[ssf] Inside the Crevice: Islamist terror networks and the 7/7 intelligence failure

father brown adam at diamat.org.uk
Thu Sep 20 15:17:48 BST 2007


  Why was London attacked on 7th July 2005?

  Why were the attacks not prevented?

  Initial government responses claimed the Islamist terrorists
  were 'clean skins', previously unknown to the security services;
  therefore more staff and more severe anti-terror measures are needed to
  prevent future attacks. But there are great discrepancies in the
  government's account of events leading up to 7/7, in particular
  Operation Crevice. Moreover, British 'security' policies at home and
  abroad have systematically undermined public safety for over the last
  decade. Meanwhile, 'anti-terror' powers are serving to divert attention
  and resources from real threats of terrorist attacks in this country.

  This critique has been developed in a parliamentary briefing paper,
  *Inside the Crevice*. In August 2007 it was circulated to members of
  several UK parliamentary committees, including the Intelligence &
  Security Committee, Home Affairs Committee, Defence Committee, Foreign
  Affairs Committee, Joint Human Rights Committee, and Communities &
  Local Government Committee, as well as ministers and government
  officials.

  The report is cited in the pre-action protocol letter drafted by Oury
  Clark Solicitors on behalf of the 7/7 Inquiry Group, sent to the Home
  Secretary. It is also cited in their application for judicial review of
  the government's decision not to hold an inquiry into the London
  bombings. Key themes and questions raised in the report, which calls
  for radical reform of British security policies, will be discussed at
  the following event:

  Title : Whose Security? What Intelligence?
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  Date & Time : Weds 3 October 2007, 6.30 - 9.00 pm
  Venue : Garden Court Chambers, Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2
          (Holborn tube station)

  Chair : Frances Webber, Garden Court Chambers

  Speakers include :

  * Nafeez Ahmed,
    Institute for Policy Research & Development (IPRD)
    Author of *Inside the Crevice*
    http://www.globalcrisis.org.uk/main/PDF/Inside%20the%20Crevice.pdf

  * Des Thomas
    Detective Superintendent (ret.)  former Deputy Head, CID
    Constabulary, Hampshire

  * Les Levidow
    Campaign Against Criminalising Communities
    http://www.campacc.org.uk/

  * Rachel North
    7/7 survivor, author, Out of the Tunnel

  * James Oury
    Oury Clark Solicitors, representing the 7/7 Inquiry Group

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'Security' isn't a dirty word, Blackadder.

'Crevice' is a dirty word, but 'security' isn't.



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