Colombia & Blair

Anthony being ever so keen to do exactly what his Whitehouse tops tell him has made sure that Britain is giving lots of help to Uribe and his merry band of state terrorist thugs:-

Whitehall refuses to disclose the extent of British military involvement on the grounds of national security. "We provide some military aid but we don't talk about the details," a Foreign Office spokeswoman said. SAS training of the narcotics police, the Fuerza Jungla. Military advice to the army's new counter-guerrilla mountain units. A surge in the supply of military hardware and intelligence equipment. Assistance in setting up an intelligence centre and a joint intelligence committee. The Foreign Office confirmed four years ago that Britain had given training and advice on urban warfare techniques, counter-guerrilla strategy and "psychiatry". Since then ministers have admitted training the Colombian narcotics police but declined to elaborate on grounds of "national security". One of the reasons for their reticence is the role of the SAS, whose activities are never formally acknowledged. Sent by Mrs Thatcher in 1989 to fight the drug cartels, they are believed to have extended their role to counter-insurgency training.-

Now that was all from 4 years ago (and older, so nice to see Thatcher getting in on the evil), so what is the state of play now? Colombia Solidarity in their most recent issue make a plea for pressure on Blair to stop UK aid to the Uribe crime syndicate:-

Underlying Blair's pro-Uribe stance are the interests of the handful of British multinationals extracting huge profits from Colombia's oil and coal. In his notorious HMS Albion speech Blair celebrated the tradition of colonial counter-insurgency arguing that the UK must continue to use “hard power” and “do war fighting”. Indeed, the expertise of how to terrorise a civilian population until all resistance is pacified is being applied in Colombia today, where hard power translates into human rights abuses.

Such is Nu-Labour, sucking up to the most radical right wing regime America has ever seen and making all the same toruture regime thugs its friends, and this is a supposed left wing party that has a large majority. Not that democracy is dead, but it is coughing up blood.