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
Mary
Would you like to say something condemning the horrific slaughter in Paris?
I haven’t heard anything from you yet.
Habbabkuk (Are you a person of interest?)
Yes it is quite obvious now, you are a nasty piss taking troll, what a tedious arse head. All you seem to do here is slag off other contributers. Why don’t you actually try to contribute something positive? Put up some links to back up your laughably conformist views.
Try and argue out you pathetically weak case in support of a state that must be employing you in some way. Surely nobody (sane) could put up that sheer volume of spiteful bilge you smear here without some sort of recompense?
All we get from you is an unrelenting outpouring of negativity towards your imagined enemies. You love to put in the personal stuff, and go after the better contributers, that’s what gives you away. This is an anonymous BB ffs, nobody here knows you or will ever know you.
Don’t delude yourself that you can hook me as well, you only get this one morsel, then into the ‘ignore’ bucket for you, forever. I know your type only too well, your kind feed off attention, negative attention in particular, as that is the best way to make everyone else shut up and turn away. Starvation is the only remedy for you.
This comment(food)is for what many here must think of you but don’t say as they don’t want to pointlessly engage with someone who will put up a thousand posts putting them down.
Will Carig’s blog now be known in the cyber space as a front shop for SIS? Given “are you a person of interest splattered every other comment and the unceasing torrents of unconscious drivel handy work of the keyboard warrior units, that is drowning any and all other comments; sneering, insulting, obfuscating, ……………
I hope that Craig is OK and not laid up.
If he were to make an appearance the trolls would disappear in a puff of smoke.
Fredi to Habbabkuk
“Why don’t you actually try to contribute something positive?”
LOL. With all the relentless negativity and hatred for Britain and the West on this blog, the anger, bitterness and malcontent of the Original Trolls, none of whom appears to indicate they have any happiness in their lives or possess even a sense of humour to make their misery more bearable, I think Habbabkuk’s presence here is a welcome and positive thing in itself. 🙂
That’s why Craig welcomes him here, too. 🙂
Not to mention the valuable service myself, Habbabkuk, Resident Dissident, Alcyone and Kempe perform in cleaning up the mess created by the lies, distortions, misreprentations and pet obsessions of the Original Trolls.
1- Britain is not yet another parcel of land in the patrimony bequeathed by Abraham.
2- It does not belong to you or the likes of you at all, hence your aggressive ownership of it, and the West are just a veneer of respectability for the relentless exploitation of the west to fight the dirty of war of the zionist supremacists. Hence the any probable danger to the current arrangements of the contracted out war on all things Islamic, that could be in danger result in the familiar faux patriotic cock and bull yarn told and retold and repasted over and again by the likes of you and your ilk.
No Fedup, you hate Britain and the West because you are a miserable failure in your own life.
There is no war on all things Islamic. This country bends over backwards to accommodate Islam. There is a war on extremism which is a serious problem through the Islamic World and in the West as we have seen in Paris just recently.
You are assuming a lot!!!! Clearly a projection of your own miserable life and your failures as your avatar proves!
You and your kinds’ support of the West is entirely for the benefit of securing the current corrupt and failed arrangements that has contracted out the war on all things Islamic to the west on behalf of the shitty strip of land aka zionistan.
On the other hand those of us belonging to these lands can discern and see the failed policies and intend to change the current arrangements for the benefit ourselves and the humanity at large. As you damn fine well know if the current arrangements are not so diligently defended by you getting a tenner a day (recycling of aid pounds) and sending proof of posting for the garbage that you have been splattering all over this blog, as already seen in your confessions, there is a very serious danger of the end to the gravy train;
Fact is you are treating we the citizens of these lands as yet another bunch of Palestinians hence your contempt as so manifested above.
You cannot cover up that fact given the copious amounts of unconscious drivel splattered around this blog and elsewhere.
“There is a war on extremism”
More bilge, it’s people like you anon1 who hate Britain because you refuse to learn from its mistakes, you cling to the status quo like glue while its policies destroy this country by increment. A true patriot is honest enough to point out the mistakes and demand change. The traitor attacks the patriot, so who are you?
Funding,arming and training extremists in Syria is ‘extremism’. Supporting Israel Turkey and Saudi Arabia is extremism. Selling arms to every tin pot dictator is extremism. Launching unprovoked wars of aggression is extremism, turning a blind eye to our ‘allies’ use of torture, rendition and drone strikes is extremism. Giving our sovereignty to the EU is extremism, opening our borders to all and sundry is extremism, bailing out failing banks is extremism etc etc..
I could go on for a week but it would be probably be as pointless as engaging with that person of no interest whatsoever.
One thing to be mindful of is that when a dead beat ‘extremist’ government of either the left or the right launches a ‘war’ against a noun you can be sure of one thing, they will lose, as they have done since the 50s. How is their war on terror been going for the last 15 years? Their War on drugs? On poverty?
^Another dirty protest from the certifiable Islamist loon about zionistan/shitty strip of land/ziofuckwits etc, while most normal people are focused on the attacks in Paris by radical Islamic extremists intent on killing as many innocent people as possible.
I wonder, given your obvious issues and your support for Islamism, Fedup, are you a person of interest? Or do you just need a cuddle?
There are 3 or 4 people deliberately trying to disrupt this blog.
There are 10 or 12 people unintentionally disrupting this blog by replying to them, encouraging them, being made fools of by them.
There are 13 – 16 people disrupting this blog.
Well intentioned people, please be smart, don’t let the trolls manipulate you.
French foreign minister calling that place a shitty strip of land is not a loon, much as you would like to portray him to be, zionistan is for ziofuckwits who have been now for seventy years failing to setup a viable country!
Seven decades at the tits of the West and still that place is a shambles and a an apartheid basket case! But given the delusions of the grandeur and the mass psychosis suffered by the zioninst supremacists vermin; everyone is out of step except the ziofuckwits!
You can wonder as much as you like, but the facts are there for everyone to see your brown nosing and cupboard love of the West is purely a parasitic act to prolong the continuation of suckling at the tits of the West taking the tax funds of we the people and sneering at us for wishing to end the current arrangements of failure, mass murder, theft and lamentably endless violations of human rights, property rights, and sustainable development of the human family.
You and your kind do not belong to this human family as your defence of the indefensible clearly proves.
PS Are you trying to frighten me into silence with your infantile; “Are you person of interest” or manifestly boast about the undue influence of your parasitic creed on our society, and laws? Is freedom of expression now verbotten too?
So to be clear, Fedup, you are blaming the Paris attacks on Israel?
What better way to “get troops on the ground in Syria” than having an alleged Isis attack on France, the leading NATO power behind spreading support of Israel’s Mediterranean Dialogue to the heart of Europe, as its assistance in bringing down the Germanwings plane demonstrated.
Now we have have NATO government from Brussels, and European democracy will be dying.
It’s the end of the world, as we know it, as it is spreading to the American homeland, as some warmonger will be elected there by next November.
It’s the biggest example of what covert government can achieve.
“World leaders have agreed “important steps” to cut off funding for terror groups, David Cameron has said .”
So what are you going to do with your overseas development budget instead, David?
Anon1:
“So to be clear, Fedup, you are blaming the Paris attacks on Israel?”
What is Israel? A combination of Zionism which means the restoration to God’s favour of the cursed religion of Judaism ( cursed by Jesus and our prophet pbuthem, and also a group of colonial countries who God pitched against eachother in 2 world wars and nearly exterminated, except for the fact that they promised to stop mis-treating their own people and to stop subjugating and stealing from other nations.
Israel is a toe=hold in Muslim territory and it is also a Zionist toe=hold in the land of Goyim. In my lifetime the Zionist toe-hold here in the west has convinced our leadership to direct all its might against God’s chosen religion of Islam. To attack its citizens, to brainwash its supporters, to destroy its infrastructure, and to denigrate its name.
What has Zionism done for kufrstan? converted the honourable institutions of the West to a form of government previously despised, lying cheating embezzling, spying, mis-informing. france is now famous only for its adultery, the UK only for its paedophilia and city of London corruption, and the wretched US of A squints as its tries to back terrorists and champion freedom at one and the same time.
You trolls are like naughty choirboys and girls, singing hymns to the wrong person and passing dirty notes to eachother during the lessons.
Cameron has just re-iterated his demand for Russia to come to heel on Syria and abandon its support for Assad.
Let me remind you sir, and not for the first time, the people of Syria and Egypt will never accept your twisted version of Muslim Brotherhood Islam. It was created by the British for the purpose of making Islam a religion of hierarchy to a spying thought police, whereas Islam is more a religion of personal accountability to God than Protestantism. You want us to follow a new papacy controlled by our enemies after we have succeeded in getting rid of the original one.
As always Tory radicalism turns out to be feudal recidivism.
I’m going to chuck the burned-out trolls in the rubbish bin.
Hollande is already on record; “terrorists must have had inside help”
Turkey has just gone on record;
blockquote>Turkey notified France twice in December 2014 and June 2015 about one of the attackers in suicide bombings and shootings in Paris that killed more than 130 people, a senior Turkish government official said on Monday.
Turkey received an information request from France on Oct. 10, 2014, regarding four terror suspects but during its investigation identified a fifth individual, Mostefai, the official said. It twice notified France of its findings but only heard back after Friday’s attacks.
Which inside organisation helped these Monsieur Hollande?
Meanwhile Telegraph runs with; “Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t even have the decency to be angry about the Paris terror …” Now getting angry is a mandatory and anyone who is not angry is wimp, a poopy pants and , and ……..and ……
Sad state of affairs that oligarch owned media no longer are tethered to an kind of reality, in their Alice in wonderland world of journalism.
Well it looks like the event in Paris may have achieved its goal with cries for NATO’s article 5 to be implimented. If successful a large scale deployment of troops and equipment will flood into Syria.
Meanwhile the round ups in France and Belgium have begun, any dissident can now be arrested and if need be linked to Friday’s terrible event via Syria or elsewhere. They’ll be no outcry or protests over the arrests, and no one will test there veracity.
The upsides to these arrests are endless, the public will think the police and security forces are competent, and swift, the suspects can be used to link them to other suspects, and to any country they desire, it’s a win win situation.
Political author Gearoid O Colmain discusses the Paris attacks with RT International
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7GAbVhjTSw
“you are blaming the Paris attacks on Israel?”
It would surely be plain daft to rule Israel out at this stage. Israel, more than anyone, must be severely rattled by Russia’s arrival on the scene, particulary those cruise missiles.
Meanwhile some newspapers claim sources say Daesh has admitted it carried out Friday’s atrocities.
In my opinion, Daesh is whoever, wherever or whatever or whenever Western coalition forces need it to be, to suit their goals. It is indeed a ingenious idea, open to multiple forms of interpretation, depending on whatever the circumstances, and situation require.
It doesn’t even cost that must to maintain Daesh, you can use your own forces dressed in whatever the situation calls for, as long as they attack coalition forces, through, say, a countries police force, or its civilians, or its judicial or political system, only one rule applies, don’t get caught.
@Fedup
There’s a 6 page spoof about Jeremy Corbyn in this month’s Viz magazine entitled “Is this the most evil man in Britain”. It’s a wonderful parody of how the media has reacted to the new Labour leader but I reckon it has just been out-parodied by the Telegraph. A sample from your link:
He is being attacked for not succumbing to irrational murderous rage!
Very true Node, I am glad you have highlighted the Telegraph attacks on Corbyn further!
Saying you cannot make this shit up is a redundant phrase these days, as our imaginations have been fed such a veritable diet of untruths by the oligarch owned media!
Once your forces (Daesh) have been established as a threat to the ruling government, and citizens of whichever country you wish to divide, destroy or asset strip.
Then the huge propaganda wheel begins to turn, hourly bulletins on the situation of that country will be broadcast. As the days go on the situation almost always deteriorates, and the civilian body count mounts.
After a while prominent politicians begin to emerge usually stating “we can’t let this situation continue.” Whilst tv screens show henious acts of butchery, committed by… well I think you get the picture.
The president or leader of the target country will often be seen standing solemnly behind or beside the prominent politician.
At first small groups of highly trained personnel are dropped into the target country, but of course they won’t be able to negate the threat. As more bodies pile up the target country agrees to a large scale intervention (code for invasion).
Now the tricky part arises, the large scale intervention, needs the consent of sections of the politicians and public of the intervening countries, consent isn’t always forthcoming.
Occasionally a further act of aggression is required by agent provocateur forces, one so nefarious that no citizen or politician, would/could object to a mass intervention, dressed up as either a humanitarian act, or a democratic act.
Success you now have a large more often than not coalition force in the target country, under the pretence of defeating a force, that you control, now the goal can begin.
The Dead Sea Trolls are doing their best to ramp up a strike on “dictator” Assad, presumably its self-interest if they have a property in Perdesiya, and the Merchant of Wolverhampton seems happy with a pound of DU. A nine month bombing campaign may set us back a billion or two but if it can be taken from the budget of the disabled and NHS, enough of em may die, to result in a net saving after the reduced pension,etc costs are considered.
The numbers alone are enough to turn me into an eretz Israel fan, sorry Mary. And bibi may have promised us a share of the Golan oil too.
The number of spies will rise by 15 per cent in what is expected to be the biggest expansion of the security services since the 7/7 terror attacks in London in July 2005.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11997782/Paris-terror-attack-Britain-to-hire-2000-new-spies.html
So the clampdown begins, and GCHQ, MI5 and MI6, will be let of the leash in Britain to a greater extent than they’ve ever been.
Aided and abetted by the giant propaganda wheel, the media, Britain may change forever, by taking one step closer to a quasi-police state, I sincerely hope not.
I haven’t had time to read the latest comments here, so I’ll chuck this into the mix with apologies is someone has already done so…
“I have received a report from European security that there was a massive cyber attack on French systems 48 hours prior to and during the Paris attacks. Among other things, the attack took down the French mobile data network and blinded police surveillance The attack was not a straightforward DDOS attack but a sophisticated attack that targeted a weakness in infrastructure hardware.
Such an attack is beyond the capability of most organizations and requires capability that is unlikely to be in ISIL’s arsenal. An attack on this scale is difficult to pull off without authorities getting wind of it. The coordination required suggests state involvement.”
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/11/15/french-security-left-blind-during-paris-attacks-2/