‘Britain, 2005. Saddam Hussein, still the ruler of Iraq and possessor of a long-range nuclear missile, seeks revenge on the west. Warned by intelligence reports of Saddam’s plan, the United States deploys a space-based missile shield, which will catch the Iraqi rocket before it gets to Washington. The key installation is based in Yorkshire […]
[…] they carry out assassinations is to take their own team out….it would be highly unusual for the French to permit anyone involved in the assassination to survive.’ Iraq update Compiled by military historian Kimberly Kagan, The Iraq Report(19) is described as a ‘…periodic analysis of ongoing military operations in Iraq.’ Well researched and dispassionate […]
Despite ‘coalition’ forces now being engaged in a guerilla war (which no-one seems to have foreseen), analysis of the information war which accompanied the invasion of Iraq has begun to appear. Lieutenant-Colonel Steven Collins, head of PSYOPS in the Operations Division at NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Mons, Belgium, had a think […]
[…] and so has received perhaps rather less attention than it deserves from the rest of the press. Even if much of the material may seem familiar – Iraq, the Gilligan row, uncertainties around Kelly’s supposed suicide – Baker’s book is an enthralling compendium of what we know. But it is also unexpectedly far more […]
[PDF file]: 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 […]
[PDF file]: 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 […]
[…] that it was Jellicoe who was the ‘risk’, resigning in 1973 when found to be, as they used to say, consorting with prostitutes. Tell me lies about Iraq The Iraq thing is about oil. If Iraq had no oil the US would not be interested. The US is going to buy or steal – […]
[…] each country, seeks to promote the UK’s reputation throughout the region by building people-to-people relationships.’ (7) Presumably the ‘British Council’ will soon be reopening its office in Iraq. I would bet they even have an idea of the day, month and year (and that was before Saddam Hussein decided to back the Euro). Washington […]
[…] and Scott: a tale of two inquiries’. Parliamentary Affairs, 58(1), 2005, pp. 124-137 Forward planning Blair’s pre-election protestations about there being no long term plan to invade Iraq have been roundly contradicted by the media over here.() The following snippets also cast doubt on his claims. In a recent interview film director David O. […]
[…] price is high due to limited refining capacity. In 1980 there were 425 refineries across America: there are 176 today. His understanding of the oil politics of Iraq is good and he admits the rebuilding programme has failed. You may puzzle why Iraqi oil is a ‘prize’ while the cost of the war exceeds […]
