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1. Iraq [Lobster #53 (Summer 2007)]
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 53) Summer 2007 Last | Contents | Next Issue 53 Iraq I'm still interested in the origins of the invasion of Iraq, the why and the when. At one level this is banal. We know, originally from CBS reporter David Martin, that within hours of the 9/11 attacks Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeldt was telling his aides to start thinking about striking Iraq, even though there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks'.(1 )We know that the various neo-con and/or Israeli-supporting think tanks and action groups, notably the PNAC, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 348 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-28.htm
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 45) Summer 2003 Last | Contents | Next Issue 45 Lying about Iraq NB This issue of Lobster went to the printer in late May. At that stage no Iraqi weapons of mass destruction' had been found by the coalition' forces. Before the furore over the British government's dodgy dossier' in February, in truth I hadn't been really paying much too attention to the then impending assault on Iraq. (1 ) It seemed obvious that the US, with its faithful British sidekick, was going to attack Iraq whatever the UN inspectors did or didn't find. In any case, there seemed ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 335 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-03.htm
3. Iraq [Lobster #49 (Summer 2005)]
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 49) Summer 2005 Last | Contents | Next Issue 49 Iraq Dr. David Kelly The death of Dr David Kelly refuses to go away. Two groups of medical experts have expressed doubts about the suicide verdict. The International Toxicology Advisory Group have queried the conclusion that Kelly swallowed at least 20 co-proxamol tablets, which contributed to his death; ( [1 ] ) and a group of surgeons wrote to The Guardian on28 September 2004, expressing doubts about the suicide verdict and commented that the death scene on Harrowdon Hill had all the trappings of a suicide that is highly unlikely to have succeeded ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 329 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-10.htm
... Excusing the Iraq war? Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence Frank P. Harvey Cambridge University Press, 2011, £20.99, p/b At a particularly fractious press call in June 2003, an exasperated George W. Bush declared: This nation acted to a threat from the dictator of Iraq..... Now, there are some who like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them. '1 Now, after more than a decade of bloodshed, turmoil and shattered reputations, US academic Frank P. Harvey presents as clear and explicit an essay in revisionism as you could hope to find ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 323 - 14 Mar 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster67/lob67-iraq-war.pdf
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 46) Winter 2003 Last | Contents | Next Issue 46 Historical Notes Scott Newton Back to the future: the USA, the UK and Iraq The US threatens to attack Iraq and is backed by the UK. There are objections in the UN Security Council from Russia and France. A large task force is assembled. Guess what happens next? Not a lot. There is a diplomatic crisis temporarily resolved after the intervention of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and no invasion takes place because this is 1998 not 2003. In all the ferment about the second Gulf war there was hardly any reference to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 313 - 01 Dec 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue46/lob46-03.htm
6. Iraq [Lobster #47 (Summer 2004)]
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 47) Summer 2004 Last | Contents | Next Issue 47 Iraq Since issue 45, last June,there has been so much information produced on the events preceding the assault on Iraq it is impossible to keep track of it all. Here is my selection. For the powers-that-be, the war has been traumatic, not least because their various cover stories and deceptions have been exposed so rapidly, thanks, mostly, to the the Internet. Off-message A story I missed at the time was the replacement of Admiral Sir Michael Boyce as Chief of the Defence Staff. In ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 307 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-09.htm
... The Rothschild connection' the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq Will Banyan N ow that the tenth anniversary of 9/11 has been commemorated, Osama bin Laden is officially dead and the last US combat troops have been withdrawn from Iraq (though private military contractors' remain), an accounting of the Global War on Terror' is surely in order; and timely, given that since 9/11, when 2,973 people were killed in the attacks in New York and Washington DC,1 the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have massively increased the death toll. As of December 2011, according to iCasualties, since 2001 a total of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 304 - 04 Feb 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-rothschild.pdf
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 46) Winter 2003 Last | Contents | Next Issue 46 Advertising, Iraq and espionage Corinne Souza Advertising In 1960s Iraq, the children of the poor carried their most treasured possessions to school in much coveted, branded soap-powder packets. When these eventually disintegrated, what remained was stuck up on the classroom wall. As a result, children could pick out the words Tide' or Omo'. Praised by their teacher for doing so, a whole generation associated this approval with a country they did not know and might never visit. Thirty years earlier, the teacher's football-mad father played ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 263 - 01 Dec 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue46/lob46-06.htm
... Iraq and intelligence Robin Ramsay I found this on my computer. It was obviously written around 2004 and, as far as I can see, was never used. M ichael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11' is great propaganda but, like all propaganda, it isn't about the truth. In a section mocking the so-called coalition of the willing' which supported the US invasion of Iraq, Moore listed several very small countries – but omitted Australia and the UK. For Australia and the UK the political decision to support the USA caused major ructions within their intelligence systems. As is now admitted, and was known by most independent analysts before the invasion, there ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 254 - 03 Jun 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster65/lob65-iraq-intelligence.pdf
... , but left after it broke into warring factions, each open to compromise with imperialism or Arab reaction. With a degree in microwave communication, Al-Ani found employment at Baghdad University in 1973. He fell victim a year later to a Ba'athist dictat that barred professors married to foreigners. After refusing to spy on foreign companies operating in Iraq, Al-Ani voyaged in 1980 with his young family to Finland. Though strongly opposed to the Ba'athists, Al-Ani wondered how any Iraqi in the 1980s and 1990s could favour toppling Saddam Hussein's government under conditions of imperialist threat. Rooting out the thirty-year Ba'athist authority, he believed, could only end in chaos and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 241 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-33.htm
