[PDF file]: […] diplomatic belligerence and all. I had time to pause and reflect on what surrounds Israel. Our friends the Wahhabi? Or perhaps that old friend of the west, Egypt, with its lately installed dictator? Or the crumbling waywardness of countries previously treated as vassal oil reservoirs with little or no legitimate government – and, more […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
