Military Families Against the War Peace Camp

Dates: 21st - 23rd September

Place: Albert Square, Manchester

There are only three weeks to go until the Military Families Peace Camp to highlight the MFAW campaign and the TIME TO GO demonstration at the Labour conference in Manchester on 23rd September

* The Camp is open to all those who want to show their support for the MFAW campaign to get the troops home.

* Please publicise the Peace Camp;

--- Tell your family and friends

--- Post the details on any web forums or groups

--- Write to your local paper

--- Contact your local Radio and TV stations

* If you would like to take part in the Peace Camp contact: peacecamp@mfaw.org.uk

* You can donate online to the Peace Camp fund using the "Make a donation" button at:

http://www.mfaw.org.uk

* Send cheques to: MFAW, 27 Britannia St, London WC1X 9JP

* Let MFAW know if you are coming, where you'll be traveling from and if you are military related.

* Camp will be set up in Albert Square, central Manchester at 3pm on Thursday 21st September until the morning of Saturday 23rd. It will then move to a site opposite the Labour conference venue.

* You will need a rigid frame tent and sleeping bags etc.

* The MFAW website will carry regular updates and information on the Peace Camp

* Don't forget to sign the Troops Home online petition at:

http://www.petitiononline.com/mfawmay/petition.html

Or download a copy at:

http://www.mfaw.org.uk/mfawpetitionsite020606.pdf

Pinko pro-Islamofascist traitor Cameron denounces St Margaret

In an article in today’s Observer, the leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, David Cameron has made common cause with the Cryptocommunist Islamofascist terrorist Nelson Mandela, whom he calls 'one of the greatest men alive'. The policy decisions his Party made with respect to relations with the ANC and sanctions on South Africa he describes as ‘mistakes’ and writes 'that there is so much to celebrate in the new South Africa is not in spite of Mandela and the ANC, it is because of them.'

Conservative students of Cameron's generation wore 'Hang Nelson Mandela' badges on campus, but today he calls ‘wrong’ the description of Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC) as 'terrorists' by Our Lady Margaret Thatcher and Her opposition to sanctions against South Africa. He thereby denounces a keystone of the foreign policy of the leaderene, who said in 1987 that anyone who believed the ANC would ever rule South Africa was 'living in cloud-cuckoo-land'.

His visit to South Africa came at the invitation of Nelson Mandela, who has said these seditious things about the United States in relation to Iraq:

"We see how the powerful countries, all of them so-called democracies, manipulate multilateral bodies to the great disadvantage and suffering of the poorer developing nations."

"Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly? All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil."

"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care."

"[Blair] is the foreign minister of the United States. He is no longer prime minister of Britain,"

"one power with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust."

Shawn Slovo (the daughter of former ANC military chief Joe Slovo and his wife, the arch-extremist Ruth First, who was terminated by South African intelligence) has welcomed Cameron's words, saying 'I feel pleased, I think: "You're on the right side."

A former minister, who did not wish to be named stated of his comments: 'They are ignorant.' This is the least that could be said. However, Lady Thatcher’s former spokesman and a prominent member of her cabinet, Sir Bernard Ingham has asked whether in fact David Cameron is a Conservative.

Since becoming Tory leader with the slogan 'Change to win', Cameron has distanced himself from core Conservative values. In contradiction to Lady Thatcher’s statement that 'there is no such thing as society', he declared the heresy that: 'There is such a thing as society, it's just not the same as the state.'

Cameron is now scheduled to head for India, to hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other leading Indian government figures. What will he do there? Will he seek forgiveness for the 1919 Amritsar incident? Will he go against the word of the latter-day messiah, Winston Churchill, who referred to Mr MK Gandhi as a ‘half-naked fakir’ who ‘ought to be laid, bound hand and foot... and then trampled on by an enormous elephant’?

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THE WORDS OF SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Prof V.N. Datta, an eminent historian and President of the Indian History Congress, has said that Winston Churchill's ' insane' and negative attitude played a decisive role in subverting the cause of India's freedom and creating a situation which made splitting of the country inevitable. Churchill hated Gandhi, ridiculed his fasts as a fraud and blackmail. He even declared that any approach to Gandhi would be made over his dead body.

During the Second World War, Churchill said he was prepared to let Gandhi die if he went on hunger strike whilst imprisoned at the Aga Khan prison in Puné (Poona).

The famous 1930 Gandhi quotes:

'It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious middle temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the vice regal palace, while he is still organising and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the king-emperor.'

[Gandhi] 'ought to be laid, bound hand and foot, at the gates of Delhi and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new viceroy seated on its back.'

Other choice sayings:

Churchill was reported to have suggested in 1926 that machine guns be used on the striking miners.

He called Italy's Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini the 'Roman genius ... the greatest lawgiver among men.'

Regarding black and white soldiers fighting fascism in the Second World War, Churchill insisted that 'the views of the US must be considered.' Black soldiers were to show respect for the US army's segregation policies.

George Galloway on the air

Galloway wipes the floor with Sky Newsreader

Sky News broadcast an interview with George Galloway, MP for Bethnel Green on 6th August. The exchange between Galloway and the Sky Newsreader, regarding the war in Lebanon is both entertaining and revealing. Here is how it began:

Sky Newsreader: Joining me now is a man who’s not known for sitting on the fence. He passionately opposed the invasion of Iraq and now he feels that Hizbullah is justified in attacking Israel. The Respect MP for Bethnel Green is in our London studio. A very good evening, uh good morning to you Mr. Galloway. How do you justify your support for Hizbullah and its leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah?

Galloway (laughing): What a preposterous way to introduce an item and what a preposterous first question. Twenty four years ago, on the day my daughter was born and I’ve just celebrated her 24th birthday,I had to dash to the maternity hospital to see her giving birth from a mass demonstration in London against the Israeli invasion and occupation of Lebanon. Israel has been invading and occupying Lebanon all of my 24yr old daughter’s life. The Hizbullah are a part of the national resistance who are trying to drive, having successfully driven most Israelis from their land in 2000, Israel from the rest of their land and to get back those thousands of Lebanese prisoners who were kidnapped by Israel under the terms of their illegal occupation of Lebanon.

It’s Israel that’s invading Lebanon. It’s Israel that’s attacking Lebanon. Not Lebanon that’s attacking Israel...

Video: George Galloway taking on Sky News 6th August

George Galloway's live phone in from Beirut
© Socialist Worker 2015, 26 August 2006
On next Saturday and Sunday George Galloway MP will broadcast a Middle East special of his Talksport radio phone in show from bombed out Beirut.

He says: "I'm the first British political figure to visit the wreckage of Beirut and the south of Lebanon, seeing for myself the enormous toll taken by 33 days of aerial bombardment. I'll be reporting to Talksport listeners on just what I've found here and inviting guests from across the spectrum in Lebanon who know what they're talking about. I'll be taking calls as normal and we'll make it a two day special on the conflict in the Middle East, its fundamental causes and, a way forward for peace."

To call the show phone 08704 20 20 20 or text comments to 81089

The show runs from 8pm to 10pm each evening on 1089/1053AM and digital radio.

Killer cyborg settles groping suit

Cyber-Organism RNE-800-101

SACRAMENTO, 25 Aug 2006. (UPI) – California’s Black & More-Egg Corporation has settled a court case by a British woman who claimed that the Corporation’s RNE-Series model 800-101 killer cybernetic organism groped her after she interviewed him on television.

Lawyers for Black & More-Egg and for Anna Richardson, a former television host, told the Los Angeles Times that the terms of the agreement are confidential. In her legal suit, Richardson accused the cyborg (nicknamed ‘Arnie’) and two lesser ‘droids (the so-called 'Terminator Three') of libelling her by spreading stories that she had thrown herself at the robot.

Richardson said 'Arnie', after the taping of the interview, had fondled her breasts, telling her he wanted to know if they were ‘real human mammary organs’. The Governator’s version was that she had walked over to him holding her right breast and asked him what he thought. He had replied that, as an automaton, he could not 'think', but only 'act'.

Asked what his next step was, the Robossassin's lawyers replied that 'he'll be back'.

Giant warship on 'sudden unscheduled deployment' to Lebanon

POPULAR DEL NORTE NAVAL STATION, Virgenia State, Petrolica — The Petrolican Navy announced on Wednesday that the amphibious assault ship P.S. Avispa is set to begin a sudden, unscheduled deployment to Lebanese waters. Nearly 1,300 sailors — including Avispa’s crew, a Helicopter Mine Countermeasure Squadron detachment, and Assault Craft Units— will leave Popular del Norte Naval Station as early as Friday (today).

Joint Task Force Lebanon is commanded by the Petrolican 6th Fleet's Amiral Juan Viga de Stuffle, and at present includes vessels and aircraft operated by about 2,400 personnel from all service branches.

On Monday, President Jorge Dubia Arbusto announced that Petrolica would provide funding and other assistance to support the United Nations plan to end the fighting between the Israeli-based Tzahal militia and the Lebanon-based Hizbollah. Arbusto said the Petrolica would support the planned U.N. peacekeeping force with logistics, command and control, communications and intelligence. But the nature of that support is still a closely kept secret.

The sudden deployment of the Avispa comes on the heels of a similar deployment by the amphibious assault ship P.S. Cacerola de Sai, which left Popular del Norte on 15^th August. Cacerola de Sai’s 1,000 sailors and an embarked helicopter were reportedly not earmarked specifically for duty in the waters off Lebanon.

Other naval vessels in the area include the 6th Fleet command ship P.S. El Montaje Blanquea La Isla and the destroyer P.S. Isla de la Barra.

Tzahal Supremo admits failures

Dan Halutz, the Rav Aluf (‘supremo’) of Tzahal, the armed wing of the Zionist movement, has for the first time publicly admitted to failings in its conflict with Hizbollah.

In a letter to grassroots fighters, he said it had exposed shortcomings in the group's logistics, operations and command. There would be a thorough and honest investigation, he said.

Tzahal lost 116 gunmen. It killed about 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians in its vast blitz on the country. Forty-three Israeli civilians were also killed during more than 4,000 Hizbollah rocket attacks on Tzahal bases.

The immediate conflict was sparked by a cross-border raid by Hizbollah soldiers in which they captured two Tzahal fighters and killed eight others in an attempt to bargain for Lebanese kidnapped by Zionist gunmen earlier.

Throughout the terror campaign against Lebanon, Tzahal's aim was the destruction of Hizbollah, which stood in the path of an invasion of Syria.

Amir Peretz, the Zionist gauleiter overseeing the armed wing, has set up an internal inquisition to probe how the terror campaign in Lebanon was conducted. The inquisitors, headed by ex-Obergruppenführer Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, have already started work and are expected to produce results within weeks. The Zionist high command set up similar inquisitions after the perceived defeats in the 1973 October War and the 1982 attack on Lebanon.

Arbusto thanks Pervez for help on ‘baby bottle bomb plot’

Jorge 'Bring Em On' Arbusto explains a point to the press

Reuters news agency reports on 23^rd August that the President of Petrolica, Jorge Dubia Arbusto has telephoned President ‘Al Mush’ Pervez and thanked him for Bananistan’s help in foiling a conspiracy to blow up airliners over the Atlantic.

On 10^th August the Police announced they had arrested over 20 people and foiled this plot to blow up aircraft travelling to Petrolica using baby feeding bottles and carbonated drinks. They said they had acted on information received from Blairistan and made arrests before police rounded up suspects there…

The Pakistan Foreign Ministry said that:

‘In the context of the London terror plot, U.S. President George W. Bush expressed deep appreciation for Pakistan's role in fighting terrorism and the support Pakistan has been extending internationally.’

However, on 19^th August Glen Owen of the Daily Mail reported that Pakistan had not, in fact found any evidence against Rashid Rauf, the so-called ‘terror mastermind’ and the keystone of the ‘terror plot’. He had been accused of sending money back to the UK to allow the alleged bombers to buy plane tickets on the orders of Al Qaeda’s ‘No3’ in Afghanistan.

It seems that two weeks of interrogation later, after an inch-by-inch search of his house and analysis of his home computer, there is insufficient evidence to extradite him. Owen says that there are ‘wider suspicions that the plot may not have been as serious, or as far advanced, as the authorities initially claimed.’

Revealed - Canadian strategy to defeat Taliban in Kandahar

Evzones of the Royal Hellenic Regiment of Nova Scotia posted in Kandahar prepare to dance the Hasaposerviko and frighten off the Taliban, à la Carry on up the Khyber.
Photo © RP McDonald

For those who haven't actually seen the film Carry on up the Khyber, vide http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062782/.

Just for the record, these photos are actually from the Halifax Citadel and not from Kandahar at all.

Kandahar under siege?

Canadian shock troops preparing to defend Kandahar against Taliban irregulars

Photo © J Blum

Nelofer Pazira, the journalist who starred in the film 'Kandahar', reports in the Independent of 21 August 2006 that in the eponymous metropolis:

‘there is no war, no shooting, no rockets. At least not yet, although the Taliban wave is re-conquering Afghanistan, and fighting is spreading through Kandahar province...

‘In the Panjwai district of Kandahar province, the Taliban have even been using loudspeakers, taunting Canadian troops to attack them. In the past week, Canadian soldiers travelled to Panjwai but can only hold the city centre...

‘If the Americans leave, Kandahar will fall in a week. That's what people in the city's bazaar say - and they are the ones who know the Taliban and al-Qa'ida. In the crowded streets… foreigners are no longer welcome. No Nato patrol can pass through here. "They are too scared to come to this area," says my guide Ahmedallah. So the Taliban don't attack the market because there are no foreigners - or perhaps, as the Kandaharis claim, because this place is their nest. Kandahar is lost.’

Link: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1220617.ece

Kandahar may have been ancient Gandhara, home of Graeco-Bactrian kings such as Menander; the place where Hellenism met North Indian philosphy and spawned Buddhist Art.

Just for the record, these photos are actually from the Halifax Citadel and not from Kandahar at all.

Tzahal mounts fresh Lebanon raid

BBC and Agencies, Saturday, 19 August 2006

Tzahal, the Zionist armed wing has admitted that it carried out an overnight raid inside Lebanon in the Bekaa Valley. Tzahal's fresh attack in Lebanon came five days after a UN-brokered ceasefire ended the month-long conflict and hours after UN chief Kofi Annan warned of a 'fragile' situation on the ground. Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said the raid by was 'a naked violation of the cessation of hostilities declared by the Security Council'.

A Tzahal spokesperson admitted to the AFP news agency that 'special forces' (shorthand for Matkal, its fanatical core of hardened fighters) had 'operated deep inside Lebanon'. However, the spokesperson claimed the raid was to prevent arms being delivered to the Lebanese Hizbollah movement by Iran and Syria, who have denied this.

The attack centred on the village of Bodai, west of the city of Baalbek, some 100km (60 miles) north of the Israeli border and 26 km (16 miles) from the Syrian border. Lebanese security sources said said the gunmen and two vehicles were flown by helicopter into the area and headed towards an office of a Hizbollah leader, Sheikh Mohammed Yazbek, in Bodai. The reports said they were driven back by Hizbollah commandos and withdrew under cover of air strikes. Tzahal missile strikes in the area were also reported.

The sources said three Hizbollah commandos were killed in a firefight with the Tzahal gunmen, although Hizbollah said none of its soldiers were killed or wounded. Tzahal has admitted to one of its gunmen dead and two wounded.

Palestine behind bars...

Ross St, Sydney.

Israeli gunmen kill Palestinian troops in occupied W.Bank and Gaza

Fri 18 Aug 2006

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Routers) - Israeli militants killed two Palestinian soldiers after a standoff near the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday, Palestinian witnesses and Tzahal, the armed wing of the Zionist movement said.

An Israeli spokeswoman for Tzahal admitted that two Palestinian soldiers were shot and killed when they resisted a kidnapping attempt by Tzahal gunmen and attempted to defend themselves from within a cave where they had taken refuge.

In Gaza, the spokesperson said, gunmen fired at two Palestinians in a Tzahal-declared 'no-go area' by a wire fence.

Palestinian medics said they had found the body of a soldier in Gaza, north of the Karni commercial crossing. Two other Palestinians were wounded, they said.

Violence has continued in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip while Tzahal has also been fighting Lebanese irregular soldiers. A five-day-old ceasefire in the war in Lebanon has largely held.

Three Palestinian engineers from the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades died in the West Bank city of Jenin on Friday due to an accident while they were manufacturing munitions, local security officials said.

Earlier, a bomb attack by the Chel Ha’avir, the dreaded air wing of Tzahal destroyed a building in the Gaza Strip wounding at least one Palestinian.

A series of attacks by Tzahal gunmen in the Gaza Strip aim to follow up on earlier assassinations of Palestinian soldiers and put a stop to defensive fire by the Palestinians. Nearly 180 Palestinians, at least half of them civilians, have been killed.