The Curmudgeon

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Friday, September 14, 2007

We Shall Kill You And Your Children

The Murdoch Times, whose work last month was apparently solely responsible for instigating the Government's interdepartmental review on the plight of Iraqis who have collaborated with British forces, reports that the leader of Basra's security forces has warned interpreters "to leave Basra because these militia will never let them rest. They will kill everybody they know [who worked for the British]." The Times notes that "militiamen attacked and destroyed the home of one interpreter and narrowly failed to kidnap another. There were unconfirmed reports yesterday that a third had been killed".

The report concentrates almost entirely on the danger to Iraqi interpreters, but also says that "The Times has learnt that the Government privately accepts that it has a moral obligation to help them, but ministers are still debating how many of the thousands of other Iraqis – and their dependents – who have assisted the British should be allowed in".

If you have not already done so, please write to your MP and invite them to the meeting on 9 October. Ask them to request the presence of the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and tell them that the mainstream news media will be covering the event. It could make all the difference.

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