Who Killed Cocky Robin Cook? Part Two.

In part one, I explained how Robin Cook had done the unthinkable, and had dared to criticize Israel's 'we can take any land we want'policy, because God has chosen them over anyone  else.

But this was nothing to what he followed up with.

He committed the unforgivable sin. He dared to say, in the House of Commons, the following :

" It is more than 30 years since resolution 242 called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories".He ignited the fuse  by adding, "We do not express the same impatience with Israel's refusal to comply, as we do with Iraq."

 He could, I suppose, have added that, oh by the way, Israel has nukes wheras Saddam hasn't.Maybe he thought that was going a little too far, and knew that it would have been political suicide for him, although I doubt  if it crossed his mind that he would be killed because of telling the truth.


The House Of Commons, so used to to hearing lies, perversions of truth and half truths must have been stunned.They probably thought Cook was speaking a foreign language first of all, which of course to them , he was.It was very foreign to them.But it must have hit something they once all had known, as he got a standing ovation.It was the the first speech ever in the House Of Commons to receive this honour.

It was two years later though ,when Cook tossed a grenade at the Bush- Blair house of lies.

His article in the Guardian on 8.7. 2005. might well have been his signature on his death warrant.He described Al Queda as a product of Western intelligence.He wrote:

" Bin Laden was, though, a product of monumental miscalculation by Western security agencies .Throughout the 1980's he was armed by the C.I.A. and funded by the Saudi's to wage war against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan".

He continued:" Al Queda, litererally the database, was originally the computer file of the thousands of Mujohideen who were recruited and trained with the help  from the C.I.A.to defeat the Russians."

He wrote further:"So long as the struggle against Terrorism is conceived as a war that can be won by military means, it is doomed to fail.A war on World poverty may well do more for the security of the west than a war on terror".

Here he was writing a philosophy that was the direct opposite of what was the accepted foreign policy of the time, and sadly still is. Oh yes, and he said he was going to write a book about this.

I think it was then that  a few people started to look through the sites of a gun- barrell at Cook.

The perfect opportunity to get rid of him occurred a short while later.

I will explain what happened next in part three, and it really could have been scripted by Arthur Conan Doyle.