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A thread (never done this before!) highlighting the complete inversion of reality when the former head of MI6, Richard Dearlove, describes @jeremycorbyn as a ‘present danger' to the UK as PM. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7718615/Jeremy-Corbyn-danger-national-security-warns-former-MI6-chief.html
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Dearlove was head of MI6 between 1999 & 2004... That is, during the invasions of Afghanistan & Iraq. Here's what the US State Department had to say about the predicted consequences of the invasion of Iraq on British security: (next tweet)
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“… [the invasion of Iraq] could bring a radicalization of British Muslims, the great majority of whom opposed the September 11 attacks but are increasingly restive about what they see as an anti-Islamic campaign.” https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB326/doc10.pdf #GeneralElection19 #JC4PM
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An Ex-MI5 boss: “Our involvement in Iraq, for want of a better word, radicalised a whole generation of young people, some of them British citizens who saw our involvement in Iraq, on top of our involvement in Afghanistan, as being an attack on Islam”. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-10693001
Reported by the New York Times, the assessment of the Joint Terrorist Analysis Center, shortly prior to the 7/7 attacks, was that: “Events in Iraq are continuing to act as motivation and a focus of a range of terrorist related activity in the U.K.” https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/world/europe/june-report-led-britain-to-lower-its-terror-alert.html?_r=0
Also: ‘…the Royal Institute of International Affairs... commonly known as Chatham House, concluded that Britain’s participation in the war in Iraq and as “pillion passenger” of American foreign policy had made it vulnerable to terrorist attack’.
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I could go on & on here. You get the point. British military violence in Afghanistan & Iraq made Britain less safe (eg, 7/7). Yet, where were Dearlove's grave warnings about #TonyBlair? Dearlove *himself* bears responsibility for making Britain less safe.... And that's not all:
The MOD in their 2010 paper 'Future Character of Conflict' state: ‘Within the UK, a changing demographic balance towards a more multi-ethnic society means that some conflicts will create risks, including extremism, within our own communities.’ https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/486301/20151210-Archived_DCDC_FCOC.pdf
The Ministry of Defence - *post Iraq* - acknowledge that British Military violence abroad makes the UK less safe. This isn't just about Iraq, as we'll see in Libya - another war based on lies ( https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/cmfaff/119/11905.htm) with dire consequences: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/cmfaff/119/11903.htm
The NATO-led destruction of Libya in 2011 ignited a refugee crisis, ushered in all sorts of violent militia groups & a wave of brutality. It also spawned Seifeddine Rezgui, one of the gunmen that killed 38 holiday makers in Tunisia, 30 of whom were Brits. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/seifeddine-rezgui-what-motivated-a-shy-student-to-kill-38-holidaymakers-in-tunisia-10356507.html
In 2017, Salman Abedi killed 22 children & adults at a pop concert in Manchester. Like Rezgui, he was a product of the West's regime change war in Libya. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/revealed-uk-admits-contact-libyan-group-linked-manchester-bomber
As @markcurtis30 & @NafeezAhmed report: http://markcurtis.info/2017/06/03/the-manchester-bombing-as-blowback-the-latest-evidence/
As @markcurtis30 & @NafeezAhmed report: http://markcurtis.info/2017/06/03/the-manchester-bombing-as-blowback-the-latest-evidence/
David Cameron was PM when the UK and its NATO allies turned Libya into a failed state. Theresa May was Home Secretary. Why has Richard Dearlove not condemned either of these individuals as the proven security threat that they were?
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No media outlet challenged Cameron on the UK's role in destroying Libya during the 2015 election coverage (instead, they cheerled the bombing), nor was Theresa May challenged on Libya/Salman Abedi during or after the 2017 GE, as @medialens noted: https://www.medialens.org/2017/blowback-manchester-and-the-libya-connection/
What about Johnson? So far he has not been challenged on his own voting record during #GeneralElection2019 : 'Almost always voted for use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas' https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10999/boris_johnson/uxbridge_and_south_ruislip/votes#foreignpolicy Dearlove hasn't warned against BJ, either, funnily enough.
: 'Almost always voted for use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas' https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10999/boris_johnson/uxbridge_and_south_ruislip/votes#foreignpolicy Dearlove hasn't warned against BJ, either, funnily enough.
By stark contrast, @jeremycorbyn has *consistently opposed* the very UK military action that *has* made UK less safe. JC is not a 'present danger to our country', but another Tory *is*. Both Dearlove & our corporate media are systemically & institutionally unable to report this.
Why are the Tories still a danger to UK security? Take your pick: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-09-17-britains-seven-covert-wars-an-explainer/
Our media's inability report any of this make *them* the REAL 'danger' to the UK. Don't let them win: #JC4PM #JC4PM2019
Our media's inability report any of this make *them* the REAL 'danger' to the UK. Don't let them win: #JC4PM #JC4PM2019
