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To: Alighieri who wrote (247093)	8/23/2005 10:13:24 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 1571874

Who's better qualified than MOSSAD mole Andy HAYMAN to play the liaison officer between Scotland Yard and Shin Bet?? The latest on the Israelization of Britain: British Cops trained in Israel "Operation Kratos": London Met Police Special Operations Unit "Shoot to Kill" by Michel Chossudovsky July 24, 2005 GlobalResearch.ca The cold blooded murder of Jean Charles de Menezes, in the Stockwell underground was no accident. London Metropolitan Police had approved a policy of "shoot to kill": "a controversial tactic deployed only in the most extreme circumstances but one police have been preparing to use for the last two weeks.". The shoot to kill policy was undertaken under the auspices of "Operation Kratos", named after the mythical Spartan hero. It was carried out by the London Metropolitan's elite SO19 firearms unit often referred to as the Blue Berets. The latter are described as the equivalent to the US SWAT teams, yet in this particular case, they were not wearing uniforms. The training of the S019 marksmen was patterned on that of Israel. They had been briefed "by officers who had been to Israel to meet their counterparts there and pick up tips gleaned from the experience of dealing with Hamas bombers". "During the Kratos briefings, the Met team were told that, contrary to their normal arms training, they should fire at the head rather than the chest. Although the chest is easier to hit, it is not as reliable in causing instant death, giving a bomber a chance to detonate his device.... "(The Scottish Daily Record, 23 July, 2005). The "Israeli counterparts" refers to Israel's National Police (INP), Shin Bet (the Israel Security Agency) and Israel's Ministry of Internal Security. But the police antiterrorist operations conducted by the INP against Hamas and Islamic Jihad are carried out in close coordination with the Military (Israeli Defense Force) and Mossad. Israel has also collaborated in the training of members of the FBI and the LAPD. Top law enforcement officers of the FBI were trained in Israel under a program sponsored by the The Jewish Institute for National Security. see jinsa.org SO13: The Anti-terrorist Branch Of significance in setting the antiterrorist policy under "Operation Kratos" is the so-called SO13 or Antiterrorist Branch. . The various special operations units including SO13, Special branch and SO19 of the Met police are overseen by Andy Hayman, the recently appointed assistant commissioner. The SO19 is one of several entities under the jurisdiction of the Met police. (see below) Once SO13 and Special Branch decided to carry out Operation Kratos, specific guidelines were provided to SO19 to carry out the "shoot to kill" agenda. [diagram] Essentially what we are dealing with is the formation of a death squadron mentality under the auspices of what is stilled officially considered a "civilian police force". Despite the controversy surrounding the shoot-to-kill operations, London mayor Ken Livingstone "had nothing but praise for the police". Rather than condemning the killing and calling for an investigation, he casually laid the blame for the death of Jean-Charles de Menezes on the terrorists: "The police acted to do what they believed necessary to protect the lives of the public... This tragedy has added another victim to the toll of deaths for which the terrorists bear responsibility." (BBC, 23 July 2005) Michel Chossudovsky is Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), He is the author of a forthcoming book America's "War on Terrorism" , Global Research, 2005. globalresearch.ca

To: Alighieri who wrote (247093)	8/23/2005 11:02:49 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 1571874

Follow-up to my last post: Expectedly, Assistant Commissioner A. Hayman's been the XTC mafia's man in Scotland Yard all along... 4. British Police Ask for Ecstasy Penalties to be Reduced as Drug War Collapse Continues Last week, DRCNet reported on the final ignoble collapse of the Tony Blair government's steely resolve never to soften the marijuana laws (http://www.drcnet.org/wol/208.html#ukdecrim). Despite Blair's Labor government long-standing vows, Home Secretary David Blunkett announced that as of next spring, cannabis will be moved to the softest drug schedule -- along with steroids and anti-depressants -- and cannabis users and possessors will no longer be subject to arrest. That move is not quite a done deal -- it must be discussed by the government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and approved by parliament -- but it is difficult to see how the desires of the majority government's Home Secretary will be overridden. As if virtual decriminalization of cannabis were not enough, the organization representing Britain's top police commanders has called for relaxation of penalties for ecstasy, the popular dance club and rave drug. The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) said that ecstasy was incorrectly scheduled as a most serious Schedule A drug, along with heroin, cocaine, and LSD, and should instead be moved to Schedule B. (Cannabis is currently a Schedule B drug, but would move to the lowest schedule, Schedule C, under Labor's new plan.) "We need to achieve a balance of police resources focusing a greater priority on class A drugs," the chairman of ACPO's drugs committee Andy Hayman told The Observer newspaper. "ACPO's submission to the Independent Inquiry into Drugs, based on the most up-to-date medical and scientific research, was that some drugs seem to be in too high a class, including ecstasy," said Hayman, a Deputy Assistant Commissioner in London's Metropolitan Police. But the group would want further review of the medical evidence on ecstasy before the law was changed, Hayman added. A key member of the government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, Roger Howard, who runs Drugscope (http://www.drugscope.org.uk), a leading drug policy nonprofit, has also joined the call to relax ecstasy penalties. He told the Sunday Times (London) that the council had seen new evidence supporting relaxation of the laws. "We have reached no conclusions," said Howard, "but this [evidence] lends support to the view that some drugs have not been appropriately classified, and that's not just cannabis." Home Secretary Blunkett has rejected rescheduling ecstasy, but his is the same office that only two weeks ago was saying the same thing about cannabis. British studies suggest that some half-million people take ecstasy every weekend in Britain. Meanwhile, lost beneath the hubbub stirred up by the government's sudden shift on cannabis and the new talk about ecstasy, the parliamentary Home Affairs Select Committee hearings on drug policy have been largely neglected. "We activists have been looking forward to the committee hearings, but Blunkett's cannabis announcement really stopped the party," said Andria Mordaunt of the British drug policy group the Mordaunt Trust. "Members have been raking Home Office officials over the coals for not examining decriminalization," she told DRCNet. Sue Killen, Home Office director of drug strategy, took most of the heat. Committee chairman Chris Mullen criticized the Home Office for failing to examine the effects of decriminalization or legalization of all drugs. Mullen demanded that the Home Office this week provide a detailed rebuttal of arguments for decriminalization, if it could. "To my knowledge we have not sat down and done a major study on decriminalization of all drugs, including class A," Killen had to admit. Officials had instead concentrated on the problems of addiction among drug users and the harm drug trafficking does to communities, she said. As of press time, the committee is still waiting for that rebuttal of decriminalization. stopthedrugwar.org