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The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation that Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre

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[PDF file]: […] Rusty Firmin, was published more than ten years ago and – one suspects with good reason – is described as ‘The definitive inside story of the Iranian Embassy Siege’.1 If you’ll pardon the pun, the subject has truly been done to death. How, then, can The Siege add anything? Well it can’t, really, can […]

NIck on Macintyre

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[…] Rusty Firmin, was published more than ten years ago and – one suspects with good reason – is described as ‘The definitive inside story of the Iranian Embassy Siege’.1 If you’ll pardon the pun, the subject has truly been done to death. How, then, can The Siege add anything? Well it can’t, really, can […]

Friends of Israel Booth PDF

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[…] ‘these groups’ non-transparent and unaccountable modus operandi and the intermittent scandals which occasionally illuminate their activities, as well the close informal working relationships cultivated by the Israeli embassy’. (p. 13)6 Aked styles the Zionist movement as a ‘social movement from above’ and contrasts its ‘astroturfing’ character with the Palestinian liberation struggle, BDS campaign and […]

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In The Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan

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[PDF file]: […] by Prime Minister May, his assumption was that it was for his Middle East expertise. As far as the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) and the Israeli Embassy were concerned, however, his support for a Palestinian state made him completely unacceptable and it soon became clear that he was to have no involvement with […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Brown as an economically illiterate careerist who became leader of the Labour Party by sounding like a leftie to its members while cuddling up to the American embassy and international bankers.5 1 As for his economic record as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert Henderson clearly lays out some of the dismal details.5 2 49 […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

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[PDF file]: […] terrorist organisation called the Mujehadin-e Khalq (MEK). Previously financed by Saddam Hussein (and previously described as a terrorist group in Washington) these architects of the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in London are now financed and backed by the US and Gulf Arab States.15 It is also likely that the MEK are getting logistical support […]

‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

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[PDF file]: […] meantime, preparations commenced. Additional telephone lines were installed for press use in Dublin, and the White House helpfully confirmed the identities of the persons ‘attached to the Embassy’ for the President’s visit and even of his personal security detail.7 A frantic search commenced to find Kennedy’s remaining Irish relatives. Distant cousins were unearthed and […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] 2017, when the Trump administration radically reduced the State Department’s presence on the Caribbean island and the CIA withdrew all of its personnel from the reopened U.S. Embassy there. But few in the intelligence community believed the Cubans were behind the phenomenon. Given Moscow’s outsize influence on the Communist-run nation, the prevailing theory was […]