Iraqi Employees Note
Posted November 21st, 2007 by Tom
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Sic Semper Tyrannis
As occasionally happens on blogs, a random comment on a wholly different topic (the return of refugees to Iraq, which whatever your views has got to be seen as positive) matches up with something important we're already interested in. In this case, a piece on the estimable SST (required reading, I think) brings in another snippet illustrating how urgent getting Iraqi employees of British (and indeed US) forces out of the area has become:
However, there are around 50,000 Iraqis who will never be able to go home. These are the educated – in large part professional – Iraqis who collaborated with the US armed forces and US-sponsored contractors either as interpreters or as professional aids. Most of them are in Amman now. When they go back they will be killed by the Sunni and Shii militias. Their savings are running out. There were three attempts already on the life of a good friend of mine, an Iraqi American engineer who has spent the last four years in Basra, working with British military engineers on the barely-existing infrastructure there. He will leave with the British. He has a place to go, but those stuck in Jordan are stranded.
In an official US government
In an official US government communique, the White House passed on a message from the President to the 50,000 exiled Iraqis who cannot go home because they helped the Americans.
"You fucked up - you trusted us".
"Bush 'involved' in CIA leak
OT, but hope you'll forgive,
OT, but hope you'll forgive, because there is the chance to save a life here, if people move quickly. (Apologies if this has already appeared on this site but on a quick scan I couldn't find it). From http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/
"Britain Institutes Death Penalty
For the first time, Britain will tomorrow deport a failed asylum seeker back to Uzbekistan. Jahongir Sidikov, a member of the banned main opposition party Erk, is currently held in Harmondsworth Detention Centre. His ticket has already been purchased for deportation tomorrow.
Previously, as a matter of policy, this country did not deport political activists to Uzbekistan because they will face severe torture and probable death. The totalitarian Uzbek government has since become even more repressive, with widespread imprisonment, torture and extra-judicial killing of dissidents. The immigration officers who escort Jahongir onto that plane are in effect implementing capital punishment. This is a deeply, deeply shameful action by New Labour."
What sort of relations would
What sort of relations would you have with a country "where a 19-year-old woman was last week sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in jail. And what is the crime for which such brutal punishment is to be meted out? She was raped by a gang of seven men." That's right you guessed! become best buddies and throw them a state visit, where else other than Saudi Arabia?