Chris EdwardsThe Political Situation in the Aftermath of the Attack on Lebanon (2006)
Manchester, UK. 21st August 2006. Stop the War Coalition spokesperson, Chris Nineham, speaks at an event devoted to an eye witness account of the destruction of Lebanon by the Israelis. The event is introduced by Chris who speaks about the political situation in the aftermath of the bombing of Lebanon.
The main thrust of his presentation is that we should be very sceptical about the "terrorist" scare-momngering that conveniently coincided with the Israeli military PR disaster that was the attack on Lebanon. He reminded us that several previous "terrorist" scares had proved to be baseless: the fictitious "ricin plot", the mythical Manchester United "terrorist" scare, the deadly, heavy-handed police response to the non-existent Stockwell and Waltham Forest "terrorist" incidents, both of which proved to be police fairy tales. The doings of John Reid's Ministry of Fear should be treated with utmost scepticism. We will see shortly just how many people are actually charged and convicted by a jury and that will give us the true measure of Reid's scaremongering.
Video clips of the eye-witnesss presentation can be seen here.
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Keywords: Lebanon; Israel; war; antiwar; peace; "terrorist" scare-mongering
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