Open Letter to President Ahtisaari Re Jim Murphy 1317


Dear President Ahtisaari,

I had the pleasure of meeting you on a number of occasions over the years, including when I was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, and I recall your genuine concern for democracy and human rights in a region where they are sadly neglected.

Like a great many people in Scotland I was shocked that CMI is employing Jim Murphy. Of course, in a democracy there are always losers as well as winners in elections, and both are genuine and valid participants in public life. It is not the fact that CMI employs a politician who has been so recently, comprehensively and humiliatingly rejected by his national electorate that will do any damage to CMI. In a sense I think it does you credit.

What shocks many people here is that Mr Murphy is by any standards a dedicated warmonger. He was a major and important proponent of the invasion of Iraq, and is the strongest of supporters of the massive increase of Britain’s nuclear arsenal, in breach of the Non Proliferation Treaty.

Mr Murphy is a member of the Henry Jackson Society, which as you know is a body which exists to promote United States neo-conservative foreign policy in its most aggressive sense, and openly and actively supports and condones extraordinary rendition and the use of torture by the CIA. It has supported every single military action by the USA since its formation, and defends United States exceptionalism in international law, including US non-membership of the International Criminal Court.

Mr Murphy’s belief set is therefore fundamentally at odds with the stated aims of CMI. Indeed, his employment by you can only lead to the suspicion that CMI’s stated objectives are not its real objectives, and that like Mr Murphy and the Henry Jackson Society your overriding goal in the regions where you operate is to promote the interests of the United States.

As you are funded by charitable donations and by governments, I think some explanation of your employment of Mr Murphy is in order, particularly when you have employed him as a conflict resolution expert in the Caucasus and Central Asia when he has no relevant experience of conflict resolution at all, virtually none of the Caucasus, and absolutely none of Central Asia.

I was the Head of the UK Delegation that negotiated the Sierra Leone Peace Treaty, and certainly under no circumstances would I let Jim Murphy anywhere near that kind of negotiation.

With All Best Wishes,

Amb (rtd.) Craig Murray


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1,317 thoughts on “Open Letter to President Ahtisaari Re Jim Murphy

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  • Ben-Outraged by the Cannabigots

    “Wouldn’t he be abashed to know he’s been doxxed?”

    Embarrassment is a foreign body to trolls. Just like warts. Most people hide them. Trolls decorate.

  • Hieroglyph

    Jihadi Jez? Ffs. I’ve been readng the BTL stuff in The Guardian, and this was also pretty disturbing. Clearly anything other than ‘bomb fuck of everything, ask questions much much later, if at all’ is no longer permissable opinion. I’m not a big fan of petitions, but I’ve signed anyway.

    Our oligarch controlled press seems intent on whipping up a war on ISIS, but not bothering to inform us of the facts behind their rise. This will, as usual, end well, because wars based on ignorance and greed always do.

  • fred

    “Re the wearing of ski-masks, if you’re you’re going to blow yourself up, what’s the point of wearing a mask? Surely it doesn’t matter anymore if you’re identified or not? Also if you Are going to wear a mask to protect your identity, why bring along your Syrian or Egyptian passport to the crime scene, since the only purpose THAT serves is to identify you…. Odd”

    If the only evidence of who you were is a Syrian passport then western governments are more likely to put troops on the ground in Syria where IS fighters can engage with them. They have no defence against drones and air strikes, they want an enemy they can see and engage with.

  • Tony M

    Troops on the ground will not be going to fight ISIS, an arm of westerm military-industrial complex, but to try still to topple President Assad. They’ve killed hundreds of thousands in pursuit of that goal, throw in a million or so in Iraq too, dead, and it becomes clear a random handful of dead in the French capital is of no account to these monsters.

    America’s beleagured mental health services have a tough moral choice, between right, which is solidarity with the Palestinians for as long as they are being ethnically cleansed, oppressed and murdered, and wrong for callous self-interest in the form of relief that the many departures of ex-American now Israeli ‘settler-terrorists’ from New York, lightens their workload considerably.

  • Ben-Outraged by the Cannabigots

    Republicans are ginning up the war frenzy out of their loyalty and support for NeoCon subhuman insistence.

    Russia is the ultimate hate target, with ISIS operating as an Honorable Mention and NetanYahoo cast as lead eugenicist.

    Shicklegruber had some prescience.

  • Mary

    Miko Peled writes beautifully here.

    November 13,2015

    Zionism is racism: Notes from Tel-Rumeida, Hebron, El-Khalil
    http://ahtribune.com/human-rights/123-zionism-is-racism-tel-rumeida-hebron-el-khalil.html

    ‘Miko Peled is an Israeli writer and activist living in the US. He was born and raised in Jerusalem. His father was the late Israeli General Matti Peled. Driven by a personal family tragedy to explore Palestine, its people and their narrative. He has written a book about his journey from the sphere of the privileged Israeli to that of the oppressed Palestinians. His book is titled “The General’s Son, Journey of an Israeli in Palestine.” Peled speaks nationally and internationally on the issue of Palestine. Peled supports the creation of a single democratic state in all of Palestine, he is also a firm supporter of BDS.’

  • Tony M

    It follows from that that the rest of us would be greatly relieved if these two tiresome groups the ISIS head-choppers and the Israeli settlers, if anything less palatable than ISIS, should collide and in the process solve both of problems for us, leaving just litter to pick up afterwards.

  • Habbabkuk (Are you a person of interest?)

    Poor old “Republicofscotland”

    He comes running on here, as excited as a pimply schoolboy who’s just got his hand up a girl’s skirt for the first time, to tell us that “a Spanish judge” has issued an “arrest warrant” against PM Netanyahu and several other Israelis.

    But when asked what the charges are, Rosy hasn’t got a clue.

    He flounders and then blusters.

    What a plonker!

  • Habbabkuk (Are you a person of interest?)

    Ben Weed-Puffer

    Something tells me you were married but that your wife left you.

    Is that correct?

  • Habbabkuk (Are you a person of interest?)

    I defy anyone to read the following without splitting their sides:

    “What I meant then Glenn, was not that you were advancing claims of crisis actors etc. but that you were bewailing that everyone else was claiming crisis actors etc. were or even must be involved, when no one was making any such claims of this kind, not here anyway. Until posting earlier my entire and only source for information on the events in France was the snippets of reports posted and the comments of others here, I haven’t seen such claims. The reactivation of assorted establishment robots, controls set to “Frenzied Rebuttal”, bashing away at each other with their flailing egg-whisks reveals far more than all the corporate and alternative media put together, their slapdash whitewashing efforts draw you to the underlying cracks in the story quite readily.”

    One of TonyM’s very best! 🙂

  • BrianFujisan

    You Little Shit

    You Know full Well that is False

    Ben… i did not think it would go that Low… Peace

  • Alcyone

    Habby, I don’t think even Tony-come-lately can better himself with that one. LOL

    But, he does come close here with this 60-word sentence:

    ” America’s beleagured mental health services have a tough moral choice, between right, which is solidarity with the Palestinians for as long as they are being ethnically cleansed, oppressed and murdered, and wrong for callous self-interest in the form of relief that the many departures of ex-American now Israeli ‘settler-terrorists’ from New York, lightens their workload considerably. ”

    Incredible act how he manages to make himself unintelligible. If all of Europe descended from 7 mothers, I bet Tony M and Macky are long-lost cousins!

  • Mary

    Retribution in Old Testament Terms.

    Deuteronomy 19:21
    Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

    Exodus 21:23
    “But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.…

    France Drops 20 Bombs On IS Stronghold Raqqa
    French jets carry out their biggest bombing raid in Syria after Islamic State gunmen massacre 132 people in Paris.

    http://news.sky.com/story/1588256/france-drops-20-bombs-on-is-stronghold-raqqa

    Perhaps Msr Hollande could inform as to the number of humans he estimates he has wiped out here. Will he stop when he has achieved equivalence? A psycho.

  • Anon1

    MJ

    So it turns out a possible suspect and brother of one of the bomber’s escaped the scene in a vehicle, after his ID was checked.

    Do you see why a terrorist might carry ID now and how easily your crappy little conspiracy theory falls apart?

  • nevermind

    Habbakuk you are a pathological show off, praying on any thing you can find out about posters, a schmarotzer who feeds off others for his sad kicks, an obsessed poser, somebody who hides behind a flacid ‘I know Craig’ when in reality you are some two bit shite, not worth a sidekick.

    I think that you have no idea at all about him, a psychopathic impostor he might believe to know, but not what you claim to be. Why should scum like you be allowed to excrete itself here on his blog?

    Pray that you don’t accidentally turn up on dojo day, you’d be habbapulped.

    With this I bid you all farewell for a few days, busy. take care, breath.

  • Ben-Outraged by the Cannabigots

    Brian; No worries. She/He/It is flailing with it’s desperate attempts to hide a personal truism that’s even hard for the participant to swallow. 🙂

    Jimmy Saviille sycophants rule the roost not out of morality but rather their own perverted excess such as homosexuality, child rape and conservatism without genuine conscience. Then they characterize it as morality. ‘Natch !

  • RobG

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/16/france-launches-massive-airstrike-on-isis-stronghold-in-syria-after-paris-attack

    I know, it all sounds very familiar with regard to the aftermath of 9/11.

    Quite by happenstance (it was a bit like something out of a thriller novel), someone called Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour party, someone who most had never heard of before.

    This coming week the neo-con psychos will be gagging at the bit for war. It seems certain that this coming week Cameron will put forward a motion for war, as waves and waves of ISIS aircraft appear over Britain to bomb us all to oblivion.

    Yawn; but the most crucial thing here is how Corbyn will react.

    This really is a crucial moment in British history.

    Is Britain a fawning poodle?

  • Ben-Outraged by the Cannabigots

    To be clear. I have no problem with homosexuality insofar as it is not my choice, People should be able to practice whatever consensual acts they prefer.

    I just don’t want them, or anyone else doing it in my front yard. Capiche?

  • fred

    “Troops on the ground will not be going to fight ISIS, an arm of westerm military-industrial complex, but to try still to topple President Assad.”

    The troops in the air are already fighting ISIS, already bombing them.

  • Anon1

    Mary 10:07pm

    Here’s hoping the French drop more bombs and follow that up with a ground invasion.

    Meanwhile a mass-grave of more than 80 Yazidi women has been found in Sinjar with the young girls taken as sex slaves

    While Mary weeps for ISIS.

  • Mark Golding

    BrianFujisan
    15 Nov, 2015 – 7:58 pm valid point fella…

    G20 ‘sidelines’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3oZXo7cdEA

    Following the wave of terror in Paris, US intelligence services have expanded their data sharing with France[not Russia?] and have begun providing “targeting packages” on Islamic State position, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

    The allies have agreed on “concrete steps the US and French militaries should take to further intensify our close cooperation in prosecuting a sustained campaign” against IS, Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement, following a phone call between US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and the French Minister of Defense Jean-Yves Le Drian.

    RAF Akrotiri on Syria stand-by (Parliament vote) while British UAVs (that killed Reyaad Khan, 21, from Cardiff, and Ruhul Amin, 26, from Aberdeen) surveil Raqqa.

    We MUST crowd out Russia – was that heard in the officers mess hall?

  • Resident Dissident

    Note how MAry takes the first opportunity to attack France when it attacks ISIS but when it comes to condemning the attacks by ISIS/Hamas/Hezbollah/Assad/Ghadaffi/Saddam or any other of her pet thugs there is near total silence or even the quoting of religious passages. This totally one sided approach to human rights is the true measure of Lady Dorking I’m afraid – she hates western democracies and the values for which we stand.

    Similarly I have bad news for MJ but good news for all decent members of the human race the band members all survived.

  • fred

    France is fighting unwinnable war against terror
    Disaffected French Muslims, Europe’s open borders and the migrant crisis is creating perfect storm warn French terror experts

    France is fighting an unwinnable war against the rising threat of Islamic terrorism, leading French terror experts warned last night.

    Disaffected Muslim populations at home, unpoliced European borders and battle-hardened fighters now flowing in from Syria and Iraq were creating a perfect storm of terror that is now in danger of defeating the French security services.

    France is estimated to have 2,000 citizens involved in Syrian and Iraq jihadi networks and a further 3,800 individuals known to domestic intelligence services as “radicalised”, all watched over by just 3,200 intelligence officers.

    Europe has been unable to provide governments with the tools they have been asking for more than a decade
    Jean-Charles Brisard, Centre for the Analysis of Terrorism

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11996323/France-is-fighting-unwinnable-war-against-terror.html

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