[…] conflated the abilities and experiences of several members of the unit into his own. Morehouse portrays himself as a would-be whistle-blower, appalled by US deception over the Lockerbie bombing and the Gulf War (both of which he remote viewed, of course). The Schnabel book is the important one, but until it appears in the […]
[…] Walker’s Civil Assistance in 1974/5. Alan Francovich (Obituary Guardian 26 April 1997 and the Independent 28 April). Film-maker, radical; most recently made ‘The Maltese Double-Cross’ about the Lockerbie bombing incident, thereby going up against the combined forces of the US and UK states bent on pinning the deed on Libya. Dying of a heart […]
[…] the chance ‘West’ does bits 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 […]
[…] calendar. For British readers, there are essays on the murder of junior British spook Jonathan Moyles; Dr Bull and the ‘supergun’ and Bull’s murder; framing Libya for Lockerbie; the Chinook crash which killed a large section of the British intelligence and counter-insurgency people in Northern Ireland; the Bloody Sunday inquiry; the Executive Outcomes and […]
[…] of the persecution and conviction of Shayler. There are three interesting and surprising sections. Almost alone, as far as I can see, Shayler still believes that the Lockerbie bombing was done by the Libyans; and the account here includes some material, new to me, on the funding of various media activities trying to shift […]
[…] taxpayer may have had greater sympathy for this truth had not a wholly separate and accurate SIS/FO profile become mainstream. This reached maturity when the Lockerbie families mounted an international campaign to secure justice for their dead loved ones, which established the DIY trend subsequently followed by, for example, Julie Ward’s father, […]
[…] booked on Pan Am Flight 103 that left London for New York on December 21, 1988. She told Sunday Telegraph readers on the 10th anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster: ‘About a week before the flight I postponed my trip simply in order to stay a day longer with friends in Oxford’. Any doubts that […]
[…] the Guardian, London Review of Books and Private Eye – and a selection from the Socialist Workers’ Party’s publications. The subject matter ranges from major pieces about Lockerbie and Colin Wallace, a collection of savage attacks on the Blair crew, through individual scandals (notably his brilliant assault on Jeffrey Archer in the Evening Standard […]
[…] the dark to keep up the nation’s economic spirits by promising hi-tech export-led growth in an era of rising Asian dominance is the last colonial delusion.’1 6 Lockerbie again O n 11 March John Davidson reported on Exaro1 7 that a new report on the Lockerbie bombing by a former New York chief 13 […]
[PDF file]: […] as we think of it, the global financial centre, was somewhere between 4% and 5% of the economy. Which is slightly smaller than tourism on some calculations.16 Lockerbie again On 11 March John Davidson reported on Exaro17 that a new report on the Lockerbie bombing by a former New York chief assistant district attorney […]
