Cold Blooded Murder!
Socialist Press1980 1980-05-14Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 12 →
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the popular dailies. Neither Whitelaw London. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Signed articles do not necessarily reflect the views of the WSL takes a real "hero" to gun down an unarmed opponent wno nas aireaay __-d Landlad.. surrendered. Last week the SAS showed once again in their storming of the Iranian embassy that they are second to none as savage, cold-blooded hit men.
AS Mohammed Paruqi, one of the freed hostages, admitted, the gunmen had given up any attempt at resistance within 10 seconds of the SAS raid, and dropped their weapons shouting "we surrender" in Persian.
Bullets
The SAS, not ones to stand on ceremony, pumped them full of bullets. According to Faruqi:
"One of the terrorists was sitting on the floor, and when he was pointed out by the Iranians the commandos asked him to stand up, and then he was shot."
(Observer, May 11)
Such revelations of course not make the tront pages the real day-to-day activities of the SAS, which in occupied Ireland is known to have shot down no less than ten unarmed victims in surprise ambushes.
Best known of these instances was the murder of 16year old schoolboy John Boyle -shot three times in the back.
But also among the notches on SAS. gun butts will be 21year old Dennis Heaney, gunned down in Belfast in June 1978: after a bullet hit him in the leg, five more bullets were fired into his chest and stomach.
The arrival of these killers onto the streets of London has now been greeted by a fanfare from Whitelaw and the Tory press: particularly since their victims were unknown Arabs.
But this violence is the violence of a cornered and ruthless imperialism: the workers' movement must beware.