and was seen to have a bundle of high-denomination banknotes in his possession. While the police were told of the banknotes, no mention was made of them at the inquest and they were never found. In addition, most of the other guests at the rooming house worked at British Aerospace. Prior to working for Marconi, Sharif had also worked at British Aerospace on guided weapons technology.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Suicide.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;January 1987: Richard Pugh, 37 Expertise: Ministry of Defense computer consultant and digital communications expert. Circumstance of Death: Found dead in his flat in with his feet bound and a plastic bag over his head. Rope was tied around his body, coiling four times around his neck.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Accident.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;January 8, 1987: Avtar Singh-Gida, 26 Expertise: Researcher at the Ministry of Defence Admiralty Research Establishment, conducting tests of submarine warfare equiment. Circumstance of Disappearance: &lt;strong&gt;Disappeared mysteriously in January 1987 during his doctoral thesis on underwater signal processing at Loughborough University&lt;/strong&gt;, just three weeks away from his project’s successful completion. Both mainland police and Interpol launched searches for him in several countries, without success. He eventually reappeared four months later. He had been traced to a red light district of Paris and confirmed that he did not know precisely how he had got there. Allegedly, he has returned to his work and has said that he does not want to discuss his disappearance or the death of his colleague, Vimal Dajibhai (see above).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;January 12, 1987: Dr. John Brittan, 52 Expertise: Scientist formerly engaged in top secret work at the Royal College of Military Science at Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, and later deployed in a research department at the Ministry of Defense. Circumstance of Death: Death by carbon monoxide poisoning in his own garage, shortly after returning from a trip to the US in connection with his work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Accident.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;February 1987: David Skeels, 43 Expertise: Engineer with Marconi. Circumstance of Death: Found dead in his car with a hosepipe connected to the exhaust.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Open – No explanation found.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;February 1987: Victor Moore, 46 Expertise: Design Engineer with Marconi Space and Defense Systems. Circumstance of Death: Died from a drug overdose. Moore had just finished work on infrared satellites at Portsmouth when he was found dead. His death is said to have instigated an MI5 investigation, the results of which remain secret. There is also a separate investigation into Marconi based at Portsmouth by the Ministry of Defence Serious Crime Squad.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Suicide.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;February 22, 1987: Peter Peapell, 46 Expertise: Scientist at the Royal College of Military Science. He had been working on testing titanium for it’s resistance to explosives and the use of computer analysis of signals from metals. Circumstance of Death: Found dead allegedly from carbon monoxide poisoning, in his Oxfordshire garage. The circumstances of his death raised some elements of doubt. His wife had found him on his back with his head parallel to the rear car bumper and his mouth in line with the exhaust pipe, with the car engine running. Police were apparently baffled as to how he could have maneuvered into the position in which he was found. It was confirmed that Peapell had shown no signs of stress which could have caused him to commit suicide. His death followed the somewhat similar death of Dr. John Brittan (see above). At the time of his death, Peapell no longer worked at the Royal College of Military Science and had moved to a research department of the Ministry of Defense. Interestingly, both Peapell and Brittan had both worked at the Royal College of Military Science and, furthermore, both had been on a recent trip to the US in connection with their work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Open – No explanation found.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;March 30, 1987: David Sands, 37 Expertise: Senior scientist working for Easams of Camberley, Surrey, a sister company to Marconi. Dr. John Brittan (see above) had also worked at Camberley. Circumstance of Death: Fatal car crash when he made a sudden U-turn on a dual carriageway while on his way to work, crashing at high speed into a disused cafeteria. He was found still wearing his seat belt and it was discovered that in his car were two additional five gallon cans full of petrol. None of the normal reasons for a possible suicide could be found.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Open – No explanation found.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;April 10, 1987: Stuart Gooding, 23 Expertise: Postgraduate research student at the Royal College of Military Science. Circumstance of Death: Fatal car crash while on holiday in Cyprus: he died instantly when his hired car collided head on with a lorry. The lorry driver was said to be unhurt. At least one senior employee at the college considered that the death could be significant. The death occurred at the same time as college personnel were carrying out exercises on Cyprus.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Accident.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;April 10, 1987 David (Robert) Greenhalgh, 46 Expertise: Contracts manager at ICL’s defense division at Winnersh near Reading. Circumstance of Death: Suffered multiple injuries after a mysterious leap from a 12m (40 ft) high railway bridge on his way to work at Maidenhead, Berkshire, the same day as Stuart Gooding’s fatal car crash (see above). The firm admitted he had been positively vetted and may have had access to secret UK and NATO data. He was working on the same defense project as David Sands (see above), who had died less than two weeks earlier. He survived the fall and stated that he had no idea how or why he had leapt from the bridge.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;He died a few days later in hospital.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;April 17, 1987: George Kountis, age unknown. Expertise: Systems Analyst at Bristol Polytechnic. Circumstance of Death:&lt;strong&gt;Drowned the same day as Shani Warren (see below)&lt;/strong&gt; – as the result of a car accident, his upturned car being found in the River Mersey, Liverpool.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Misadventure. (Kountis’s sister called for a fresh inquest as she thought “things didn’t add up”.)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;April 17, 1987: Shani Warren, 26 Expertise: Personal assistant in a company called Micro Scope, which was taken over by GEC Marconi less than four weeks after her death.&lt;br/&gt;Circumstance of Death: Found drowned in 18 inches of water, not far from the site of David Greenhalgh’s bridge fall. Warren died exactly one week after the death of Stuart Gooding and serious injury to Greenhalgh, and the same day as the death of George Kountis (see above). She was found gagged with a noose around her neck. Her feet were also bound and her hands tied behind her back.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Open – No explanation found.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt;(It was said that Warren had gagged herself, tied her feet with rope, then tied her hands behind her back and hobbled to the lake on stiletto heels to drown herself.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;April 24, 1987: Mark Wisner, 24 Expertise: Software engineer at the Ministry of Defense. Circumstance of Death: Found dead on in a house shared with two colleagues. He was found with a plastic sack around his head and several feet of cling film around his face. The method of death was almost identical to that of Richard Pugh some three months earlier.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Accident.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;May 3, 1987: Michael Baker, 22 Expertise: Digital communications expert working on a defence project at Plessey; part-time member of Signals Corps SAS. Circumstance of Death: Fatal accident owhen his car crashed through a barrier near Poole in Dorset.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Misadventure.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;June 1987: Frank Jennings, 60. Expertise: Electronic Weapons Engineer with Plessey. Circumstance of Death: Found dead from a heart attack.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No inquiry done.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;January 1988: Russell Smith, 23 Expertise: Laboratory technician with the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, Essex. Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of a cliff fall at Boscastle in Cornwall.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Suicide.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;March 25, 1988: Trevor Knight, 52 Expertise: Computer engineer with Marconi Space and Defense Systems in Stanmore, Middlesex. Circumstance of Death: Found dead at his home in Harpenden, Hertfordshire at the wheel of his car with a hosepipe connected to the exhaust. A St. Albans coroner said that Knight’s woman friend, Miss Narmada Thanki (who also worked with him at Marconi) had found three suicide notes left by him which made clear his intentions. Miss Thanki had mentioned that Knight disliked his work but she did not detect any depression that would have driven him to suicide.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Suicide.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;August 1988: Alistair Beckham, 50 Expertise: Software engineer with Plessey Defense Systems. Circumstance of Death: Found dead after being electrocuted in his garden shed with wires connected to his body and a handkerchief stuffed in his mouth.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Open – No explanation found.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;August 22, 1988: Peter Ferry, 60 Expertise: Retired Army Brigadier and an Assistant Marketing Director with Marconi. Circumstance of Death: Found on 22nd or 23rd August 1988 electrocuted in his company flat with electrical leads in his mouth.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coroner’s verdict: Open – No explanation found.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;September 1988: Andrew Hall, 33 Expertise: Engineering Manager with British Aerospace. Circumstance of Death: Carbon monoxide poisoning in a car with a hosepipe connected to the exhaust.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/5138329404</link><guid>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/5138329404</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 15:32:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Osama bin Laden corpse photo is fake</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/02/osama-bin-laden-photo-fake"&gt;Osama bin Laden corpse photo is fake&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;This didn’t do much to help my scepticism over the version of Bin Laden’s death portrayed by the media this bank holiday as I was certain he was already dead for a long long time, even as early as December 2001.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However I found out US authorities have run a DNA check and are still debating over whether to release the real pictures of his body that they took before they buried him at sea. I am hoping that they do so rather than leave us to take their word for it.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/5137510754</link><guid>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/5137510754</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 14:56:52 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Osama bin Laden corpse photo released with the announcement of...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkl0jdxW051qjf0y6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Osama bin Laden corpse photo released with the announcement of his death is immediatly proved fake.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/5137466435</link><guid>http://christyxy.tumblr.com/post/5137466435</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 14:54:00 -0400</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
