Tim Worstall

Iraqi Interpreters

In The Times.


Armed with a glowing reference from his commander, Major Pauric Newland,
stating that his life would be in danger once British Forces left, A Kinani
made a personal appeal to Tony Blair, during his last visit to Iraq as Prime
Minister in May.


His letter was handed to Ruth Turner, a former No 10 adviser, and a reply was
sent on June 22 by Nick Banner, a former foreign policy adviser, who
informed Mr Kinani that he was not eligible for asylum. He suggested that he
went to a third country and applied for a visa and advised him to look at a
website for help.

Damn we are ruled by rancid little fucks.

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6 responses

  1. Umbongo Avatar
    Umbongo

    And those rancid little fucks who rule us can’t do enough for these rancid little fucks.

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  2. Sam Avatar
    Sam

    All Mr. Kinani actually needs to do is to get in to Britain. Once here, he’d be a shoe-in for an asylum claim.
    Soldiers are well-known for being able to smuggle “interesting” souvenirs back from foreign parts.
    A solution suggests itself…

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  3. Joe Aston Avatar
    Joe Aston

    I have created a Facebook Group to help raise awareness of this issue:
    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4093644522
    Please join and help spread the word.

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  4. Anon Avatar
    Anon

    I wonder what the chances of a Trojan horse are?

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  5. PJC Journal Avatar
    PJC Journal

    We cannot leave them behind

    When a nation goes to War, not only does it display its might by way of brute force, but it also takes on responsibilities.
    Responsibilities to those who fight in its name, responsibilities to those it conquers, and responsibilities to those who wor…

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  6. Dan Hardie Avatar
    Dan Hardie

    Sam: if we do rapidly exit Basra whilst attempting to leave the locals who have worked for us behind, then some soldiers will mysteriously discover that they drove all the way to Kuwait without noticing the Iraqi interpreters in the back of their vehicle. But plenty won’t make it out this way: those who can’t make it to British bases in the last few hectic days, those who are stranded in Jordan or Syria, those for whom there just isn’t room in the Army vehicles: and those who have been murdered by the local jihadists, as quite a number already have. So letting them in, with their families, is the only solution. And the latest Times reports, not to mention ARRSE threads, make it rather plain that a number of soldiers are disgusted by the present policy of leaving these people to their fate.
    Can those of you who haven’t yet written to your MPs please do so? You can find talking points at my site. Justin at Chicken Yoghurt is currently collating MPs’ replies: bland as some of them are, we are forcing an awful lot of MPs to ask the Home Office and the FCO about this policy. If they don’t think they can get away with it any more, they won’t try.

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