Posted by VIDEO TRANSCRIPT on 23/9/2004, 16:39:01 I need you to be as compassionate as you have always said you are and help me, help me to live so I can see my wife and my son and my mother and my brothers again. I dont want to die, I dont deserve it and neither do those women held in the Iraqi prisons. Please, please release the female prisoners who are held in Iraqi prisons. Please help them, I need you to help Mr Blair You are now the only person on Gods earth that I can speak to. Please, please help me to see my wife who cannot go on without me. She really cant. And my son. (breaks down) Please help me .....please help me. I also now realise how much the Iraqi people have suffered. The Iraqis have suffered, the Iraqi children who havent got their mothers, its not fair. A child wants his mother, its of no use keeping a mother in prison, no use whatsoever ever. Let the mothers go back to their children, give these people a chance. Please I beg you.(breaks down) My wife, she cant even speak very good English. She doesnt know anything, she rings Paul and asks, Wheres Ken ?. Mr Blair, I am nothing to you, its just one person in the whole of the United Kingdom thats all. With a family like youve got a family, with children, like your children, your boys, your wife. Please you can help, I know you can. These people are not asking for the world, theyre asking for their wives and the mothers of their children. Please Mr Blair, please show some of the compassion you say you have. Please, I dont know what I can say. Please I wish you could talk back to me, I wish you could tell me what Ive got to do. Im nothing, am only a small man. Im nothing, I have no political gains. I have no ambitions of grandeur. I made the mistake in coming here, but Ive worked a long time in the Emirates. I just didnt have real fear, not like I have, today. Please, please help me Mr Blair. You know you can, you know you can. Thankyou, thankyou. And (inaudible)....also if theres anyone else that can can help me within the British political world, the Liberal party or the Conservative Party, if you can talk with Mr Blair and assist him. I know things arent easy, I know things arent black and white, white and black, but we can overcome this. We can overcome it, I need to live. I need to see my family and these people here need to see their mothers and their wives back in their homes, they do. Ive been here a week and theyve taken good care of me. They have, under the circumstances, theyve taken very good care of me so please anybody, anybody in England, anybody at all that can talk to you Mr Blair and convince Mr Blair to help me and help the Iraqi people. This is not only helping me, this is helping the Iraqi people who need help, they dont need bully boys, they need help, they need care and they need compassion the things you say you are Mr Blair. Please, anyone at all who can help and also to the British people, you are going to be watching because it is on TV I presume. You look at yourselves and think of your wife or think of your husband not being home, not because they committed a crime but because they just get arrested and are guilty by association, just thrown inside a jail and the families want these people home like you would want your family, your mothers, your wives, your husbands home. Please, please lobby Mr Blair. Please lobby all of the political parties that you are involved with and ask them to stop and have a look at the Iraqis plight. Iraq is suffering and has been suffering too long and it needs its country like you. Would you like the Germans or any other country walking down the street with a gun, in England, in Scotland, I dont think so. And the Iraqis dont like foreign troops on their soil walking down the street with guns, its not right and its not fair. We need to pull the troops out and let the Iraqis run their own country, their own destiny. And I ask you all, of course I need help, of course I do, that goes without saying but the Iraqis also need help, they need to be left alone to rebuild their country and their own futures at the speed they want to do it and not be pushed and shoved. People of Britain and people of Liverpool particularly, you are very special people, you are people who can open your mouths and speak and say enough is enough. Enough is enough of playing with Iraq like a toy. Pack your bags and get out and lets hope we can come back and visit the country as a guest, as a guest of the Iraqis Please, especially all the people of Liverpool, we all know how important, how special Liverpool is to everybody, people who speak the truth. Im not afraid to speak the truth, I never have been, thats probably why all the Liverpudlians have suffered over the years. Im begging you, please, please talk to MPs, talk to the Government, talk to anyone. Please, please look at Iraq and help. Me, yes, I want to live, yes I want to live, but please look and help Iraq, Iraqi women and children, women and children. Ive been in Iraq some months now, believe me they have nothing, they have nothing only their pride. Theyre kind people, please talk to, talk to everybody that you know who can influence people, can talk to politicians, can talk to anybody who can let the decision makers know, people who are close to the Government, who are close to the opposition, Amnesty International, the Red Cross, the Red Crescent, everybody. And the Asian community, the Asian community in England, please, please open your mouths and be listened to and speak up for the freedom of Iraq. Please." The first reads: "Does a British Citizen mean (worth) anything to Blair?" The second: "Will he try to save the hostage or will he not care?" A third asks: "Do leaders really care about their people?"
The transcript of the recorded message from Ken Bigley is as follows:
"I am Ken Bigley from Liverpool in the Walton district. I am here in Iraq and I think this is possibly my last chance to speak to someone who will listen from Europe.
The video then feature three frames of text, written white on black in Arabic and English.
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