ロンドン爆破事件と戦争リンク否定の英外相は英世論の実情軽視で英報道も政府発表に疑念高める

語るに落ちた英外相の戦争リンク否定で英世論の実情判明
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投稿者 木村愛二 日時 2005 年 7 月 19 日 11:49:16: CjMHiEP28ibKM

語るに落ちた英外相の戦争リンク否定で英世論の実情判明

　ロンドン爆破事件で、イギリスの識者は、アメリカの戦争に相乗りしていることを、基本的な原因として指摘している。

　私は、このイギリスの世論の報道に関して、以下の投稿をした。

　以下は、ガーデイアンの記事である。

http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1531005,00.html
Straw rejects war link to bombings

James Sturcke and agencies
Monday July 18, 2005

The foreign secretary, Jack Straw, today dismissed suggestions that Britain's involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan contributed to the terrorist attacks in London on July 7.

Mr Straw rejected a report by a respected independent thinktank on foreign affairs, the Chatham House organisation, which found that a key problem in the UK for preventing terrorism is that the country "is riding as a pillion passenger with the United States in the war against terror".
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"I'm astonished that Chatham House is now saying that we should not have stood shoulder to shoulder with our long-standing allies in the United States," Mr Straw told reporters before chairing an EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels.

"The time for excuses for terrorism is over," he said. "The terrorists have struck across the world, in countries allied with the United States, backing the war in Iraq and in countries which had nothing whatever to do with the war in Iraq."

Chatham House and another think-tank, the Economic and Social Research Council, said the situation in Iraq had given "a boost" to the al-Qaida network's ability to recruit and raise money.

Mr Straw said Saturday's attack at a beach resort in Turkey also showed that terrorists "will seek any excuse" to strike. "They struck this weekend in Turkey, which was not supporting our action in Iraq," Mr Straw said.

The Chatham House report, written by Frank Gregory, of the University of Southampton, and Professor Paul Wilkinson, of the University of St Andrews, said: "There is no doubt that the situation over Iraq has imposed particular difficulties for the UK, and for the wider coalition against terrorism."

They added: "The UK is at particular risk because it is the closest ally of the United States."

Their findings contradict the prime minister, Tony Blair, who insisted on Saturday that the fanatics who struck in London and launched other attacks around the world were driven by an "evil ideology" rather than opposition to any policy, and that it would be a "misunderstanding of a catastrophic order" to think that if we changed our behaviour they would change theirs.

The defence secretary, John Reid, also dismissed the argument that Britain would have been safer if it had not joined the military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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　上記と同時に、ロンドンの独立系情報では、「イギリスのメディアは爆発事件に関する政府発表に再びためらいながら疑問を呈す」、「実際に何が起きたのか？」などと題する記事を発表している。

http://prisonplanet.com/Pages/Jul05/170705questions.html
British Media again tentatively questions official line on bombings

The reconstruction: 7/7 - What really happened?

London Independent | July 17 2005

Were the four bombers being controlled or acting alone?
Why did they buy return tickets if they were intending to die?
Could MI5 have found out what was happening and stopped it?
Was an al-Qa'ida suspect allowed to travel to the UK unwatched? The unanswered questions of the London attacks BY Cole Moreton

Suicide bombers do not buy return tickets. Theirs is a one-way trip. When four young men met at Luton railway station a week ago last Thursday, however, they gave every impression of going to London and coming back. They paid and displayed, leaving valid tickets on the windows of a Nissan Micra and a Fiat Bravo in the station car park. They boarded the 7.48am to London carrying return tickets.
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