Does
anyone remember Lt. Colonel Gordon Kerr? Well, I
would imagine that most republicans in Ireland would,
he is the guy who commanded the Force Reconnaissance
Unit in our country throughout our struggle for
freedom from British rule. You remember the FRU,
these are the people that the British government
entrusted with the infiltration of the Republican
Army and who colluded with the loyalist paramilitaries
in the murders of at least fifteen republicans.
You know who I mean, the agency which helped the
loyalist death squads kill innocent catholics so
that they could drive off support in the nationalist
communities for the IRA. The guys who recruited
men like Albert Baker and Brian Nelson. The people
who the regular army squaddies and officers referred
to as "Green Slime". (Quite an apt name,
I think!)
Well, Kerr is back in action, only now he is Brigadier
Kerr. Oh yes, he was promoted for his actions in
Northern Ireland. In any other army he would probably
have been court martialled or faced some form of
prosecution in civvy street for his department's
collusion in the murders of innocent civilians,
but this is the British army we are talking about.
Not only was he promoted, but was appointed to the
post of military attache in Beijing, mainly to keep
him out of the way of the investigations into the
culpability of the FRU in the murder of human rights
lawyer Pat Finucane. Indeed, I am reliably informed
that on the thirteenth of February this year, papers
were submitted to the Department of Public Prosecutions
by Sir John Stevens naming Kerr and another twenty
members of the Security Forces, after his investigations
into collusion. As of yet there has been no decision
taken by the DPP as to whether any prosecutions
will take place. (Surprise, surprise!)
As I said earlier he is back in action. He is currently
heading a unit in Iraq called the Special Reconnaissance
Regiment. This appointment basically makes Kerr
untouchable with regard to the investigations into
collusion and also keeps safe any of his commanding
officers and any politicians who were in power while
the FRU were conducting their dirty war in our island.
It also proves that the whole Stevens' inquiry is
nothing but a sham and that there will never be
any successful prosecutions of any members of the
security forces for any of the assassinations of
republicans.
Why do I say this?
Firstly.
Does anyone think that he is going to be dragged
away from what is considered to be essential war
work to answer questions which could open up a whole
can of worms for the British army and government?
Secondly. The man has an OBE and has won the Queen's
Medal for Gallantry. (Isn't it macabre what the
Brits give people medals for?)
His appointment to this post should really say a
whole lot about the claims by the British government
that the war in Iraq was all about getting rid of
the weapons of mass destruction (Where did they
hide them?), de-Saddamising the country and giving
democracy back to the Iraqi people.
It
also says something about the claims of the British
government, in the case of the special forces people
arrested by the Iraqi police, that the Iraqi police
cannot be trusted and have been infiltrated by insurgents.
I mean, who are they trying to kid? The two SAS
men (more likely SRR men) were intercepted by the
Iraqi police whilst in a car packed with explosives,
whereupon a fire fight took place, which suggests
to anyone with any common sense, that they clearly
did not wish to be exposed.
What
was the role of the two SAS/SRR men in Basra?
The
Brits' answer was that Iranian intelligence officers
are funding the local Badr brigades and the army
of cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr. (Evidence? None!)
The
SAS/SRR men were on a mission to identify routes
used by these people and capture or kill them.
Why
did they open fire on the police?
Answer.
The Iraqi police have been infiltrated by insurgents.
(Yawn!)
Does
anyone agree that the mention of Iranian intelligence
people is perhaps a prelude to what may be the next
conflict in the region? After all, we are now, through
the British media, being treated daily to a diet
of Iranian bogey men who are inciting the various
factions to revolt against the occupation forces
and these bogey men have weapons of mass destruction.
(Perhaps that's where the Iraqi ones disappeared
to?)
Could the reason why the two special forces men
had a car full of explosives be, as has been claimed
by the Iraqi people of the area, that the majority
of the terrorist attacks and especially the car
bombings have been perpetrated by British and American
covert operations people. Surely this is a distinct
possibility, given the fact that the two soldiers
were dressed as Arabs and the incident took place
in Basra at the time of the Karbala festival which
draws pilgrims in their millions to the city. This
is a tactic which has been used by the British all
over the world to create a civil war scenario and
thereby drive off support for any of the rebel factions,
as we in Ireland know only too well. As a matter
of fact, I spoke to a young soldier who had recently
returned from Iraq who told me that he believed
this to be the case and that British, American,
South African and Latin American mercenaries were
operating in the area perpetrating these attacks
and being paid an awful lot more than the regular
soldiers.
So, to finish, it seems that Kerr and the FRU/SRR
are still fighting a dirty war, only this time they
probably have the help of the American CIA and we
all know how good a record that they have in the
field of human rights. (It doesn't even bear thinking
about!)
Oh, one last thing. Part of Brigadier Kerr and his
unit's remit will be to capture and detain possible
war criminals. (Now isn't that hugely ironic!)
