Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] WORLD FEATURES SERVICES -80’S VISNEWS CHEESMAN, COL. ROBERT ERNEST CBE (1935) OBE (23) B. 1878 D. 13/2/62 14-18 SERVED EUROPEAN WAR 20-23 PRIVATE SEC. TO HIGH COMMISSIONER IRAQ 25-34 CONSUL N.W. ETHIOPIA 40-42 HEAD OF ETHIOPIAN SECTION INTELLIGENCE, SUDAN DEFENCE FORCE -42 ORIENTAL COUNSELLOR ADDIS ABABA -44 RETIRED CHESWORTH, DONALD B. 30/1/23 LSE ROYAL […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] chemical agent and destroying much of the evidence. (Why they would do this, given that the intention was to display a willingness to use chemical weapons against Iraq, is not explained). A total of eleven BLU-82s were used in Iraq on unspecified targets. The B-52 is quite capable of reaching the Gulf from Omaha […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
Richard Keeble University of Luton Press, Luton, 1997, £14.95 Richard Keeble – a former journalist and now Course Director of the BA in Journalism degree at City University, London – makes his stance clear in the first chapter of this well researched study: There was no Gulf war of 1991…It was nothing less than a […]
Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££
[…] DSO (17) B 18.11.1887, D 14.1.79 MI5 (W) 1914-18 ARMY FRANCE MIDDLE EAST 1922 ROYAL CORPS SIGNALS 1926-27 INDIA 1930-32 COMMANDER SCHOOL SIGNALS CATTERICK 1934 MILITARY MISSION IRAQ 1936 WAR OFFICE 1939 DIRECTOR D DIVISION 1945 MILITARY LIAISON OFFICER ALLOT, ELIZABETH ROSEMARY OBE (1972) B 2.7.18 IRD 1945 ALLIED COMMISSION FOR AUSTRIA 1948 FO […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] and ordnance information is from Modern Warplanes, by Doug Richardson, Salamander Books, 1982. It would have been Saddam Hussein’s most heartfelt wish, to have the US attack Iraq with nerve gas during the 1991 Gulf War. He could then have postured as the victim of biochemical warfare, rather than being slated as the aggressor. […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] municipal elections. A Question of Honour was ghostwritten for Blair’s chief fundraiser by Ned Temko, the editor of The Jewish Chronicle for 15 years before joining the Iraq war-supporting Observer in 2005. Some thought it an odd move for a double Pulitzer Prize nominee and Israeli historian to become a weekly paper transport correspondent. […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] stability. Some most strident in their critique of past policies now write of a resurgent American idealism, a new era, during which, for example, the people of Iraq have been released from a fear unparalleled in the Middle East. Grandin does not take on critics who have defended the US since 9/11, many of […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] are some items of interest, not all pointing in the same direction, worth noting. Retired US Lt.-Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, quoted in this issue in the piece about Iraq, wrote a commentary on the report of the 9-11 Commission which included this rather pregnant paragraph. ‘The report refers to the many cell phone calls that […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] destroying the planet is doing the same thing to their brains. Not in front of the children When Colin Powell addressed the UN on the issue of Iraq in early February, UN officials hung a curtain over a reproduction of Picasso’s Guernica which hung on the wall behind the spot where statements are made […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] the figleaf of ‘international support’ for the US while the rest of the EU snigger behind their cocktails? Yes, sir. Send Tornado pilots to their death in Iraq on suicidal low-level bombing missions? Yes sir, if that’s all we have to offer (especially, as Urban tells us, when large procurement programs hang on the […]
