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Britain’s history of collusion with terror

from The Crimes of Britain

The British Army on patrol with the UDA in the North of Ireland


When Britain’s collusion with death squads across the ‘Middle East’ and Africa is mentioned it falls on deaf ears. The only time you’ll hear of Britain’s open collaboration with these forces are when they are branded ‘moderates’ or ‘rebels’ by the British media.
Firstly, what do I mean by death squad. I use this term to refer to a wide range of forces, namely Al-Qaeda and Al-Qaeda affiliated groups, Islamic State, the UVF (Ulster Volunteer Force), UDA/UFF (Ulster Defence Association/Ulster Freedom Fighters), RHD (Red Hand Commandos), LVF (Loyalist Volunteer Force) and the British Army’s very own units such as the Military Reaction Force, Special Reconnaissance Unit and the Force Research Unit.
Loyalist death squads in Ireland were an extension of the British state. They worked hand in hand with British intelligence, British military and the colonial police (RUC). In 2012, the De Silva Report revealed that 85% of the intelligence the UDA received had been supplied by the British security forces. The UDA was not proscribed as a terrorist organisation until 1992 – the decade when the British were waging a campaign of pacification on the Provisional Republican movement.
Loyalist terror gangs were responsible for scores of terror attacks in partnership with said British forces.
The 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings which claimed the lives of 34 people carried out by the UVF in cahoots with British intelligence. Britain keeps the files on this act of terror firmly under lock and key. The Miami Showband massacre in 1975, saw the British Army team up with the UVF to murder three members of a cabaret band. Human rights lawyers Pat Finucane and Rosemary Nelson were assassinated by loyalist death squads working with British military and intelligence. There are endless examples of British collusion with loyalist death squads over a forty year period.
The Irish motto is “collusion is not an illusion, it is state murder” and it rings true today with regards to Britain’s relationship with its death squad proxies across Africa and the ‘Middle East’.
Saudi Arabia is a British creation that serves the interests of the Brits and the United States to this day. The British re-established Saudi Wahhabism in the region after it had been rejected, using its intolerance to wage an internal war on the Ottoman Empire during WW1. In a typically British case of divide and conquer, they allied with the Al-Saud family who have been willing servants of British and American imperialism since their reign.
It was Winston Churchill who bankrolled and armed Ibn Saud, the first King of Saudi Arabia. He doubled his subsidy in 1922 to £100,000. In 1921, Churchill delivered a speech to the House of Commons whereby he branded the followers of Ibn Saud “bloodthirsty” and “intolerant”. For the British this was no problem as long as the Al-Saud family and its followers worked in their interest. And this remains this case today. Not only in relation to the Saudis but also to the various proxy forces fighting across the ‘Middle East’ and Africa. So long as these contras work in British interest, the British will support them. When they render themselves useless or go rogue as often is the case, the British wages war on them.

They [Ibn Saud’s followers] hold it as an article of duty, as well as of faith, to kill all who do not share their opinions and to make slaves of their wives and children. Women have been put to death in Wahhabi villages for simply appearing in the streets… [they are] austere, intolerant, well-armed and bloodthirsty”. – Churchill, 1921, speech to the House of Commons.

Thatcher’s open collusion with the Mujahideen in the 1980s saw her tell a large group on the Pakistan and Afghanistan border that the “hearts of the free world are with them“.
Britain covertly gave military training and supplies to the Mujahideen. The SAS was routinely going in and out of Afghanistan from Pakistan, moving supplies to the Mujahideen and other Afghan groups. In 1986 Britain shipped 600 shoulder launched anti-air craft missiles, with many going to the forces of Hizb-e-Islami, headed by Addul Haq whom Thatcher welcomed to Britain the same year. Haq had ordered a bombing in Kabul which killed 28 people, most of them students. Haq stated that the intention of the bomb was ‘to warn people’ against sending their children to the Soviet Union’.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an associate of Osama Bin Laden, was also invited to London in 1986 by Thatcher. She hailed him a “freedom fighter“. He had gained status after throwing acid in a woman’s face. Known as the ‘Butcher of Kabul’, Hekmatyar, oversaw a campaign of terror which led to at least 50,000 deaths in Kabul alone.
The Mujahideen were bolstered with billions of dollars and military training mainly from the United States. Britain’s specific contributions were specialised military training and funnelling military supplies in to Afghanistan.
In Libya in 2011, Britain allied and worked with various death squads like the LIFG (Libyan Islamic Fighting Group). It was only in 2005, after the 7/7 bombings, that the LIFG was designated as a terrorist group. 6 years later though, the British were back colluding with this very force against Libya, a country it has wanted regime change in since the al-Fatah revolution led by Muammar Gaddafi in 1969.
An SAS unit along with MI6 agents on a covert mission were captured just outside of Benghazi. They claim they were on their way to meet with Libyan ‘rebels’. Branded a “diplomatic team” by William Hague this blunder on behalf of the SAS was quickly swept under the carpet. A telephone conversation of then British ambassador Richard Northern asking for this “diplomatic team” to be released was leaked. In Basra 2005 an SAS team was apprehended by the Iraqi police after a clash in which two people were left dead. They were dressed in Arab clothing with heavy weaponry. The British Army sent in tanks to brake down the walls of the prison they were being held in.
We saw Britain assist the movement of thousands of militants in Bosnia who were there to fight against the Serbs. Hundreds of men from Britain have in recent years travelled to Syria and joined various death squads in the region. A trail collapsed in 2015 against a Swedish national whose lawyers argued British intelligence agencies were “supporting the same Syrian opposition group” as he was. They went on to allege British intelligence were supplying weapons to the group.
Britain is not the enemy of terrorism – it stokes the flames of sectarianism and facilitates death squads when and where it fits in with the agenda of their foreign policy.


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Enough is enough
Enough is enough
May 31, 2017 8:27 AM

I am now thoroughly ashamed to have been born on this island ruled by utter US ass-lickin’ scum …basically!

John
John
May 30, 2017 6:47 PM

I have not yet come across any source material for this but I strongly suspect that the British regime colluded strongly with zionist terrorists in 1947-1948 during the Nakba.
The British forces were supposed to protect the Palestinians but they seemed largely to just stand by as zionist terrorists forced out half the indigenous population of Palestine.
With very few honourable exceptions, such as Major Derek Cooper MC (who was a co-founder of Medical Aid for Palestine), it seems most British military forces simply stood by watching and did nothing to defend the Palestinians.

independencenow (@raymondstein66)
independencenow (@raymondstein66)
May 30, 2017 10:07 PM
Reply to  John

Britain are controlled by Zionists! You think this is the UK and US and their proxies? It is the Zionists. I supported Communism marx, Lenin, trotski etc…All really a Zionist plot. I thought Hitler was a Nazi Facist then started finding stuff from Rabbi’s saying Hitler was right. He was protecting Germany and Europe from a Zionist plot well I never got taught this stuff. It has opened my eyes especially in recent years since 9/11 and all the jigsaw pieces fit perfectly. Britain does it 100% but they do it not in Britain’s name but in the name of Zionism and their Evil plans and actions. Unionists would maybe think differently if they knew what their Queen and family were all about. They are all inter related. The queen is a distant relative of the Bush’s. The snake of control has many heads though they are all one body.

MICHAEL LEIGH
MICHAEL LEIGH
Mar 28, 2018 1:29 AM
Reply to  John

One of my elder brother’s while serviving in Armoured Brigade in the 1945-47 British-Mandated Palestine, and, as he and his fellow officers later told us, future would-be National Service Conscripts, that they themselves were ordered to assist in the evacuation of the equally-hated Palestine Police Force from their police bases, and to follow the underlying instruction to open the police station Armourys and ensure: that the Zionist terrorists removed the weapons for non Palestine useage ?
No wonder lead by the Francais, the rest of Europe call us Perfide Albion !

John
John
Mar 28, 2018 2:09 AM
Reply to  MICHAEL LEIGH

Michael Leigh: thank you for the confirmation.
We all all now losing all this testimony.
We need oral history on these topics before they are lost forever.

Husq
Husq
May 30, 2017 1:09 PM

This is a stonker!!
Former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon on Saturday said the Islamic State terrorist group in the Syrian Golan Heights “apologized” for attacking an Israeli unit.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-defense-minister-says-is-apologized-to-israel-for-november-clash/
Wonder what the job application looks like to join ISIS?
The Islamic State terror group published an article explaining why it does not attack the Jewish state, arguing that the Palestinian issue should not get preferential treatment.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/islamic-state-explains-why-it-doesnt-attack-israel-yet/

Seamus Padraig
Seamus Padraig
May 31, 2017 10:23 AM
Reply to  Husq

ISIS = Israeli State of iraq and as-Sham

mohandeer
mohandeer
May 30, 2017 11:24 AM

Reblogged this on wgrovedotnet.

Michael Leigh
Michael Leigh
May 30, 2017 11:07 AM

I am not sure ARCHIE1954, that either the USA or GB had civilised societies because civilisation is based upon actual societies, not the outstanding cultural exhibits, which were obtained by plunder,rape and murder!

BigBG
BigBG
May 30, 2017 10:45 AM

Excellent article. Rhetorical question, though: is the author of this piece a Catholic? The IRA were infiltrated to the highest level too. IRA No3 Fred Scappaticci (Stakeknife) was an FRU agent – who by all accounts was a psychopathic one man judge, jury, and executioner (leader of the infamous ‘Nutting Squad’) for his British handlers.
No hard evidence, but plenty of suspicion, that the IRA ‘Army Council’ No2 (and later No1?) Martin McGuinness (Fisherman?) was also an FRU double agent? I guess we’ll never know, may he rest in peace (def sarc.) I’m not often on the same page as Lord Tebbit, but when he recently condemned McGuinness as a turncoat and charlatan – who, only when he felt the noose of Justice tightening around his neck, turned to ‘peace’ (and the protection of the state)- for once I have to agree with the Tory Grandee.
On a personal note, I intend to “rage, rage, against the dying of the light” and cling to my last breath to see Thatcher condemned for the “shoot to kill” murder of Pat Finucane, Rosemary Nelson, (and though unconnected to this article – Hilda Murrell) The state sponsored murder of Finucane (shot 14 times in front of his wife Geraldine and children) was a standout horrific crime from a time when horrific crimes were commonplace.
Elsewhere, I can recommend any of the books of Mark Curtis, who loves to chronicle what we are really about – terror, our chief export since 1095 (year of First Crusade.)
http://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/niallodowd/the-truth-is-margaret-thatcher-likely-ordered-the-pat-finucane-murder-british-can-never-reveal-the-truth-about-the-killing-of-civil-rights-lawyer-183328851-238162591
[There are plenty of resources on collusion – but Wikispooks has a good collation of information. Don’t expect anything from the National Archive for 70-90 years.]

flybow
flybow
May 30, 2017 10:52 AM
Reply to  BigBG

Good post BigBG. I agree. But i think all terrorism is as webster tarpley put it. “synthetic”

Alan
Alan
May 30, 2017 10:18 AM

We also think of British foreign policy concerning Aden, Biafra, Cyprus, East Timor, Kenya etc. The same foreign policy that saw two major world wars in the last century and countless violations in the 19th. The term terrorism appears to reduce the magnitude of pure evil so prevalent amongst so called developed nations. British policy is so effective it seems due to it’s history and experience, France shares a similar background, parallels that would enable the above article to be as pertinent to there as here. The article fails as it infers a definition upon terrorism that is somehow connected to specific actions, therefore if we stop those specific actions, terrorism will no longer exist. I don’t believe the term applied either explains nor defines the mentality that causes so much despair.

flybow
flybow
May 30, 2017 10:01 AM

Regarding Thatcher. There were terrorist traing camps in Scotland during the 1980’s.

archie1954
archie1954
May 30, 2017 2:38 AM

Both the US and UK have betrayed Western civilization and continue t do so!