The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #143239   Message #3324264
Posted By: Jim Carroll
17-Mar-12 - 04:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: Homs horror (Syria, 2012)
Subject: RE: BS: Homs horror
"I have told you many times now that there is nothing whatsoever to suggest that sniper rounds were ever requested, licenced or supplied" But you and Dirty Mac Danny said they were sniper rounds - care to give us another version of what they were - pop-gun corks maybe.
I remind you, after having presented them as being merely sniper rounds, you changed your mind when it was pointed out to the carnage that snipers were causing in Homs - a brief reminder http://articles.cnn.com/2011-12-28/middleeast/world_meast_syria-homs-scene_1_snipers-syrian-city-arab-league?_s=PM:MIDDLEEAST
Your change of heart leaves one to suspect that it is not unconnected with your magnificent foot-in-mouth in attempting to pass of sniper rounds and relatively unimportant, just as Dirty Mac Danny's wavering has something to do with his "only £30,000 worth" - making your present protestations a little suspect, don't you agree?
If you are going to continue this farce perhaps you might indicate which particular explanation you are now accepting - that Britain sold nothing to Syria, that they sold small arms amunition and they were harmless because (they wouldn't fit their weapons, they weren't lethal enough to worry about), that they didn't sell them enough to do any damge, that it was so long ago that it didn't matter, that they were licenced but never delivered - then back to, they Britain didn't sell anything to Syria - you've used them all at one time or another.
Don't you think this would make a wonderful children't game, sort of like 'The Bog Down in the Valley-o'
If you have any evidence (look it up in the dictionary if you're not sure what "evidence" means) that the licences were recinded or any othr reason that the (documented) order was not fulfilled, please supply the reference.
Jim Carroll