[{"topic":"Iraq","id":"43071","proposer":"24784","edm":"2002","session":"2010-12","title":"Human Rights Watch In Kurdistan","text":"That this House acknowledges the important role that non-governmental organisations can play; notes that one of the most high-profile non-governmental organisations (NGOs), Human Rights Watch, released a report, Iraqi Kurdistan: Growing Effort to Silence Media, on 24 May 2011 which claimed that the Kurdistan Regional Government seems no more respectful of Kurdish rights to free speech than the government that preceded it; believes that this is an unjust allegation, given that the preceding government in Kurdistan was headed by Saddam Hussein who directed a campaign of genocide against the Kurds and brooked no dissent from the media or anyone else; further believes that while such hyperbole may attract headlines, it diminishes the credibility of Human Rights Watch and does nothing to contribute to the serious debate about how to protect journalists in Kurdistan through the rule of law, improved media rights, an emphasis on professional journalism and encouraging transparency, all of which are ably supported by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, the Independent Kurdish Media Centre and other international NGOs; and further believes that Human Rights Watch should engage more seriously with all those who are seeking to further improve the media in Kurdistan.","date":"2011-06-28","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"43014","proposer":"10133","edm":"1945","session":"2010-12","title":"Peace And Brian Haw","text":"That this House notes with sadness the passing of Brian Haw, whose protest camp in Parliament Square, initially against the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and then all wars, has stood for a decade and resisted all legal and political challenges to its existence; supports the principles behind the protest camp and regards its existence as a formidable example of the possibilities for peaceful dissent at a time when civil liberties are being eroded and military power is being employed over negotiated peace; further notes Mr Haw's relentless discipline in ensuring that he be seen by hon. Members going about their business every day as a constant reminder of the consequences of their decisions for the lives of thousands of innocent people and subsequent generations; further notes the political inspiration that he was to so many, with his handcrafted placards about the innocent lives lost as a result of war; trusts that his inspiration lives on as an influence to those in Parliament who make the decisions, and to the public whose role it is to hold decisionmakers in Parliament to account so that they might work toward bringing about peace in their time; and calls for a fitting permanent memorial to be established in Parliament.","date":"2011-06-20","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"43015","proposer":"10057","edm":"1946","session":"2010-12","title":"Brian Haw","text":"That this House notes the endurance of Brian Haw; remembers too the dedication of Lieutenant-Commander Bill Boaks who, before his death 25 years ago, dedicated his life to road casualty reduction; furthernotes the range of views on Brian Haw's cause and his methods; believes it could be appropriate for a memorial service in Westminster to mark his passing; and also hopes that to mark his life the unsightly camp of hangers-on in Parliament Square ends and a plaque be set in the pavement.","date":"2011-06-20","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"42892","proposer":"24784","edm":"1826","session":"2010-12","title":"Rawabit Partnership Scheme And Educational Reform In Iraq","text":"That this House welcomes the visit to the UK by Dr Mahmood Shaker Abdulhussain, President of the Iraqi Foundation of Technical Education, and Dr Kawthar Aziz Ahmed, President of the Erbil Foundation of Technical Education; notes that the Rawabit partnership scheme between Iraqi and British educationalists has since 2004 successfully supported long overdue and badly needed educational reform in Iraq in a sector able to have an immediate impact on the local labour market; further notes that Rawabit has organised technical and further education college twinning links, including practical immersion and work-shadowing programmes in the UK, to improve teaching practice, quality assurance, management and employer\/community engagement as well as piloting an Iraqi Deans' qualifying programme and developing a women's leadership network; recognises that Rawabit has engaged with over 600 individual practitioners in 60 technical colleges across Iraq, nurtured significant changes in leadership practice, with greater devolved management, and increased the availability of vocational skills through programmes for the unemployed and former prisoners and militia members; believes that this helps Iraqi colleges to play a bigger role in social cohesion and economic regeneration; and urges the Government to continue its funding for a respected project which both benefits the democratic renewal of Iraq and bolsters mutually beneficial connections between the Iraqi and British education sectors.","date":"2011-05-18","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"42714","proposer":"24784","edm":"1660","session":"2010-12","title":"Christians In Iraq","text":"That this House notes the recent visit by the Archbishop of Erbil Bashar Warda to Parliament as a guest of the All-Party Parliamentary group on the Kurdistan Region in Iraq as part of his first visit to the UK hosted by the charity Aid to the Church in Need; further notes his assessment that, in response to violent attacks from 2003, many Iraqi Christians from Baghdad and Mosul have fled to Iraqi Kurdistan, where they have been welcomed by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), which has established an emergency programme to handle the sudden influx and where there is no religious persecution of Christians; endorses his view that the KRG requires help from the federal government in Baghdad for specific projects and infrastructure for these Iraqi citizens; understands that Kurdistan Regional President Barzani is also seeking wider international support for his government's efforts to protect Christians; and respectfully urges the Iraqi federal government to discuss this asa matter of urgency with the KRG in order to help preserve the position of Christians in Iraq.","date":"2011-03-28","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"42647","proposer":"24784","edm":"1599","session":"2010-12","title":"23rd Anniversary Of The Anfal Campaign In Iraqi Kurdistan","text":"That this House notes that March 2011 marks the 23rd anniversary of the Anfal Genocide in Iraqi Kurdistan, including the massacre by chemical weapons of 5,000 people in Halabja on 16 March 1988; recognises and condemns the systematic slaughter of the Kurds by the Ba'athist regime under Saddam Hussein; regrets that almost 200,000 people were murdered and 4,500 villages destroyed; applauds the Iraqi Parliament and the Canadian Parliament for recognising these acts as genocide; and supports greater international recognition of the Anfal campaign as genocide.","date":"2011-03-15","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"42178","proposer":"11513","edm":"1166","session":"2010-12","title":"Human Rights Situation Of Sabian Mandaeans And Other Minority Religious Groups In Iraq","text":"That this House expresses concern regarding human rights violations of the ancient Sabian Mandaeans religious group in Iraq; condemns the ethnic cleansing and systematic torture of this group as well as other minority religious groups in Iraq forcing them to become refugees; notes the recent deaths of Catholic priests and over 52 worshippers in Baghdad who were shot dead during a mass; further condemns the treatment of young children who are tortured and raped because of their religious background; believes all Iraqi religious groups and ethnicities should retain their human right to religious freedom and their right tojustice, equality, fairness and an end to discrimination and violence; and calls on the Prime Minister and the Government to raise the issue of human rights of Iraqi minority religious groups with the government of Iraq.","date":"2010-12-09","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"42184","proposer":"10383","edm":"1172","session":"2010-12","title":"Protection Of Minorities In Iraq","text":"That this House notes with alarm what many believe is an attempt to drive out ethnic and religious minorities from Iraq, which they have inhabited for millennia, includingChristians; considers that the Iraqi political establishment has failed to live up to its legal obligations to protect these minorities; and calls on the Government, as a major protagonist in the war on Iraq, to fulfil its legal and moral responsibilities to ensure that the UN Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief is adhered to, especially for those minorities driven out of areas controlled by the UK during the official occupation of Iraq.","date":"2010-12-09","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"42123","proposer":"10352","edm":"1117","session":"2010-12","title":"Treatment Of Christians In Iraq","text":"That this House is deeply concerned by the mass exodus of Iraqi Christians, which has decimated much of Iraq's ancient Assyrian-Chaldean community; notes that the Assyrian-Chaldeans make up over 95 per cent. of Iraq's Christians and that this exodus has largely been caused by escalating violence against Christians from fanatical extremists, including the bombing of churches and the assassination of Iraqi Christians; further notes that there has been illegal expropriation of Assyrian-Chaldean land and villages in Dohuk province and Erbil province in northern Iraq; recognises that Iraqi Christians are a major force for moderation, who can act as a significant buffer against the spread of extremism in Iraq; calls on the British and Iraqi governments urgently to encourage and support the creation of a self-governing province in Iraq for the Assyrian-Chaldeans, which is linked to the central government in Baghdad, situated in the Nineveh Plain and consists of the Tel Kaif, Al-Hamdaniya and Al-Shikhan districts and is governed by the Assyrian-Chaldeans and other ethnic groups living in the area, as these lands form part of the ancestral homeland of the Assyrian-Chaldeans and are still heavily populated by them; and urges the UK and Iraqi governments to support financially the reconstruction of the region, to end the political marginalisation of the democratically elected Assyrian-Chaldean representatives in Iraq, to assist the Assyrian-Chaldeans in reclaiming their land and villages in the Dohuk and Erbil provinces, and to financially support internally displaced Assyrian-Chaldeans and the return and settlement of Assyrian-Chaldean refugees.","date":"2010-12-01","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"42124","proposer":"10352","edm":"1118","session":"2010-12","title":"Killing Of Christians In Mosul","text":"That this House is deeply concerned by the targeted assassinations of Christians in Mosul, northern Iraq, in September and October 2008, which killed at least 14 Iraqi Christians and displaced over 2,000 families from that city; notes that a Washington Times news report dated 26 October 2008 stated that on 17 October 2008 Iraqi security forces arrested six men in connection with the killings of Christians in Mosul and found that four of them had links with Kurdish Regional Government militia, not al-Qaeda; further notes that the Kurdish Regional Government and its militia are dominated by the Kurdistan Democratic Party and that on 29 October 2008, Gulf News reported that investigations had been completed, and proved the involvement of Kurdish militias in the displacement and killing of Christians, a claim which was re-stated by Iraq's Prime Minister at that time, Nouri Al Maliki, during a discussion with Iraqi lawmakers, according to Osama Al Nojaifi, a deputy in the Iraqi parliament; and, in view of such serious and widespread allegations, urges the Government to press the Iraqi government to investigate fully these allegations and publicly announce all the investigation's conclusions.","date":"2010-12-01","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"41898","proposer":"10327","edm":"911","session":"2010-12","title":"Death Sentence On Tariq Aziz","text":"That this House regards with deep revulsion the decision of the Iraqi regime to carry out a death by hanging sentence on Tariq Aziz; and points out that British servicemen and women did not die or risk their lives in Iraq in order to install a regime that indulges in judicial murder.","date":"2010-10-27","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"41562","proposer":"11427","edm":"605","session":"2010-12","title":"Labour Law In Iraq (No. 3)","text":"That this House strongly condemns the draconian ministerial decree of 20 July 2010 ordering the immediate closure of all offices of the Electricity Workers Union in Iraq and the prohibition of all trade union activities at the Electricity ministry, its departments and sites as well as all official interaction and communication with the trade unions; urges the withdrawal of this decree; and believes that this illustrates the urgent need for a fair labour law in Iraq.","date":"2010-07-22","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"41516","proposer":"11427","edm":"559","session":"2010-12","title":"Labour Law In Iraq (No. 2)","text":"That this House recalls the near liquidation of a once strong and non-sectarian trade union movement by the dictatorial regime of Saddam Hussein; salutes those who have devoted themselves to rebuilding a labour movement in Iraq before and since his overthrow with important moral and material support from the Trades Union Congress and several trade unions in the UK as well as many other national trade union centres and global union federations who believe that the right to free association is a key element of a vibrant democracy and social justice; supports the General Federation of Iraqi Workers and the Kurdistan United Workers' Union joint campaign for a new labour code which would enshrine such rights and which enjoys the support of the Iraqi President; notes that positive moves in this direction have now been undermined by elements within Iraqi government, attempting to force Iraqi unions to hold elections under Saddam's deeply flawed 1987 labour law; deplores, along with the International Trade Union Confederation, the decision on 12 May 2010of the Higher Ministerial Committee to prohibit all travel by trade union delegations to international meetings or conferences without its approval; and respectfullyurges the Iraqi government to reverse this decision in favour of adopting a Labour code that complies with International Labour Organisation standards.","date":"2010-07-20","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"41130","proposer":"11427","edm":"207","session":"2010-12","title":"Iraqi Kurdistan","text":"That this House warmly welcomes the arrival of over 100 senior public officials and business representatives from Iraqi Kurdistan, including its Prime Minister Barham Salih, to attend a major conference in London on business and investment opportunities in the Kurdistan region, which is widely seen as the safe and secure gateway to doing business in Iraq; and believes that increasing trade and investment between and within the UK and the Kurdistan region would be of considerable economic and social benefit to all concerned and would do much to foster the peaceful and democratic development of the Kurdistan region and Iraq as a whole.","date":"2010-06-10","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"41115","proposer":"11427","edm":"192","session":"2010-12","title":"Labour Law In Iraq","text":"That this House supports the work of the new and independent trade union movement in Iraq; deplores the barbaric terrorist attack on a textile factory in Hilla in May 2010 which killed 40 workers and injured dozens of other people; agrees with the Trades Union Congress that this is a tragic reminder of just how urgently Iraq needs a stable, non-sectarian government which can put in place the laws and policies to enable ordinary Iraqis to live and work in dignity, peace and freedom; and extends its solidarity to the General Federation of Iraqi Workers in its efforts, and those of many others around the world, to urge the Iraqi government and Parliament to overturn the continuing ban on public sector trade unions and implement a fair and just labour law.","date":"2010-06-09","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"40970","proposer":"10521","edm":"56","session":"2010-12","title":"Lives On The Line Campaign","text":"That this House recognises the bravery, dedication and sacrifice of members of the armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq; applauds the review and enhancement of the Armed Forces' Compensation Scheme; and calls on the Government to amend the qualifying date of 6 April 2005 to 1 January 2001, which marks the beginning of the war on terror, that ensures equality of treatment for personnel injured in Iraq and Afghanistan and thereby honours its duty of care to this loyal and dignified group of service men and women and their families.","date":"2010-05-25","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"40872","proposer":"11427","edm":"1212","session":"2009-10","title":"Christians In The Kurdistan Region In Iraq","text":"That this House notes that the Kurdistan Region President Barzani has condemned every killing or targeting of Christians and that he has offered Christian students in Mosul places in universities in Kurdistan so that they can complete their studies; concurs with the recent statement from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Kurdistan Region in Iraq, following two delegations which focused on this issue and which met leading Christians in the Region, that commended the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) for its generosity in welcoming Christians and protecting their position; further notes that many Christians in Iraq have fled to the Kurdistan Region where Christians are valued, with the KRG financing the rebuilding of Christian villages and churches, providing financial support for some 11,000 Christian families displaced because of violence in the south, official support for armed Christian guards in some rural communities, special and generous representation of minorities in parliament and governorate councils, an additional 5,000 housing units in 100 Christian villages in the Dohuk province, the provision since 1998 of 62 Syriac and Armenian primary secondary schools with 7,000 pupils and 10 secondary schools as well as a planned Syriac department of the University of Dohuk; and believes that claims of KRG involvement in the killing and displacement of Christians in Mosul in 2008 have been credibly refuted by the International Crisis Group and Human Rights Watch.","date":"2010-03-30","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"40813","proposer":"10352","edm":"1171","session":"2009-10","title":"Killing Of Christians In Mosul","text":"That this House is deeply concerned by the targeted assassinations of Christians in Mosul, northern Iraq, in September and October 2008, which killed at least 14 Iraqi Christians and displaced over 2,000 families from that city; notes that a Washington Times news report dated 26 October 2008 stated that on 17 October 2008 Iraqi security forces arrested six men in connection with the killings of Christians in Mosul and found that four of them had links with Kurdish Regional militia, not al-Qa'ida; further notes that the Kurdish Regional Government and its militia are dominated by the Kurdistan Democratic Party and that on 29 October 2008, Gulf News reported that investigations had been completed, and proved the involvement of Kurdish militias in the displacement and killing of Christians, a claim which was re-stated by Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri Al Maliki during a discussion with Iraqi lawmakers, according to Osama Al Nojaifi, a deputy in the Iraqi pariament; and, in view of such serious and widespread allegations, urges Her Majesty's Government to press the Iraqi government to fully investigate these allegations and publicly to announce all the investigation's conclusions.","date":"2010-03-23","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"40814","proposer":"10352","edm":"1172","session":"2009-10","title":"Treatment Of Christians In Iraq","text":"That this House is deeply concerned by the mass exodus of Iraqi Christians, which has decimated much of Iraq's ancient Assyrian-Chaldean community; notes that the Assyrian-Chaldeans make up over 95 per cent. of Iraq's Christians and that this exodus has largely been caused by escalating violence against Christians from fanatical extremists, including the bombing of churches and the assassination of Iraqi Christians; further notes that there has been illegal expropriation of Assyrian-Chaldean land and villages in Dohuk province and the Nineveh Plain in northern Iraq; recognises that Iraqi Christians are a major force for moderation, who can act as a significant buffer against the spread of extremism in Iraq; calls on the British and Iraqi governments urgently to encourage and support the creation of self-governing province in Iraq for the Assyrian-Chaldeans, linked to the central government in Baghdad, situated in and around the Nineveh Plain and including Tel Kaif, Al-Hamdaniya and Al-Shikhan districts, and governed by the Assyrian-Chaldeans and other ethnic groups living in that area, as these lands form part of the ancestral homeland of the Assyrian-Chaldeans and are still heavily populated by them; and urges the UK and Iraqi governments to support financially the reconstruction of the region, to end the political marginalisation of the democratically elected Assyrian-Chaldean representatives in Iraq, to assist the Assyrian-Chaldeans in reclaiming their land and villages in Dohuk province and the Nineveh Plain, and to financially support internally displaced Assyrian-Chaldeans and the return and resettlement of Assyrian-Chaldean refugees.","date":"2010-03-23","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"40771","proposer":"11427","edm":"1129","session":"2009-10","title":"Supporting Progress In Iraq","text":"That this House welcomes Iraq's second parliamentary elections as a vital step towards a much more stable and democratic Iraq which can re-establish itself in the wider international community after so many years of isolation, sanctions and dictatorship; notes the widespread desire of Iraqis for increased trade with and investment from other countries as well as a whole host of educational and cultural exchanges and co-operation, most notably with the UK for which many Iraqis have a high regard; further notes that it is extremely difficult for Iraqi citizens who wish to cement such links to obtain visas because they have to travel to third countries and wait there for up to a week rather than being able to apply in Iraq; recognises that this is an onerous process which increasingly and unfavourably contrasts with the ability to secure Schengen visas to other European countries which may then gain an advantage in securing commercial links; and urges the Government to review its practice in this regard as a matter of urgency to enable deep and broad relationships for mutual benefit between Iraq and the UK whilst maintaining border controls.","date":"2010-03-18","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"40667","proposer":"11245","edm":"1020A1","session":"2009-10","title":"Birth Defects In Fallujah","text":"after second `that', insert `Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons in this area, and that'.","date":"2010-03-08","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"40668","proposer":"11245","edm":"1020A2","session":"2009-10","title":"Birth Defects In Fallujah","text":"leave out from `defects;' to end.","date":"2010-03-08","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"40633","proposer":"10063","edm":"1007","session":"2009-10","title":"Iraqi Elections","text":"That this House notes the Iraqi elections are taking place on 7 March 2010; calls for the elections to be fair, free of intimidation and peaceful; further notes that Iraqi citizens in the UK are able to vote at four centres, and hopes that these arrangements will also be fair and free of intimidation; and calls on the Government to monitor the election campaign and raise immediately with the Iraqi government any concerns about electoral fraud or any other electoral malpractice.","date":"2010-03-04","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"40646","proposer":"10123","edm":"1020","session":"2009-10","title":"Birth Defects In Fallujah","text":"That this House notes the deeply disturbing report of BBC correspondent John Simpson indicating the high numbers of children being born with serious defects in the Iraqi town of Fallujah; further notes that the report says that those born with congenital heart defects is 13 times the rate found in Europe, that other babies have been born with limb loss or distortion, paralysis or brain damage, and that officials in the town have warned women that they should not have babies; further notes that during the US onslaught on Fallujah, white phosphorus and depleted uranium weapons were amongst those used, and also that after the fighting was over, rubble from the town was bulldozed into the river, polluting water supplies; further notes that there has not been a proper independent inquiry by medical experts to establish the cause of these birth defects; and considers that this consequence of this US military action makes it a human rights atrocity.","date":"2010-03-04","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"40648","proposer":"10521","edm":"1022","session":"2009-10","title":"Lives On The Line Campaign","text":"That this House recognises the bravery, dedication and sacrifice of members of the armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq; applauds the recent review and enhancement of the Armed Forces' Compensation Scheme; and calls on the Government to amend the qualifying date of 6 April 2005 to 1 January 2001, which marks the beginning of the war on terror, that ensures equality of treatment for personnel injured in Iraq and Afghanistan and thereby honours its duty of care to this loyal and dignified group of service men and women and their families.","date":"2010-03-04","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"40456","proposer":"11672","edm":"856","session":"2009-10","title":"Tony Blair And The Chilcot Inquiry","text":"That this House regrets the weak questioning put to Tony Blair at the Chilcot Inquiry; criticises the fact that he was allowed to reply to explicit questions with long, sweeping answers; observes that he was not pushed to explain why he took Britain to war when the Attorney General's advice had questioned the legality of such action; notes that the panel at the Chilcot Inquiry gave Mr Blair the chance to admit regret for his actions surrounding the Iraq War; condemns Mr Blair for failing to express any regret over the Iraq War; further condemns him for failing to pay tribute to the 179 British men and women who have lost their lives in the conflict and the 100,000 Iraqis, as estimated by the independent Iraq Body Count; and hopes that Mr Blair is recalled for further questioning by the Chilcot panel and is pressed to deliver honest and open answers for this matter of the greatest importance.","date":"2010-02-10","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"40350","proposer":"13735","edm":"758","session":"2009-10","title":"Conduct Of The Right Hon. Member For Blackburn","text":"That this House congratulates Elizabeth Wilmshurst, former senior international legal adviser at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, for her clear and candid evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry into the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath on 26 January 2010; notes her revelation that every legal adviser at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2002-03 judged the invasion of Iraq without explicit authorisation by the United Nations Security Council would be unlawful; and calls on the current Justice Secretary to consider his position in light of his rejection of this advice when holding the post as Foreign Secretary.","date":"2010-02-01","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"40332","proposer":"10218","edm":"741","session":"2009-10","title":"Democracy And Right To Protest","text":"That this House notes that the decision to take this country to war with Iraq caused the gravest crisis of legitimacy of the UK's political system; further notes that the public is demanding that hon. Members and Government be transparent in their dealings and held to close scrutiny and account; therefore believes that it is in the interests of democratic accountability that those who organised the largest demonstration in British history on 15 February 2003 against war on Iraq be allowed to go ahead with a planned peaceful protest next to the Queen Elizabeth II centre at the location originally agreed by the police when the former Prime Minister the right hon. Tony Blair gives evidence to the Iraq Inquiry.","date":"2010-01-27","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"40333","proposer":"11672","edm":"742","session":"2009-10","title":"Elizabeth Wilmshurst And The War In Iraq","text":"That this House commends Elizabeth Wilmshurst, former Deputy Legal Officer at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, for her admirable conduct and the frank and sincere advice she gave at the Chilcot inquiry; notes that Elizabeth Wilmshurst and many of her colleagues believed there to be no legal basis for the Iraq War without further input from the UN Security Council; further notes that Elizabeth Wilmshurst described the Government's attitude towards Departmental legal advice as dismissive; praises her for having the courage to resign when her advice was ignored, confident that she was right; believes that this contrasts starkly with the attitude of senior Ministers who then pushed forward with the decision to invade Iraq, knowing that the Government's own legal advisers believed it would be illegal to do so; questions whether it is usual procedure for the Government to instruct lawyers to draft legal documents that contradict strong expert opinion; and hopes that in future proper effective measures are put in place to ensure Government policy is compliant with law and that this never happens again.","date":"2010-01-27","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"40025","proposer":"13735","edm":"455","session":"2009-10","title":"Tony Blair And Iraq","text":"That this House notes that in a television interview on the Fern Britten programme broadcast by the BBC on 13 December 2009, Tony Blair, when asked whether he would still have gone on with plans to join the US-led invasion of Iraq had he known at the time that Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction, said `I would still have thought it right to remove him. I mean obviously you would have had to use and deploy different arguments, about the nature of the threat'; contrasts this statement with his comments to the House on 25 February 2003 in the run up to invasion, that `Saddam can.....voluntarily disarm. He can even leave the country peacefully. But he cannot avoid disarmament'; recalls that in making the case for war less than a month later, Tony Blair revealed he was conversant with an extraordinary interview conducted by United Nations inspection agency UNSCOM in August 1995 with General Hussein Kamal, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, who had defected to Jordan, in which the General revealed at page 13 of the transcript, later posted on the BBC Radio Four Today programme website, and reported in the 3 March 2003 edition of Newsweek that `All weapons - biological, chemical, missile, nuclear - were destroyed'; believes that the former Prime Minister was not candid with the House in making the case for war; and calls for appropriate legal action to be taken to rectify this deeply disturbing situation.","date":"2009-12-14","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"39901","proposer":"13735","edm":"341","session":"2009-10","title":"President George W. Bush And Regime Change In Iraq","text":"That this House notes the candid revelation by Sir David Manning, the former foreign policy advisor to the Prime Minister, at the Iraq inquiry on 30 November 2009 that, in respect of the speech on 12 September 2002 by President George W. Bush to the United Nations on United States policy towards Iraq, shortly after that speech, Dr Rice had telephoned him to say that, in fact, the President had been given the wrong text and that he had had to ad lib this, but fortunately the President had put in the reference to the need to return and to have new UN resolutions to try and resolve this through the UN; is appalled that in such an important decision on which the lives of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were to be dependent, such an incredible error could be made; believes the decision making over Iraq, including the invasion, and the ongoing occupation, have subsequently demonstrated a similar level of incompetence; and calls on all future witnesses at the Iraq inquiry to present an equal level of candour in explaining the real shambles that underpinned allied Iraq policy since 2002.","date":"2009-12-02","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"39289","proposer":"11427","edm":"2061","session":"2008-09","title":"Iraqi Agriculture","text":"That this House warmly welcomes the participation of the Kurdistan Regional Government and its Prime Minister's Advisor on Sustainable Development and Agriculture, Dr Anwar Abdullah at the World Fruit and Vegetable Expo in London on 21 and 22 October 2009; believes that this will be a good opportunity to showcase Kurdistan's agricultural potential, including fruit of unique tastes and quality such as apples, grapes, pomegranates, figs, and tomatoes, as well as first-class honey; notes that the region is part of the historic fount of world agriculture; and expresses its hope that, with British and other trade and investment, the Kurdistan Region and the rest of Iraq will be able to rebuild, after decades of deliberate destruction and neglect, their full agricultural potential.","date":"2009-10-15","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"39281","proposer":"10383","edm":"2051","session":"2008-09","title":"Deportation To Iraq","text":"That this House is alarmed at reports that over the last week, detainees in various immigration detention centres have been given removal directions that state they will be removed to Iraq and that the first deportation charter flight to southern Iraq was expected to leave on 14 October 2009; is concerned about the violence and bloodshed that continues to blight Iraq along with the widespread food shortages and lack of access to clean drinking water; deplores the deportation of innocent people to face violence, hardship and even death in a war zone like Iraq; and therefore calls for the deportation of Iraqi refugees to Iraq to be halted and for the Iraqi detainees threatened with forcible removal to be released immediately.","date":"2009-10-14","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"39191","proposer":"10352","edm":"1964","session":"2008-09","title":"Killing Of Christians In Mosul","text":"That this House is deeply concerned by the targeted assassinations of Christians in Mosul, northern Iraq, in September and October 2008, which killed at least 14 Iraqi Christians and displaced over 2,000 Christian families from that city; notes that a Washington Times news report dated 26 October 2008, stated that on 17 October 2008 Iraqi security forces arrested six men in connection with the killings of Christians in Mosul and found that four of them had links to the Kurdish Regional Government militia, not Al Qaeda; further notes that the Kurdish Regional Government and its militia are dominated by the Kurdistan Democratic Party and that on 29 October 2008 Gulf News reported that investigations had been completed, and proved the involvement of Kurdish militias in the displacement and killing of Christians, a claim which was re-stated by Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki during a discussion with Iraqi lawmakers, according to Osama Al Nojaifi, a deputy in the Iraqi parliament; and, in view of such serious and widespread allegations, urges Her Majesty's Government to press the Iraqi government to fully investigate these allegations and publicly to announce all the investigation's conclusions.","date":"2009-07-21","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"39196","proposer":"10123","edm":"1969","session":"2008-09","title":"Camp Abu Naji Inquiry","text":"That this House calls on the Government to establish an independent inquiry into the death of 20 Iraqis, after allegedly being taken into UK custody, following a fire fight near the town of Al Majar-al-Kabir in Maysan province on 14 May 2004.","date":"2009-07-21","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"38934","proposer":"10543","edm":"1736","session":"2008-09","title":"Inquiry Into The Iraq War","text":"That this House calls on the Government to ensure that any inquiry into the Iraq War should be completely public; and notes that any inquiry conducted behind closed doors will be called a whitewash and will do further harm to Parliament's reputation.","date":"2009-06-24","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"38893","proposer":"13735","edm":"1701","session":"2008-09","title":"Committee Of Inquiry On Iraq","text":"That this House rejects the justifications provided during the Prime Minister's statement to the House on 15 June 2009 on the establishment of a Committee of Inquiry into the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath for holding the inquiry in secret; recalls that the Prime Minister told the House in his earlier statement on 10 June 2009 on constitutional renewal that he believes `that we should do more to spread the culture and practice of freedom of information'; records disappointment that this apparent commitment to more openness lasted less than a week; believes that the general public, including the millions of citizens who marched and demonstrated against the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and many families of servicemen and women who lost their lives during the invasion of, and subsequent occupation of Iraq, will not find it acceptable to hold the inquiry in secret, and would want to be able to attend hearings as in the Hutton Inquiry and the Scott Inquiry; notes for example that John Miller whose son Simon was killed in Iraq in 2003, has said private hearings would be marred by `lies and deceit'; and therefore calls on the Prime Minister to scrap the announced arrangements for the Committee of Inquiry into the Invasion of Iraq forthwith and as a democratic and transparent alternative to consult with a wide range of interested parties including backbench hon. and right hon. Members, the Stop the War Coalition and Military Families Against the War, to ascertain what they believe would be a just inquiry.","date":"2009-06-18","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"38892","proposer":"10780","edm":"1671A1","session":"2008-09","title":"Iraq Inquiry","text":"at end add `, but the cost and the time taken must not be anything remotely approaching that reached by the Saville Inquiry.'.","date":"2009-06-17","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"38856","proposer":"10383","edm":"1671","session":"2008-09","title":"Iraq Inquiry","text":"That this House considers that, to be credible and gain the confidence and trust of the British people, any inquiry into Britain's involvement in Iraq must be demonstrably fully independent, open, transparent and held in public, with the power to summon witnesses under oath.","date":"2009-06-15","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"38694","proposer":"11245","edm":"1524","session":"2008-09","title":"British Armed Forces Returning From Iraq","text":"That this House warmly welcomes home the last of the British armed forces from Iraq; notes with great sadness the loss of 179 personnel with many others wounded or traumatised; and congratulates the UK's servicemen and women involved in the conflict on an excellent job and thanks them wholeheartedly.","date":"2009-05-18","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"38209","proposer":"10716","edm":"1100","session":"2008-09","title":"Independent Inquiry Into Iraq War","text":"That this House believes the invasion of Iraq was a serious foreign policy error that has destabilised the Middle East; notes that public opinion is strongly in favour of a full public inquiry into the UK's role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq; believes that such an inquiry would in no way detract from the efforts of UK armed forces personnel in Iraq who have served with bravery and distinction while helping to rebuild the country; and calls on the Government to launch a full independent inquiry into the invasion of Iraq without delay.","date":"2009-03-16","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"38151","proposer":"11719","edm":"931A1","session":"2008-09","title":"Fatalities In Iraq (No. 8)","text":"at end add `and Jamie Gunn, aged 21 from Monmouth, of the 1st Battalion The Rifles.'.","date":"2009-03-10","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"38001","proposer":"11245","edm":"922","session":"2008-09","title":"Halabja Gas Attack And Anfal Campaign Anniversary","text":"That this House notes the commemoration of the 21st anniversary of the Halabja gas attack; recognises that the Halabja atrocity and the subsequent Anfal Campaign of 1988 together constituted a genocide against the Kurdish people; further recognises the results are still with the Halabja people through cancers, birth abnormalities, deformities, pollution and poisoned land; supports a proposal to establish a compensation fund for the survivors and the bereaved, to be funded by a percentage of profits made by oil and other companies who sign new contracts within the Iraqi and Kurdish governments; and calls on the Government to press the United Nations to release the names of all the companies who supplied the chemical agents to the Ba'ath regime so that the companies may be pressed to provide ex-gratia payments to the fund.","date":"2009-03-02","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"38003","proposer":"10203","edm":"924","session":"2008-09","title":"Fatalities In Iraq","text":"That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces serving in Iraq and records with sorrow the deaths of Colour Sergeant John Cecil, Royal Marines, UK Landing Force Command Support Group, aged 35, from Plymouth, Lance Bombardier Llywelyn Evans, 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery, aged 24 from Llandudno, Captain Philip Stuart Guy, Royal Marines, aged 29, from Skipton, Yorkshire, Marine Sholto Hedenskog, Royal Marines, aged 26, from Cape Town, South Africa, Sergeant Les Hehir, 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery, aged 34, from Poole in Dorset, Operator Mechanic (Communications) Second Class Ian Seymour RN, 148 Commando Battery Royal Artillery, aged 29, from Poole in Dorset, Warrant Officer Second Class Mark Stratford, Royal Marines, aged 39, from Plymouth, Major Jason Ward, Royal Marines, UK Landing Force Command Support Group, aged 34, from Torquay in Devon, Lieutenant Philip Green RN, aged 30 from Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, Lieutenant Antony King RN, aged 35 from Helston, Cornwall, Lieutenant Marc Lawrence RN, aged 26 from Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, Lieutenant Philip West RN, aged 32 from Budock Water, Cornwall, Lieutenant James Williams RN, aged 28 from Falmouth, Cornwall, and Lieutenant Andrew Wilson RN, aged 36 from Exeter all from 849 Squadron, RNAS Culdrose, Flight Lieutenant Kevin Barry Main, Pilot, IX (B) Squadron and Flight Lieutenant David Rhys Williams Navigator, IX (B) Squadron.","date":"2009-03-02","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"38004","proposer":"10203","edm":"925","session":"2008-09","title":"Fatalities In Iraq (No. 2)","text":"That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces serving in Iraq and records with sorrow the deaths of Sapper Luke Allsopp, 33 Engineer Regiment (EOD), aged 24 from North London, Staff Sergeant Simon Cullingworth, 33 Engineer Regiment (EOD), aged 36 from Essex, Sergeant Steven Roberts, 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, aged 33 from Bradford, Lance Corporal Barry Stephen, 1st Battalion The Black Watch, aged 31 from Perth, Corporal Stephen Allbutt, aged 35 from Stoke-on-Trent, and Trooper David Clarke, aged 19 from Littleworth, Staffordshire both from the Queen's Royal Lancers, Lance Corporal of Horse Matty Hull, Household Cavalry Regiment, aged 25 from Windsor, Major Steve Ballard, 3 Commando Brigade, Royal Marines, aged 33, from Swindon, Marine Christopher Maddison, 9 Assault Squadron Royal Marines, aged 24 from Scarborough, Lance Corporal Shaun Brierly, 212 Signal Squadron, 1 (UK) Armoured Division and Signal Regiment, aged 28 from West Yorkshire, Staff Sergeant Chris Muir, Army School of Ammunition, Royal Logistic Corps, aged 32 from Romsey in Hampshire, Lieutenant Alexander Tweedie, aged 25, and Lance Corporal Karl Shearer, both from the Household Cavalry Regiment, Fusilier Kelan Turrington, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, aged 18, Lance Corporal Ian Malone, 1st Battalion, aged 28 from Dublin, and Piper Christopher Muzvuru, aged 21 from Zimbabwe both from the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards.","date":"2009-03-02","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"38005","proposer":"10203","edm":"926","session":"2008-09","title":"Fatalities In Iraq (No. 3)","text":"That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces serving in Iraq and records with sorrow the deaths of Lance Corporal James McCue, 7 Air Assault Battalion, REME, aged 27 from Paisley, Private Andrew Kelly, 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, aged 18 from Tavistock, Gunner Duncan Pritchard, 16 Squadron RAF Regiment, aged 22, Corporal David Shepherd, Royal Air Force Police, aged 34, Mr Leonard Harvey, aged 55, based at Wattisham in Suffolk, Sergeant Simon Hamilton-Jewell, aged 41 from Chessington, Corporal Russell Aston, aged 30 from Swadlincote, Corporal Paul Long, aged 24 from Colchester, Corporal Simon Miller, aged 21 from Washington, Tyne and Wear, Lance-Corporal Benjamin Hyde, aged 23 from Northallerton in Yorkshire, Lance-Corporal Thomas Keys, aged 20 from Llanuwchllyn, near Bala in Wales, all of 156 Provost Company, Captain James Linton, 40 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, aged 43 from Warminster, Private Jason Smith, 52nd Lowland Regiment, aged 32 from Hawick, Captain David Jones, Queen's Lancashire Regiment, aged 29 from Louth in Lincolnshire, Major Matthew Titchener, 150 Provost Company, aged 32 from Southport, Merseyside, Company Sergeant Major Colin Wall, 150 Provost Company, aged 34 from Crawleyside, County Durham, Corporal Dewi Pritchard, 116 Provost Company, aged 35 from Bridgend, Fusilier Russell Beeston, 52nd Lowland Regiment, aged 26 from Govan, Sergeant John Nightingale, 217 Transport Squadron, aged 32 from Leeds, Corporal Ian Plank, Royal Marines, aged 31 from Poole, and Private Ryan Thomas, Royal Regiment of Wales, aged 18 from Resolven, near Neath in Glamorgan.","date":"2009-03-02","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"38006","proposer":"10203","edm":"927","session":"2008-09","title":"Fatalities In Iraq (No. 4)","text":"That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces serving in Iraq and records with sorrow the deaths of Major James Stenner, Welsh Guards, aged 30 from Monmouthshire, Sergeant Norman Patterson, Cheshire Regiment, aged 28 from Staffordshire, Lance Corporal Andrew Craw, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, aged 21 from Clackmannanshire, Rifleman Vincent Windsor, Royal Green Jackets, aged 23 from Oxfordshire, Sapper Robert Thomson, Royal Engineers, aged 22 from West Lothian, Corporal Richard Ivell, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, aged 29 from near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, Fusilier Gordon Gentle, Royal Highland Fusiliers, aged 19 from Glasgow, Flight Lieutenant Kristian Gover, 33 Squadron RAF, aged 30, Private Christopher Rayment, Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment, aged 22 from London, Private Lee O'Callaghan, Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment, aged 20 from London, Private Marc Ferns, The Black Watch, aged 21 from Glenrothes in Fife, Lance Corporal Paul Thomas, The Light Infantry, aged 29 from Welshpool, Fusilier Stephen Jones, The Royal Welch Fusiliers, aged 22 from Denbeigh, Corporal Marc Taylor, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, aged 27 from Ellesmere Port, Gunner David Lawrence, Royal Artillery, aged 25 from Walsall, Private Kevin McHale, The Black Watch, aged 27 from Lochgelly in Fife, Staff Sergeant Denise Michelle Rose, Royal Military Police, aged 34 from Liverpool, Sergeant Stuart Gray, The Black Watch, age 31 from Dunfermline, Fife, Private Paul Lowe, The Black Watch, aged 19 from Fife, and Private Scott McArdle, The Black Watch, aged 22 from Glenrothes.","date":"2009-03-02","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"38007","proposer":"10203","edm":"928","session":"2008-09","title":"Fatalities In Iraq (No. 5)","text":"That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces serving in Iraq and records with sorrow the deaths of Private Pita Tukutukuwaqa, The Black Watch, aged 27 from Fiji, Sergeant Paul Connolly, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, aged 33 from Crawley in West Sussex, Squadron Leader Patrick Marshall, Headquarters Strike Command, aged 39, Flight Lieutenant David Stead, 47 Squadron, RAF Lyneham, aged 35 from Yorkshire, Flight Lieutenant Andrew Smith, 47 Squadron, RAF Lyneham, aged 25, Flight Lieutenant Paul Pardoel, 47 Squadron, RAF Lyneham, aged 35, Master Engineer Gary Nicholson, 47 Squadron, RAF Lyneham, aged 42, Chief Technician Richard Brown, RAF Lyneham, aged 40, Flight Sergeant Mark Gibson, 47 Squadron, RAF Lyneham, aged 34, Sergeant Robert O'Connor, RAF Lyneham, aged 38, Corporal David Williams, RAF Lyneham, aged 37, Acting Lance Corporal Steven Jones, Royal Signals, aged 25 from Fareham, Private Mark Dobson, Tyne-Tees Regiment, aged 41 from County Durham, Guardsman Anthony John Wakefield, 1st Battalion The Coldstream Guards, aged 24 from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Lance Corporal Alan Brackenbury, The King's Royal Hussars, aged 21 from East Riding, Yorkshire, Signaller Paul William Didsbury, 21st Signal Regiment (Air Support), aged 18, Second Lieutenant Richard Shearer, aged 26 from Nuneaton, Private Leon Spicer, aged 26 from Tamworth, and Private Phillip Hewett, aged 21 from Tamworth, all from the 1st Battalion Staffordshire Regiment.","date":"2009-03-02","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"38008","proposer":"10203","edm":"929","session":"2008-09","title":"Fatalities In Iraq (No. 6)","text":"That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces serving in Iraq and records with sorrow the deaths of Fusilier Donal Anthony Meade, aged 20 from Plumstead in South East London, and Fusilier Stephen Robert Manning, aged 22 from Erith, Kent both from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, Major Matthew Bacon, Intelligence Corps, aged 34 from London, Captain Ken Masters, Royal Military Police, aged 40, Sergeant Chris Hickey, 1st Battalion the Coldstream Guards, aged 30, Sergeant John Jones, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, aged 31, from Castle Bromwich, Lance Corporal Allan Douglas, Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons), aged 22 from Aberdeen, Corporal Gordon Alexander Pritchard, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, aged 31, Trooper Carl Smith, 9th\/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) aged 23 from Kettering, Captain Richard Holmes, aged 28 and Private Lee Ellis, aged 23, both from the 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, Lieutenant Richard Palmer, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, aged 27, Wing Commander John Coxen RAF, aged 46 from Liverpool, Lieutenant Commander Darren Chapman, Fleet Air Arm aged 40, Captain David Dobson, Army Air Corps, aged 27, Flight Lieutenant Sarah-Jayne Mulvihill RAF, aged 32 from Canterbury, Marine Paul Collins, aged 21, Private Joseva Lewaicei, aged 25 from Lautoka, Fiji, and Private Adam Morris, aged 19 from Leicester, both from the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment, Lieutenant Tom Mildinhall, aged 26 from Battersea, and Lance Corporal Paul Farrelly, aged 27 from Runcorn, both from the Queen's Dragoon Guards.","date":"2009-03-02","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"38009","proposer":"10203","edm":"930","session":"2008-09","title":"Fatalities In Iraq (No. 7)","text":"That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces serving in Iraq and records with sorrow the deaths of Corporal John Johnston Cosby, 1st Battalion The Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry, aged 28 from Belfast, Corporal Matthew Cornish, of 1 LI killed in Iraq, aged 29 from Yorkshire, Gunner Samuela Vanua, aged 27 from Fiji, and Gunner Stephen Robert Wright, aged 20 from Preston, Lancashire, both from 58 (Eyre's) Battery, 12 Regiment Royal Artillery, Gunner Lee Thornton, 58 (Eyre's) Battery, 12 Regiment Royal Artillery, aged 22 from Blackpool, Lance Corporal Dennis Brady, Royal Army Medical Corps, aged 37 from Barrow-in Furness, Lieutenant Tom Tanswell 58 (Eyre's) Battery, 12 Regiment Royal Artillery, aged 27 from London, Kingsman Jamie Lee Hancock, 2nd Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 19 from Wigan, Warrant Officer Class 2 Lee Hopkins, Royal Corps of Signals, aged 35 from Wellingborough, Staff Sergeant Sharron Elliott, Intelligence Corps, aged 34 from Ipswich, Corporal Ben Nowak, 45 Commando Royal Marines, aged 27 from Liverpool, Marine Jason Hylton, 539 Assault Squadron Royal Marines, aged 33 from Burton on Trent, Sergeant Jonathan Hollingsworth, the Parachute Regiment, aged 35, Sergeant Graham Hesketh, 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 35 from Liverpool, Sergeant Wayne Rees, The Queen's Royal Lancers, aged 36 from Nottingham, Kingsman Alex Green, 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 21 from Warrington and Private Michael Tench, 2nd Battalion The Light Infantry, aged 18 from Sunderland.","date":"2009-03-02","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"38010","proposer":"10203","edm":"931","session":"2008-09","title":"Fatalities In Iraq (No. 8)","text":"That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces serving in Iraq and records with sorrow the deaths of Second Lieutenant Jonathan Carlos Bracho-Cooke, 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 24 from Hove, Private Luke Daniel Simpson, 1st Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, aged 21 from Howden, near York, Rifleman Daniel Lee Coffey, Second Battalion The Rifles, aged 21 from Exeter, Private Johnathon Dany Wysoczan, First Battalion The Staffordshire Regiment, aged 21 from Stoke on Trent, Kingsman Wilson, 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 28 from Workington, Rifleman Aaron Lincoln, of the 2nd Battalion, The Rifles, aged 18 from Durham, Second Lieutenant Joanna Yorke Dyer, aged 24 from Yeovil, Corporal Kris O'Neill, Royal Army Medical Corps, aged 27 from Catterick, Private Eleanor Dlugosz, Royal Army Medical Corps, aged 19, from Southampton, Kingsman Adam James Smith, 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 19 from the Isle of Man, Colour Sergeant M L Powell, aged 37 from South Wales, Sergeant Mark J McLaren, Royal Air Force, aged 27 from Northumberland, Corporal Ben Leaning, The Queen's Royal Lancers, aged 24 from Scunthorpe, Trooper Kristen Turton, The Queen's Royal Lancers, aged 27 from Grimsby, Kingsman Alan Joseph Jones, 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 20 from Liverpool, Rifleman Paul Donnachie, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 18 from Reading, and Major Nick Bateson, Corps of Royal Signals, aged 49 from Kent.","date":"2009-03-02","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"38011","proposer":"10203","edm":"932","session":"2008-09","title":"Fatalities In Iraq (No. 9)","text":"That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces serving in Iraq and records with sorrow the deaths of Private Kevin Thompson, Royal Logistic Corps, aged 21 from Lancaster, Corporal Jeremy Brookes, 4th Battalion the Rifles, aged 28 from Birmingham, Corporal Rodney Wilson, aged 30, from 4th Battalion The Rifles, Lance Corporal James Cartwright, aged 21, from Badger Squadron, 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, Major Paul Harding 4th Battalion The Rifles, aged 48, from Winchester, Corporal John Rigby 4th Battalion The Rifles, aged 24 from Rye, Corporal Paul Joszko, 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh (The Royal Regiment of Wales), aged 28 from Mountain Ash, Wales, Private Scott Kennedy, Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, aged 20 from Oakley, Dunfermline, Private James Kerr, Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, aged 20 from Cowdenbeath, Rifleman Edward Vakabua 4th Battalion The Rifles, aged 23 from Fiji, Lance Corporal Ryan Francis 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh, aged 23 from Llanelli, Corporal Christopher Read, of 158 Provost Company, 3rd Regiment Royal Military Police, aged 22 from Poole, Dorset, Senior Aircraftsman Matthew Caulwell, aged 22 from Birmingham, Senior Aircraftsman Christopher Dunsmore, aged 29 from Leicester, Senior Aircraftsman Peter McFerran, aged 24 from Connah's Quay, Lance Corporal Timothy Darren `Daz' Flowers of The Corps of Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers, aged 25, and Corporal Steve Edwards of the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, aged 35 from Thrapston, Northamptonshire.","date":"2009-03-02","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"38012","proposer":"10203","edm":"933","session":"2008-09","title":"Fatalities In Iraq (No. 10)","text":"That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces serving in Iraq and records with sorrow the deaths of Private Craig Barber, of 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh, aged 20 from Ogmore Vale, Leading Aircraftman Martin Beard of No. 1 Squadron Royal Air Force Regiment, aged 20 from Rainworth, near Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, Lance Sergeant Chris Casey, 1st Battalion, Irish Guards aged 27 from London, Lance Corporal Kirk Redpath, 1st Battalion, Irish Guards aged 22 from Romford, Sergeant Eddie Collins, The Parachute Regiment, aged 33, Sergeant Mark Stansfield, 32 Close Support Squadron, UK Logistic Battalion, aged 32 from Oxfordshire, Lance Corporal Sarah Holmes, 29 Postal Courier and Movement Regiment, aged 26 from Wantage, Oxfordshire, Corporal Lee Fitzsimmons from Peterborough, Sergeant John Battersby from Lancashire, Guardsman Stephen Ferguson, 1st Battalion Scots Guards, aged 31 from Lanarkshire, Sergeant Duane `Baz' Barwood, 903 Expeditionary Air Wing, Royal Air Force, aged 41 from Carterton, Oxfordshire, Lance Corporal David Kenneth Wilson, 9 Regiment Army Air Corps, aged 27, from Huddersfield, Corporal Lee Churcher, 20th Armoured Brigade, aged 32, from Nuneaton, and Private Ryan Wrathall, 1st Battalion The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, aged 21 from Surbiton, Surrey.","date":"2009-03-02","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"37971","proposer":"13735","edm":"892","session":"2008-09","title":"Cabinet Minutes And Freedom Of Information","text":"That this House fundamentally disagrees with the arguments presented by the Secretary of State for Justice in his statement on the use of section 53 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to justify the use of a veto to reject the decision of the Information Tribunal that the minutes of the Cabinet meetings on 13 and 17 March 2003 that discussed the basis of the legality of invading Iraq should be released; and calls upon the Secretary of State to reconsider his decision in the public interest.","date":"2009-02-25","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"37355","proposer":"10352","edm":"344","session":"2008-09","title":"Treatment Of Christians In Iraq","text":"That this House is deeply concerned by the mass exodus of Iraqi Christians, which has decimated much of Iraq's ancient Assyrian-Chaldean community; notes that the Assyrian-Chaldeans make up over 95 per cent. of Iraq's Christians and that this exodus has largely been caused by escalating violence against Christians from fanatical extremists, including the bombing of churches and the assassination of Iraqi Christians; further notes that there has been illegal expropriation of Assyrian-Chaldean land and villages in Dohuk province and the Nineveh Plain in northern Iraq; recognises that Iraqi Christians are a major force for moderation, who can act as a significant buffer against the spread of extremism in Iraq; calls on the British and Iraqi governments urgently to encourage and support the creation of a self-governing province in Iraq for the Assyrian-Chaldeans, linked to the central government in Baghdad, situated in and around the Nineveh Plain and including the Tel Kaif, Al-Hamdaniya and Al-Shikhan districts, and governed by the Assyrian-Chaldeans and other ethnic groups living in that area, as these lands form part of the ancestral homeland of the Assyrian-Chaldeans and are still heavily populated by them; and urges the United Kingdom and Iraqi governments to support financially the reconstruction of the region, to end the political marginalisation of the democratically-elected Assyrian-Chaldean representatives in Iraq, to assist the Assyrian-Chaldeans in reclaiming their land and villages in Dohuk province and the Nineveh Plain, and to financially support internally displaced Assyrian-Chaldeans and the return and resettlement of Assyrian-Chaldean refugees.","date":"2008-12-17","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"37312","proposer":"13735","edm":"303","session":"2008-09","title":"Us And Iraq","text":"That this House notes with understanding the protest made by Mr Muntader al-Zaidi, a reporter with the Al-Baghdadiya TV channel, in hurling his shoes at United States President George W. Bush during the President's valedictory visit to Baghdad's high security green zone on 14 December; notes that in Arabic culture throwing shoes is regarded as a serious insult against the person at whom they are thrown; strongly believes there was every justification for the anger shown by the journalist who complained his country had been destroyed by the invasion, led by Mr Bush and backed by the present British Labour Government along with the majority of the Conservative opposition, which has directly resulted in over 500,000 deaths of entirely innocent civilian Iraqis; further notes with disgust that President Bush thought it fit to make a joke of the sincere protest; and looks forward to President Obama's commitment, from a politician who was wise enough, along with hundreds of millions of protesting marchers across the globe, to oppose the illegal invasion, to right the wrongs done to Iraq and its benighted people.","date":"2008-12-16","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"37231","proposer":"10383","edm":"233","session":"2008-09","title":"Iraq War Inquiry","text":"That this House notes that the Government is seeking to withdraw British troops from Iraq in the spring of 2009; calls on the Government to fulfil the Prime Minister's commitment for an inquiry at a time when it is appropriate to hold an inquiry; and believes in the spirit of that commitment that an inquiry should be held once British troops are withdrawn from Iraq in the spring of 2009.","date":"2008-12-10","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"37019","proposer":"11245","edm":"27","session":"2008-09","title":"Safety Of Minority Communities In Iraq","text":"That this House is concerned that the failure to honour promises made after the First World War to the Assyrians and Kurdish minority communities on autonomy, the creation of a centralised Iraq in 1932 without provision for the security of minorities, the recent war of 2003 which led to the rise of fundamentalism, and the ethnic cleansing of the Mandaeans and Assyrian-Chaldeo-Syriacs in Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, place a special responsibility on the Government to these minorities; calls on the Government to therefore take a sympathetic attitude to asylum claims from these minorities; and urges the Government to learn from past mistakes and to use its influence in a robust way on the government of Iraq to ensure the safety of the aforementioned minorities as well as of Yezidis, Faili Kurds and Shabaks, so that a dishonourable withdrawal from Iraq is avoided.","date":"2008-12-03","status":"o"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"36841","proposer":"10123","edm":"2441","session":"2007-08","title":"Power Sharing In Iraq And Afghanistan","text":"That this House calls on the Government and its allies urgently to change its policy in order to bring about a widespread powersharing arrangement in the governments of both Iraq and Afghanistan.","date":"2008-11-06","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"36802","proposer":"11672","edm":"2408","session":"2007-08","title":"New President Of The United States And Withdrawal From Iraq","text":"That this House expresses the hope that the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States will lead to the commencement, as soon as is practically possible, of a safe, phased, withdrawal of US troops from Iraq; and further expresses the hope that this will lead to a similar withdrawal of British troops from that country.","date":"2008-11-04","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"36400","proposer":"10123","edm":"2058","session":"2007-08","title":"Inquiry Into Treatment Of Detainees By Armed Forces","text":"That this House, recalling the Baha Musa case and other cases of alleged abuse and degrading treatment, calls for a root and branch independent inquiry into the way that detainees apprehended during active operations are treated by the armed forces.","date":"2008-07-16","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"36376","proposer":"11427","edm":"2034","session":"2007-08","title":"Labour Friends Of Iraq Delegation Visit To Baghdad","text":"That this House notes the recent Labour Friends of Iraq delegation to Baghdad as guests of the Islamic Dawa Party to meet the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, his advisers, the Defence Minister, the trade unions, a women's rights group, the head of the Commission for Public Integrity and others; and believes that such engagements should be encouraged more widely along with trade, investment and a wide variety of exchanges for mutual benefit.","date":"2008-07-15","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"36335","proposer":"10226","edm":"2002","session":"2007-08","title":"Iraq (No.2)","text":"That this House recognises the contribution British forces have made to the stability of the region and the recent request by the Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki for a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign forces from his country; and calls on the Prime Minister to announce in the Statement he has promised before the Summer Recess a timetable for the complete withdrawal of British forces from Iraq.","date":"2008-07-09","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"36280","proposer":"10133","edm":"1957","session":"2007-08","title":"Us Military Bases In Iraq","text":"That this House notes that, according to an article in The Independent on 5th June, the US administration is attempting to negotiate an agreement with the Iraqi government to maintain 50 permanent US military bases in Iraq; further notes that this would create a permanent occupation of Iraq, a state of affairs which has no legal or moral basis; and calls upon the Government to resume and complete the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq to demonstrate opposition to the US administration's unacceptable policy.","date":"2008-07-03","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"36247","proposer":"11245","edm":"1925","session":"2007-08","title":"Iraq Exit Strategy And The Simele Massacre Of Assyrians","text":"That this House notes that August 2008 will mark the 75th anniversary of the Simele Massacre of Assyrians in Iraq which was orchestrated by the Iraqi government only 10 months after the end of the British mandate; further notes and sincerely regrets the terrible repression suffered by the Assyrian people and the failure by past British governments to keep promises; further notes the relative stability provided by, and the good intentions of, the Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq; and urges the British Government to ensure that the same mistakes will not be repeated as the coalition attempts to devise an exit strategy from Iraq.","date":"2008-07-01","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"36109","proposer":"11245","edm":"1805","session":"2007-08","title":"Genocide Against The Kurdish People","text":"That this House notes that the Supreme Criminal Court of Iraq has reached its verdict on the Anfal Campaign, declaring it to be a mass killing, a genocide, against the Kurdish people; and calls on the international community to respect the Court's decision and recognise the mass killing of Kurds as genocide.","date":"2008-06-17","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"36111","proposer":"11245","edm":"1807","session":"2007-08","title":"Imperial War Museum Genocide Exhibition","text":"That this House welcomes the current exhibition by Kurdish artist Mr Osman Amed on the Anfal genocide at the Imperial War Museum; and urges the Government to recognise Saddam Hussein's killing of Kurdish people in Iraq during the period 1987 to 1988, including the Anfal campaign and the Halabja chemical attack, as an act of genocide.","date":"2008-06-17","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"36028","proposer":"10123","edm":"1742","session":"2007-08","title":"Bush Administration Financial Practices In Iraq","text":"That this House is appalled at the corruption, waste and theft associated with the US occupation of Iraq; takes note of the BBC Panorama programme of 10th June which disclosed that there are currently over 70 whistleblower cases involving $23 billion about which the US Justice Department has issued gagging orders; sympathises with the US public at the corruption and waste facilitated, tolerated and covered-up by the Bush Administration; and further notes that there has been much more waste and theft of Iraqi resources which, reasonably, the US should pay back.","date":"2008-06-10","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"36034","proposer":"10123","edm":"1748","session":"2007-08","title":"Iraqi Referendum On Occupation","text":"That this House notes the claim of the occupying powers in Iraq to be introducing democracy; further notes that democracy and occupation are almost certainly incompatible; takes account of reports that the US is planning a contract with the present Iraqi government to continue its occupation indefinitely beyond the end of the year when the UN mandate runs out; and considers that the demand of Moqtada al-Sadr's group and many others in Iraq for a referendum of all the Iraqi people on that contract and on continuing US occupation should be acceded to.","date":"2008-06-10","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"35756","proposer":"11427","edm":"1490","session":"2007-08","title":"Relations Between Turkey And The Kurdistan Regional Government","text":"That this House regrets the loss of life following recent Turkish bombardments on the border with Iraqi Kurdistan; warmly welcomes the meeting at the end of April in Baghdad between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) delegation led by Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani and the delegation from the Republic of Turkey headed by Mr Ahmet Davutoglu, the senior adviser to the Turkish Prime Minister, Mr Murat \u00c3\u2013zcelik, the Special Co-ordinator for Iraqi Affairs at the Turkish Foreign Ministry and Mr Derya Kanbay, Turkey's Ambassador in Baghdad; notes that this first high-level official meeting of both sides, which focused on a wide range of political, security and economic issues between Turkey and the KRG, was conducted in a cordial and open atmosphere in which both sides stressed similar views on many issues and expressed a desire for common understanding and interests; and hopes that this meeting will enable good neighbourly relations and the resolution of common problems through co-operation, political negotiation and dialogue.","date":"2008-05-06","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"35519","proposer":"10105","edm":"1284","session":"2007-08","title":"Mr Gafar Ali Hassan And Mrs Ali Hassan","text":"That this House is most concerned that Mr Gafar Ali Hassan and Mrs Ali Hassan who fled from Iraq to the UK in 2006 in fear of their lives have been told to prepare to return: considers that this decision fails to comprehend that Mr Hassan's Baa'th connections and rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Iraqi armed forces until 2000 make him a militia target; believes that if he were returned to Iraq there is a high risk of Mr Hassan being murdered; and calls on the Minister for Immigration and Asylum to intervene and give him and his wife the right to sanctuary until their well-being can be guaranteed.","date":"2008-03-31","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"35442","proposer":"12004","edm":"1216","session":"2007-08","title":"Iraq War Inquiry","text":"That this House believes that, as it has been five years since the start of the Iraq war, a wide-ranging inquiry into the commencement and conduct of the conflict is long overdue and such an inquiry should be led by a seven person committee of Her Majesty's Privy Councillors charged with examination of the conduct of the Government in relation to the Iraq War both in the period leading up to military operations and afterwards.","date":"2008-03-18","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"35403","proposer":"11589","edm":"1182","session":"2007-08","title":"Aegis Specialist Risk Management","text":"That this House regards upholding the rule of law as a primary duty of all servants of the state; rejects the statement by Aegis Specialist Risk Management that there was political motivation behind the convictions of Guardsmen James Fisher and Mark Wright for the murder of innocent teenager Peter McBride in Belfast in 1992; calls upon this company to demonstrate full and due regard for rulings of the Court of Appeal in this and other cases; calls upon the Secretary of State for Defence to review the suitability of this company for public contracts in view of its demonstrable disregard for the rule of law; notes that the United States Department of Defense has recently awarded a two year contract for work in Iraq worth $475 million to Aegis Specialist Risk Management; and asks the Government to make representations reflecting concerns on this matter to the relevant authorities in the United States.","date":"2008-03-12","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"35382","proposer":"10123","edm":"1162","session":"2007-08","title":"Iraq","text":"That this House records that, on the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, for far too many reasons and outcomes to mention, the occupation of Iraq has been an utter failure.","date":"2008-03-11","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"35383","proposer":"10123","edm":"1163","session":"2007-08","title":"Iraq (No. 2)","text":"That this House records that, on the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, the reasons given for it, including the infamous weapons of mass destruction, were falsehoods; and notes that the widespread allegation that the invasion was illegal is almost certainly well-founded.","date":"2008-03-11","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"35256","proposer":"10133","edm":"1028A1","session":"2007-08","title":"Turkish Incursion Into Kurdistan","text":"leave out from `forces' to end and add `and calls for a ceasefire and political dialogue in Turkey so that the diversity of the population is recognised and the national borders of all countries in the region are recognised and respected.'.","date":"2008-02-26","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"35225","proposer":"11427","edm":"1028","session":"2007-08","title":"Turkish Incursion Into Kurdistan","text":"That this House opposes Turkish military operations in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq; joins the federal Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in urging Turkey to end its violation of Iraqi sovereignty by immediately withdrawing its military forces; deplores the terrorist campaign of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which does not enjoy any support from the KRG which has taken significant steps to restrict the PKK's ability to act inside the region; notes that Turkey has sought a military solution to the PKK problem for 24 years; believes that the problem can only be solved through dialogue and diplomacy; and encourages all concerned for the political stability of Iraq to support the call for immediate four-party talks between Washington, Ankara, Baghdad and Erbil to solve this issue.","date":"2008-02-25","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"35107","proposer":"11427","edm":"926","session":"2007-08","title":"IRAQI TRANSPORT UNIONS' VISIT TO THE UK","text":"That this House warmly welcomes the visit to the UK, as guests of the Trades Union Congress and assisted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of a senior delegation for several transport unions in Iraq and the Kurdistan region in Iraq including a briefing meeting from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on 20th February in the Thatcher Room; notes that the participants Mr Hussain Jasim Almohammed, Vice President of the Transport and Communication Workers Union, Mr Turki Lazm Jbara, President of the All Ports Workers' Union, Mrs Slafa Mahmood Mohammed, Member of the Baghdad Railway Workers' Union Committee and Mr Essmat Khalid Saleem, President of the Transport Workers' Union in Duhok will visit different parts of the UK; and urges increased support for the Iraqi trade union movement in its efforts to unite working people.","date":"2008-02-18","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"35097","proposer":"11245","edm":"883A1","session":"2007-08","title":"IRAQI WOMEN'S LEAGUE CAMPAIGN","text":"after `crimes;', insert `further notes that the allies' policy of training, putting into uniform and in arming opposing militias and putting them on the streets may have exacerbated the problem;'.","date":"2008-02-07","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"35059","proposer":"11427","edm":"883","session":"2007-08","title":"IRAQI WOMEN'S LEAGUE CAMPAIGN","text":"That this House notes that in recent months there have been over 60 recorded murders of women carried out by extremist and reactionary forces and criminal gangs, under various social, religious and political motives and pretexts in the Basra area; fears that the figure may be even higher because the families of victims are often reluctant or too frightened to report these horrific crimes; supports the campaign launched by the Iraqi Women's League to highlight the plight of Iraqi women and to mobilise public opinion, exert pressure and intensify efforts to stop these inhuman and barbaric acts as well as allowing the voice of Iraqi women, rejecting all forms of exploitation and abuse of dignity, to be heard by the world; endorses their demands for an international fact-finding mission to Iraq, to be organised by the UN High Commission for Human Rights with the participation of international human rights organisations, to investigate the crimes against women, help the Iraqi authorities to identify the perpetrators and work to stop these crimes; further notes that the Kurdistan National Assembly has passed legislation to outlaw violence against women; and hopes that the Iraqi Parliament could follow suit.","date":"2008-02-05","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"34995","proposer":"11427","edm":"829","session":"2007-08","title":"Support For Iraqi Footballer, Nashat Akram","text":"That this House regrets the decision to refuse a work permit for the purposes of joining Manchester City to Iraqi footballer Nashat Akram, who played a major role in the Iraqi national squad's victory in the recent Asia Cup, on the grounds that, at 72nd in the international rankings, Iraq falls just outside the basket of 70 teams from which such candidates can be considered; notes that football is a great unifying force in Iraq and that Nashat's transfer to a major league team would also do much to boost the sport in Iraq; further notes the judgement of Manchester City Manager Sven-G\u00c3\u00b6ran Eriksson, that Nashat is a very good footballer with an excellent pedigree; and urges that consideration be given to the Iraqi Government request to revise this decision in the light of the fact that Iraqi football needs nurturing after several decades of fascist-type rule by the Ba'athists which isolated and hampered Iraqi football.","date":"2008-01-30","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"34949","proposer":"11427","edm":"785","session":"2007-08","title":"Private Military And Security Companies","text":"That this House is concerned by the exponential growth of private military and security companies (PMSCs) since the invasion of Iraq; is disturbed by the substantial rise of reported incidents of civilian killings and human rights abuses by PMSC guards in Iraq who remain unregulated and unaccountable; further notes that problems posed by proliferation of PMSCs were highlighted in a Green Paper in February 2002 that originated in a request from the Foreign Affairs Committee but that, six years later, there is still no United Kingdom legislation regulating PMSCs; believes that self-regulation by the industry is not appropriate in this instance; and urges the Government to bring forward legislative proposals for the control of the PMSC sector as an urgent priority.","date":"2008-01-24","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"34523","proposer":"11641","edm":"401","session":"2007-08","title":"Iraqi Employees","text":"That this House recognises the courage of Iraqis who have worked alongside British troops and diplomats in southern Iraq, often saving British lives; notes that many such Iraqis have been targeted for murder by Iraqi militias in Basra, and that an unknown number have already been killed, whilst many others are in hiding; further recognises that many Iraqis who have worked for fewer than 12 months for the UK are threatened by death squads; and therefore calls upon the Prime Minister to meet the UK's moral obligations by offering resettlement to all Iraqis who are threatened with death for the \"crime\" of helping British troops and diplomats.","date":"2007-11-27","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"34511","proposer":"11427","edm":"390","session":"2007-08","title":"Australian Labor Party And The Iraqi Labour Movement","text":"That this House warmly congratulates the Australian Labor Party and its leader Kevin Rudd on a stunning election victory; wishes the Labor Party the very best in its goals of social justice; and hopes for its support in seeking to provide moral assistance and solidarity to the new Iraqi labour movement, not least its trade unions which are a beacon of non-sectarianism and part of wider Iraqi efforts to build a thriving, democratic and federal Iraq.","date":"2007-11-26","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"34354","proposer":"10203","edm":"247","session":"2007-08","title":"Fatalities In Iraq","text":"That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces serving in Iraq and records with sorrow the deaths of Lance Corporal Sarah Holmes, 29 Postal Courier and Movement Regiment, aged 26 from Wantage, Oxfordshire, Sergeant Mark Stansfield, 32 Close Support Squadron, UK Logistic Battalion, aged 32 from Oxfordshire, Sergeant Eddie Collins, the Parachute Regiment, Lance Sergeant Chris Casey, 1st Battalion, Irish Guards aged 27 from London, Lance Corporal Kirk Redpath, 1st Battalion, Irish Guards aged 22 from Romford, Leading Aircraftman Martin Beard of No 1 Squadron Royal Air Force Regiment, aged 20 from Rainworth, near Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, Private Craig Barber of 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh, aged 20 from Ogmore Vale, Corporal Steve Edwards of the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, aged 35 from Thrapston, Northamptonshire, Lance Corporal Timothy Darren `Daz' Flowers of The Corps of Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers, aged 25, Senior Aircraftsman Matthew Caulwell, aged 22 from Birmingham, Senior Aircraftsman Christopher Dunsmore, aged 29 from Leicester, Senior Aircraftsman Peter McFerran, aged 24 from Connah's Quay, Corporal Christopher Read, of 158 Provost Company, 3rd Regiment Royal Military Police, aged 22 from Poole, Dorset, Lance Corporal Ryan Francis, 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh, aged 23 from Llanelli, Rifleman Edward Vakubua, 4th Battalion The Rifles, aged 23 from Fiji, Corporal Paul Joszko, 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh (The Royal Regiment of Wales), aged 28 from Mountain Ash, Wales and Private Scott Kennedy, Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regimentof Scotland, aged 20 from Oakley, Dunfermline.","date":"2007-11-14","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"34355","proposer":"10203","edm":"248","session":"2007-08","title":"Fatalities In Iraq (No. 2)","text":"That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces serving in Iraq and records with sorrow the deaths of Private James Kerr, Black Watch, 3rd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, aged 20 from Cowdenbeath, Corporal John Rigby 4th Battalion The Rifles, aged 24 from Rye, Major Paul Harding, 4th Battalion The Rifles, aged 48, from Winchester, Lance Corporal James Cartwright, aged 21, from Badger Squadron, 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, Corporal Rodney Wilson, aged 30, from 4th Battalion The Rifles, Corporal Jeremy Brookes, 4th Battalion the Rifles, aged 28 from Birmingham, Private Kevin Thompson, Royal Logistic Corps, aged 21 from Lancaster, Major Nick Bateson, Corps of Royal Signals, aged 49 from Kent, Rifleman Paul Donnachie, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 18 from Reading, Kingsman Alan Joseph Jones, 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 20 from Liverpool, Corporal Ben Leaning, The Queen's Royal Lancers, aged 24 from Scunthorpe, and Trooper Kristen Turton, The Queen's Royal Lancers, aged 27 from Grimsby, Colour Sergeant M L Powell, aged 37 from South Wales, and Sergeant Mark J McLaren, Royal Air Force, aged 27 from Northumberland, Second Lieutenant Joanna Yorke Dyer, aged 24 from Yeovil, Corporal Kris O'Neill, Royal Army Medical Corps, aged 27 from Catterick, Private Eleanor Dlugosz, Royal Army Medical Corps, aged 19 from Southampton, Kingsman Adam James Smith, 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 19 from the Isle of Man and Rifleman Aaron Lincoln of the 2nd Battalion, The Rifles, aged 18 from Durham.","date":"2007-11-14","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"34356","proposer":"10203","edm":"249","session":"2007-08","title":"Fatalities In Iraq (No. 3)","text":"That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces serving in Iraq and records with sorrow the deaths of Kingsman Wilson, 2nd Battalion, The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 28 from Workington, Private Jonathon Dany Wysoczan, 1st Battalion The Staffordshire Regiment, aged 21 from Stoke-on-Trent, Rifleman Daniel Lee Coffey, 2nd Battalion The Rifles, aged 21 from Exeter, Private Luke Daniel Simpson, 1st Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, aged 21 from Howden, near York, Second Lieutenant Jonathan Carlos Bracho-Cooke, 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 24 from Hove, Private Michael Tench, 2nd Battalion The Light Infantry, aged 18 from Sunderland, Kingsman Alex Green, 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 21 from Warrington, Sergeant Wayne Rees, The Queen's Royal Lancers, aged 36 from Nottingham, Sergeant Graham Hesketh, 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 35 from Liverpool, Sergeant Jonathan Hollingsworth, the Parachute Regiment, Warrant Officer Class 2 Lee Hopkins, Royal Corps of Signals, aged 35 from Wellingborough, Staff Sergeant Sharron Elliott, Intelligence Corps, aged 34 from Ipswich, Corporal Ben Nowak, 45 Commando Royal Marines, aged 27 from Liverpool, Marine Jason Hylton, 539 Assault Squadron Royal Marines, aged 33 from Burton-on-Trent, Kingsman Jamie Lee Hancock, 2nd Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, aged 19 from Wigan, Lieutenant Tom Tanswell, 58 (Eyre's) Battery, 12 Regiment Royal Artillery, aged 27 from London and Lance Corporal Dennis Brady, Royal Army Medical Corps, aged 37 from Barrow-in-Furness.","date":"2007-11-14","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"34357","proposer":"10203","edm":"250","session":"2007-08","title":"Fatalities In Iraq (No. 4)","text":"That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces serving in Iraq and records with sorrow the deaths of Gunner Lee Thornton, 58 (Eyre's) Battery, 12 Regiment Royal Artillery, aged 22 from Blackpool, Gunner Samuela Vanua, aged 27 from Fiji, and Gunner Stephen Robert Wright, aged 20 from Preston, Lancashire, both from 58 (Eyre's) Battery, 12 Regiment Royal Artillery, Corporal Matthew Cornish, of 1 LI killed in Iraq, aged 29 from Yorkshire, Corporal John Johnston Cosby, 1st Battalion The Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry, aged 28 from Belfast, Lieutenant Tom Mildinhall, aged 26 from Battersea, South London, and Lance Corporal Paul Farrelly, aged 27 from Runcorn, both from the Queen's Dragoon Guards, Private Joseva Lewaicei, aged 25 from Lautoka, Fiji, and Private Adam Morris, aged 19 from Leicester, both from the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment, Wing Commander John Coxen RAF, aged 47 from Liverpool, Lieutenant Commander Darren Chapman, Fleet Air Arm, aged 40, Captain David Dobson, Army Air Corps, aged 27, Flight Lieutenant Sarah-Jayne Mulvihill RAF, aged 32 from Canterbury, Marine Paul Collins, aged 21, Lieutenant Richard Palmer, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, aged 27, Captain Richard Holmes, aged 28, and Private Lee Ellis, aged 23, both from the 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, Trooper Carl Smith, 9th\/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's), aged 23 from Kettering, Corporal Gordon Alexander Pritchard, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, aged 21 and Lance Corporal Allan Douglas, Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons), aged 22 from Aberdeen.","date":"2007-11-14","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"34358","proposer":"10203","edm":"251","session":"2007-08","title":"Fatalities In Iraq (No. 5)","text":"That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces serving in Iraq and records with sorrow the deaths of Sergeant John Jones, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, aged 31, from Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, Sergeant Chris Hickey, 1st Battalion The Coldstream Guards, Captain Ken Masters, Royal Military Police, aged 40, Major Matthew Bacon, Intelligence Corps, aged 34 from London, Fusilier Donal Anthony Meade, aged 20 from Plumstead in South East London, and Fusilier Stephen Robert Manning, aged 22 from Erith in Kent, both from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, Second Lieutenant Richard Shearer, aged 26 from Nuneaton, Private Leon Spicer, aged 26 from Tamworth, and Private Phillip Hewett, aged 21 from Tamworth, all from the 1st Battalion Staffordshire Regiment, Signaller Paul William Didsbury, 21st Signal Regiment (Air Support), aged 18, Lance Corporal Alan Brackenbury, The King's Royal Hussars, aged 21 from East Riding, Yorkshire, Guardsman Anthony John Wakefield, 1st Battalion The Coldstream Guards, aged 24 from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Private Mark Dobson, Tyne-Tees Regiment, aged 41 from County Durham, Squadron Leader Patrick Marshall, Headquarters Strike Command, aged 39, Flight Lieutenant David Stead, 47 Squadron, RAF Lyneham aged 35 from Yorkshire, Flight Lieutenant Andrew Smith, 47 Squadron, RAF Lyneham, aged 25, Flight Lieutenant Paul Pardoel, 47 Squadron, RAF Lyneham, aged 35, Master Engineer Gary Nicholson, 47 Squadron, RAF Lyneham, aged 42, Chief Technician Richard Brown, RAF Lyneham, aged 40, Flight Sergeant Mark Gibson, 47 Squadron, RAF Lyneham, aged 34 and Sergeant Robert O'Connor, RAF Lyneham, aged 38.","date":"2007-11-14","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"34359","proposer":"10203","edm":"252","session":"2007-08","title":"Fatalities In Iraq (No. 6)","text":"That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces serving in Iraq and records with sorrow the deaths of Corporal David Williams, RAF Lyneham, aged 37 and Acting Lance Corporal Steven Jones, Royal Signals, aged 25 from Fareham, Sergeant Paul Connolly, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, aged 33 from Crawley in West Sussex, Private Pita Tukutukuwaqa, The Black Watch, aged 27 from Fiji, Sergeant Stuart Gray, The Black Watch, aged 31 from Dunfermline, Fife, Private Paul Lowe, The Black Watch, aged 19 from Fife, Private Scott McArdle, The Black Watch, aged 22 from Glenrothes, Staff Sergeant Denise Michelle Rose, Royal Military Police, aged 34 from Liverpool, Private Kevin McHale, The Black Watch, aged 27 from Lochgelly in Fife, Corporal Marc Taylor, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, aged 27 from Ellesmere Port, Gunner David Lawrence, Royal Artillery, aged 25 from Wallsall, Fusilier Stephen Jones, The Royal Welch Fusiliers, aged 22 from Denbeigh, Lance Corporal Paul Thomas, The Light Infantry, aged 29 from Welshpool, Private Marc Ferns, The Black Watch, aged 21 from Glenrothes in Fife, Private Lee O'Callaghan, Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment, age 20 from London, Private Christopher Rayment, Princess of Wales' Royal Regiment, aged 22 from London, Flight Lieutenant Kristian Gover, 33 Squadron RAF, aged 30, Fusilier Gordon Gentle, Royal Highland Fusiliers, aged 19 from Glasgow, Corporal Richard Ivell, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, aged 29 from near Doncaster, South Yorkshire and Sapper Robert Thomson, Royal Engineers, aged 22 from West Lothian.","date":"2007-11-14","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"34360","proposer":"10203","edm":"253","session":"2007-08","title":"Fatalities In Iraq (No.7)","text":"That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces serving in Iraq and records with sorrow the deaths of Rifleman Vincent Windsor, Royal Green Jackets, aged 23 from Oxfordshire and Lance Corporal Andrew Craw, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, aged 21 from Clackmannanshire, Major James Stenner, Welsh Guards, aged 30 from Monmouthshire, Sergeant Norman Patterson, Cheshire Regiment, aged 28 from Staffordshire, Private Ryan Thomas, Royal Regiment of Wales, aged 18 from Resolven, near Neath in Glamorgan, Corporal Ian Plan, Royal Marines, aged 31 from Poole, Sergeant John Nightingale, 217 Transport Squadron, aged 32 from Leeds, Fusilier Russell Beeston, 52nd Lowland Regiment, aged 26 from Govan, Major Matthew Titchener, 150 Provost Company, aged 32 from Southport, Merseyside, Company Sergeant Major Colin Wall, 150 Provost Company, aged 34 from Crawleyside, County Durham, Corporal Dewi Pritchard, 116 Provost Company, aged 35 from Bridgend, Captain David Jones, Queen's Lancashire Regiment, aged 29 from Louth in Lincolnshire, Private Jason Smith, 52nd Lowland Regiment, aged 32 from Hawick, Captain James Linton, 40 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, aged 43 from Warminster, Sergeant Simon Hamilton-Jewell, aged 41 from Chessington, Corporal Russell Aston, aged 30 from Swadlincote, Corporal Paul Long, aged 24 from Colchester, Corporal Simon Miller, aged 21 from Washington, Tyne and Wear, Lance-Corporal Benjamin Hyde, aged 23 from Northallerton in Yorkshire, Lance-Corporal Thomas Keys, aged 20 from Llanuwchllyn, near Bala in Wales, Mr Leonard Harvey, aged 55, based at Wattisham in Suffolk and Corporal David Shepherd, Royal Air Force Police, aged 34.","date":"2007-11-14","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"34361","proposer":"10203","edm":"254","session":"2007-08","title":"Fatalities In Iraq (No. 8)","text":"That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces serving in Iraq and records with sorrow the deaths of Gunner Duncan Pritchard, 16 Squadron RAF Regiment, aged 22 and Private Andrew Kelly, 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, aged 18 from Tavistock, Lance Corporal James McCue, 7 Air Assault Battalion, REME, aged 27 from Paisley, Fusilier Kelan Turrington, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, aged 18, Lance Corporal Ian Malone, 1st Battalion, aged 28 from Dublin, and Piper Christopher Muzvuru, aged 21 from Zimbabwe, both from the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, Lieutenant Alexander Tweedie, aged 25, and Lance Corporal Karl Shearer, both from the Household Cavalry Regiment, Staff Sergeant Chris Muir, Army School of Ammunition, Royal Logistic Corps, aged 32 from Romsey in Hampshire, Lance Corporal Shaun Brierley, 212 Signal Squadron, 1 (UK) Armoured Division HQ and Signal Regiment, aged 28 from West Yorkshire, Marine Christopher Maddison, 9 Assault Squadron Royal Marines, aged 24 from Scarborough, Major Steve Ballard, 3 Commando Brigade, Royal Marines, aged 33, from Swindon, Lance Corporal of Horse Matty Hull, Household Cavalry Regiment, aged 25 from Windsor, Corporal Stephen Allbutt, aged 35 from Stoke-on-Trent, and Trooper David Clarke, aged 19 from Littleworth, Staffordshire both from the Queen's Royal Lancers, Lance Corporal Barry Stephen, 1st Battalion the Black Watch, aged 31 from Perth; Sergeant Steven Roberts, 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, aged 33 from Bradford and Sapper Luke Allsopp, 33 Engineer Regiment (EOD), aged 24 from North London.","date":"2007-11-14","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"34362","proposer":"10203","edm":"255","session":"2007-08","title":"Fatalities In Iraq (No. 9)","text":"That this House salutes the bravery of the armed forces serving in Iraq and records with sorrow the deaths of Staff Sergeant Simon Cullingworth, 33 Engineer Regiment (EOD), aged 36 from Essex, Flight Lieutenant Kevin Barry Main, Pilot IX (B) Squadron and Flight Lieutenant David Rhys Williams, Navigator, IX (B) Squadron, Lieutenant Philip Green RN, aged 30 from Caythorpe, Lincolnshire, Lieutenant Andy King RN, aged 35 from Helston, Cornwall, Lieutenant Marc Lawrence RN, aged 26 from Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, Lieutenant Philip West RN, aged 32 from Budock Water, Cornwall, Lieutenant James Williams RN, aged 28 from Falmouth, Cornwall and Lieutenant Andrew Wilson RN, aged 26 from Exeter all from 849 Squadron, RNAS Culdrose, Colour Sergeant John Cecil, Royal Marines, UK Landing Force Command Support Group, aged 35 from Plymouth, Lance Bombardier Llywelyn Evans, 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery, aged 24 from Llandudno, Captain Philip Stuart Guy, Royal Marines, aged 29 from Skipton, Yorkshire, Marine Sholto Hedenskog, Royal Marines, aged 26, from Cape Town, South Africa, Sergeant Les Hehir, 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery, aged 34, from Poole, Dorset, Operator Mechanic (Communications) Second Class Ian Seymour RN, 148 Commando Battery Royal Artillery, aged 29 years, from Poole, Dorset, Warrant Officer Second Class Mark Stratford, Royal Marines, aged 39, from Plymouth and Major Jason Ward, Royal Marines, UK Landing Force Command Support Group, aged 34 from Torquay in Devon.","date":"2007-11-14","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"34326","proposer":"10484","edm":"224","session":"2007-08","title":"Treatment Of Christians In Iraq","text":"That this House is deeply concerned by the mass exodus of Iraqi Christians, which has decimated much of Iraq's ancient Assyrian-Chaldean community; notes that the Assyrian-Chaldeans make up over 95 per cent. of Iraq's Christians and that this exodus has largely been caused by escalating violence against Christians from fanatical extremists, including the bombing of churches and the assassination of Iraqi Christians; further notes that there has been illegal expropriation of Assyrian-Chaldean land and villages in Dohuk province and the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq; recognises that Iraqi Christians are a major force for moderation, who can act as a significant buffer against the spread of extremism in Iraq; calls on the British and Iraqi governments urgently to encourage and support the creation of a self-governing province in Iraq for the Assyrian-Chaldeans, linked to the central government in Baghdad, situated in and around the Nineveh Plains and including the Talkepeh, Hamdaniya and Bashika districts, and governed by the Assyrian-Chaldeans and other ethnic groups living in that area, as these lands form part of the ancestral homeland of the Assyrian-Chaldeans and are still heavily populated by them; and urges the UK and Iraqi governments to support financially the reconstruction of the region, to end the political marginalisation of the democratically-elected Assyrian-Chaldean representatives in Iraq, to assist the Assyrian-Chaldeans in reclaiming their land and villages in Dohuk province and the Nineveh Plans, and to support financially internally-displaced Assyrian-Chaldeans and the return and resettlement of Assyrian-Chaldean refugees.","date":"2007-11-13","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"34261","proposer":"10614","edm":"165","session":"2007-08","title":"Iraqi Locally Employed Staff","text":"That this House welcomes the statement by the right hon. David Miliband MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, that Government support will be offered to specified locally employed staff in Iraq; recognises that many of these individuals and their families live in extreme danger; notes the obstacles and the time that it will take for some of these individuals to apply through the special refugee programme which would require them to travel to Syria or Jordan; and calls upon the Government to ensure with utmost urgency that their safety is secured and the processing of applications does not suffer from any unnecessary delays.","date":"2007-11-08","status":"c"},{"topic":"Iraq","id":"34185","proposer":"11427","edm":"95","session":"2007-08","title":"Honour The Brave Campaign","text":"That this House recognises the bravery, dedication and sacrifice of members of the armed forces serving in Afghanistan and Iraq; applauds the Daily Mirror's Honour the Brave campaign; and calls on the Government to ensure that all personnel in the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force killed or wounded in enemy action are awarded a medal.","date":"2007-11-06","status":"c"}]