It’s really easy. Perrin’s First Law of Terrorism: Terror suspects are ALWAYS known to authorities in advance. Always.
For example: The London Tube Bombing Case: Arrestee No. 1, an 18-year-old “refugee” and foster “child,” was arrested (and released) at the same train station only two weeks ago.
The first suspect is from Iraq, the second from Syria.
The process goes something like this, overall: Western nation invades or meddles in foreign country. Foreigners are angered by this. Western nation foolishly allows mass migration of angry foreigners into Western nation. Western nation puts up displaced angry (fighting-age male) foreigners in foster homes. Displaced angry fighting-age male foreigner fosterlings bomb local subway train. Repeat process until Western nation is dead.
Meddling there + importing here = suicide.
Always.
For only Two Pounds a day you can help a needy child like this hospitalize thirty or so of your countrymen. Facebook/Mirror.
A woman was reportedly severely burned in an explosion at Parsons Green underground station in west London that is being treated as a terrorist incident.
BBC presenter Sophie Raworth, who was on the packed commuter train heading into central London said she saw a woman taken to ambulance with burns “from top to toe”.
Witnesses described a loud bang, followed by flames and a “fireball” that erupted in the District Line Tube carriage at about 8.20am today.
The packed commuter train also had many children on board, travelling to school.
Several passengers were injured in the explosion, and witnesses said there were scenes of panic as people struggled to escape the carriage, “collapsing and pushing” each other.
Images of the aftermath of the incident appear to show a bucket with wires trailing from it smouldering inside the carriage, near doors.
Before we get to my Terrorism Template in use, word comes that the suspect has been identified from CCTV footage. He is already known to authorities somewhere because Perrin’s First Law of Terrorism.
Other than the use of a primarily incendiary bomb, this story unfolded like most. What caught my eye this time comes from deeper down in the Template, the reactionary part after the main event is over. Note:
In [Other Country A (probably America or Great Britain)] [Idiot President or Prime Minister X] declared, “[stupid quote]”. [Insert additional stupid quote if politician X calls for bombing or other military action in unrelated county B – also insert podium pounding picture of serious looking idiot or map of country B]. The shocked attention of the world is now turned towards the people of [city].
Today, “Other Country A” is indeed America. Here, this morning “Politician X” Trump did call for action in or against unrelated countries. In fairness, Trump first decried the actual attack and offered sympathy and assistance to Great Britain. Then he said it was time to “get nasty” and touted his immigration ban affecting six Muslim countries.
This is a stretch, and barely fits, in that the ban is not necessarily military action. And it is related to defense in the wider war on the West. But it usually comes conjoined with additional actions in already failed missions – Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, etc.
The burning bucket. Evening Express.
This and more I briefly covered in today’s commentary for Prepper News Weekly:
His first inclination, he said, was to cut the losses. Then, after meeting with the generals, Trump was convinced to carry on America’s longest war:
President Donald Trump opened the door to an increase in U.S. troop numbers in Afghanistan on Monday night as part of a new strategy for the region, arguing against a hasty withdrawal from America’s longest military conflict.
Trump, in a prime-time televised address, said his new approach was aimed at preventing Afghanistan from becoming a safe haven for Islamist militants bent on attacking the United States. He also laid out a tougher approach to U.S. policy toward Pakistan.
The Republican president overcame his own doubts about the war that began in October 2001 after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. He said repeatedly on the campaign trail last year that the war was too costly in lives and money.
Maybe another 16 years. Or 60. Not feeling to good about this. He did make some good upfront points about national reconciliation. There’s a thought – fix this country first…
In totally unrelated news I shot a video during the Solar Eclipse. That may come forth soon – it’s not that spectacular. It was maybe like early dusk? Meh.
One person has been killed after a man armed with a knife stabbed several people in Finland before being shot by armed police.
At least one person was seen lying dead on the pavement in the southwestern city of Turku.
Eight people had been taken to hospital following the stabbings, including a woman who was pushing a pram. Some of the victims are in a critical condition.
Police shot a man in the leg before arresting him and are now on the hunt for more suspects.
Chief of police Seppo Kolehmainen said: ‘We can not exclude the events being linked to international terrorism.’
Of course it can be excluded! On that note, might I recommend an appropriate fake headline for CNN and Wolf Blitzer, in case they don’t already have something sufficiently zany:
Kurku: Ghost of Robert E. Lee Screams, “Heil Hitler! Heil Trump!,” During NRA-approved AR-15 Attack. Calls Mount for Trump’s Resignation, Impeachment…
Reuters.
Related: Perrin’s First Law confirmed, In Re Barcelona: attacks known to Spanish Intel and CIA. Same here and now.
Catalan police have just confirmed that – as well as the four suspects shot dead, and a fifth who was wounded and arrested – six bystanders and one police officer were injured during the operation in Cambrils.
Two are seriously injured. The officer was slightly hurt.
It’s not clear how they were injured.
All terrorists and suspects were previously known to authorities somewhere, because Perrin’s First Law.
It really started at the borders. Daily Mail.
PS: Wolf Blitzer is an embarrassment even to fake news.
Who knew the Spanish had a statue of Robert E. Lee? It has to come down. Now!
No… This is, in all likelihood, ISIS or Independence Separatists. 13 are reported dead, many injured, and some held hostage.
Update 3: According to El Mundo the number of dead increased to 13. Additionally, as the Telegraph adds, Police stationed at the cordon a block away from Plaza Catalunya, on Passeig de Gracia, say they have no information what is happening inside. Confused tourists, shoppers and business owners gathered at its edges, awaiting some word or direction as to what to do.
The Catalan police say they are treating the crash as a suspected terrorist attack but cannot yet confirm the motive. According to media reports, the attack vehicle was a rented van. That would suggest, if this is confirmed as a terrorist attack, that terrorists are imitating the perpetrators of the London Bridge attack, where a rented van was also used.
Sky News reports that police are now looking for a second van that may have been involved in the attack.
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Update 2: Daksha Dixit, a 28 year old tourist visiting from Mumbai with family, told the Telegraph they had been on a tourist bus which had just dropped them off one block from Plaza Cataluña when they heard the news. “We got off and people were panicking, no one knew what was going on. There was panic everywhere.” The family arrived just yesterday for a one week trip and their hotel is on the Ramblas inside the cordon. They were unclear as to what exactly was unfolding, with Miss Dixit adding: “I don’t know what to do”.
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Update 1: According to Reuters, two armed men have holed up inside a Turkish restaurant after the crash and have taken hostages, while El Periodico tweets that there was an active shootout in the area, in what the Barclona police now say is considered a “terrorist attack.”
Australia was terrifyingly close to witnessing the nation’s worst ever terror atrocity, with hundreds of people blown out of the sky on a routine Saturday flight to the Middle East, it emerged today.
If the alleged ISIS-led plot had been successful, the Etihad jet would have been downed by a bomb unwittingly carried on board by one of the suspect’s brothers.
With full details of the plot yet to emerge – and others shrouded in secrecy for legal reasons – the Australian public have only been fed titbits of information this week.
But at a press conference this morning, an hour before two of the suspected ringleaders appeared in court, the chilling allegations were laid out to a shocked media.
In essence, a bomb was allegedly carried into Sydney Airport on July 15 to be detonated aboard flight EY451. It never made it aboard. Hundreds of lives were spared.
But once these details had been digested, one terrifying question lingered: How did nobody in Australia know about a plot that had been ordered in Syria and involved parts being sent from Turkey to Sydney in international air cargo?
AAIP / Daily Mail.
They knew. Someone knew, British or American intel at the least. Remember Perrin’s First Law: the suspects are always known in advance.
Does not appear to be “Aloha Snackbar!” The Swiss don’t really put up with that. It is a case of domestic terrorism to be sure. Five people were injured in Schaffhausen when Franz Wrousis, a lunatic, attacked with a chainsaw. A chainsaw! for God’s sake! I suppose knives are a bit wimpy.
A CHAINSAW maniac who injured five people in Switzerland this morning targeted a health insurance firm before fleeing, police have said.
He stormed into the offices of the CSS-Krankenkasse in the town of Schaffhausen, injuring two employees before taking his attack onto the street.
Sun/AP.
It is interesting that he became unhinged (was going to saw went off the chain…) seemingly because of (or at least at) a health insurance company. I wonder why? The Swiss effectively have a a single-payer socialized health care system somewhat that like what America will have in five or ten years. However, the Swiss back theirs up almost entirely with services provided by private insurance companies. CSS-Krankenkasse is one of them.
Very interesting.
Also this incident will certainly spark new interest in chainsaw control in Europe and in America. There’s no reason why we must continue to live with the tyranny of the NSA (National Saw Association) and the Billion$$ they spend on Congress each year. No one outside of the military needs a powerful assault chain-style saw. Hand saws will do fine for carpenters and handymen.
Perrin’s 1st Law of Terrorism: Terrorists are always known in advance by authorities. Always.
I’ve been saying that over and over for a while (because it’s true); now it’s mine. Thank you.
Second, the how or why of being known may vary. It’s usually because the actor has been investigated or arrested by the police, either in the jurisdiction of the attack or elsewhere, for prior terror activities. Sometimes, maybe more times than one would assume, it’s because the Jihadist(s) have worked for or are working with the government itself.
This is nothing new. Guess who Osama Bin Laden worked for prior to becoming the FBI’s number one most wanted man on Earth. Yeah. Informants, assets, freelancers, contractors, freedom fighters, resistance, spies – many types of relationship are possible. For further example, see whatever the U.S. is doing in Syria right now.
This pattern works in other places too. Places like England. It now seems that Salman Abedi (Manchester Ariana Grande concert Aloha Snackbar-er) and MI5 (British Domestic Intelligence) had such a relationship. Kurt Nimmo explores that:
On this episode of The Geopolitical Report, we uncover Salman Abedi’s, the Manchester suicide bomber, link to British intelligence. MI5 explains that it missed warnings on Abedi despite one sent by the FBI. This is part of a larger pattern. Since the 1990s, the British government has given jihadi terrorists a free hand to preach hate and murder while they worked simultaneously with British secret services. Leading imams Anjem Choudary, Omar Bakri, Abu Hamza al-Masri, and others have cooperated with the government. Intelligence agencies from Spain, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands have repeatedly warned British authorities about the terror plans of these dangerous individuals, and yet they were allowed to continue their work.
Nimmo speculates on the reason behind this; I won’t, here, allowing his theory to stand in for one of mine.
Consider this the next time you’re forced to contemplate Perrin’s 1st Law of Terrorism (soon). It kind of blows a big, gaping, Aloha Snackbar-style crater in that whole “tha govmint gon’ protect you” BS.
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