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Message from the UK

A message from Craig Murray, the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan who got in trouble for complaining of human rights violations there about the recent terrorist arrests in the UK:

. . .  the one thing of which I am certain is that the timing is deeply political. This is more propaganda than plot. Of the over one thousand British Muslims arrested under anti-terrorist legislation, only twelve per cent are ever charged with anything. That is simply harrassment of Muslims on an appalling scale. Of those charged, 80% are acquitted. Most of the very few – just over two per cent of arrests – who are convicted, are not convicted of anything to do terrorism, but of some minor offence the Police happened upon while trawling through the wreck of the lives they had shattered. Be sceptical. Be very, very sceptical.

(emphasis added).  Click here for the full message.  Thanks to DMA for the scoop.

KJ