Reply #24: Differing official agendas

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Atually, those contradictions probably weren't just down to disagreement on how best to exploit the situation. Blair and his allies had good reason to talk up global enemies and networks even if they weren't really there. A homegrown phenonemon reflects much more badly on Blair's responsibility for creating the situation, better for him that it's seen as a strike by the already existing enemy he claimed we had to fight in a war on terror. Blair's guilty as hell either way, but it's degrees of culpability and how heavy the consequences will be for him.

Perhaps the unwelcome light was thrown on Aswat by overzealous Blair minions, desperate to justify his actions and shift the weight of blame away from Blair and towards the sinister enemy he's supposedly trying to protect us against. Like Republicans blowing al-Qaeda moles for short term domestic political gain. Anyone know the first source that mentioned Aswat at all in relation to the bombings?