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Date: June 30, 2007 5:01:38 PM PDT
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Subject: UK's Brown No Bush-Poodle / Keystone-Cops "Al Qaeda"
Panics UK -- Coincidence?
Britain's Brown picks critics of war for Cabinet
By DAVID STRINGER
The Associated Press
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/
2003767228_brits29.html
LONDON — New Prime Minister Gordon Brown appointed some critics of
the Iraq war to his youthful circle of senior Cabinet ministers
Thursday, underlining his ambition to heal rifts over the conflict
and win back the support of disenchanted.
Brown has pledged to re-examine Britain's role in Iraq — a shift
from his predecessor and perhaps a challenge to the Bush
administration, which considered Tony Blair its closest ally.
David Miliband, who at times criticized Blair's Middle East policy,
was named foreign secretary. Miliband, considered a rising star in
the Labour Party, at age 41 becomes the youngest British foreign
secretary in three decades.
Brown also gave posts to John Denham, a former minister who quit
the government in 2003 to protest the Iraq invasion, and Mark
Malloch-Brown, a former deputy U.N. secretary-general who clashed
with then-U.S. Ambassador John Bolton.
Brown picked Jacqui Smith, a 44-year-old Amnesty International
member, to be Britain's first female home secretary, one of the top
Cabinet posts, with responsibility for policing and tackling crime
and terrorism.
Dozens of junior posts would be announced today, Brown spokesman
Michael Ellam said.
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Brown cabinet reshuffle
sweeps away old order
By George Jones, Political Editor
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/29/
nbrown129.xml
Gordon Brown will today set about repairing the damage caused to
trust in politics during the Blair era by summoning Cabinet to
approve a new constitutional settlement between Parliament, the
people and government.
New faces amid the more recognisable ones: Gordon Brown's new
Cabinet meets for the first time
After carrying out the most sweeping Cabinet reshuffle of modern
times, the Prime Minister will promise that in future ministers
will have to seek parliamentary approval before a major commitment
of troops overseas ...
... David Miliband, the youngest Foreign Secretary since David Owen
in 1977, has privately criticised the Iraq war and spoken out
against Israel's bombardment of Lebanon.
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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2110254,00.html
Gordon Brown sat through [Blair's] cabinet meetings and raised not
a whisper of complaint about it all. That wasn't because of his
respect for the collective responsibilities of cabinet government,
but because he agreed with it, as his support for ID cards and his
conjecture about 90 days' detention without trial indicate.
How is it that so few people recognise that Gordon Brown has not
sailed up the Thames on a storm-battered barque, but is simply
moving next door? Yet the fact of his presence in Downing Street
over the last decade is mystifyingly absent from the account. He
was there but not there. He was the second most powerful man in
the land, yet his true political nature is held to have been
impeded and unexpressed. Let's see if he begins to correct Blair's
attack on liberty before too credulously believing the rumours
about a new constitutional settlement.
[But] I may be wrong about Brown.
When the ID card scheme is abandoned, the Inquiries Act redrafted
to return scrutiny and power to Parliament, when elements of the
Serious Organised Crime and Police Act are repealed to allow
demonstrations within a kilometre of Parliament and a distinction
is made between arrestable and non-arrestable offences, when the
Tribunals, Court and Enforcement Bill is stopped in its tracks and
an Englishman's home again becomes his castle, when the government
stops punishing people without a normal court deciding that an
offence has been committed, when the national surveillance of
motorways and town centres comes before Parliament as a bill and is
not just allowed to be implemented by a few power-crazed police
officers, then I will admit I am wrong and I will rejoice at a
genuine restoration of liberty and THEN I will praise Gordon Brown
to the skies.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-
te.britain30jun30,0,4867213.story?coll=bal-home-headlines
... Brown, who took over from Tony Blair on Wednesday and formed
his government Thursday, found on Friday that instead of discussing
new policies or constitutional change, his first Cabinet meeting
was addressing an immediate terrorist threat.
"We are currently facing the most serious and sustained threat to
our security from international terrorism," Jacqui Smith, the new
home secretary, said after the meeting.
Terrorist analyst Anthony Glees from Brunel University in London
said in a BBC interview that the car bombs were "similar to devices
found in Afghanistan and Iraq" and called them "an al-Qaida memo to
Gordon Brown and the British people to show them they are still in
business."
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Gas canister bomb 'an amateur job'
James Sturcke
Guardian Unlimited (UK), June 29, 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,2114970,00.html
The builders of the bomb found in central London today would have
probably been "keen amateurs", an explosives expert said.
Patio gas cylinders found by police in the light green Mercedes
would have been an unlikely weapon for experienced terroristsunless
they wanted to create a fireball for the cameras, Sidney Alford,
founder of explosives company Alford Technologies, told Guardian
Unlimited.
As a readily available combustible material, the propane gas held
in such cylinders might be considered by someone unable to source
high explosives.
"If you are making a bomb and you are limited in the amount of
explosives you can acquire you could easily get some gas cylinders
of propane to add to them. They would give a more impressive
fireball on TV," he said.
"They are probably keen amateurs who could not get their hands on
the real thing and do not realise the limits of what they are doing."
The Metropolitan police's head of anti-terrorism, Peter Clarke,
said there was also a "significant quantity" of petrol and nails in
the car, as well as the gas. A witness reported nails were lying on
the floor of the car, which Mr Alford said was another indication
the bomb makers were inexperienced.
"Nails could be considered as an additional way of extending the
potential damage and lethal range of the device but putting them on
the floor is an incompetent way of building a bomb. They would go
straight into the ground," he said.
Mr Alford said that unless there were also explosives present the
main impact of the device would be in the economic disruption
caused by closing off the normally bustling shops, restaurants and
businesses of central London.
"As the IRA knew, you do not need a real bomb to cause real havoc,"
he said.
Police said the "potentially viable explosive device" was made
safe. Mr Clarke said that had it exploded there could have been
"significant injuries or loss of life".
Bomb disposal experts, Mr Alford said, may have used a water
disruptor often delivered through a "pig stick" -- similar to a gun
barrel -- to try and separate the components of the charge without
triggering an explosion.
Water could be fired at near-supersonic speeds down the stick and
its force would be enough to pierce metal and destroy the bomb, but
without causing a spark.
It is believed to be unprecedented for gas canisters to be used for
a bomb in the UK. They have sometimes been used elsewhere in the
world as bomb casings -- opened up and packed with explosives -- or
used for firing mortars. Police said they had yet to examine
whether the cylinders contained patio gas as indicated on the label.
Michael Clarke, professor of defence at King's College London, said
whoever was behind the intended attack left a lot of evidence at
the scene that would help police track them down.
He said security services would be concerned that the bomb may be
part of a wider plot, and that there could be other devices planted
around the capital.
"They will find out about this very quickly," he said. "Any car
coming into central London would be on a lot of surveillance
footage. Also nobody can make a bomb without leaving behind a lot
of DNA." Prof Clarke said it was almost certain the bomb was
intended to detonate today.
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