EU SECURITY: Diplomacy, French style

FRANCE RELEASES TOP KILLER-AGENT IN SECRET PRISONER DEAL

A mad and murderous Iranian person

This morning (Tuesday) a senior French Court released convicted Iranian agent and murderer Ali Vakili Rad ‘on parole’.

Vakili Rad was serving a life sentence for murdering the Shah’s last prime minister, Shapour Bakhtiar, at his home outside Paris. His lawyer Sorin Margulis said a sentencing court agreed on Tuesday to release the Iranian national after the interior minister signed a deportation order. Vakili Rad is as I write on his way back to Iran.

Late last week, a young French academic accused of spying in Tehran was allowed to return home. This is a well-established Iranian approach to getting their agents repatriated: arrest a national of the country concerned, and then suggest a swap.

Britain has a ‘no swap’ policy (allegedly) under such circumstances. Both the UK and Israel agree that it is the best way to dissuade terrorists from pulling this kind of stunt. Supposedly, a majority of EU States support this view. But for the French, this isn’t the way to conduct diplomacy.I am – genuinely – not knocking it. The French are more pragmatic about such things, it’s part of their culture. We Rosbifs think that appeasement only ever ends in one result, but the French don’t agree.

Neither do the Italians, Spain and Greece. So if, next week, Badmood I’madinnerjacket decides to have his agent Adbul B’onkarrs garrote Rompuy of the Brussels…and then tries to swap him for a Mr Fred Smith (arrested for being a Christian a few days later) what will the EU policy be?

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Anonymous on May 18, 2010 at 12:18 pm

It reminds me of the Italians in Afghanistan who paid the taliban not to attack them. They then spent a comfortable year sightseeing and drinking wine before handing over to the French.Unfortunately they didn't tell the French about the deal and the taliban were understandably upset at not getting paid for not doing anything and killed a dozen French soldiers in revenge.The Germans don't normally venture outside the compounds and drink beer instead. On their occasional foray to look at the natives they call in airstrikes on the wrong targets before returning to base to drink more beer and play cards. It's more understandable with the Germans as , like with the world's banking systems, they actually run the show behind the scenes ( allegedly) so don't want to fight with their assets.Meanwhile the Brits get killed over there bravely defending lost causes while our politicians dither over what to do.I suspect the cleggerons will keep the EU / Afghan ball in the air until their demise and then hand it over to another set of clowns.

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