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But instead, we get delusion from the Northern Ireland secretary and praise for the chaps at the top.

Despite penetration and surveillance, the Provisional IRA conducted its most spectacular and damaging bomb attacks in England in the final years of the conflict. According to Kenya’s biggest newspaper, the Daily Nation, a man named Ian Henderson was known in Kenya as the “ torturer in chief”, and was “the prime mover in the preparation of bogus evidence in the 1953 trial at Kapenguria”, where six leading Mau Mau figures were convicted, including the future first president of independent Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta. Moreover, the law would be ‘little more than a propaganda cover for the disposal of unwanted members of the public’. Accordingly, when Petraeus in 2006 was planning the US military ‘surge’ in Iraq to crush a mounting Sunni insurgency there, he visited Kitson for guidance and advice.In 2012 the British high court found that British troops perpetrated the Batang Kali massacre in Malaya in 1948. Alistair McNutt, a former police officer in Hong Kong under British rule, was a colonel in the interior ministry until 2002. Ian Henderson was awarded the George Medal – Britain’s highest civilian award – on 28 September 1954 for his work in Kenya.

It includes a very British cast of characters, including an Englishman at the heart of the British army, an Irishman who threw himself on a grenade to save his colleagues and a Scotsman who spent thirty years as “the butcher of Bahrain”.He also took part in counter-insurgency and peace-keeping activities in Kenya, Malaya, Oman, Cyprus and Northern Ireland and held staff appointments in two of the most influential departments in the Ministry of Defence. A second soldier involved in both events was ‘mentioned in despatches’ at the behest of Kitson for his alleged bravery in the face of the enemy. If it seems odd that a British policeman would be given such a job, it’s worth briefly reviewing the history of this island in the Gulf. He was also believed to be involved in establishing the British Army’s Military Reaction Force (MRF), which was believed to be involved in innocent Catholic deaths. Kitson’s removal was a confidence-building signal to nationalists that Whitelaw’s approach would be focused on the political options, including negotiation with the Provisional IRA.