Using the Al Qaeda playbook of course. And the useful idiots from CNN and al BeBeeCeera are keen to offer him a platform:
No public probe into Iraq ‘abuse’
Fresh allegations of abuse by the UK military in Iraq do not warrant a new public inquiry, the Armed Forces Minister Bill Rammell has said.
He told the BBC the claims were taken seriously and would be investigated but that allegations did not mean facts.
He said a special unit within the Ministry of Defence, overseen by him, had been set up to examine the claims.
Lawyers for former Iraqi detainees want an inquiry into 33 abuse claims, which include the rape of a 16-year-old boy.
‘Sexually humiliated’
Mr Rammell said there should not be a wider public inquiry because each case first had to be examined and disciplinary action taken if there was evidence of wrongdoing.
He said: “There is no credible evidence that endemic abuse was a coherent part of the way our military operated.”
The “vast, vast majority” of the 120,000 British soldiers who had served in Iraq had adhered to “the highest standards of behaviour,” he added.
Earlier, Mr Rammell told the BBC seven of the allegations had come in within the last month, and the rest date back “significantly beyond that period”.
A public inquiry is already under way into the death of Iraqi civilian Baha Mousa, who died in British custody with 93 separate injuries.
A report by the Independent newspaper said 33 cases of alleged abuse had now come to light.
One claimant alleges he was raped by two British soldiers in 2003, while others say they were stripped naked, abused and photographed, the Independent said.
Another detainee said that when he was arrested he was kicked and hit, and an electric baton was used on parts of his body.
‘Random detentions’
A fellow Iraqi, detained in 2006, claimed he was sexually humiliated.
The lawyers said that since the British withdrawal from Basra in the summer, they had heard a host of allegations of abuse dating back to 2003.
Mr Rammell added: “While there have been instances when individuals have behaved badly, only a tiny number of individuals have been shown to have fallen short of our high standards.”
A legal letter was given to the MoD last week by the Iraqis’ lawyer, Phil Shiner.
Mr Shiner is asking for a judicial review of the cases.
“ I met this boy and it was extremely difficult taking his statement because he broke into tears many times and I had to comfort him ” Mazin Younis
He said: “I have it on good authority that there are hundreds of cases that are going uninvestigated.
“But if you are an Iraqi and terrible things have happened to you then how would you know that we have a judicial system in this country to deal with it?
“My guess is that many of them will remain buried.”
Mazin Younis, the Iraqi human rights campaigner who has been compiling the allegations, said many alleged victims waited years before coming forward because they were afraid of what would happen if they complained.
“They all feared that the British would come back and punish them. Now the British are out,” he told the BBC.
He said many people were detained at random and abused.
“The norm, kind of is for a large number of troops – 50 to 100 – to raid a house, take all the men with them.
“When I say take them they will be beating, kicking them and hooding them.”
Mr Younis said some of the alleged cases were similar to cases of sexual humiliation seen at the US detention centre Abu Ghraib and that only a full public inquiry would establish what had really happened.
He described meeting the 16-year-old boy who said he had been raped by two soldiers.
“I met this boy and it was extremely difficult taking his statement because he broke into tears many times and I had to comfort him,” he said.
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Worshippers at one of Britain’s biggest mosques reacted to the Fort Hood shooting yesterday by saying Muslims who serve in the Armed Forces are complicit in killing their “brothers and sisters” in Afghanistan.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6907136.ece
Here we go again: after every attack the Moslems and their useful idiots come out whining about “backlash” and offer some mealy mouthed non-apologies, and when they think the backlash doesn’t come they tell the truth, emboldened.
Just listened to O’Reilly on Fox talking to some female ‘expert’ saying that “discrediting a whole religion” is “unhelpful”- you wonder whom they’re trying to help….
The muslims should be thankful that we do not behave as they do – no apology is due to muslims.
You have atleast to credit Muslims that they know who their enemies are – which is just about everybody who is not a Muslim.
Anyway, Muslims know that Christians are their enemies. What they find very difficult to comprehend, and this I can understand, is why we do not treat them as enemies.
Our behaviour, in their eyes, does not make sense at all. They must be so confused. “What have we to do”, they ask,” to make these infidels know that we are their enemies. We kill them, rape their women, steal their money and belongings, invade their lands, and yet they dont understand; it must be that Allah makes them so for the benefit of Muslim pleasure – that must be it”.
There is natural and normal behaviour, and their is Politically correct behaviour. Our behaviour is Politically Correct and is not normal. It is confusing to both friends and enemies alike. The result is that innocents get killed.
In conclusion, our behaviour confirms to Muslims that their religion is right.
What I find very difficult to come to terms with is that we treat our implacable enemies as some kind of friends and blame ourselves for their religiously mandated hatred of us, we are indeed deaf, dumb and blind not to take their unholy scriptures seriously:
This cartoon here is a good example of our own madness
“Deaf and dumb are those that deny Our revelations: they blunder about in darkness. Allah confounds whom He will, and guides to a straight path whom He pleases.” (6:39)
“[We] shall let them live awhile, and then shall drag them to the scourge of the Fire. Evil shall be their fate” (2:126).
“Allah does not guide the unbelievers” (5:67).
“Let not the unbelievers think that We prolong their days for their own good. We give them respite only so that they may commit more grievous sins. Shameful punishment awaits them” (3:178).
Hi DP111 That’s a very good analysis.
Sheik, this Allah doesn’t sound very nice. Could be that he is a figment of Muhammad’s imagination?
This allah is a piece of work he tells Mohammedans they have ‘freewill’ but that he also ‘preordains’ everything mutually incompatible I know but hey this is Islam logic does not count. Anyway this ‘preordaining’ guy then says that those who dont believe in HIM have had their minds sealed by HIM so they cannot believe in HIM . He then says that anyone who does not believe in HIM will be condemned to burn in eternal hellfire. So we have a ILLOGICAL SADISTIC SATANIC being who creates souls just to burn them in hellfire and Mohammedans try to tell you this SATANIC illogical Supreme Being is the same God as the Judeo/Christian God dont make me laugh.