Good ole Gordon brown. First he is welcomed into power by a series of “terror attacks” and now this. The propaganda is thick in this latest from the Sydney Morning Herald.

The Spinning starts right away, “AGENTS from MI6 held secret talks with Taliban leaders despite a pledge by the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, that his country would not negotiate with terrorists.” That’s because the “negotiations” were probably orchestrations. Maybe some suicide bomb plans or some money exchanging hands. Oh wait, it was, “Not only did they hold talks with the Taliban, but also had given them money,” an Afghan official said, adding that 50 Afghans had been held and investigated over their links to the talks.

It goes on to say the British SIS agents were providing “mentoring” for the CIA-cohorts, the Taliban. Maybe it was mentoring akin to what they gave the IRA.

The article alludes to the meetings being productive towards peace, an allusion, or maybe illusion is a better word, those of us in the know are obviously skeptical of.