[…] The problem of oil is, however, central to the Iranian situation. Iran has the second largest reserves of oil of any nation. The supply of oil from Iraq, which presumably the 2003 invasion was meant to secure, has been reduced by the continual sabotage by those resisting the US-led occupation, and all the while […]
[…] hence the government preference for dealing with them. This committee actually produced a report ‘The Handling of Detainees by UK Intelligence Personnel in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and Iraq’ in 2005. This was pretty anodyne: they failed to see anything significantly wrong. After mentioning that they had taken evidence from Amnesty International, who had made […]
[…] without UN backing.’ Berlins speculated: ‘Even more shocking, if true, is the allegation that, many months before March 2003. Bush and Blair had already agreed to invade Iraq, no matter what anyone else, or the UN, said. There is some, though to me inconclusive, evidence of that.’ Berlins wrote, ‘For what it’s worth, my […]
[…] ‘pro’ campaign there was no mention; and he was told about it. You leak, we brief Michael Smith, of The Times, who got the big leak over Iraq, the so-called Downing Street memo, (2) has described meeting his civil service source, ‘a friend’, to get it. Yet despite this being as big and as […]
[…] not going hard enough for some within the Washington foreign policy networks. What was the geostrategic point of blaming Bin Laden? The Bush regime’s real target was Iraq and their attempts to link Iraq to the Twin Towers were feeble and incompetent. If it was a fake, could they not have manufactured more plausible […]
[…] includes the ‘plethora of media stories about Saddam Hussein’s chemical and biological weapons capability’. So, the British government has a new fibbing-machine that enables us to bomb Iraq whenever it is convenient. (Perhaps also to join a common European currency, or not?) When the complete history of MI6 in the Cold War is known, […]
[…] type of cooperation was exemplified by such things as the occasional employment of ex-SS and Wehrmacht men as military instructors, intelligence officers, and/or propagandists by Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Libya; the sporadic material support offered to the PLO by European neo-fascists (and vice versa); Qadhdafi’s bankrolling of ex-SS commando Otto Skorzeny’s Paladingruppe; the financial […]
[…] Chair of the House Committee on International Relations, and a Bush-Rumsfeld ally. In his speech, says Diamond, Hyde claimed that the critics of the Bush assault on Iraq had missed the point when they announced that there were no WMDs. Hyde said: ‘The fact that we went into Iraq virtually alone…….is far from the […]
[…] No. 154, from the Libertarian Alliance, 25 Chapter Chambers, Esterbrooke St., London SW1P 4NN United Nations inspectors CIA officers (with SIS officers) infiltrated United Nations inspectors searching Iraq for chemical and biological weapons. (Independent 28 January 1999) Thus proving Saddam Hussein correct when he claimed the UNSCOM teams were spies and expelled them. (Said […]
[…] called for the doubling of the NED’s budget, from $40 million to $80 million, with virtually all of the new funding going to the Middle East, and Iraq in particular. Even before Bush’s speech, the NED was already funding and setting up pro-US Iraqi organisations involved in polling, the media, civic education, and political […]
