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'Asylum' for 1,500 Iraqi interpreters

By John Hirst

'Asylum' for 1,500 Iraqi interpreters

"Up to 1,500 Iraqis who worked as interpreters for British Armed Forces are to be flown to Britain, it was claimed last night.

The Iraqi interpreters and their families will be settled in two unnamed northern cities from April.

The resettlement operation, being co-ordinated by the Home Office, is alleged to be far bigger than previously thought - it had been reported that fewer than 100 interpreters would be affected.

Gordon Brown agreed to grant asylum to interpreters last year after it was disclosed that the lives of those working for the military in Iraq were in danger".

At last it appears that the government has come to its senses over this affair.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on February 16, 2008 (boomark / email).