By Raymond Murrey
During this booklet the writer chronicles the abuse by means of the British kingdom of emergency legislation: harassment and intimidation of civilians; accidents and deaths as a result of rubber and plastic bullets; collusion among British protection forces, British intelligence and loyalist paramilitaries; unjust killings and murders by means of the protection forces; over the top punishments and degrading strip-searches in prisons – abuses missed via all yet a handful of people and civil rights organizations.
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After the event is just too late. This needs to be a core component of pre-deployment training. As we deploy them we simultaneously need to export our values and our beliefs so that they complement existing societies and not over-run them. The soft power of the west has long been an attractive proposition. The ideal that draws so many immigrants to the US and the UK is an ideal of freedom, of fairness, of prosperity, of safety and of selfworth. We need to remind ourselves of these core principles and reinvigorate them in today’s contemporary setting.
But it was the airing of Osama Bin Laden’s videotapes that was to rocket Al-Jazeera to international prominence and earn it the unfortunate and undeserved sobriquet “Bin Laden TV”. In one of his first interviews Bin Laden stated that he had “high regard and respect for the people who bombed [US barracks in Saudi Arabia]” while in a later tape he accused America of “violating our land, occupying it and stealing Muslim possessions”. These tapes marked the beginning of an uneasy relationship between the channel and the United States and are almost certainly the reason for much of the anti-Al-Jazeera sentiment that many US servicemen demonstrated during operations in Iraq the following year.
Daniel C. Hallin. The “Uncensored War”. The Media and Vietnam (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986). Gulf War I was fought between Iran and Iraq in the late-1970s and 1980s. In Gulf War II, the USA and its coalition fought Iraq for the liberation of Kuwait (Operations Desert Shield/Storm). In Gulf War III, the US and its coalition fought Iraq for the removal of Saddam Hussein (Operation Iraqi Freedom). ” Framed in the United Nations’ Security Council’s Resolutions 242 and 338. ” Many (“Hawkish”) Jews and Israelis are trying as of now to initiate a move to revoke Arafat's Nobel Prize.