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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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