British “Pond Life” Intel Ops Unmentioned in the Corporate Media

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British " Pond Life " Intel Ops Unmentioned in the Corporate Media

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British " Pond Life " Intel Ops Unmentioned in the Corporate Media

 

September 22nd, 2005

 

th Kearney, writing for the Daily Ireland, draws a crucial comparison

that will of course be completely ignored by the larger corporate

media. The incident in Basra, where two SAS undercover operatives were

captured, dressed as Arabs and driving a car loaded with weapons and

explosives, is similar to an earlier incident in Northern Ireland,

where the SAS operated for years. " The incident drew parallels with

the March 1988 attack on the funeral of IRA volunteer Caoimhghin Mac

Bradaigh, " writes Kearney. " During that incident, two armed and

undercover army intelligence operatives drove directly at the cortege

in west Belfast. After firing a shot, both soldiers were subsequently

captured, beaten and shot dead by the IRA. " Lucky for the British

intelligence operatives in Basra, they were not murdered, although

apparently beaten.

 

Kearney also mentions that Brigadier (in the Intelligence Corps)

Gordon Kerr, who " played a key role in the activities of covert

British activities in the North [of Ireland], " is " now stationed with

British forces in Iraq. " Neil Mackay, Home Affairs Editor of the

Sunday Herald, characterizes Kerr as " the archetypal spy; a spook's

spook and a master of dirty tricks and dirty wars, " on the same level

" as pond life " (according to " regular squaddies and military brass " ),

" [h]ighly effective, immensely powerful and very dangerous pond life,

but pond life nevertheless. " Kerr and his Force Research Unit (FRU)

not only " handed packages of photographs and military reports

detailing the movements and addresses of potential targets, which in

turn were passed to loyalist murder gangs " in Northern Ireland

(essentially organizing targeted assassinations), but also " carried

out more `flag tours'—secret intelligence missions [in Berlin, circa

1983-85]—than the French and US military intelligence put together "

and were thus described by an " officer who served with Kerr in Berlin "

as " pointlessly aggressive and confrontational. " An intelligence

officer who knew Kerr portrayed him as " the perfect advocate of the

ends justifying the means. "

 

In Britain, as in America, criminals and terrorists are rewarded for

their murderous behavior. In February, 2003, Kerr was " sent to the

Gulf to head up British spying activities in the Middle East as part

of preparations for action in Iraq, " Mackay reported for the Sunday

Herald. " The move has been described as a `get out of jail free card'

for Kerr. " Prior to this assignment, Kerr was rewarded with a military

attache position in Beijing. " The fact that Kerr seems to be playing a

key role in the coming war suggests that all the activities that he

was involved in were sanctioned at the highest level, " remarked Jane

Winter, the director of British Irish Rights Watch.

 

A FRU source told Mackay in 2000 that what " was happening [in Northern

Ireland] may have been occurring outside the law but the establishment

[at the time, Secretary of State for Defense, George Younger, Ulster

Secretary, Tom King, PM Margaret Thatcher, and General Sir John

Waters, the general officer commanding in Northern Ireland] knew what

was happening. " Likewise the " establishment " knows what is happening

in Iraq—no doubt the sort of " dirty war " launched by the likes of

Gordon Kerr and FRU is confirmed British policy (a collaborative

effort with American intelligence and Rumsfeld's Pentagon), well

" outside the law. "

 

Naturally, all of this is simply irrelevant because the corporate

media will not report it—instead, in the wake of the embarrassing

revelations of SAS undercover agents posing as Arabs, the media has

turned its attention toward Iran, accused (as usual) of organizing and

funding the murder of British and American occupation soldiers in

Iraq. In the period of a day or so, all reference to the SAS and its

" dirty tricks and dirty wars, " more alluded to than actually

investigated, have disappeared down the memory hole, replaced by

archetypal terrorists of the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi sort.