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Arash
September 22, 2005
British “Pond Life” Intel Ops Unmentioned in the Corporate Media
By Kurt Nimmo
Jarlath Kearney, writing for the Daily Ireland, draws a crucial comparison that will
of course be completely ignored by the larger corporate media.
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The incident in Basra, where two British 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 Irish Republican Army, IRA”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army).
Lucky for the British intelligence operatives in Basra, they were not murdered,
although apparently beaten.
Jarlath 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 (http://www.safrc.com/Militarisation/html/fru4.htm), Home Affairs Editor
of the Sunday Herald, characterizes Brigadier Gordon 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”), “highly effective,
immensely powerful and very dangerous pond life, but pond life nevertheless”.
Brigadier Gordon Kerr and his Force Research Unit, FRU
(http://www.serve.com/pfc/fru/fruindex.html) 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 U.S. 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 Brigadier Gordon 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, Brigadier Kerr was “sent to the Persian Gulf to head up
British spying activities in the Middle East as part of preparations for action in
Iraq”, Neil Mackay reported for the Sunday Herald. “The move has been described as a
‘get out of jail free card’ for Brigadier Kerr”.
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/a-list/2003w08/msg00009.htm
Prior to this assignment, Brigadier Gordon Kerr was rewarded with a military attache
position in Beijing. “The fact that Brigadier 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 Neil 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”. http://www.safrc.com/Militarisation/html/fru2.htm
Likewise the “establishment” knows what is happening in Iraq—no doubt the sort of
“dirty war” launched by the likes of Brigadier 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 British 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 British 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.