"Murder in Samarkand" ...massive sales and interest

Craig Murray gave his first talk and signed copies of his book "Murder in Samarkand", today and the Sunday Times wheeled out heavyweight Max Hastings to review the book that the FCO cannot suppress..... who gave it a spanking review.(Pic of Craig on Preston Station .. he is 1st Class, he didn't travel that way)(Review text here)

At a meeting "Right to Survive" organised exceedingly well by Anisah and in the plush and unlikely confines of Preston North End Football Club , people gathered from all over the North West to hear Craig , as well as Guantanamo detainee Martin Mubanga.

Martin a slim quietly spoken man with dual Zambian / UK nationality (he lived in UK since he was 2). A motorcycle courier, he went to Afghanistan at the end of 2001 to study Islam. He fled like many others to Pakistan after the beginning of the war against the Taliban, but says that someone stole his passport. A dual British-Zambian national, he phoned his family from Karachi and asked them to post him his Zambian passport.

He was seized by Zambian security men and held in a series of guarded motels, where he was interrogated for days by a female American official and a Briton who called himself "Martin" and said he worked for MI6. 'Martin' produced Mubanga's British passport, together with a list of Jewish organisations in New York and a military training manual that he claimed Mubanga had handwritten.

A few days later, Martin was loaded on to a plane by men in balaclavas and flown to Guantanamo. For more than two years, the claims made by the MI6 man - that he had been on a mission to reconnoitre targets in New York and had travelled to Zambia on false documents - were the main grounds for his detention. They were totally false.

Now the Pentagon's own lawyers accept that the intelligence that consigned him to Guantanamo was deeply flawed. Martin was released and on arrival in the UK was released without charge after his return to Britain on 25 January last year. (Interview here)

Fahad Ansari presented what the Islamic Human Rights Council are doing website here , and Makboul Javid spoke of the work of Hhugs in helping the families of people detained in Belmarsh without charge on Control Orders.Dr Adnan Siddiqui and Molana Desai gave a perspective on the way People like the Blair Government are trying to re-define Islam - wich the Uncle Toms are happy to go along with, on FCO funded jamborees.

News also that W H Smith are ;

1. Not stocking the "Murder in Samarkand"
2. Are returning the copies ordered under Sale or Return.
3. Have instructed staff to refuse to take orders for the book.

Many readers will remember that Private Eye experienced the same problem in their early days when the Hornby family tried to suppress (with a massive lack of sucess) PE who used to dedicate their annuals "To W H Smith Without whom ..."

Lord Patel does not suggest anbody goes into their nearest W H Smiths, collects a huge pile of books, has them rung through the till and then orders a copy of Craig Murray's Book "Murder in Samarkand" and when they refuse to order it, to thank them politeley and walk away. That would be wrong as W H Smith are in a bad way financially. Totally wrong and must be discouraged.No Way.Instead order your copy from Amazon here.

Anyway the speed at which the pile disappeared in Preston it will be into a second print run soon.