Conspiracy Files: 7/7 Bombings.

I've just realised that last night the BBC screened a documentary examining the conspiracy theories that have sprung up surrounding the terrorist bombings in London on July 7th 2005. I haven't actually watched the program nor am I that familiar with the conspiracy theories that the program addressed because like all of the great conspiracy theories they make little sense and rely on a massively inflated sense of the intelligence services capabilities.

What I do know about British intelligences involvement in Islamic extremism in the UK is that throughout the 1980's MI6 ran a number of so called Mudjadeen schools to recruit British Muslims to go and fight the Russians in Afghanistan. This was done because Muslim lives are considered to be worth less then Protestant ones so it's cheaper if they're killed. Throughout the 1990's these schools continued with graduates being sent to fight the Russians in Chechnya. When the Global War on Terror began MI6 found themselves swamped and couldn't cope with these operations anymore so palmed them off to MI5 who are considered a junior service. MI5 then tried to run these schools as part of a so called waterfall operation where potential terrorist are still identified but rather then having their extremist views encouraged before packing them off to fight the Russians their views are challenged in the hope that they will return to their home communities and reduce the level of domestic terrorism by contesting the views of other extremists. Sadly because MI5 aren't even the smartest guys in the room when they're taking a shit they lost control of the operation and Britain's terror network was born.

Since then MI5 have been funding and promoting various conspiracy theories, the wilder the better, in order to fulfill two main objectives;

• By giving attention to lunatic conspiracy theories it diverts attention from a serious discussion of intelligence service failures that led to the terrorist attacks. This was seen extensively in America where all the investigations into 9/11 spent so long rebuffing stupid claims of the towers being brought down by controlled demolition that they failed to answer questions like why did Mossad, having extensive intelligence networks within Islamic terror groups, somehow forget to warn the CIA that an attack was imminent.

• The conspiracy theories keep people talking about the bombings and allow the intelligence services to keep the attacks alive in every one's memories and by extension allow them to hold anniversaries of the attacks every year in the hope that it will help maintain public support for the wars that provoked the attacks in the first place.