The Cargo Bomb Plot.

On October 29th British Intelligence released, in dramatic fashion, details of a plot to transport bombs to the United States aboard cargo planes. One these bombs was intercepted at East Midlands airport in the UK, a second was intercepted at Cologne airport in Germany and the chaos forced the Americans to ground and search aircraft in Philadelphia and Newark. British intelligence have since claimed that both of these bombs, hidden in printer cartridges, were timed to detonate in mid-air over the eastern seaboard of the United States.

Like the Christmas day, Detroit bomb plot Britain has claimed that these bombs, also made of PETN, were the work of a bomb maker called Ibrahim al-Asiri, a Saudi belonging to the Al-Qada affiliate Al-Qada in the Arab Peninsula (AQAP). As there are serious doubts as to the very existence of AQAP rather then being a legitimate terrorist attack this was, like the Detroit bomb plot, a British false flag operation. However unlike the Detroit plot this operation had a very immediate and specific purpose - to influence the outcome of the US mid-term elections that were to be held four days after the plot was uncovered. The idea being that a big, dramatic but foiled terrorist attack would convince American voters that Barack Obama and his Democrat Party couldn't be trusted on national security prompting them to vote for the rival Republican Party in droves.

Obviously even the Republican voting members of the US establishment take a very dim view of foreign powers trying to influence the outcome of their elections especially when those attempts involve loading bombs onto planes and flying them to the US. Therefore the British also included elements in the plot designed to cause as much stress and confusion to the Americans in order to distract them from the true purpose of the operation. The main part of this was to release incomplete information at the last possible moment in order to convince the Americans that they were facing a ticking bomb scenario with bombs on any number of planes in American skies that could explode at any moment killing thousands of people. If this wasn't distracting enough the plot also included details that could be confused for code about me and my situation. For example regular readers of this blog will know that in my dealings with the Court of Protection I've had lots of trouble printing out documents due to inexplicable problems with printer cartridges. Also the decision to ground and search the aeroplane at East Midlands airport was made at the time I was expected to publish my long awaited post about the US mid-term elections. This meant that as I was putting the finishing touches to that post there was a dialogue going on between the UK and the US along the lines of "Have you found it yet? What's in it? Is it going to explode?" etc. In fact the UK police gave the "All clear" message just five minutes after I published that post.

As to why the British wanted the Republican Party to dominate at the US elections the answer is really twofold. Firstly it is ideological. Saying that Britain is a bit right-wing is like saying Hitler was a bit naughty. Therefore Britain would like the rest of the World to be run by people who share it's worldview. In America that means the Republicans even if the British think they're a bit too liberal. The Republican Party are also especially important to the British because they draw some of their core support from Protestant fundamentalists. These people share the same religious belief that under pins the UK Monarchy - that Protestants are on mission from God to provoke a holy war with all the other religions in order to bring about the end of the World and fulfill a misinterpretation of the Biblical prophecy of Judgement day. By having these people elected to power in the United States Britain effectively gets to control America and it's vast wealth and power. On a related note up until about 1950 Britain wasn't just a country it was an Empire. Britain has never come to terms with the loss of that empire and desperately wants it back. The problem is that they don't have the wealth or strength to regain it. America does though so if Britain can convince America that terrorists are trying to attack them from former British colonies it can get America to go in an help Britain re-colonise those nations.

The second reason is purely economic. As previously mentioned the last eight years of Republican rule caused an unprecedented global economic disaster that meant it will be 2012/13 before the US economy recovers. To put that in perspective the Brazilian, German and Chinese economies actually grew stronger during that period and Britain's economy is not expected to recover until 2018/19 at the earliest. So unless Britain can find some way to sabotage everyone else's economy and slow down their recoveries Britain faces getting relegated down to the third tier of World powers. Although it doesn't look like it or feel like it at the moment Obama's Presidency has actually being quite strong on the economy in exceptionally difficult conditions. By contrast the Republican's economic plans that include reducing the deficit by cutting taxes and maintaining spending along with their obsession with starting a currency war with China are idiotic to the point of being suicidal. Therefore if the Republicans were to gain power in 2012 the American and by extension the World economy would be looking at another decade of financial misery which would allow Britain to make up ground and give them a get out of jail free card for their own economic incompetence.

The economic element of the cargo bomb plot is probably best demonstrated through the mis-fortunes of Britain's national airline, British Airways (BA). For the last year or so BA have been under investigation for keeping the cost of shipping air cargo artificially high and were fined £90million on November 10th for that offence. The increased security costs that are expected to follow this latest scare story give BA the perfect excuse to hike their prices back up again.