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Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq: Iran (2 Nov 2009)

John Stanley: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 9 September 2009, Official Report, column 1961W, on Iraq: human rights, whether British embassy officials in Baghdad have now undertaken a further visit to Camp Ashraf; what assessment he has made of levels of human rights violations at the camp; and if he will make a statement.

[Robert Key in the Chair] — Human Rights (18 Dec 2008)

John Stanley: ...terrorists or those who are committing atrocities against the state of Israel. With the Prime Minister's statement today, it is clear that we are coming to the end of our military involvement in Iraq. Quite apart from the call from those on the Opposition Front Bench for a public inquiry on how we came to invade Iraq in the first place, there will be a need for evaluation of the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Health: Iraq (22 Jul 2008) has video

John Stanley: Is it not the case that one of the most disturbing human rights trends in Iraq has been the extent to which the rights of women have deteriorated in parts of the country? The Prime Minister said in his statement that we must honour our obligations to the people of Iraq. What steps will the British Government take to ensure that we honour our obligations to the women of Iraq, given the...

Business of the House: Terrorist Suspects (Renditions) (21 Feb 2008)

John Stanley: As the Foreign Secretary is aware, the British Government have entered into memorandums of understanding with the Government of Iraq and the Government of Afghanistan with regard to the transfer of detainees. Will he tell the House whether, since those memorandums have been entered into, there have been any transfers of persons detained by British forces in either Afghanistan or Iraq by third...

[Mr. Greg Pope in the Chair] — Global Security (Middle East) (24 Jan 2008)

John Stanley: ...driven much more by the EU common position than by their own independent assessment of what is the right policy. Let me quickly say one word, although I hope that it is an important word, about Iraq. As we know, the Iraq war was justified on the basis of seeking out and eliminating Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, but they were found not to be there. Subsequently, the...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (21 May 2007)

John Stanley: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the UK Government have entered into any written agreements with (a) US authorities and (b) Iraqi authorities on the conditions on which individuals arrested and detained by UK armed forces in Iraq may be transferred to (i) US authorities and (ii) Iraqi authorities; and if he will place copies of any such agreements in the Library.

[Janet Anderson in the Chair] — Strategic Export Controls (22 Feb 2007)

John Stanley: ...we know from the accounts of survivors, the victims of Nazi torture were subjected to having their flesh being burnt with lighted cigarettes. Appallingly, today, the torture instrument of choice in Iraq appears to be the electric drill. At the other end of the scale, the Government are applying extraterritoriality to long-range missiles with a range in excess of 300 km. What is the sense...

Afghanistan (9 Jan 2007)

John Stanley: In the Prime Minister's 10th, and presumably last, new year's message, which ran to some 1,000 words, he managed to devote just one sentence to Iraq and Afghanistan combined. I believe that the thousands of our servicemen and women serving in those two countries, who are putting their lives at risk daily, would have thought that a very inadequate degree of attention to give to those...

Afghanistan (9 Jan 2007)

John Stanley: ...the Taliban. I wish to touch on three aspects of security policy. The first is the key policy issue for the British Government: what is the right balance of forces between the deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan? There is little doubt that the present Government's reduction in size of the British Army and the insufficiency of operational aircraft, particularly helicopters, is producing...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (9 Jan 2007)

John Stanley: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether any individuals arrested and detained by UK armed forces in Iraq and subsequently transferred to (a) US authorities and (b) Iraqi authorities may be subsequently transferred to the authority of another state, including detention in another country, without the prior written agreement of the UK.

Human Rights Annual Report 2005 (15 Jun 2006)

John Stanley: Does the Minister consider that the human rights case made for staying in Iraq applies with equal force to the human rights case for our being in Afghanistan? Does he consider also that we, the Americans and others have sufficient people on the ground to protect and defend the huge human rights gains that we have made in Afghanistan and to avoid seeing them gradually wither away?

Human Rights Annual Report 2005 (15 Jun 2006)

John Stanley: ...human rights abuse, and people in the camps should be allowed to work and trade outside. I turn now to the final two issues, which I shall treat from a human rights standpoint. First, there is Iraq. I appreciate that any Minister must be in the business of putting the best face on Government policy, however dismal the apparent consequences prove to be. However, I nearly despair when, in...

Terrorism (Foreign Policy Aspects) (8 Dec 2005)

John Stanley: ...at having to quote from the Prime Minister's speech on 18 March 2003, which is now somewhat discredited. It was the speech that he made to persuade the House of Commons to agree to the invasion of Iraq. However, a section of it was profoundly important, although it was used in a wholly incorrect context as a justification for the invasion of Iraq. The Prime Minister referred to two key...

Nepal (22 Jun 2005)

John Stanley: ...debate on Nepal. It is one of the extraordinary paradoxes of the world since 9/11 that while huge attention has justifiably been focused on the war against terrorism, first in Afghanistan, then in Iraq, and then in relation to al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda-type elements all round the world, precious little attention has been paid to the country that is most in the grip of terrorism of any country...

War against Terrorism (4 Nov 2004)

Mr John Stanley: I assure the Minister that this is not tit for tat in return for his comments about my being less than comprehensive in reporting on the Iraq survey group, but will he and the Foreign Secretary reflect on how advisable it is to go on referring to the withdrawal of Israeli settlements from the west bank without making it clear what is involved? Is it not the case that we are talking about the...

War against Terrorism (4 Nov 2004)

Mr John Stanley: Like the right hon. Member for Swansea, East (Donald Anderson), I shall focus on Iraq, but not exclusively and in a wider security context beyond that country. First, I want to make it clear that whatever differing views hon. Members in this Chamber may take about the rights or wrongs of the invasion of Iraq in the first place, I consider that we have a wholly unambiguous responsibility to...

War against Terrorism (4 Nov 2004)

Mr John Stanley: What I said at the outset was that we must give total support to our armed forces in the job that they are doing in Iraq. I am now highlighting the security downsides to the intervention. Perhaps most chilling of all is the fact that the Iraq environment is giving al-Qaeda the ability to develop and use the terrorist weapon of kidnapping, coupled with the use of a particularly brutal form of...

War against Terrorism (4 Nov 2004)

Mr John Stanley: I am happy to explain my position to my hon. Friend. I voted for the war in Iraq on 18 March 2003. I did so with the benefit of what the Prime Minister of this country said to me and the rest of the House of Commons about the threat from Saddam Hussein. We were told that Saddam Hussein had a large number of weapons of mass destruction, some of which could be ready to use within 45 minutes,...

Iraq (12 Oct 2004)

Mr John Stanley: Does the Foreign Secretary agree that if the present appalling level of violence continues in Iraq, there is little prospect of achieving long-term, enduring political stability or successful economic reconstruction? Is it not the case that the violence will be significantly reduced only if there is a radical increase in the number of trained and effective security forces available to the...

Iraq (20 Jul 2004)

Mr John Stanley: ...because it was justified in international law to prevent a looming humanitarian disaster—that is how it was justified by the Government. That was not the justification for the intervention in Iraq. I would have no complaint if the Prime Minister had come to the House and said, "We are seeking the House's approval for going to war to change the regime, even though it is not legal. We...