Resilience and solidarity can’t be the only response to the worst attack this city has seen but right now it’s what they need. Panorama: Manchester Attack: Terror at the Arena, BBC 2017
It’s now a week since thousands of young girls were looking forward to another concert – American superstar Ariana Grande. The Manchester arena was packed with more than 20,000 fans. ibid.
A bomb had been detonated in the foyer of the arena. ibid.
22 people died in the Manchester arena on May 22nd, the youngest was 8 years old. 116 people were injured. ibid.
All terrorism is fake; it is military deception practised by the rich upon the poor in an ongoing class war. Everything is a Rich Man’s Trick ***** 2014
For the last twenty-five years people from all over the US have converged at the gates of the Fort Benning army base in Georgia. Abby Martin, The Empire Files: The US School that Trains Dictators & Death Squads, Youtube 2015
One of the school’s star graduates – notorious Panamanian dictator and cocaine smuggler Manuel Noriega. ibid.
Dozens of military interventions including coups shaped the region. ibid.
The School of the Americas became an essential force for the empire … churning out thousands of puppets and proxies. ibid.
The most heinous right-wing death-squads of our time. ibid.
US Instructed Latins on Executions, Torture. ibid. Washington Post article 21st September 1996
Half of the population in El Salvador at the time was landless … people living in tremendous deprivation. Abby Martin, The Empire Files with Chris Hedges: War, Propaganda and the Enemy Within, Youtube 2015
A morning like any other in Munich, a city where tradition and modernity exist side by side. One Day in September, 1999
I was given a gun; for the first time in my life I felt inspired. ibid. Palestinian revolutionary
For Andre and the rest of the Israeli team the Olympics held particular significance for they were held in Munich, Germany. ibid.
Security was kept deliberately lax. ibid.
I do not believe it! The Russians have got the gold.’ ibid. UK basketball commentary
Now they headed straight for the Israeli men’s quarters. ibid.
‘The one thing the Germans didn’t want them to be – the Olympics of Terror.’ ibid. ABC news
‘13 members of the Israeli team as hostages.’ ibid.
They demanded the release of more than 200 revolutionary prisoners. ibid.
‘A crowd estimated between 75-80,000 people.’ ibid. news
At 6 p.m. the Palestinians issued a new demand: they wanted a long-distance jet. ibid.
‘All hell has broken loose our there [airport].’ ibid.
You may have heard of the Earth Liberation Front. The Attorney General himself says it’s a domestic terrorist organisation; the FBI says it is one of the most dangerous groups in the country. The ELF has claimed responsibility for more than two-dozen acts of eco-terrorism. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, news, 2011
This thing is complex … no-one got hurt. ibid. Daniel
I protested constantly … I wrote hundreds of protest letters. ibid.
There is this new kind of protest … people would call it sabotage or monkeywrenching. ibid.
In the months after the Ranger Station fires there was a split within the environmental movement. ibid.
Six of Daniel’s co-defendants have appeared in court to accept plea-deals; in exchange for reduced sentences they’ve agreed to testify in the government’s case against the remaining defendants. ibid.
In 1999 tens of thousands of people converged on Seattle to protest the WTO and its effect on the environment and labour … The police responded with force to clear the streets. ibid.
The heart of Britain’s democracy, Westminster, was struck by a murderous terror attack … Innocent people killed and injured randomly targeted. Tonight: Terror in London, ITV 2017
PC Keith Palmer confronts him and is stabbed. ibid.
Eight arrests had been made in London, Birmingham and elsewhere. So-called Islamic State had claimed responsibility for the attacks. ibid.
This is the story of the biggest terror plot since 9/11 told by the people who stopped it. Liquid Bomb Plot, captions, National Geographic 2017
‘In 2006 we’re only just coming to terms with the fact that we were facing a substantial terrorist threat from within the United Kingdom.’ ibid. Andy Hayman, assistant head rozzer
‘There were more than just the British and the American services involved here.’ ibid. Michael Hayden, CIA
‘They were quite ordinary. They had families, they had responsibilities, most of them didn’t have criminal convictions.’ ibid. investigating rozzer
‘We had never come across the use of a liquid explosive disguised as a drinks bottle.’ ibid.
‘One of the largest surveillance operations … 28 surveillance teams.’ ibid.
‘You’re talking about 2,000 lives.’ ibid.
‘The arresting phase was an adrenalin rush.’ ibid.
‘They were looking to make this bigger than 9/11.’ ibid.
For some reason there are certain violent terrorist explosion incidents that garner a lot of attention and others that are mentioned in passing if at all. And why is that? The Corbett Report: The Terrorists Have Been Identified, James Corbett online 2013
‘Boston: Because they were white people; because they were Americans.’ ibid. Kokesh
It was the biggest police manhunt in a generation. Four men who wanted to kill as many people as they could and were prepared to die in order to do it. Real Crime s8e8: Bombers on the Run, ITV 2009
21st July 2005: four suicide bombers are on the run. ibid.
The hunt was on now for a fifth terrorist on the run. ibid.
‘The FBI says it has thwarted a terror plot: Federal investigators say the suspects are four men with a shared hatred for America.’ The Newburgh Sting, Sky Atlantic 2017, television news
In the Spring of 2008 the FBI sends an undercover informant to Newburgh, New York, on a mission to find terrorists. ibid. caption
Hussain: ‘I can make you $250,000 …’ ibid.
‘Nobody is armed; nobody has a bomb.’ ibid. defense
The Newburgh Four lost on appeal. They are taking their case to the United States Supreme Court. ibid.
August 20th 1967 11.15: A white Ford Cortina drives down Park Lane in London’s West End. In the car three men: young Spanish anarchists. They turn into Grosvenor Square, draw alongside the American Embassy [and open fire]. The Angry Brigade: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Britain’s First Urban Guerrilla Group, BBC 1973
A movement that introduced a new form of urban guerrilla activity. ibid.
Six explosions, six locations in three countries and all claimed by the 1st of May Group. ibid.
The Italians had a total of 145 explosions in 1969 alone. Britain had its Spanish-influenced 1st of May Group, and in fact after a bomb attempt in 1969 at the Bank of Bilbao in Covent Garden two 1st of May men were caught with a communique in their pockets. But in Britain other forms of urban violence were growing. ibid.
In Britain these experiments in revolutionary lifestyle were slow to catch on. ibid.
The political idea behind Squatting & the Claimants’ Union was to make people on the fringes of society aware of their situation and to fight it. ibid.
And then followed the trial of the so-called Stoke Newington 8. The longest criminal trial in legal history and certainly one of the most controversial. ibid.