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Britain “apologizes” for terrorist act in Basra Rescue of SAS men who were planning to place bombs in Basra City Square
Global Research, October 15, 2005
In earlier reports, we focussed on the operation of two undercover British SAS operatives, dressed in traditonal Arab clothing, who were planning to set of bombs in the main square in Basra, coinciding with a religous event.
They were arrested by Iraqi police and subsequently “liberated” by British forces in a major military assault, directed against the Iraqi police authorities with tanks and armed cars.
(See Were British Special Forces Soldiers Planting Bombs in Basra? by Michael Keefer, See also British “Undercover Soldiers” Caught driving Booby Trapped Car)
The matter of what the SAS operatives were doing was hushed up.
No investiigation was carried out.
This and other incidents suggest that the bomb attacks on civlians including suicide attacks are in fact covert intelligence operations to trigger divisions within Iraqi society, while at the same time weakening the resistance movement.
There is, however, a growing awareness among the Iraqi populaiton that the occupation forces rather than Al Qaeda are behind the attacks on civilians.
In a recent report (October 12):
“A number of Iraqis apprehended two Americans disguised in Arab dress as they tried to blow up a booby-trapped car in the middle of a residential area in western Baghdad on Tuesday.
Residents of western Baghdad’s al-Ghazaliyah district told Quds Press that the people had apprehended the Americans as they left their Caprice car near a residential neighborhood in al-Ghazaliyah on Tuesday afternoon (11 October 2005). Local people found they looked suspicious so they detained the men before they could get away. That was when they discovered that they were Americans and called the Iraqi puppet police.”
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, 15 Oct 2005
