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Speaker: The two cases that really got us. First of all, there was a false flag attack in London in 1994 where a car bomb exploded outside the Israeli embassy in the center of London. I remember this vaguely. This is we're talking fourteen years ago. It was huge at the time. There'd been an earlier attack against some Jewish interests section in Buenos Aires earlier that year as well. Similar sort of MO, modus operandi, with a car bomb driven and parked outside that exploded. Very minor injuries. That was all. Nobody was killed. And it was a very sophisticated device. It appeared to eat itself, eat all the forensics. Now, this is very, very rare. Even the IRA, which is a very sophisticated terrorist organization, could not make bombs that effective. So, it looked like a, you know, sort of fairly technical person who put that together. But what emerged from that, the senior MI5 officer who was in charge of the investigation into it and had seen all the evidence, but also all the intelligence, which isn't necessarily admissible in court, wrote his formal assessment at the end of the case. And he said he reckoned that Mossad, the Israeli external intelligence agency, had bombed their own embassy. It's sort of controlled explosion outside the embassy. And as I said, that was a senior MI5 officer, and that was his formal verdict. If you read that on the Internet now, you would say, that sounds like some mad conspiracy theory. But it wasn't. This was the official position of MI5. And he said that they did it for two reasons. One, they were always hassling MI5 for increased security around their embassy and other interests in London because, of course, London had a reputation of giving safe haven to Arab dissent from around the world at that point. And MI5 kept saying, well, there's no reason to increase the threat assessment. You don't need extra protection. So letting off a controlled explosion outside, of course, they immediately got what they wanted there. But, crucially, two innocent Palestinians were arrested, charged, and convicted of conspiracy to cause that attack. And they were very active in a Palestinian support network in London, political campaigning for the people on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. And they were getting some traction in the media. So by arresting these people and framing them from attack and sticking them in prison, the whole network just shattered and hasn't got back on its feet to this day. So that will be a clear political advantage.