The UN said that nearly 700 Afghan civilians had lost their lives this year due to Nato forces.

In the 12-year embargo (oil for food) on Iraq 2 million Iraqi civilians have died due to malnutrition and disease, about 700,000 of them were children.

At the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, Britain dropped 100,000 cluster bombs that killed and maim civilians causing thousands of unnecessary deaths and injuries. Cluster bombs are essentially equivalent to land mines. Up to 800 tons of DU ammo were fired creating an aerosol of radioactive heavy-metal particles which can spread as far as 190 miles on the wind. When inhaled or ingested, the depleted uranium particles cause chemical and radioactive damage to the bronchial tree, kidneys, liver and bones. Cancer often results, and the effects can even include genetic damage. Thousands of Iraqi babies have been born with horrifying birth defects. This is something that has never before been seen in Iraq.

Have the Taliban matched that level if inhumanity?

I could go on and on about our atrocities and lack of humanity and we need to remember that they killed 52 of our civilians; we have killed million’s of theirs. Also 9/11 was indeed an inside job and there never were any WMD only oil and opportunity to make millions for security firms that thrive on death and destruction

Witness the last words of Mohammed Siddique Khan – leader of the terror cell who performed the 7/7 bombings in London:

“Sweetheart, not long to go now. And I’m going to really, really miss you a lot.

“I’m thinking about it already. Look, I absolutely love you to bits and you have been the happiest thing in my life. You and your mum, absolutely brilliant.

“I don’t know what else to say. I just wish I could have been part of your life, especially these growing up – these next months, they’re really special with you learning to walk and things.

“I just so much wanted to be with you but I have to do this thing for our future and it will be for the best, inshallah, in the long run.

“That’s the most important thing.

“You make plenty of Dua for you guys and you’ve got loads of people to look after you and keep an eye on you.

“But most importantly I entrust you to Allah and let Allah take care of you.

As a colorfully-named blogger observed,

it sounds like any other speech by an articulate man gone to war to kill whomever his leaders told him to kill. I guess the point which needs reinforcing is that there’s nothing weird, wrong or unusual about wanting to die for a cause – fuck, I’m cynical and there are even causes I’d die for. And if you think there’s something weird about wanting to kill others while you do that – then doublefuck, there are courses in human nature that you need.

The bit which is weird about suicide terrorism in the UK is purely and simple that we think of the people who do it as being like us, but they think of us in the same way that British soldiers thought of Germans in WWI, Argie conscripts in the Falklands, Iraqi militiamen today, and so on.