The Herald today pick up on the growing complaints of police harassment from Dundee Muslims.

Meanwhile, the Home Office have got back on the Freedom of Information request following reports that 3000 Muslim homes had been raided:

Dear Sir/ Madam,

Thank you for your e-mail of 29/08/06 12:07:05 in which you ask how many homes have been raided since the introduction of the Terrorism Act 2000.

I am unable to provide you with details on this because the Home Office does not collate data on the number of search warrants issued under the Terrorism Act 2000.

John Reid does have a lot to sort out.

Lastly for just now, a quick comment on the UK has become the "number one al-Qaeda target" story which started off on the front page of yesterday's Guardian and ended up everywhere, including the BBC. I can't ascertain why this is news as no one is quoted at all. I thought the BBC in particular now had rules on single-sourced unattributed stories. Or maybe that only applies to stories that the government doesn't like.

The Scotsman today has a good example of the weird journalism that this issue has brought out. The article headlines that "Al-Qaeda switching from London to other parts of the UK". But at the end of the article concludes:

But a senior security source last night told The Scotsman that claim was "questionable."

Right, can someone please get their journalistic butt into gear and explain what on earth is going on?

Comments

[ainelivia]

Actually Osama what might be of more use to the general population is that all of your "journalistic butts", (you do periodically write for the Grauniad, I believe) should attempt to find out who is peddling "fear and terror", then find out if there is any fact behind this; are there further planned attempts to murder large numbers of people? And if there is any truth to it, get off your collective "journalistic butts" and attempt to bring sense to those who commit murder in the name of God. Perhaps beginning with a certain American President, but don't leave the other nameless ones out, be fair in your condemnation of murder.

[Osama]

Please read my about page as to my vocation.

I would imagine the security services, who appear to be peddling the stories, would have a better idea as to who these terrorists are. If they can't arrest them despite the sundry anti-terror laws we have in this country, then I would be happy to go down and talk to said terrorists.

[Infidel & Kafir Watch]

A Short while ago the mass media miserably failed to report on a BNP bomb factory discovered in Lancashire. Did anyone question what were BNP political members doing or intended to do with this bomb making factory? The government has used the myth of Osama to yet again insight fear into the hearts and minds of people in the UK. But has it ever occurred to anyone that maybe the government is indirectly giving hints to all those unknown non-Muslim terrorist groups in the UK (including BNP) to plan such attacks where people are killed so the blame can be put on Muslims in the UK.

Islam denounces all acts of extremism and terrorism and anyone who does exactly that cannot be a Muslim – this is a fact.

I bet BNP (and alike) are working hard to exploit such information

[White Muslim]

This article exposes The Pentagon planting fake news stories in the American and Iraqi media:

'...This has been acknowledged in the U.S. Defense Department's Information Operations Roadmap, a 74-page document approved in 2003 by Donald Rumsfeld. It noted that "information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and PSYOP [psychological operations], increasingly is consumed by our domestic audience and vice-versa. PSYOP messages disseminated to any audience... will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American public."

"This ought to be of particular concern to Americans because the Pentagon's doctrine for psychological operations specifically contemplates "actions to convey and (or) deny selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning. ... In various ways, perception management combines truth projection, operations security, cover, and deception, and psyops."'

http://www.kavkaz.org.uk/eng/content/2006/09/17/5607.shtml