You are Neil Clark, and just as objectionable.

The reality is that these Iraqis betrayed their countrymen (for a wage) in order to assist coalition troops in slaughtering their fellow Iraqis during this illegal war. If these traitors now lose their lives as a result, then this is the consequence of their participation in this war, which has seen over a million Iraqis killed.

Initially I agree with you that we should grant asylum to these Iraqi translators. But if we do that there’s two major problems

1. We’ve admitted defeat to the jihadists

Which ‘we’ are already doing given that ‘we’ are already in draw down mode in terms of troops. The main british presence in Basra is currently concentrated around Basra Airport.

Presumably you are actively pushing for a continued and increasing British presence in Iraq, and have signed up in order to do your bit – the main driver for the reduced presence being a shortage of troops.

No? I thought not.

Learco Chindamo, 26, is serving a life sentence for killing Mr Lawrence outside his school in Maida Vale, north London, in 1995.

Chindamo’s lawyers argued that deporting him to Italy, where he was born, would breach his human rights.

What a farce.

1. We’ve admitted defeat to the jihadists
2. It will open the floodgates. Why shouldnt others who have worked for the British get asylum? The cleanrs, the

We should pay them very handsomely for their work, and they should be provided excellent security – within Iraq. Ideally they would be paid enough for them to buy their own security.

My friend did say, however that all the Iraqi translators currently illegally entering the country on their own, are being given indefinite stay…so what message does that give out?

It says fuck the law, do what you can to survive which is what any of us would do push comes to shove…

In his opinion, the Home Office will not accept the Iraqi Translators and give them asylum because it would set a legal precedent for the ruling to be used multiple times in the future for all the Iraqis that wish to escape the horrors of Iraq and this would be a big embarrassment for the goverment, because they are still waiting on a backlog of people to send back to Baghdad and Kurdish regions when it’s a bit more safe. They are still in denial about what is happening in Iraq! Is the biggest mass-exodus of people since Palestine not something they have paid attention to? Is the brain drain in the country not getting through??

The stories that I’ve heard from my friend are absurd to the point of disbelief. People fleeing persecution need to basically be able to bring 20 legal documents confirming that they will be killed the second they get off the plane when returning to their country. The Home office have their own gang of ‘legal men’ Read: vicious, heartless loop-hole bastards, that work on nit-picking a case and finding a hole so that the applicant can be called a liar and sent off back to his death.

EG: A man stating in his written statement that he was beaten at 10.15 only to say 10.30 in his interview will be identified as a liar and have his whole case thrown out. It’s pedantic as it gets, and it makes me think that they are going to use the same techniques to fob off the translators.

My friend did say, however that all the Iraqi translators currently illegally entering the country on their own, are being given indefinite stay…so what message does that give out?

These would be the Iraqis who make up Ahmed Chalabi’s extended family of Non-resident Iraqis, no doubt.

Or is the vanity of the STWC-movement more important than the will of the Iraqi people? With you, Sid, I think you do consider it to be so.