You’d think an al-Qaeda chemist would melt into the woodwork after preparing bombs responsible for killing over fifty people. But no. Magdy el-Nashar went to Egypt a week before the attacks and promptly applied to his employer, the Egyptian National Research Center, for permission to return to Britain, according to the Financial Times. Either el-Nashar is an extremely stupid terrorist (and professional chemical engineers are not usually stupid) or he has absolutely nothing to do with the attacks. Moreover, if el-Hashar is indeed an al-Qaeda bomb-maker, he made a big mistake when he left his possessions in the rented apartment in Leeds. "He said he had come back to Egypt for a month-and-a-half holiday and was planning to go back to Britain to resume his studies and that all his belongings are still in his flat in Leeds," Mahmoud al-Fishawi, head of the Egyptian information department at the Ministry of Interior, told Arab News. It also does not look good that el-Nashar allowed himself to be captured at his family’s home outside of Cairo. If you were an al-Qaeda chemist responsible for killing innocents, wouldn’t you be in hiding somewhere? Instead of disappearing, el-Nashar was looking for a wife. All of this is an immesne headache for the Brits. Obviously, the frame-up is not going as planned.

And then there is a small problem with the Egyptian authorities who are resisting el-Nashar’s extradition and also claim he has nothing to do with al-Qaeda. "Egyptian officials announced earlier today the 33 year old Magdy al-Nashar arrested for allegedly producing the bombs used in last week’s explosions in British capital London, has no links with the terrorist organization al-Qaeda," reports Zaman Online. "Egyptian Interior Minister Habib al-Adli told the newspaper al-Cumhuriyya that all claims linking al-Nashar with al-Qaeda were baseless."

Regardless of the fact the only suspect not blown to bits in the explosions appears to be innocent and the Brits are jumping through flaming hoops in an effort to frame him (at least the nine eleven al-Qaedaites had the good sense to kill themselves), this will not stop the grim-visaged British Home Secretary Charles Clarke from proposing a bevy of new "anti-terrorism" laws.

One such proposed law will make it a punishable offense to "glorify terror attacks." Of course, it will be up to the state to decide exactly what "glorification" is (and, considering all the "evil ideology" blather emanating from the poodle—as if locked in a Manichean sweepstakes contest with Dubya the Destroyer—we can assume glorification will be any manner of speech that does not excoriate terrorism to the satisfaction of the state).

In fact, for Clarke and the sprawling Brit snoop agencies, it will soon be Christmas with gifts tucked under the tree: Clarke wants permission to compel telecommunication firms to store phone and internet records for intelligence use, saying the data would be vital to connect the dots of terror networks. "They are saying they want access to records as preventive measures, which means you’d need access before the event. That really means surveillance," mused one rocket scientist on the USA Today site. Surveillance and the Big Brother state is of course what it is all about. Any number of Muslims are expendable—that is if they can be properly framed.