The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation that Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre

Nick Must

Lobster Issue #90 (2025)

The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation that Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre

👤 Nick Must

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11 Aug

"Questioning the official version of events - fanatical Muslims hijacking planes and demolishing buildings - has not proved a prudent career move on either side of the Atlantic."

John Booth (@JohnBooth2017), in "9/11 Attracts Mainstream Critics"

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11 Aug

"The spycops affair should have been one of the biggest scandals in our domestic politics since the end of the Second World War. Instead, it got kicked into the long grass."

Robin Ramsay reviews Kate Wilson's "Disclosure: Unraveling the Spycops Files"

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19 Jun

The consequences of Thatcher's infatuation with the theories of Milton Friedman; the tramps of Dealey Plaza; Trump, the Saudis, and the 9/11 network; more.

Robin Ramsay's "The View from the Bridge" is under construction

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19 Jun

"Stanley Bonnett was a former Daily Worker copy boy who had survived five Arctic convoys to the USSR. His nemesis as a spy came in 1985 under an Observer headline: 'CND editor passed information to Special Branch'."

Andrew Rosthorn, in "Angles Morts"

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