And so we begin to see the truth seep out

This blogger, Nafeez Ahmed, (he teaches International Relations at the University of Sussex) usually has something interesting to say. But read the original full story here.
This is something I was always very suspicious about from the outset; Blair's total refusal to condemn the Lebanon situation and then absence during the terror arrests always felt wrong somehow. Yes, on holiday, I know. But this is getting really worrying now – the aim is quite plainly to inflate the atmosphere of fear of terrorism whether or not there are any actual plots or not - bluntly, to just invent them. Fly under the radar of the mainstream media for a while and you'll find an absolute ton of this stuff. We all say "don't believe what you read in the papers", but we didn't really think it mattered. Now it does.