Is Libya still the prime suspect for the murder of WPC Fletcher?

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] in order to prepare for the forthcoming struggle with the British coal communities and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)?(4) Having ostentatiously broken off all relations with Libya, such a secret deal could only have been brokered at a price, and perhaps that price involved the treatment of embassy staff. The demonisation of Gaddafi […]

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The Libyans and the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] 8 July the Foreign Minister, Robin Cook, announced that the Libyan Government accepted ‘general responsibility’ for the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher and normal diplomatic relations with Libya were being restored. The media reporting of this accepted the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) spin that it meant the Libyans have admitted killing Fletcher. The […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] some time funder of the IRA and head of the regime which organised the Lockerbie bombing. But the great engine of state trundles on and things change. Libya ‘accepted responsibility’ for the Lockerbie bombing (while continuing to deny that they had done it), offered compensation to the victims’ families, gave up their nuclear ambitions […]

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Miscellaneous: Gemstone. Workers’ Revolutionary Party, MI5 and Libya

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] is not the first time we have encountered such suggestions, and we are doing what we can to look into them.’ The Workers’ Revolutionary Party, MI5 and Libya In The Bulletin, the US weekly paper of the Workers’ League, July 20 edition, there is an exchange of letters between Ken Livingstone MP and the […]

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In Brief. Libya. Syria and the Gulf oil war. Lester Coleman

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

The Libyan connection Putting Libya in the frame has been orchestrated from Langley by Vincent Canestraro, head of the CIA counter-terrorist section. In his book On The Trail of Terror: the inside story of the Lockerbie bombing, published in October 1991, David Leppard tells us this while completing one of the most amazing somersaults […]

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Britain spinning in the Sibel Edmonds web

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] company called Deepsea Freight Services. It is here that Amin discovered records of key components in the manufacture of centrifuges being transhipped (to avoid export controls) to Libya. The consignee for some of these shipments was none other than Desert Electrical, which Amin had been warned off earlier. The cover-up begins It was at […]

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Foreign Agent 4221: The Lockerbie Cover-up

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] 1-887314-01-6 Chasey was the foreign agent 4221, that is a lobbyist registered with the US Department of Justice, who took a PR contract from the government of Libya to try and help normalise relations with the U.S. after the Lockerbie bombing and the subsequent scapegoating of Libya. (The rationality of this project is not […]

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Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] Judd, again on the building; and, apparently unabashed by the libel case described by Hollingsworth and Leigh, there was another anti-Gaddafi piece by Con Coughlin, claiming that Libya now has some North Korean ballistic missiles. The only stated source for the allegations contained therein was a ‘Western intelligence official’. On 28 May 2000 the […]

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The once and future king?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] to organise support for them. This included Labour Herald (a lavishly illustrated colour weekly), which appeared while the Workers Revolutionary Party was directly and secretly funded by Libya, and ceased to appear once the Libyan connection had been made public and that funding was no longer available. (14) Strongly anti-Zionist (actually anti-semitic(15)), Gerry Healy […]

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Lockerbie, the octopus and the Maltese double cross

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] tracks. Little was published on the case in early 1989 until the Daily Mirror leak from Channon. The expected charges were not made. The Libyan connection Putting Libya in the frame has been orchestrated from Langley by Vincent Canestraro, head of the CIA counter-terrorist section. In his book On The Trail of Terror: the […]

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