Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (known as the ‘Mad Mullah’ by the British) in Somalia was considered a great success. The British made use of aerial bombardment in Iraq, Egypt, Russia and the Sudan, and even considered making use of it against any revolutionary outbreaks in Britain itself. It was not just deployed against insurgents, but […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] American air assault – with small-scale nuclear weapons – on Egyptian forces. (Operation Northwoods writ large.) US planes were in the air on their way to bomb Egypt before being recalled. This is not new information. Former Sunday Times journalist Peter Hounam presented it first in his book Operation Cyanide;8 but that was not […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] been at the behest of the NKVD. Even though he had been an open member of the CP, working for a Comintern front, he ended up in Egypt, working for the Special Operations Executive (SOE), ‘in the section dealing with Yugoslavia’. MI5’s reservations regarding this were dismissed by his commanding officer who told them […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] 1931-1957 and later Chairman of the Monday Club 1976-1978. He resigned from Parliament in 1957 in anger at the UK ‘climbing down’ and abandoning military action against Egypt in 1956. Courtney was a career naval officer who ran the UK’s infiltration of agents into Latvia and Estonia in the late ‘40s, an operation that […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] have similar characteristics to the Karzai regime in the sense that they are little more than ‘criminal organizations’, despoiling their own countries. She discusses Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Uzbekistan and Nigeria as variations on this theme. They are all ‘kleptocracies’ facing Islamist challenges. The regime the US put in place in Iraq is another […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] within that covert operations wing. They formed ‘the Safari club’ and resumed their activities entirely off the books with their equivalents from the intelligence services of France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Iran. This was funded by the Saudis; and, Scott thinks, largely by the mechanism of skimming off the enormous American arms sales […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Liberty incident, one strand has it that US president Johnson authorised the Israeli attack on the Liberty, seeking to create a pretext for a US attack on Egypt. In his 2003 book, Operation Cyanide, Peter Hounam, sometime head of the Sunday Times ‘Insight’ team, argues that a nuclear attack was planned and was within […]
Lobster Issue 88 (Winter 2024)
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[PDF file]: […] status, and ‘dialogue partners’ include Turkey (an arrangement which may well have assisted in Ankara’s mediation efforts during the course of the current Russo-Ukrainian war), Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Nepal, Qatar and Sri Lanka.7 By 2024 the SCO’s members, observers and ‘dialogue partners’ embraced half of the world’s population. A network of […]
Lobster Issue 88 (Winter 2024)
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[PDF file]: […] of this process. The book is now available as a Penguin Classic. 6 2 refused to work with British mercantile interests – as, for example happened in Egypt in 1882, West Africa in the 1890s, and South Africa at the turn of the century – military power would be used to bring them into […]