[PDF file]: […] gave an “assignment” to transmit $300,000 for the killing of his friend Abu al-Walid when the CIA was concerned al-Walid on leaving Chechnya would go on to Iraq to join up with al-Zarqawi. Why would Dunlop a reputable scholar present the meeting in Khashoggi’s villa as a mere plan for a Russian 9/11 at […]
[PDF file]: […] Taliban without US support, which did rather suggest that they would need continued US support to remain in power. The shift in US attention and resources to Iraq was, from this point of view, a disaster. Second, the Northern Alliance was a gangster organisation of warlords and drug traffickers. Putting them in power was […]
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] enjoy it, and the fact that it seems futile, objectively, doesn’t mean that its not worth doing.” As he surveys the world through the prism of war-torn Iraq and escalating tensions between Islam and the West. Ramsay’s take on the world is frighteningly pessimistic but articulated in his trademark trenchant tones. “The Americans now […]
[…] came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, “Are we still going to war with Iraq?” And he said, “Oh, it’s worse than that.” He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, “I just […]
[PDF file]: […] joining the government as Minister for European Trade and Competitiveness. He, too, inevitably became a Baron, courtesy of New Labour. As the US government prepared for the Iraq War, Browne publicly warned ‘the Blair government that British oil companies would lose out against their American 10 Tom Bower, The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed […]
[PDF file]: […] natural resources of much of See or 12 Keating was Labor Prime Minister of Australia from 1991 until his defeat in the 1996 election. Note that on Iraq, in 2003, Blair preferred the opinions of the President of the US to those held by the leaders of France and Germany or the United Nations […]
[PDF file]: […] given the earlier Soviet experience in Afghanistan, good sense should have been enough to avoid this entanglement. What we have to deal with in both Afghanistan and Iraq is American hubris, something into which Tony Blair’s New Labour government wholly and disastrously bought. One criticism of the book is Farrell’s readiness to sometimes accept […]
[PDF file]: […] not to build council houses which has marked every administration since Mrs Thatcher’s; the poll tax (only repealed because Mrs Thatcher had been ejected); railway privatisation; the Iraq war; the constant ‘reforms’ to the NHS and education; the privatisation of the utilities and of the defence research industry; the PPP system for the London […]
[PDF file]: […] There is nothing titillating about the routines of Homeland Security or the organisation of the US gulag. People like Jeremy Scahill do not need to masturbate in Iraq to find assassinations.17 They are the bread and butter business of the police and drug enforcement offices in every major US city. And torture – well, […]
[PDF file]: […] Blair contributed the Foreword. Now to be fair, Blair had not yet had a chance to show his true colours; and even though Bryant voted for the Iraq War, he eventually aligned himself with Gordon Brown and played a part in bringing Blair down. Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the conversation that another Christian […]
