Paul Flynn
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(13 years, 1 month ago)
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Mr Hammond
That was in the diary of my predecessor, and it remains in my own diary.
Paul Flynn (Newport West) (Lab)
Instead of detonating improvised explosive devices safely at a distance, we still instruct our soldiers to dismantle them by hand in order to identify—to find the fingerprints of—the bomb makers, and then imprison them. After the escape of 500 Taliban prisoners from Kandahar, including many bombers, is it reasonable to ask our troops to continue to dismantle those bombs in such a dangerous way when we cannot keep the prisoners safely behind bars?