I heard/read recently somewhere that the "72 virgins" promised to the "Martyrs" to look after their needs in paradise were a mis-translation from the orginal Sanskrit (or whatever). Modern scholarship reveals that they are not "virgins" but "Raisins"! The muhajadin must have a passion for fruitcake. We should continue to help them satisfy it.
Stephen Farrell of The Times broke the story of the two Brit traitors on the Times front page on Wednesday. They are aged 23 and 21 years and fighting for the Mahdi army against the Americans in Najaf. By fighting against our allies, I believe they are committing treason. If they were fighting against the Brits in the Basra area I believe there would be an open-and -shut case against them. The story was juxtaposed with that of 20 year-old Private O'Callaghan who became the 62nd British soldier killed in Iraq. Daniel McGrory wrote: "(O'Callaghan) grew up just a few miles away in South London from another young man of almost the same age who today carries a gun in Iraq and boasts of wanting to kill allied soldiers. Swaggering around Najaf with his uncle, this masked gunman swears allegiance to the same radical militia who killed Private O'Callaghan and wounded five of his comrades in an attack in Basra on Monday".
If captured it would be pointless to hand over these men to the Americans to interrogate at Guantanimo Bay. They have not committed Treason against the Americans and could reasonably claim protection as POWs under the Geneva Conventions. If they were tried for Treason in a British court (and the fact that this law has not been invoked since 1945 is irrelevant), they could at worst be sentenced to life imprisonment, which would impose a heavy burden on the taxpayers. Best if they were not taken prisoner .
If, as PrOOne seems to suggest, the European Declaration on Human Rights gives rights to individuals to exercise lethal force against the armed services of their own country because they do not agree with the policy of their country's elected government, then either the Act should be amended in the light of global terrorism, or we should abrogate the Declaration forthwith.