[…] Cheney said, ‘The problem is that the good Lord didn’t see fit to always put oil and gas resources where there are democratic governments’ such as Libya, or Burma for example. (19) In 1986, having launched from a British airfield his bomber raid on Colonel Gadhafi’s family, President Reagan described the Libyan despot […]
[…] of advisers but was later dropped from the provisional government because of his tainted reputation. Stinson himself said he joined Rabuka’s coup because of the threat from Libya. He admitted there was corruption in Fiji, but on a far lesser scale than in the Australian state of New South Wales. (The Dominion, May 21 […]
In October the US Government hired advertising doyenne Charlotte Beers as Under-Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. (1) She intended ‘commissioning research into the Arab mentality’, confirming what we already knew: the American Government has so little respect for its many Arab/Muslim citizens, it has had to commission research into who they […]
[…] of editing for his ‘friends’ and his political friends. On page 266 he writes of Libya’s ‘astonishing admission of responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing’ without mentioning that Libya merely accepted formal responsibility, as a condition of restarting normal diplomatic and trade relations with the West, but still denies actually doing it. On pages 210/11 […]
[…] it does not negotiate with terrorists, it does with some, including financial ones. (15) Spook recruitment These developments have understandably obscured ‘good’ FCO/SIS work, such as in Libya or, before the American executive derailed the peace process, Palestine. (16) This means that the only view prospective SIS recruits may have at a time […]
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 […]
[…] publications – on Vernon Walters from Covert Action Information Bulletin, and on John Singlaub from National Reporter (formerly Counterspy). Perhaps the most interesting article is “Gunning for Libya – anti-Libyan operations in West Berlin” by Peter Niggl. Niggl investigates Mossad involvement in assassinations of Libyan officials and in operations designed to ensure that terrorism […]
[…] MI6 building in the wake of the IRA attack on it; and there was the latest in the long line of anti-Gaddafi pieces, this one claiming that Libya now has some North Korean ballistic missiles. The only stated source for the allegation was a ‘Western intelligence official’. But four months before, on 28 May […]
[…] a hotel with machine gunfire in JFK days in an attack very similar to another in Cuba last April)?; and the most heinous question of all, might Libya be more the progressive-Islamic-republic-among- fundamentalists that it would like the world to believe? These are not questions the left should avoid, but Open Eye flashes the […]
[…] January 1989 cover of Searchlight was actually given by Harrington to Andrew Bell in one interview. Bearing in mind tensions within the Official NF over attitudes to Libya, Harrington had a political motive for leaking this photograph – and by printing it without attribution cannot Bell (a past editor of Searchlight) be said to […]
