Undesired Walrus
9th June 2008, 05:38 AM
Breaking away from the endless 9/11 threads, a fresh subject to talk about will probably be the current trial of the alleged transatlantic liquid bomb plotters, eight in all. It is a conspiracy theory, after all.
Abdulla Ahmed Ali has denied that he was planning to blow up himself and fellow passengers on airplanes in 2006, saying he:
wanted to set off a device in Parliament as a stunt, he told a jury.
He claims he never intended to kill anyone, and the list of airplane times was in relation to a bomb he was to detonate in heathrow near the boarding of those planes in question.
When questioned on the suicide videos, he delcared they were
"propaganda" he planned to post online.
He said homemade "suicide videos" made by himself and fellow defendants would have been combined with "graphic and shocking" internet footage to make a documentary with the aim of swaying public opinion on Britain's foreign policy.
The Westminster blast would have drummed up publicity for the documentary, which he planned to post on the YouTube website, he said.
So far, this resembles the claim of the five men found guilty for trying to detonate explosives on the 21st July 2007, claiming they were only meant to go 'pop' and never meant to kill anyone.
But when asked how he intended to detonate the explosives in a 'stunt', he said there would be a timer. There is no evidence of this timer.
A good point made yesterday was the following:
Mr Ali referred to his phrases as "just garbage" upon being questioned by officers outside Walthamstow town hall on 9 August 2006.
Among the notes discovered were the phrases: "five days before all link up", "calculate exact drops of Tang", "decide on which battery to use for D" and "dirty mag to distract".
The diary was discovered along with a computer memory stick which contained detailed flight lists, which Mr Ali referred to as "holiday destinations in America".
During cross-examination by prosecutor Peter Wright QC, Mr Ali was asked to remember the moment of his arrest.
The defendant said: "As far as I am aware, I don't remember telling any lies."
But, when asked to describe his explanation to police of not recalling the meaning of his various lists, Mr Ali said: "It is a lie."
The barrister also questioned the defendant on why he had not mentioned he had been making a propaganda video, as he has claimed, and that the entire plan was a hoax.
Mr Ali replied that he was "shaken up and quite shocked".
Mr Wright replied by saying: "You could have told the truth and chose not to."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7438796.stm
Bolding mine.
Well, here we have it, a fresh new conspiracy. What are your thoughts? Is he clearly fibbing, or is he telling the truth?
Abdulla Ahmed Ali has denied that he was planning to blow up himself and fellow passengers on airplanes in 2006, saying he:
wanted to set off a device in Parliament as a stunt, he told a jury.
He claims he never intended to kill anyone, and the list of airplane times was in relation to a bomb he was to detonate in heathrow near the boarding of those planes in question.
When questioned on the suicide videos, he delcared they were
"propaganda" he planned to post online.
He said homemade "suicide videos" made by himself and fellow defendants would have been combined with "graphic and shocking" internet footage to make a documentary with the aim of swaying public opinion on Britain's foreign policy.
The Westminster blast would have drummed up publicity for the documentary, which he planned to post on the YouTube website, he said.
So far, this resembles the claim of the five men found guilty for trying to detonate explosives on the 21st July 2007, claiming they were only meant to go 'pop' and never meant to kill anyone.
But when asked how he intended to detonate the explosives in a 'stunt', he said there would be a timer. There is no evidence of this timer.
A good point made yesterday was the following:
Mr Ali referred to his phrases as "just garbage" upon being questioned by officers outside Walthamstow town hall on 9 August 2006.
Among the notes discovered were the phrases: "five days before all link up", "calculate exact drops of Tang", "decide on which battery to use for D" and "dirty mag to distract".
The diary was discovered along with a computer memory stick which contained detailed flight lists, which Mr Ali referred to as "holiday destinations in America".
During cross-examination by prosecutor Peter Wright QC, Mr Ali was asked to remember the moment of his arrest.
The defendant said: "As far as I am aware, I don't remember telling any lies."
But, when asked to describe his explanation to police of not recalling the meaning of his various lists, Mr Ali said: "It is a lie."
The barrister also questioned the defendant on why he had not mentioned he had been making a propaganda video, as he has claimed, and that the entire plan was a hoax.
Mr Ali replied that he was "shaken up and quite shocked".
Mr Wright replied by saying: "You could have told the truth and chose not to."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7438796.stm
Bolding mine.
Well, here we have it, a fresh new conspiracy. What are your thoughts? Is he clearly fibbing, or is he telling the truth?