Boris Johnson at his best. Terrorism speech.

Yes

Shhh everyone, don't mention it, or is it just me who is superstitious?

If the court case has been postponed, it may mean they are thinking about release.

I have no idea what you mean durhamjen

Oh oh oh the court case has been postponed. I sooooo hope that is good news.

failed!

And I agree with what ww said too, as I'm sure we all do.

Good sense in your post, lem.

Agreed, whitewave.
Showing your heart as usual, lemon.

There are other British citizens as well that Johnson is hoping to secure release ( or lesser sentences) for.He can only do so much with diplomacy though.It will be a ‘I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine’ scenario.They are very unpredictable though.

I wish Johnson the very best in his attempt to rescue our lady from the Iranian prison.

She is near to a complete breakdown, so needs someone with good diplomatic skills and intelligence on her side. Let us all hope he rises to the occasion.

The media do like to give that impression. It’s always Britain and the USA and occasionally France. Thanks so much for the list!

Glad that you pointed out how many countries involved Jalima because it suits some peoples agenda to say that everything is always Britain and the US.Plus the fight against terrorism is far more than ‘petrol and little else’!

Ah well, that is another question - most of us did not agree with that, or of Blair being in Bush's pocket. However, having unleashed it all, then many more countries became involved - in an attempt to bring peace and to help fight terrorism.

... or in causing it? The USA declared war on Irak in 2003 btw.

Switzerland too - are they fighting for petrol and little else or are they uniting with others in the fight against terrorism?

And in Afghanistan:
1Afghanistan
2Australia
3Armenia
4Azerbaijan
5Bangladesh
6Bulgaria
7Belgium
8Bosnia and Herzegovina
9Canada
10People's Republic of China
11Republic of the Congo
12Cyprus
13Czech Republic
14Denmark
15Egypt
16Estonia
17France
18Georgia
19Germany
20Greece
21Hungary
22India
23Iran
24Ireland
25Italy
26Japan
27Kuwait
28Kyrgyzstan
29Latvia
30Lithuania
31Macedonia
32Malaysia
33Montenegro
34Netherlands
35New Zealand
36Norway
37Oman
38Pakistan
39Poland
40Portugal
41Qatar
42Romania
43Russia
44Slovakia
45Slovenia
46South Korea
47Spain
48Sudan
49Sweden
50Switzerland
51Tajikistan
52Thailand
53Turkey
54Turkmenistan
55United Arab Emirates
56Ukraine
57United Kingdom
58United States of America
59Uzbekistan

It is not thw US and the UK alone - against everyone - there are many countries united in the fight against terrorism.

sorry, that is rather long, but it was not just the US and UK

I thought that the Japanese were involved in the coalition in Iraq?
NATO: A contingent of around 150 advisers under the separate command NATO Training Mission – Iraq (withdrawn 12/11)
United States: 150,000 invasion 165,000 peak (withdrawn 12/11)
United Kingdom: 46,000 invasion (withdrawn 5/11)
Australia: 2,000 invasion (withdrawn 7/09)
Romania: 730 peak (deployed 7/03; withdrawn 7/09)
El Salvador: 380 peak (deployed 8/03; withdrawn 1/09)
Estonia: 40 troops (deployed 6/05; withdrawn 1/09)
Bulgaria: 485 peak (deployed 5/03; withdrawn 12/08)
Moldova: 24 peak (deployed 9/03; withdrawn 12/08)
Albania: 240 troops (deployed 4/03; withdrawn 12/08)
Ukraine: 1,650 peak (deployed 8/03; withdrawn 12/08)
Denmark: 545 peak (deployed 4/03; withdrawn 12/08)
Czech Republic: 300 peak (deployed 12/03; withdrawn 12/08)
South Korea: 3,600 peak (deployed 5/03; withdrawn 12/08)
Tonga: 55 troops (deployed 7/04; withdrawn 12/08)
Azerbaijan: 250 peak (deployed 8/03; withdrawn 12/08)
Singapore: 175 offshore (deployed 12/03; withdrawn 12/08)
Bosnia and Herzegovina: 85 peak (deployed 6/05; withdrawn 11/08)
Macedonia: 77 peak (deployed 7/03; withdrawn 11/08)
Latvia: 136 peak (deployed 5/03; withdrawn 11/08)
Poland: 200 invasion—2,500 peak (withdrawn 10/08)
Kazakhstan: 29 troops (deployed 9/03; withdrawn 10/08)
Armenia: 46 troops (deployed 1/05; withdrawn 10/08)
Mongolia: 180 peak (deployed 8/03; withdrawn 09/08)
Georgia: 2,000 peak (deployed 8/03; withdrawn 8/08)
Slovakia: 110 peak (deployed 8/03; withdrawn 12/07)
Lithuania: 120 peak (deployed 6/03; withdrawn 08/07)
Italy: 3,200 peak (deployed 7/03; withdrawn 11/06)
Norway: 150 troops (deployed 7/03; withdrawn 8/06)
Japan: 600 troops (deployed 1/04; withdrawn 7/06)
Hungary: 300 troops (deployed 8/03; withdrawn 3/05)
Netherlands: 1,345 troops (deployed 7/03; withdrawn 3/05)
Portugal: 128 troops (deployed 11/03; withdrawn 2/05)
New Zealand: 61 troops (deployed 9/03; withdrawn 9/04)
Thailand: 423 troops (deployed 8/03; withdrawn 8/04)
Philippines: 51 troops (deployed 7/03; withdrawn 7/04)
Honduras: 368 troops (deployed 8/03; withdrawn 5/04)
Dominican Republic: 302 troops (deployed 8/03; withdrawn 5/04)
Spain: 1,300 troops (deployed 4/03; withdrawn 4/04)
Nicaragua: 230 troops (deployed 9/03; withdrawn 2/04)
Iceland: 2 troops (deployed 5/03; withdrawal date unknown)

'In a speech entitled “The struggle against Islamist terror: How global Britain is helping to win”, the Foreign Secretary will point at countries that have been affected by attacks but not gone to war in the Middle East.

“To assert, as people often do, that the terrorism we see on the streets of Britain and America is some kind of punishment for adventurism and folly in the Middle East is to ignore that these so-called punishments are visited on peoples – Swedes, Belgians, Finns or the Japanese hostages murdered by Daesh – with no such history in the region,” he will tell diplomats and academics gathered at the Foreign Office in London later today'

Swedes, Belgians, Finns, Japanese and many others are very aware they are suffering too- because of our and the USA's involvement in the Middle East - in our fight for petrol and little else.

I was quite impressed with his speech - until he then went on to say our and the USA's foreign policy and wars in the Middle East had nothing to do with the rise of terrorism in the West. Therefore becoming an apologist for our going to war in Irak and selling arms to Saudis and others to kill innocents - the whole hidden agenda to protect the UK arms manufacturers and dealers

Can I ask of the supposed knowledgeable posters who are against Saudi Arabia and other Arab Nations who back one side in Yemen :-

' What do you think about the Houtius and Iran who fight for the other side'?

" IPB will award the Séan MacBride Peace Prize to Jeremy Corbyn. – for his sustained and powerful political work for disarmament and peace. As an active member, vice-chair and now vice-president of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the UK he has for many years worked to further the political message of nuclear disarmament. As the past chair of the Stop the War Campaign in the UK he has worked for peace and alternatives to war. He has ceaselessly stood by the principles, which he has held for so long, to ensure true security and well-being for all – for his constituents, for the citizens of the UK and for the people of the world."

Much more impressive than a speech that Johnson made, saying we should attack along with other western societies.

I know they do. What I was showing is that Johnson changes his mind depending on his cause at the time.

What was the source djen?