By Peter Koenig
British elections are planned for 8 June 2017.
At the end of a pop concert by US singer Ariana Grande in Manchester, an enormous ‘controlled’ explosion killed at least 22 people and injured 59, as reported by British media. Many of them are children and adolescents, as most of the concert-goers were young people.
The singer is unharmed. The concert hall accommodates 21,000 people. After the blast, panic broke loose, resulting in a mass stampede. It is not clear whether people were also killed in the stampede.
Hours after the explosion, although BBC reported it was not evident what exactly happened, UK police and authorities talked immediately of an act of terror.
Early Tuesday morning, 23 May, British authorities said that the Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the explosion. The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, Ian Hopkins, stated investigators believe the attack was carried out by a lone suicide bomber “carrying” a homemade device. He was killed by the blast.
The IS-Propaganda agency Amak apparently issued the claim of IS’s responsibility for the deadly blast. Did an independent authority check whether this is indeed true?
The attacker, is now named by US officials (why US officials?) as Salman Abedi, 22, a British citizen, born in the UK. He is told having detonated the improvised explosive device.
Another 23-year-old suspect was apprehended in the south of Manchester. But so far, the Chief Police Officer refused to talk to the media about suspects.
Prime Minister, Theresa May raised the threat warning to the highest level, from ‘severe’ to ‘critical’, saying other attacks may follow. This is the highest security level in the UK. She also urged police to investigate whether the attacker was alone or may have acted as a member of a wider terror group.
The attack is the worst in the UK since 56 people were killed in the 7 July London bombings in 2005.
Both, Theresa May and her election opponent, Labor Leader Jeremy Corbyn expressed their deep sorrow to the victims’ families. All campaign activities for the 8 June elections have been suspended.
Mr. Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, proclaiming on what the raised threat level means for the city, said,
there will be additional police officers on London’s streets over the coming days – including additional armed officers. You will also see some military personnel around London – they are there to help our police service to keep us safe and guard key sites.
The head of Counter Terrorism at the Metropolitan Police, Mr. Mark Rowley, informed that
there has been an arrest and there are currently multiple searches and other activity taking place as I speak. However, at this stage it is still not possible to be certain if there was a wider group involved in the attack; 24 hours in we have a number of investigative leads that we are pursuing to manage the ongoing threat.
All of this points to a rapid militarization of the UK, akin to France. What EU country will be next?
Was it The ISIS, Who is Behind the ISIS?
Why would the Islamic State kill children in England, when they know exactly that this provokes further NATO – EU – US military aggression against them?
And why in England, just before elections?
Do they not know that they incite election results unfavorable to them, unfavorable to Muslim society, electing the candidate that promises even more discrimination against Muslims? A candidate even less eager to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East?
Of course, they know.
Known and documented ISIS-Daesh, Al-Qaeda and most other terror groups fighting in the Middle East proxy-wars for the West, are constructs of US intelligence. ISIS is financed by America’s staunched Middle East ally Saudi Arabia. This relationship has to be addressed. Who are the State sponsors of terrorism.
We, The People, should wake up to this reality.
Are these terror attacks being used to dupe the public into accepting more “protection”, like a gradual but ever accelerating militarization of the West. Even the installation of Martial Law is not far-fetched. Former French President Hollande tried to introduce it in France’s Constitution in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo terror attack; so far unsuccessfully.
Peter Koenig writes for Global Research where this article first appeared.
No plausible Photo and Video evidence of an “event” as being portrayed in the lapdog media. The ONE photo of the “foyer” area of the arena where the “bomb” supposedly went off is absolutely not consistent with a powerful bomb filled with shrapnel; doesn’t look anything like the scenes we’ve seen from Iraq and Syria where suicide attacks have happened; a few people in what may be EMT uniforms, doing nothing in particular, civilians apparently tending to people on the floor, NO GURNEYS, no evidence of shrapnel damage (all those fluorescent lights with plastic lenses), people wandering around with no sense of urgency, red faux-blood “skid marks” where I think we’re to believe that someone’s bloody body was dragged across the floor (shades of the photo from the Bataclan theater). No first-responder would drag a body that way.
This is a Hoax. Period. Standard Crisis Actor fare. With all the smartphones, no video consistent with a powerful bombing. Not a single photo of anyone on a gurney being put into an ambulance, with scads of them parked around outside with people just standing around, even having tea. No photos of people being unloaded at hospitals or clinics. But Theresa May and The Queen were visiting victims in hospital. Right. Now the names and photos of the “22 victims” have been published in the Guardian, as well as a harrowing account by a “nurse” in hospital where they worked all night to remove “bolts and nuts” from victims’ lower limbs.
What do you call it when The State can merely decree that an attack on The Nation has occurred without any need of evidence?
This can only help the Right wing of England.