[meteorite-list] OT - Major Terrorist Attack on London...

From: Sterling K. Webb <kelly_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Jul 7 16:24:51 2005
Message-ID: <42CD8F6F.80C6ABDA_at_bhil.com>

mark ford wrote:

> the entire London cell phone network went down, I knew it was serious when they initially said it was a 'power surge' (this explanation is automatically used by emergency planning when there is a suspected terrorist attack, to avoid mass panic).

Hi,
    Shutdown (not failure) of cellphone network required because terrorist bomb detonation is most usually triggered by embedded cellphone ring circuitry leadout. Commonest method of detonating IED's in Iraq, and was the method used in the Madrid train bombings (211 dead).
    Of course, this is speculation, but future reconstruction analysis will probably demonstrate many tiny pulverized cellphone fragments. They're vacuuming up debris right now, you can bet on it.
    Oddly enough, the current Sunni extremist movement, Al Qaidah and its relations, are only re-enacting past history. In the late 11th into he 13th century, the Islamic world was virtually dominated behind the scenes by a fanatical Shiite sect, the Ismailis, led by one Hassan I Sabbah, the "Old Man of the Mountain," whose followers rather thoroughly enforced his orders to the rulers
of every Islamic state by terrorist means, chiefly assassination, which the London and Madrid bombings and the WTC are only large-scale examples of.
    In fact, the word "assassin" is derived from them. Their power persisted undiminished until the Mongols swept into western Asia. Having no muslims in the Mongol population, they were immune to "sleeper cells" and even penetration by assassins.
    The Mongols nearly exterminated the entire sect to the last man and destroyed so completely their strongholds that virtually no physical trace of them remains. A remnant of the sect relocated to NW India and are complete pacifists, a wise change of doctrine. Shamefully, the sect's only allies were the Christian crusaders, particularly the Knights Templar.
    In one last oddity, the famous poet, mathematician and astronomer, Omar Khayyam, along with Hassan I Sabbah, and Nizam ul Mulk, who would become the Sultan's prime minister, were all schoolmates as young men and a trio of inseparable best friends.
    My deep sympathy to the victims and their families and friends. They died by becoming a piece of history, usually a sad process in the sense that so much history involves the death of innocents because of somebody else's insane dreams.

Sterling K. Webb
Received on Thu 07 Jul 2005 04:24:15 PM PDT