One Day in Birmingham
In January of 2005, an Irishman and a Spaniard booked into the WaqarHotel in Birmingham, to rent a double room. The Spaniard told the hotelproprietor that he was working for a US company located in Spain, andthat he would receive rent checques from themon a bimonthly basis. Overthe following six - month period while the room was rented, three ofthese cheques did duly arrive; however, the proprieter (Mr Barki)noticed that the two tenants were never there. Then, on 12 July theysuddenly turned up and took away 9 heavy bags, which they would notallow anyone else to carry.Here we note that Tuesday 12th July was the date when police claimed tohave found a bath full of 'several kilos' of explosives in a Leedshouse, owned by Mahmood el-Nashar (who had recently completed his PhDat Leeds biochemistry Department), a link being made thereby to the'Leeds bombers.' The day before, on the 11th of July, centralBirmingham (the Broad Street area) was sealed off by the police due toa 'credible' terror alert - and some 'controlled explosions' were dulyset off by the police.
Feeling increasingly uneasy, at last on 17 July the hotel proprietor decided to take a look inside the room. In it he found:
a) 2 black bags containing a large amount of British currency;
b) a 'Bin Laden' tape;
c) 'Al Qaeda' manuals on "How to make bombs" and " How to blow up an air-liner";
d) a knife with bloodstains on it (in one of the bags).
The proprietor called the police and two or three local uniformedofficers arrived. When they saw the room and its contents they becameexcited and began calling colleagues, saying "we've found a Bin Ladencell here!". Mr Barki also called his good friend Mr Appas Malik,reporter of the local Daily Jang a Pakistani newspaper and told him hisextraordinary news.
A short while later non-uniformed officers (who did not identifythemselves) arrived on the scene. They rebuked the others off forphoning their colleagues and turned them out of the hotel. Havinginspected the room, they then went down into the hotel-lobby, evictedeveryone else out from the hotel, staff as well as manager, andconfiscated the CCTV film. They asked the hotel proprietor to sign ablank sheet of paper. He strongly objected to doing any such thing, buteventually he complied. They instructed him not to talk to anyoneoutside from then on.
The story was reported in the Daily Jang, as well as being aired on theBritish Pakistani TV channel 'GEO' (which has the same proprietershipas the Jang). On that same day the 17th, Mr Malik told the story to Dr Naseem the sage Cleric of the Birmingam Mosque,and Dr Naseem then endeavoured to obtain confirmation of this storyfrom the hotel owner - but initially, he wouldn't speak. The DeputyChief constable was visiting the B'ham mosque and in response to DrNaseem's queries about this incident he declared that he had neverheard about it, however the Area Superintendent of the B'ham policewould call. He never did. Then Dr N. had an appointment to see theChief Constable of Birmingham, by way of liasing and maintainingcommunity relations Dr N, worried about the hotel owner, asked himabout the incident and gained the impression that he genuinely didn'tknow anything about it.
Four weeks after the event, the hotel proprietor Mr Barki was finallyprepared talk to Dr N. about the event, and the story he then narratedwas identical to that which Dr Naseem had heard from his journalistfriend. Dr Naseem has related it to a group of us members of the London9/11 Sceptics movement - and we're telling it here! Br Barki's hotelbusiness has slumped since the incident, even though officially nothinghas happened, being totally unreported in the local or national press(except for the Daily Jang). The B'ham town council had helped supplyhis hotel with lodgers but this seems to have dried up. Left open isthe question of the tracking down the two persons who rented the room,which would surely have been a fairly straightforward operation,however no-seems inclined to do this.
Is there a sinister programme by the British government ofmaintaining the atmosphere of terror and fanning the flames ofsuspicion against Muslims? Could the inflammatory materials discoveredin the hotel bedroom have been planted there deliberately in order tofabricate yet another 'terror-scare' involving Muslims?
Also see:
Something Evil This Way Comes
www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=3391
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Last updated 12/03/2006
