Terrorism, Suspicious Deaths Proliferate in Crisis Atmosphere

July 3, 2007 (LPAC)--A cluster of deaths of individuals linked to military affairs in Mediterranean and North African hotspots should be noted, as the investigation of the dirty British Empire operations around BAE Systems, the "new British East India Company" continues. At the same time, on July 2, a suicide bombing in Yemen, killed seven Spanish tourists, and two Yemenis, and is now being attributed by Yemeni government officials to "Al Qaeda." The Yemen bombing took place just days after the British terrorist incidents, which intelligence sources consulted by EIR News Services, say have no links to Al Qaeda, despite the hasty assertion made by the British government.

On July 3, U.S. officials announced that U.S. military attache in Cyprus, Lt. Col. Thomas Mooney, was found dead after having been missing for several days. No official report has been given, but Associated Press quoted an unnamed officials saying that "There was no evidence of foul play, He had a wound in the neck which is compatible with self-infliction." The U.S. government has not called the death a suicide.

On July 2, Brahim Deby, 27, the son of Idriss Deby Itno, the President of Chad, was found murdered in the garage of his apartment building yesterday, near Paris. He died of asphyxiation, caused by a fire extinguisher, found near his body. Idriss Deby Itno had played a major role in the 1987 Chad-Libya war, in which the BAE's Saudi Prince, Bandar Bin Sultan provided the weapons for the war.

On June 30, a British inquest by Scotland Yard was opened into the suspicious death of Egyptian arms dealer and businessman, Ashraf Marwan, whose body was found outside his apartment building in Central London. Marwan was the son-in-law of the late Egyptian President Gamal Abel Nasser, and in the 1980s, had been a key play with British tycoon Tiny Rowland, and Saudi businessman Adnan Kashoggi in weapons deals, especially during the Iran-Iraq war.