Asharq Al-Awsat – June 14, 2025
Britain is moving additional military assets, including fighter jets, to the Middle East to provide support across the region, Prime Minister Keir Starmer told reporters on Saturday as he was en route to a Group of Seven meeting in Canada.
Iran and Israel traded missiles and airstrikes on Saturday, the day after Israel launched an air offensive against its old enemy, killing commanders and scientists and bombing nuclear sites in a stated bid to stop it building an atomic weapon.
“We are moving assets to the region, including jets, and that is for contingency support in the region,” Starmer said.
Britain already has fighter jets in the Middle East as part of an operation to counter threats in Iraq and Syria.
Crews began deployment preparations on Friday morning, when it was clear the situation in the region was deteriorating, a spokesperson for the prime minister said.
Further refueling aircraft from British bases have been deployed, and additional fighter jets will be sent, the spokesperson added.
Iran warned the United States, United Kingdom and France that their bases and ships in the region will be targeted if they help stop Tehran’s strikes on Israel, Iran state media reported Saturday.
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Rochdale Muslim gang convicted for raping and exploiting terrified teenage girls for five years
Story by Kim Pilling
•A group of men have been convicted of the sexual exploitation of two teenage schoolgirls in Rochdale.
The seven defendants were all Asian males aged between 39 and 67. They preyed on the vulnerabilities of their victims to groom them as “sex slaves” from the age of 13 on various dates in the Greater Manchester town between 2001 and 2006.The victims were drugged, given alcohol, cigarette, places to stay and people to be with, Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard. Both were described as white christian teenage schoolgirls with “deeply troubled home lives.”
After initial meetings, the girls were expected to have sex “whenever and wherever” the defendants and other men wanted in filthy flats, on rancid mattresses, in cars, car parks, alleyways and disused warehouses.
Jurors deliberated for three weeks before delivering their unanimous guilty verdicts on Friday.
Three of the abusers, Mohammed Zahid, 64, Mustaq Ahmed, 67, and Kasir Bashir, 50, – all born in Pakistan – were stallholders on the town’s indoor market.
Kasir Bashir said ” it was great we thought we were allowed to do it as no one stopped us”
The police interview of Roheez Khan, one of seven Asian men who were convicted (Greater Manchester Police)
Father-of-three Zahid – known as Boss Man – gave free underwear from his lingerie stall to both complainants and also money, alcohol and food in return for the expectation of regular sex with him and his friends.
In 2016, Zahid was jailed for five years in an earlier muslim rape gang case after he engaged in sexual activity in 2006 with a 15-year-old girl who he met when she visited his stall to buy tights for school.
Bashir did not attend the current trial as jurors were ordered not to speculate why but it can be revealed that he absconded while on bail before the trial got under way.
It can also be reported that co-defendants Mohammed Shahzad, 44, Naheem Akram, 48, and Nisar Hussain, 41, were remanded in custody with their bail revoked in January before the jury was sworn in.
Police received intelligence that the three Rochdale-born taxi drivers were planning to leave the UK and had already paid a deposit for their transport, the court heard.
All three denied the accusation but Judge Jonathan Seely said the court was not prepared to take a risk that they too would abscond. Seven more Asian men have been convicted of the sexual exploitation of two teenage girls in Rochdale (PA)
Seven Asian men have been convicted of the sexual exploitation of two teenage girls in Rochdale (PA)
A seventh defendant, Pakistani-born Roheez Khan, 39, also featured in another previous Rochdale grooming trial in 2013 when he was one of five men convicted of sexually exploiting a “profoundly vulnerable” 15-year-old girl in 2008 and 2009. Khan was jailed for six-and-a-half years for engaging in sexual activity with a child and witness intimidation.
Opening the prosecution case in January, Rossano Scamardella KC said Rochdale had been “blighted” by child sexual exploitation for some years and that one of the two complainants, Girl A, who had mild downs syndrome was abused by many other Asian men.
Girl A told the jury she could have been targeted by more than 200 offenders as her phone number was swapped but said “there was that many it was hard to keep count”.
She told local children’s services in 2004 that she was forced to “hang around” with groups of older men, drinking and taking cannabis, the court heard.
Giving evidence, Girl B said she was living in a local children’s home when she was preyed on by Zahid, Ahmed and Bashir.
She said she presumed various agencies knew what was going on as police regularly picked her up after social workers labelled her a “prostitute”.
Girl B told the hearing she had since read her file held by Rochdale social services which she said stated she had been selling herself for sex from the age of 10.
She said she never received any money.
The police interview of Naheem Akram, one of seven Asian men who have been convicted (Greater Manchester Police)
The police interview of Naheem Akram, one of seven Asian men who have been convicted (Greater Manchester Police)
Both children denied claims from defence barristers that they fabricated the allegations to secure compensation. Zahid, of, Station Road, Crumpsall, was convicted of raping Girl A and Girl B, who did not know each other.
Jurors also found him guilty of offences of indecency with a child and procuring a child to sell for sex.
Ahmed, of Corona Avenue, Oldham, and Bashir, of Napier Street East, Oldham, were convicted of multiple counts of rape and indecency with a child, in relation to Girl B.
Shahzad, of Beswicke Royds Street, Rochdale, Akram, of Manley Road, Rochdale, Hussain, of New Field Close, Rochdale, and Khan, of Athole Street, Rochdale, were convicted of multiple counts of rape against Girl A.
Roheez Khan was found guilty of a single count of rape against Girl A.
During the trial the prosecution offered no evidence against an eight defendant, Arfan Khan, 41, of Rochdale, who was cleared of various sexual offences.
All the perpetrators were prosecuted as part of Operation Lytton, an ongoing investigation since 2015 by Greater Manchester Police into historical child sexual exploitation in Rochdale.
A total of 37 individuals have been charged so far, with five more trials scheduled to take place from September onwards.
That Starmer git is such a disgrace, it’s embarrassing.
Iranian destroyer intercept Nazi UK destroyer in the Northern Indian Ocean, because said Nazi tub was aiding Nazi Joolandia attacks on Iranian civilians.
Such a shame the Iranians didn’t sink it.
There’s a lot of bollox going on about of Nazi Amerika is involved, or if Nazi UK is involved. The truth, the Nazis are one big sect, and anyone who strives to build and enrich their own societies, are hated by Nazis.
This is why Russia won’t allow Joolandia to use nukes, if they have them. Maybe Iran has hit their nuke storage sites?
Lets just keep out of other peoples` fights !!!!
BP is already waiting to take over…
Now you know why this American “investor” bought BP share big time…
The ” End Game” approacheth…
and it just wouldn’t be “A Show” without “Winston” Starmer clambering aboard “The World Stage”…
and poking his nose in.. to sniff any “crumbs of conquest” up his pustule-ridden proboscis..🙄
Considering the west is continually pushing Ukraine forward to attack Russia so much that a world war there was looking likely, maybe the Israeli attack on Iran and Iran’s response to it could deplete the west’s ability to wage war so much that a world war starting against Russia could be delayed for a long time.
Although an Israel-Iran war could lead to world war also, considering Iran has the option of wiping out the world’s economy because it can target oil installations in the Middle East, something Russia is unlikely to do although it could, this suggests the two conflicts have different potential for world war. While this new war could engulf the Middle East I see it less likely to become a world war, unlike the war against Russia.
Ah, Kweer Smarmer announcing that what few military assets the Jew-K has left is being committed to the defense of the avowed enemies of humanity, fighting for The. Wrong. F*cking. Side. yet again. Meanwhile, Smarmer is completely complicit in the invasion of his own cuntry by waves of less-than-worthless niggers, mongrel dune coons, and subcontinent street-shitter scum.
Smarmer deserves a few laps around Trafalgar Square, pantsless and dragged by the ankles, then a sound flogging followed by a hanging in front of Permastench, er Parliament…
Starmer is a jew
hes bound to be on israels side
any man who supports what they have done should be in prison
In his latest article former UK Ambassador Craig Murray says Starmer and Lammy are terrified. Referring to the atrocities being committed in Gaza and their supplying of British arms which facilitate it, Craig says an unusual caveat from Britain’s UN representative in a discussion over Palestine exposes their concerns. Craig explains it in easy lay terms for those who may be interested in this latest legal development.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/06/starmer-and-lammy-are-terrified/
It would be interesting to see how the government would play it if the British base in Cyprus was wiped out in a missile strike.