On 23rd March 2014 I sent a letter to William Hague about Ukraine and Syria. I posted that letter here in A LETTER TO WILLIAM HAGUE , and did not receive a reply.
And on 24th August 2014 I sent a similar letter to Phil Hammond which I posted here in MY LETTER TO THE EXTREMELY NAIVE FOREIGN SECRETARY PHIL HAMMOND , to which I also did not receive a reply.
In those letters I explicitly mention the following:
1. The Redirection reported by Seymour Hersh (though not by name in the letter to Hague);
2. Roland Dumas and his claims of being asked by British officials to smuggle Jihadis into Syria;
3. The plan revealed to General Wesley Clark for war and regime change in seven countries in five years.
So it is well over a year since I told Hague about these...if he didn't know already. So did he pass this information onto MI6 to see if it was true? Well, the fact that he did not reply says a lot.
Similarly for Hammond.
The information I sent to both is of a very, very serious nature, indicating an international conspiracy of astronomical magnitude to destroy the lives of millions of innocent civilians through war and regime change.
If you were Foreign Secretary and you were unaware of this information, would you pass this information onto MI6 or another group or investigator to see if it was true?
On 28th March this year I sent the following Freedom of Information request to the FCO.
To whom it may concern:
On 24th August last year I sent a letter to the Foreign Secretary asking for an inquiry into the following and more. Unfortunately the Foreign Secretary has not replied. So I am now writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please send me:
1. Any and all information that the FCO has or is aware of regarding or related to the agreement reached between the USA, Israel and Saudi Arabia that was reported by Seymour Hersh in New Yorker magazine on 5th March 2007 in which Saudi Arabia would unleash Islamic extremists onto Syria, Lebanon and Iran.
2. Any and all information that the FCO has or is aware of regarding or related to the allegations of former French foreign minister Roland Dumas who in 2013 said that in 2009 he was approached by British officials who asked him to help them to plan the smuggling of Islamic extremists into Syria. Did officials from Great Britain approach Mr Dumas? And for this purpose? Who were they? And on whose authority?
Do not restrict the information you provide to just these questions.
I would like the above information to be provided to me as electronic copies.
If this request is too wide or unclear, I would be grateful if you could contact me as I understand that under the Act, you are required to advise and assist requesters. If any of this information is already in the public domain, please can you direct me to it, with page references and URLs if necessary.
If the release of any of this information is prohibited on the grounds of breach of confidence, I ask that you supply me with copies of the confidentiality agreement and remind you that information should not be treated as confidential if such an agreement has not been signed.
I understand that you are required to respond to my request within the 20 working days after you receive this letter. I would be grateful if you could confirm in writing that you have received this request.
I look forward to hearing from you.
On 1st April I received a reply containing this request for clarification:
Thank you for your email of 28 March to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act.
The first part of your request was for “Any and all information that the FCO has or is aware of regarding or related to the agreement reached between the USA, Israel and Saudi Arabia that was reported by Seymour Hersh in New Yorker magazine on 5th March 2007 in which Saudi Arabia would unleash Islamic extremists onto Syria, Lebanon and Iran.”
I am writing to ask you to consider clarifying the scope of this part of your request. As currently drafted this would go over the statutory limit set under the FOI act and we would be unable to proceed with it.
Would it be possible for you to refine this part of your request? E.g. could you specify a particular timeframe and could you be more specific about the information that you are interested in?
We will then accept your revised request and establish whether we hold any information relating to it before considering the appropriate course of action.
On 2nd April I replied with this clarification:
OK.
My initial request was for information on two events. I believe the two are linked.
Regarding your request of me refine my initial request, I would like to know:
1. was the FCO or any proxy agent of the FCO, e.g. MI6, involved in the discussions leading up to the decision taken that was reported by Seymour Hersh in his report of 5th March 2007? If so, who was it and on whose authority?
2. is the FCO aware of the publication of Hersh's report? If so when and how?
3. if the FCO is aware of the plan reported in Hersh's report then has the FCO decided to go along with it? And if so why has it not reported its existence to the British public?
That should do for now.
Can you tell me what you mean by this is in your initial reply:
As currently drafted this would go over the statutory limit set under the FOI act and we would be unable to proceed with it.
What do you mean by statutory limit?
And eventually on 23rd April I recieved two emails. The first contained this from the Middle East & North Africa Department of the FCO:
Thank you for your email of 28 March asking for information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000. You asked:
1. Any and all information that the FCO has or is aware of regarding or related to the agreement reached between the USA, Israel and Saudi Arabia that was reported by Seymour Hersh in New Yorker magazine on 5th March 2007 in which Saudi Arabia would unleash Islamic extremists onto Syria, Lebanon and Iran.
You clarified Q1 on 2 April to:
1. was the FCO or any proxy agent of the FCO, e.g. MI6, involved in the discussions leading up to the decision taken that was reported by Seymour Hersh in his report of 5th March 2007? If so, who was it and on whose authority?
2. is the FCO aware of the publication of Hersh's report? If so when and how?
3. if the FCO is aware of the plan reported in Hersh's report then has the FCO decided to go along with it? And if so why has it not reported its existence to the British public?
The North America Department are replying to this part of your request separately.
2. Any and all information that the FCO has or is aware of regarding or related to the allegations of former French foreign minister Roland Dumas who in 2013 said that in 2009 he was approached by British officials who asked him to help them to plan the smuggling of Islamic extremists into Syria. Did officials from Great Britain approach Mr Dumas? And for this purpose? Who were they? And on whose authority? Do not restrict the information you provide to just these questions.
I am writing to advise you that following a search of our paper and electronic records, I have established that we do not hold any information that is relevant to your request.
The second email from the North America Department of the FCO contained this:
Thank you for your e-mail of 2 April regarding the article by Mr Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker magazine on 5 March 2007. It has been passed on to the North America Department for a response.
As you would expect, the FCO has a regular dialogue with the US authorities on a broad range of foreign policy issues, and has done so for many years. The UK and US work closely together on a number of areas such as climate change, the economy and tackling terrorism. Both countries place great emphasis on the special relationship we hold, but that does not mean we automatically look to align our goals with each other. However, our partnership does have clear common agenda in ensuring our security, delivering economic growth and stability at home and across the world, and promoting our shared values.
Much of the information contained in Mr Hersh’s article relates to the US government’s foreign policy approach. As the formulation of US policy is a matter for the US authorities you may wish to contact the US Government for their views on the suggestions made in Mr Hersh’s article.
As you will be aware, there are daily media articles discussing the US government’s perceived foreign policy approach. Whilst North America Department is aware of some of these articles, it is not possible to monitor all of the media articles that discuss US foreign policy. I can confirm however that the information covered within this article would have had no impact on how the UK government formulated its own foreign policy agenda. If you require information about the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s foreign policy approach please visit - https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-office/about
Kind Regards
North America Department
So The North America Department is apparently unaware of The Redirection and the plan revealed to General Wesley Clark.
And The Middle East & North Africa Department are unaware of them and also of the claims of Dumas.
So we can deduce that either the FCO is lying, or that a rogue faction within MI6 approached Dumas.
And if a rogue faction within MI6 did approach Dumas without the permission of the Foreign Secretary then surely after I had written to both Hague and Hammond they should have investigated it, and if it had been investigated then it should have been an official investigation and records and findings made and kept.
But it looks like nothing happened. Life went as normal: international cutthroat Jihadis slit the throats of Syrian children and eventually morphed into Islamic State, who are now being used as the reason for the British government to intrude into every communication we make...just in case we are terrorists.
So apparently the FCO was unaware of:
1. The Redirection reported by Seymour Hersh, but it is now;
2. Roland Dumas and his claims of being asked by British officials to smuggle Jihadis into Syria;, but it is now;
3. The plan revealed to General Wesley Clark for war and regime change in seven countries in five years, but it is now.
So did Hague and Hammond pass on the information? Even though I sent details of these and more to both Foreign Secretaries William Hague and Phil Hammond?
That is the next question to answer.
If they didn't then they are protecting a rogue faction in MI6 because it looks like everything that has gone on Syria has been "off the books".
And the fact that neither of them replied to my letters, when every other letter I have sent to an MP or Minister or Government department has been replied to, speaks volumes and volumes of potential guilt in war crimes.
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