Results 1-20 of 204 for iraq speaker:John Reid

Bills Presented: Afghanistan and Pakistan (16 Jul 2009) has video

John Reid: .... Part of our aim in our strategic objectives is to allow the people of Afghanistan, through their own Government, to continue that struggle when we are gone—in the way that the people of Iraq are doing against the internal enemy. Military force has no utility on its own. It only has utility in pursuit of a political objective. So when we have a military surge—as we are having...

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum: Deportation (18 Jun 2007)

John Reid: ...countries to enhance our ability to return. As part of strengthening this process we have signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) on returns with Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, China, India, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somaliland, United Arab Emirates (Dubai) and Vietnam. The UK has also opted-in to decisions to mandate the EU Commission to negotiate 16 readmission agreements on behalf of...

Business of the House: Counter-Terrorism (7 Jun 2007)

John Reid: I profoundly disagree, not surprisingly, with my hon. Friend's premise, which is muddled and ahistorical. If the intervention in Iraq had been the cause of acts of terrorism in the United Kingdom, the acts of terrorism in Birmingham in 2000 would not have happened, because they came before the intervention in Iraq. People would not have been arrested in Canada for terrorist-related offences,...

Written Answers — Home Department: Prisoners: Foreigners (14 Mar 2007)

John Reid: ...3 Total Middle East 706 4 710 United Arab Emirates 9 — 9 Afghanistan 108 — 108 Bahrain 2 — 2 Iran 209 2 211 Israel 27 — 27 Iraq 280 — 280 Jordan 12 — 12 Kuwait 13 — 13 Lebanon 22 1 23 Oman 1 — 1 Saudi Arabia 9 1 10 Syrian Arab Republic 6 — 6 ...

Orders of the Day: Home Affairs and Transport (23 Nov 2006)

John Reid: ...people, who, ultimately, are not the servants but the masters. It is no good the Conservative party trying to face in both directions at once on this issue—as it is already doing on tax, Iraq and public expenditure—and trying to say one thing to one audience and something else to another. Those who aspire to government must have the character and strength of leadership to say...

Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House: Counter-terrorism Strategy (10 Jul 2006)

John Reid: ...York, but in Saudi Arabia, Amman, Turkey, which the right hon. Gentleman mentioned, Egypt or in many other areas where terrorists are inflicting their ills on societies, including Afghanistan and Iraq—are themselves Muslims. Not only that, but many victims are often women and children as well as men, so we are all at threat. Terrorism threatens us all and only by a united response...

Business of the House: London Bombings (11 May 2006)

John Reid: ...is common to us all. The threat starts off as justifying attacks on foreign soldiers and ends up, in attack theory, as blowing apart innocent Muslim women and children in the streets of Jordan or Iraq. The whole of civilisation is challenged by the threat and should unite against it.

Written Answers — Defence: Troop Deployment (Iraq/Afghanistan) (4 May 2006)

John Reid: The best centrally available records for TELIC casualty statistics are published on the Ministry of Defence website: http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/FactSheets/OperationsInIra qBritishCasualties.htm. Work is underway to collate casualty statistics for Afghanistan. As my right hon. Friend, the Minister of State for the Armed Forces, made clear in his answer of the 27 February 2006, we have...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (2 May 2006)

John Reid: Between January 2003 and December 2005 inclusive, 1,551 UK service personnel who had served in Iraq on Operation Telic were subsequently assessed by the Defence medical services as suffering from a mental health disorder. This represents around 1.5 per cent. of total UK service personnel deployed to the region during the same period. Of those 1,551 personnel, 208 were assessed as suffering...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (27 Apr 2006)

John Reid: All service patients who are injured in Iraq and who have symptoms and signs of brain injury are treated appropriately. However, personnel are not automatically screened for brain injury, as screening patients whose injury would have no impact on their brain function (e.g. a sprained ankle) would be clinically inappropriate.

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (18 Apr 2006)

John Reid: As of the 27 March 2006 there were 14,580 security internees in Iraq in Multi-National Force custody and 51 security internees in UK custody.

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (18 Apr 2006)

John Reid: It is not possible to estimate with any accuracy the number of al-Qaeda operatives in Iraq.

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (30 Mar 2006)

John Reid: The Ministry of Defence does not contract any private military companies or private security companies in Iraq, and we do not monitor the numbers employed by third parties.

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (27 Mar 2006)

John Reid: I am deeply saddened by reports of a bomb at a United States-Iraqi facility near Mosul in Iraq. I understand that there are numerous casualties, although the situation is still developing. Such attacks not only identify the threat to our troops and those of the coalition but highlight the barbarism of terrorists who go to sickening lengths to prevent the progress of democracy and security in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (27 Mar 2006)

John Reid: First, on the question on the situation in Iraq, it was not me who denied that there was a civil war in Iraq but everyone to whom I spoke, including President Talabani, Prime Minister Ja'afari, the Foreign Minister, Defence Minister Delami, Al-Hakim, the head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Tariq Al-Hashimi, the leader of the Sunni Iraqi Islamic party and, indeed,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (27 Mar 2006)

John Reid: On the first point, I can do no better than repeat what I have said before about the linkage of the bombs that have in recent times been discovered in the south of Iraq. We believe that they are linked through Hezbollah to Iranian influence, though we have no concrete evidence that they are linked to the Iranian Government. The Iranian Government deny such linkage and we have made it plain...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (27 Mar 2006)

John Reid: While there has been an increase in sectarian violence, particularly in and around Baghdad following the bombing of the Golden Mosque, the majority of attacks remain confined to four out of Iraq's 18 provinces. The UK's area of operation in MND(SE) remains relatively calm.

Written Answers — Defence: Cluster Munitions (21 Mar 2006)

John Reid: ...are cleared both by military personnel and by a range of non-governmental organisations funded through the Department for International Development. Comprehensive records are not available but, in Iraq alone, UK armed forces have cleared well over a million items of unexploded ordnance, much of which was left over from the Iran-Iraq war or was abandoned by Iraqi military and paramilitary...

Written Answers — Defence: Insurgents/Terrorists (20 Mar 2006)

John Reid: holding answer 16 March 2006 In the context of UK military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the term insurgents" generally refers to those violently opposing government authority and the rule of law in the particular country or countries where they live. Terrorists" are those connected to a specific, named terrorist organisation which is recognised as such by the UK or by the...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (14 Mar 2006)

John Reid: UK force levels in Iraq will be determined by conditions on the ground and not by any timetable. The conditions for handover of security responsibilities centre on four areas: threat level; the capability of the Iraqi security forces; governance capability; and the ability of the coalition to provide necessary support to the Iraqi security forces.