Should Iraqi Interpreters be given any special treatment for Asylum claims?

[Oneeyedvic]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6936185.stm

"The Ministry of Defence says the number of Iraqis who have helped British forces, and could qualify for assistance, totals 15,000.

Requests for help from serving or ex-employees were based on their "individual merits", the MoD said.

BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner says interpreters are marked men who "face a horrific death".

He said the interpreters face two levels of danger: that experienced while on patrol, and the consequences of being seen as collaborators.

"Anybody associated with the coalition, government ministries, and so on, they're all seen as traitors by the militias.

"Not just by al-Qaeda in the Sunni areas, but by the Shia militias in the south."

Should we help those who have helped us?

[dyli795]

At least they've "earned" a reason to be welcomed here ! Unlike hoards of freeloading heathens ! Or am I a bit of a stickler or sumat !?!/1/???? ( I perhaps shuld say I am born a ginger english man, blue eyes, believe we have the moral high ground in a global sense, no argueing, Jesus was right, always will be, no argument, nowhere to go with it, weathers crap but the people are English, swearitsat. again no argueing. Run a bl@dy duck while you're waiting! ) I thank you.
I think It was the inimitable Mr. Eric Morecambe once said, and I quote . . . . . "Get out of that. You can't can you"

[sp1814]

anotheoldgit

So would your answer really be 'no'?

Even if they were murdered in the coming months?

[sp1814]

The reason I ask, is because they're like, the kings of genuine asylum seekers in that, there's a flipping good chance their lives would be in danger after the allied forces withdrew.

Assuming this to be the case....people who have been invaluable to the UK, and assuming that their lives could very well be threatened....if these people don't qualify as genuine asylum seekers, then who on earth should

The only people who are more in danger than Iraqis who have assisted Western Allies are....Ooompa Loompas.

(C'mon...Wonka holds then captive...we all know that).