Hundreds of thousands of Syrians braved
bullets and nail bombs yesterday in their biggest protest for months against the
ruling regime. Invigorated by the presence of independent
Arab observers, citizens poured into streets all over the country after
prayers. Police and military forces fired live rounds
into crowds to try to quell the demonstrations demanding an end to President
Bashar Assad's oppression. Scroll down
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Standing room only: Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have
taken to the country's streets to demand the end of the current regime
Huge: It is believed to be the biggest ever series of
protests against President Bashar Assad
Anger: Crowds were largest in Idlib and Hama provinces,
with 250,000 people in each, while other protests held in Daraa province and the
Damascus suburb of Douma
Activists said at least 22 people were killed,
although some estimates of casualties ran much higher. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights said the crowds were largest in northern Idlib province and the central
city of Hama, with 250,000 people each.
Activist Abu Hisham in Hama said: 'It is a
transformative step. People are eager to reach the monitors and tell them about
their suffering.' Other rallies of tens of thousands were held
in the southern Daraa province and the suburb of Douma in the capital
Damascus. The latter crowd was trying to mount a surge
into the city centre – the focal point of the regime's power – but was
reportedly held back by nail bombs. In Homs, the city at the centre of nine months
of revolt, a crowd of thousands chanted: 'Revolution, revolution
Syria.' The crowds were a display of defiant strength
in front of the monitors from the Arab League, who are checking on the
government's crackdown against dissent. But the fact that security forces still
unleashed gunfire into huge crowds reinforced the opposition's view that the
regime's apparent co-operation with the observers is nothing more than a ploy to
buy time against further international sanctions.
Anger: Demonstrators screamed for the downfall of the
regime in a defiant display invigorated by the presence of Arab
observers
Escalating: Anger is growing as tens of thousands continue
to protest against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad
Anger: Clashes have broken out between Syrian security
forces and unarmed protesters as Arab League observers monitor the
country
There is also concern about whether Arab
League member states, with some of the world's poorest human rights records,
were fit for the mission to monitor compliance with a plan to end the bloodshed
in Syria. The United Nations says 5,000 people have been
killed so far in the government campaign since March. Reports indicate a further 130 people have
been killed, even after the 100 monitors arrived for their month-long mission on
Tuesday. They are supposed to ensure the regime
complies with the terms of a plan, agreed with Syria, under which the government
removes security forces and weapons from cities, releases political prisoners,
starts talks with the opposition and allows human rights workers and journalists
into the country. All these terms, however, seem far from
fruition.
Fury: The killings comes as Arab League monitors continue
their checks on whether Syrian authorities are sticking to a promise that they
end a crackdown on political opponents
Protest: Despite the violence, Russia insisted it was
'reassured' with the situation in the country and that 'clashes have not been
recorded'
Clashes: Violence continues across Syria, evident by this
bullet hole in a hospital window in Homs
Britain's Minister for the Middle East and
North Africa, Alistair Burt, said: 'I urge the Syrian government to meet fully
its obligations, including immediately ending the repression and withdrawing
security forces from cities.' The Syrian government claims that its forces
are the victims in the conflict, coming under attack from what it calls
terrorists. But the rebel Free Syrian Army said it has
stopped its offensive against government targets during the Arab League visits,
as it wants to expose how the regime is killing peaceful protesters. The leader of the FSA, breakaway air force
Colonel Riad al-Asaad, said: 'We stopped to show respect to Arab brothers, to
prove that there are no armed gangs in Syria, and for the monitors to be able to
go wherever they want. 'We only defend ourselves now. This is our
right and the right of every human being.'
Fans: Supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad held a
large banner bearing his likeness during a rally in Damascus today
Damaged: An ambulance from the National Hospital in Homs
was hit by a bullet during the protests
Critical: A woman cries as her son, who was injured in
clashes in Homs, lies in a hospital bed
Woman fined by police for driving in burka told it was 'as bad as eating
sandwich behind the wheel'
'The officer who stopped her said she was
driving hesitantly and clearly could not see properly'
By Ian Sparks
Last updated at 3:24 PM on 30th December 2011
'Dangerous': The Muslim woman 'clearly could not see
properly' while wearing the veil, police said (file picture)
A Muslim woman has been fined for driving
while wearing a burka because the garment 'reduced her field of
vision'. Police who stopped the woman in France
compared wearing a veil over the face behind the wheel to driving with ice on
the windscreen, eating a sandwich or smoking a cigarette. The woman was handed a £28 on-the-spot fine
under article 412-6 of the highway code, which states: 'Field of vision must not
be restricted by either passengers, objects being transported or by the position
of non-transparent objects on the windows.' She was also told she was in breach of the
country's controversial burka ban imposed last April, which outlawed anyone
hiding their face in public, including in streets, shops, restaurants and cars
on public roads. Police said the woman was pulled over while
driving in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, on Thursday. Spokesman Laurent Dufour added: 'The officer
who stopped her said she was driving hesitantly and clearly could not see
properly.
Burka ban: French president Nicolas Sarkozy has described
the veil as a 'sign of debasement'
'Looking out through a narrow slit in the
fabric is as dangerous as driving while eating a sandwich, smoking or with an
iced-up windscreen.'
France was the first country in Europe to
outlaw Muslim headgear that hides the face. Similar laws have since being passed
in Belgium and the Netherlands. French president Nicolas Sarkozy has described
the burka as a 'sign of debasement'. His immigration minister Eric Besson called
it 'a walking coffin'. Militant Muslim woman Hind Ahmas, 32 - dubbed
France's first 'burka martyr' - is currently facing two years in prison for
wearing the veil after refusing to pay a £35 fine for the
offence. She is appealing the fine on the grounds that
the new law is unconstitutional and preparing to take the case to the European
Court of Human Rights. Senior police chiefs have branded the ban
'unenforceable' and said officers were too busy fighting serious crime to go
'burka-chasing'. Leaders of Al Qaeda's North African network
have vowed to seek revenge on France for enforcing the law. They wrote on an Islamic extremist website:
'We will seek dreadful revenge on France by all means at our disposal, for the
honour of our daughters and sisters.'
Olmert: Israel has declared war on the entire world
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert criticizes the current Israeli government: “Why is Israel declaring war on the Western world?”
Ehud Olmert is ready to give the ememy whatever it takes, in a big to get peace.
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert criticized the current Israeli government on Thursday evening.
Olmert, who spoke at a gathering of the Israeli Farmers Association in Kfar Maccabiah, criticized the Israeli response to the condemnation of it by European members of the United Nations Security Council. “I’m wondering whether Israel has decided to declare war against the whole world,” he said. “The State of Israel has decided to put aside all the important countries in the world such as England, France and Germany. What is the purpose of declaring war on the Western world which is sympathetic to Israel? Where is the voice of the Prime Minister?
Why does he not renounce the things that have been said against our best of friends?”
Olmert was referring to the statement released by the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, in which it said the European countries: “should have concentrated on peacemaking in centers of bloodshed such as Syria”
Olmert also suggested that the countries would “lose their credibility and make themselves irrelevant” if they continue to choose to condemn Israel. Source: Israel National News.com
My comment:
There is some truth in this statement of Ehud Olmert. Israel is at war with the World. But this is not Israel’s fault.
Instead of saying that Israel is at war with the World, it will be more correct to say that the World is at war with Israel.
The state of Israel is branded as a land grabber, and a treat to World peace.
Israel only control a land area, similar in size to the state of New Jersey in the US.
The Arabs controls an area in North Africa and the Middle East, as large as the size of the entire United States.
Still the World support Muslims, in their Islamic demand for Israel to be minimized.
Israel is basically going to be forced back to an area, not must bigger than a couple of large villages in Poland.
Just join a couple of the concentration camps, and you will have the mini-Israel promoted by the UN, the EU, the Pope and the Quartet.
Refusing to obey the Word of God, Israel will face the final choice: Either to surrender land by their free will, or be forced to surrender the same land.
Men like Ehud Olmert do not know the Messiah.
In his life of darkness, he is caught between the devil and the deep blue see. His suggested way towards “peace”, is a walk in denial of the Biblical promises given to Israel, by God of the Bible.
Written by Ivar
Jew-hate exposed on socialist youth camp on eve of massacre
The Norwegian labor youth called for International boycott of Israel, and cursed the Jewish people.
The Labor youth camp exposed hate towards Israel. Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Eskild Pedersen brought down curses on their own heads.
- We are tired of Israel.
This was the message from AUF leader Eskil Pedersen the very day before the massacre took place in Utøya in Norway. 85 of the Labor youth camp was massacred by a Norwegian Freemason templar.
The day before the massacre, AUF leader Pedersen invited the Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre to the camp. Støre in the very minister in Norway who recognized The Hamas, and held secret talk with the leadership in the Islamic terrorist organization.
This is what Pedersen is recorded saying to the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, on 21st of July. This was 48 hours before the tragedy took place. “I acknowledge that economical boycott of Israel is a dramatic tool to use. But we are tired of Israel’s behavior. Large parts of the Word reacts towards Israel all the time, but Israel do not pay attention. Our advice to the Government of Norway is a signal, that we are tired of Israel” explains Pedersen.
When the right wing terrorist started to execute the labor party youth, Pedersen was the first to be taken into a boat, and guided into safety on mainland Norway. Source: Dagbladet.no
My comment:
A neo-Nazi has massacred a socialist youth camp. A horrible crime against humanity, a mockery of the teaching of Jesus.
Here are two pictures of the Templar knight, who committed the mass murder:
The Templar knight with neo-Nazi sympathy was highly decorated by his brethren.
Andes Behring in his freemason uniform. Both these images were published on Youtube by him self.
That this horrible crime was committed by a neo-Nazi, does not justify the Jew hate exposed in the socialist camp. Very few in Norway are willing to listen to the warnings that this Lutheran kingdom has become the most anti-Jewish nation in Europe.
Those who curse Israel, is bringing a curse down on their own head.
In the case of the AUF youth camp, there can never be a better example. The AUF has for years been a strong supporter of the PLO, and Islamic terrorism towards the only Jewish state.
This is the time for reflections. If Norway wants to escape the wrath of God, the nation need to repent. That a Freemason Templar has managed to massacre the labor youth camp, is a signal that the Norwegian society has lost the blessings and cover that Jesus have provided for Norway for hundreds of years of Christianity.
Both he neo-Nazis and the post-Christian Norwegian society are headed for God’s final judgment and destruction.
Written by Ivar http://ivarfjeld.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/jew-hate-exposed-on-socialist-youth-camp-on-eve-of-massacre/
Saudi's controls most of the Muslims private schools in the USA and the Government gives these schools money. Now are they teaching from these books also? We need to send in an permanent non Muslim observer to make sure that this form of education is eliminated. Each class will have an observer all day and it will create jobs for Americans.
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The Arabic school textbooks which show children how to chop off hands and
feet under Sharia law
By Leon Watson
Last updated at 10:26 AM on 23rd December 2011
Barbaric textbooks handed out in Saudi Arabian
schools teach children how to cut off a thief's hands and feet under Sharia law,
it has emerged. The shocking books, paid for and printed
by the Saudi government, also tell
teenagers that Jews need to be
exterminated and homosexuals should be 'put to death'. Recent editions were obtained by the Institute for Gulf Affairs in
Washington, D.C., which says they should raise fears in the West over the use of jihadist
language.
Barbaric: These textbooks handed out in Saudi Arabian
schools teach children how to cut off a thief's hands and feet under Sharia
law
The books were published and handed out to
9th and 10th-graders despite Saudi
Arabia's promises to clean up textbooks in the kingdom. Ali Al-Ahmed, director of the Institute for
Gulf Affairs, told Fox News: 'This is
where terrorism starts, in the education system. 'They show students how to cut (the) hand and
the feet of a thief,' he said.
The textbooks were printed for the 2010-2011
academic year and translated from Arabic by the institute. In one, for ninth-graders, students are taught
the annihilation of the Jewish people is imperative. One text reads in part: 'The hour (of
judgment) will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. There is
a Jew behind me come and kill him.'
School prayers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where children
learn how to chop off the hands and feet of thieves, it is claimed
According to the translations, women are
described as weak and irresponsible. Mr Al-Ahmed said the textbooks also call for
homosexuals to be put to death 'because they pose a danger at society, as the
Saudi school books teaches'. Mr Al-Ahmed said: 'If you teach six million
children in these important years of their lives, if you install that in their
brain, no wonder we have so many Saudi suicide bombers.' The Saudi Embassy in Washington D.C. was
approached for comment, but there was no immediate response.
Saudi school children playing football on an artifical
pitch in the evening to avoid the heat in Jeddah
They wont touch a Muslim who declared war on the USA but they will strip search an elderly women
Ruth Sherman: TSA Strip-Searched Me, Too, At Kennedy Airport (VIDEO)
Two days after 85-year-old Lenore Zimmerman came forward accusing the TSA of "strip-searching" her, another elderly woman has come forward with the same claim.
88-year-old Ruth Sherman, of Sunrise, Florida, has come forward accusing the TSA of "invading" her privacy at JFK airport over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Sherman told CBS News that she spent a week in New York along with her family over Thanksgiving. The trip ended on a sour note when, she claims, TSA agents wanted to check the bulge of her colostomy bag.
"This is private for me. It's bad enough that I have it," she told the station. "I had to pull from my sweatpants and I had to pull my underwear, my underwear down...You don't do that anybody. I felt like I was invaded."
Sherman claims that she complained about the incident to JetBlue and told her family but wanted to go public with the story after seeing Zimmerman on television complaining of a similar incident at the same JetBlue terminal at JFK.
While the TSA apologized to Zimmerman on Sunday and denied any wrong-doing in her case, the TSA told CBS that they will look into the new accusations by Sherman.
The elderly have had a bad run with the TSA this year. In July, a former bladder cancer patient revealed that an invasive search by the TSA left him covered in his own urine after his urostomy bag broke during a patdown. Also in July, a 94-year-old woman was forced to stand for a patdown at the Raleigh-Durham airport.
This is not a peaceful protest! This is a protest organized by the Muslim Brotherhood and the Muslim Student Association. It is the same type of protest that the Muslims organized by ANSWER (which is connected to Muslim Brotherhood ) lead in Miami , Ft Lauderdale, LA and other major cities that had the Israel Embassy's. Only they yelled to Jews trying to celebrate Israel's Independence day Cowards and in Ft Lauderdale they crossed their picket line to create violence. Your Students, Liberal CU-LA is the results of your teachers who have tenure and preached this up raise. Now the students want to destroy your campus and what are you doing? Acting like the Establishment - police protection! You should have cracked down on these teachers long before this started when complaints were made in the beginning by Jewish students, Jewish activist and by the United West Tom Trento. Who is there to stand up for Jewish Students in all the CU.
Occupy movement rocked as violence and disease spread.... Two dead after a fatal shooting at Occupy Oakland and suicide of ex-soldier at Occupy Vermont protest camp
Investigation still underway in Oakland after shooting in camp
Vermont man, 35, died from his wounds in hospital
Protesters at the Burlington camp say he shot himself inside a tent
Police are investigating a fatal shooting just outside the Occupy Oakland encampment in Northern California and the apparent suicide of a military veteran at an Occupy encampment in Vermont's largest city.
The Oakland killing is further straining relations between local officials and anti-Wall Street protesters. A preliminary investigation into the gunfire Thursday that left a man dead suggests it resulted from a fight between two groups of men at or near the camp on a plaza in front of Oakland's City Hall.
The Oakland death is the latest in a string of violent outbursts and disease outbreaks in Occupy protests throughout the country, coming the day after a 35-year-old veteran shot himself at the protest in Burlington, Vermont.
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Fatal: Medics try to revive a man shot at the Occupy Oakland protest Thursday, before he was transported to hospital and pronounced dead
Mystery: The Oakland shooting is still under investigation and police are looking for suspects but have not announced any clues to the public
As the varying protests continue throughout the country, the potential for violence in the camps and the spread of disease among groups of people living in unsanitary conditions spreads.
Tuberculosis has been traced to the base of the Occupy protests in Atlanta, Georgia.
The deaths in Oakland and Burlington are causing alarm among organizers and attendees.
Investigators do not yet know if the men in the Oakland fight on Friday were associated with Occupy Oakland, but they are looking into reports that some protest participants tried to break up the altercation, police Chief Howard Jordan said.
Mourning: Little is known about the Oakland shooting but onlookers said that they saw the two men involved in a verbal fight before one shot the other
Occupy grief: Police have yet to identify the victim officially
With opinions about the ongoing demonstration and its effect on the city becoming more divided in recent days, supporters and opponents immediately reacted to the homicide — the city's 101st this year.
Camp organizers said the attack was unrelated to their activities, while city and business leaders cited the death as proof that the camp itself either bred crime or drained law enforcement resources.
Mayor Jean Quan, who has been criticized by residents on both sides for issuing mixed signals about the local government's willingness to tolerate the camp, issued a statement Thursday calling for the camp to shut down.
'Tonight's incident underscores the reason why the encampment must end. The risks are too great,' Quan said. 'We need to return (police) resources to addressing violence throughout the city. It's time for the encampment to end. Camping is a tactic, not a solution.'
Tragic: Paramedics rush an ex-soldier to hospital yesterday after he apparently shot himself at the Occupy Vermont encampment in Burlington
Shock: A police officer questions a distraught witness at the Occupy Vermont camp
Investigation: Police look inside the tent where the military veteran was found with a gun shot wound
'This one heinous immoral crime should not overshadow all of the good deeds, positive energy and the overall goals that the movement is attempting to establish,' Khalid Shakur, 43( Muslim) who has a tent in the encampment, said.
Before the shooting, protesters were planning to have a party to commemorate the encampment's one-month anniversary with music, dancing, a slide show and donated cakes. Instead, they opened a microphone for participants to talk about where the movement is headed.
'It's not a celebration anymore, but a period of reflection,' said Leo Ritz-Barr, a member of Occupy Oakland's events committee.
Consolation: Amanda Thayer, 29, is comforted by a friend in the aftermath of the shooting
John Lucas, 52, part of an Occupy Oakland medic team, said a fistfight involving several men preceded the gunfire.
'Several people went after one guy, and the group got larger, and they beat him and he ran,' Lucas said. 'There were six or seven shots. Everyone starts running ... and there was another shot.'
Lucas said he and other medics rushed to the wounded man and tried to tend to him until paramedics arrived.
'He was not breathing and there was no heartbeat,' he said. 'We started CPR.'
TUBERCULOSIS SCARE AT OCCUPY ATLANTA CAMP
A health scare hit Occupy Atlanta protesters this week after their home base tested positive for tuberculosis.
Residents at the homeless shelter, where protesters are gathered after being moved from the nearby Woodruff Park, have contracted the drug-resistant disease.
But tests for tuberculosis carried out on activists yesterday came back negative.
Occupy Atlanta leader Tim Franzen said: 'We have gone as far as having our folks get tested today for TB... No trace of any TB at all.'
Mr Jordan said the victim was hit by one bullet and he was pronounced dead at a hospital.
No suspects have been identified, said Jordan, who asked people participating in the protest who may have taken photographs or video that captured the shooting to contact authorities.
Though investigators in Burlington, Vermont have concluded preliminary investiations into the apparent suicide there. saying that the 35-year-old military veteran fatally shot himself in the head Thursday at an Occupy Wall Street encampment.
The name of the Chittenden County man is being withheld because not all of his family has been notified.
He shot himself inside a tent in City Hall Park. Mike Noble, a spokesman for the Fletcher Allen Health Care hospital in Burlington, confirmed that the man had died. Noble said he could provide no other details.
Infested: Unsanitary conditions have caused the spread of disease, and while some camps offer flu shots, many protesters are not participating because they fear it is a government ploy
Emily Reynolds, a University of Vermont student and a leader in the local Occupy movement, said: 'This person has clearly needed more help than we were capable of giving him here at this park.'
If the U.S. government provided better mental health services, she said, 'this probably wouldn't have happened'.
While no protesters have died as a direct result of illnesses contracted in the parks, health administrators do fear that the onset of cold weather will only help to exacerbate the unsanitary conditions.
In addition to the tuberculosis outbreak in Atlanta, protesters in the original outpost near Wall Street are catching what they have called 'Zuccotti Lung,' named after the park that serves as the base.
Respiratory illnesses like norovirus and the flu are easily spread among the protesters as they share drinks and cigarettes, and have little opportunity to wash their hands.
'It should go without saying that lots of people sleeping outside in a park as we head toward winter is not an ideal situation for anyone’s health,' the city's health department said in a statement.
The spread of disease and violence isn't stopping more people to get involved with the movement, even students from elite- and expensive- universities who are least likely to identify with the 99 per cent.
A police officer raises his hands to his head at the scene where a man was shot and killed near an Occupy Oakland encampment yesterday
Police brutality? Scott Campbell, 30, was left with severe bruising after being hit by a rubber bullet fired by police at the Occupy Oakland site in California earlier this month
Video footage of the moment Campbell was fired at from the line of riot gear clad officers standing in a line in front of him
With huge annual tuitions, multibillion-dollar endowments and long lists of powerful graduates working on Wall Street and in Washington, schools like Harvard and Yale embody the kind of institutions the Occupy movement – with its opposition to undue influence by those in the top tiers of society – was born to protest, but that has not stopped the students from joining in.
At Duke University in Durham, N.C., for instance, a small group of students has camped out for three weeks. On Wednesday night at the University of California at Berkeley, dozens were arrested during demonstrations against financial policies they blamed for causing deep cuts in higher education spending.
And in Harvard Yard on Wednesday, protesters gathered in front of the statue of school namesake John Harvard, calling for 'a university for the 99 percent'. A few dozen students then set up tents and stayed overnight, though police stopped any non-students from joining them.
Students urged a fair contract for custodial workers at Harvard, argued that it played a role in the financial crisis because of its influence, and should be socially responsible in its endowment investments.
'Harvard should reconsider its status as the training ground for the people who make our political and economic systems less democratic,' said Joe Hodgkin, a senior who has led meditation sessions at Occupy Boston.
Last week, students walked out of a popular introductory economics class, complaining of bias.
The actions have drawn plenty of skeptics, even at the schools themselves. On Wednesday, Harvard students in nearby dorms yelled derisively at the protesters, while another said the yard into which police had locked students was 'the richest prison in America'.
A cancer-stricken pensioner died after being attacked in hospital by an illegal immigrant who was in the bed next to him.
Anthony Wilson was throttled by the Iranian man four days after an operation to remove part of his bowel.
The 78-year-old, who had been battling cancer for three months, was asleep when he was assaulted by the immigrant, who had been brought into the hospital two days earlier complaining of breathing difficulties.
Three UK Border Agency guards, tasked with sitting next to the Iranian during his hospital stay, were forced to intervene after the unprovoked attack.
He was immediately removed from Hillingdon Hospital in Uxbridge, West London, and returned to a nearby immigration removal centre, where he is awaiting deportation.
The attack occurred in front of other shocked patients at about 8.20am on October 17. Police were called but the border guards had already dealt with the incident.
Just 20 hours later, Mr Wilson was pronounced dead at 4.20am the next day, when police were again called to the hospital.
A post-mortem examination concluded that Mr Wilson died from septicaemia. But an inquest has been ordered to determine whether the attack was a contributory factor.
Mr Wilson’s brother Jeffrey, 68, said: ‘I have lost my brother, who was my right-hand man. He used to do everything for me and I miss him.
‘He went for the operation and got through it and did all right, but someone may have taken his life away from him so I want to know the truth of what happened.’
Mr Wilson, who served in the Army as a teenager during National Service after the Second World War, was admitted to hospital on October 11.
Doctors had warned him of various risks involved with the invasive surgery because of his age and because he had been fitted with a pacemaker in February. But the former engineer decided to go ahead with the operation and even made plans to recuperate at home by his brother’s side.
Jeffrey said: ‘On the Monday morning I got a phone call from the sister saying, “Something has happened but don’t worry, it is ok.”
‘She said she would tell me when I came in to visit in the afternoon but when I got there they didn’t even mention it.
‘All I know is that Anthony woke up and he said the man had his hands round his neck and that someone must have pulled him off, and then they took him off.
‘He wasn’t all that good. I wouldn’t say he was dangerously ill but he just said he didn’t feel all that right. They kept asking him to drink water.
‘But Anthony was one of those people who didn’t like to make a fuss. He’d just say, “Oh I’m all right.”
‘Then all of a sudden he went downhill within 24 hours.
‘I just want to know why he died and what happened. I just want to get to the bottom of it.’
Mr Wilson worked for his local council for more than 30 years. He spent his final few years of employment at a local engineering firm before retiring at the age of 65 in 1998. He had lived in the same three-bedroom semi-detached house in Harefield, near Uxbridge, since he was born in 1933.
An inquest into his death was opened and adjourned on October 20 after the hospital’s report of the attack was sent to the coroner.
Jeffrey said: ‘I was told his death had nothing to do with the incident where he was assaulted because there was no bruising. They thought he might have been hit in the stomach but they said there was nothing to indicate that he had been.
‘They said it was just a coincidence that the incident with the other man had happened and that he would have died anyway.
We lived together all our lives, we were best friends and I will miss him. Sometimes we fell out over different things at one time or another, as brothers often do, but it was a good life together.’
Jeffrey insists his brother said he was strangled by the immigrant, but Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust claims the assault ‘took only seconds and amounted to him putting an arm round Mr Wilson’s neck’.
A spokesman said in a statement: ‘We regret that we have not yet met with Mr Wilson’s family about the incident and circumstances of his death but we were waiting for the results of the post-mortem, which have only just come in.
‘We will be contacting the family straight away now we have all the information. We are very sorry that they have been caused any extra distress after the sad death of Mr Wilson.’
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said they attended the hospital but were not investigating and the death was being treated as non-suspicious.
The UK Border Agency confirmed it is in the process of attempting to remove the Iranian man. A spokesman said: ‘We are reviewing this incident and, if necessary, will take appropriate action.
‘The detainee was handcuffed and accompanied by three escorts when the incident occurred.’
