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editor said:
Unless the image was a grab of a low quality, analogue video tape, of course.
The source is irrelevant here, the issue is how big (width x height) the saved JPEG image is.

I find it more likely to be some kind of VHS artifact, as some one else was suggesting.
 
pk said:
Doesn't look like one, TBH.
Really?
Depending on the machine/age of tape etc, I've seen all sorts of weird and wonderful artefacts appear on old videos - especially ones played on my machine that have been recorded elsewhere.

I've got ones with horizontal lines, vertical lines, blotches, double images, colour shifts, weird conmpression-like effects - the lot!
 
editor said:
Unless the image was a grab of a low quality, analogue video tape, of course.

Are people still talking about that picture? :D

If it was photoshopped it would be seamless. you would need to examine it under a microscope to prove otherwise.
 
scarecrow said:
If it was photoshopped it would be seamless. you would need to examine it under a microscope to prove otherwise.
Well, yes.

Unless an undercover 'truth seeker' working in the secret MI5 Photoshop Studio wanted to leave clues, like they do in the movies.
 
editor said:
Well, yes.

Unless an undercover 'truth seeker' working in the secret MI5 Photoshop Studio wanted to leave clues, like they do in the movies.

:D

Ladies and gentleman: Introducing the awesome power of photoshop.

Exhibit A
lionel.gif
 
scalyboy said:
There is also a CCTV picture of Hasib Hussein at King's X, inside Boots IIRC.
But didn't you know!!!!

One of the directors of Boots plc is Dr Martin Read, who used to work for GEC Marconi, a leading defence company. Also key shareholders in Boots plc also include Franklin Resources Inc - an American investment management organization and Lazard Freres & Co which is involved with merchant banking and even sounds a bit like "Lizards Brothers & Co".

:eek:
 
editor said:
Really?
Depending on the machine/age of tape etc, I've seen all sorts of weird and wonderful artefacts appear on old videos - especially ones played on my machine that have been recorded elsewhere.

I've got ones with horizontal lines, vertical lines, blotches, double images, colour shifts, weird conmpression-like effects - the lot!

If we're talking about that section of railing that appears to be in front of the guy's arm - that doesn't look like a VHS artifact to me.

It could be a pixellation error from a digital camera or digital disk recording device - but not from VHS tape, in my opinion.
 
pk said:
If we're talking about that section of railing that appears to be in front of the guy's arm - that doesn't look like a VHS artifact to me.

It could be a pixellation error from a digital camera or digital disk recording device - but not from VHS tape, in my opinion.

I was thinking burn-in on the scan-line, noting it's so much brighter than anything else nearby. You've more experience than me... still most probably a recording artefact, yes?
 
scalyboy said:
There is also a CCTV picture of Hasib Hussein at King's X, inside Boots IIRC.
Yeah wasn't he buying a battery or something? Last minute repair to his detonator I guess. Didn't he then go and celebrate his forthcoming Islamic suicide mission by then popping into McDonald's?

I'm reminded of the curious behaviour of Mohammed Atta and friends who liked to hang out at the Pink Pony lapdancing club in Las Vegas when they had the chance. Fundamentalists, or patsies?
 
Ahhh...

Sunday Times said:
MI5 is being accused of a cover-up for failing to disclose to a parliamentary watchdog that it bugged the leader of the July 7 suicide bombers discussing the building of a bomb months before the London attacks.

MI5 had secret tape recordings of Mohammad Sidique Khan, the gang leader, talking about how to build the device and then leave the country because there would be a lot of police activity.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2179602,00.html

With quote from BK. I'd have put another "if" in there, BK... and expect them to take it out :(

No source information at all. Neither the Observer nor the Telegraph have picked it up that I've been able to find - and nor would I, given the lack of source. Which suggests it's either a genuine leak from a "security source" to the Times or a monumental cock-up by the Times.

In governmental terms, such a leak actually serves Five's interests - "Money! Money! If only you'd given us more money!" - though that doesn't rule out it being a policing source pissed off with the 2.2-at-Oxbridge boys' arrogance. Or one of the First-at-Oxbridge Six boys annoying the plebs at Five for the hell of it.

Prediction: loada conspiraloons do 180° turn and start arguing that the Leeds lads did do it - encouraged by Five.

Hope: conspiraloons start arguing among themselves and stop pestering the sane.

What actually happened if this is true: totally routine bureaucratic fuckup. Not even as strong as a fuckup. Knowing in hindsight the position of the iceberg, the ship didn't need to sink... which does not mean the captain conspired with the iceberg, 'cos he didn't have hindsight ffs.

E2A: for those that don't read the Times story - the alleged conversation, /b]if[/b] real, referred to a different bomb plot.
 
The government also failed to address concerns about what MI5 knew when they were raised in unreported exchanges in the Commons last week. Davis referred to the existence of the tape recordings when he addressed John Reid, the home secretary.

“It seems that MI5 taped Mohammad Sidique Khan talking about his wish to fight in the jihad and saying his goodbyes to his family — a clear indication that he was intending a suicide mission . . . he was known to have attended late-stage discussions on planning another major terror attack. Again, I ask the home secretary whether that is true.”

Reid said the questions were “legitimate” but failed to answer them.
Unreported exchanges in the Commons?
:confused:
 
TAE said:
Unreported exchanges in the Commons?
:confused:

:confused: indeed - missed that...

E2A: would it be the debate starting here?

Has Regina -v- Hansard - the case that established free reporting of the Commons - been overturned then?

That'd be handy for the government. Reporting would shift away from the bombings to a constutional crisis.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm not sure whether "in the Commons" would include Select Committees - and the Intelligence Committee probably does have legally unreported exchanges...
 
Flap over.

I was getting ahead of myself.

The exchange is reported:

Hansard 11 May 2006 : Column 516

David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden) (Con):
...
Again on the basis of documentation given to newspapers rather than these reports, it seems that MI5 taped Mohammad Sidique Khan talking about his wish to fight in the jihad and saying his goodbyes to his family—a clear indication that he was intending a suicide mission. The newspapers also tell us that he was known to have attended late-stage discussions on planning another major terror attack that was subsequently thwarted. Again, I ask the Home Secretary whether that is true.

Hansard

So why would the ST say it wasn't? Someone slap that sub-editor :)
 
Hmm. Actual allegations of an actual cover-up - complete with enticingly unsourced material. Fertile ground, you would have thought.

But David Davis has presumably been convinced this material exists - even seen/heard it if it does - and thought it worth asking about in the Commons. So the ground for speculation is somewhat restricted. It is alleged that there are facts about the world to be dealt with.

Resounding silence from conspiraloons.

Odd, that :)

Maybe they're waiting for the word from Lizard Central?
 
TAE said:
So ... what are "unreported exchanges in the Commons" when they are at home?

They're not unreported. That quote above is a C&P of the relevant section from Hansard. You'll see it matches the extract you quoted from the Sunday Times.

From my understanding of how these things work (and I've done similar): the Sunday Times fed Davis with the quote; he agreed to put it in his response to the new Home Secretary; he did; their arse is covered because they're reporting what was said in the Commons.

Why they should say it was "unreported" is the mystery.

Unless he did utter an extra sentence, alleging that Khan had been taped discussing bomb-making, and Hansard left that out.

I haven't read the whole debate - I'm supposed to be writing a proposal. But I've searched for the string "bomb" and found no reference to Khan talking about it.

If Hansard did leave it out, we'll be hearing about it, 'cos that's something that Parliamentary reporters do understand.

E2A: My best bet for "why" is an editing fuckup - David Leppard and Richard Woods couldn't be arsed to find the Hansard cite, they relied on shorthand from the press gallery, put in "unreported" to cover their arses where "CITATION TK FUCKWIT" would have been more ususal and useful, the sub-editor didn't know how to look up Hansard online...
 
Jazzz said:
Yeah wasn't he buying a battery or something? Last minute repair to his detonator I guess. Didn't he then go and celebrate his forthcoming Islamic suicide mission by then popping into McDonald's?

I'm reminded of the curious behaviour of Mohammed Atta and friends who liked to hang out at the Pink Pony lapdancing club in Las Vegas when they had the chance. Fundamentalists, or patsies?

...or human beings, full of contradictions and frailities like all human beings? Hmmm...
 
What about the points Michael Meacher raised about the war on terror? :)

I hardly believe whispers of evidence by Davis will amount to much...but I hope to be proved wrong.
 
laptop said:
Hmm. Actual allegations of an actual cover-up - complete with enticingly unsourced material. Fertile ground, you would have thought.

But David Davis has presumably been convinced this material exists - even seen/heard it if it does - and thought it worth asking about in the Commons. So the ground for speculation is somewhat restricted. It is alleged that there are facts about the world to be dealt with.

Resounding silence from conspiraloons.

Odd, that :)

Maybe they're waiting for the word from Lizard Central?
Well, whatever they're waiting for, this is essentially the sort of thing I was on about in my previous post. Routine incompetence and arse-covering rather than "MI5 did it" as a reason for the government refusing to allow the public to know what the score is and instead providing just a 'narrative.'

If the allegation
<snip> it seems that MI5 taped Mohammad Sidique Khan talking about his wish to fight in the jihad and saying his goodbyes to his family—a clear indication that he was intending a suicide mission. The newspapers also tell us that he was known to have attended late-stage discussions on planning another major terror attack that was subsequently thwarted. Again, I ask the Home Secretary whether that is true.
quoted in Hansard is anything like the truth, this is clearly a matter of public interest and it is equally clear why they'd want to prevent the public from hearing about it.

It's also clear, at least to me, that all this crap about train timetables acts as a distraction and a waste of energy, while a lack of any real public accountability about the role of the Blair's illegal war in bringing about this situation, and the uselessness of Blair's draconian attacks on civil liberties in doing anything about the situation, are being ignored in favour of pixel-peeping blurry photographs.
 
Bernie Gunther said:
It's also clear, at least to me, that all this crap about train timetables acts as a distraction and a waste of energy, while a lack of any real public accountability about the role of the Blair's illegal war in bringing about this situation, and the uselessness of Blair's draconian attacks on civil liberties in doing anything about the situation, are being ignored in favour of pixel-peeping blurry photographs.
Well quite. One has to wonder what the point of inventing secret conspiracies really is when there are such massive, non-secret conspiracies just staring you in the face every day. Perhaps those are too big and intimidating, and bickering about things that aren't ever going to be resolved is much easier - you can fight for truth and justice quite safely if you don't actually have anything to fight.
 
So what are these conspiracies which your fighting to address? :confused:

What am I distracting people from? I`ve never mentioned faked photos (thought it wouldn`t suprise me), my only strong point throughout this discussion has been to urge people to remember the links between the terror networks and our own state.

I repeat Haroon Aswat, the media dubbed mastermind of the 7/7 attacks works for our security services.
 
Blagsta said:

Prove it. I commented on the drills, I said how they COULD have been used a smokescreen but overall my conclusion was that there is not enough evidence available to the public at this time to be able to make a definitive statement either way.

I then elaborated on the thing which made me suspicious.

The links between Aswat and our state. He`s played this role plenty of times abroad, the shadowy threat to justify authority.
 
Well I could quote pretty much every single post you've ever made on here, but I think your record speaks for itself. If your "only strong point throughout this discussion has been to urge people to remember the links between the terror networks and our own state." then you wouldn't froth at the mouth about secret societies, owl gods, jewish conspiracies and astral projection. Someone like Larry O' Hara researches links between terror networks and the secret state. You believe any old stoned fantasy your paranoid brain can come up with.
 
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