While arresting grannies, the UK government has been working with ISIS-linked banned terror group for years

Departing MI6 boss Richard Moore has publicly admitted during a speech in Istanbul that his spy organisation has been working for years with ISIS affiliate HTS in Syria. HTS is a proscribed group banned as terrorists under the Terrorism Act.

Moore told his audience in Istanbul:

We sourced intelligence on Sudan in hours: we continue to counter terror emanating from Afghanistan, and, having forged a relationship with HTS a year or two before they toppled Bashar, we forged a path for the UK Government to return to the country within weeks.

He continued:

Syria is a good example of where, if you can get ahead of events, it really helps when they suddenly, unexpectedly, move at a faster pace.

Meanwhile, the Starmer regime and its enforcers have been arresting disabled people and pensioners like it’s going out of fashion, just for holding signs opposing the proscription of the non-violent anti-genocide group Palestine Action. Yet it’s now public record that it has been actively supporting another proscribed organisation. As well as ISIS, HTS is affiliated with another banned terror group, al-Qaeda.

UK government working with ISIS-linked group while arresting pensioners for ‘terrorism’

According to former ambassador Craig Murray, who broke the news:

As I learnt while in Lebanon, the British support for HTS included intelligence support, training and weapons, based at secret UK bases in the Bekaa valley, including inside the Rayak airbase. It also included support via an NGO named Inter-Mediate, run by current British National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell, who is Tony Blair’s old Downing Street Chief of Staff.

In the UK neither the government nor the security services stand above the law. The fact that neither Moore nor Powell nor any of those on the ground directly involved in actively and substantively supporting HTS – a proscribed organisation – has been arrested, while people are arrested for holding a placard supporting Palestine Action because it is a proscribed organisation, is the very definition of arbitrary and oppressive government.

The impartial rule of law in the UK has collapsed completely. All of this was material support to a proscribed organisation.

Starmer, of course, continues to aid one of the world’s biggest, best-funded and most murderous terror groups – the Israeli occupation, while trying to cover his backside by recognising the statehood of a Palestinian state that terrorist Israel is trying to obliterate.

HTS remains on the government’s list of proscribed terror organisations.