Syria – War in the Middle East……

‘In world politics there is no such thing as an enemy or ally.   There are no parameters by which we are able to define them.  Democratic or dictatorship, secular or theocracy, the political reaction appears to have no relationship to right and wrong, good and bad or, ultimately, human suffering.  So, what is going on……?’

Syria is like a black hole in the Middle East, with historical enemies bordering the event horizon.  If it behaves like its cosmological counterpart there will come a point of no return and all sides will be inevitably drawn in.  The ensuing conflict will destroy infrastructure, cost hundreds of thousands of lives and leave a political vacuum in its place……

Friend or Foe……

There are many places in the world which have seen conflict in the past several decades.  Some have been locked in ongoing battles that have seen immeasurable suffering; ethnic cleansing, rape, murder, starvation, displacement, the kidnap and conversion of children into soldiers.  Most, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, go unreported and with little intervention from the West other than a token humanitarian contribution, much of which is diverted by the perpetrators to their own ends.

A look at the track record of western governments demonstrates the point.  Rwanda, the Congo, Somalia, the list is endless.  When human suffering is at its worst the governments of the west pay little, if any, attention.  Disputes in the Middle East, however, attract more interest.

If you were a conspiracy theorist it may even appear to be the culmination of a plan.  The uprising spread anti-clockwise around the Mediterranean with military support from the west until it reached Syria; there it has been allowed to continue……

Enemies in Every Direction……

If you are in any doubt about the potential gravity of the situation, take a look at the map below.

On its northern border there’s Turkey whose relationship with Syria could described as ‘strained’ at best.  However, since the beginning of the ‘civil war’ Turkey has ended diplomatic relations with Syria altogether.  Next there is Iraq; enemy of Syria and its ally, Iran.  To the south there is Jordan and to the west, Lebanon.   Although Jordan and Lebanon are friendly to each other, factions within them are vehement enemies of factions within Syria.  Israel is an historical enemy of Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Jordan and virtually every state in the region as well as remaining an occupying force in Palestine despite endless UN resolutions.

If one considers where the major ‘super powers’ from the East and West affiliations lay, the Syrian conflict could easily turn into a new cold war or even world war three……

Ancient History……

The present day Middle East has been through several phases over the past 3000 years.  None of the countries on a contemporary map existed.  It was the cradle of civilisation and whilst ‘Great’ Britain was in the time referred to as ‘The Dark Ages’, the East where contemplating philosophy, mathematics and astronomy.  The invention of religion has to take some of the blame for the current disputes as does the West which is largely responsible for drawing the borders within which sit the countries of The Middle East……

Solutions……

There are none.  But fuelling the fires of historical monotheistic disputes is not going to help.  It will ultimately lead to more death and destruction, and the only winners will be the Military Industrial Complex and the transfer of wealth to those who already have more than their fair share……

The unannounced arrival of a large asteroid or sudden reversal of the poles might help to focus mankind’s attention but in all probability they’ll just continue fighting over whose ‘god’ is responsible.  If you’re looking for intelligent life in the Universe, you won’t find any on Earth……

Politics and Corruption……

It will hardly come as a surprise to many of you that our ‘democracy’ is not an institution which acts in the best interests of its citizens.  Aside from a few principled politicians you could probably count on one hand, most of our elected representatives are like pigs around a trough at feeding time when it comes to acting in their own greedy self interests.  The recent bout of undercover stings by national newspapers only proves this fact.  Either the journalists involved have an extremely lucky success rate with hit after hit, or corruption is endemic within our democratic elected institutions.  I know which I would stake my money on……

‘A Brief History of Crime – Cash for Questions……’

In 1994 the Guardian newspaper alleged that Ian Greer Associates, a professional parliamentary lobbyist, had paid bribes to two Conservative MPs in exchange for asking questions in Parliament.  The MPs involved, Neil Hamilton and Tim Smith strenuously denied any wrongdoing and issued writs to clear their names.  Despite some insignificant details regarding who paid who and precisely for what, it transpired that Hamilton and Smith had indeed received bribes for asking questions in Parliament on behalf of Harrods owner, Mohamed al-Fayed.

During the investigation into the ‘cash for questions’ scandal several other MPs were implicated although their misdemeanours were more to do with the official declarations of MPs interests than directly receiving bribes.

Neil Hamilton, however, did take Mohamed al-Fayed to court for libel over allegations he had made in a Channel 4 documentary.  Hamilton lost and was forced to declare bankruptcy in 2001……

‘Parliamentary Expenses……’

Fast forward 8 years and the Parliamentary Expenses Scandal made front page news almost every day for months.  Whether it was claims for having ones moat cleared or repairs to ones Dovecote, it was pretty clear that the right honourable members had been taking advantage of their expenses claims for personal gain.  Resignations, sackings, de-selections and retirements soon followed but there was no getting away from the fact that in the eyes of the British public, politics and politicians were ‘rotten to the core’.  In an act of penance MPs voluntarily repaid £500,000.00 of their expenses claims.

Following the scandal measures were put in place to ensure that it could not happen again.  The people who put these measures in place were the same people who had abused them.  One of the abuses was that of designating which of your homes, constituency or parliamentary, was your primary residence.  It wasn’t long before many MPs found a workaround by renting property to each other, which although allowed within the new regulations, still smacks of corruption, albeit ‘legal’……

‘Lobbying……’

In the latest exposure of dubious practices being carried out by MPs, journalists posing as representatives of international business clients clandestinely recorded meetings with several members of the House of Lords and MPs.  They appear to show the protagonists giving advice of how to circumvent the rules by using their privileged positions to employ the services of colleagues to table questions.  Tim Yeo MP was filmed boasting about how he coached people who appeared before the Commons and Climate Change Committee, which Mr. Yeo chairs.

As always the members deny all accusations of impropriety or wrongdoing and have referred themselves to the Parliamentary Standards Authority but it is pretty clear to anybody who has watched the footage that they were ‘on the make’ regardless of whatever workaround they use to wriggle out of the hole they dug themselves into…..

‘Double Standards……’

Even when operating within the parliamentary rules MP’s actions still leave the public with questions.  In the case of my own MP, Karl McCartney, who hasn’t fallen foul of any parliamentary rules other than his use of offensive language aimed at constituents and parliamentary bodies alike, his values and actions don’t appear to agree.  He told a constituent that his ‘moral values’ prevented him from appealing to his fellow MPs to vote in favour of gay marriage but those same ‘moral values’ didn’t stop him from accepting a ‘gift’ from Japan International Tobacco, or employing his wife to be his secretary with a salary in excess of £40k per year.  Clearly, Mr. McCartney considers equality for gay people morally unacceptable whilst the peddling of a lethal drug tolerable……

‘Actions Speak Louder than Words……’

Repressive regimes are our friends and trading partners providing they deliver a strategic or financial advantage.  Similar regimes become our enemies and find themselves at the receiving end of the full force of our armed services, and there is no apparent difference between them.  One only has to look at the alliance with Sadam Hussein during the 1980s and the Mujahadeem in Afghanistan; both were our allies when the climate suited, funded and trained by western forces.  Later Sadam was unceremoniously hung and the Mujahadeem were re-branded ‘al-Qaeda’, providing the shadow world government with a non-geographical, ill defined enemy with whom to wage their ‘war on terror’……

Corruption and politics go hand in hand but it is only when their actions are brought out into the open by undercover stings that we see what is going on behind closed doors all of the time.  We are a democracy in name only……

‘BELIEVE NOTHING YOUR GOVERNMENT IS DOING IN THE NAME OF PROTECTING YOUR FREEDOM, WHEN THEIR REAL AGENDA IS TO REMOVE THOSE FREEDOMS SLOWLY BUT SURELY……’

Physics, Philosophy and Paradoxes ……

‘Is the world around us a quantifiable reality upon which we can all agree or the product of our individual experience?  What can we ultimately state is real, constructed or imagined, and why does it matter…..?’

I can answer the last question, “why does it matter?’ without any difficulty.  It matters now for the same reasons it mattered to Aristotle, Socrates and Plato 2000 years ago; to understand our place in the universe, the reason for our existence and, ultimately, the purpose of purpose.

Although we have a far greater understanding than our forefathers, we are still a long way from knowing even a small percentage of the answers.  However, theology still remains mankind’s first and worst attempt by way of an ‘explanation’.  To say we were put here by a creator and he, and only he, has the answers is as useless as saying the universe was farted out of a giant green hyper-being.  Note:  I use the masculine in my description of the creator, not due to my own sexist beliefs; rather those telling of the male dominated monotheistic religions who claim to act with divine authority and have spread misery to millions across the globe.

Scientific investigation has provided us with many useful answers about the world upon which we live, the solar system and galaxy in which it resides and the observable universe beyond.  However, there are some embarrassingly large gaps in our knowledge and an inability to reconcile observations on different scales.  The scientific community has chosen, or been reluctantly compelled, to do their research in isolation absent a unifying theory to explain the observations of the quantum scale with those of the cosmological.  Not that this lack of unification should deter further investigation as breakthroughs do happen.  Experimentation provides the most useful results on all scales and theories are needed to guide those experiments but it is theory that leads me to my next point.

There comes a point where a theory can not be experimentally tested.  It is then  that theory and philosophy converge.  An example of this is that of “the standard model of particle physics”.  With time, patience and a considerable investment in particle accelerators scientists have delivered results which appear to have confirmed the standard model through experiment and have applications in the advancement of the plethora of electronic devices upon which our lives now depend.  However, another branch of theorists have departed from testable predictions with ideas such as string theory.  Clever though the mathematics may be it adds little to our understanding of the real world and may be nothing more than numerical anomalies.  If this is the case then it may as well be theology; albeit less destructive.  I find it hard to imagine fundamental theoretical physicists declaring war on the “multi-verse” camp.  I simply feel that once a theory becomes un-testable it adds nothing to our understanding of the physical world around us.

Some alternative theories do carry some weight and may be testable.  One in particular that caught my attention was the proposal that the laws of physics as we now understand them may have been and are still evolving.  The Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin Rees, wrote an interesting book entitled “Just Six Numbers”, in which he postulates that even a minute variation in something like the force of gravity and the universe as we observe it would never have come into existence.  Had that have been the case we would probably not have even been here in the first place.  However, everything we observe around us is evolving with ever increasing entropy.  Some theorists are now proposing that the laws of physics are not necessarily constant or fixed.  This idea is not as preposterous as it may first appear as it may explain some of the mathematical paradoxes that current theories produce such as infinities.  Infinities have always bothered me, not to the degree of Georg Cantor who was driven insane by the paradoxical nature of infinity.  Given the immense time scales and intrinsic measurement problems presented by physics infinitesimally small changes in what we have always considered “constants” in nature could be possible and account for some of the anomalies in the evolution of the universe.

It is certainly an area I will be paying close attention too and will hopefully provide a better explanation for why our universe is as we see it today, whereas string theory can never be proven by experimentation……

Perspectives on the War on Terror……

The hyperbole used by politicians contains almost all of the extraneous grammatical tautologies possible as I’m sure their armies of spin doctors know all too well, but it only adds to the drama whilst demonstrating to anybody with a reasonable grasp of the English language their ineptitude and, for those who do not examine the analogous statements, it only appears to add linguistic gravitas to their authority……

 

Redundancy and Tautology……

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi is actually quite amusing to watch on TV programmes such as ‘Question Time’ as she struggles to string together coherent sentences.  Quite how such a brainless individual managed to reach the House of Lords evades me but there are no rules in peerage.  On a recent edition of ‘Question Time’ she continually referred to “extremist terrorists”.  In doing so I feel she provided  a useful public service by differentiating between the “extremist terrorists” and the more moderate, left wing terrorists who sit on tube trains wearing vests made from bubble wrap, threatening to carry on popping bubbles until their demands are met.  Lady Warsi; terrorists are terrorists, wherever they come from, whoever they purport to represent and whatever course of action they take.  Otherwise they would be protestors or campaigners.  Calling them “Extremist terrorists” is a grammatical redundancy as anyone who is a terrorist is by definition extreme.

A similar but no less effective use of pervasive language is to define terrorist groups by the religion they practice.  Acts of terrorism perpetrated by people of the Islamic faith is always highlighted as such, whilst acts of retaliation against them are portrayed as faith neutral.  This is particularly apparent in the Middle East where the Palestinians are ‘Islamic’ terrorists or ‘fundamentalists’ but the oppressive occupying Israeli forces are never referred to as ‘Jewish oppressors’.  The same applies to almost all conflicts in Islamic countries where the ‘Christian’ coalition are the occupying force.  This use of language is not only one sided and divisive but does a disservice to the majority of Muslims who are neither extreme nor fundamental.  It is akin to dividing paedophiles into ‘heterosexual’, ‘homosexual’, ‘lesbian’ or ‘incestuous’.  Paedophiles, like terrorists, only require one adjective to convey their twisted ideology and the acts they perpetrate……

It Takes Two to Tango……

The US and UK have a very short memory when it comes to events in world history.  The current bouts of ideological warfare started with 9/11, the ‘axis of evil’ and the ‘war on terror’.  In reality it is nothing more than a continuation of events stretching back through the annals of time.  One doesn’t need to look too far into the past to see the civil rights movement, which only ‘won’ equality for African-Americans in the 1960s or, more recently, the end of apartheid in South Africa.  Neither do you need a history lesson to see the ongoing oppression of the people of Tibet or Burma.  Even the establishment of the United States of America required land grabs and attacks against the indigenous population……

Democracy in Action……

There are between 192 and 195 countries in the world.  Officially, approximately half are democratic.  This does depend largely on your viewpoint and how you define a democratic country.  Personally, I don’t even consider the UK as truly democratic; as for Russia and many others, democracy is far from an actuality.  Whatever your opinion and by whatever means you judge democracy, it has little affect on the relationships between countries.  The US and UK are close allies of Saudi Arabia which is not democratic in any way and has a questionable record of human rights abuses.  However, we have lucrative arms contracts with Saudi Arabia and commit little parliamentary resources to challenge them regarding the treatment of their citizens and especially their treatment of women.

Post 9/11 we joined the US invasion of Iraq, based on the allegation that they could attack us with only 45 minutes warning, possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and had links with ‘al Qaeda.  None was found to be true.  No WMDs were found and the 45 minute warning was proven to be false along with the links to ‘al Qaeda’.  We also joined the US in the invasion of Afghanistan; this time to dismantle the ‘al Qaeda’ training camps and capture Osama Bin Laden who was accused of masterminding the 9/11 attacks, although to this day the US government has failed to provide any evidence that this was the case, other than the clearly fake video evidence conveniently discovered in a house in Afghanistan after the invasion.  In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 the Taliban offered to extradite Bin Laden providing the US present the evidence, which they were unable to do, leading to the invasion of Afghanistan and the loss of countless innocent civilian lives.

Ex-Best Friends

The US and UK; self appointed police force of the ‘free’ world, pick and choose who are the enemy and who aren’t.  It has nothing to do with human rights, democracy, religion or any other tangible, publicly available information or policy.  As Colonel Gaddafi discovered, one day you’re in the club, the next your membership has been revoked and the armed forces have joined your detractors to over through you……

In Summary……

Right and wrong has little, if any, relationship to the foreign policies of the west.  Money, oil and strategic concerns drive such policy.  Whilst I do not condone any acts of violence by any side in a conflict, it is not beyond reason to see why desperate acts of suicide bombings are undertaken by people who feel that their voices, culture, history and claims on territory can lead individuals to take such inhumane actions.

We live in a corrupted world where military campaigns are waged against whole populations, 98% of whom have no involvement in the extreme fringes of what is happening in their homeland.  Meanwhile, by stealth and under the guise of security our basic human rights are being undermined.

If we judge the death toll of innocent civilians caught up in the ‘war on terror’ as a marker by which to judge the aggressors we find the real terrorists are the US, UK and their allies……

Britain’s Guantanamo Bay……

‘Philip Hammond, the Secretary of State for Defence, has today been forced to admit that up to 90 foreign nationals are being held illegally at a secret military detention centre……’

The Secretary of State insisted that the detention centre at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, is not secret and was discussed in the House of Commons last year.  Although it may not be an ‘eyes only’ secret, this is the first time the majority of the public will have heard about it.

Philip Hammond & Some Bombs

The detainees, some of whom have been held for 14 months, have been denied access to legal representation and have not been charged with any offences but Philip Hammond said “Many of those held posed a danger to troops”.  He claimed the reason they had not been handed over to the Afghan authorities was because of concerns that they would be mistreated.

UK lawyers acting for eight of the men have launched habeas corpus applications in the High Court in a bid to have them released, raising comparisons with the outrage over the GuantanamoBay prison camp.  The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) rules dictate that British Forces are only allowed to hold suspects for 96 hours.

Phil Shiner, the lawyer for eight of the men, said the Government had failed to train Afghan Security Forces how to treat people lawfully and humanely, leading to the secret detention facility to protect their human rights, ironic though this seem.  Shiner again reaffirmed that the prisoners has not been told what they were accused of and denied access to legal representation, except for two men who had been allowed a one hour phone call each with a lawyer on Wednesday.  Hammond again said that many of the detainees were suspected killers of British troops or known to be involved in the preparation, facilitating or laying of improvised explosive devices and it would be wrong to put them “back on the battlefield”.

“We would like nothing more than to hand these people over to the Afghan authorities so they can be dealt with by the Afghan judicial system,” he told the Radio 4 Today programme, dismissing the description of Camp Bastion as a secret facility as “absurd”, but then he’s not the one being illegally detained there.

Yet again we see the erosion of basic human rights by our Government, indefinite detention without trial and access to legal advice and the ‘rebirth’ of the Data Communications Bill allowing access to your private email, text messages and internet searches.

And while the Data Communications Bill is on the agenda; my understanding is that one of the intentions is to stop people ‘preaching’ hatred and inciting attacks on one group by another.  Does this extend to the vile rhetoric of politicians misleading statements about immigrants or the divisive ‘them and us’ approach to the ‘shirkers and strivers’, those who want to ‘work hard and get on’, as opposed to those, who by implication, don’t want to work hard and get on?

As for the 90 detainees at Camp Bastion, when the coalition forces withdraw from Afghanistan they should be released, as is standard practice for prisoners of war unless they are responsible for crimes against humanity.  An Afghan national who attacks the invading forces with whom they profoundly disagree should be treated as any other prisoner of war at the end of a conflict and released.  After all, the invasion was carried out under the pretext of dismantling ‘Al Qaeda’ training camps which were abandoned long before American boots hit the ground.  In the interim the coalition forces, under the control of the new world order, have sought to impose their ideological ‘democratic’ model on a country which as never operated such a system and probably never will.  Instead, imposing a government comprising ex-warlords and some very shady characters that will fall apart the minute foreign forces withdraw.

Will we also be bringing American and UK forces to the International Criminal Court for the extra-judicial execution of innocent civilians and their families by drone aircraft in another sovereign country’s airspace and one which is not involved in the Afghan dispute?  I doubt it……

 

Coincidence, Convenience or Conspiracy……

‘It could pure chance but recent events point conveniently toward a reason to advance the timetable of government policy to control the internet and curtail freedom of speech……’

 

All Roads Lead to Rome……

In the past few weeks events both here and abroad have shone a spotlight on the ‘war on terror’ and a new agenda to contain the spread of information, starting with the Boston bombing which is where my investigation begins.

On 15 April 2013 two devices exploded near to the finish line of the Boston marathon.  The event was caught on camera by individuals and the media alike.  Many questions remain as to precisely what happened but is does not appear to be the straight forward ‘extremist’ attack portrayed in the mainstream media.  There are many inconsistencies with the events of that day which have been highlighted predominantly by eagle eyed internet users and seemingly ignored by the broadcast media.  Here are a few of the issues.

The blasts were filmed from many angles by many people and highlight equally as many apparent incongruities.  An examination of the blasts is a good place to start.

This image is one of many taken at the instant of the blast.  The smoke is very impressive and I’m sure any pyrotechnic of that magnitude was capable of breaking nearby windows but note:  The row of flags seems completely unaffected by the explosion.  Surely, any blast capable of removing peoples’ limbs (which we’ll come to shortly) would have contained enough energy to move a few flags?

Now let’s look at the guy whose trousers were almost completely blown off.  Any explosion capable of blowing a man’s lower garments to shreds would surely have left some degree of injury to his legs?  Still, he escaped with only grazes and his modesty in tact.  My mother always told me to wear clean underwear just in case I was involved in an accident.  She never mentioned wearing bomb proof underwear but I’ll consider it next time I go out.  At this point it is worth pointing out the pain on this mans face.  Clearly he loved those trousers; unlike our next ‘victim’ who seems unaffected by the loss of his lower garments, and limbs.

‘Wheelchair Guy’, as he has become known is a bit of a celebrity.  Here he is just after the blast having had both legs blown off, surrounded by some pretty unconcerned people, in what can best be described as ‘Freddy Krueger’ styled blood.

Next we see him, presumably having been attended to by the paramedics, being wheeled away in a chair.

Note how he does not appear to be in much pain and unconcerned by the bone sticking out of what used to be his leg.  Now, I’m not a paramedic but I would have thought a man who’d lost so much blood would have been put on a drip to maintain his blood pressure and stop his heart from failing, but no IV lines can be seen.  He also appears very alert for a man who one would have expected to have received some heavy weight pain killers on top of loosing so much blood.  Then one has to ask the question why a double amputee was placed in wheel chair and pushed 400 yards to an Ambulance with, one assumes a perfectly serviceable engine and driver?

The inconsistencies in the Boston story are many and if I detailed them all my computer and ISP would probably crash but have a look for yourself and you’ll see what I’m getting at……

Timing is Everything……

On the other side of the Atlantic in the UK two events have unfolded, giving the Government an opportunity to revisit the Communications Data Bill, aka the ‘snoopers charter’, with impeccable timing as the CEO of Google is the guest of honour at the forthcoming Bilderberg Group meeting in June.

First there was the apparent ‘hijacking’ of a Pakistani Airlines flight by two unarmed men.  The flight was escorted by RAF Typhoon jets to StanstedAirport where the men were arrested without incident or injury to passengers.  The precise details of the ‘hijacking’ are unclear but do not follow the ‘standard’ modus operandi of a hijacking.  The hijackers did not divert the plane, attempt to crash it, injure any of the crew or passengers or appear to have any motive behind their actions.

Second, is the attack on Lee Rigby, the off duty soldier which, although abhorrent, has lead to some interesting events.  Thus far eleven people have been arrested in connection with the attack, some on charges of conspiracy to commit murder.  One must assume that unless Lee Rigby operated like clockwork and rotated his T-shirt wearing with an anally retentive consistency, that this attack was a random event and, therefore, its preconception and planning, highly unlikely.

From past experience it would seem that Theresa May, the feckless Home Secretary, has found, or created, the perfect opportunity to resume plans for the ‘snoopers charter’, a step toward control of the internet and the inconvenient freedom of speech it provides, and at just the right point in the calendar to coincide with the shady meeting of the Bilderberg Group……

‘Ask questions, check details, search the internet and never take anything at face value……’

Soldier Killed in Attack on UK Streets……

‘A British Soldier, Lee Rigby, was brutally attacked and killed in London by two men on Thursday.  This was a vicious crime and our thoughts are with the grieving families, but the media cannot help themselves when it comes to speculation and the chance to score points on the word wide stage……’

 

Perspective…..

Due to the reported ramblings of one of the perpetrators in the immediate aftermath, it has been reported as a revenge attack, carried out to highlight the enormous death toll of innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq, which in effect it has.  The more mentally stable amongst us would agree that this is not the kind of protest acceptable to the majority but to someone who may be mentally unstable they may feel differently.  This brings me neatly on the way in which it is being reported in the mainstream media.

We have already heard the attackers being called ‘extremists’ and ‘fundamental Islamists’.  Allying  them with them with the distorted western  view of a primitive tribal culture, there may well be some truth to these accusations but before the investigation has begun the language of the ‘war on terror’ is ringing out loudly.  At this stage, I believe we are only able to say categorically, is that these men are mentally ill and a danger to society on the whole.

If they are found to be ‘extremists’ or ‘Islamic sympathisers’ their albeit twisted approach in demonstration against the west’s killing of millions of innocent civilians in ‘the war on terror’ still holds some validity, diminished by their choice of demonstration but valid all the same.  This will of course be buried under the web of propaganda that exists between the ‘loony Islamic Jihad-ist’ and ‘the freedoms and equalities’ imposed by their uninvited liberators.

Imagine……

When it happens on your proverbial doorstep as it were, your immediate response is one of horror and disgust, but project yourself onto a hillside in the Peshawar region of Northern Pakistan early one ordinary morning.  You awake to hear the news that an entire family has been dismembered by an American drone aircraft.  These are the pictures you don’t often see.  The ‘target’ has been identified by ‘intelligence’, sometimes extracted under torture, sometimes with bribes (in one of the poorest countries in the world).  The drone was operating illegally in Pakistani sovereign airspace without their knowledge.

The War of Fear……

I don’t want to see innocent British Soldiers killed on the streets; neither do I want to see innocent Pakistani children killed by drones.  The ‘War on Terror’ is now a ‘War of Fear’, for both sides.  Truth and fiction hold no meaning anymore.

‘The only constant in the War on Terror is the USA & UK……’