Friday, May 19, 2006

The truth about 7/7: it was meaningless / Spiked Online, 16 May 2006

http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CB05F.htm
Brendan O'Neill
"From what we've read over the past 10 months - the reams of analysis, commentary and speculation - you might think they did it as part of some Islamist conspiracy, or to register their opposition to the war in Iraq, or because they were evil and wished to topple British, even Western civilisation. In fact, as the UK government's narrative on 7/7 now reveals, there is little hard evidence that they did it for any of those reasons. The truth appears to be that 7/7 was meaningless; it was a nihilistic attack carried out by four fairly ordinary blokes for no easily discernible aim or agenda."