[PDF file]: […] that of the US.4 Some of the chapters are straightforward and readily intelligible; others are not. As you might expect it is in the Middle East and Libya where things get complicated and I occasionally found the narrative hard to follow (probably because of the difficulty I have with pronouncing and remembering Arabic names). […]
[PDF file]: […] Add to which the Saudi state’s use of its oil wealth to export its version of Islam world-wide, the CIA’s use of Islamist fighters in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Libya and Syria, and you have the bizarre geopolitical mess detailed by Scott in which the American deep state has funded and run groups regarded by the […]
[PDF file]: […] though their deaths did not matter. The author visited Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi and spent time with the imprisoned al-Magrahi before he was released to die in Libya in 2012. He also closely observed his Zeist trial and is properly shocked by its verdict and the subsequent failure of his appeals against it. Along […]
[PDF file]: […] regrettably it is no longer British – who provided the gift were scrupulous to ensure that by building-in the necessary checks there could be no philatelic profiteering.1 Libya: agent protection issues The top-end end of the SIS lifestyle management service today was exposed earlier this year when Moussa Koussa landed in Britain by private […]
[…] chance, the FO shut it down. Curiously enough, no sign of said ‘complex operation’ has ever been made visible, not even in Crozier’s memoir Free Agent. Was Libya responsible for the killing of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984? In one of Tony Gosling’s many e-mails was a timely reminder of the 1996 Dispatches documentary […]
[PDF file]: […] anti-communist campaign in Finland a few months later; the disastrous failure in Norway that this produced (which, ironically, propelled Churchill to power); the diversion of forces from Libya to Greece in early 1941 when the success of the British offensive seemed secure – and the subsequent routing of those forces in, and their evacuation […]
[PDF file]: […] Muhammad Hussan (Akhari) for initial expenses. The remainder of the money was to be paid after successful completion of the mission.”’ 4 After al-Megrahi had departed for Libya, Tam Dalyell made this comment : ‘The Iranian Minister of the interior at the time , was Ali Akbar Mostashemi, who made a public statement that […]
[PDF file]: […] officer also seems to have signed–off on the abduction and rendition of opponents of Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi to help secure an oil deal between the UK and Libya. Norton-Taylor argues that the intelligence services are besotted with the emirates and sultanates of the Gulf. Romanticism has displaced any sense of unease about the crucifixions […]
[PDF file]: […] Tunworth Media interviews with Shayler in the initial period after he first went public do Aaron Y. Zelin and Andrew Lebovich, ‘Assessing Al-Qa`ida’s Presence in the New Libya’, CTC Sentinel (Vol. 5, Issue 3), March 2012 . 11 See the profile of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the Mapping Militant Organizations section of […]
[PDF file]: […] Skies: a Global History of Aerial Bombardment Thomas Hippler London: Verso, 2017, £11.99, p/b The first use of aerial bombardment took place on 1 November 1911 in Libya. An Italian airman, Giulio Gavotti, dropped a hand-held bomb onto an Arab encampment and supposedly ‘revolutionized warfare’. This was an inevitable revolution, but Gavotti has the […]
