They took these dudes and put them in a cell like they do with all the other suspects, and they were supposed to sit there and wait as their case wound its way slowly through the justice system, much like it does here in America. No one looked at these fuckers as anything special, that is, no one on the Iraqi Pig force did. However, someone else did, and looked at these guys as very valuable assets that just could not be left sitting in jail for months or years on end, so they decided to do something about it. What happened was that a spectacular jailbreak was pulled off, with a bunch of heavily armed dudes storming the jail where these cats were being held and they essentially shot their way in and around the jail until they found these three guys and they proceeded to break them out of the cells, give them weapons, and let them help as they shot it out with the Iraqi Pigs to be able to escape the jail. And escape they did, at a high cost of human life, many Iraqi Pigs and civilians were killed in this, even some other prisoners were killed as they were unfortunate enough to get caught in the crossfire, since they were locked in cells, that was not too hard to do, and these invaders did not give a fuck about these guys, they did not free a shitload of them, they killed them if they had to just so they could free three guys. That was it, just three guys, a major offensive was planned and executed just to free three dudes, not an entire jail. That stumped a loot of people, because they wanted to know why the terrorists did not free everyone in that jail since they were all sympathizers or active participants in their cause. Why the fuck would the Muslim dudes leave fellow Muslims in there to die, even if they did not know them personally, they were Muslim brothers and for that reason alone, it seemed logical that they would have cleared the jail out because they would have needed that manpower to fight the war. They need every man they can get, and storming a jail just to free three dudes seemed an awful waste of scarce military resources on their part. There was also the question of who these cats were that stormed the jail, they had some really extraordinarily heavy arms, far more so than the general insurgents do. These Iraqi jails are built by America, and armed and guarded by America through their puppets and proxies too. It is not much easier to stage a jailbreak in an Iraqi jail than it is to stage one in an American jail, it has to be that way, or else what the troops are doing is in vain, if the captured enemy could just skate out of jail so easily like that, it is kind of pointless to even have the jails to begin with. So it is hard to do that, and these dudes that were busted out had to have some serious friends in very high places for that to even be attempted, let alone pulled off like it was. It just did not look like the handiwork of the Muslim insurgents, it was a bit too large for them to do.
Then, a few days later, the answer started to come. It came out that these guys that stopped the car in Basra and shot at everyone were not really affiliated with the insurgency at all. In fact, they were not even affiliated with Islam in any way because they were not people native to the area that did this. It seems that it was British soldiers of some special unit that dressed up like Muslims and shot those people like that. Getting arrested and sent to jail for it was not in their plans, and that gummed up the works considerably. England was not about to let these dudes sit in jail and go to trial, because sooner or later, it was going to come out that they were Brits just disguising themselves as insurgents. Obviously, the intention was to cause strife and mayhem in Basra that day and blame it in the insurgents. London wanted no part of that coming out in some trial someday, so they called up the rescue squad and said that they had to get their mates out of there as fast as they possibly could and to spare no expense and force doing so. That was exactly what the rescue squad did, and their mates were broken out of jail and whisked away into obscurity somewhere. Tony Blair himself was asked about that, and he did not come right out and say that it was so, but he did not issue a denial either, he spoke some kind of political doubletalk that very much left the possibility open that these guys were indeed British soldiers acting undercover. That would not be a first for England, and that's probably why Blair did not deny it. For many years, England was fighting a war against terror of their own, the war against the IRA, which was almost exactly the same as the war now, except that it was white-on-white, Christian-on-Christian violence. Guerrilla tactics and terror were commonplace components of that war, and London devised a few tricks of their own in dealing with all of that. One of them was to use agent provacateurs, dudes they sent in to cause strife and trouble. It was very easy to do that In this IRA war, because everyone was white, and it was easy to send an undercover Pig or military man in and have him throw a bomb or set one off somewhere, and have scores of innocents be killed, and then that was blamed on the IRA, and London used that time and time again with great efficiency. They did not deny it either, they wanted the IRA to know that they did that so that they would never be quite sure of just who they were dealing with, creating strife within the IRA. London defended this tactic when it was criticized for being one where innocent people had to die by saying that they were dealing with ruthless terrorists, and that they had to act accordingly. It seems as if they have brought this tactic with them to Iraq and are employing it once again. This time they had to use disguises to hide the fact that they were white dudes, but the result was the same, they sowed discord and strife amongst the Iraqis. The goal is to get the civilians to turn against the insurgents by associating them with violence and the like and then bring them down from the inside. This is also good for propaganda purposes, to tell the folks back home how evil the insurgents are and get them to support the war effort more. That seems to be why this whole sordid scene unfolded in Basra earlier this month and why British soldiers dressed up as Iraqis and fired on civilians and got broken out of jail and so forth. Just another routing maneuver by the British military, one they think they had success with in Ireland, so they brought it with to Iraq and are using it with gusto. No one except the Pentagon is denying this, and just the fact that the Pentagon is issuing denials of things that are attributed to England shows that this was indeed a coordinated plan and that these were no rogue mercenaries operating on their own, these were trained British soldiers following orders given to them from 10 Downing Street itself.
That sort of tactic might have worked in Ireland, but there is no proof that it ever really did. There was no popular revolution among the Irish people against the IRA, that war just kind of sputtered to a halt a few years ago with no one winning and no one losing. So all that agent provocateur bullshit did no good at all. Innocent people lost their lives time and time again for nothing. This fiasco in Basra shows that it has zero chance of working in Iraq either. All that it has done is to prove some of what is said from the Muslim side in this war to be right. They denied all along that they were involved in these types of attacks, they said that no Real Muslim Holy Man would ever sanction that, let alone call for it, and that is was some kind of saboteurs of America that were behind this. Of course, America denied this, saying that this tactic was not one that they used in their arsenal, and that is correct. The American military way is to bludgeon and blast the enemy into submission, the "shock and awe" shit, the destroying and leveling of cities, bombings, all sorts of shit that are public displays of American power. That double agent stuff is left to the likes of the CIA, and they do that in diplomatic channels, not in theaters of war. America is just too fucking macho to try sneaky tactics like that in a hot war, but England is obviously not. That is why Washington gave its approval for that shit in Basra and every other operation like that deployed thus far, do not think that this was the first time that something like that was ever done in Iraq, it was just the first time that the operatives had been caught. Every other time, they either killed everyone in sight, so there was no one left to chase them, or they killed themselves as suicide bombers. Now, the secret is out in the open and in the long run, Washington might like that. Right now, it is an embarassment to them, as the questions of why the fuck any of America's allies would act in such a way and do such things because that puts American lives in danger, and washington needs to explain why they let something like that happen. For while England is a major military power, this is America's war, and England is along as an ally, and that means that it's Washington that Is ultimately running this show, not London, so they had to know that England was doing this shit. Maybe not that particular operation, but they knew that things like this were happening all over Iraq courtesy of the Brits. America can no longer piously sit on high and say that they have no part in fermenting trouble in Iraq because their best buddy is doing it and they could not be able to do it unless Washington said OK. That means that America likes this tactic for some reason, it is hard to see why, as it does not lead to any massive wastes of money, which enrich Mr. Businessmen obscenely, and it has no macho cache, it is like a wimp tactic when you get right down to it. You make out to be your on enemy and act like the stereotype that you give of them, and you try and use that to ferment dissent among their supporters and support among your own people. A great big old bomb would do that trick very nicely and a lot more efficiently too, so why would America go for that shit? After all, it puts Americans in danger by getting some real Muslim dude so pissed off that he takes up arms against America and possibly kill a soldier or two. Are they doing this just because England is so enamored with this and they do not want to offend a friend? Forget that one, because America considers itself head and shoulders above England and everyone else in the world, so if they did not like something, it would be nixed right away no questions taken. Washington likes something about all of this, and that something is probably that it keeps the war hot and nasty, and that keeps the money train a-rollin' and that's what this is really all about. America knows that the Muslims would not do this shit themselves very much, so they let their pals the Brits do it and reap the rewards. It is not Americans that shot those people in Basra and at the jail, so Washington can be all sanctimonious about the whole affair. They can make comments about how they might not like that so much, but they'll never do anything to stop it either, now that it has been brought out in the open, it will probably increase like it did in Ireland. America does not need to do that, they can stick to their macho bullshit, and let their partners take care of the sneaky shit. It is a win-win situation for Washington, and that's the only kind of situation that they want or are interested in. That's why that went down in Basra, and why it won't be the last time that something like this happens either. Anything that keeps the money flowing is considered good and causing strife certainly accomplishes that, so it will continue. No one will care what that does to the people that they are allegedly trying to help, the Iraqis, they are mere lab rats in a cage, subject to whatever experiments America comes up with and it looks like they came up with a doozy this time, one that shall happen more and more as the war drags on, as It is seen as a no lose situation, something that works every time no matter what happens. That is how the sick, twisted men of war see it, and since they are the ones running things here, that is what we are doomed to see for who knows how much longer.