COLONEL RICHARD KEMP interview on 6PR
Colonel Richard Kemp was interviewed by Simon Beaumont on the 6PR Morning program, after the 9am News on Friday 12 November.
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Colonel Kemp was Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan who achieved major operational successes against Al Qaida terrorists in Kabul. He was also military commander in Northern Ireland and many global hotspots, including the liberation of Kuwait in 1991. Now he is Special Adviser on international terrorism to the British Government.
COLONEL RICHARD KEMP CBE
He spent the last five years of his three-decade military career at the UK Cabinet Office in Whitehall. He was a member of the Cobra national crisis management committee and chairman of Cobra’s intelligence group. He was also a member of the UK/US Joint International Security Strategy Group.
He headed the Joint Intelligence Committee’s international terrorism team and the Iraq politics and security team, responsible for UK national intelligence assessments. He made many fact-finding trips to Iraq since the 2003 invasion and in 2005 worked in Baghdad, Fallujah and northern Iraq on an intelligence and counter terrorism project for the US Ambassador.
Previously he had completed a total of 14 active duty tours as a military commander in Northern Ireland and many global hotspots. Working alongside US forces, he took part in the liberation of Kuwait in 1991, commanded British troops within the United Nations Protection Force in Bosnia and was counter terrorism adviser to the Macedonian government.
Colonel Kemp is Special Adviser on international terrorism to the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, a commentator in the national and international print and broadcast media on defence and security, and author of “Attack State Red”, a best-selling book about the conflict in Afghanistan.