British Hero of Helmand: Paratrooper’s final hours made into big screen film

Kajaki covers the final hours in the life of paratrooper Cpl Mark Wright in the Afghan area of the film’s title.


Bravery award: Cpl Mark Wright was killed trying
to rescue soldiers from a minefield in Afghanistan

The 27-year-old was leading an attempt to rescue a three-man patrol injured by Soviet-era landmines when he was fatally wounded by a blast.

Cpl Wright, who was praised for raising his colleagues’ morale, was not airlifted from the scene until four hours after the explosion. Six other troops were hurt, including three who lost limbs, in the tragedy.

A coroner later blamed a series of failings, including a shortage of equipment, for Cpl Wright’s death.
The soldier was posthumously awarded the George Cross for his actions on September 6, 2006.
Movie director Paul Katis said: ‘We want the people in the audience to feel they’re right there with the guys on the ground. The UK’s made lots of films about World War II but we simply don’t have a modern British movie about recent conflicts.’

Producers Pukka Films have a £1million budget and are halfway towards raising £40,000 of that from public donations.

They hope to start filming in May. Cpl Wright’s father Bob, from Edinburgh, said: ‘People often don’t realise just what these soldiers are doing out there and the conditions, such as living in ditches.’



Link to the movie
http://www.kajakimovie.com/

British soldier Hero saved 100 lives single handedly fighting offTaliban terrorists armed only with a radio and a pistol

• Brave Aaron Collins freed himself from debris and raced to help others
• Called for armoured helicopters and maintained a cool head despite chaos
• Has been awarded a Goschen Medal for his quick thinking and bravery

A brave British Soldier saved the lives of 100 fellow soldiers after a suicide car bomber set off more than 20 explosives killing one of his soldiers.

Aaron Collins was serving in Afghanistan for the third time when he found himself trapped underneath the collapsed rubble with Taliban soldiers shooting at him from just 10 meters away.

The 25-year-old managed to free himself from the debris inside the destroyed army control room and single-handedly set about helping his colleagues, who were also trapped, while fighting off the firing Taliban.

Armed with only a radio and a pistol, Bombardier Collins managed to call for armoured helicopters and maintaining a cool head in a scene of utter chaos, directed them to the attacking Taliban soldiers.

Bombardier Collins helped to save the lives of around 100 men in one of the largest vehicle-borne attacks recorded across the Afghanistan campaign.

Now in recognition of his incredibly brave life-saving efforts Bombardier Collins, of the 4th Regiment Royal Artillery, has been awarded a Goschen Medal.

Collins, who lives in Hartlepool with his girlfriend Kirby Miller, 28, and three-year-old daughter Sophie, said: 'You can’t stop and think about it, in a situation like that you just do your job.

'You have a lucky escape and you move on, happy days.

'I just did what I had to do on the day to protect myself and as many others as possible.

'I was told the next day I had done an excellent job and I thought ‘nice one’ and didn’t really think any more of it.

'But it was a proud moment to get that recognition and be told that I had been awarded the medal.'

Bombardier Collins was serving as a forward air controller on Operation Herrick when the control room where he was based was attacked.

In the incident, which happened at 6.15pm on March 25 this year, Bombardier Collins lost his own protective equipment but fortunately managed to clutch on to a radio allowing him to request and co-ordinate the helicopter back up.

As the roof collapsed, he helped 13 British casualties to safety while still under attack from the Taliban.

Sadly one of the soldiers, Lance Corporal Jamie Webb, died in the attack.

A spokesperson from the Army said: 'In very difficult circumstances he performed admirably in directing the emergency helicopter in and directing attack helicopters on the enemy.

'He remained extremely calm under what was a very stressful situation and his actions were exemplary.'Bombardier Collins was praised for his work the day after the terrifying attack but then didn’t think anything more of it until he was called to see his Commanding Officer two weeks ago and told he was being awarded the Goschen Medal.

He was invited to a ceremony in Larkhill, Salisbury, last week, where he received the medal with his parents, Tom and Cindy, watching on.

The citation which Bombardier Collins was presented with alongside his medal reads: 'Through his quick-thinking, and effective use of Joint Fires assets,

Bombardier Collins played a fundamental role in preventing the patrol base from being overrun by the insurgents and was undoubtedly responsible in part for no further fatalities being sustained.'

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IRA, PLO, Hamas - A cosy relationship and a danger for Israels futureas former Northern Irish terrorists step up their war against Israel

IRA PLO - one struggle mural in Northern Ireland

• 10 IDF soldiers murdered by IRA terrorist sniper
• British and Israeli Intelligence uncover strong links between former IRA terrorists and Hamas
• Gadhafi supplied IRA
• Anti-Semitism playing a big part
• More attacks planned against Israel

Gerry Adams' decision to cosy up with Hamas, especially since the end of theNorthern Ireland conflict, has come as little surprise to those familiar with the history of Irish Nationalism's cozy relationship with Middle East terrorism. This began in the early 1970s when Muammar Gaddafi's then-terror-sponsoring regime began supplying the IRA with the financial, military and logistical assistance it required to prosecute its brutal anti-British offensive. 

Four Libyan arms shipments in the mid-1980s (when Adams, despite his increasingly absurd denials, sat on the IRA's ruling Army Council) proved particularly devastating, reinvigorating its floundering military campaign; a fifth, the Eksund, was intercepted by the French navy in October 1987.

By this time, contacts had been established with Hizbullah which led, intelligence sources believe, to the development of new tactics such as the "diversionary" mine attacks used with deadly effect in south Lebanon and Northern Ireland, most notoriously at Warrenpoint, County Down in 1979 where 15 British soldiers were killed. 

 More recently, Britain has claimed that IRA-developed bomb-making technology passed on to Hizbullah has been used against its forces in Iraq.

But the most enduring regional relationship forged by the Irish Nationalist movement was that with the PLO. This too dated from the early 1970s, when Fatah organized arms and  terrorist training for IRA and INLA operatives in Libya and Lebanon. 

The PLO was involved in financing the attack which killed Lord Louis Mountbatten's in 1979 and IRA-PLO cooperation continued well into the 1990s.

As British troops battled against IRA terrorists and braved riots the PLO supplied the funding as the IRA returned the favour in training and manpower for the PLOs war against Israel. 

Concerns that it persisted even after the signing of the Belfast Agreement which  ended the Northern Ireland conflict were behind the investigation by British and Israeli security services of the possibility that the IRA  trained and actually provided the sniper who killed 10 IDF soldiers with an obsolete bolt-action rifle near Ofra in March 2002. 

Rioters in the West Bank (left) and Northern Ireland (Right)

The discovery by Paul Collinson, a British explosives expert working with the Palestinian Red Crescent, of 200 "exact replicas" of IRA-issue pipe bombs in Jenin after Operation Defensive Shield aroused further suspicions of continuing paramilitary links.
Irish Republican  / Nationalist support for the Palestinians has been political as well as terrorist since the official end of the IRA's war with Britain. 

Sinn Fein which remains bitterly hostile to what it once termed "the obnoxious phenomenon that is Zionism," - Adams, as an international pro Palestinian peacemaker manqué, personally adopts a relatively a hateful tone, leaving it to his international affairs spokesman, Aengus O'Snodaigh, to articulate the party's official positions. 

For example, in June 2006, O'Snodaigh described Israel as "without doubt one of the most abhorrent and despicable regimes on the planet." 

Two months later he claimed that the Second Lebanon War was the result of "continued Israeli aggression, expansion and occupation in the region" and called for UNIFIL's deployment on the Israeli side of the Blue Line. 

British soldiers (Left) and Israeli soldier (Right) battle rioters in
Northern Ireland and on the West Bank

During Operation Cast Lead he demanded the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador to Ireland and compared him to Josef Goebbels.

Sinn Fein repeatedly calls for the suspension of the EU's preferential trading agreement with the Israeli "rogue state" on the grounds of its "horrific crimes against humanity" and, in February, Adams himself launched the Irish Congress of Trade Unions' "Israel/Palestine Report" in Northern Ireland's parliament buildings, which calls for an economic, political and cultural boycott/divestment/sanctions campaign against Israel. 

Republicans are also prominently involved in non-party anti-Israel activism, particularly in the Belfast branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, where Sinn Fein cadres work alongside convicted IRA terrorists and members of dissident groups such as Eirigi.
THE STRIDENCY of Irish Republicanism's anti-Israel campaign has, unsurprisingly, given rise to accusations of anti-Semitism. Certainly, the movement is tainted with an anti-Semitic past. Arthur Griffith, who founded the original Sinn Fein movement in 1905, used the pages of his newspaper to rail against "Jew Swindledom" (9/10ths of all Jews were, he proclaimed, "usurers and parasites") and the Dreyfusards. 

While similar prejudices were commonplace in all the political parties which descended from his organization, only the eponymous rump which remained after the splits of 1921 and 1926 habitually preached Jew-hatred, culminating in a demand for an Irish-German alliance in 1939.

The "new" IRA, itself soaked in anti-Semitism, took a similar view and attempted to forge a working relationship with the Germans. The death of its leader, Sean Russell, on a U-boat bound for Ireland on a mission sanctioned by Ribbentrop was an early blow to its hopes; he was buried at sea with full military honors, his body wrapped in a Nazi flag (Republicans still hold an annual commemoration service for him which senior Sinn Fein members have regularly addressed). That later efforts came to nothing was due, not to any lack of will on the IRA's part, but to the chaotic state of the organization and the success of Irish intelligence in quelling subversion.

In the post-war period, anti-Jewish concerns continued to shape the worldview of many in the Republican movement. Its official newspaper, the United Irishman attacked "Jewish finance," "Judaeo-Masonic news agencies" and the Jews themselves as "the bitter enemies," . Some, most notably the Republican icon Sean South, joined Fahey's viciously anti-Semitic Maria Duce movement and became active in the 1950s in warning against such dangerous agents of the World Judaeo-Masonic conspiracy as Larry Adler and Danny Kaye!
Overt anti-Semitism has also been a feature of Irish Republicanism since the movement regrouped in the late 1960s, but the frequency with which its anti-Israel rhetoric crosses the line to open anti Semitism is not rare. 

Graffiti supporting suicide bombers and officially sanctioned murals glorifying Palestinian terrorism ("IRA/PLO - One Struggle," "Gerry Arafat") were commonplace in Republican areas during the worst days of the second intifada, giving the Palestinian flags, ubiquitous in Republican areas, a more sinister complexion. 
One prominent Irish Nationalist even suggested that decommissioned IRA weapons after the Northern Ireland war with Britain be given to the PLO for use against Israel.

Israel is continually delegitimized and demonized at Irish nationalist demonstrations and in publications such as Sinn Fein's official weekly, An Phoblacht, and the on-line journal, The Blanket where Nazi analogies have been routinely employed ("Hitler speaking Hebrew", "the Julius Streicher-type tyrant" Ariel Sharon). 

Anti-Semitic undertones in their whispering campaign against former Northern Ireland minister Peter Mandelson have also been cited as evidence that there may be more to all of this than anti-Zionism.

In a century of all-consuming struggle against Britain, Irish nationalism has always found time to castigate the Jews.

Israeli and British intelligence working together have uncovered many Irish / Palestinian links, from activism, deep rooted political cooperation to arms smuggling and active IRA involvement in training and active participating in attacks together against Israeli soldiers and civilians.

More frighteningly the cooperation has increased over the years and it is feared that the more 'professionalism' in Hamas terrorist tactics is the result of IRA training and expertise and this can only be a catastrophic outcome for Israel and its citizens.
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No terror please, we’re the British Broadcasting Corporation

At some point there is inevitably going to have to be a proper public debate on the subject of the BBC’s selective and politically motivated use of the word ‘terror’ and its derivatives, but so far it seems that the corporation is keen to avoid that debate, even in its own halls. 

After the horrific murder of British soldier Drummer Lee Rigby on a London street last May, a member of the public contacted the BBC to point out the discrepancy between its (appropriate) use of the word ‘terror’ whilst reporting that incident and its practice of describing terrorism in Israel in euphemistic terms. 

In the second of two responses from the BBC Complaints unit, Mr Stephen Franklin was informed that:

“In http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22630304 the word “terrorist” is actually used in the context of being attributed to a third party or individual.

For example the link states that the:

“incident now being treated by the government as a suspected terrorist attack, says the BBC’s Nick Robinson,”

While contributors to the BBC’s coverage throughout the day, where they used the word, were simply described as having done so.

The BBC has specific guidelines on this that do not proscribe use of the term but advise editors to consider the particular circumstances. It has never been outlawed by the whole of BBC News and so there’s little we can usefully add to your comparison, which involves citing one specific story in comparison with the BBC’s Middle East coverage more generally, despite their clear differences, in your belief that our approach is inconsistent.

We can only reiterate that there is no general approach and decisions are taken on a case-by-case basis.” [emphasis added]

In fact, the BBC used the word ‘terror’ in a number of instances during its reporting on the incident and not exclusively “in the context of being attributed to a third party or individual”.

For example seven earlier versions of the article now entitled “Woolwich machete attack leaves man dead” appearing on the London page of the England section of the BBC News website went under the title “Man dead in suspected Woolwich terror attack”.

In the report below the word terror is also used in the headline and in the ‘read more’ section at the bottom.

At the bottom of this article readers find a link titled “In pictures: Woolwich terror attack”.

In light of the unsatisfactory responses from the BBC Audiences Services, Mr Franklin requested that the BBC Trust consider the issue in an appeal.

“The complainant compared the BBC’s treatment of Hamas with its coverage of the death of British Army soldier Lee Rigby, in which, according to the complainant, the BBC did not place the word terrorist in quotation marks or substitute it for the word militant. 

 In addition, the complainant referred to the use of quotation marks in on-line news reporting, and quoted the BBC College of Journalism style guide:

Beware of paraphrasing and selective quotation, e.g.: “The Israeli prime minister said that while ‘terrorist’ attacks continued he would not back down.” Putting the single word ‘terrorist’ in quotes may give the impression that the BBC is sceptical about the prime minister’s assessment of the nature of the attacks.

The complainant then listed some examples in support of his belief that the BBC always puts the word ‘terrorist’ into quotes when used in the context of the Israel/Palestine dispute, but not when the word is used in the context of politically motivated acts of violence within the UK.” 

However, the Trust’s Senior Editorial Strategy Adviser came to the conclusion that it was not appropriate for the Trust’s ECU to consider the issue, stating inter alia that:

“…decisions relating to the editorial content of news reports were matters for the BBC Executive. The Royal Charter and the accompanying Agreement between the Secretary of State and the BBC drew a distinction between the role of the BBC Trust and that of the BBC Executive Board, led by the Director-General. “The direction of the BBC’s editorial and creative output” was specifically defined in the Charter (paragraph 38, (1) (b)) as a duty that was the responsibility of the Executive Board, and one in which the Trust did not get involved unless, for example, it related to a breach of the BBC’s editorial standards. The Adviser did not consider that Trustees would be likely to conclude that there had been a lapse of editorial standards in this case.”

Of course if “there is no general approach and decisions are taken on a case-by-case basis” – as stated by BBC representatives – then it is clearly difficult to identify a “lapse of editorial standards” even when the use – or lack of it – of the word ‘terror’ is clearly influenced by political factors.

Sadly, the BBC Trust does not appear to appreciate the necessity of discussing the effect that the opaquely worded BBC Guidance document titled “Language when Reporting Terrorism” and the editorial guidelines on the same subject are having on increasingly deteriorating audience perceptions of its impartiality. 

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Netanyahu prophetically correct at UN

It is yet to be seen whether or not Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the UN gained any diplomatic or political ground for Israel. The message, however, was certainly ground-breaking. On the floor of the United Nations General Assembly, in front of the nations of the world, Netanyahu quoted from the Bible no fewer than five times. Surely more than any other speech in UN history.

“Abraham, Isaac and Jacob”

Calling up the fathers of faith, Israel’s Prime Minister pronounced to all that it is not the United Nations, nor the United States, nor a slipshod “two-state solution” that will establish the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, but only the promises of the God of Israel as spoken in His word to their forefathers.

For Israel’s Prime Minister, it seems, God’s word is as politically correct and relevant today as ever.

“The Persian king Cyrus issued a famous edict in which he proclaimed the right of the Jews to return to the land of Israel and rebuild the Jewish temple in Jerusalem.”



In this brilliant admonition of Iran’s anti-Israel madness, Netanyahu pointed out that it was the Persian King Cyrus himself who supported the return of the Jewish people to Israel. How shrewd of the Prime Minister to remind the Iranian people that they themselves were instruments in God’s hands to fulfill His plan to establish the Jewish people in the Land of Israel. What a stunning rebuke of a regime that regularly threatens to destroy the Jewish state.

Like the prophets of old, Netanyahu directly confronted that ancient enemy of Israel calling upon them to abandon the path of fighting against God’s will concerning the Jewish people. Fighting against the purposes of God will only backfire in the end. For “presidents of Iran have come and gone,” said Netanyahu, “and (yet) we re-established our sovereign state in our ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.”

“A wolf in sheep’s clothing”

Apparently, Israel’s Jewish Prime Minister also reads the New Testament. This quote taken directly from the Gospel of Matthew suggests that the true nature of Israel’s foes will be revealed by their actions, as seen in the following verse in Jesus’ sermon: “By their fruits shall ye know them.”

After systematically recalling a long list of the new Iranian president Rouhani’s murders, killings and terror over the years, Netanyahu exposed the “brazen contrast, this extraordinary contradiction, between Rouhani’s words and Iran’s actions.”

One could almost picture Jesus himself over-turning the tables in the Temple as Netanyahu tried to shake the world’s leaders out of their apathy and wake them up to the imminent dangers of Iran’s deceitfulness. Abandoning all politically correct diplomacy, he stunned the weary diplomats in the General Assembly, exposing lie after lie of Iran’s deceptive “charm offensive” and denouncing it as a “rogue regime.”

“Israel will stand alone”

Asher Intrater, a Messianic Jewish leader in Israel, pointed out that when Netanyahu declared in his speech that if necessary Israel would stand alone to defend herself against the Iranian nuclear threat, the Prime Minister was referring to a prophecy in Deuteronomy 33:28.

The prophecy reads, “Then Israel shall dwell in safety, the fountain of Jacob alone…happy are you O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord.”

Constantly under pressure from the nations of the world, Israel’s prime minister seems to have internalized the profound truth that more than any other nation in the world Israel must trust in the Lord for her salvation.

“I will plant them upon their soil never to be uprooted again”

Quoting from the Prophet Amos in English and then in Hebrew, Netanyahu made it clear to all who are listening that no threat, nuclear or otherwise, will remove Israel from the Land. For the Lord Himself has established His people here.

“The people of Israel have come home never to be uprooted again,” concluded Netanyahu.

http://www.israeltoday.co.il

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Now the liberal British system & BBC has the British Army in its sights

The liberal media & British legal system now has the British Army in its sights. 

The BBC, which never misses the opportunity to try to vilify honourable men, while at the same time worrying so terribly about the so- called 'human rights' of terrorists & murdrers - this 'very British corporation is now gleefully reporting an enquiry that accuse British soldiers of wrong doing in Iraq. 

A "very angry" sergeant fired bullets into the bodies of Iraqis who were still "twitching" after a gun battle, the Al-Sweady inquiry has heard. 

So reports the BBC

The actual enquiry also heard that a soldier stamped on the head of a dead Iraqi and other British Soldiers attacked detainees.

The inquiry heard soldiers did not agree with his version of events and even some Iraqis denied this took place. 

The inquiry is examining claims, denied by the Ministry of Defence, that UK troops mistreated and killed detainees after the 2004 "Battle of Danny Boy".

It seeks investigate the events surrounding the deaths of approx 20 Iraqi men and is concerned with a battle during the Iraq war which is named after a British army checkpoint near the town of Majar al-Kabir in Iraq.

Lawyers acting for several Iraqi clients claim some were taken alive and mistreated or unlawfully killed at Camp Abu Naji and Shaibah Logistics Base.

Well they would wouldn't they? Being as they're making handsome sums out of vilifying honourable men.

The enquiry the alleged incident took place in the aftermath of a clash, which began when a British "rover" group was ambushed and set upon as it travelled to Camp Abu Naji.

A British Army sergeant allegedly "put a full magazine of bullets into two Iraqi bodies that had been 'twitching' and he also fired into the bodies of the other dead gunmen in the ditch".

No mention of course in the BBC report that this occurred after a heavy battle, where tensions were high, the soldiers had been under the pressure of battle & as stated by wittnesses, the serverly wounded Iraqis 'were certainly going to die anyway' 

Also no mention that in many cases during and after the Iraq invasion in 2003, wounded Iraqis had suddenly fired at troops or were even known to blow  themselves up as British or American troops came to help.

The inquiry was also told that - in a separate incident in a derelict building after the battle - two British soldiers were seen hitting and kicking a detainee.

Oh didums 

Rightly stated by soldiers who were in the battle, "Everyone was upset about the whole scenario of British soldiers being ambushed and attacked not by Iraqi soldiers , but by those they were in Iraq to assist and who days before had smiled and waved at them"

The Al-Sweady inquiry - set up in 2010 - at the British tax payers expense, is named after one of the Iraqi men, 19-year-old Hamid al-Sweady, who is allegedly to have been 'unlawfully' killed while being held following the battle.

Three years passed between the setting up of the inquiry and its opening as staff, including retired detectives, trawled through as many as 12,000 documents.

Evidence from Iraqi witnesses was heard from March-July.

The inquiry has so far cost the British tax payer more than £19m so far and is due to report back by the end of 2014. 

It would be interesting to see if the BBC ever reports any enquiries into the be-heading of US & UK service personnel and civilian contractors, not just into the killers but more the inaction of the British and American authorities at the time. 

It would also be interesting to see the BBC reporting an enquiry into the murder and corruption attributed to the 'so-called' government of Iraq?

But we at this blog are used to seeing the British media and indeed the whole British system appeasing the enemies of the free world while at the same time rubbishing the name of good and brave people. 

Gaza and The West Bank are regular targets for the British as well as western media to home in on and as with this case above, these little grey busybodies always seem to take on the side of the rioters, terrorists and hate mongers in that battle ground of the war on terror. 

Some of these 'journalists' and 'officials' should try doing the job soldiers do ON THEIR BEHALF then then might think twice before they put pen to paper -

But then don't hold you're breath the British legal system pays good money to appease evil while betraying good.