نموزج لأكاذيب الكيزان وطرق تضليلهم للمواطنين في السودان. من هو ديفيد هويل؟

David Hoile of ESPAC

Just how nasty is the background of David Hoile, mouthpiece for the
"European-Sudanese Public Affairs Council" (ESPAC)? Just how vicious is the
company he chooses to keep? Here are but a few of the revealing excerpts from
the British investigative publication "Searchlight" (December 2000). Of
particular note are revelations about the South African regime's covert funding
of Hoile's publications on apartheid, and about Hoile's relationship to the
terrorist organization RENAMO in Mozambique (the latter was Hoile's "career
segue" to his present Khartoum propaganda efforts).

---Eric Reeves
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"Searchlight" (December 2000)

"The Democracy Movement" [article on "libertarian" politics in Britain]

by Nick Lowles and Steve Silver

[full text available at:
http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/stories/TheDemocracyMovement.htm

[Marc-Henri] Glendening's election represented the pinnacle of libertarian power
in the FCS [Federation of Conservative Students]. Described as the "most
outspoken and radical libertarian leader the organisation had ever seen",
Glendening was certainly one of its most controversial personalities... In 1985
he was quoted as saying, "it is the right of any man to discriminate against
blacks if he so wishes".

Although he was succeeded as FCS chairman by Mark McGregor, a former chairman of
the Scottish FCS and representative of the "sound" faction, the libertarian
influence did not end. As part of the right's electoral pact to retain control
of the FCS, two libertarians, **David Hoile** and [Douglas] Smith, became
McGregor's deputies. **Hoile**, a postgraduate at Warwick University with
Glendening, was a former Rhodesian commando, while Smith had previously worked
for the Adam Smith Institute, a prominent free-market think-tank.
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The following month **Hoile** set up the Committee for a Free Nicaragua (CFN)
with [Marc] Gordon, another FCS chairman from the West Midlands. Gordon was to
gain an unenviable reputation at Birmingham University as a right-wing bully. He
was accused of smashing up an anti-apartheid stall, forming the Birmingham
University Anti-Queer Society and telling a Jewish student that he had given the
pro-Khomeini Iranian students his name and address. One CFN conference in
London was addressed by Contra leader Arturo Cruz. Also in 1985 **Hoile**
published "Nicaragua for Beginners," a pro-Contra booklet.

Encouraged by their experience with the CFN, **Hoile** and Gordon started to
broaden their international operations. In August 1987 they launched the UK
section of the International Freedom Foundation (IFF), the stated aims of which
were "promoting the development of free and open societies based on the
principles of the free market system" advancing the cause of freedom fighters
who struggle for liberty and democracy". Among the freedom fighters they
supported were the Contras in Nicaragua, UNITA in Angola, RENAMO in Mozambique
and the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Also involved in the IFF (UK) was Glendening.

However, special emphasis was placed on South Africa. While they continually
claimed not to support apartheid, taking the libertarian line that the system
was "racial socialism", they viewed its African National Congress opponents as
worse. Portraying the ANC as under the control of the Communist Party, the IFF
repeatedly claimed that it would impose a Marxist state if it ever gained power.

The IFF (UK) produced a series of texts on Southern Africa, including
"Understanding Sanctions" by **Hoile**, who in the introduction wrote that the
book "is the result of a number of years' interest in the South Africa sanctions
debate, including two as a parliamentary researcher at Westminster". What he
failed to mention was that this research work had been for John Carlisle, the
pro-South African Tory MP for Luton North.

Working for apartheid

The IFF claimed to be "supported by voluntary donations" and "accepts no
government funds and maintains its total independence from government entities".
This was a blatant lie. The IFF was a South African military intelligence
operation designed to smear opponents of the apartheid regime. Codenamed
"Pacman", the IFF had as its objectives, according to the Kahn Commission that
investigated South Africa's secret intelligence operations, "the combating of
sanctions and support to constitutional initiatives through publications,
lobbying, conferences etc. It specifically supported Mr Jonas Savimbi and
UNITA." In the year 1991/92, the last to be funded by South African military
intelligence, the IFF received 10 million Rand (£900,000) of secret service
money.

********************

[on "the Mozambique Institute, a pro-RENAMO organisation launched by **Hoile**"]

**David Hoile's** political past seems to have had little effect on his
political career. Despite cavorting with some of the world's most ruthless
terrorist organisations he remains a member of the Conservative Party and is
today a research assistant to the right-wing Conservative MP Andrew Hunter.

Even during his time in the Federation of Conservative Students, **Hoile** was
always more interested in international issues, forming the Foreign Affairs
Group of the FCS in 1985. Following an early grounding in the Committee for a
Free Nicaragua he soon turned his attention to Southern Africa, the place of his
birth.

After assisting Marc Gordon in the establishment of the International Freedom
Foundation, **Hoile** launched the Mozambique Institute in 1991 with himself as
Executive Director. Formed to "encourage an awareness of, and interest in, both
Mozambique, and the Mozambican people, within the United Kingdom and European
Community", it also sought "present alternative perspectives on the Mozambique
issues". This gave **Hoile**, who had long been a supporter of the RENAMO
terrorists, a forum to present a revisionist view to events in the country.

In "Mozambique: Propaganda, Myth and Reality and Mozambique: Resistance and
Freedom---A Case for Reassessment," **Hoile** wrote a revisionist account of
RENAMO, a terrorist group that virtually every nation in the world, including
the anti-communist US government, shunned. According to one US State Department
report into human rights abuses, produced during Reagan's administration, RENAMO
was guilty of genocide in the killing of over 100,000 people.

By 1994, and with a peace deal agreed, **Hoile** turned his attention to other
countries in Africa. Before long he was the British mouthpiece of the Sudanese
government, itself with an appalling history of human rights abuses and
described by the US as a "sponsor of terrorism".

In the course of his work for the Sudan government and its London embassy, both
arranged through his company Westminster Associates, he wrote letters to leading
Western politicians and international press. Sudanese affairs attracted another
right-wing libertarian besides **Hoile**. Sean Gabb was Director of the Sudan
Foundation, established in 1996 as a "commercial information service for the
business communities in Britain and Sudan". Like Hoile, he sought to challenge
the media perception of Sudan.

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http://www.freeworldnow.com/ER%20David%20Hoile%206-18-2001.htm

His links to these dubious African states did not go unnoticed by the Foreign
Office, which, in the mid-1990s, expressed concern about **Hoile's** links to
the Conservative Party. Despite this, Hoile remained an active party member.
Previously a member of the party's National Committee he later became vice
chairman of the Bethnal Green and Bow Association

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Ian Mayes The Guardian, Saturday 6 October 2001 Article historyOn Tuesday September 11, the day on which our priorities changed dramatically and complaints to my office dropped to practically nothing from the record level at which they had been running, we carried a correction that has proved to be unusually contentious. Indeed the question that subsequent developments have raised is: should the correction have been carried at all? Certainly had I known what I know now it would not have appeared.

The correction concerned Dr David Hoile, the director of the European-Sudanese Public Affairs Council (Espac). Dr Hoile had been the subject of three items in the Guardian Diary up to that time. A further item appeared in the Diary on the day that the correction appeared. At the time of writing, eight more have appeared - suggesting perhaps that corrections, far from suppressing inquiry, sometimes stimulate it.

The main question the Diary was asking was whether Dr Hoile had, in his student days in the 1980s, when he was associated with the Federation of Conservative Students, worn a "badge or T-shirt" (Diary, August 30) carrying the slogan "Hang Mandela". The Diary made several appeals to readers for photographic evidence that would prove the point.

On September 6, Dr Hoile complained by fax to the editor of the Diary, to the editor of the Guardian and to me about "misreporting" on several points and requesting "corrections and clarifications". Dr Hoile was adamant in his rebuttal of any suggestion that he had ever worn a T-shirt carrying the slogan "Hang Mandela" or anything like it.

In one of several telephone conversations I warned Dr Hoile against pursuing a correction that might subsequently be found to be false. Dr Hoile told me there was absolutely no chance of that happening and insisted that no such T-shirt had existed.

He advised me to talk to a journalist who had been closely following his activities and those of the Federation of Conservative Students at the time. I did that and the journalist told me, "I never saw him or anyone else wearing a [Hang] Nelson Mandela T-shirt."

After discussions with the Diary and others, I concluded that there were minor inaccuracies and that there was no convincing evidence that Dr Hoile had worn a Hang Mandela T-shirt.

This remained the position four days after Dr Hoile had made his original complaint to me and on September 11, the following correction appeared: "References to David Hoile in several recent Diary items have suggested that he is currently a researcher for the Conservative MP Andrew Hunter. Dr Hoile tells us categorically that he is not and we accept that. There is no evidence that Dr Hoile ever wore a 'Hang Mandela' T-shirt, or that he possessed or borrowed a rottweiler. Furthermore, Dr Hoile wishes to say equally categorically that at no time did he propose a motion at Warwick University that 'Nelson Mandela is a terrorist and should be hanged' nor would he have done so. The Guardian has no evidence for that either."

Immediately after the publication of this correction, the Diary was held out for a week because the page on which it normally appeared was accommodating more material relating to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.

In the interim, the Diary did indeed obtain a photograph of Dr Hoile, the publication of which it began to trail in Diary items, referring now to his denial of ever having worn "Hang Mandela accoutrements" (September 20), or "paraphernalia" (September 25). It published on September 26 what it presented as a picture of Dr Hoile wearing his "Hang Mandela kit" - in the form of a sticker attached to his tie. I rang up Dr Hoile on the day of publication and suggested that he owed the Guardian an apology. Dr Hoile apologised profusely to me for any "embarrassment" he had caused me personally. He insisted, however, that word for word, the correction remained correct. He had absolutely no recollection of wearing anything of the kind shown in the photograph, but he had known beyond any doubt that he had not worn a Hang Mandela T-shirt.

There are several things to be said here. The first is to assert the principle that it is better to have conclusive evidence before rather than after serious allegations are made. Minor errors render serious arguments vulnerable to doubt. But the equally important point is that when a sentiment such as Hang Mandela is expressed, the precise nature of the vehicle on which it is carried is not the main thing.

Dr Hoile does not seem to be quite ready to concede the point. For my part, I am ready to say to the editor of the Diary and his colleagues, that on the main issue, you were right.

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