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... request from Nato's Supreme Allied Commander? Ah, closure Doug Thompson, while communications director for the re- election campaign of Congressman Manuel Lujan of New Mexico, met former governor of Texas, John Connally, on a plane in 1982. In the course of the conversation Thompson asked him if he thought Lee Harvey Oswald fired the gun that killed Kennedy? 'Absolutely not, ' Connally said. 'I do not, for one second, believe the conclusions of the Warren Commission. ' So why not say so? 'Because I love this country and we needed closure at the time. I will never speak out publicly about what I believe. '17 This is the base line ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 05 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... man for South African Intelligence, one of my jobs as a journalist propagandist was to attack any book which criticised the South African Government or the policy of apartheid. One of the most dangerous disclosures I made in my book was that BOSS had a top secret 'death squad' known as the 'Z-squad', which was formed to kill Pretoria's known enemies, particularly those living in exile outside South Africa. This expose was treated with ridicule when my book came out. But the world's newspapers obviously believe me now because they invariably name South Africa's 'Z-squad' as the culprit when a South African exile is mysteriously murdered overseas. Since I made that disclosure literally dozens ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 01 Oct 1989 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue18/lob18-05.htm
... MI6 really be so reckless as to employ him in the first place?49 – but the connection is intriguing. It raises the possibility of an MI6-inspired plan for Johnson Jnr (as a leader of the official 'Leave' campaign) to take a dive and deliver a referendum 'Remain' result. (If Nigel Farage had been killed in that near-miss in October last year, as discussed in Lobster 71) that would have helped). And there can be no doubt that Johnson had no intention whatsoever of procuring a 'Leave' victory. If this wasn't sufficiently illustrated by his ridiculous claims during the campaign, and his utter stage-fright after it, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 09 Oct 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster72/lob72-holding-pattern.pdf
... place didn't stop Halliburton contracts there; Iraq since the war, Halliburton has helped to reconstruct Iraq's oil industry, more than once (more about that below); in Nigeria Halliburton was accused of 'complicity in the shooting of a protester by Nigeria's Mobile Police Unit, playing a similar role to Shell and Chevron in the mobilization of this "kill and go" unit to protect company property'. (24) In addition to the exotic locations listed in the Earthrights report, Washington-based journalist Wayne Madsen would add: Algeria, Angola, Bosnia, Croatia, Haiti, Kuwait, Russia, Rwanda and Somalia, in all of which Halliburton played a logistical role in support ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-19.htm
... Gambino family. They were originally the Mangano family. He was also seen as a major link in the heroin trade, co-ordinating relations between the Sicilian and the Northern Italian families. This link between Berlusconi and Mangano was first revealed in an unbroadcast television interview by Borsellino, the anti-Mafia magistrate, in 1993. He was killed weeks later. Berlusconi was investigated for two years with reference to the killing but there was insufficient evidence to bring charges. Berlusconi has dismissed the charges of Mafia associations as ludicrous. However, it is traditional within the Mafia for a senior figure to have as his bodyguard/chauffeur a rising young star. For example, Vincent Giganti ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-16.htm
... The impression given was clearly that the two plots were one and the same. Mr Bush also referred to a 'Heathrow plot' in a radio address given on 8 March 2008.2 5 22 There is something of a minor mystery relating to the torture of KSM. An apparently erroneous report in October 2002 stated that he had either been killed or captured in Pakistan. And although he was officially captured in March 2003, the Senate committee saw CIA e- mails referring to 'Heathrow plot insights from KSM' dated February 2003 (see page 193). 23 <http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/aug/11/politics.usa ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 27 Apr 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-holding-pattern.pdf
... difficulties........would have occurred'.(27) (The reference was to the British action at the town of Ismaila, in Egypt in January 1952. After an assault by Egyptian rebels on a British military base, Britain occupied the town of Ismaila, surrounded the police headquarters and then proceeded to kill fifty people and wounding a hundred before the surrender.(28)) In Iran, however, despite Labour's inaction, Churchill noted a few months into his term that 'by sitting still on the safety valve and showing no weariness we are gradually getting them into submission'.(29) Covert operations begin 'Our policy', a ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 01 Dec 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue30/lob30-01.htm
... at the 11 <See, for example,http://abs.sagepub.com/content/53/6 /795. short> 12 To add yourself to his mailing list, simply send an email to <
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Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 20 Nov 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-view-bridge.pdf
... There was no evidence of course; and you can just imagine how easy it would be for an IRA squad to hide out on .. . St. Kitts, a tiny speck in the ocean east of Puerto Rico. By the time its sister paper, the Daily Express, returned to the story on November 17,'Drug killings bring havoc on paradise isle', the IRA had vanished from the story. I recently received a 14 page, authorless paper, 'MI5, National Front and the Dirty War in Wales', discussing events in 1991. Guardian, October 22 1994 The concepts of counter-insurgency and pseudo- gangs are seductive. In Red Action ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 01 Dec 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue28/lob28-07.htm
... American deregulation? Does he really think this? Or is it that he has to pretend to think this because of his party's thinking? Or is asking of a modern politician, 'Does he really think this? ', just a dumb question? * The McGurk's bar massacre In December 1971 a bomb exploded at McGurk's bar in Belfast, killing 15 Catholics. The response of the Army and police was to blame the IRA for an 'own goal' – the accidental detonation of an IRA bomb intended for somewhere else. Almost 30 years 8 See for example <http://thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/02/08/ city-financing-of-the- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 05 May 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster61/lob61-view-from-the-bridge.pdf