[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
