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Saturday, October 17
Wing-Commander Sir Arthur Harris (later Bomber Harris, head of wartime Bomber Command)
by
anthony bougatsas
on Sat 17 Oct 2009 09:59 PM BST
"The Arab and Kurd now know what real bombing means in casualties and damage. Within forty-five minutes a full-size village can be practically wiped out and a third of its inhabitants killed or injured."
Wing-Commander Sir Arthur Harris (later Bomber Harris, head of wartime Bomber Command)
by
anthony bougatsas
on Sat 17 Oct 2009 09:49 PM BST
"The Arab and Kurd now know what real bombing means in casualties and damage. Within forty-five minutes a full-size village can be practically wiped out and a third of its inhabitants killed or injured."
Wing Commander Lewis, then of 30 Squadron (RAF), Iraq 1920's
by
anthony bougatsas
on Sat 17 Oct 2009 09:46 PM BST
Quite often,
"One would get a signal that a certain Kurdish village would have to be bombed..."
Winston Churchill, as colonial secretary of Palestine, writing to Sir Hugh Trenchard, on 19 February, 1920
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anthony bougatsas
on Sat 17 Oct 2009 09:44 PM BST
Would it be possible for Trenchard to take control of Iraq? This would entail:
"the provision of some kind of asphyxiating bombs calculated to cause disablement of some kind but not death...for use in preliminary operations against turbulent tribes."
Winston Churchill on displacing indigenous peoples, in 1937 to the Palestine Royal Commission, usually known as the Peel Commission.
by
anthony bougatsas
on Sat 17 Oct 2009 09:36 PM BST
"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken
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