X is shot dead by Y[unknown to anyone?] as X sits in a pub with A and B.
X’s member of parliament, C, says that it is disgraceful.
D, a journalist, reports on the shooting of X.
E, X’s lawyer, says that he has written to C, X’s MP.
C calls upon F , the relevant minister, to condemn and investigate the killing.
G is appointed to investigate the killing and report to F
candidates are asked to spot the spook, or alternatively the non-spook….
A British diplomat wrote these words to Moussa Koussa, the head of Gadafy’s intelligence agency. [Think PIRA nutting squad, only bigger].
“most importantly I congratulate you on the safe arrival of Abu Abd Allah Sadiq. This was the least we could do for you and for Libya to demonstrate the remarkable relationship we have built over the years”
This man had been kidnapped by British Intelligence and handed over to Moussa Koussa.
The message was sent to a regime which had supplied the IRA with guns and semtex , used to kill hundreds of British citizens in Northern Ireland and in Great Britain.
Not one penny of compensation has ever been paid by Libya, despite £200 million being spent by the British Government , bombing Gadafy’s army during the Libyan Spring.
Perfidious Albion is found both at home and abroad.
Imagine that the ruler of a country supplied the terrorists in your country with guns and explosives, which killed many of your fellow countrymen and caused billions of pounds worth of damage. That ruler was overthrown but many of his supporters are still around. The other country said sorry and promised to compensate for the deaths and injuries. Only three years on , it hasn’t. Unabashed they sent soldiers to be trained in your country and promised to pay for it, only they haven’t. Better still some of the men they sent committed sexual crimes in your country.
That would be a queer sort of country to live in , wouldn’t it?
Just to keep you updated on our MEP.
She hosted a meeting of innocent victims of terror at the EU. I presume they told their stories, were patted on the head and sent home. Nothing tangible came from it.
No mention of course of the billions of Euros of Gadafy’s money which the EU have frozen yet will not pay out to “innocent victims of terrorism”, and about which she will make no application.
Meantime she now wants you to back a campaign to refuse to pay money to the EU.
Bites the hand that feeds her?
Diane Dodds, what is she good for?
Readers may recall that this DUP MEP undertook to support my campaign for compensation for those killed or injured by PIRA semtex. I asked her to lobby the European Union for the release of a tiny fraction of the billions of pounds of frozen Libyan funds.
She agreed to help.
I have emailed her , asking for an update, on 25 September and 13 October, but no reply.
Those who voted for her might be interested in the subject matter of the ten written questions she is recorded by the EU as having asked in the period August to September 2014.
Tackling the hyper-sexualisation of society
Securing a safe and transparent food chain
Compliance with the EU Industrial Emissions Directive
EU législation pertaining to VAT registration
Support for those fleeing the Islamic State on Turkish Border
Sustaining an acceptable working age
Preventing a rise in EU anti-Semitism
EU action against the Islamic State
Protection for minority faith groups in Iraq
Improving air safety in conflict zones
Impressive stuff you might think and all close to the hearts and interests of the ordinary NI citizen
Mrs Dodds has an interesting record re question asking. On 20th May 2014 the Belfast News Letter reported that at the mid point of the last EU parliament, she had asked just 39 questions. But by April 2014, as the election neared, “that number had soared to 437”. The paper went on –of the 437 questions 77% have been asked “since the start of last year”
One wonders what the DUP is good for.
Nobody can explain why assets are frozen and when they might be unfrozen. If the freeze was to punish Gadafy, well he is long gone. If it was to stop a long list of his family and henchmen from helping themselves, well that has worked too. Meantime the money, shares, property etc, sits wherever it is, doing not much for anyone.
David Cameron, in March 2011 said that “the assets really do belong to the Libyan people ” and did not support the idea of using a fraction of the wealth to compensate Libyan victims of semtex.
The NTC gave Jason McCue a promise to pay compensation, a month later.
On 27 July 2011 the British Government recognised the National Transitional Council “as the sole governmental authority in Libya”.
In August Henry Bellingham Foreign Office Minister, wrote to Dr McCrea MP, about my claim and said: “I know Mr McCue was able to get a MoU signed by Abdul Jalil of the NTC which gave agreement to compensation. It may be possible to consider, when the time is right, making a further approach to the NTC for the setting aside of assets for compensation”
This language is typical of mealy mouthed Foreign Office speak. When somebody makes you a promise to pay but does not pay, the time is immediately right. No hand wringing necessary.
Time for the FCO and the Prime Minister to show some steel in support of victims of terrorism.
The time is right.
To those affected by PIRA’s use of Libyan semtex anywhere in the UK, I suggest that we make more noise, that we question why Cameron has not secured the same rights for us as for our US “Allies”;that we draw his ambivalence and sloth to a wider audience and that we give him no peace until payment is secured.
Contact me on this blog if you agree, let’s build up a head of steam!
On 5th September 2011, in reply to Nigel Dodds, Cameron told the House this:”There is no doubt that the Libyan provision of semtex to the IRA was immensely damaging over many years and it possibly still is today. We need to be clear that this will be an important bilateral issue between Britain and the new Libyan authorities.”
Three years later not a penny has appeared. Other Tories are not impressed.
If you want to see British society at its best, visit the DVA site. Two people were killed and 39 injured in this 1996 PIRA bomb which blew John Major back to the negotiating table without PIRA having to give up its weapons. Despite death, mutilation and lack of interest by successive governments, the people of DVA have reached out to others less fortunate than themselves. Impressive and humbling.
Libya’s semtex did not discriminate between white, black, Christian and Muslim.
On 4 May 2014, the Sunday Telegraph reported that the Prime Minister had appointed Sir Kim Darroch: “to lead a new effort to gain compensation from Libya”. Six years after the Americans were paid. Five months on, I have heard nothing from Sir Kim. Cameron talks a good game but has delivered nothing. Many victims are in ill health and old age. Many are in dire financial straits. This compensation, which Libya has admitted is due to the victims, would transform their lives. Meanwhile, how many British firms are doing business with the Libyans? Time for action, Prime Minister.
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