I was told by a member of the Metropolitan Police Operation Lydd team that they believe there are grounds to prosecute Jack Straw, but that the Crown Prosecution Service will bury it. That was over two years ago when I gave my own sworn evidence to the investigation.
That cover-up by the CPS is now underway – and it is extremely unsubtle. The mainstream media barely reported that the first file has been passed to the CPS on Operation Lydd. You would think that a massive police investigation into criminal activity by Jack Straw and Sir Mark Allen, among others, would merit more of a splash, but not in our corporate controlled media. The timing was auspicious because, in the parallel civil case, the Court of Appeal has rejected the Government’s defence of “National Security” to prevent the case from even being heard. This after Jack Straw and Sir Mark Allen arranged the kidnap and deportation to torture in Libya of Mr Belhadj, his pregnant wife and children – only one of hundreds of such crimes in which the British state was deeply involved.
Infamously, the British Embassy in Washington had been lobbying the US authorities relentlessly to prevent the publication of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on extraordinary rendition, specifically on the grounds that this would weaken Jack Straw’s defence. That defence rests on the grounds that details of kidnap and torture would annoy the United States and thus damage Britain’s security interests. As a blanket license for state involvement in torture, it only takes a second’s thought to realise how astonishingly dangerous that doctrine is. The High Court swallowed it. Thank God, the Court of Appeal did not.
So the Courts having ruled against Jack Straw, there are now two lines of defence between Straw and Sir Mark Allen, and a long spell in the pokey. The first is that the Government is appealing to the Supreme Court in London to have the case kicked out once again on “National Security” grounds. The second line of defence is the Crown Prosecution Service.
I can give you very substantial evidence that a cover-up is in progress within the CPS. Astonishingly the Lydd file has been passed within the CPS not to the serious crime division, but to the Counter-Terrorism Division. Yet terrorism is not the alleged crime here. The crimes are Gross Misconduct in Public Office, Conspiracy to Torture, Conspiracy to Kidnap and Abduct. We might relate them rhetorically to terrorism, but they are not that legally.
The incredible truth is that the file has been passed not to the Division which deals with the crimes allegedly committed by the perpetrators, Messrs Straw, Allen et al. It has rather been passed to the Divison which deals with the crime falsely alleged against the VICTIM of the case, Mr Belhadj. That simple fact tells you all you need to know about the attitude of the CPS to Operation Lydd.
In fact, the Counter-Terrorism Division of CPS works on a daily basis with public servants and security service functionaries who are themselves deeply implicated in the crimes being uncovered by Operation Lydd. A cover-up is certain.
The British Establishment really does stink.
Footnote: I phoned the CPS Press Office to give them a chance to respond. I got through to a spokesperson and left details and my number. They have not come back to me.
Andrew, my fellow Canadian Barry Chamish is more hardcore Zionist than Benjamin Netanyahu. But some his claims have made him “self-hating Israel-threatening (S.H.I.T). He claims that Zionism was invented by Frankist (Crypto Jews) to destroy the true followers of Moses Law. He has also claimed that Holocaust and 9/11 was carried out by Frankist Jews.
http://rehmat1.com/2014/03/04/zionist-author-zionist-jews-committed-holocaust/
“Good article Craig, but I wonder if, the Westminster Government will use the Justice and Security Act, to thwart any further investigation.”
Stands to reason Mike Giggler. That’s what it’s there for: to protect the culpable if they are part of the mighty elite. The establishment will be able to use this, and a series of other acts I’m sure, to prevent those responsible from being brought to justice. “One law for the rich . . .” comes to mind.
What a stench.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Allen_(businessman)
Very interested in falconry and the RC church. Makes a change from rendition and torture I suppose.
One of his fellow directors of the St John’s Wood Hospice is Lord Guthrie, late CCGS, a frequent visitor to and speaker at the Herzliya Conference, the Israeli military/security annual gather, and an honorary patron of the JNF UK along with Blair and Brown.
http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-guthrie-of-craigiebank/3608
https://www.jnf.co.uk/about-the-jnf/executive-board/
http://companycheck.co.uk/company/02808390/THE-HOSPITAL-OF-ST-JOHN-AND-ST-ELIZABETH/directors-secretaries
http://www.herzliyaconference.org/eng/
Power runs the world – and – we peons – try to get a little justice from time to time.
Yet – ya ain’t going to get it against Jack Straw anytime soon.
http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/judgments/belhaj-boudchar-v-the-rt-hon-jack-straw-sir-mark-allen-cmg-and-others/
http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/belhaj-v-jack-straw.pdf
Two newbies. Our friend tells all.
3 November 2014
Change at the top for Britain’s spies
by Gordon Corera
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29830852
‘It was a telling sign that candidates to be head of GCHQ a few months ago had to undergo a mock broadcast interview as part of the application process.
A few years back, the idea of such a thing would have been laughed out of the gentleman clubs of Pall Mall where old spies used to gather to drink.
Go back a couple of decades and even the names of British spy chiefs were kept out of the public eye. How times have changed.
And as two new spy chiefs begin work on the same day – Robert Hannigan (who clearly passed his screen test) at GCHQ and Alex Younger at the Secret Intelligence Service MI6 – dealing with those changing times will be at the top of their inboxes.
The interview process shows that, paradoxically, to be the head of a secret intelligence agency in the modern world you need to know how to communicate to the public – as witnessed by the trend towards speeches, the odd interview and a precedent-setting (but not exactly electrifying) appearance before cameras in front of the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee.
Those appearances are just one part of a wider challenge of dealing with changing public expectations and new technology.’
State crap.
Sorry to go briefly off-topic,but Norman Baker has resigned, and it’s all down to Theresa May.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/norman-baker-i-resign–and-its-theresa-mays-fault-9837189.html
Some previous pieces relating to Operation Lydd.
Files on UK role in CIA rendition accidentally destroyed, says minister
Rights groups say claim that records of Diego Garcia flights are missing due to water damage ‘smacks of cover-up’
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/09/files-uk-role-cia-rendition-destroyed-diego-garcia-water-damage
Extraordinary rendition and secret prisons in the context of the Arab Spring
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ellie-violet-bramley/extraordinary-rendition-and-secret-prisons-in-context-of-arab-spring
UK investigations into torture and rendition – a guide
A series of investigations have sought to get to the bottom of claims that British officials were implicated in abuse of detainees
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/12/uk-investigations-torture-rendition-guide
this is a Belhadj tale, see the end of the second link:
Tunisia expels Bernard Henry Levy only 24 hours after his arrival
His visit had provoked a storm of protests in the country. The trade union federation (UGTT) called Saturday for his expulsion from the country denouncing his role in “inciting anarchy and encouraging civil wars and terrorism in the Arab World”…
News of his arrival spread like wildfire in social media. In their postings, Tunisians took issue with Levy’s support to Jihadist formations in the region and with his role in the NATO-led war on Libya. He was also taken to task for his unquestioning support to Israel…
Al Chourouq newspaper which described Levy as “the godfather of civil wars” in the Arab world said “His visit to Tunis aims at provoking sedition and causing the failure of next presidential elections.”
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=68744
HuffPo: Bernard Henri-Levy: My Weekend in Tunis: Anti-Semitic Sound and Fury
JB: What really happened?
BHL: Nothing much, truth be told. A few dozen Islamists, or perhaps exiled Gaddafi supporters, were waiting for me at the airport and professed outrage at seeing a Zionist (sic) set foot in the country….
JB: What was the purpose of your visit to Tunisia?
BHL: A very simple thing. To hold a meeting in a hotel, openly and transparently, with Libyan friends who had come expressly from Tripoli, Benghazi, Misrata, Zawifa, and towns in Jebel Nafusa to hold a dialogue of national reconciliation on neutral ground with me present…
JB: It has been said that you were thrown out of the country…
BHL: You must be joking! Do you think that a French citizen would be summarily ejected, for no reason, by a friendly and, by the way, democratic country?…
JB: The far left figured in the hostile reactions to your visit…
BHL: No doubt. But the far left has the same problem everywhere. In Tunisia, it passed through a period when it supported the radical Islamists. Then another when the Gaddafi dictatorship seemed the lesser of two evils. And now it makes excuses for Bashar al-Assad. And when it comes to anti-Semitic conspiracy… No, let’s not throw oil on the fire…
BHL: We’re living in a crazy time. No one bothers to verify anything anymore. Increasingly, people write whatever they want. Even in France, where a site like Rue 89 managed to write, without taking the trouble to check their information by calling the subject of the story, for example, that “BHL is reportedly in Tunisia to see the Libyan Abdelhakim Belhadj and the Tunisian Islamist Rachid Ghannouchi” — about the most objectionable company to be found on the political scene in Libya and Tunisia, if I may say so…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bernardhenri-levy/my-weekend-in-tunis-anti_b_6091200.html
hope tunisia did kick him out. enough of henri-levy’s interference.
“Rights groups say claim that records of Diego Garcia flights are missing due to water damage ‘smacks of cover-up’”
Mary it is a cover-up. Everything is (was) photographed and put on file electronically, like your doctor does. There is always more than one record kept in more than one location. Oh yes, it’s a cover-up all right.
Nice one Craig.
Justice…for the People Against How Many of our politicians… A great many methinks….And Nobel Peace Prize for oor Brave Whistle Blowers, Ah
I’m forgetting there aint such a thing as the Nobel Prize, Anymore.
Al Onin-Duisburg
” I’m completely in agreement with you on this theory, MJ. They have dumbed down the education system, controlled the masses through mindless TV, programmed them through films and games, and convinced nearly everyone that “Democracy” means voting for usual suspects a massive once every 5 years.”
Well Said…and Very True…See this –
” The Military Industrial Intelligence Complex is playing a more and more pervasive role in our lives. In the next few years we’ll be seeing movies that focus on the use of drone technology in police and spy work in the USA. We’ve already been seeing movies that show how spies can violate every aspect of our privacy– of the most intimate parts of our lives. By making movies and TV series that celebrate these cancerous extensions of the police state Hollywood and the big studios are normalizing the ideas they present us with– lying to the public, routinely creating fraudulent stories as covers for what’s really going on. (Rob Kall cited in Washington’s Blog, The CIA and Other Government Agencies Dominate Movies and Television)
All these troublesome Hollywood connections have been examined in an in-depth report Global Research published in January 2009: Lights, Camera… Covert Action: The Deep Politics of Hollywood. The article lists a great number of movies in part scripted for propaganda purposes by the Defense Department, the CIA and other government agencies. It is interesting to note that this year’s Oscar-winning director Ben Affleck cooperated with the CIA in 2002 as he starred in The Sum of All Fears.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/screen-propaganda-hollywood-and-the-cia/5324589
Craig – this is what you are good at, don’t let go!
Sure Craig,sure
You’re right as usual.
But do you really expect the Establishemnt to roll over on this shit?
Straw,Blair,Mandelson,Reid et al are seriously inured from their crimes.
Likewise Bu$h,Cheney,Rumseld,Fleischer,Bolton,Dershowitz,Perle,Rove,Ashcroft,Yoo etc etc
The last 15-20 years have been an exercise in the growth of the surveillance/torture stakes when even chimpanzees in GCHQ can incompetenly flag/torture anyone or thing they don’t understand as Turrrrsts,Inc and blame their incompetence on a software version upgrade they didn’t understand or a general sense of well-meaning faux-patriotic puzzlement.
Just ask the spook that locked himself in a suitcase.
Ho ho.
Ish.
The aftermath of Cameron’s and Obama’s very own Guernica. A hell.
Libya violence: Clashes at Benghazi port area
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29876274
‘More than 200 people have been killed in Benghazi since the army began its offensive last month.
Libya has been in a state of flux since Colonel Gaddafi was overthrown in 2011.
The country is divided between two rival governments, with disparate tribes, militias and political factions fighting for power in the oil-rich country.
Heavy fighting broke out in the port area on Monday afternoon, with reports of tanks and artillery being deployed by the military.
Army spokesman Mohammed Hegazi told the Associated Press news agency that Islamist militias had hit an oil tanker with a rocket-propelled grenade, causing it to catch fire.’
November 03, 2014
The Curious Silence of the West
Libya Falls Into the Abyss
by PATRICK COCKBURN
Remember the time when Libya was being held up by the American, British, French and Qatari governments as a striking example of benign and successful foreign intervention? It is worth looking again at film of David Cameron grandstanding as liberator in Benghazi in September 2011 as he applauds the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi and tells the crowd that “your city was an example to the world as you threw off a dictator and chose freedom”.
Mr Cameron has not been back to Benghazi, nor is he likely to do so as warring militias reduce Libya to primal anarchy in which nobody is safe. The majority of Libyans are demonstrably worse off today than they were under Gaddafi, notwithstanding his personality cult and authoritarian rule. The slaughter is getting worse by the month and is engulfing the entire country.
“Your friends in Britain and France will stand with you as you build your democracy,” pledged Mr Cameron to the people of Benghazi. Three years later, they are words he evidently wants to forget, since there was almost no reference to Libya, the one military intervention he had previously ordered, when he spoke in the House of Commons justifying British airstrikes against Islamic State (Isis) in Iraq.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/03/libya-falls-into-the-abyss/
“Mr Belhadj is a CIA/MI6 funded “jihadi” who fought for the empire in Libya and Syria. That’s the only reason he has been allowed to take this action.”
What Craig calls a cover-up is in fact traditional normalising of events that have been allowed to fester for a while. The UK government whitewashes its crimes, such as the destruction of peace in Northern Ireland, by opening a few chinks of confessed guilt and closing the door on the rest of its crimes.
Tony M
Craig has previously done a little makeover on Freemasonry because of his heroes of pre-Victorian licentiousness. Masonism is not all Halloween tights and satanic rituals. It is the organisation of crime. Freemasonry collates the Islamic fuckwas of the long-subverted India Pakistan Islam, the internecine violence of their long-subverted Muslim Brotherhood and the raw freemasonry of their long-subverted Saudi friends which simply disposes of all disagreement on grounds of treason.
You do not have to wear black tights and be photoed in them on the web to be subverting humanity to every type of criminal activity. Bit of Craig trollery for the UK establishment there.
Craig’s liberal tendencies are limited to personal freedoms, but the personal freedoms of Pakistani men to abuse English and half-English women are also part of this liberalism and the right of ISIS to rape and cut off the heads of 7 year old girls in Syria.
As to Mr Belhadj, why don’t they swap his day in court testifying against Jack Straw with the long catalogue of his own crimes in his own country Libya and in the international CIA arena of Islamic false-flag terrorism. Trouble is it would probably break the scales of justice to hold both of them at the same time!
Is it me, or does the new boss of GCHQ sound like he’s foaming at the mouth?
Anyone looking for a job? Ad on the Guardian website today.
https://www.sis.gov.uk/careers.html
@Tony.
All my family were freemasons, and I joined as part of the family tradition, although I haven’t been for decades. I do find these freemasonry conspiracies laughable, It is mainly just a load of old guys playing dominoes and having a pint.
Just playing dominoes?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2KAEvZJOUWw/UfYQM4z-WrI/AAAAAAAA7mA/8zmmNXwI35U/s400/freemasonsswarmsavilles%2B2.jpg
Tony M
“The stuff of conspiracy theory you might think but freemasonry, with its divided loyalties, and requirement, strictly enforced, to protect brother members, even complete unknowns, puts them often in conflict with the lawful or moral conduct and surrenders the individual will towards often despicable acts in the furtherance of advancement within their pathetic societies…”
Rubbish.
Kind regards,
John
“All my family were freemasons, and I joined as part of the family tradition, although I haven’t been for decades. I do find these freemasonry conspiracies laughable, It is mainly just a load of old guys playing dominoes and having a pint.”
You don’t say Juteman, so you believe that a secret male only society that has its eyes fixed on commercial and public sector activities at almost every local council and town has a benign influence on today’s decision makers.
There should be NO split loyalties at the heart of public sector decision making, and its more than duck houses and second homes, its insidious. To think that these people can forget about their oath and their allegiances to a secret club and make impartial decisions for us is illusion.
A simple rule for all officers would suffice’ decide where your loyalties lie, and/ or leave the public sector.
This should be made clear to them as they become our servants.
Far from being a tradition, its a scourge on the whole system of society, it has spawned many a secret lodges and such like, and however many charitable causes you choose to list, its just not fit for the 21st century, we deserve an open and accountable local/national Government, we also deserve a fair proportional voting system, sorry for being off topic, not more of the same mongering.
“All my family were freemasons, and I joined as part of the family tradition, although I haven’t been for decades.”
My father, Juteman, was a civil servant, and must have joined a secret society probably in the early days of his marriage. Something caused him, like you, not to get further involved. There was a disclosure in a black and white documentary in the early sixties I think. I would not have known except when it showed the bit about blindfolding, bearing the leg and breast my mother said: “You didn’t do that did you?”
But it is not the lower degrees, because like you say it’s mostly social networking. However there are obligations even at that level to brother masons. In the higher degrees, according to what I have read, a lot of nasty stuff goes on. Who was it who reversed the decision for professionals to declare masonic membership? Prince of rendition and torture, Jack Straw, in whose interests it might be to pull a few strings now and again, and coming soon to a lodge near you. Because of that I don’t even know if Justin Welby is a freemason.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/rita-pal/freemasonry-and-medicine_b_1017439.html
When employers are masons if two applicants go for a job with equal qualifications and one is a mason, the mason gets it. Contracts are arranged with a handshake, a nod and a wink as are major judicial decisions. Appointments are made on the basis of getting the job done much more than whether a person has the ability to get the job done.
Honestly, some of the claims about freemasonry are laughable. I stopped going because i was bored with it, simple as that.
Who said i only did the ‘basic’ degrees?
If a group of friends that play in the same football team are criminals, does that mean that football is a criminal past time?
@KingOf Is it me, or does the new boss of GCHQ sound like he’s foaming at the mouth?
…that might be the first impression but lets look a little deeper.
GCHQ BOSS BELIEVES IN FAIRIES
Sir Dick Hannigan believes that he has faeries, sorry, terrorists at the bottom of his garden and that they are chattering to each other, using tools!
This is not new, Herodotus writes how an ex-tyrant of Miletus, named Histiaeus, in 499BCE shaved the head of his most trusted slave and then tattooed a secret message (suggesting a revolt against the Persians) on the scalp. The Terrrists (eventually) won because of that message! GCHQ was not yet checking people’s hair
Mary Queen of Scotland was provoked into entrapment through secret communications (coded messages hidden inside a beer barrel) these messages were intercepted by Ye-Olde GCHQ. When she eventually endorsed an idea of overthrow of Queen Elizabeth 1st, many of the plotters including Mary were arrested and were killed. Her trial and some thoughts from co-conspirators in 1586 are recorded here: “The CONFERENCE or COMMYSSONE between the Quene of Scottes and the Lordes, concerninge her examination.” http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=055-ddke_3-4&cid=1-1-85#1-1-85 Ye-Olde GCHQ refused to comment, due National Security
During ‘the Troubles’ the Provisional IRA sent coded messages by courier, the message was written on cigarette Rizla paper, wrapped in cling-film, held in the mouth (PIRA inherited this method from the Dutch WWII resistance) PIRA sent these secret messages, they didn’t know that BT/GCHQ had built a special interception tower at BNFL Windscale/Sellafield that hoovered-up all of Eire’s communications, but they took precautions. We eventually negotiated with the Terrrists, who partly form the government in Ireland. GCHQ say ‘what tower’ ?
Currently, we are in a situation where the UKUSA/Establishment/GCHQ/SIS/BBC ‘broadcast’ many facts/laws, knowingly omitting many cogent facts. One could hazard that they, BBC, are running at the old Voice-of-America standard of 90%_truth+10%_lies, [GLADIO, Syrian Gas attacks, Establishment cover-ups, Iraq War, Dodgy-Dossier, Torture, Occupied-Territories, false-flag murder of aircraft Lockerbie et al, local-Occupy, sock-puppets, Special Demonstration Squad ISIS, IS, ISIL.] They have lost ‘the plot’ for a lot of our citizens, who feel disenfranchised, with the internet the 10% of lies are exposed & citizens are no-longer are misled by dismissal of stuff as ‘conspiracy-theories’ having discovered that phrase in itself was fog/smoke.
There is radicalisation.
It has varied depths, like a bicycle lock with 4 digits. Many affected citizens have ‘one lock number’ set = radicalised, disturbed by (Blair onwards) Foreign Policy. Some community members have ‘two lock numbers’ set = activists. Some idiots are persuaded to the level of ‘3 lock numbers set’, but they are not yet dangerous [UK is imprisoning & discriminating against these level of radicals] Does that solve the issue, or does it force them to a level where all four numbers come-up, the lock is open and they are Terrrists amongst-us?
We need more police, more proportional use of MI5, and integrated social police, within and accepted by the communities, to start to work at ‘bicycle lock’ level two…
GCHQ is now worried about secret terror communications? – nope, that’s their sovereign job – which they are very good at – to solve the issue like they did with Mary, (tho’ that was entrapment)
Snowden hasn’t affected anything. Like as with the PIRA, real Terrrists were taking avoidance behaviour *before* & after the press-releases.
What ‘worries’ Sir Dick is NOT that the Terrrists have started tweeting pictures of kittens with AK47’s
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jonstone/foreign-jihadi-fighters-in-iraq-and-syria-keep-tweeting-pict ( Note:some pictures may have been already removed to protect the ISIS/CIA/Qatari-intelligence) after all, the tools to remove Tweets & YouTube videos have already been freely granted to UK, given by the American media companies; UK allegedly already has the highest level ‘kill-switch’ for these services, and when the Scottish (first) referendum was held – GCHQ/HMGC gave covert denial-of-service to potentially viral pro-Scotland videos in different manners, without even needing these ‘switches’
I think, and it can be proved, that rather than Terrrists living at the bottom of the GCHQ garden ( after all, we all know they don’t really exist ) that the people who DO live at the bottom of the garden are other-people, normal UK humans, and I don’t think the security establishment wants us, you, to listen to Snowden.
Your thoughts and actions are what they wish to follow, in real-time, without hindrance or debate, it’s the future evolution of society, nothing less.
So debate & think, there’s no foam!
You could start here..
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/30/im_terrified_of_my_new_tv_why_im_scared_to_turn_this_thing_on_and_youd_be_too/
Masons, schmasons. I’m the first member of my male line not to be a mason for over a century btw. They’re the original networking group, certainly not unique, and a damn sight more egalitarian than most, as far as I can gather. Any leverage they may have on local government is far exceeded by the tentacles of corporate influence. Still, if you have to be a secret society with paraphernalia and rituals, I suppose you have to expect conspiracy theorists peddling woo about you, and I guess it would be a good idea if they could declare their membership before seeking election.
Corporate influence, I said. This is where the real subversion occurs, as a letter in yesterday’s Guardian again reveals:
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/nov/02/business-support-school-governors
Overtly, this is a call to improve the management of schools by recruiting professional managers to the boards of governors (which do not do the day-to-day management of schools, incidentally)
Now read the list of signatories, and ask if this does not read equally clearly as a move to position an advocate of privatisation in every school. And profit thereby.
Masons? Amateurs. Why waste time with blood oaths and accoutrements when you can get your way right up front and don’t even need to conceal your objectives?
why do men molest boys?
@YouKnowMyName
Thanks for that highly entertaining account of the historical practices of Ye Olde GCHQ.
But I think you missed a trick with the IRA and Rizzla paper routine.
My understanding is, the IRA prisoner would conceal the Rizzla paper message in his anus and pass it secretly to an accomplice during prison visits, and the accomplice would smuggle it out in his mouth.
Now, if GCHQ were to adopt that method of eavesdropping on my communications, I would be all in favour of it and eat more vindaloo.
sorry for having taken this o/t, my last blast at secret societies, Ba’al, don’t you think that we are talking about two sides of the same coin?
Why would total openness not be an option for these lodges, wherever they exist? and why should they not have an interest in saying who supports them?
why does Larry Levin generalise? and is he a man?