 The recent UN report on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri said "Given the infiltration of Lebanese institutions and society by the Syrian and Lebanese intelligence services working in tandem, it would be difficult to envisage a scenario whereby such a complex assassination plot could have been carried out without their knowledge,"
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in a BBC interview said: "The report indicates that people of a high level of this Syrian regime were implicated. We also have evidence from the Mehlis report of false testimony being given by senior people in the regime. This is very serious."
Jack Straw's moral stance would be commendable if the British Government had itself not been implicated in a similar report from the United Nations Special Rapporteur following an investigation into the assassination of the northern Ireland human rights lawyer Pat Finucane.
For almost 30 years "people at a high level" within the British Government and it's security services have financed, organised, armed and colluded in murder and assassination in Ireland. From the Dublin and Monaghan bombings (the greatest loss of life in a single day of the troubles), to the arming of, and collusion with, so called "Loyalist" death squads - the British Government and it's agencies have shown a complete disregard for national and international law.
In January 2005, Tony Blair, in a memo to the Irish Prime Minister, Bertie Ahern, refused the Irish Government's request for an inquiry into British Security Services involvement in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.
The case has now been submitted to the European Court of Human Rights.
We look forward to Jack Straw giving a BBC interview in which he condemns the British Government's collusion in murder and assasination.
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