Remembering 7/7

Europe will unite for two minutes of silence at noon, London time, today.

EUROPE will stand united in silence at noon tomorrow as the whole of the EU marks last week's London atrocities.

Following an emergency meeting of interior ministers in Brussels, a statement was issued saying all European Union countries stood "in solidarity".

The two minutes’ silence will be held across the continent to coincide with midday London time.

The statement said: "The council of the European Union condemns the terrorist attacks on London.

"It sends its profound condolences to the victims and their families, in
honour of whom two minutes of silence will be held across the European Union on Thursday July 14 at 1200.

It stands united in solidarity as it did after the attacks on Madrid last
year, and is absolutely determined that the terrorists will not succeed."

Of course, the French, who'd like others to keep quiet, can't keep their big mouths from opening.
I don't know whether France has decided to declare war to the U.K. but it sure starts to look like this. United? Solidarity? Suuuuuuuure.

Nicolas Sarkozy knows everything about it. Sarkozy remembers. Emphasis mine.

CLAIMS that members of the network that carried out last week's attacks in London had been arrested early last year were at the centre of a diplomatic spat between Britain and France last night.

The French interior minister, Nicholas Sarkozy, said that affiliates of the four suicide bombers may have been detained, or otherwise be known to British authorities.

He was speaking after a meeting of European Union home affairs ministers in Brussels agreed to UK plans to speed through a raft of EU-wide anti-terrorism laws by the end of the year.

The 25 EU nations plan to retain telecoms data, create a European evidence warrant and exchange more information between law enforcement agencies.

The French minister's claim drove Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, into an obvious fury.

He insisted that it was "completely and utterly untrue" that any of the bombers has been arrested. "I am absolutely staggered he should make that assertion," Mr Clarke said.

The Home Secretary insisted that at no point had he discussed the matter with the French minister.

"Mr Sarkozy was inaccurate, shall I put it gently, in suggesting that there had been a discussion of this kind because there was not."

French officials later insisted that Mr Sarkozy had been speaking on the basis of information gathered by French security services and not any conversation with Mr Clarke. British officials have admitted it is possible some people close to last week's bombers might have figured in earlier counter-terrorism operations, but not as central figures.

One possibility is that Mr Sarkozy was referring to an international operation conducted last year that led to the arrests of terrorists in several countries, including Britain. Intelligence sources say Operation Crevice may have thwarted an attack on London last spring, the period to which Mr Sarkozy was referring.

He also said there was a strong suspicion the explosives used in the bombings came from the Balkans or eastern Europe.

Meanwhile, as the French défilé du 14 juillet just started, the French Defense Minister is dressed in white and the special guest, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is late.

E-nough! will now brush away the French national holiday to exclusively remember last week and support London and the U.K.

Found at redstate.org


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