'THE their knowledge now see misleading.' Richardson's words ning to end.
ine evidence is abundant proceedings, full well.
The sympathy with neck piece of deception.)
picture of the SAS deliberately gunning down unarmed men who had to surrenacrea we can on the evidence is wholly Those are the facts of the SAS raid on the occupied Iranian embassy according to Ken. neth Richardson, the prosecuting counsel in the trial of the surviving raider Fowzi Nejad.
were une precise op posite of the truth, deliberate lies from beginNo evidence was given in the court as to who had ordered the SAS to attack the Iranian embassy, or the precise orders given to the SAS squad. And for a very good reason.
both trom the statements of hostages and from the court that the sAs went in with the objective of killing all the raiders, that at least four of them had clearly surrendered before they were shot and that the SAS knew this embassy receptionist, who had no the attackers, in court that one of the raiders, Faisal, was put up agains a wall and shot in the back of the although the forensic evidence ap. parently showed he died of multiple gunshot wounds. IIt isn't too difficult to imagine how the SAS could have arranged that particular raider Abbas, died wound is not generally accidental had surrendered.
burst in, SAS failed to identify him.
the role of the SAS.
WorS is eminently political.
Forensic evidence did show that another ot a sinale gunsho wound in the back of the head. This sort of When the SAS attacked, four of the five raiders threw their weapons out of a window and waved a white sheet to indicate tnat tney Some of the hostages then came into the room where the raiders were. When the SAS the raiders were sitting against a wall with their weapons thrown away. The SAS told them to stand up, then shot them in cold blood. Nejad only survived because the None of this wil come as any great sur prise to those who know anything at all about Over the past two decades this assassination squad has been doing the British state's dirty work in colonial - in Dhofar, Oman, and above all in the north of Ireland, where they have functioned purely and simply as assassins of Republican The Arabistan attackers of the Iranian embassy were shot not because they had to be, or because they couldn't be captured. They were killed in order to demonstrate that the British state will not tolerate 'terrorism'. The decision to kill the raiders was taken at the highest political level. British justice, as ever,
THE US government's resumption of military aid to El Salvador has brought temporary relief to the military-dominated government headed by President Jose Napoleon Duarte.
But the guerillas maintain control of large areas and even Western media reports now admit that the junta is far from defeating the liberation forces.
The decision in the last few days of the US government to further militarv aid has dashed earlier hones an immediate victory by the But The Times conceded on Monday that the government's claims of victory are nothing but hot air and that 'the struggle in El Salvador is a long way from ending'.
The US is worth of military aid to the right-wing This includes military personnel, ammunition, grenade launchers and M-16 rifles. in the North of the country increase guerillas. that now supolving neariv t5m Salvador, this is helicopters, The excuses originally given by the US for their massive increase in such nave now been snown compietely false The first reason, quoted by a US State Department official on 19 January, was the Salvadoran junta had positive steps to investigate the killing of Now, ambassador Robert White has not the case. 'As cerned, there is no reason to bereve lat the government in El Salvador is conduc ting a serious investigation, last Thursday. aid Other 'taken direct El Now admitted far as l am consaid White excuses, by given himselt, have also been exposed. When the aid was first increased two weeks ago White claimed that it was because of intervention by specifically claimed that 100 guerillas had landed in El Salvador from Nicaragua White has agreed that evidence for this 'landing' is 'no longer compelling'. In fact, the ÜS government has admitted that the boats which drop. ped off the 'guerillas' were in fact fishing business.
Led foreign party's Hayward LOTe Carrington to White Governmen He its support for the FDR, the Second Salvador.
The invention of reasons for increased US 'aid' has an ominous similarity with the lies given by the US for its intervention in Vietnam and Cambodia Exactly the same tactics were adopted then: pro duce entirely fictitious accounts of alleg and then use this as a rationale for US 'assistance' Britain the Labour Party has protested against this assistance. Last week general secretary Ron wrote to Foreign Secretary urging the disassociate itself from US support for the Salvadoran regime This follows a delegation from Labour's national executive to the US embassy in December to protest against US policy.
has also expressed the political expression of the guerilla struggle, and the which the Labour Party is a member, has gone one step further and urged recognition of the FDR as the legitimate government in El