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KEMBER - RANSOM WAS PAID FOR CREDIBILITY

kember reality check | 27.03.2006 21:27 | Analysis | Anti-militarism

It is ironic about claims that we should all be grateful to the security forces who apparently spent millions on a surveillance operation protecting Kember. However, lets consider the facts - no shots were fired, no hostages found and oddly enough lots of money was spent by special forces. Any operation to save a hostage required real intelligence not the kind Prince Harry specialises in or that of Sir Mark Thatcher's coup types.

Perhaps some of the world believes the BBC and other corporate media and they are becoming fewer and fewer, many do not - I am one of them, for others it will be easy to see that none of this makes sense unless of course you need good publicity for an illegal war, waged by a war criminal working with an imperalist colonialist - now that requires real thought for those who think activists ought to be grateful to armies.

This is no different to what the US forces did in Afghanistan, did anyone report how Medicins Sans Frontiere lost seven of their staff to masked gunman because the US armed forces tried to link humanitarian aid with their illegitimate efforts. Now the UK is there to join them - that tells you a lot about armed forces.

Which media office has bothered to report how the Taleban and Saddam Hussein came into power to reveal why people in the Middle East are stuck in an awful battle by people who have created a climate of danger, religious fundamentalism and fear.

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  1. Try this for a reality check — Norville B
  2. Double take! — Ex-squaddie
  3. > no shots are fired generally A Good Thing? — eeeeeee