Britain and America’s pilots are blowing the cover on our so-called ‘humanitarian’ no-fly zone.
Royal Air Force pilots have protested for the first time about their role in the bombing of Iraq. Pilots patrolling the so-called no-fly zone in the north of the country have spoken angrily about how they have been ordered to return to their base in Turkey in order to allow the Turkish air force to bomb the Kurds in Iraq – the very people the British are meant to be “protecting”.
The pilots say that, whenever the Turkish air force wants to launch attacks on the Kurds, they are recalled to base and their radar is switched so that the targets will not be visible. One British pilot reported seeing the devastation caused by the attacks when he resumed his patrol.
The Blair government has said nothing about this, because Turkey is a member of Nato. Almost all Kurds applying for asylum in Britain – from Turkey and Iraq – have been refused. Jack Straw’s new Terrorism Act bans the PKK, which has no history of violence in this country. This means that Kurdish activists resident in
— source johnpilger.com | john pilger | 19 Mar 2001