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UK - Iraq: Brown's sleight of hand

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New Worker News - Oct 5, 2007
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/New-Worker-News

Iraq: Brown's sleight of hand

by our Arab Affairs Correspondent.

TONY BLAIR used to go to Baghdad to puff up the Bush crusade and pose
as a world statesman in front of the troops and the Iraqi puppets of
the day in the Green Zone. 

Gordon Brown's visit this week was much more modest. His announcement
that the British expeditionary force would be cut by 1.000 by
Christmas, timed to steal the headlines from the Tories in the middle
of their annual conference in Blackpool, was largely cosmetic. Orders
to pull-out 500 troops were given in July and 270 have already returned
and they're included in the 1,000 Brown announced. 

Whether they will spend Christmas at home or simply be redeployed to
Afghanistan is another matter. What is clear is that role of the
remaining 4,500 troops now stationed at Basra Airport is now simply to
protect themselves and prepare for some sort of dignified exit in the
future. And that won't happen until after the American presidential
elections because the Bush administration is desperate to maintain the
myth that the US army in Iraq is some sort of international
"peace-keeping" force sanctioned by the United Nations rather than what
it is - a brutal imperialist army of occupation. 

Lindsey German, convener of the Stop The War Coalition, said the
withdrawal of troops was a welcome development, but was not "a serious
attempt to deal with the disastrous Iraq war". And the disaster goes on
for the Iraqi people suffering under the heel of brutal military
occupation and for the US army, it's puppets and lackeys who face the
fury of a relentless resistance movement.

This Wednesday the Polish ambassador was wounded and one of his
bodyguards killed in a car-bomb attack in the heart of the capital,
Baghdad. All three cars in the Polish convoy were destroyed in the
explosion. Poland, one of America's most loyal servants in eastern
Europe, sent 2,500 troops to the "coalition of the willing". Over 900
troops are still in Iraq.

Last Sunday a puppet regime engineering director was shot dead by
partisans when his car was ambushed as he was leaving his office in
Baghdad midday Sunday. The chief of the puppet regional development
committee in Ninwa province died in a hail of bullets when his
motorcade was ambushed in Mosul the same day. 

shot dead

The puppet police chief of Al Huwaiyah, some 200 km north of Baghdad,
was killed when his home was bombed on Saturday and the puppet police
commissioner for Mosul was shot dead in the street by a lone partisan
who escaped unharmed earlier last week.

In the south, in what used to be the British zone of occupation, a
prominent collaborator was shot dead last week. But Rahim al Zamili, a
leader of the Shia Muslim Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, was probably a
victim of the turf-war between rival sectarian Shia parties and
militias all trying totake control on the ground from the departing
British troops.

The strength of the Iraqi resistance lies in the fact that it is
completely self-sustaining, using and improvising the hidden resources
of the old Iraqi armed forces that they say will last for 50 years. The
weakness has been the regional, political and sectarian divisions that
have prevented the formation, until now, of a united national
liberation front to drive out the imperialists. 

In July militias including the Islamic Army, Mujahideen Army,
Supporters of the Sunni and the Sunni fundamentalist Missionary Action
and Fighting group formed the Reform and Jihad Movement. Last month the
1920 Revolution Brigades and the Muhammad al Fatih Brigades which
includes senior officers of the former Iraqi army and Saddam Hussein's
elite Republican Guards established the Change and Reform Front. 

Fadil al Rubaie, a member of the progressive Iraqi National Alliance,
told the Arab Al Jazeera TV network that he believed this was a turning
point after previous refusals by the Islamist groups to merge with
nationalists."Resistance groups are gearing up to meet that stage,
where leading parties will be needed to lead and to prevent a potential
militia war among many small groups," he said. 

This was also stressed in a statement from the underground Arab
Socialist Renaissance Party (Baath) on Monday in a new call on all the
partisans to "put aside their political and religious differences to
free Iraq". As the Americans are planning the partition of Iraq" there
is no more room today for discussion or debate, the decisive hour has
come and every one should choose his real trench".
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The Media, the Brits, Pakistan and Myanmar - WW Edit'l

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Workers World - Oct 11, 2007
http://www.workers.org/2007/editorials/myanmar-1011

EDITORIAL

Pakistan and Myanmar

In its crisis, the military regime in Myanmar appears to have no
popular support. Nevertheless, there are warning signs in the corporate
medias handling of the reporting about Myanmar"a country the former
colonial power, Britain, still calls Burma"that should put any
progressive and anti-imperialist person on guard.

It is enlightening to compare the media treatment of the generals
running Myanmar with that of the generals running Pakistan, a U.S.
client state. Both these regimes have taken bloody action against
opposition religious figures, but without the same response in the
Western corporate media.

Pakistans shaky president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, like the military
grouping in Myanmar, faces both lay and religious opponents. Like them,
he ordered troops to fire on religious figures in rebellion. On July
10, he launched a bloody military attack on a mosque in the center of
the city of Islamabad. There is no doubt that Musharraf is a dictator
ready to use naked force if he thinks it will keep him in power.

The reaction of the corporate media to Musharraf was, if not
sympathetic, at least understanding. Here is a recent Reuter report in
a chronology: After a week-long siege, Musharraf orders troops to
storm the Red Mosque in Islamabad to crush a Taliban-style movement. At
least 105 people are killed. This was typical, to characterize the
victims as similar to the Taliban"in other words, as Islamic
fundamentalist extremists, and thus unworthy of sympathy. No photos or
film appeared in the media of the tanks and soldiers shooting people
down.

Newsday takes a different bent on Myanmar: But the military junta in
Myanmar, also known as Burma, seems to know only one way to resolve
this crisis: brutal, bloody force.

This approach was typical of the corporate media throughout North
America, Western Europe and Australia. Scenes of Buddhist monks being
fired on dominated the coverage. The media hurl the heaviest invective
at the Myanmar generals and anyone who might support them. They treat
the civilian opposition, especially those forces with close connections
and support from the imperialist countries, as popular heroes, as they
do Buddhist monks.

Our message is: Watch out. Such coverage is aimed at justifying
imperialist intervention. In Pakistan, which borders Iran and
Afghanistan, that could mean military intervention if the mass struggle
there threatens to remove the generals now under U.S. control.

U.S. or British imperialism, or for that matter any of the NATO allies
or Australia or Japan, never intervene with money and/or arms in order
to aid a struggle for freedom or independence. If these imperialist
forces are involved, you can be sure there are resources at stake or
geostrategic interests in play.

As for Myanmar, however the struggle of the people of that Southeast
Asian country plays out, U.S. and NATO imperialists have no right to
intervene.

Articles copyright 1995-2007 Workers World. Verbatim copying and
distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium without
royalty provided this notice is preserved.

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Cameroon Woman Refused Asylum, Deported by Brits, Brutalized & Returned to UK

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The Independent - Oct 5, 2007
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3028716.ece


Beaten, bleeding - and then returned in a wheelchair

By Robert Verkaik

They came for Beatrice in the middle of the night, an immigration
officer, three security guards and a male doctor.

 From Yarl's Wood detention centre, in Clapham, Bedfordshire, they led
the 29-year-old failed asylum-seeker into a waiting car, drove her to
Southampton airport and hurried on to the plane.

She sat quietly in the end row in handcuffs and leg bindings. But when
she complained that she was not feeling well she claims was told by
one of the escorts: "If you do not go quietly we will beat you."
Another is alleged to have said: "I'm very sorry but I have to do it,
if we don't bring you to Cameroon they won't pay us."

She started to protest. "They are forcing me," she shouted to the
other passengers. The doctor and the female security guard forced her
head down into her knees, and covered her head with a jacket. Another
escort clamped his hand over her mouth and kicked her legs.

As they moved into the airport at Paris, where she was to transfer to
another flight, she saw two French policemen, panicked, and tried to
run, but was tripped by an escort and fell. A French policeman knelt
on her lower back, and a British escort on her shoulders. She
struggled and was "kneed" in the groin so hard blood that poured from
between her legs. On the flight to Cameroon, she suffered five panic
attacks. By now her condition had attracted the attention of the other
passengers, one of whom was a British policeman visiting Cameroon.
When the plane touched down the policeman and two other passengers
reported Beatrice to Cameroon immigration.

Witnesses claim the airport manager was visibly shocked when she saw
Beatrice slumped between the shoulders of two of the escort team. The
manager asked them to let Beatrice walk alone without support but
Beatrice immediately collapsed on the floor.

She was told by a Cameroon immigration officer: "Normally you would go
to the Cameroon prison. But if you died in prison, they would blame it
on the Cameroon authorities. If you come back without psychiatric
medication, and without injury, we can send you to the prison. Also
you have no one to pay for treatment in Cameroon."

At this point the escort team is alleged to have offered to pay $300
to the immigration authorities, but this was refused. At 11pm on 28
August Beatrice was put in a wheelchair and flown back to Britain.

When Beatrice arrived at Heathrow she was immediately taken by
ambulance to Hillingdon Hospital, where she was treated for severe
genital bleeding and multiple bruising over her body. A psychiatrist
said she was "traumatised by events". Beatrice remains at Yarl's Wood
waiting for the Government to begin her removal process again.

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The Homophobic Hate campaign by English Churches Housing Group (ECHG),
Hammersmith & Fulham Council and The Metropolitan Police is still
continuing - at the moment my tormentors think it is acceptable to run
a Hate campaign and they do not think they have done anything wrong.

The authorities know who I am, but they think it is acceptable for a
group of people to run a homophobic hate campaign.

The merger has taken place between ECHG and The Riverside Group - but
I am still dealing with a group of people who enjoy making my life a
living nightmare.

My Tormentors take an enormous pleasure in making my life a living
hell - my Tormentors see me as a soft target. I am not scared of them
nor am I afraid of them - I will get a full criminal investigation
into this hate campaign - on my terms and I will not shut-up until I
get to the bottom of everything these criminals have done - I mean
everything and in the process I will clear my name which my Tormentors
have elegantly blackened.

When the whole truth comes out of what has happened - you will find
that I am a Law-abiding citizen and a veteran of the Falklands
Campaign.

My Tormentors have no intention in sorting out this mess, as at the
moment they are enjoying running their hate campaign too much - this
is all about 100% hate, nothing else.

As part of the Hate campaign my tormentors have bugged my computer - I
do know what I am talking about - you can check my computer
qualifications with Microsoft.
See:
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/transcripts
Transcript ID: 697024
Access Code: filmnight

My computer is not connected to the Internet and I don not have a
phone - but when I use the System Monitor Tool, I find Terminal
Services is running and it is showing network traffic - what my
tormentors have done, it to use a wireless connection to bug my
computer.
See:
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/5310/qff7.png

This all started when I found out this development should be to be a
Hostel for people with special need, I made a official complaint to
the Independent Housing Ombudsman and the Local Government Ombudsman -
which lead to a legal agreement that ECHG should move me and carry
several repairs on my flat - which ECHG had no intention of honouring
this agreement. ECHG and the Council decided to lie to both the
Independent Housing Ombudsman and the Local Government Ombudsman for
this to succeed they needed to have to the police to confirm their
lies. Instead of sorting out this mess, when I found out about what
they have been doing - my tormentors decided to run a hate campaign
against me.
See:
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/6275/019ql.png
http://img418.imageshack.us/img418/5599/024xc.jpg
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/5210/035rr.png
And
http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/7707/ab9rb.png
Also See:
http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/2307/01qr6.jpg
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/722/02ky4.jpg
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7858/03zj1.jpg
http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/6968/04mr5.jpg

This is what happens to the underclass in this country - because these
people know I do not have a voice - they know how the system works and
have got lying to a fine art.