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A Pied Cloak: Memoirs of a Colonial Police (Special Branch) Officer

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It is an especially common trope in J-horror (Japanese horror), probably because yellow raincoats (for safety) are such an iconic image in Japan. Japan experiences a predictable rainy season, making umbrellas and raincoats necessary. In March 1965, the year before Henderson arrived, Bahraini nationalists almost killed the British chief of police, Bob Langdale, using a car bomb. Life-changing injuries forced Langdale to retire.

Henderson, then a Special Branch intelligence officer, became one of Britain’s most prized assets in the war, helping to capture and “turn” Mau Mau generals and develop “pseudo-gangs” of former Mau Mau fighters to battle against their former comrades. Deer follows man; its breath freezes all the way from deer’s nose to man’ s coat and deer strangles. Persons who are led astray by fairies break spell by reversing an article of clothing: coat, glove, etc. Declassified UK is an investigative journalism organisation that covers the UK’s role in the world. Read Declassified’s previous investigation into “ How the British establishment is working to keep Bahrain’s ruling family in power ”.Later in the 1960s he worked for the Bahrain State Police special branch, and in 1971 he returned to Africa to work with the Lesotho Mounted Police, as deputy director of intelligence and later as deputy head of special branch. In 1976 Franklin took up his final post in Africa as a deputy head of special branch in Botswana. Header illustration (1920) is by illustrator Raoul Dufy and is called “Evening Coat by Paul Poiret”. It is a pochoir print from the Gazette du Bon Ton. Pochoir means “stencil” in French and refers to the technique of making fine limited editions of stencil prints, also known as “hand coloring”.

How did I hear about this?” Franklin asked me rhetorically. “Ian tapped the telephone of the commissioner of the police, Jim Bell. So he heard all the conversations between Sheikh Isa and Jim Bell… I know it because he invited me into his office one day and said, ‘Derek… I want you to listen to this.’ Philanthropist will give his spurs if someone will drive his horse for him. He has given away his coat, etc. to beggars. One finally asks for his spurs. We are invited to judge Joseph Olénine. Is he better off with the coat instead of a woman? I don’t know, but I’m for and certain his marriage prospects were better off, if the guy really thought he could swap out a human for a… stuffed garment. Servants would not have left the coats. Merchants complain to nobleman that his servants have robbed them of money. Nobleman asks whether merchants had on those good coats when the robbery took place. When told yes, he said that the robbers were not his servants, for they would never have left good coats. Swan Maiden. A swan transforms herself at will into a maiden. She resumes her swan form by putting on her swan coat.This counter-insurgency operation was one of many against the Mau Mau by units known as Pseudo Gangs, former Mau Mau fighters who had been turned against their sometime comrades while deployed in the White Highlands and forests around Mount Kenya. Henderson had previously proved his worth in Britain’s then colony of Kenya, where the Kikuyu people had formed the Land and Freedom Army, an underground movement also known as the Mau Mau, which sought to end British colonial rule. In July, Bahrain’s highest court rejected the final appeals of Mohammed Ramadan and Husain Moosa who now face execution for killing a policeman. Bahrain has executed five political prisoners in the past few years, most recently in July 2019. Man helps traveler and makes riddling remarks. Gives him food, shares his coat in rain, and carries him over stream. Reproaches him with traveling without mother, house, or bridge (nourishment, shelter, or horse). Contest of wind and sun. Sun by warmth causes traveler to remove coat, while wind by violent blowing causes him to pull it closer around him.

Ian arrested the whole lot,” Franklin said, causing concerns from the sheikh who did not want to appear pro-Israel. But the police commandant, Jim Bell, defended Henderson, insisting the latter had sources indicating they were “up to no good”. After Bahrain’s massive pro-democracy protests in 2011, which saw at least 51 deaths from police brutality, a former Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner, John Yates, was recruited to help reform the Bahraini police. But, Franklin recalled, “They weren’t. They were just ordinary members of Fatah which everyone accepted. All Palestinians would have some connection with it. They weren’t necessarily connected to any of the extremist ones. So Ian manipulated it: they were dangerous people, they had to be got rid of.” But without Reuben, the murderous brothers planned to sell Joseph. They could get 20 pieces of silver by selling him to some people passing through. So that’s what they did.Raincoats are getting to be a common item in the horror genre, to the point where you can almost expect a work to be a horror, or horror elements to suddenly enter a work, by the sight of a significant character wearing a raincoat. Raincoat of Horror, TV Tropes Henderson got to work fast, deploying the same techniques of “recruiting” turncoats to fight his battles. Dissidents were hauled in, beaten and turned against their comrades. Torture in Bahrain preceded Henderson. The Bahraini police force was set up in the 1920s and brutality was committed as early as then , when British officials personally engaged in what one of them called “methods of mild Spanish Inquisition”. How much cloth would it take to make God‘s coat? Just as much as for me, for what you have done for a poor person in my name you have done for me. However, there were limits to Henderson’s power and his reputation nearly crashed around him in December 1973, after Bahrain held its first parliamentary elections since gaining independence from Britain two years earlier.

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